The podcast
The Unwritten Rules of the Road
Tash Cox in long conversation with artists, tour managers, promoters and festival founders. The music business and the craft, life on the road and off it, where the work comes from and why anyone keeps doing it. Live every Sunday, and all of it here afterwards.
40 episodes, 66 hours, and counting.
Ali Mojallal
Ali has been DJing as DJ Savak since long before the festival existed, and Mechanismus started as a night dedicated to one thing: promoting industrial music, the artists making it, and the DJs playing it.
Recent episodes
1h 38mEp 39 · August 3, 2026
NITE
Kyle and Myles were born in Winnipeg and grew up on their dad's Cure DVDs, which is the origin story they still point to when anyone asks how two...
1h 42mEp 38 · July 20, 2026
Bellhead
Bellhead came together in 2019 the way real bands come together, not by design but by accident.
1h 32mEp 37 · July 13, 2026
Naika Malveaux / DJ Whisperwish
Naika grew up as a military kid living overseas in Germany, came up through the Art Institute of Houston, and by 2004 was DJing his own residencies...
1h 51mEp 36 · June 8, 2026
John Calacci
John currently tour-manages The Bangles, a role he's held for nearly two decades, and his client list reads like a who's-who of American songwriting:...
2h 11mEp 35 · May 18, 2026
Rogue of Crüxshadows
Rogue formed The Crüxshadows in Tallahassee, Florida in 1992 with Sean Flanagan and Tim Curry.
2h 27mEp 34 · May 4, 2026
Julian Shah-Tayler, aka The Singularity
Born in Leeds and now based in Los Angeles, Julian came up through the British scene with the electro-clash band Whitey under the wing of Creation...
1h 37mEp 33 · April 20, 2026
Charles Rehill / Lost Signal
Since signing his first record deal as a teenager in the late '90s, Charles Rehill has carved out a singular path through the world of electronic...
1h 41mEp 32 · April 13, 2026
Curse Mackey
Known for his commanding solo work and collaborations with genre luminaries including Pigface, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, David J (Bauhaus /...
The full archive
31 more conversations, oldest at the bottom.
2026
7 episodes
2025
22 episodes
1h 39mEp 24Statik
1h 36mEp 23Eli Lev
1h 38mEp 22Ryan Hutman
1h 35mEp 21Curse Mackey
1h 49mEp 20Jason Corbett of ACTORS
1h 32mEp 19JC Lobo of Ritualz
1h 40mEp 18Krystal Garcia of Distorted Heartbeat
1h 46mEp 17The Russian White
1h 21mEp 16Rodney Orpheus of The Cassanda Complex
2h 7mEp 15Donna Lynch & Steven Archer / Ego Likeness
1h 45mEp 14DJ Spider!
1h 38mEp 13Ken Magerman & Collin Schipper of Amaranth
1h 8mEp 12Mark Paradise of Communion After Dark
1h 57mEp 11Adam Smith!
1h 36mEp 10Jennifer Parkin and Eric Gottesman!
1h 58mEp 9Elizabeth Inglese of YES Music Productions
1h 49mEp 8Jim Semonik
1h 53mEp 7Kai Kurosawa
1h 50mEp 6Lindsay Schoolcraft
1h 43mEp 5Steven Seibold
1h 11mEp 4Clint Carney
1h 10mEp 3Jan Michael Alejandro
The part nobody comes on a podcast to talk about.
Almost none of this show is about logistics, and that is rather the point: the dates, the day sheets and the money are what everyone has to get through to reach the work they actually care about. Tourouter is for that part.
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