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About This Podcast
Walls of Sound is an insider’s look at the hidden world of music venues—their history, inner workings, personalities, and cultural weight.
Hosted by musician, writer, and entrepreneur Brian Teasley, who has played and recorded with Man or Astro-man?, The Polyphonic Spree, and St. Vincent—and who founded Birmingham’s Bottletree and now runs Saturn—and Ryan Murphy, who helped transform the St. Augustine Amphitheatre and now leads The Orion Amphitheater with venue group tvg, the podcast pulls from decades of firsthand experience.
Together, they’ve built, booked, and played just about every kind of venue out there. Walls of Sound peels back the layers on how these places come to be, what keeps them alive, and why they matter more than most people realize.
If you’ve ever stood in a room and felt the history in the floorboards, this show is for you.
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Recent Episodes
Walls of Sound Case Study: The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound
On this episode we take a look at the Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound, a short lived but wildly ambitious attempt to rethink how live music could sound. Starting with the band’s early gigs and the Acid…
Dylan Plays Electric (Newport Folk Festival 1965)
In this case study, we dig into the moment Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, and why it still feels like a cultural fault line. We talk myth vs reality, the folk scene’s…
Brendan Canty (Fugazi, Rites of Spring, The Messthetics, etc.) on Why Playing Public Spaces for Diverse Audiences Matters More Than Ever
On this episode of Walls of Sound, we sit down with Brendan Canty, drummer, producer, composer, and a central figure in the D.C. music community through Deadline, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, and The…
Walls of Sound Case Study: The Honky Tonk – Part Two
On Part Two of our Honky Tonk case study, we pick up when the genre hits the national spotlight. We start with Urban Cowboy and Gillies in Pasadena, when a real club turned into a movie set and the…
Walls of Sound Case Study: The Honky Tonk – Part One
In Part One of this two-part episode, we look at the honky tonk as a real place, not the cartoon version people picture today. We talk about why these bars existed and who they were for. Honky tonks…
S1E4 San Francisco’s Post-Punk Era
On this episode, we explore the San Francisco post punk scene from 1978 to 1984. A brief but explosive period that emerged from the collapse of the hippie era and the city’s long history of…
S1E3 John Strohm: From Small Town Hardcore Punk to the Center of the Modern Music Industry.
On this episode of Walls of Sound, we sit down with John Strohm, who went from being a teenage hardcore punk drummer to founding the Blake Babies and becoming the guitar player for the Lemonheads. He…
San Francisco’s Post-punk Era
On this episode, we explore the San Francisco post punk scene from 1978 to 1984, a brief but explosive period that emerged from the collapse of the hippie era and the city’s long history of…
John Strohm: From Small Town Hardcore Punk to the Center of the Modern Music Industry
On this episode of Walls of Sound, we sit down with John Strohm, who went from being a teenage hardcore punk drummer to founding the Blake Babies and becoming the guitar player for the Lemonheads. He…
Traci Thomas: Managing Jason Isbell, fostering the future of Muscle Shoals and more
In this episode of Walls of Sound, hosts Brian Teasley and Ryan Murphy head to Muscle Shoals to sit down with Traci Thomas, the publicist and longtime manager for Jason Isbell and many others. She…
S1E1 Jesse Rifkin: This Must Be The Place NYC
In this episode, Brian Teasley and Ryan Murphy talk with NYC music historian Jesse Rifkin, author of This Must Be the Place and creator of Walk on the Wild Side tours, about the vanished venues and…
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Walls of Sound has published 9 episodes since September 2025, covering topics in Music, Music Interviews.
Walls of Sound is currently moderate with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 45m.
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