People Have The Power is a new podcast, hosted by acclaimed journalist Steve Baltin, where today’s artists make their choices for the greatest songs of social justice and change of all time. Each week a guest artist will make their choice for the songs that most inspire them and discuss those choices, going into detail on the first time they heard the song, how it inspires their music and more. During this time of so much upheaval music continues to play a great role of comfort and education.
People Have The Power is a new podcast, hosted by acclaimed journalist Steve Baltin, where today’s artists make their choices for the greatest songs of social justice and change of all time. Each week a guest artist will make their choice for the songs that most inspire them and discuss those choices, going into detail on the first time they heard the song, how it inspires their music and more. During this time of so much upheaval music continues to play a great role of comfort and education.
Australian singer/songwriter Julia Stone will release her first solo album in eight years, Sixty Summers, this April 30. The record, which was done in part with St. Vincent and Thomas Bartlett, finds Stone tapping into her dance mode, as she tells me on this week’s People Have The Power podcast. “Hearing great songs that make More
My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James joins me on this week’s People Have The Power podcast for an enthralling conversation on the role of art in times of crisis. In the roughly 45-minute talk James opens up on a variety of topics, on everything from writing during COVID and new My Morning Jacket music to More
This Saturday, February 6, would be the seventy-sixth birthday of reggae icon Bob Marley. For the last year, his family, including son Ziggy, have engaged in a year-long celebration of the elder Marley’s seventy-fifth birthday in 2020. During that time I spoke with Ziggy for the People Have The Power podcast about his own album, More
Prolific indie icon Ani DiFranco releases her twenty-second album, Righteous Love, this Friday (January 29). It was an album completed under unusual circumstances, in North Carolina during COVID DiFranco tells me on this week’s People Have The Power podcast. ” I had been talking with Brad Cook who lives in Durham, NC. [He] is sort More
The Flaming Lips will hold bubble concerts this weekend, January 21 and 22, in their home of Oklahoma City. The shows, rescheduled from December, will find both the band and audience members in plastic bubbles for COVID safety measures. As Wayne Coyne tells host Steve Baltin on this week’s People Have The Power podcast, no More
National frontman and Taylor Swift collaborator on Evermore, Matt Berninger joins host Steve Baltin on this week’s People Have The Power podcast. In October, Matt Berninger released his debut solo album, Serpentine Prison, produced by Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Booker T. Jones. In celebration of the release, Berninger joins the show to discuss, More
