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 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 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 37- Barney Rubin (Yoni's uncle) & Josiah Wolf (brother). Barney shows up in Cincinnati to record a rap song he wrote as a farewell speech of sorts/ tribute to his former boss and friend, Richard Holbrooke, at the state department where he held a position as senior advisor on Afghanistan and South Asia. The three bearded gents discuss the song, Barney's experiences in and around South Asia, working in government, his current position as director of the Center on International Cooperation at NYU, Barney's early life, and his passion for music, wine and food.

Episode 37- Barney Rubin (Yoni's Uncle) & Josiah Wolf (Yoni's Brother)

Episode 40- Josiah Wolf (Yoni's brother).  Finally the two brothers get together for a talk!  In the WHY? studio in Josiah's basement, they go through a chronology of Josiah's life and trace his roots as a drummer.  They also discuss pride vs. humility, what makes a successful musician, relationships vs. single-hood, and getting fucked with as a young white kid with a Raiders Starter. 

Episode 40- Josiah Wolf (Yoni's Brother)

This is a teaser track from Yoni's forthcoming mixtape entitled, OLD DOPE (Rap Tape).  It was made to document the arrangements for his upcoming May solo dates with Serengeti.  Phoenix, Tucson, San Diego, Pomona, LA, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, NYC. And Texas in June!!

here are details and ticket links for shows: http://on.fb.me/1lOpa2q

Bad Entropy (Buzzcut Mix)

Episode 59- David Madson (Odd Nosdam).  Yoni and David sit down on the patio of David's west Berkeley cottage.  They talk about David's early years, cLOUDDEAD, his work with Serengeti and Jel, reaching quiet, recording techniques, diet, shoes, and bass. 

Episode 59- David Madson (Odd Nosdam)

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 72- Lou Barlow (Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr., etc.).  Yoni and Lou are both in Indianapolis to play a festival with their respective bands, WHY? and Sebadoh.  They take a moment out to get to know each other a bit in the basement of Joyful Noise label head, Karl's basement.  They talk about keeping it fresh after all these years, the mid nineties heyday the for the underground indy rock scene, playing high, Lou's roots and moving back east to be close to family, home recording, and Neil Young.

Episode 72- Lou Barlow (Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr.)

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)

Episode 75- Daniel & David Smith (Danielson Famile) & Josiah Wolf.  Right before a WHY? set at Union Transfer, the Smith bros. and the Wolf bros. get together for a quick talk in the tour van.  They talk about growing up with a songwriter father, Danielson's beginnings, being outsiders as Christians in the secular scene and too weird for the Christian scene, work process, producing for other artists, spirituality vs. religion, and love vs. judgement.

Episode 75- Daniel & David Smith (Danielson Famile) & Josiah Wolf

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))

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

107- Sage Francis.  In the morning after Sage's show in northern Kentucky, Yoni and Sage meet up at a coffee shop for a talk.  They discuss Sage's upbringing in Rhode Island, the span of his career to date, martial arts, relationships, hustling hard, early anticon label days, Sage's time with Epitaph, and Sage's distaste for babies.

107- Sage Francis

110- Sole (Tim Holland). Yoni flies to Denver to play Goldrush festival.  The afternoon before his performance he heads over to his old friend Tim's house to pay his respects to the twenty-plus year rap veteran and co-founder of anticon records.  They talk about Sole's early years and current career, the genesis of anticon as a collective and label, politics, philosophy, and social justice.

110- Sole (Tim Holland)

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

121- Sam Herring (Future Islands, Hemlock Ernst).  Sam and Yoni meet up while Sam is in Cincinnati to pay a festival.  They talk about Future Islands’ writing/recording process, pre-Future Islands band Art Lord and the start of Future Islands, the genesis of Sam’s rap career as Hemlock Ernst and some recent collaborations, and growing up an isolated fat kid in small town North Carolina.

Good Talk

121- Sam Herring (Future Islands, Hemlock Ernst)

124- Greg Saunier (Deerhoof). Greg, Yoni, and Yoni's brother Josiah meet up outside of a Cincinnati Deerhoof show to discuss recording, mixing, and producing on an extreme budget, touring on a extreme budget, chaotic work flow, touring with Red Hot Chili Peppers, keeping things fresh as an aging band, staying even keeled, and Greg's youth in suburban Maryland in the 80's. This episode is sponsored by Sudio headphones. Go to https://goo.gl/jV5F4k and enter "wandering" during checkout to get 15% off your new headphones!

124- Greg Saunier (Deerhoof)

132- Japanese Breakfast.  When Japanese Breakfast come to Cincinnati to play, Yoni takes the opportunity to meet up with song writer/producer, Michelle Zauner at the venue.  They discuss Michelle’s recording history as Japanese Breakfast, as well as with her band Little Big League, career longevity, her time working at a big ad agency, her video game sound tracks, and her fantasy industrial album.

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132- Japanese Breakfast

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 8 - Will Weisenfeld (Baths).  WHY? plays a few shows with electronic artist, Baths on the way to SXSW.  In Phoenix, Yoni takes some time out to sit down with the man behind Baths, Will Weisenfeld.  They discuss Will's blossoming career, recording, live shows, and hooking up on the road.  

Episode 8 - Will Weisenfeld (Baths)

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. 

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