Audio Underground Episode 44

🎙️ AUDIO UNDERGROUND | EPISODE 44 TEACHER APPRECIATION

Every artist on this episode spends their days in a classroom shaping the next generation — and then goes home and makes music that matters.

🏫 This week we honor the teachers.

Not with a card. Not with a gift card. With an hour of music made by the people who actually showed up every day and gave something real to their students.

Every artist you hear tonight teaches. Not as a side note. As a calling.

🎸 THE ARCANES | Brainerd Lakes Area, Minnesota

Brass rock. Funk. Jam band energy. Fronted by music teacher and PhD Jordon Goebel, The Arcanes bring five tracks tonight including songs from their 2018 self-titled debut and their most recent singles. A new album, Forest for the Trees, is on the way.

And this week, Jordon's student — my son Paxton, a graduating senior heading to college to study Music Therapy — is co-hosting and introducing every single one of their songs.

Full circle doesn't even cover it.

🎵 Six Eight / Another Night / Up In The Light / Black Holes / What a Day

🎸 THE WINTER SLOTHS | Fergus Falls, Minnesota

Nick teaches music K through 12. Band. Orchestra. Choir. General music. Every grade level, every skill level, fourteen years running. He also plays guitar in The Winter Sloths and sat down for an async interview that every teacher — and every former student — needs to hear.

New music is coming from The Winter Sloths. Follow them now and be there when it drops.

🎵 Little Demon / Fake It / Photosynthesize

🎸 THE DUSK HOLD | Olive Hill, Kentucky

Bobby and Jared Salyers are high school English teachers living in the Appalachian hills of Kentucky. They started a band after losing their closest friend, David Jones, to cancer in 2023. Jared had never played an instrument. Bobby pulled into his driveway with a brand new drum set and told him he was playing anyway.

The Appalachian hills are in the music. So is their mastery of the English language. Their full interview is on the Audio Underground YouTube channel. You need to hear it.

🎵 Hard To Love / I Don't Need You Anymore

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