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Singsongers

Singsongers is a songwriting-focused interview show hosted by writer/Starburns Industries founder Dino Stamatopoulos. The description we have for the show is:
Dino has no business writing music, except for the fact that he loves doing it. Hear him interview singer songwriters and learn about their processes, like where do they get their ideas and how important is it to really to learn how to bar chords on a guitar?

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Honus Honus (Ryan Kattner) Jun 06, 2017

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Honus Honus hates writing songs and call his process “completely inefficient,” so Dino is fascinated to figure out how Ryan Kattner creates music. They get into the repetition of writing, cannibalizing one song into another, the musicality of words, and more.

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Steve Poltz May 30, 2017

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Storyteller and singsonger Steve Poltz opens with “Ballin’ On A Wednesday” before he and Dino talk about wrangling an audience, how a random interaction turns into a song, and Church joins to sing Steve’s and Jewel’s huge hit, “You Were Meant For Me.” Stay tuned. Steve plays a lot and talks about his amazing history. This one goes deep.

Steve & Dino: https://ibb.co/cGLsAv Steve and Jewel’s drug bust which lead to them writing “You Were Meant For Me”: https://ibb.co/nnh5Vv

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Andras Jones May 24, 2017

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Andras Jones join Dino to write a song on the spot, talk about working with his muse Andy Dick, how he takes criticism, and then he plays some originals. Check out his music tarot site: http://radio8ball.com/

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Patrick Park May 16, 2017

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Sitting in and strumming along, Patrick Park enters Singsongers. He helps Dino with some picking and they get into Patrick’s history, early songs, fatherly influence, beginning the writing process, and how song-writing has changed. His new single “Five Alarm” is available at https://www.patrickpark.net/ and follow his facebook at https://www.facebook.com/patrickparkmusic/

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Makenzie Mizell May 09, 2017

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Fresh from Portland, Makenzie Mizell talks about collaborative writing, touring, and on how outside forces influence her writing, for better or worse. Then she and Dino trade off on the guitar. Find more of her music at https://www.makenziemizell.com.

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Colleen Green May 02, 2017

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Dino’s back, again with the barre chords, and sits down to ask Colleen Green about different types of chords, is he more folky knowing less?, growing up writing, her process and more, as Dino asks for some advice on a song he’s writing and explains why George Harrison got cancer. Colleen released her first album, Milo Goes To Compton, in 2011 and her third, I Want To Grow Up, in 2015. That year she was voted “Best Solo Artist” by the readers of LA Weekly. Find her music here: http://hardlyart.com/colleengreen.html

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Dean Wareham Apr 25, 2017

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Dino and Dean, the Godfather Of Dream Pop, talk about writing in the rain, cowboy music, Dean’s history, the importance of mistakes, and more as Dean holds the guitar and sometimes strums along. Dean helped form Galaxie 500 in 1987, releasing three albums and the song “Tugboat.” He later helped found the bands Luna and Dean & Britta. He released his last solo album, self titled Dean Wareham in 2014. You can find more of his work at http://deanwareham.com/

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Britta Phillips Apr 18, 2017

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Britta Phillips and Dino sit down after some drinks to talk about lyrics and inflection and her 30 plus year career in music and acting. She sang as Jem on the 1980s TV show, voiced characters for Moral Orel and Trent (Dino’s Trent!) and lastly, but certainly not leastly, she’s half of the band Dean & Britta and a member of Luna. She released a solo album in 2016, titled Luck or Magic. Find more from Britta at her website: http://brittaphillips.com/

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Jonny Polonsky Apr 13, 2017

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Jonny joins Dino to talk about his career and help Dino figure out how to write as they play a few songs back and forth. Jonny’s first solo album, Hi My Name Is Jonny, was released to rave reviews in 1996. Since then has worked with Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond, among others, and released six more solo albums. His most recent one, The Otherside Of Midnight, was released 2015. Find more of his music at https://www.jonnypolonsky.com/.

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Robbie Fulks Apr 05, 2017

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Robbie sits down with Dino to talk song writing and, in the process, critiques one of Dino’s new songs. Robbie has released thirteen albums over his thirty-plus year career. His 2016 album, Upland Stories, was nominated for a Grammy for Best Folk Album and the song “Alabama at Night,” was nominated for a Grammy for Best American Roots Song. Find more from Robbie at his website: http://www.robbiefulks.com/

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