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. 
Steve is a one-man band, overdubbing his compositions both in jazz (steel drum!) and pop/rock (featuring his unique and sometimes disco-high voice). He's also drummed and/or fronted bands (The Bureau/BAMF!, Love Lies Dreaming, Fingers), and in fact co-fronted the college/indie psychedelic/eclectic band The MayTricks with Mark back the early '90s. The common thread through all Continue Reading …
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: Geoff Esty’s “Samuel”
Listen to "Samuel" by The MayTricks (re-sung version and the Geoff-sung original, released on the 1994 album Happy Songs Will Bring You Down). As I've described before, my band in college featured (from '91-'94) the adventurous jazz guitarist Geoff Esty, who gave us some cred with his fleet fingers. He's also a songwriter (you can hear/watch his current activities here), Continue Reading …
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “Into the World”
Some comments on the song featured on our Heidegger episode. You can hear "Into the World" and the rest of the second and most poppin' MayTricks album, "So Chewy" here. The MayTricks was my college band, and our first album was released as soon as we had enough songs recorded in whatever form to make a good collection, but it's not a particularly coherent collection (which Continue Reading …
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “1000 Points of Light”
Just a bit about the song featured on our terrorism episode. You can hear "1000 Points of Light" and the rest of the MayTricks' self-titled album here. This was off of my first full album, released when I was a senior in college, and this song was recorded the previous summer as a sort of going-away present to Matt Diaz, our rhythm guitarist for the previous year, who had Continue Reading …