The Self Portrait Gospel :: Podcast

Season 9 Ep. 13 - Nick Sutton (Gummo) - Pt. 1

We're joined by Nick Sutton, who famously played Tummler, for this two-part episode to explore the endless enviroments of an atmospheric apocalypse where character and pe

Season 9 Ep. 12 - Julia Holter

An intimately inspired continuation of 2024's beloved "Somthing In The Room," "Materia," which was released just this past weekend on Domino, is a melodic meditation on t

"And The Nights Were Perfect, Too" - A Silver Jews Podcast Season 1 Ep. 04 :: "Maybe I'm the Only One for Me w/ Gate Pratt"

When delving into the unparalleled universe of David Berman, you've probably run across the name Gate Pratt several times in your research. A fundamental fixture in our p

Season 9 Ep. 11 - Hamilton Morris

Journalist, documentarian, scientific researcher, and transcendental trailblazer in psychedelic phenomenon, Hamilton Morris has explored spirituality and the esoteric eco

"And The Nights Were Perfect, Too" - A Silver Jews Podcast Season 1 Ep. 03 :: "Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes w/ Matt Hunter"

Some of you may have kept up with our series "The Burning Never Ending Magic Podcast" - A Sun City Girls Story, so we'll start there with our most recent guest on the "An

"And The Nights Were Perfect, Too" - A Silver Jews Podcast Season 1 Ep. 02 :: "We Are Not Monsters w/ Chris Stroffolino"

Born in Reading, PA, in the spring of 1963, Chris Stroffolino is an American poet, scholar, writer, multi-instrumentalist, and author, among many other things. His creati

"And The Nights Were Perfect, Too" - A Silver Jews Podcast Season 1 Ep. 01 :: "There's A Red Haus Over Yonder w/ Kylie Wright"

For the first episode of "And The Nights Were Perfect, Too" - A Silver Jews Podcast, we travel back in time before all the fame and fans in the mid-1980s to speak to one

Season 9 Ep. 10 - Haylie Davis

While conjuring the soothing sounds of Carly Simon's 1972 classic "No Secret" and balancing her own poetic place in this world, singer-singwriter Haylie Davis has been cu

"When I Didn't Have A Home" - An Amps For Christ Podcast - Season 1 Ep. 04 :: "Pitch Memory - The Legend Behind The Album Circuits"

Barnes has been incredibly busy all summer long with AFC-related projects and performances, their recent split cassette collaboration with LA-based duo Law, and the trans

Season 9 Ep. 09 - Miles Michaud (Allah-Las)

From one end of the shore of some spiritually secluded sanctuary, resides a melodic memory of a time that has long since passed. Where world-renowned National Geographic

Season 9 Ep. 08 - Jeffery Silverstein

Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter, teacher, and DJ, Jeffery Silverstein, first came on the scene during his participation in groups such as the Brooklyn-based duo

Season 9 Ep. 07 - Jerry David DeCicca (Dedicated To Edward Crane Askew: December 1, 1940 – January 4, 2025)

Bulverde, Texas-based singer-songwriter, producer, and beverage connoisseur, Jerry David DeCicca, has been intimatley involved in music for more than two decades, tending

"When I Didn't Have A Home" - An Amps For Christ Podcast Season 1 Ep. 03 :: "Modified Meditation & The Search For The Path w/ Erik Shumpert"

Longtime friend and cosmic collaborator on such works as 1997's "Thorny Path" and 2024's "Rising Phoenix" Erik Shumpert, and his twin brother Paul first met Snarb in the

"When I Didn't Have A Home" - An Amps For Christ Podcast - Season 1 Ep. 02 :: "Songs Of Now And Then And Then In Now And Now In Then"

This episode takes place right in the harmonious heart of Barnes' liberating laboratory at the legendary Folk Music Center and Museum, located in Claremont, California, w

Season 9 Ep. 06 - Chris Kysor (Artist behind the cover of the Silver Jews' "American Water")

Having first met the late great David "Cloud" Berman sometime in Dallas in 1984, poetic painter Chris Kysor has been an incredibly important individual in the world of th

Season 9 Ep. 05 - John McCauley (Deer Tick)

Logtime Providence-based rockers Deer Tick have been releasing aggressively atmospheric, sonically seductive music for over two decades now. Since forming in the winter o

"When I Didn't Have A Home" - An Amps For Christ Podcast - Season 1 Ep. 01 (Season Premier) :: "The End Is The Beginning and The Beginning Is The End"

Hailing from Claremont, California, a suburban city in eastern Los Angeles County, Henry Branes (Ranger Barnes, Enid Snarb) first began connecting with the meditative mel

Season 9 Ep. 04 - Rich Wilkes (Screenwriter/Director/Actor/Musician)

Born and raised in Princeton, New Jersery, Wilkes relocated to the West Coast with his family, where he would go on to earn a BA at UC Santa Cruz, before eventually decid

Season 9 Ep. 03 - MC Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger)

Remaining a romantically revolutionary voice among his peers and contemporaries for nearly two decades, Durham, North Carolina-based singer, songwriter, and producer MC T

Season 9 Ep. 02 - Chik White

Maybe you've seen his vidoes while doom scrolling on your phone at two a.m. in search of elementary enlightenment or a break from the gravitational gloom of the world and