//podcastplus.net/feed/a-musical-life~7de3921b KMUW's Jedd Beaudoin interviews Wichitans who live a musical life... as a full-time vocation or a part-time passion. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:36:16 +0000 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/03/44021_031221.mp3 Peter Verwimp is a producer, guitarist and vocalist based in Antwerp, Belgium. His main project is Ashtoreth, which he describes as “a guitar-driven dark ambient project with a shamanic perspective.” Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:18:49 +0000 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/03/44021_031221.mp3 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/02/44021_022621.mp3 Jerry Leger is a singer, songwriter and poet based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His albums include Songs From The Apartment, Time Out For Tomorrow, and Nonsense and Heartache, among others. Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:03:15 +0000 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/02/44021_022621.mp3 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/01/44021_011521.mp3 Jason Smith is a founding member of the Oklahoma City-based band Traindodge and plays bass in the band Rainbows Are Free as well. Traindodge has released albums such as Time Will Never Know Your Name, I Am Forever, and On A Lake of Dead Trees. Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:20:00 +0000 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/01/44021_011521.mp3 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/01/44021_010121.mp3 Dan Dixon is a founding member of Atlanta, Georgia’s PLS PLS and is a producer and recording engineer who operates his own studio. PLS PLS’s latest release is Everything That’s Left. Dixon has also recently overseen the reissue of several recordings from his previous band, Dropsonic, in addition to a rarities collection titled The Best of the Rest. “PLS PLS’s music is often trying to find the balance between making you bob your head and singalong while, also, lyrically, bumming you out entirely. Production is a huge part of the songwriting process for us because I’m often writing songs by myself in the studio. So, any sounds that I get on a demo or as I’m creating an idea, usually end up on the actual final recording and they inform what anybody else plays as they come into the picture later. They inform anything else that I come up with that follows it. So, every sound and part is forced to interlock with what came before it instead of everybody playing at one time, sort of conforming Fri, 01 Jan 2021 06:01:00 +0000 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/01/44021_010121.mp3 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2020/10/44021_100920.mp3 Andre LaFosse is based in Los Angeles, California. His albums include Normalized, Pivot To Video: Six-String Mixtape Volume 2 and, with Ross Garren, the soundtrack to the film Malacostraca . Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:10:31 +0000 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2020/10/44021_100920.mp3 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2020/09/44021_092520.mp3 Chris Schlarb is a musician based in Long Beach, California. He owns and operates BIG EGO Studios and BIG EGO Records. His latest release with Psychic Temple is Houses of the Holy , a double LP, which features guest appearances from the Chicago Underground Trio, The Dream Syndicate, Xololanxinxo, and Cherry Glazerr. He recorded this segment of “A Musical Life” direct to tape. Fri, 25 Sep 2020 05:03:00 +0000 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2020/09/44021_092520.mp3 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2020/12/44021_092520.mp3 Chris Schlarb is a musician based in Long Beach, California. He owns and operates BIG EGO Studios and BIG EGO Records. His latest release with Psychic Temple is Houses of the Holy , a double LP, which features guest appearances from the Chicago Underground Trio, The Dream Syndicate, Xololanxinxo, and Cherry Glazerr. He recorded this segment of “A Musical Life” direct to tape. Fri, 25 Sep 2020 05:03:00 +0000 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2020/12/44021_092520.mp3 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/06/44021_092520.mp3 Chris Schlarb is a musician based in Long Beach, California. He owns and operates BIG EGO Studios and BIG EGO Records. His latest release with Psychic Temple is Houses of the Holy , a double LP, which features guest appearances from the Chicago Underground Trio, The Dream Syndicate, Xololanxinxo, and Cherry Glazerr. He recorded this segment of “A Musical Life” direct to tape. Fri, 25 Sep 2020 05:03:00 +0000 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/06/44021_092520.mp3 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/02/44021_092520.mp3 Chris Schlarb is a musician based in Long Beach, California. He owns and operates BIG EGO Studios and BIG EGO Records. His latest release with Psychic Temple is Houses of the Holy , a double LP, which features guest appearances from the Chicago Underground Trio, The Dream Syndicate, Xololanxinxo, and Cherry Glazerr. He recorded this segment of “A Musical Life” direct to tape. Fri, 25 Sep 2020 05:03:00 +0000 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/02/44021_092520.mp3 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/03/44021_092520.mp3 Chris Schlarb is a musician based in Long Beach, California. He owns and operates BIG EGO Studios and BIG EGO Records. His latest release with Psychic Temple is Houses of the Holy , a double LP, which features guest appearances from the Chicago Underground Trio, The Dream Syndicate, Xololanxinxo, and Cherry Glazerr. He recorded this segment of “A Musical Life” direct to tape. Fri, 25 Sep 2020 05:03:00 +0000 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kmuw/audio/2021/03/44021_092520.mp3