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. 
Ken returns from episode #39, this time not to talk about his own music, but more generally about our relationship to music. Do you just embrace the pure sound, or do you care about who made that sound? One way of seeing where you fall on this issue is whether you care more for singles or to whole albums or careers by artists. This is a cross-production with my Pretty Much Pop Continue Reading …
Pretty Much Pop #23: The Singer Not the Song w/ Ken Stringfellow
What's your relationship to music? Do you just embrace the pure sound, or do you care about who made that sound? One way of seeing where you fall on this issue is whether you care more for singles or to whole albums or careers by artists. Ken Stringfellow, who co-fronts The Posies and was a member of R.E.M. and Big Star, joins Mark, Erica, and Brian to talk about what Continue Reading …
NEM #49: Scott McCaughey Minus 5 Plus Young Fresh Fellows Equals Magic
Scott established himself fronting Seattle's Young Fresh Fellows starting in 1981, then around 1994 joined R.E.M. as a recording/touring member and started The Minus 5 with R.E.M.'s Peter Buck. We discuss The Minus 5's "In the Ground" from Dungeon Golds (2015), "All the Time" from their Old Liquidator (1995), and "Weymer Never Dies" from their Of Monkees & Men (2016). We Continue Reading …