All-Access Podcast

Welcome back to another episode of All Access! It has been a bit but we are back with some new awesome stuff! You’ll hear a new voice on air this time and that’s because we welcome in Emily Jurrow to the team as our new producer/co-host. Each week you will hear some conversations between Trenton and Emily about various music topics before the interview with our guest, Lauren Kashan of Sharptooth.

As stated, Lauren of Sharptooth joined me (Trenton) on a call recently after seeing them go from a small band to a hot act in the hardcore scene. Sharptooth have been making waves since signing with Pure Noise last year as well as releasing their debut “Clever Girl”. This band is very different from many as frontwoman Lauren Kashan confronts issues regarding feminism, gender, sexuality and many more in her lyrics.

During this conversation, we discuss the band’s origins, b

So what is it like trying to make it on a singing competition with the whole country watching? How about working with one very experienced and known star? This is what the show The Voice is and how it sucks people in. Blind auditions in front of coaches who will turn a chair around if they like you or stay turned away if they don’t. This week we have WILKES on the show who is currently competing.

WILKES was also a member of the rock bands Disciple and High Flight Society in which we discuss how being on that side prior has helped. The cool thing with artists like WILKES is that they can have a shot after already having a career in the past which other shows don’t allow. We also discuss working with his coach Blake Shelton and how much time they get one on one with these coaches to prepare. It will also shock you who his favorite band is!

Kevin Max joins Trenton on this episode which comes to be from a shot in the dark. After a curious email was sent, we found that he was down to chat with Trenton on the phone and it certainly did not let us down. Many know Kevin for his work in the ground-breaking band DC Talk who’s hit ‘Jesus Freak’ sent them into mainstream play including on MTV.

So where did that all begin? That is where we start off as we get to go on a journey from the early years of the band forming at Liberty University, the Christian industry, and Kevin Max’s forthcoming solo record, ‘AWOL’, which is being crowdfunded on pledge music. Something else we get into as well about the new record is that though he retains his Christian faith, he is not a ‘Christian artist’. This is interesting to hear due to how well he was known for DC Talk and a stint in Audio Adrenaline but is something that can hurt an art

As much as bands influence others and create their own sound, none of that would be possible without the ear and skills of a producer, whether within the band or elsewhere. This same idea applies to these producers who no matter the act is, their fingerprints can be heard on each record they do, sometimes creating a new direction for the artist that the artist didn’t intend to have done at the start. Very few names have become mainstays in the alternative scene who are responsible for some of the most known bands from early on to those still going today. Among those producers are Cameron Mizell out of Chango Studios.

Cameron Mizell has had his staple on many releases by some chart-toppers such as Sleeping With Sirens, ‘Feel’, Memphis May Fire, basically everything, Woe Is Me, ‘Number[s]’, Slaves, ‘Routine Breathing’, and The Word Alive, ‘Real’, to name a few. Through all of these triumphants there was darkness at the time same time in Cameron Mizell’s life that has shaped him