Weekly Podcast with Interviews and Events From Detroit Songwriters
Dispatch is back! On this episode, Dispatch favorites come back and talk about running through the airport, songs for wrestlers, and the pros to producing singles in today’s landscape.
Audra Kubat website – www.audrakubat.com
Don Duprie Bandcamp – https://donduprie.bandcamp.com/
Alison Lewis String of Ponies Bandcamp – https://stringofponies.bandcamp.com/
Alison Lewis Twilight Babies – https://thetwilightbabies.bandcamp.com/
Alison Lewis at HMF – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbDEYhGeEag
Mike and Angie Ward join Scott and Dave in kicking off Season Two of the Dispatch! *train whistle noise*
Being a landmark 50th episode, we get pretty meta in this one.
Ryan Trager joins Dave and Scott to talk about creativity and the process.
One of my favorite Detroit songwriters and people, Vern! He is absolutely unmistakable and this podcast is no different. Hear how Vern developed his indelible stage presence and how a schoolyard crime ring led him to playing Piedmont blues.
Willa Rae Adamo reflects on playing music in Detroit before moving to New York.
From their bio:
What do you get when you cross traditional Mariachi music with Punk rock snarl and attitude?
The answer: Pancho Villa’s Skull. Pancho Villa’s Skull was started by Tino Ybarra in 2011.
While growing up in Pontiac, Michigan, Tino developed a love from Mariachi music through his grandfather on his mother’s side who, sang and played trumpet.
He also spent time in south Texas with his paternal grandfather who took him across the border to Mexico from time to time so, he could know where he came from.
As he got older he started playing in punk and ska bands around Detroit yet, he wanted to feel more connected to his roots. Inspired by bands like Gogol Bordello and The Pogues, both of whom looked into their own pasts to create something new, he decided to create what he calls Mariachi punk and started Pancho Villa’s Skull. A
t the beginning of 2016 his brother Rolando Ybarra joined the band to play percussion and added to the sound heavily. Making the sound bigger but, maintaining a stripped down feel.
