Music journalist Chip Midnight shares conversations with artists and performers
Chip Chats
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33 episodes
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Music journalist Chip Midnight shares conversations with artists and performers
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Publishing Since
8/4/2021
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June 12, 2026
Chip Chats - Karl Kuehn (Gay Meat)
<p><strong>Karl Kuehn</strong>'s album, Blue Water, released under the name <strong>Gay Meat</strong>, was written under the worst possible circumstances. The former <strong>Museum Mouth</strong> drummer/singer's mom <strong>Karen </strong>suffered six grand mal seizures in a row in 2018 causing a traumatic brain injury. And as Karl put his touring life on hold to care for his mom, he found that writing songs about what he was going through was a bit therapeutic. Karen passed away in January 2021 and, in the aftermath, Karl finished the album as a tribute, of sorts, to his mom. </p><p><br></p><p>Given that the last two episodes of <strong>Chip Chats</strong> were grief-related, after reading about Karl's story, I reached out to see if he'd like to share his story - the good and the bad - and he agreed to be my guest.</p><p><br></p><p>This podcast is not turning into a grief podcast, but I think these conversations are important to have and if hearing people who are on grief journeys can help just one person, it's absolutely worth it.</p><p><br></p><p>Check out Gay Meat's Blue Water: https://gaymeat.bandcamp.com/album/blue-water</p>
February 16, 2026
Child Loss and Grief - A Conversation with Jude Smith
<p>Chip Chats is not turning into a "sad dads" podcast, but the conversations about losing children and the grief journey is an important one.</p><p><br></p><p>In 2021, as a 14-year-old, <strong>Nell Smith </strong>recorded an album of <strong>Nick Cave</strong> covers with <strong>The Flaming Lips </strong>and performed "Red Right Hand" on the <strong>Stephen Colbert Show</strong>.</p><p>Now that Nell had caught people’s attention, she started working on her own music. She worked with artists like <strong>Penelope Isles</strong> and <strong>Shred Kelly </strong>and had completed 10 songs with an eye on packaging them up for her first proper solo album. On October 6, 2024, after spending the day shooting footage for the “Split in the Sky” video, Nell was involved in a fatal single-car accident. Just like my own daughter, Liv, Nell had passed away at the age of 17.</p><p>Nell’s dad <strong>Jude</strong> reached out to tell me he had listened to my episode with <strong>Ben Kweller</strong> and <strong>Rocky Votolato </strong>and, while painful, he was appreciative that we had shared our stories. He told me about about a Memorial Fund that the family has started to honor Nell and I asked if he’d want to come on the Chip Chats podcast to talk about Nell, his grief journey, the fund and more. I’m so thankful that he agreed. As you’ll hear in the episode, I mentioned that I wish Jude and I had never met, if losing children was the commonality between us, but because of our experiences, I now consider him to be part of my Grief Bros family.</p><p><br></p><p>Learn more about the Nell Smith Memorial Fund: <a href="https://www.nellsmithmusic.com/about-memorial-fund" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.nellsmithmusic.com/about-memorial-fund</a></p>
December 15, 2025
Child Loss and Grief - A Conversation with Ben Kweller and Rocky Votolato
<p><strong>Ben Kweller</strong>, <strong>Rocky Votolato</strong> and I are members of a club that we didn't ask to join, don't want to be in, and can never leave. All three of us lost children suddenly and unexpectedly - Ben lost <strong>Dorian </strong>on February 27, 2023, Rocky lost <strong>Kienan </strong>on December 6, 2021, and I lost <strong>Liv </strong>on June 4, 2018.Hopefully, by the three of us sharing our stories, we can offer insights into what it's like to lose a child and provide some sort of hope for new and old members of this club. My deepest and sincerest thanks to Ben and Rocky for joining me and for sharing their stories.</p><p>Songs featured in this episode:</p><p>"Shattered Stars" by Rocky Votolato</p><p>"Oh Dorian" by Ben Kweller (featuring MJ Lenderman)</p><p>"Star String Radio" by Rocky Votolato</p><p>"Olivia Midnight" by Paper Airplane</p>
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