Tourror Stories Podcast

The Rye Boys are Nic Harper and Clayton Smith and they're from Texas, with W.T. Newton.

As well as being a solo artist, Dylan Blackthorn plays with steampunk-goblincore stalwarts THAT Damned Band,​ Mazel Tov Kocktail Hour (the premier traditional Yiddish and Klezmer band in central Texas), The 999 EYES Freakshow & Surreal Sideshow, and folk-punk stalwarts Gary Lindsey & the Pleasure Tide. Dylan’s debut solo album, Small Flames, arrives 4/1/21.

A southern storyteller uprooted and rolling around the country, WT Newton writes songs for the hurt in us and pens hymns for the underdog; songs from the front porch, and roots for the hopeless. 

Memphis musician/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist J.D. Reager is a veteran of several TN-based touring and recording acts, including Glossary, Pezz, Two Way Radio, Snowglobe, and the Passport Again. He has opened for heroes and appeared on MTV and released two critically acclaimed solo records, but is in no way famous. In 2017 he moved to Chicago, and has since founded the punk/pop duo Heeliocopter with Sean Rowader, launched a podcast called Back to the Light, and embarked on a series of collaborations with the Chicago indie trio Arthhur. He is also working on a new solo album.

Ambrose Jones is a comedian and host of the 38114 Show. He has appeared on Last Comic Standing, Gotham Live, and Uncontrolled Comedy. His album, Laughter Iz The Best Medicine, is available on iTunes.

Craig “Craigums” Billmeier, aka Hot Lixx Hulahan, is a musician (Love Songs, Your Mother, All You Can Eat, and many more), a two time U.S. Air Guitar Champion, a World Air Guitar Champion, author of the book Naked Shackleton, and an actor for the video game series Rock Band.

Dave Hyde is the bassist for Showoff, a producer, a hockey guy, a writer, and a podcaster.

Adam Davis is the singer/guitarist for Omnigone, formerly of Link 80.

Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits are an American acoustic folk-rock duo from Pinole California and consist of vocalist Corbett Redford III and guitarist/vocalist Dan Abbott. Corbett was also the director of the Turn it Around documentary about the history of East Bay punk.

Taylor McKee is a sound engineer, tour manager, guitarist, and powerlifter based in Nashville TN.

Chris Snelgrove is a singer/songwriter based in Montreal. He plays in the Last Mile and Offside. He was previously in Prevenge and All the Answers.

Patrick Cox is a writer, whose series Breakarate can be seen on Amazon, an actor who appears on such projects as Aquaman and 2 Broke Girls among others, and as a singer, he was the frontman for hardcore bands FMD and Bury the Living.

The Inner Man Bingo Hall and Church of the Future. A new age priestess forms her own church/bingo hall and staffs it with punk rockers, rock n’ roll burnouts, and North Mississippi weirdos. Hear about this strange piece of Memphis area history with guests Woodsy and Tony Manard.

Jeremy Stanfill is a singer-songwriter from Memphis.

Josh Stevens is the singer and guitar player for Glorious Abhor.

Lee Bains is the singer and guitarist for The Glory Fires.

Cotton Clifton plays with The Kernal and Cotton Clifton and the Pickers.

Donald Meyers is an actor, filmmaker, photographer, and artist from Memphis.

Mesha Maren is the author of the novel Sugar Run (Algonquin Books). Her short stories and essays can be read in Tin House, The Oxford American, The Guardian, Crazyhorse, Triquarterly, The Southern Review, Ecotone, Sou'wester, Hobart, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, and elsewhere. M. Randal O'Wain holds an MFA from Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program. He is the author of Meander Belt: family, loss and coming of age in the working-class south (American Lives Series, 2019) and Hallelujah Station and other stories (Autumn House Press, 2020) His essays and short stories have appeared in Oxford American, Guernica, The Pinch, Booth, Hotel Amerika, storySouth, among others.

As well as being a member of punk and hardcore bands Pezz, Bury the Living and Akasha, Anthony has a PhD in history, was founder of Revolutions bike co-op in Memphis, was president of the board for Bike Walk Tennessee for nearly 10 years, and was the recipient of a 2009-2010 Thomas J. Watson fellowship where he spent a year exploring bicycle culture in 8 countries across 4 continents.