Music And We
We are organizers, and we love music. We love to talk about the joy that music brings, but also what lay beneath, beside, above and inside. We are not afraid to address the political, the spiritual, or the ideological. We examine what inspires us, and others. Thanks for joining us!
Episodes
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
The Marriage Of Sports And Music, With Anthony Broome
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
(RECORDED ON MARCH 15, 2024) While there are connections based on interest of a particular piece of music or band; many of us live lives outside of that singular interest.
jamilah and Anthony Broome met via the Metal Up Your Podcast community, specifically through the Discord network. Because life stories are so vast and interesting, jamilah invited him to come on and speak about his experience/history as a sports writer, a forum moderator (Discord being one of those places), and of course, a ginormous fan of Metallica. How do these worlds merge? What are some of the challenges that come up? What are some of the paths to inspiration (and peace among the noise)?
If you're interested in joining the Discord, let us know and we'll get a link to you! If you have any questions, comments, etc. you can reach us here:
Thanks for listening!
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
The 'Giving Flowers' Series (episode 3): Bad Religion (feat. Chris Warne)
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
(RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 11, 2024) This episode developed from a few situations; jamilah wanted to do an episode on Fugazi (one of her favoritest bands of all time), but could not necessarily find someone to do that episode with. As Fugazi has not been a band since the early 2000s, doing a 'Flowers' episode would not have been feasible; however, members of Fugazi have embarked on several projects since then, so hopefully someone will want to do a 'Fugazi: Past And Present' episode with her.
In terms of the episode you're listening to now; in a conversation that involved Bad Religion (another one of her all-time favorite bands), Chris Warne mentioned that even though he loved Fugazi, he would be more comfortable with doing an episode on BR- and thus, another 'Flowers' episode was born. As a matter of fact, Chris and jamilah (along with mutual friend Rob) have started a tri-continental band, borne from a love of Bad religion.
In this episode you will hear music from Chris' (primary) band, Cowboy Dan; you will also hear several covers, where all the instruments and vocals were performed by jamilah. We also discuss the various ways this band has positively impacted/inspired us- including the results of a very arduous task of compiling eight specific songs.
We hope you find something positive in your listening experience- we certainly had fun doing this!
You can find Cowboy Dan's music here: https://cowboydanmusic.bandcamp.com/music
We'd love to hear from you! For questions, comments, etc. you can reach us here: musicandwejj@gmail.com
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Podcasts Unite: A Conversation With Clint Wells (Metal Up Your Podcast)
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Friday Feb 09, 2024
(RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 7, 2024) We are happy to bring in the first episode of the year of our humble little podcast, a conversation with Clint Wells! You may be familiar with him as the host of Metal Up Your Podcast; he's also a professional touring and studio musician, a songwriter and producer... and all-around nice guy. In this episode, Clint and jamilah pontificate (in humorous, thoughtful and empathetic ways) on the importance of family and community, what makes a good songwriter, the importance of dialog with those who may hold different views, producing Morgan Wade's upcoming album and of course, Metallica.
Thank you for listening!
To hear Metal Up Your Podcast, one way of listening is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/metal-up-your-podcast-all-things-metallica/id1187775077
We'd love to hear from you! For questions, comments, etc. you can reach us here: musicandwejj@gmail.com
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
jesse and jamilah watch the ’Thriller 40’ documentary...
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
(RECORDED DECEMBER 4, 2023) Whoo boy... jesse owes jamilah big time for this one.
The best way to describe this is to just listen to the episode!!! In it, we discuss once again, a documentary that doesn't exactly do justice to the musical legacy of Michael Jackson. We attempt to make sense of why this has (again) occurred, we ask why some of the people in the documentary are there, and we go in a bit on John Landis (because honestly, people who love film should).
We'd love to hear from you! For questions, comments, etc. you can reach us here: musicandwejj@gmail.com
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Our End Of The Year Episode!!!
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
(RECORDED ON DECEMBER 2, 2023) After many months of technical mishaps and life experiences, jesse and jamilah have returned, discussing some (but not all) of their favorite albums released this year; they also discussed the culture of mass information (in relation to Shawn 'Puffy' Combs and other predatory figures), our own contradictions, as well as other cultural events that have since occurred since this posting!
We'd love to hear from you! For questions, comments, etc. you can reach us here: musicandwejj@gmail.com
Friday Aug 11, 2023
The day jamilah met Metallica...
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
(RECORDED ON AUGUST 7, 2023) Yes.... The unbelievable happened. jamilah met her second favorite band of all time, and her greatest musical inspiration. She is still in immense shock about it. This episode was recorded the day after Metallica did their two sets (with no repeats) at MetLife Stadium, so please forgive her relative incoherence, and many tears (hopefully jesse does as well!!!).
We also discuss the passing of Sinéad O’Connor (and experiences with mental health struggles), constantly getting names wrong as a possible personality trait, sexuality and objectification, the SAG-AFTRA strikes, Ice Cube and KRS ONE going full counterrevolutionary, as well as the 'throwing phones' situation.
It's an action packed show!!!
We'd love to hear from you! For questions, comments, etc. you can reach us here: musicandwejj@gmail.com
In addition, if you struggling are in need of a voice to talk to, please call 988 (for the u.s. national number), or go to https://988lifeline.org/current-events/the-lifeline-and-988/
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
When Is It A Good Time To Critique An Artist?
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
(RECORDED ON MAY 29, 2023) After a ton of mishaps and mental health episodes, we finally have this episode up!!! jesse and jamilah felt inspired to discuss this after the physical transition of Tina Turner, given a few anti-African stances she took throughout her life. While these things were known by some prior to her passing, many opined that addressing her contradictions was inappropriate because, well... she's Tina Turner!
We must remember that she was human, just like any of us who do not share her fame or financial status. No one, regardless of celebrity status or amount of income they make should ever be immune from critique, whether they are physically on this earth, or not.
In this episode we also discuss William 'Smokey' Robinson and his latest album, Gasms. We discuss portions of his memoir, the ageism surrounding reactions to the album, and more.(Note: The audio got kind of messed up between the 51-54 minute mark; we hope that doesn't take too much away from the content! Thanks!)
For questions, comments, etc. you can reach us here: musicandwejj@gmail.com
Saturday Jun 03, 2023
Vegan Cooking and Punk Rock: A Conversation With Joshua Ploeg
Saturday Jun 03, 2023
Saturday Jun 03, 2023
(RECORDED ON MAY 23, 2023) This is a multi-tiered episode of sorts, if you will. The Mulkilteo Fairies were one of jamilah's most favoritest hardcore/punk bands in the early to mid 1990s, as she was a young punk kid trying to figure life out. She wanted to always meet the people behind that band- and eventually met Josh (while he was in the band Behead The Prophet NLSL) and Quitty (while hanging out in Olympia, WA), respectably- so starting out, this is both an (a. 'Meet Your Heroes', as well as a (b. 'Giving Flowers' episode, combined.
Of course, the people we looked up to as young people are humans, and sometimes those humans are around the same age as us, and sometimes we have similar friend groups (which is not hard if you're in the punk scene, especially in a smaller city on the map). So of course this is also a 'reunion' episode, as jamilah and Josh have reconvened after a long, long period.
Josh has been very, very busy over the years, bringing awareness to the connections between punk and veganism via his role as a traveling chef over the years doing dinner parties. A few published cookbooks of his are 'So Raw It's Downright Filthy', 'In Search Of The Lost Taste', 'Hey Ho Let's Dough!' and 'This Ain't no Picnic: Your Punk Rock Vegan Cookbook'. Residents in Billings, Montana have also seen him selling baked goods and herbs at the local farmer's market.
Josh is a person with such a well-rounded experience (while not ignoring the punk roots that shape him), and we hope you have a positive experience listening to this conversation! (ed. note: We want to apologize for whatever tech/mic issues occurring in this episode. We hope it doesn't get in the way of the content. We did our best to work through them- so even the tech spirit is punk as well!)
To get updates from Josh, go to his website: https://joshuaploeg.blogspot.com/
For questions, comments, etc. you can reach us here: musicandwejj@gmail.com
Sunday May 28, 2023
The ’Giving Flowers’ series (episode 2): Stevie Wonder
Sunday May 28, 2023
Sunday May 28, 2023
(RECORDED ON MAY 13, 2023) This is an interesting episode, as tables have somewhat turned... jamilah is usually the fanboi (of various things) out of the two hosts; however, given that he was massively beloved by her in the past, it was discovered that jesse is far more of one when it comes to Stevie Wonder. There are attempts to explore this emerging discovery.
jesse and jamilah discuss Stevie Wonder's discography, the songs and albums they connect to, what the best songs are to introduce others to his music... as well as (of course) the contradictions. Even with all of these things, they feel his contributions to the arts and music are definitely deserving of flowers.
For questions, comments, your favorite Stevie songs, etc. you can reach us here: musicandwejj@gmail.com
Sunday May 14, 2023
A conversation With Old Head (aka Steven)
Sunday May 14, 2023
Sunday May 14, 2023
(RECORDED ON APRIL 30, 2023) One of the objectives of this podcast is to engage with the ways we all connect with and to music. Of course, that would be boring if it were just jesse and jamilah every episode, so we always love when others get to share their experiences.
jamilah was very glad to have been able to share some time with fellow podcaster and creator (and lover of St. Anger) Old Head, whom she first became familiar with through his YouTube videos. Steven/Old Head is also a radio host (which jamilah was for 11 years); another thing she learned through this conversation was the similarity in which they both play guitar (which he is much better at). Throughout the episode they also discuss the erosion of cultural musical delineations, social awareness and responsibility of artists, and the healing power of music.
Old Head Podcast: https://oldheadpodcast.podbean.com/
Old Head's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OldHead
Supporting Actor: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0NwEPvnhvzF7OesykYdQBM
Radio show: https://live.onamp.com/oldhead.tx
For questions, comments, etc. you can reach us here: musicandwejj@gmail.com