The On The Radar Podcast features music and interviews from artists coming to, through, and from the greater Midwest regions.

Episode 101's guest Austin Lucas grew up in the punk and hardcore scenes, but later become an Americana and folk songwriter that uses his platform to protect the downtrodden and fight fascists (verbally and physically). Peapod speaks to Austin about the worlds of Martial Arts, music, the United States and its current trajectory, and more! You will also hear a song from Austin's newest album "Alive in the Hot Zone" with his song "Holy Sparrow"

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Austin Lucas

The On The Radar Podcast features music and interviews from artists coming to, through, and from the greater Midwest regions.

Welcome to the 100th episode of the podcast! Peapod speaks with guitarist extraordinaire for the bands Night Verses and headcave, Nick DePirro!

On this episode, the guys talk about how the effects of Nu Metal and Progressive Metal develop the music industry, Nick's experiences while created Night Verses and headcave, how Nick develops songs from beginning to end live on his Twitch Channel, and Nick shares an exclusive demo of a future song from headcave!

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Nick DePirro

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Episode 99 the podcast joins the cult of SUMEAU (pronounced sumo, like the wrestler). After singer Kat Primeau left Ohio and the Midwest after graduating college, she headed out west to Los Angeles to pursue her musical endeavors. She then met engineer Chris Sousa, and the two not only bonded musically and professionally, but also personally as well. Learn about the musical backgrounds of the couple, how their influences produced the dream pop music that is Sumeau, and dive into their newest album THIS IS NOT A DREAM. The band also provides the song "Circle Circle" for the podcast.

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Sumeau

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The podcast returns to Bike Rack Records and their newest recording spot on episode 98 with Temperance, Michigan band No Luck. No Luck is a newer act coming out of the Midwest with their shoegaze sound. While all the members of the band come from different walks of musical life (reggae, acoustic, metal, and punk), their energy together put out a fun debut EP that came out early in 2020. Learn about the history and goals of this new band, and hear some new music from the band entitled "Colors" and "Freefall".

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No Luck

The On The Radar Podcast features music and interviews from artists coming to, through, and from the greater Midwest regions.

Episode 97's guests in La Vérité first began as a high school band in the Mid 2000s as just a bunch of friends playing a style of music they didn't realize was Post-Rock.  After releasing an album in 2010, the band just grew apart, and some never played until they came back together and released their album "Circle" in 2020.

Learn about the journey of this Ohio band, the different members' stories, what happened in the decade long gap, and hear a "movement" from their latest album.

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La Vérité

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Take Pop-Punk, Emo, and Alt Rock, and mix in the Midwest mindset together, and you get episode 96's guest, NO DICE. Peapod talks to 3 out of the 4 members of this Columbus, Ohio band about evolving musical tastes, comparing song writing to people watching, and musical goals going into the new year. The band also supplies their song "Sink" off their EP "About People, for People".

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No Dice

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On episode 95, we bring back previous guest, singer/songwriter JASON KAMINKSI from Cleveland, Ohio. You may have remembered Jason with his time with his band Stalemate (featured on episode 56 of the podcast), but this time he's talking solo. Jason talks about his solo work, what the last year or so has done with his writing, recording his new album, and Jason even supplies the song "Polaroid" off of his upcoming album "Until Tomorrow" on Head2Wall Records.

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Jason Kaminski

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Episode 94 brings the always entertaining Toledo, Ohio duo known as HARRY AND THE HOOD. On this episode, the guys head to Underhill Recordings to talk about how they met through their grandfathers, share drunken stories, how they can't go to a local area chicken wings establishment, and perform a melody of their songs "Best Friends" and "Haterade", and debut their newest single "Highlife".

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Host: Christopher "Peapod" Daher

Producer: Pat Shekut of Underhill Recordings

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Harry and the Hood

The On The Radar Podcast features music and interviews from artists coming to, through, and from the greater Midwest regions.

Episode 93 is another HOME EDITION of the podcast with Canton, Ohio's alternative pop-rock band THE SCENIC ROUTE. While the band started with singer Rachel Crozier in 2011, the band really hit its stride in 2019 with their album ULTRAVIOLET. Hear 3 of the members talk about coming together, changing up their sound and evolving, having a team already behind them so early in their musical careers, and why playing "the game" has its advantages and disadvantages.

The band also supplies two exclusive acoustic versions of their songs "I'm Giving You Up" and "Wild".

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The Scenic Route

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Peapod talks to the men behind the NW Ohio group MEAN OCEAN in episode 92 of the podcast. These 2 proud fathers and coworkers talk about how they decided to start making music together, how 90s grunge era shaped their sound, and discussion about how the pandemic has impacted the music industry as a whole.

Singer Adam Darr also performs 3 never before heard songs called "What You Are", "Song About Density", "Keep Me Safe"

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Host: Christopher "Peapod" Daher

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Mean Ocean

The On The Radar Podcast features music and interviews from artists coming to, through, and from the greater Midwest regions.

The podcast returns to Underhill Recordings for episode 91 to talk to the Pop-Punk Band from Toledo, Ohio WILD NIGHTS. The band talks about bringing back the "old school" pop punk they grew up on, finding all their passions for music, and the band does 2 things on this episode that never has happened (so far) on the podcast.

Wild Nights performs two songs, one brand new song currently untitled at the time of the episode release, and the other is called "All In Your Head".

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Wild Nights

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Episode 90 has Peapod be amazed by 19 year old Brady Matteson, the man behind the Chicago synth-rock duo known as Vanity Contest. We say amazed because Brady got a lot of his musical influenced by acts like Devo, Nine Inch Nails, and even The Melvins! Learn about his family band experiences, the work into REVIEWER BEWARE a Goosebump themed video series, and his aspirations into the world of music!

Brady also supplies one of the songs off of the trilogy of soundtracks to REVIEWER BEWARE called "Last Standing"

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Vanity Contest

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Episode 89 dives back into the country world with Michigan born, Nashville residing singer/songwriter, KayLyn Pace! This rising star talks to Peapod in another HOME EDITION of the podcast about her county fair start, having her first back up band as a teenager, talking about her work with Breakthrough Country and more!

KayLyn also supplies her song "What's Right For You" for the podcast for you to enjoy!

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KayLyn Pace

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Episode 88 is once again another HOME EDITION of the podcast, but it features a huge rising band from Columbus, Ohio, the "emo glitter pop" act called snarls. We speak to 3 of the members about getting coverage from huge platforms like MTV and Rolling Stone so early in their careers, being women in the music industry, and how they accidentally created their debut LP "Burst", out now on Take This To Heart Records.

snarls also supplied us with a special home performance of their song "Better Off". You can hear the audio of it on the podcast, go to our YouTube channel for the video of the performance.

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snarls

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Episode 87 involves the podcast introducing everyone to the good people at LaserLight Recording Studio, as it is our first episode working with them together! Our guest this time is the returning Nino Chavez. You might remember him from episode 30 with his sister in The Old Adage, however, now Nino is on his own paving his own pop path.  We talk what let him to go it alone after shelving past projects, his goals this time around, producing other's music, and he performs acoustic renditions of his songs "Never Going Home" and "My Bed".

Host: Christopher "Peapod" Daher

Producer: Laser Light Recording Studio

Intro: Dean Tartaglia and Steve Warstler

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Nino Chavez

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On episode 86 of the podcast, Peapod talks to Cherice Cosentino, aka NIHILIST ABYSS, from Chicago, Illinois.  Cherice talks about the darker subject material of her life and her music, mental health struggles, becoming a mother, and along with Peapod, jokes about not understanding YouTube videos for kids. In this home edition of the podcast, you will get an exclusive listen to the newest song from Nihilist Abyss, "Necromancy".

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Nihilist Abyss

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Coming to you LIVE from his home office, Peapod in episode 85 speaks to the young indie rock band from Cleveland, Ohio FILLER! These young kids who were just starting to break out of the area before the pandemic hit spoke about how the name actually describes their social lives and how they were brought together, how a battle of the bands formed the band, and how to use their platform for good.

The band also shared their newest single "Pocket Change"

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Filler

The On The Radar Podcast features music and interviews from artists coming to, through, and from the greater Midwest regions.

Episode 84 is another hot HOME EDITION of the podcast that has Peapod speaking with up and coming Post-Rock act from Portland, Maine THIS WORLD HAS BEES. The guys all speak about their current situations during the global pandemic of 2020, the twists and turns this band plays, political and social unrest, and of course, how a bad indie film got them their name!

The band also shares their most recent "single" (of just under 15 minutes long) "I Can Tell By The Color Of The Sky".

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This World Has Bees

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Episode 83 is another home edition of the podcast, and it finds Peapod talking with 2 out of the 3 members of the Chicago Indie Pop-Rock band BROKEN ROBOTS. Kat and Tony Baker were both in the music industry, both left it due to unhappiness, then found themselves both doing drugs and having run-ins with the law.  You will learn more on how they got clean, how social media and the general news media puts people in their own "worlds", and how communication and music can really bring people together.

The band also supplied their newest single "Mocking Bird" for your listening pleasure!

Special thanks to Little Star PR!

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Broken Robots

The On The Radar Podcast features music and interviews from artists coming to, through, and from the greater Midwest regions.

Episode 82 had the Podcast went on the road to Cleveland, Ohio, and the home of Morning In May.  Peapod sat down with Jake Bartolic and Josh Blair to talk about the "emo" style of music, the darkness that plagued their writing of their debut EP, touring plans, and more! We want to thank Sara Morse and the team at Tragic Hero Records for the opportunity and the hospitality as the episode was recorded in their building that shares Superior Sound Studios!

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