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Episode 270: Jidori / Elliot & The Ghost Oct 09, 2016

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This week we head across the pond to London to sit down with the team behind Jidori, Dalston's yakitori-ya that's winning diners over with charcoal-grilled skewers, well-made cocktails and a true welcoming spirit. We're also joined by Brooklyn rock quartet, Elliot & The Ghost--who recently dropped their latest single, "Turn Off Your Radar"--to talk all about late nights and living room records.

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Episode 269: Chef Casey Lane & Acid Dad Oct 02, 2016

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Casa Apicii, by Chef Casey Lane, the Los Angeles-based chef who oversees The Tasting Kitchen, is a seasonal Italian restaurant inside a Greenwich Village 19th Century townhouse. Lane has teamed up with A Voce's Adam Nadel for his first East Coast project.

Acid Dad is psych punk kids from New York, whose melodies haunt your brains and get inside your veins.

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Episode 268: Madcapra & Cameron Orr Sep 25, 2016

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Located Inside the Grand Central Market in Downtown LA, Madcapra is a produce-driven, untraditional falafel shop created by Chefs Sarah Hymanson and Sara Kramer. Our falafel is made from organic, locally-sourced chickpeas from Koda Farms. We take a lot of pride in the quality of our ingredients and source as much of our product as possible from sustainable growers in Southern California. Why? Because vegetables.

Cameron Orr is a looping artist that uses live-recorded layers of electronically affected violin and synthesizer sounds to create cinematic, orchestral compositions that combine classical, jazz, and modern indie-pop influences.

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Episode 267: Yael Peet (Karasu) & KAYE (San Fermin) Sep 18, 2016

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Today on Snacky Tunes, we talk to Karasu founder Yael Peet, who tells us about her career change from art school (with dreams of cartooning) to the world of food, sharp knives, and putting twists on Japanese cuisine.

Later, we hear intimate piano + vocals only versions of music by Charlene Kaye (KAYE), a New York-based artist who got her start singing with the indie rock collective known as San Fermin.

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Episode 266: Luis Navarro and PILL Sep 11, 2016

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The season premiere of Snacky Tunes features Chef Luis Navarro and a live in-studio performance by the band PILL.

Chef Luis Navarro has dedicated his career to learning and traveling through all of Mexico’s enchanting regions, from Veracruz, Mexico City, Yucatan, Baja California, and Oaxaca studying the craft of the local cuisine, and indigenous ingredients. He is currently the head chef of Lola's Mexican Cuisine in Long Beach, CA.

PILL will be touring in Europe throughout the month of October. Their debut album Convenience is out now on the Mexican Summer label.

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Episode 265: Connie's Pizza & Psymon Spine Aug 28, 2016

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This week's episode of Snacky Tunes features an interview with Michael Stolfe of Connie's Pizza in Chicago, as well as a live in-studio performance by Psymon Spine.

Connie's Pizza is Chicago's best kept secret for delicious Italian dishes and of course, pizza. Much has happened since founder Jim Stolfe traded his prized 1962 Oldsmobile Starfire to open the first Connie’s in a small storefront on the south side of Chicago. They have opened new restaurants and expanded into frozen foods nationwide. There are some things, however, that have not changed. They are still family owned, and still obsessed with quality and service.

Dropping their self-titled debut EP on May 19 via Axis Mundi Records, Psymon Spine’s vibe is a hodgepodge of sonic styles: opener “Experience Machine” is a jubilant, guitar-driven romp with lush harmonies and an aggressively good-times agenda. “Eric’s Basement & Secret Tunnels,” meanwhile, blends strobing digital effects with sweet, acoustic folk-pop and an echoing, Books-ish sample, and “Gears” quietly slips in with gentle, dissonant string-work. None of these textures ought to fit together, but Psymon Spine have a knack for fitting square pegs in round holes.

This episode features live in-studio performances of "Frankie Rose" and "Wallpaper."

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Episode 264: Cordobar and Monika Heidemann Aug 21, 2016

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In this week's episode of Snacky Tunes, Greg Bresnitz talks to the gentlemen behind Cordobar, an Austrian wine bar in Berlin, Germany. Take it from them: Burgundy isn't the only place to grow grapes with a fine wine in mind.

Then we're joined in the studio by singer/songwriter Monika Heidemann (stage name HEIDEMANN), who tells us all about her early gravitation to synthesizers and lets us hear it.

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Episode 263: Curtis Stone & B Boys Aug 14, 2016

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This week's episode of Snacky Tunes features an interview with Chef Curtis Stone, followed by an in-studio performance by B Boys.

Curtis Stone is an Australian celebrity chef, author and television personality, nicknamed "The Quiet Terminator" by fans following his performance on The Celebrity Apprentice 3. He recently launched his ambitious new tasting-menu restaurant Gwen in Hollywood.

Three psychos that came to be through fate by way of necessity, B Boys offer up to the world their sonic manifesto, No Worry No Mind. A relief from the mania, an expression of duality, an extension of Dadaism.

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Episode 262: Food and Art in Berlin Aug 07, 2016

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On today's Snacky Tunes, we spoke with three Berlin artists who use food as their medium of creative expression and connection to the community around them.

'Pepe Dayaw' is a work-in-progress. In this work lies a blend of folklores, precarious technologies and funky improvisations whose mission is to research and choreograph living designs and sociality. Formally educated in the University of the Philippines, University of Amsterdam, University of Warwick, the National Museum of Reina Sofia Madrid and the Kaloob Philippine Music and Dance Ministry, Pepe performs, having trained in several dance disciplines such as pangalay and butoh, a self-taught chef, polyglot and masseur; and a professional karaoke singer.

Kim Upstill is a freelance event producer, curator, chef, and artist based in Berlin. She hosts and cooks a variety of pop-up cafes and events that investigate feasting’s ability to enact lyrical and discursive participation with universal and personal themes such as family history, sexuality, and sound. She holds a degree in Art & Critical Theory from The Evergreen State College and a very worn food handlers card from the State of California.

Joel Isaac Black is a world traveler by way of west to mid to Berlin. He cooks in the infamous Fame, based inside the Katerschmaus club. He is good with a story and recently turned to disco.

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Episode 261: Wine Enthusiast Magazine and Starchild & The New Romantic Jul 31, 2016

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This week on Snacky Tunes, Darin and Greg Bresnitz are back in the studio to interview Jameson Fink and Nils Bernstein of Wine Enthusiast Magazine the world’s largest periodical for wine and spirits. Fink is a two-time SAVEUR Blog Award finalist, and Bernstein has authored culinary content for Bon Appetit, Men’s Journal, New York Times, Hemispheres, and Kinfolk, among others.

After the break, a live in-studio performance by Starchild & The New Romantic. Bryndon Cook, who records as Starchild, describes his music as “Champion Music for the Heartbroken.” Drawing equally on electro and R&B, with silky sheets of synth cascading over rubbery bass lines, each song spikes lithe vocal melodies with an undeniable twinge of sadness.

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