Essential Tremors
A show in which musicians and other creators talk about the songs that shaped who they are. Distributed by WYPR, Baltimore's NPR affiliate, and hosted by Matthew Byars and Lee Gardner.
Essential Tremors is produced by Matt Byars and Lee Gardner and distributed by Your Public Studios.
Latest Episodes
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Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis discusses how tunes by Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp and Abdullah Ibrahim, and Sonny Rollins influenced his playing. -
Hear how songs by Jimi Hendrix, Yusef Lateef and Robert Wyatt guided jazz guitarist Mary Halvorson's musical development. -
In this episode, members Jasper Llewellyn and Mike O’Malley of the British group caroline discuss the music that shaped the band’s sound. -
English songwriter Billy Bragg discusses how songs by Smokey Robinson, Little Feat, and The Who have played significant roles in his life. -
Composer Kali Malone discusses how My Bloody Valentine, Hindustani classical music, and Josquin des Prez shaped her art. -
Composer/performer Carl Stone discusses how music by Thomas Tallis, Captain Beefheart, and Sheik Chinna Moulana influenced his work. -
Ashley Capps, founder of the Big Ears Festival, discusses how encounters with the music of Steve Reich, Julius Hemphill, and the Ramones shaped his course. -
Interpol guitarist Daniel Kessler explains how songs by Fugazi, Tappa Zukie, and Aphex Twin helped put him on his creative path. -
In this episode, drummer Brendan Canty discusses how songs by Parliament, Scritti Politti, and King Crimson shaped his music. -
Claire Rousay discusses how tracks by Ryu Hankil, Elliott Smith, and K. Mulhern shaped her work.
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Though he emerged from Washington, D.C.’s post punk scene with the band Smart Went Crazy, Chad Clark has expanded his musical palette with Beauty Pill, an… -
Emily Flake went from running her Lulu Eightball comic in altweeklies to drawing cartoons for The New Yorker and publishing books about her experiences… -
Irmin Schmidt and his cohorts in the group Can not only formed one of the central pillars of so-called krautrock, they created a body of work that… -
Tim Kinsella has made at least two indelible marks on contemporary music—first as frontman of emo hingepoint Cap’n Jazz, then as ringleader of the… -
Deerhoof has become one of the country’s most unusual and prolific rock bands, and drummer Greg Saunier has been in the driver’s seat the whole time. His… -
Baltimore quartet Horse Lords have become an underground sensation on the back of their trance-inducing polyrhythmic rock attack. In this episode,… -
Susan Alcorn spent years playing her pedal-steel guitar in country bands across Texas. But she has also taken the instrument into less typical territory,… -
Ian MacKaye has exerted a profound influence on music over the past 35 years. He pioneered hardcore punk with Minor Threat. He expanded the possibilities… -
Wendel Patrick is a Baltimore-based jazz and classical pianist, as well as a sought after hip-hop producer, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins’ Peabody… -
Essential Tremors talks to musicians and other creative people about the music that shaped them. In the debut episode, hosts Matt Byars and Lee Gardner… -
Essential Tremors talks to musicians and other creative people about the music that shaped them. In the debut episode, hosts Matt Byars and Lee Gardner…
