Vinyl Voices Podcast

01/25/2025

Third segment with Leftover Salmon, instructors in American Music 101.

Leftover Salmon has consistently created inspiring music since its two root bands - Left Hand String Band and the Salmon Heads - morphed into one mighty musi...

01/24/2025

When they were pegged as "blues rock," Leftover Salmon came up with a much better way to describe their sound. Check out Segment 2 of our show, including concert footage you can't see anywhere else.

It's hard to describe the musical genre Leftover Salmon fits into, but it sure as hell ain't "blues rock." When an unwitting door man referred to the band in...

01/24/2025

We'll be presenting the first episode of our new season two weeks from today, but all day today we'll be sharing our very special episode with jam band legends Leftover Salmon! Shot in 2024 at The Heights Theater, host Jon Denman and guest host Sylvia Benavidez met with band founders Vince Herman and Drew Emmitt at the venue to discuss Leftover Salmon's long history of working in diverse musical genres.

We'll roll out segments 2 and 3 midday and in the afternoon, but all 3 segments include incredible concert footage shot by our own Jason Esparza and Hell 'N High Water Productions that you will not want to miss! Happy Friday!

In this special episode filmed at Houston's Heights Theater, host Jon Denman and guest host Sylvia Benavidez welcome Leftover Salmon to Vinyl Voices! Vince H...

01/09/2025

The team is hard at work to bring season 2 of Vinyl Voices to life. We have some wonderful artist planned to bring you in the near future as well as a new format for the show and new co-host to boot. Here is a sneak peek from our friend Christopher Seymore, Stay tuned for more exiting content.

12/27/2024

Were we invited to a legendary Vegas bar by Buck-O-Nine? Did we accept? Did we rise to the challenge of a drink-off with these legends?

We'll never tell.

Be on the lookout for new music in 2025. Happy New Year!

In the fourth segment, the Vinyl Voices gang tries to weasel its way into a Buck-O-Nine bachelor party or coax them into headlining a Punks and Pints Festiva...

12/27/2024

Listen to ska bands like Buck-O-Nine, become a brain scientist. It's literally that simple.

Buck-O-Nine gives us the scoop on their upcoming 14-track album, tentatively titled "Cut Out the Noise," and we discuss ska's enduring popularity, especially...

12/27/2024

If you know Je-C from Days N Daze and Escape from the ZOO, you might know he knew Buck-O-Nine's "Irish Drinking Song" back when he was too young to be listening to it. His dad - our own Jesse Sendejas - admits this to the band in Segment 2 of our chat during Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival.

Craig and Dan - the horn section from Buck-O-Nine - tell the Vinyl Voices crew how the legendary Cabo Wabo Cantina paved a path to the many wonderful cover s...

12/27/2024

It's nearly New Year's Eve and to get you in the dancing mood we bring you a full day's worth of segments with the legendary San Diego ska band, Buck-O-Nine! Shot over the summer at Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival, they told us a lot we wanted to know - like details on their upcoming album - and a few things we didn't want to know...you'll just have to tune in to learn more about that. Segments every couple of hours today, please check 'em out and have a great weekend!

Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up! We have a great chat with Buck-O-Nine, the veteran ska outfit from San Diego, during Punk Rock Bowling 2024. Dan Albert a...

12/05/2024

Studio primed and ready, Vinyl Voices 2 First episode recording tonight. Stay tuned.

11/29/2024

An exclusive performance brought to you by your friends at

Ceschi throws down for the VV crew at Punk Rock Bowling 2024!More Ceschi here:https://www.patreon.com/ceschi?fbclid=IwY2xjawG2nexleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHS25fto0dmg...

11/29/2024

speaks from years of experience as he reminds artists to be revolutionary in their thinking in this segment, straight from our visit to

"My goal as an artist is to not have to promote anything ever again." Ceschi begins this segment, which is filled with reflections from three decades of invo...

11/29/2024

Segment 2 with Ceschi, with shouts out to , and

Vinyl Voices met with New Haven artist Ceschi in Las Vegas during PRB weekend and learned how his latest project, Codefendants, evolved from word of mouth to...

11/29/2024

BLACK FRIDAY RULES at Vinyl Voices Show as we bring you segments all day from our visit with this summer at Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival! We'll be sharing three interview segments and an exclusive freestyle this talented artist dropped while we chatted about his long, genre-defying career and new gig as co-frontman for . Please enjoy!

Ceschi Ramos says he's a terrible bowler. Fortunately for us, he's a talented musician who defies genre and has been creating thought-provoking art for over ...

11/22/2024

Jesse meeting with like-minded friends on the mission: making more folks aware of the talented and hard-working people in Houston music.

In this engaging session, The Houston Collective dives into the career and experiences of Jesse Sendejas, a dedicated figure in Houston's music journalism sc...

11/22/2024

NEW HOSTS ANNOUNCEMENT:   Please join me in welcoming Gladys Fuentes and Nayeli Plata as my fellow co-hosts for this season! is a longtime Houston music writer (Houston Press) and has interviewed everyone from X’s John Doe to blues legend Bobby Rush to country badass Margo Price - just this year alone! - and many, many more.  She’s a friend, a joy and no stranger to the program. Gladys co-hosted two Season One episodes, our sit-downs with Amanda Pascali and Colorado folk punkers Doom Scroll, and we’re eager to see her flourish as a full-time fixture on the show.

Since Latin music is music’s fastest growing genre, we’ll be doing more bilingual and Spanish language content this season and Nayeli Plata will be joining us to facilitate those interviews. is also a friend, a joy and no stranger to the program. She handled Spanish-language interviewing on our most viewed episode - our tour bus talk with Mexican music superstar Christian Nodal – and helped us prep for several Season One interviews. We’re super excited to watch her grow in this role and introduce viewers to well-known and up-and-coming acts in one of music’s most captivating genres.

In December, we’ll be airing two final episodes featuring Jon Denman as show host - our chat with Daniel Donato at Rockefeller’s and a Heights Theater remote with jam band legends Leftover Salmon. Both episodes feature incredible concert footage you won’t want to miss.  

Then we’ll start 2025 with Gladys’s first official show as co-host, an interview with .albarran the iconic singer of the legendary rock en Español band, Café Tacvba, which Nayeli helped us organize. We’ll circle back with fresh posts as we get closer to those air dates.

Scroll through these photos to see what fun, fierce and fascinating women they are and then tune into our new season of shows to learn more about Gladys, Nayeli and a bunch of your favorite musicians and bands. Thanks!

11/21/2024

Hey y’all, it’s Jesse. I just wanted to thank you Vinyl Voices followers and faithful for your patience while we’ve been on a bit of a hiatus. Our team has had some life/career changes that have prompted a retooling of the show and we’re now ready to announce some big changes as we resume bringing you the best musicians around, from local heroes to international superstars. 

First, we’ll be leaving your radio airwaves for a bit to focus on video opportunities. Many thanks to our friends at ESPN 97.5 FM for all their support in our first season of shows, which helped us establish a solid foundation. We look forward to seeing where Jason Esparza’s video production talents lead us and we feel the sky is the limit in that regard.

Many thanks also to Jon Denman, our show founder and cohost for Season One, who is taking a step back from hosting but remains on as a consultant. Thanks also to Kevin Murphy, (y'all know him as ) whose production expertise brought Season One to amazing auditory life. He’s stepping away to focus on his wonderful family.

You can’t really replace the charm, talent and experience of those folks so instead of replacing we’re making some exciting additions to the family.

Who's gonna fill these seats? More on that tomorrow.

09/30/2024

hello friends! we have some big changes to announce heading into our second full year of bringing you the best local, national and international music acts around! thanks everyone for your continued support while we prep for an all new season of . more to come soon!