AUG 7: Bedroom radio? Micro-casting? Web-cast? Live Stream? I don’t know what to call it but I dig it. Today at 11, beaming out indie pop & rock in the form of new faves Wilco, Old Sea Brigade, and Widowspeak plus vintage picks Nick Drake, Chainsaw Kittens, Echo & The Bunnymen and more.
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Summer is half over by my count, but don’t panic! New indie pop & rock from Luke Sital-Singh, Alvvays, Horsegirl, Interpol plus vintage Smog, Fol Chen, The Only Ones and more is here to ease our hearts and minds.
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And its a wrap on Season 4! This is such a rewarding show to work on, the creators and editors all have excellent music taste, which is soooo helpful in making me look brillaint! Some highlights of the season for me were Celeste “Love Is Back”, Edward Sharpe “Man On Fire”, Her Space Holiday “Sleepy Tigers”, Departure Lounge “Mr. Friendly”, Joy Oladokun “breathe again”, Saint Elsinore “Wild World”, Luca Fogale “Another Way Around” and, of course, the karaoke episode. :) Max has more adventures ahead in Season 5 so come back in the Fall! Here is a link to the playlist containing all the songs we featured in Season 4: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5gdlYZmECt46vV0GQkGtnL?si=9abe6839e481423d
Today: Brand new albums from The Black Keys, Spiritualized, Sharon Van Etten, and The Smile (aka Radiohead) alongside Obonjayar, Hatchie, Wet Leg and much much more!
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PS: If you missed the live webcast, Brave New World on-demand is HERE.
Today: New music from Hatchie, Built To Spill and Spiritualized alongside vintage faves Culture Club, Alex Chilton, Chris Knox and more.
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PS: If you missed the live webcast, Brave New World on-demand is HERE.
If you are a KCRW member, you have access to a Q&A panel featuring myself as well as Bob Carlson, co-producer of Bent by Nature and producer, host, and sound designer of UnFictional, Myke Dodge Weiskopf, co-producer of Bent by Nature and KCRW’s senior producer for music, and musician Steve Wynn for an exclusive members-only Q&A. We’ll discuss the Bent by Nature season, Deirdre O’Donoghue, and her show SNAP! Plus, we’ll give a behind-the-scenes look at how the podcast came to be.
KCRW members-only, Wednesday, January 26th at 5:00 PM PST. Click on the image below or go to the KCRW website to RSVP.
I think my first Twitch DJ mini-set went fairly well, despite some technical difficulties! Twitch is not so scary, you can do it! It’s freeeeeee! Songs below are linked to every possible music service, please support these deserving artists. http://twitch.tv/bravenewworldtricia Most Sunday mornings, West Coast time.
Hear the entire podcast series that I co-hosted about my radio mentor + 80s underground music, (produced by Bob Carlson and Myke Dodge Weiskopf), on-air today from noon-8pm on KCRW! Plus a few other gems from the Deirdre vaults.
Tune in to 89.9 FM on your radio or click on the image below to go straight to the site and stream on-line by clicking “Listen live” in the top left corner. So fun!
It was cool then, its cool now, 22 years later, you can relive Brave New World radio almost exactly as it happened! Thanks to my nerdy database of playlists, I am able to recreate my radio show here on Spotify. I knew there was a reason I typed all those song titles in so meticulously! Belle & Sebastian, Built To Spill, Soul Coughing, PJ Harvey and more, all here.
I’m incredibly honored to be co-hosting the new KCRW podcast “Bent By Nature: Deirdre O’Donoghue and the Lost SNAP! Archives.” In my opinion, Deirdre was the best damn DJ in the world, also my inspiration, my mentor and my friend. She produced and hosted an incredible free-form radio show on KCRW from 1982-1991, making a home for bands as huge as REM and as obscure as The Reivers. This is a period of time mostly before Nirvana and before Indie was a genre, when discovering independent music was truly an art. Beginning October 28, you can hear all about it in the 10-episode podcast, but meanwhile you can enjoy a taste of the independent music she loved on this Spotify playlist! PS Please ‘like’ the playlist in Spotify if you can so more people will see it!
If you have not yet dipped your toe back into the live show waters (like me), this might be the one. Hollywood Forever Masonic Lodge in LA was fantastic, more dates for some other lucky cities coming up. Be sure to check venue rules for vaccination policy! https://www.joshritter.com/#tourdates
Have you ever wondered what a Music Supervisor actually does? Finally someone brave enough to ask the question … and listen to the answer! Meet Scopophilia podcast host Becky Teller, she interviewed me for a 2-part podcast and along with explaining my job, she got me to divulge my Music Supervising influences and dreams for the future. Click on the photo or find “Scopophilia” wherever you get your podcasts.
If you have a few hours and a steady supply of martinis I will tell you the story of this film that I have been working on for three years. Short version, I fell head over heels for the script when director Rachel Winter sent it to me, love at first read you might say. The movie features a young guy discovering songs written and recorded 20 years ago by a revered musician who is now off-the-grid. Rivers Cuomo (of Weezer) wrote the songs, Minibar and Kelsey Grammar recorded them in Elliott Smith’s old studio (now New Monkey) with Nick Luca from Calexico. #DreamProject
PS To access the soundtrack, click on the photo. The film is available wherever you rent or buy your digital movies, Amazon, iTunes, etc.
Did you catch the Season 3 finale? Steamy, right? As you can imagine there was quite a bit of discussion about which song would accompany the momentous closing event. Some songs were too emotional, some were not emotional enough. Some were too slow, some were too fast. It was kind of like Goldilocks in the cabin of the three bears. But you know what song was just right? Luke Sital-Singh’s “Honest Man”. Swoon. I highly recommend pursuing all his music, like immediately. I made it easy, just click on the photo below and you’ll be there. He’s the real deal.
Dead To Me SEASON THREE has started filming. I may or may not have the inside scoop on the season from devouring all of the scripts like the crazy fan music supervisor that I am … I’ll just say … it’s JUICY! No word on Season Three airdates yet, hang in there super-fans.
This was such a compelling project, I think you’ll understand when you watch the Official Preview released today in conjunction with World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-human-trafficking-day). Watch this spot for release news, no official release date has been set yet: http://www.soundoffreedommovie.com
Yep, 2019 is a wrap and you can find my favorite albums of the year at this Spotify link, in no particular order: 2019 Brave New Faves. If Spotify is not your jam, here are the titles for you to look up on the music service of your choice, neatly broken out by genre:
FOLK & AMERICANA
Devendra Banhart “Ma”
Better Oblivion Community Center “Better Oblivion Community Center”
Field Medic “fade into the dawn”
Florist “Emily Alone”
Robert Forster “The Evangelist”
Damien Jurado “In the Shape of a Storm”
The Strumbellas “Rattlesnake”
Yola “Walk Through Fire”
GROOVE
Black Pumas “Black Pumas”
Helado Negro “This Is How You Smile”
Hot Chip “Hungry Child”
Sault “5”
Thom Yorke “Anima”
INDIE POP
Stella Donnelly “Beware Of The Dogs”
Fruit Bats “Gold Past Life”
The Growlers “Natural Affair”
The Mountain Goats “In League With Dragons”
Patience “Dizzy Spells”
Purple Mountains “Purple Mountains”
Sacred Paws “Run Around The Sun”
That Dog “Old LP”
INDIE ROCK & ROCK
Adia Victoria “Silences”
The Black Keys “Let’s Rock”
Bleached “Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough?”
Corridor “Junior”
Dehd “Water”
DIIV “Deceiver”
Ex Hex “It’s Real”
Froth “Duress”
Middle Kids “New Songs For Old Problems”
POP-ISH
Angelo De Augustine “Tomb”
Leonard Cohen “Thanks for the Dance”
Edwyn Collins “Badbea”
Efterklang “Altid Sammen”
Lumineers “III”
Dustin O’Halloran "Other Lights”
Vampire Weekend “Father Of The Bride”
(updated 1-24-2020)
This sweet film I worked on turned up on Netflix, add it to your watch list!
Tunefind may be the best site you don’t know about yet — that is if you are commonly wondering ‘What is that song playing on this TV show?’ You can go to their home page and look up any TV show or film to find a song list, or you can also click here for a shortcut to my projects. It’s fan-friendly, you can ask questions, get help from other fans, and Music Supervisors are directly plugged in for the official final word on what song was heard where. Wonder no longer!