Why Music Matters With Jeff Miers
Welcome to the Why Music Matters podcast. I’m your host, music journalist and musician Jeff Miers. Throughout my life in and around music, I’ve often asked myself the question - Why does music matter? This podcast attempts to answer that question, with the help of musicians, members of the music industry, and music-lovers like you. Join us!
Episodes
Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives.
I’m your host, Jeff Miers.
On today’s episode, I’m joined by author and founder of renowned indie label Big Deal Records Dean Brownrout.
Born in Buffalo, Dean spent 25 years in the music business, beginning as an enterprising teenager promoting his friends’ high school bands, moving...
Hey there, music lovers! Welcome to Why Music Matters!
Today, we kick off a special intermittent series called “generations,” focusing on families that have passed on their love of music from parents to children, and have created musical legacies in the process.
I could think of no better way to kick this series off than to invite Linda Appleby and her daughter, Zuri Appleby, to the studio for a chat about t...
Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives. I’m your host, musician and music journalist Jeff Miers. On today’s episode, I’m joined by my friend, guitarist, vocalist, teacher and music promoter Aaron Ziolkowski.
One of the hardest working musicians on the Buffalo scene, Aaron is a member of the Little Mountain Band, Dead Al...
Hello, music lovers! Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives. I’m your host, musician and music journalist Jeff Miers. On today’s episode, I’m joined by drummer, composer and educator John Bacon, Jr. For several decades, John has been an artist operating at the center of the region’s jazz and new music scen...
Hey there, fellow music freaks! Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives. I’m your host, musician and music journalist Jeff Miers. For today’s episode, I had the pleasure of hanging out with my friend, the musician and music educator Eric Crittenden. Critt, as he’s known throughout the Buffalo music scene, is a sa...
Hello, music lovers!
Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives.
I’m your host, musician and music journalist Jeff Miers.
Recording today’s episode was a real treat for me. Having Alex Khoury, Cody Tarbox, Seth Bykowski and Colin Gray - who are known collectively as Witty Tarbox - in the studio with me, with instruments in hand and plent...
Ep 53: The iconic guitarist and composer talks SatchVai Band, his earliest inspirations, and his plans for the future
Hello, music lovers!
Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives.
I’m your host, musician and music journalist Jeff Miers.
Today’s guest is one of the most critically lauded and commercially successful rock guitarists of h...
Hello, music lovers! Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives. I’m your host, musician and music journalist Jeff Miers. Today’s guest is a long over-due one. I’ve known Todd Eberwine for a couple decades by this point, and during that time, I’ve been witness to some purely transcendent moments in concert clubs and ...
Hello music lovers, and welcome to another edition of Why Music Matters. I’m your host, music journalist and musician Jeff Miers.
On today’s episode, I spend some time with Buffalo-born singer Cami Clune.
Many of you will remember Cami from season 19 of NBC’s The Voice, which originally aired in 2020. Cami grabbed headlines with her performance during the season, eventually going on to the semi-finals, and f...
Hello music lovers, and welcome to another edition of Why Music Matters. I’m your host, music journalist and musician Jeff Miers. Today is a special day for the Why Music Matters team - we’re celebrating our 50th episode. And as we do so, I’d like to thank all of you for listening and for your continued support. We’re just getting started, and we’ve got some exciting new ventures planned for the...
Hello music lovers, and welcome to another edition of Why Music Matters. I’m your host, music journalist and musician Jeff Miers.
Today, my guests represent a cross-generational journey through the ever-evolving world of jazz.
Alex McArthur is a singer and storyteller whose resume reads like that of a musician three times her age. A winner of multiple JazzBuffa...
Hey there, music-lovers.
Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives.
I’m your host, Jeff Miers.
Today, I’ve got an old friend stopping by 678Main Studios.
I’ve known Greg Klyma for more than three decades. During that time, I’v...
Hey there, everyone.
I’d like to welcome you to a special edition of the podcast - a joint creation between Why Music Matters and The Buffalo History Museum.
This episode, which we’ve named 12/8/80 (In the Name of Love), was created with my good friend Anthony Greco, Director of Exhibits at The Buffalo History Museum, and creator and host of the Museum’s podcast.
The episode explores an evening that changed ...
Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives. I’m your host, Jeff Miers. Today, my guest is Evan Laedke, a musician with an impressively broad skill-set, one that has made him a first-call keyboardist for a wide variety of WNY bands, one-off gigs and sessions. Currently playing keys for Tsavo Highway, the Little Mountain Band, and others, Evan...
Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives. I’m your host, Jeff Miers.
Today, my guest is podcaster and Western New York music historian Greg Hennessey.
Through his weekly podcast, In the Flamingo Lounge with Rockabilly Greg, Hennessey shines a necessary light on Buffalo music, celebrating our region’s rich musical history, and honoring the be...
Hey there, music lovers.
Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives.
I’m your host, Jeff Miers.
Today, I’m excited to welcome back to Why Music Matters my friends Elliott Hunt and Chris Lillis, two fifths of the rising indie-alternative band Letter To Elise.
The last time Elliott and Chris sat down with me here at 678 Main Studio, ...
Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives.
I’m your host, Jeff Miers. Let’s start today’s podcast with a little anecdote.
The text from my friend Jennifer Brazill, President of the Borderland Festival, arrived about 18 months back.
“Are you interested in producing, mixing and mastering an album for a reggae-based band ...
The iconic independent artist talks about the importance of ‘showing up’ in these unprecedented times
Hey there, music lovers.
Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives.
I’m your host, Jeff Miers.
Today’s episode is a very meaningful one for me, because it features a musician, poet, activist, and independent music icon whose...
Hello, music lovers!
Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives.
I’m your host, Jeff Miers.
Today’s guests are siblings Maria, Grace and Jarrett Brzykcy, who together perform and record as The Water Dogs.
The Brzykcy siblings are mul...
Hello, music lovers!
Welcome to Why Music Matters, a podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives. I’m your host, Jeff Miers.
On today’s episode, we’re celebrating the Goo Goo Dolls, and in particular, the 30th anniversary of their mainstream breakthrough album, A Boy Named Goo.
Though the band had already been around for a decade by the time they released th...
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