Demo Mirror

Download Episode 021 Andy Szymcik (left) & Bryan Mastergeorge (right) are the guitarists/vocalists/songwriters of the Boston band Wrong Body. Their debut album “BIG” was released in March 2014. It is an album that goes beyond the typical “rock album” formula, weaving lyrical and musical themes into different songs, recycling & referencing it’s own parts throughout […]

Download Episode 020 Henry Beguiristain & Jen de la Osa are the main songwriters in the Boston rock band Aloud.  They released their fourth album “It’s Got To Be Now” in April 2014.  In this interview we get the details on how they wrote, rehearsed, and recorded the material for the new album, which was […]

Download Episode 019 A few weeks ago, Tony Vecchi sat down with me, my old band Lights, and our friend Charles Murphy to talk about our posthumous release Something in the Sky, a collection of material (33 songs) that we never recorded/released when we were a band from 2003-2007. We basically discuss our entire history in this interview […]

  Download Episode 018 A few weeks ago, Tony Vecchi sat down with me, my old band Lights, and our friend Charles Murphy to talk about New Song from our forthcoming album Something in the Sky, a collection of material that we never recorded/released when we were a band from 2003-2007. A few weeks after we played our […]

Download Episode 017 I made a phone call to Eric this past Christmas Eve to talk about Song 2.  We got into how the song was written, the refreshing honesty of it’s lyrics, some of Eric’s influences (from the Beach Boys to That Dog), and how his work as a recording engineer at Honeyland, in his […]

Download Episode 015 I went to Tim & Kate’s apartment to talk about a song they gave me, which for the purposes of this episode is called Untitled Jam, and is, in fact, an untitled jam!  They created it at practice with their band Necktie Party (which has recently regrouped with a few new members […]

Download Episode 014 Andy is the father of two wonderful cats named Sushi and Nori.  He is also the father of a song called So What (I Want Your Body (of Work)).  Andy and I sat down recently to discuss this song, it’s long road into existence, his massive library of unreleased material for band/solo project […]

  Download Episode 013 Tony Vecchi recently sat down with Jesse and Ross, (his roommates, also known as Thunder Asunder) to talk about a song called The Wedge.  In one of the funniest Demo Mirror episodes yet, we hear them discuss their outlook on their music/band/live shows, their history (including putting a former member on trial… in […]