Performance Anxiety

About Performance Anxiety

Have you ever wanted to sit down with your favorite artists and talk about what happens behind the scenes? Have you wanted to hear the crazy stories about recording, touring, and creating art that we all know exist? Performance Anxiety gets those stories for you.

Publisher

Marc Shea

Category

comedy · music

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

27 Jul 2018

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

12 of 485 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Matt Devine (Ventilator, Permanent Green Light)

   Host interviews Matt Devine about his influential music career, the reissue of Ventilator's "Reseda Spleen," and his creative process.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding)

   Host interviews musician Wesley Stace about his evolving career, creative process, and new jazz-influenced album, offering insights into artistic reinvention.

3. 

   22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Tim (T.R.) Miller

   Host Timothy Reid interviews bassist Tim (T.R.) Miller about his impactful, yet underappreciated, career in the Japanese rock scene and his personal struggles.

Inside a recent episode

Matt Devine (Ventilator, Permanent Green Light)

Published 9 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I definitely would monkey around writing things, but I think it wasn't until 88, 89 where I got to know my buddy Jeff Caruana, who is the lap steel player on Reseda Spillane, and just getting together over guitars and showing him my songs and him having an opinion or reading the lyrics and having thoughts on it. The other one, I would say, is my buddy Rob Zabrecki, who played in Possum Dixon. And we met in college, too. And it was a different thing because we did play in bands together. I played in Possum Dixon early on and in the end. And he played bass for LazyTown, my first garage band. But we used to show each other the songs that we were working on. […]

Who has been a guest on Performance Anxiety

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Matt Devine
• Wesley Stace
• Timothy Reid
• Tim (TR) Miller
• Jordan Zadorozny

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

29 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

13 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

75

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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