Independent Minded

Independent Minded

Hosted by Ron · Ron Scalzo

4.8from 16 ratings

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69Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored
195
Episodes
19
Transcribed
16
Ratings
Daily
Cadence
2015
First episode
49K
YouTube views

About Independent Minded

Independent Minded is a podcast where DIY music professionals, indie artists, and pop culture icons tell their origin stories, talk about inspirations, commitment to craft, and struggles and triumphs in the entertainment biz. Hosted and produced by Ron Scalzo, an indie musician with an independent record label of his own, Bald Freak Music.

Publisher
Ron Scalzo
Category
arts · business · music
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
22 Apr 2015
Latest episode
11 Oct 2026
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Latest episodes

19 of 195 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    ELEVEN: Smidley, Liars, Spanish Love Songs

  2. 30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    John Carpenter

  3. 10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    ELEVEN: Pete Yorn, ggwendolyn, James Ellis Ford

Inside a recent episode

ELEVEN: Smidley, Liars, Spanish Love Songs

Published 11 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Here's Angus to tell us more about what inspired the new Liars single, Ice Pick Kalamazoo. Hello, this is Angus Andrew of Liars for the Independent Minded Podcast. Ice Pink Kalamazoo came about from what the band and I like to call speed dating in the studio. I would arrive from where I was living in Kalamazoo, Michigan, back to Australia and meet the boys. in a studio and once they were all set up and ready to go i'd blast them with sounds that i'd created while living there in america i was looking to get their immediate and knee-jerk reactions to those sounds so that i could capture them and take them back to kalamazoo and craft the song around them I felt really disillusioned when I was living there in Kalamazoo and I was failing at protecting my child from this air pollution. […]

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Who has been a guest on Independent Minded

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  • John Carpenter
  • Pete Yorn
  • ggwendolyn
  • James Ellis Ford
  • Paige Hamilton

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YouTube views
49,060
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
4.8 / 5
15 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

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Quality
74
Social presence
0
YouTube
76
Engagement
85

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Who hosts Independent Minded?

Ron host the show. Published by Ron Scalzo.

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The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.

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