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Independent's Day Independent's Day host Joe Armstrong brings you artists and music industry visionaries with in-depth interviews, live performances and more.

A show focused on the changing face of the music business - and the people who are doing the changing. Hosted by musician, adventurer and inquisitive guy, Joe Armstrong.

Hey Los Angeles! Get your ass in gear and buy tickets to see Jimmer Podrasky play at McCabe's Guitar Shop this Saturday ...
06/09/2023

Hey Los Angeles! Get your ass in gear and buy tickets to see Jimmer Podrasky play at McCabe's Guitar Shop this Saturday night. Do it now.

Jimmer is the real deal, from fronting The Rave-Ups to his stellar solo work. Jimmer joined me on Independent's Day in 2014. We had a great conversation and he played some tunes live in the ID World HQ studio, including this gem of song by the late, great John Prine - back when we were taping the podcast in the corner of my living room.

Supporting Jimmer in his crack band will be Marty Rifkin and Geoff Pearlman, the latter of whom joined us on ID for an episode of his very own. Tickets are available at www.mccabes.com

Support the arts. Support live music. Support Jimmer.

https://youtu.be/iA1H7G18g74?si=kl9PccZtcd0Rj0hh

Jimmer Podrasky is the leader of the seminal band, The Rave-Ups. The band had a a pair of songs and cameo in John Hughes' 1986 coming of age classic, Pretty ...

14/09/2022

Happy birthday to Dan Navarro, who recently joined us on a recent episode of the Independent's Day podcast! If you want to get him something nice for his big day, pick up a copy of his new album, Horizon Line. It comes in small and EXTRA LARGE.

Here's Freedy Johnston with an exclusive live version of "There Goes a Brooklyn Girl" in the Independent's Day World HQ....
09/09/2022

Here's Freedy Johnston with an exclusive live version of "There Goes a Brooklyn Girl" in the Independent's Day World HQ. The tune is just one of a pile of great songs on his smart new album, Back On the Road to You, which is available today!

Dig it!

Freedy Johnston’s Can You Fly album landed on a number of 1992 best-of lists, with legendary music critic Robert Christgau calling it "a perfect album” and p...

Freedy Johnston's new album, Back On the Road to You, drops this Friday! Come kick the tires and give a listen to this B...
07/09/2022

Freedy Johnston's new album, Back On the Road to You, drops this Friday! Come kick the tires and give a listen to this BRAND NEW episode of Independent's Day. It's available now on Apple Podcasts. And buy Freedy's record!

Freedy Johnston’s Can You Fly album landed on a number of 1992 best-of lists, with legendary music critic Robert Christgau calling it "a perfect album” and penning the following about the record: “Contained, mature, realistic in philosophy and aesthetic, its every song a model of open-ended lyrical detail and lithe, sly melodicism, it's a flat-out monument of singer-songwriterdom-up there with Randy Newman's 12 Songs, Joni Mitchell's For the Roses, and other such prepunk artifacts.” Not too shabby. But the peak of Johnston’s fame came with the 1995 single “Bad Reputation” from the follow-album, This Perfect World, produced by Butch Vig (Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, and Garbage, et al). Johnston has been out there slogging it out ever since, releasing an ongoing career’s worth of albums filled with incisive songs delivered in his trademark reedy tenor voice. Johnston first joined us on Independent's Day for episode #62 in December of 2012, and he was kind enough to return just in time for the release of his brand-new album, Back On the Road to You (Forty Below Records - 9/9/22). Joe and Freedy had a wide-ranging discussion that addressed the making of his new album, the perils of social media in a divided society, and how eager he is to get back on the road to play shows after being sidelined by the Covid-19 pandemic. He also treated us to three exclusive live performances of “There Goes a Brooklyn Girl,” “Somewhere Love,” and “Tryin’ to Move On” - three new gems from Back On the Road to You.

Dan Navarro’s brand-spanking-new album, Horizon Line, is available today. We hope you buy it at an independent record st...
26/08/2022

Dan Navarro’s brand-spanking-new album, Horizon Line, is available today. We hope you buy it at an independent record store. But get it one way or another. We also hope you check out this Independent's Day exclusive of Dan playing “Circling the Drain” from Horizon Line in the ID World HQ. It would also be swell if you listened to Joe Armstrong’s interview with Dan on Apple Podcasts.

Congratulations, Dan!

Dan Navarro on ID FFWD - "Circling the Drain"

Dan Navarro had just launched his post-Lowen and Navarro solo career when he first joined us on Independent's Day for episode #103 back in March of 2014. Now...

Dan Navarro’s  new album, Horizon Line, drops this Friday!Dan had just launched his post-Lowen and Navarro solo career w...
24/08/2022

Dan Navarro’s new album, Horizon Line, drops this Friday!

Dan had just launched his post-Lowen and Navarro solo career when he first joined us on Independent's Day for episode #103 back in March of 2014. Now he's back with his second solo album, Horizon Line. Between dates on his never-ending solo tour and a stop by The Grammy Museum: Clive Davis Theater for a special Q&A show, he dropped by the ID World Headquarters to tape a new FFWD episode in order to share some stories and a batch of new songs. Dan is never at a loss for words, and there is a lot to be learned from his approach to life and music.

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