This weekend I'll be playing two pre-recorded interviews. The first is with Garrett Hobba (pictured left) who represented his fairly new Seattle band, The Soft Hills. His band mates include Drew Dresman, Caleb Heinrich, and Brittan Drake. In addition sharing some of the band's approach to writing music together, Garrett revealed some juicy details about the more ethereal and extraterrestrial influences from which he draws upon when writing the dreamy, psychedellic, indie-folk songs that The Soft Hills play.

The second interview is with Malaki Stahl (pictured below) Malaki and I go way back ...almost 20 years back to when he and my brother were high school buddies. In more recent years, Malaki has become one of the many forces of nature in the burgeoning all-ages Seattle DIY scene.

I interviewed Malaki a few months ago during a live broadcast my friends and I did via Hollow Earth Radio at a Dolomites show that we had organized with Dolomites frontman, Stefanko Iancu. The show was at one of the DIY venues that Malaki co-runs with Jason Glover. In the interview, he pretty much broke it down and got to the heart of the DIY spirit. Even though he is talking specifically about the Seattle music community, everything that he says is so relevant to any community that is striving to exist outside the convention of mainstream media, venues and radio.

I am stoked about this week's show (as you can see from my Eden's Hour blog) in which I am featuring a few friends, a myriad of very talented Seattle-based musicians, including some of the following: The Soft Hills, a string theory-inspired song by Johanna Kunin, Polka Dot Dot and Karl Blau songs (recorded on previous Eden's Hour shows), Purple Ether Molasses and The Dolomites!

Listen up! 9pm Central time on Saturday, February 28th

P.S. I just noticed that both Malaki and Garrett have the same kind of glasses on ...huh. Just an FYI, those are not a requirement to be a kick ars member of a thriving music scene. It's purely coincidental. Or is it?