Nakedly Examined Music is a podcast about making music: Why do we do it? Why do we do it the way we do it? Mark Linsenmayer interviews songwriters and composers famous and otherwise about specific recordings, which are presented in full on the podcast. 
Jonathan played in the '80s with the punk/ethnic California band Camper van Beethoven, and he has since put out 40+ solo albums, sometimes with songs, sometimes guitar improvisations, or instrumental music for dance or film. We discuss his lengthy art-rock songs with political content: "Sleep for a Hundred Years" and the title track from Superfluity (2017), then look back to Continue Reading …
PEL Special: Nakedly Examined Music #1 with David Lowery
Our first spin-off podcast has launched successfully! PEL host Mark Linsenmayer talks to songwriters about why and how they do what they do: Call it applied philosophy, the specifics that go into making this most popular of our arts. And who better to kick things off than David Lowery, lead singer of both Camper van Beethoven and its more famous alt-rock child, Cracker? You Continue Reading …
NEM#1: David Lowery on Story Songs and Songs About Nothing
Welcome to the premiere episode of Nakedly Examined Music, where a songwriter and I go in depth on three of his or her songs. David is the lead singer of Camper van Beethoven and Cracker, and has of late been a music business professor and a major advocate for artists' rights, even testifying before Congress. The three songs we discuss are: "All Her Favorite Fruit," Continue Reading …