Stephen Kallao
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Contributing Host at WXPN-FM (Philadelphia, PA)
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4 days ago |
wshu.org | Stephen Kallao |Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez
David Burke, who performs as d4vd, was a teenage streamer, posting highlights of Fortnite when his YouTube videos kept being taken down because of copyrighted music he'd attached to them. What happened next would change his life. "I talked to my mom and she was, like, 'Make your own music, honey. You can do it. Make your own'," he says. "I was, like, you know what, that could be a thing."Within an hour, d4vd had made his first song after recording the vocals in his sister's closet.
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3 weeks ago |
npr.org | Stephen Kallao
Drive-by Truckers co-founder Patterson Hood has childhood stories, and we don't mean the kind of stories that you politely nod your head to until the other person is done talking. Hood's childhood is filled with beguiling tales, from uncouth family parties to exploding trees and blazing Southern plantations. Hood, who started writing songs in 1973 as a kid, had lately found himself revisiting his past, so he decided to explore what he says was a "very weird" childhood.
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3 weeks ago |
wshu.org | Stephen Kallao
For years, Tamara Lindeman, the singer, songwriter, actress and activist, has been on the front lines of the climate crisis. You can hear it wrapped in the DNA of her longtime musical project, The Weather Station. After 2021's breakout album, Ignorance, Lindeman went through what she calls a period of disorientation. Her new album, Humanhood, is about the struggle Lindeman went through and the long way back to finding yourself. It's a gorgeous album that's not afraid to take chances.
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3 weeks ago |
wshu.org | Stephen Kallao
Hannah Cohen's Earthstar Mountain sounds timeless and modern; it's set amid one of the most gorgeous natural backdrops in the northeastern United States. A singer-songwriter who for years called New York City home, Cohen moved up to the Catskill Mountains a few years back with her partner and co-producer, Sam Evian. Recorded at their studio in the Catskills, Earthstar Mountain feels like a good hang.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Stephen Kallao
100 Years of 100 Things: Women in the Military; New Yorker Magazine; Catskills Hotels; Street Photography | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYCAs we observe Memorial Day, enjoy some of our favorite recent conversations from the centennial series: Katherine Sharp Landdeck, professor of history and director of Pioneers Oral History Project at Texas Woman's University and the author of The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of …
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