The Tone Mob Podcast

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Position in the Music Interviews chart (US), last 90 days.

#1#87#172JunJulAugSep

#34

all-time peak

days in the top 50 since Nov 2024

Latest episodes

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How to Actually Make It in Music w/ Liz The Music Manager

#33 trending · Music Interviews

Liz Kamlet, better known online as Liz The Music Manager, has spent most of her life somewhere behind the curtain of the music business. She started shooting tour photogr

Sep 7
1 h 03 min

Why Isn’t This on Every Guitar? w/ NVision Guitars

What if, instead of asking a musician to adapt to their guitar, you built the guitar to adapt to the musician? On this episode of The Tone Mob Podcast, I’m hanging out w

Aug 31
1 h 01 min

Dylan McKerchie Cut a Harley Benton in Half (But Why?)

It has been way too long since Dylan McKerchie of Dylan Talks Tone has been on the show, and quite a bit has changed since our last conversation. Dylan has a home base, h

Aug 24
1 h 08 min

Building the Next Chapter w/ Randy King of King Electric Guitars

This week I’m hanging out with Randy King of King Electric Guitars, and what starts as a conversation about old cars takes approximately four minutes to wander off the ro

Aug 17
1 h 09 min

Zao Is Getting Sludgier With Age (Scott Mellinger)

Scott Mellinger of Zao returns to The Tone Mob for a long-overdue hang, and apparently age comes for us all in different ways. Some people take up golf. Zao seems to be g

Aug 11
1 h 05 min

How Frank Gross Built Thunder Road Guitars One Guitar At A Time

This week on The Tone Mob, Blake sits down with Frank Gross, founder of Thunder Road Guitars Seattle, for a conversation about music, retail, risk, reinvention, and the s

Aug 4
1 h 06 min

Emerald City Guitars: Trevor Boone and the Art of the Guitar Hunt

Trevor Boone basically grew up inside a guitar shop. His dad started Emerald City Guitars in Seattle back in the mid-90s with a shoestring business plan, a small loan, a

Jul 28
1 h 21 min

The Yvette Young Episode With Superman in It

Yvette Young is back on the podcast, which means we are legally required to talk about beautiful guitar parts, creative chaos, and the strange little circus act of trying

Jul 20
59 min

Buddy Blues: From Beirut Blues Kid to Guitar YouTube

Buddy Blues joins The Tone Mob for a long-overdue conversation about guitar, YouTube, blues, pedals, and the strange little internet ecosystem where all of those things c

Jul 15
1 h 05 min

How 29 Pedals Made Buffers Cool

Jesse Honig of 29 Pedals finally joins The Tone Mob, and we are digging all the way into the beautifully nerdy machinery of his story. Before launching 29 Pedals, Jesse

Jul 6
1 h 22 min

Why Musora Is Putting Your Favorite Bands On The Spot

Ron Jackson has one of those jobs that sounds suspiciously like something a music nerd invented while staring at the ceiling. As the host and producer of Musora’s Covers

Jun 29
1 h 08 min

Sal Mignano on Held, The Sleeping & a Lifetime of Loud

Sal Mignano has never been particularly interested in making the bass behave itself. As a founding member of The Sleeping and one-third of the thunderous new project Hel

Jun 22
1 h 08 min

Cosmodio and the Art of Beautiful Chaos (Barton McGuire)

Barton McGuire doesn’t believe a guitar pedal should politely prevent you from making a bad sound. Where’s the adventure in that? In this episode, Blake sits down with t

Jun 15
1 h 08 min

Will York: Thunder Road, Vintage Guitars & Betting It All

Will York of Thunder Road Guitars PDX joins us to tell the real story behind one of the West Coast's favorite guitar shops. Before Thunder Road Portland became a destina

Jun 8
1 h 20 min

Too Many Knobs? Perfect. Shea Sterner of THISHEAVYEARTH

This week on The Tone Mob Podcast, Blake hangs with Shea Sterner of thisheavyearth, a Portland-based builder making heavy pedals, brutal solid-state amps, and gear that l

Jun 1
1 h 25 min

The Sleeping’s Douglas Robinson Woke Up a Guitar Player

Douglas Robinson is best known as the voice of The Sleeping, but with his new project Held, he’s stepping into a whole new role: guitar player, riff writer, and newly min

May 27
1 h 06 min

MARK MORTON!!!!!!

Mark Morton joins the show today, and we somehow manage to talk about the gravitational pull of the electric guitar, the operational realities of a world-class metal band

May 18
1 h 04 min

The Used’s Joey Bradford Wants Guitars to Feel Human Again

Joey Bradford of The Used is back on The Tone Mob, and this one wanders through the good stuff: touring, dad life, studio rabbit holes, guitar rigs, loud amps, weird peda

May 11
1 h 02 min

Fluff vs. The Internet: Who’s Actually Winning?

Ryan “Fluff” Bruce is back, and this time it’s less about chasing tones and more about chasing sanity. After more than a decade in the YouTube trenches, Fluff joins Blak

May 4
1 h 04 min

Chumbawamba!!! (Something A Bit Different)

This week I'm serving up something a bit different! There is another podcast I do called Tape Spaghetti with my good buddy Scott Marquart. On that podcast, we explore st

Apr 27
1 h 18 min

Chart positions

Where The Tone Mob Podcast ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 9, 2026).

#69 ▲ 96 Music Interviews US

What listeners say

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I can count on one hand how many different Podcasts I actually listen to. Huge fan of The Tone Mob! Blake’s approach always has me feeling like I’m getting a behind-the-scenes scoop on some of my favorite artists out there, along with discovering a whole lot of other amazing, talented artists out there. Do Not Sleep on this podcast, as you’ve officially discovered a Gem! 💎🔉💀✌️⚡️

Clayton J.L. · Apr 2025

I’m not really a fan of interview shows so I didn’t expect I’d like this as much as I do. I heard Blake on the Chasing Tone podcast that he also cohosts and he talked about some of the people he interviewed. The one that got me really interested was Tom Cram of Digitech pedals. Once I listened to that episode I kind of got a little hooked. He doesn’t just have musicians on that are trying to climb their way up to whatever is considered the top these days. He talks to a lot of people who do are variety of things. Design and build pedals, build professional studios, people who do research and write books, amp builders and of course boring old musicians who sometimes turn out not be so boring. I liked it enough that I signed on to Patreon to get the extra stuff. I wanted to be one of the cool kids. Give it a chance and you will too.

Gitarzz · Jul 2023

Blake has a ton of amazing artists, creators, and stars on each week and the content never fails to entertain. The patreon episodes get even crazier. He even has been known to do giveaways from time to time and my wife won one. First time we’ve ever legit won anything from a show. So that was awesome. Can’t say enough good things!

Rypline · Jun 2023

Blake has developed into a very good podcaster and conversationalist. Even if you aren’t into the music of the guest, Blake will pull information and stories out of them that will make it worth the listen.

92Esquire · Jun 2023

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