What Am I Making
Matty C, S.W. Lauden, Barry HummelAn exploration of making a life in and around music and art in the 21st century.
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WAIM #153: Hunter Morris
Hunter Morris is the kind of musician that has held on to his day job. It is a tale as old as time; a singer/songwriter churns out good work that improves and evolves over time. Yet, he still cannot find a large enough audience in the days...
What Is Your Favorite Song About A Body Part?
One summer afternoon when I was a child, I filled two glasses with iced tea and headed toward the front porch. With full hands and a full head of ADHD, I used one the glasses of tea to push the lever for our screen door to open. Unfortunate...
WAIM Radio #124 - The Swimming Hole (Full Show)
On an especially hot summer day in July of 1919, Eugene Williams and four of his friends took a homemade wooden raft out into Lake Michigan. They had set off from the 26th Street Beach, the only section Lakefront Beach in Chicago reserved f...
WAIM #152: Andrew Kenny of American Analog Set
Andrew Kenny and his bandmates have always been good scrapbookers. They kept tour flyers, set lists, photographs, press clippings, and loads of other ephemera from the earliest days of The American Analog Set. As the band began to work with...
#025" Six Questions With Barry Hummel
This week, I welcome back my old friend and frequent What Am I Making guest for a sextet of musical conundrums. Barry is, of course, one half of the great Pops on Hops podcast where he and his daughter Abigail discuss music and beer and so...
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I am a middle aged musician, songwriter, and graphic designer that's spent a life pondering deep and meaningful questions about music, film, culture, literature, and art.
S.W. Lauden edited the essay collections 'Go All The Way' (Power Pop) and 'Forbidden Beat' (Punk Drumming). Substack music writing: Remember The Lightning. Drums: The Brothers Steve, Tsar, Ridel High. Social: @swlauden
Over the last ten years, my wife and I have become passionate runners, using races as a way to visit new places. These are the stories of our years of running dangerously!
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