Jon Auer on KAOS

From ANDRAS JONES: Jon Auer has been a guest on Radio8Ball more than just about anyone.  This was his first appearance. He joined us on an idyllic spring evening at the KAOS studio for a totally no-stress ramble through a shared love of music and education and each other’s company. In truth, he WAS promoting […]

Jon Auer

JON AUER has been on Radio8Ball in Olympia on KAOS, in Los Angeles at The Hayworth Theater, in Seattle on Alternative Talk 1150AM and on our stages at The Capitol Hill Arts Center, at Little Red Studio, and at Bumbershoot. We’ve even tributed his band The Posies for one of our live performances. Clearly, we […]

Jon Auer (KAOS March 27, 2007)

From ANDRAS JONES: JON AUER of The Posies has been overwhelmingly generous with his time to Radio8Ball. That all started 12 years ago today, when he was live musical guest on our show on KAOS. Here are two musical divinations from that show, including his cover of Elvis Costello’s “Beyond Belief”. Elvis Costello has been […]

Winter Solstice 2020
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Chris “Sandman” Sand

 Inspired by this week’s episode of The World Is Wrong podcast, Andras Jones delves into Winter Solstice 2020 with an exploration of the value of generous conversations that takes us back in time with Mr. Jones & The Previous,  Chris “Sandman” Sand and The Radio8Band (featuring Scott Taylor, Skyler Blake & Chad Austinson), as […]

Christian Gisborne
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Velvet Starlings

 From ANDRAS JONES: We come to the close of our VELVET STARLINGS episode with a question about Sir Paul McCartney from bandleader CHRISTIAN GISBORNE. Christian was concerned that McCartney might be offended by his conspiratorial query but there are no verboten topics in the realm of the Pop Oracle, and there are some pretty […]

Anya Marina
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Anya Marina

From ANDRAS JONES: As we come to the close of our Pop Oracle sessions with ANYA MARINA I hope you’ve been following along with her web series and enjoying our musical divinations as much as I have. I don’t know about you but this has been one hell of a week for me. Julian Assange […]

Jenny Montgomery (with Heath)
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BEAUTS do BEAT HAPPENING

From ANDRAS JONES: I have to jump in here with a quick sync update. Today The Intercept put out a very inspirational video that seems to be in alignment with Jenny and Heath’s question. Check it out. Also of note, today’s randomly chosen Pop Oracle song from the R8B app by Jon Auer is the […]

Andras Jones
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Caroline Keys

 From ANDRAS JONES: In January of this year I decided to visit my friend CHRIS SAND in Missoula, Montana where he plies his craft as a songwriter, raises his daughter, and works at a local theater called The Roxy. Over the course of three outwardly cold but inwardly snuggly warm sessions I got a […]

Andras Jones
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David Rovics

From ANDRAS JONES: On December 12th 2018 DAVID ROVICS was the musical guest on the first Radio8Ball I’d recorded in Olympia in over three years. During the recording of this episode DANNY KELLY of the Olympia band The Hinges launched an anti-semitic online attack against me, pre-emptively accusing me of using my show to call […]

Creston Lea
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The Essex Green

From ANDRAS JONES: I love the cohesion between JON AUER‘s Townshendesque cover of Elvis Costello’s “Beyond Belief” as today’s Pop Oracle song of the day, CRESTON LEA‘s guitars, and the topographical music of THE ESSEX GREEN on this track. Make of it what you will. At very least it is a mega-load of great musical […]

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