by pod | Apr 28, 2025 | Program Notes
If you caught this week’s episode of Rolling with Scissors, you know we took a wild ride through the golden era of Talking Heads from 1977 to 1983. It’s amazing to step back and see how much ground they covered in just a few short years — and honestly, how weird,...
by pod | Apr 21, 2025 | Program Notes
It all started with a blog post. Earlier this week, I asked Alexa to play “Roxanne” by The Police—and just like that, I was back at the Memorial Union in Madison, Wisconsin, hearing it for the first time. That post turned into a deep dive on how one song can anchor a...
by pod | Apr 14, 2025 | Program Notes
This week’s Rolling with Scissors is a vibe shift in motion. We open with SABLE, fABLE, the newest release from Bon Iver. It’s textured, experimental, and hard to pin down—in the best way. Bon Iver (aka Justin Vernon) hails from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and this record...
by pod | Apr 7, 2025 | Program Notes
Tonight’s show pulls no punches—literally. The entire playlist is built around some of the heaviest, loudest, most iconic albums to come out of 1992. It was a year that gave us some absolute monsters, and this setlist is nothing short of a sonic gut punch in the best...
by pod | Mar 31, 2025 | Program Notes
It’s Monday. I’m in the studio recording tonight’s Rolling with Scissors — and it just so happens to be Christopher Walken’s birthday. Which somehow feels fitting. There’s something about his strange rhythm, his unpredictability, that matches the emotional shape of...
by pod | Mar 24, 2025 | Program Notes
This week’s Rolling with Scissors comes to you from a brand-new studio space—because, as life tends to do, it threw me a curveball. Last Wednesday, I found out my lease wasn’t being renewed. By Saturday, the new studio was rebuilt and (mostly) functional. Let me...
