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#9 Bonus: More Conversation and Tunes with Roderick Romero

Here's more footage from the Nakedly Examined Music ep. 9 interview with Sky Cries Mary's Roderick Romero, where he talks about his divorce from his co-lead-singer, writing a song for a movie about Jim Morrison that never got made, the 2015 SCM reunion show, his first album recorded with Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer of The Posies, being in the Seattle music scene as it was  Continue Reading …