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During the 2000's Magnolia Electric Co. brought their rough, improvisational take on indie rock and classic rock themes to audiences across the globe. Led by Jason Molina's haunting accounts of modern internal life, Magnolia became one of the most enduring, and influential alt-country bands in history. Portland's Pete Schreiner played bass and drums for Magnolia Electric Co. and Songs: Ohia for more than 10 years. In this special edition of You/Me Podcast, guest host, and big Magnolia fan, Young Elk's Ezekiel Rudick interviews Pete Schreiner about his coming of age in Bloomington, Indiana at the inception of Secretly Canadian music label, his decade with Molina, and everything in between.Thousand Arrows BandcampThe Zags BandcampThe Coke Dares (FB)

“Pop is like Comic Sans of text...It’s interesting to try to utilize that vessel and fuck it up. ” — Jared Brannan Community minded recording engineer, Jared Brannan balances rocking with his own band, Dedere, with recording Portland artists he feels passionately about. On this week's episode, Jared and I philosophize about his altruistic musical ethos, varying definitions of the term "pop" music, and I explain why I've referred to him as the "Whitney Houston" of Portland rock. Stay tuned for a whisky filled chit-chat with one of the nicest guys in Portland's music community.Download Dedere's single, Hollywood Future Plans here Visit the Touchy Feely Records website here

Adorable indie rockers Jessica Pierson and Graham Bell teach studio art, and art history respectively, while their band Hart and Hare rocks stages across the northwest.  In this personal interview with the couple, Hart and Hare describe what it's like to balance chores with making rock and roll music, dish on why it took them six years to become romantic, and explain their transition toward a more dark, "Sludge-Pop" sound.Like Hart and Hare on FacebookListen to the album, And Action for free!

Thirty-Five year old Chris Brooks parlayed his doctorate in French Existentialism into a full-time gig at Oregon's largest community college.  Hear Chris dish on why our parents' generation could go to college for cheap, how elite institutions self-consciously promote the romance of academia, and why we are still fascinated by the Existentialists who smoked cigarettes and wore all-black on the left bank of Paris after WWII.  Jean-Paul Sarte QuotesSimone de Beavoir Quotes

Twenty-nine year old Amanda Englund started LionHeart Kombucha in order to work around her newborn son.  Five years later she is a full time placenta encapsulator while her husband runs the burgeoning beverage business.  In this week's episode, Amanda talks about identifying queer while being married to a man, her comic book diss on Vladamir Putin, and how a country girl from rural Vermont quickly turned punk rock. Placenta Power WebsiteAmanda's Comic Book -- Past All Limits

At age twenty, Matt Radosavich formed a band with a guy he met at a Calvin Johnson house show and the drummer from White Fang.  A year and two albums later, the Honey Bucket guitarist dishes about his affection for Brian Eno, the mountain ditch skate photo that inspired him to move to the Northwest, getting jumped in Detroit as a kid, the benefits of writing with a new drummer, and the good fortune of finding the Gnar Tapes label.See Honey Bucket on August 3 at East End, $5 Listen to Futon on Bandcamp now

Violent Psalms dark new concept album, Slow To Speak, recorded by Kendra Lynn (The Breeders, She and Him, Wild Flag) at Jackpot Studios, features lyrics about rednecks, sex in parks, and endless beer cans.  During this hour I sit down with frontman and songwriter Ezekiel Rudick to talk about growing up Mormon in Rainier, Washington, recording with a premier sound engineer in Portland, and the origins of his gravely voice.  Tune in to this very personal conversation, the first episode of YOU/ME Podcast.Violent Psalms play at The Blue Room 8145 SE 82nd on Saturday, July 26, with Space Shark and Hart and Hare, and at The Habesha Lounge at 801 NE Broadway on Sunday, July 27 at 9:00 p.m. with Denim Wedding, The Papers, and Palace FictionListen to Slow To Speak on Bandcamp