LTKD! Live with Ben Gibbard and Lori LeFavor
We recorded this episode with Ben Gibbard and Lori LeFavor before a live audience at Easy Street Records in West Seattle on August 1, 2024.
Lori LeFavor is the most prolific all-ages concert promoter in Seattle--and perhaps the US. Starting from age 17 and over the next 30 years, Lori hosted more than 3,000 shows across the Northwest. Her home base during the 90s was RKCNDY, a much-loved all-ages venue where she hosted every major (and minor) band of the era. And she did it all as an independent, woman-owned business.
Ben Gibbard is the lead singer, songwriter and bandleader of Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service. Before he sold millions of records and toured the world with his bands, he started playing music and going to shows as a teenager growing up in Bremerton, WA, across the Puget Sound from Seattle. He's been an advocate for all-ages music ever since and remains one to this day.
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Matt Martin
Podcast Producer
Matt Martin is a podcast producer who has worked on many different show for KUOW. He pitched and created THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a rich and experiential podcast about ecology and conservation. Matt also produced the Seattle music history podcast Let the Kids Dance and the award-winning Ghost Herd. Before moving to the on-demand side of the station, Matt worked as a producer on The Record, KUOW's local news show. He has also worked as a general assignment reporter and host for public radio stations in upstate New York and rural Alaska. Matt got his start in media as an intern with StoryCorps and Aljazeera America.
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Jonathan Zwickel
Host, Let The Kids Dance!
Jonathan Zwickel is a veteran music journalist whose writing credits include Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Believer, The New York Times, SPIN and other major publications. Since 2007 he's covered the creative community of Seattle for almost every outlet in the city. His first book, Beastie Boys: A Musical Biography, was published in 2012 by Greenwood Press. Jonathan has served as president of the board of directors of the Vera Project, Seattle's beloved all-ages concert venue, since 2019. He lives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood with his dog Edison.
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