The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
The Sharp Notes is a conversation podcast exploring music, sound, and the craft behind the records we love. Host Evan Toth speaks with musicians, producers, and industry voices about the art of listening and the stories pressed into every groove.
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
Latest Episodes
Tiny Vinyl, Big Idea: Neil Kohler and Jesse Mann on the 4-Inch Record
Record collectors have never exactly demanded convenience. We like shelves, sleeves, turntables, careful handling, and we have the occasional mild panic over a fingerprint.So perhaps Tiny Vinyl makes perfect sense.At just four inc...
Henry Rollins on The Cramps, Gravest Gravy and Why Records Still Matter
There are records that disappear because nobody wanted them, and then there are records that somehow manage to wait nearly 50 years for the right moment to arrive.Gravest Gravy belongs firmly in the second category.In October of 1...
Anthony Mason on Alchemy and the Art of the Interview
There are interviewers who ask questions, and then there are interviewers who understand that the question is only a doorway to something bigger.Anthony Mason has spent decades walking through those doorways for CBS News, sitting across ...
Soft Palms Interview: IN ECHO, Black Glitter Vinyl, and the DIY Music Business
There’s a particular kind of band that doesn’t just make records; they build a whole working language around the survival of their career including community, self-reliance, all betwixt the strange weather of modern life. Soft Palms — the Long ...
Live and In the Sharp Notes Shop | Nabil Ayers: Sunshine, Sound, and the Stories We Inherit
Tonight we’re very pleased to welcome Nabil Ayers: a writer, podcaster, record store co-founder, label executive, musician and someone whose life and work sit directly at the crossroads of music, identity, memory, and family.Nabil is the...
