Episode 15 - James McNew (Yo La Tengo).  Before a Brooklyn festival show WHY? was playing with Lambchop-- in which James was guesting, Yoni and James sit in the WHY? tour van to have a chat about James' early years and how he hooked up with Yo La Tengo, the merits of collaboration, and being (anti)social.  Yoni shares intro/outro duties with veteran softball announcer, Donjamin Joliath.

Episode 15 - James McNew (Yo La Tengo)

Episode 16- Kathryn Beckwith (kitty (pryde)). Yoni and kitty meet up for a yoga class in Manhattan and then head back to kitty's place to talk about staying relevant in the new world of short attention-spans, kitty's beginnings, the Internet, process, etc.  Yoni is joined once again by Donjamin Joliath for the intro/outro.

Episode 16 - Kathryn Beckwith (kitty (pryde))

Episode 17 - Brad Forste (Mr. Dibbs).  Yoni heads over to Brad's neighborhood and they hit the barbershop for a shave and a head-shave.  Then they head back to Brad's house and sit on the porch to reminisce. They talk about Brad getting shot by his ex, tour buses, fighting, drinking, atkins, dying for one minute because of liver failure, juicing, his beginnings in music, and prank calls.

Episode 17 - Brad Forste (Mr. Dibbs)

Episode 25- Glenn Howerton.  Yoni and Glenn get together at the homie Shaun's apartment to catch up on tape.  They talk about Glenn's hit TV show, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, regional accents, discovering music, Glenn's secret musical ambitions, health and diet, and of course, hot shredded man-bods.

Episode 25- Glenn Howerton

Episode 32- Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie).  Yoni and Phil meet up outside of Neumo's rock club in Seattle for a talk in the WHY? tour van.  They talk about Twitter and the Internet in general, shortened attention spans, Phil's history in the northwest, his new auto tuned Garage Band recordings, and canoe-making.

Episode 32- Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie)

Episode 64- April O'Neil.  Yoni heads up to April's hip downtown LA loft to have a little talk.  They discuss April's upbringing, how she got into porn, girl only porn vs. guy-girl porn, boyfriend sex vs. porn sexx, costume play, pinball, and baking.

Episode 64- April O'Neil

Episode 66- Dave Portner (Avey Tare (Animal Collective)).  Yoni heads to Louisville to check out Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks at Forecastle music festival.  After the show, Yoni and the band and company head back to the hotel where he and Dave get a chance to talk on mic.  They discuss festivals vs. short bill concerts, using effects, songwriting, failed recordings and vague demos, musical popularity, Dave and Animal Collective's beginnings, record labels, meditation, and The Grateful Dead.

66- Avey Tare (Animal Collective)

68- Lorde (Ella Yelich-O'Connor).  During a songwriting session in NYC, Yoni and Ella take some time out to talk on mic.  They discuss performing, falling in love with songwriting, Ella's career thus far, being a female teenage boss, curating the soundtrack for the new Hunger Games, Ella's previous and current musical inspirations, using visualizations, and synesthesia.

68- Lorde

Episode 69- Eric Copeland (Black Dice).   Yoni heads over to Eric's Brooklyn basement warehouse studio for a talk.  They discuss Eric's musical roots, his work ethic, performing live, his recording process, Danny Brown, Animal Collective, New Orleans music, Easy Rider, and his possible upcoming move to Majorca, Spain.

Episode 69- Eric Copeland (Black Dice)

Episode 74- Aaron Weiss (mewithoutYou).  Yoni and Aaron meet up for a get-to-know-you talk backstage at the Union Transfer in Philadelphia before WHY? soundcheck.  They discuss remaining autonomous within a relationship vs. giving yourself over, reaching towards monastic tendencies, spirituality, Aaron's unique blend of Judaism/Christianity/Sufi Islam, they get meta and talk about the talk they are having, Aaron's musical roots, being a non-exclusively Christian band in a Christian hardcore scene, writing, and the record making process.

Episode 74- Aaron Weiss (mewithoutYou)

80- Milo & Busdriver.  While Milo (Rory) and 'Driver (Regan) are on tour in Cincinnati, Yoni invites them for a conversation in the park.  They discuss Milo's beginings, their fathers, work flow, collaboration, their record label/crew, Hellfyre Club, pop music, race issues, I Love Makonnen, and Kanye.

80- Milo & Busdriver

Episode 91- Josiah Wolf 4 (WHY?).  The two brothers get together over at Yoni's house for a much needed talk.  They discuss the current WHY? recording process, click vs. no click, recording live vs. layering, the group dynamic, and the recording processes behind a lot of the WHY?'s past work.

Episode 91- Josiah Wolf 4 (WHY(question Mark))

105- Anna Stewart & Scott Fredette.  While Anna is in Cincinnati for the weekend, the 3 friends meet up at Spring Grove Cemetery and after visiting Anna's grandmothers, they talk.  They discuss mindfulness, being easier on yourself, fear, anxiety, and what their last meal would be. 

105- Anna Stewart & Scott Fredette

106- Aaron Weiss 2 (mewithoutYou).  While Aaron is playing in northern Kentucky, Yoni takes the opportunity to meet up for a conversation outside of a coffee shop.  They talk about Aaron's impending child, DMT, monastic-style discipline, spirituality, prayer, gurus, and the tour lifestyle.


106- Aaron Weiss (mewithoutYou) 2

112- Pictureplane (Travis Egedy).  While Yoni is in Denver, he meets up with Pictureplane in the park for a talk.  They discuss Travis's early career, his process, his love of harshness, his clothing line, rap battles, fascism, and teenage pranks and antics.


112- Pictureplane (Travis Egedy)

115- Duncan Trussell.  Yoni heads to Columbus, Ohio to check out Duncan's stand up gig.  After, they meet for the first time in Duncan's bus and end up taping a chat.  They philosophize about video games as reality simulation, artificial intelligence, the nature of time and space, color, LSD, and God. 

115- Duncan Trussell

117- Advance Base (Owen Ashworth).  At the tail end of a tour they do together, Yoni and Owen (formerly Casiotone For The Painfully Alone) get together in Cleveland for a little talk.  They talk about how Owen started out in music, recording, performing, religion, and touring.

117- Advance Base

122- Josh Carter (Phantogram).  On a trip to LA, Yoni heads over to Josh’s bungalow for a hang. They get into a long conversation about work routine, writer’s block, Phantogram’s ever evolving process,  songwriting conventions, various collaborations, drugs, weed in the studio, working in big studios vs. working at home, and Josh’s beginnings with music.

Good Talk

122- Josh Carter (Phantogram)

136- Hobo Johnson (Frank Lopes).  Yoni and Frank sneak into the University of Cincinnati art school and find a quiet room to talk in. They discuss Frank’s early influences, how he got started making music, living in his car as a teenager, rap style, the writing process, Frank’s parents, performing, Twitter haters, Frank’s arrests, recording, dealing with success, the musical Frank wants to make, fame, and microdosing LSD.
 
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136- Hobo Johnson (Frank Lopes)

137- Daphne Jo (Cam Girl).  While Yoni is in Denver on tour, he and Daphne meet up for a talk.  They discuss how she discovered Yoni’s music on a Unicorns message board in 2003, how Daphne became a cam girl after a major accident, how camming works for the lay person, making gobs and gobs of money, spending time irl with her clients, her romantic life, and keeping secrets from her parents.

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137- Daphne Jo (Cam Girl)

139- Frankie Cosmos (Greta).  While Yoni is on a trip to NYC, after an afternoon boardgame hang, he and Greta Kline get together for a chat at her Brooklyn apartment.  They discuss the emotional labor of touring and if it is a desirable activity, Greta’s ambivalence about her music being out there widely spreading, her early Bandcamp recordings, dog ambitions, dropping out of college to tour, the album making process, collaboration, Greta’s family, Europe versus The States, heavy socializing as an introvert, depression/anxiety, exercising, meditation, video games, and habit tracking.  Go to patreon.com/thewanderingwolf and pledge to support.

139- Frankie Cosmos (Greta)

141- Fog (Andrew Broder).  Andrew flies Yoni to Minneapolis for a benefit series he puts on there.  They spend some time together and have a talk at Yoni’s Airbnb.  They discuss the themes for the residency, socioeconomic philosophies, the problems of our time, Andrew interviewing homeless people in a Minneapolis tent city, being an aging white guy in music in 2019, and the negative side of touring. 

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141- Fog (Andrew Broder)

142- Undertaker Katie. Yoni heads over to Katie’s Cincinnati apartment for a chat about her relatively new career as an undertaker. They talk about the responsibilities of Katie’s job, her reasons for going into mortuary science, putting make up on her dead grandmother when she was a teenager, Katie tells some gruesome stories from the field, some of the nuts and bolts of how the industry works, Katie’s ideal undertaking, Yoni’s ideal undertaking, and being haunted by a former Kroger coworker who Katie buried.

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142- Undertaker Katie

143- R.A.P. Ferreira (FKA milo).  While Rory (R.A.P.) is in Cincinnati on tour, he stops by Yoni’s house for a convo.  They talk about social media privacy for children, the rap hustle, Rory changing names from milo to R.A.P. Ferreira and why, production value in concerts vs. making a proper living, Rory’s writing process,  being a rapper vs. a different kind of songwriter, Rory running racists out of his record store, spirituality, offspring, and whimsy.

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143- R.A.P. Ferreira (FKA milo)

144- Christian Lee Hutson. While Christian is in southwest Ohio to visit his father, he and Yoni take a moment to get to know each other at a city park in Cincinnati. They talk about Bob Dylan, career longevity, quantity vs. quality, Christian’s drug-fueled youth, living with his dad in a motel in Venice Beach, working with Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers, writing in the car, knowing if your song is good or not, collaboration anxiety, and feeling self-conscious about one’s voice.

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144- Christian Lee Hutson

145- Miles Joris-Peyrafitte (Film Maker).  While Yoni is in Brooklyn on tour, he and Miles get together at Yoni’s Airbnb for a talk.  With Yoni’s partner Grace, they discuss what Miles has been up to lately, directing as the writer vs. directing with another person as writer, working on his most recent feature, Dreamland, Yoni’s current existential crisis, their collaborative visual album, AOKOHIO, Miles’ performance artist mother and poet father and troubadour style upbringing, the anti-anxiety medication/weed/dog-ownership cocktail, smoking vs. Juuling, the Purple Mountains album, and the long game of art making.

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145- Miles Joris-Peyrafitte

146- Barrie (Lindsay).  On the tail end of a 6 week North American tour they did together, Barrie and Yoni sit down backstage at the Fine Line in Minneapolis for a talk.  They discuss touring, writing in DAWs vs. on a single instrument, the songwriting and recording process, Barrie’s early music days, mixing, and her future plans and aspirations.

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146- Barrie (Lindsay)

147- Smut (Taylor & Andrew).  Two members of Cincinnati rock band, Smut, head over to Yoni’s house one evening for a chat.  They discuss eyeglasses conspiracies, staying with strangers on tour, performing as a local band vs. as a touring band, keeping your voice as a singer on tour, how Andrew and Taylor met, Smut’s collaborative writing process, music videos, Smut’s influences,  day jobs and side hustles and ‘plan b’s, and being romantic partners in a band together.  

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147- Smut (Taylor & Andrew)

148- Amy Miller 2. While Amy is in Cincinnati for a stand up comedy engagement, she and Yoni get together at Yoni’s house for a talk about religion, the road, changing with age and age discrimination.

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148- Amy Miller 2

Episode 2- Adam 'doseone' Drucker, sees Yoni in the Bay Area on a confusing vacation.  He has a nice long chat with old friend and collaborator, Adam 'doseone' Drucker (cLOUDDEAD, Themselves, Subtle, etc.).  They go in depth into Adam's upbringing and artistic beginnings. 

Episode 2 - Adam 'doseone' Drucker

Episode 6 - Jeff 'JEL' Logan & Adam 'dose one' Drucker. Before an Oakland WHY? show, Yoni gets a chance to talk to producer JEL about his beginnings and current doings.  Part way through, Jeff's collaborator, Adam Drucker stops by to follow up his previous WANDERING WOLF conversation.

Episode 6 - Jeff 'JEL' Logan & Adam 'doseone' Drucker

Episode 9 - Anna Stewart (Divorcee).  In Austin, TX, Yoni catches up with one of his oldest and dearest friends.  He and Anna discuss motivation, art making, their history and current relationship, and molly.  

Episode 9 - Anna Stewart (Divorcee)

THE WANDERING WOLF is songwriter Yoni Wolf's ongoing collection of field recordings from the road, unscripted internal monologues, self-reflective moments, and in depth conversations with musicians, artists, comedians, and interesting people of all kinds.  These episodes stand to chronicle Yoni's life as a traveling bard and those he crosses paths with out there in the wild world. 

THE WANDERING WOLF

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