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WNYC NewsNYC concerts to catch in FebruaryTo say New York City has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to live music is an understatement. On any given night, the five boroughs are overflowing with options. The trick can be deciding what to go and see. But music journalist Hank Shteamer is here to help.He's been writing about music for decades, and is now selecting monthly concert highlights for Gothamist. Speaking with Weekend Edition host David Furst, he picks some highlights for February.And check out his full list here.
2026-01-3100 min
The Late SetBreathe Open: ShabakaWhen Shabaka hung up his tenor saxophone in favor of bamboo flutes, the world reacted with a mix of admiration and puzzlement. Over the last decade, as Shabaka Hutchings, he had steadily built a reputation for rampaging fervor on tenor, fueling the fires of a new-breed London jazz scene. His remarkable new album, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, drifts in another direction — more contemplative and interior, suffused with flickering calm. During this year’s Winter Jazz Fest, we caught up with Shabaka at Public Records in Brooklyn, and had a far-reaching conversation about this new direction, his motivations, and...
2024-04-2349 min
Guess That RecordEpisode 3 (Hank Shteamer)This week on Guess That Record, Jackson talks with music writer Hank Shteamer. Hank is a Senior Music Editor for Rolling Stone, where his work frequently appears. In addition to Rolling Stone, he has written for publications like The New York Times, GQ, and Pitchfork. Hank is also a musician, having performed with bands such as STATS. In this episode, Hank talks about his career as a writer, and what made him get involved in the world of music.
2022-04-1349 min
Rolling Stone Music NowA Tribute to Charlie Watts
We look back on the life and music of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, with Rob Sheffield and Hank Shteamer joining host Brian Hiatt; plus, Max Weinberg and the Black Keys' Patrick Carney weigh in Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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2021-09-0150 min
Rolling Stone All AccessA Tribute to Charlie WattsWe look back on the life and music of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, with Rob Sheffield and Hank Shteamer joining host Brian Hiatt; plus, Max Weinberg and the Black Keys' Patrick Carney weigh in Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2021-09-0147 min
God Ween EvanGWE — The Interviews: Hank ShteamerGod Ween Evan continues its periodic interview series, where someone in or around Ween and the Ween community chews the fat with the team. In this episode Will Nunziata and Paul Gutkowski sit down with Hank Shteamer, a Senior Music Editor at Rolling Stone. Shteamer has written about music professionally for more than 15 years. He wrote a book on Ween’s Chocolate and Cheese album for the 33 1/3 series, and runs Heavy Metal Bebop, an interview series dedicated to the intersections of jazz and heavy metal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2020-06-231h 16
Heavy Metal BebopJack DeJohnetteIf you're discussing the early intersection of jazz, rock and related styles, Miles Davis is an unavoidable name, and one of the players most directly responsible for helping Miles achieve his early breakthroughs in that area was Jack DeJohnette. While DeJohnette has never left the world of straight-ahead jazz and has also remained engaged with the avant-garde, this in-between zone that he explored with Miles in the late '60s and early '70s has remained a constant fascination for the drummer and pianist, from bands like Compost and Gateway right up to more recent projects like Hudson and...
2020-06-201h 31Heavy Metal BebopDefeated SanityFor the first episode of Heavy Metal Bebop's second season, we have two guests, presented one after the other. They are Lille Gruber, drummer, co-founder and principal songwriter for the German death-metal band Defeated Sanity, and Jacob Schmidt, the band's bassist and co-songwriter since 2005. If you've listened to prior episodes of this show and/or read Heavy Metal Bebop interviews online, you've probably run across Defeated Sanity's name. That's because, like Meshuggah and Gorguts before them, during the past 15 years or so, Defeated Sanity have gradually evolved into an institution of forward-thinking metal, a band that open-minded musicians both...
2020-03-082h 04Rolling Stone Music NowThe Life and Music of Neil Peart
In 2015 interview audio, Rush's late drummer and lyricist reflects on the pains and pleasures of his work. Plus, Hank Shteamer and Andy Greene join host Brian Hiatt to look back on Peart's legacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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2020-01-2145 minRolling Stone All AccessThe Life and Music of Neil PeartIn 2015 interview audio, Rush's late drummer and lyricist reflects on the pains and pleasures of his work. Plus, Hank Shteamer and Andy Greene join host Brian Hiatt to look back on Peart's legacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2020-01-2143 min
The Heavy Hole PodcastIn the Hole w/ Hank Shteamer (Senior Music Editor at Rolling Stone, Drummer of STATS, and host of 'Heavy Metal Bebop')This episode, Hank Shteamer, senior music editor at Rolling Stone, drummer of STATS, and host of 'Heavy Metal Bebop', joins us in studio!
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Music Featured -
STATS - Mercy
Orthrelm - Lorxhscimtor
Cannibal Corpse - Shredded Humans
Repulsion - Horrified
Mortification - Overseer
Exit 13 - Societally Provoked Genocidal Contemplation
Arch/Matheos - Vermilion Moons
Atrocity - Todessehnsucht
Obituary - Frozen in Time
2019-12-131h 30Heavy Metal BebopBill WardIn an earlier episode of this podcast, drummer Kenny Grohowski spoke about what he called the unique swing of metal. In this episode, we delve into the root of that idea via a conversation with one of my musical heroes: Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward. I met up with Bill in Los Angeles in early November for an unforgettable conversation during which he discussed why he views Gene Krupa as his definitive influence, how the behind-the-beat feel he perfected in the band's early days enhanced the sinister quality of their music, why he's just as inspired by death-metal drummers...
2019-11-201h 09Heavy Metal BebopPyrrhonPyrrhon formed in 2008, and during the past 10 years or so, they've become one of the standout heavy bands in the New York underground. At their core, Pyrrhon are an extremely intense death metal band, but over time, they've incorporated elements of noise-rock and free improvisation into their sound, resulting in fascinating and unclassifiable albums like 2014's The Mother of Virtues and 2017's What Passes for Survival. In 2016, they released an EP, Running Out of Skin, that featured two entirely improvised tracks, and as soon as I heard it, I knew I wanted to speak to them for this series...
2019-10-271h 45Heavy Metal BebopJan HammerAs anyone familiar with this interview series has most likely gathered, the original Mahavishnu Orchestra are something of an obsession for me — not to mention a gamechanging force in the early blending of jazz and heavy rock. Jan Hammer's passionate, virtuosic keyboard playing was a crucial element of the group, and his time with the band is only one brief chapter in his career. In this interview, conducted at Jan's home studio in upstate New York, we touch on the birth and development of Mahavishnu, as well as Jan's collaborations with great musicians across the jazz and rock spectrum, fr...
2019-09-071h 58Heavy Metal BebopWendy EisenbergWendy Eisenberg is a jazz guitarist by training who can often be heard playing just about anything but conventional jazz guitar. That includes free improv, art pop, noise and avant-garde punk with radically inventive bands like the now-defunct Birthing Hips and the currently active Editrix. In 2018, during an episode of Jeremiah Cymerman's excellent 5049 Podcast, Wendy — who uses gender-neutral pronouns — made a passing mention of their love for the Australian death-metal band Portal, and at that point, I knew I wanted to speak to them for Heavy Metal Bebop. We met up in March and delved into Wendy's vast musical univ...
2019-08-082h 18Heavy Metal BebopChes SmithTo call drummer Ches Smith merely versatile would be selling him way short. He's played the most advanced jazz with artists such as Tim Berne and massively heavy rock with bands like Theory of Ruin, and covered just about every point in between with projects like Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog and Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant. In this conversation, he discusses his early years playing Poison covers, how he absorbed the the language of bebop drumming, his time on the road with Mr. Bungle, the inner-workings of Trio-Convulsant and Theory of Ruin (a band that featured former Fudge Tunnel and Nailbomb...
2019-07-092h 18
Crash Bang Boom Podcast!143_Hank Shteamer-Skryptor, StatsSkryptor/Stats drummer & Rolling Stone Magazine editor Hank Shteamer talks about his bizarre connection to Cleveland, OH's Craw and how faking to be one of their roadies lead to both re-releasing their full catalogue via a crowdfunding campaign and him forming Skryptor with both guitarist David McClelland from Craw and Tim Garrigan from his other favorite band in Dazzling Killmen, his heavy metal be-bop podcast that explores the connections of metal & jazz, Clutch and J.P. Gaster being an influence in his formative years, the omnipresent influence of Helmet drummer John Stainer and additional amazing playing of Zach Barocas of...
2019-07-0837 minCrash Bang Boom Podcast!143_Hank Shteamer-Skryptor, StatsSkryptor/Stats drummer & Rolling Stone Magazine editor Hank Shteamer talks about his bizarre connection to Cleveland, OH's Craw and how faking to be one of their roadies lead to both re-releasing their full catalogue via a crowdfunding campaign and him forming Skryptor with both guitarist David McClelland from Craw and Tim Garrigan from his other favorite band in Dazzling Killmen, his heavy metal be-bop podcast that explores the connections of metal & jazz, Clutch and J.P. Gaster being an influence in his formative years, the omnipresent influence of Helmet drummer John Stainer and additional amazing playing of Zach Barocas of...
2019-07-0837 minHeavy Metal BebopVernon ReidIn this series, I've spoken with many musicians who have a serious appreciation for heavy metal, and some who have plenty of experience playing it, but Vernon Reid is in another category altogether. He's a genuine legend of the genre whose band, Living Colour, achieved household-name status with their 1988 debut, Vivid. Both before Living Colour and alongside it, the guitarist and songwriter has worked on the cutting-edge of jazz, playing with artists such as drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson and pianist Geri Allen, as well as in the project Spectrum Road, a tribute to the Tony Williams Lifetime that featured...
2019-06-122h 20Heavy Metal BebopTyshawn SoreyTyshawn Sorey probably needs little introduction to listeners of this podcast. I first became familiar with Sorey via his astonishingly proficient and future-minded drumming in collaborations with Vijay Iyer and Steve Lehman, and have watched with awe as he's grown into a sui generis musical force on albums such as last year's monumental Pillars. In this episode, he discusses his love for metal bands such as Meshuggah and Gorguts, why his in-the-red improv project with guitarist Joe Morris has been so liberating, and how working with John Zorn helped him expand his creative horizons. To learn more about Tyshawn...
2019-05-181h 01Heavy Metal BebopKenny GrohowskiThe jazz/metal crossover can take many forms, but in the case of Kenny Grohowski, that overlap is clear and overt. Growing up as a serious fusion head, this NYC-via-Miami drummer went on to study jazz at the New School and play with established artists such as Lonnie Plaxico and Andy Milne. Metal was a later discovery for him, but as of 2019, Grohowski is now fully immersed in that scene. He regularly performs and records with the outlandish, eclectic Imperial Triumphant, as well as Simulacrum, a trio masterminded by John Zorn that draws on Grohowski's entire skill set.
2019-04-123h 07Heavy Metal BebopKate GentileKate Gentile is a drummer-composer with a highly advanced and personal musical language. Trained in jazz from high school on, she began listening to metal in recent years and has since gravitated toward some of the more intense, outlandish areas of the underground. In this episode, she discusses a slew of her favorite death-metal bands — including Cenotaph, Defeated Sanity and Malignancy — the process of incorporating double-kick drumming into her jazz work, why Tony Williams' playing was a revelation early on, what she admires about metal fandom and much more. To learn more about Kate and her work, go to kate...
2019-03-162h 22Heavy Metal BebopDave KingBest known as one third of jazz luminaries the Bad Plus, Dave King is also an experienced rock drummer, and an avid fan of the genre in all its forms. In this episode, he discusses everything from his love for classic Iron Maiden to what it was like to meet Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler. To learn more about Dave, go to daveking.net
2019-02-241h 26
Scars and GuitarsHank Shteamer (Rolling Stone)Hank Shteamer (Rolling Stone). Hank is a senior music editor for Rolling Stone. You can follow him on Twitter @darkforcesswing . Hank is a very knowledgable writer focusing on heavy metal and jazz. We discuss some jazz greats and a favoured topic for both of us, Morbid Angel.
2018-06-281h 03Rolling Stone All AccessThe Genius of Steely Dan's Walter BeckerInside the complex life and brilliant music of the co-mastermind of one of rock's greatest and most singular bands. Longtime Steely Dan collaborator Eliot Scheiner calls in to discuss his time with Becker (and reveal the secret origin of "Haitian Divorce"); Hank Shteamer, David Browne and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt to break down Becker's story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2017-09-1238 minRolling Stone Music NowThe Genius of Steely Dan's Walter Becker
Inside the complex life and brilliant music of the co-mastermind of one of rock's greatest and most singular bands. Longtime Steely Dan collaborator Eliot Scheiner calls in to discuss his time with Becker (and reveal the secret origin of "Haitian Divorce"); Hank Shteamer, David Browne and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt to break down Becker's story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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2017-09-1240 minRolling Stone All AccessThe Greatest Metal Albums of All Time, with Rob HalfordJudas Priest's Rob Halford joins Kory Grow, Hank Shteamer and host Brian Hiatt to discuss Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest metal albums of all time Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2017-06-2746 minRolling Stone Music NowThe Greatest Metal Albums of All Time, with Rob Halford
Judas Priest's Rob Halford joins Kory Grow, Hank Shteamer and host Brian Hiatt to discuss Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest metal albums of all time Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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2017-06-2747 min
The Jazz SessionThe Jazz Session #241: Hank Shteamer on Henry Threadgill
Music writer and musician Hank Shteamer talks about Mosaic’s new Henry Threadgill boxed set, The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air, for which Shteamer wrote the liner notes. In this interview, Shteamer talks about the two-decade period covered by the set; the amazing variety of Threadgill’s bands and compositions; Threadgill’s infectious humor; and how Threadgill differs from other musical iconoclasts. Get the boxed set at Mosaic’s site, and read more of Hank Shteamer’s writing at his excellent blog, Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches.
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2011-02-1700 minPodcast Archives - The Jazz SessionThe Jazz Session #241: Hank Shteamer on Henry Threadgill
Music writer and musician Hank Shteamer talks about Mosaic’s new Henry Threadgill boxed set, The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air, for which Shteamer wrote the liner notes. In this interview, Shteamer talks about the two-decade period covered by the set; the amazing variety of Threadgill’s bands and compositions; Threadgill’s infectious humor; and how Threadgill differs from other musical iconoclasts. Get the boxed set at Mosaic’s site, and read more of Hank Shteamer’s writing at his excellent blog, Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches.
Tracks used in this ep...
2011-02-1700 minThe Jazz SessionThe Jazz Session #241: Hank Shteamer on Henry Threadgill
Music writer and musician Hank Shteamer talks about Mosaic’s new Henry Threadgill boxed set, The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air, for which Shteamer wrote the liner notes. In this interview, Shteamer talks about the two-decade period covered by the set; the amazing variety of Threadgill’s bands and compositions; Threadgill’s infectious humor; and how Threadgill differs from other musical iconoclasts. Get the boxed set at Mosaic’s site, and read more of Hank Shteamer’s writing at his excellent blog, Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches.
Tracks used in this ep...
2011-02-1700 min