This weekly podcast features performances and interviews with our favorite artists and bands, ranging from hip-hop MC Planet Asia to indie up-and-comers Street to Nowhere and country songwriter Jim Lauderdale. The artists join hosts Kurt Wolff, Ariel Nunez, and Peter Gavin and producer Mike Tao to discuss their songwriting, recording techniques, and the tech tools that help them navigate their personal and professional lives. And of course, we listen as they perform an exclusive live show in our studio.
Kurt Wolff, Senior Editor at CNET Download.com Music, wants you to know that just because he wrote
The Rough Guide to Country Music, that doesn't mean he only has ears for George Jones and Johnny Paycheck. Currently he also hangs around the CNET music blog
Living in Stereo.
The man behind the boards in Studio C,
Mike Tao, is an associate producer at Download.com Music. He also runs Word Life Promotions, which he founded in 1999, and regularly spins under the name DJ Mike Nice.
Guest host
Ariel Nunez is an associate producer at CNET TV and also hosts the Bay Area hip-hop television show
Distortion 2 Static.
Guest host
Peter Gavin is an associate producer at Download.com Music as well as a producer of his own music under the name
Moped. When he's not at work or in the studio, look for him on the Frisbee golf course.