The Sound Check Chat podcast with Benjamin Laub, aka. Grieves, went live on Friday March 21 via iTunes and Stitcher.  Grieves releases his fourth album, The Winter and The Wolves, via Rhymesayers Entertainment on March 25.
Access the podcast here: http://www.soundcheckchat.com/episodes/grieves-tour-and-the-winter-and-the-wolves.html.
While magazines and blog interviews often provide a peek behind the curtain and into the minds of music’s best musicians, every interviewer knows that there are nuances of humor, sarcasm, honesty, and even sadness that are left on the tape. Even the best journalist, one who gets close to translating the experience of hearing someone’s thoughts and words in their own voice, could never quite share 100 percent of that experience.
Appreciating this phenomenon, music journalist Tim Anderl (of YouIndie.com and Ghettoblaster Magazine) teamed with Frank Steele, a professional media and video producer (Frame Jump Music Videos), to create the Sound Check Chat podcast.  The podcast shares the experience of dialing up a musician or talking to them one-on-one, face to face.  The podcast will typically drop on the first and 15^th of every month.
On March 15, 2014, the podcast launched via iTunes, as well as at the Sound Check Chat website (http://www.soundcheckchat.com).  The initial podcasts include interviews with one-half of Insane Clown Posse, Violent J, and Hawthorne Heights guitarist/frontman and solo artist JT Woodruff.
Download the podcast at iTunes here: http://goo.gl/cIF7G0 or ?https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-check-chat-music-lovers/id841331756
In addition to the podcast, Sound Check Chat provides a show notes page providing background behind the podcast and artists covered, as well as links to topics discussed on the show.
Additional details about future podcasts, including those already in progress with The 1984 NFL Draft, The Jazz June, Male Gaze, Buffalo Killers, So Hideos are forthcoming.