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Spare Notes

Spare Notes is about talking to artists about their creations, inspirations, evolutions, and communities. Season 2 starts on Monday, January 19th! Lots of surprises this year!I also write and do interviews for Post-Trash Magazine, Atwood Magazine, and The Tonearm!

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Rachel Cholst of Rainbow Rodeo on Creating,...

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2025/07/14

I spoke with Rachel Cholst, a music journalist from New York City who has been writing about the queer country music community for the last 9 years. You may have already seen her work in magazines like No Depression, The Boot, and Wide Open Country. Currently, she is the editor of Rainbow Rodeo Magazine, and as far as she knows, Rainbow Rodeo is the first print publication devoted to queer country music.There are interviews, reviews, critical essays, and some podcasting. Something I think that is

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o9: Eleanor Henderson on Ten Thousand Saints being...

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2025/07/10

I worked with Eleanor Henderson for a year at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY, during the 2022/2023 school year. She was the chair of the Writing department at the time, and I was a lecturer. We had a lot of conversations about teaching, writing, and ideas. We've stayed in touch since, and still to this day, talk about said things, while keeping each other up to date as our lives keep moving on through new milestones. I was so excited and a little nervous to interview her. But she is a teacher, and a

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08: Misha Tentser on Writing and Using Language to...

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2025/06/30

I met Misha Tentser at graduate school in Syracuse, New York, four years ago and we became friends not long after. He's a poet, writer, and teacher, and it's always a pleasure to talk to him! We get deep into dream logic, mental health, the figurative weight of objects, being nerdy about your art, emotional confrontation of the self, psychogeography, and what it's like to be a writer. Here are some links to Misha's published work!"Before" in Midway Journal."BoJack Horseman Visits Chagall’s America

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07: Gory: On Finding Music Communities Far From Home,...

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2025/06/23

Gory and I had a nice talk about what it's like for her bing a nomadic musician. She's from Panvel, Maharashtra, India, and it's difficult to play there as a musician unless you are performing covers. This spurned her musical journey. We talked about the challenge of finding a place to play at home, while finding so much by way of traveling to play. Not just artists to colaborate with, but the joy and comfort of becoming a part of a larger music community. She's got.She just released her first EP,

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06: Thrin Vianale of Winded on Music as a Healing...

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2025/06/09

I think I fell in love with winded sometime in 2022. I used to play "Swallowing Hair" and "I know it's Thin" on repeat during my drives from Syracuse, NY, to my job in Ithaca, NY. Mostly rolling hills and farms, and deep green walls of trees and fields, calm scenery. The songs soaked into my veins with their melancholic, grunge-infused, lonely, haunting guitars, and outbursts of crunchy, searing melodic static.It was great to have a winding conversation with Thrin Vianale, the originator of Winded

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Matt O'Connor on the Trans Youth Emergency Project...

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2025/05/27

Matt O'Connor recently started a record label inspired by the need to help trans youth, creating Worry Beads Records' first release, a compilation of 18 different bands called True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth. We talked about how we can create space to honor and support trans youth, while not only with fundraising, but also through the impact of literature and music. We also talked about literature, the origin of True Names, and learning how to open the self by letting go of control. Trans

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04: David Schellenberg of Tunic on life and A Harmony...

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2025/05/23

I tracked down David Schellenberg after listening to the new record of his band Tunic, A Harmony of Loss Has Been Sung. Listening to the album was an intense experience and a pleasure for me. I liked listening to this record in my car the best, surrounded by the dark tones, the grief and pain in the lyrics, and the absolutely stunning composition of instruments, dragging me into the depths of this loss. The deep bass, the wretched pain in Schellenberg's voice, wails of loss, and a cathartic

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03: Interview with Ian Kelly

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2025/05/09

In this interview, I hang out with Ian Kelly, a versatile rapper and storyteller from Oakland, California. We talk about community, the artist's evolution, intentionality, and of course, all of this involves music.As I’ve continued to talk to artists recently, I’ve noticed that there are certain things a few have in common in their growth. It’s part of being intentional and part of letting go. This can seem strange because it’s contradictory, but it also seems true. Ian and I discussed this relation

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02: Three Questions with Avery Friedman

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2025/05/02

I recently reviewed Friedman's debut album, New Thing, in Post-Trash magazine. Loved listening to the album a bunch of times, and I reached out to her team to see if she had time for an interview. Knowing she had limited time because it was the week of the album's release, I came up with three questions that focused mainly on community and performance. Oh, yeah, and there is one bonus question.This interview with my OLYMPUS Digital Voice Recorder VN-7200 was recorded over the phone, so it's fuzzy

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24:38

01: Bear Vs. Shark: an Interview with Marc Paffi and...

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2025/04/23

In the early 2000s, I lived in Ypsilanti, Michigan, a few blocks away from Mark Paffi. Through friends of friends, I ended up going to these Wednesday night parties Paffi threw, hosting friends in the community. I remember meeting John Gaviglio there, and we were sitting on a couch. We talked about music, and he told me he was in a band named Bear vs. Shark. I was excited when he mentioned that one of their many influences was At the Drive-In, as I was enamoured with that band at the time. I started

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