Worst Little Podcast

We had the great heavy metal rockers Weight of the Tide on our humble podcast and they didn’t disappoint. Mark Moots’ heavy guitar and powerful vocals, Marcus Mayhall’s superb bass, Jason Thomas’ masterful drums and absent from the show, Jes Phipps also on guitar and vocals, provided us tracks from their latest album What Pale […]

WLP’s Women’s March continues with a true blast from the past. Alex Grow, Kay Davis, and Natalie Jones are the Retro Radio Dolls. We laughed our asses off with these funny, talented and community-oriented singers. From their Facebook page: Retro Radio Dolls is an all singing, all dancing female close harmony trio showcasing a delightful […]

We’re back with female fronted bands for Women’s March! We have Korey Davis on drums, Chris Retallack bass, Michael Retallack & Nathan Retallack on guitars and on vocals and occasional instruments, Keely Nesbit! They are “It’s Not Cute Anymore” based in Reno and Portola California.  The band was recently formed and have played a few […]

We’re back! Celebrate ladies March with us as we welcome back for her third appearance the sultry songstress of the high desert, Gina Rose Waller. With a punk rock spirit and a soft approach, angelic whispers to an almost howl, her songs will break your heart, question life’s purpose, opine on outlaws and a wild […]

This week we have the hilarious, sweet sassy sounds of punk drummer singer songwriter Cori Elba with Layla Moheimani on bass and Rob Elba, Cori’s dad, on guitar.  Cori’s comes to Reno from Truckee Ca, Layla too. Rob originally from Queens, now in L.A. California. Cori began performing at the Alibi open mic in Truckee […]

This weeks guests are brothers Conor & Evan on bass and guitar, and Travis on drums who together are the power trio known as Memory Circle. Smooth, funky, psychedelic, surfy, spacey soundscape songs that are musical jammy fun.  We listen to several demo recordings, get their origin story and talk a lot about movies and […]

S15E06 Sweet Decay- Rabbit Light Tapestry How sweet it is to be back with indie folk duo Sweet Decay.  CJ plays guitar and he and Autumn both sing in a beautiful powerhouse harmony. They’re having a blast as Sweet Decay and since they are a couple they can easily practice write and riff together often. […]

This one’s for all you lovers out there. Enter Candy all dolled up donning skull face make up and ripping the vocals. With seasoned blues man Chris on guitar. The man who totally loves fun, cool Keith on bass. On second guitar; the shredder young Jared, and drumming the heartbeat of the band, hailing from […]

We go hard again this week with power metal quartet known as OSTRACIZED Live  Ugo Daillarian (pseudonym) – vox, Kevin Passow – guitar, Tyrell Cruz – bass, and Filipendejo aka Kevin Montoya – drums.  Ostracized has been going for a while now, 13 years! And we haven’t had them on the podcast?! Tyrell and Kevin M […]

This week we have hardcore metal punx; the scattering. Jim is the screamer and lyricist, Jason on guitar, Brian on drums, Josh also on guitar and Rash on bass. Human rights, human failure and autobiographical subject matter is where they’re coming from. Hard, heavy, with flow and groove. The message delivered through intense heavy guitar […]

This week we have Chewbacca taking the lead host slot because our musical guest this week is One Ton Dually featuring our lead hosts and bestest buddies Nick and Rory on drums and bass. Rory also sings with Spike Ritchie and Stephen Barron on guitars. Being men of a certain age there is mostly a […]

That’s right, first one up for 2025 is…drum roll… Last One Down! A punk quartet featuring Josh Watson on guitar & backing vox, Andy Harrison lead vox & guitar, new bass player Adam Coldwell, and rockstar drummer from Screeching Weasel and Suckapunch; Pierre Marchè, who wasn’t able to make the podcast. That being the case […]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year and our last episode of the season.  Join us for music, merriment and our final conversation of the year.  Rory’s youngest Billy was in studio but didn’t really have much to say while the adults carried on for an hour.  He seemed amused.  We welcome our intern […]

This week we have another new band! They are called inpatient, and they rip.  Sophia Shortz on vocals and keyboard, on guitars and scream singing Jacob McCoy, also on guitar Christopher Profera, with Sky Powers on bass and Quinton Bunk on drums.  Hardcore punk riot girrrl with art rock vibes might be a decent description […]

Our guests this week are a new duo on the scene from lifelong Renoites, powerhouse singer Kelly Proud (Almond Mocha Music) on keyboard, and funky drummer Adrian Rodriguez (Doctors of Feel Good). Taking their name from a Facebook comment, their goals are to get people laid and kill every performance.  They live next door to […]

This week we reminisce with the original cast and Starfish the intern for a cozy episode with friends and music from Chewie’s archive. He put together a show with bands on a 30-year-old flier for a barn burner in Susanville featuring 5 bands from Reno: Loadstar(exclusive for our Patreon members, patreon.com/worstlittlepodcast) who actually broke up right […]

A little bird told us that the  Good Luck MacBeth theatre had a fancy brunch fund raiser with music provided by Margy Ford and Steve Barron of the indie rock band Roxxy Collie. Due to an unexpected cancellation, their drummer and our host, Nick, thought it would be wonderful to hear one of his favorite acoustic […]

Season 14 episode 37! In a row?! Yup, that’s right, we’re back with late nineties Reno Britpop band; acrylic! Bill Conran and Robb Russo (Luke McMullan, Neil Edwards, Chris Davis, Steve Larkins, Gabe Larkins: not present) join us for literal coffee talk, the Cure’s new album and remembering the 90’s in Reno. Bowie, Love and […]

t’s our annual Halloween show! So of course we have the spooky Reno goth rock band (the) Glitter Bats!  It’s been a whole year since we had them on. If you’re saying to yourself “isn’t that one of Nick’s bands?”, you’d be correct! Our weekly host is the drummer of the band. Lucky for us […]

Lyric Morrow fronts The Griefs, her band with her dad, Jeremy Morrow on drums and her boyfriend Will Shamberger on guitar. Yep, that Will Shamberger from the Will Shamberger band out of Fallon. Jeremy was a guest with his band Merkin way back in season one! He has been on a couple other times as […]