#358 - Jay’s Week in Cincinnati | News with Nick | Tales from the Concert
Jackson joins us at the beginning of the show to talk about his week with Dad.
Jay catches us up on the past week. It kicked off with a Black Crowes concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Then the family took a trip to Cincinnati to visit relatives. While there, Jay had a chance to jam on some bluegrass with his cousin, Billy. Finally, he highly recommends “Shake It Records” to anyone visiting the city. He shares some albums he procured and gives a shoutout to Uncle Dan for his generosity.
Song - Mulatu Astatke - “Green Africa”
It’s News with Nick! We kick off with a tribute to Momo, the boys 7 year old guinea pig that passed, with some “Guinea Pig Olympics” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cotkdOCD1eY). Then, the Grammy’s announce a new rule to address feedback about the Best New Artist category, the Atlantic publishes a search engine to discover whose music is in what AI datasets (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/06/dataset-free-music-archive/687336/). Finally, legendary music producer, Clive Davis, passed away this week at the age of 94.
Song: Pond - “Skyworks”
Greg brings us a Tales from the Concert. The Red Nots play a great show at The Bellwether in LA. Bassist Paul assembled a rig to travel with the band that allows them to set their own individual in-ear mixes while they play and it’s cut their soundcheck time down by 75%.
Song - Randy Newman - “I Love LA”