Inside Music is a podcast about the lives of professionals in the music business. Each week, host James Shotwell chats with an artist or industry tastemaker to learn how anyone can navigate the world of entertainment.
On this episode of Inside Music, former guest Jono Diener returns to discuss an exciting new project aimed at benefitting the community of Flint, Michigan. Jono also explains his evolving role(s) in the world of music and his continued passion for charity work.
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The team at Haulix has been working behind-the-scenes to help make this project a reality. We don’t want credit, we just want you to help the people of Flint. Read on and find how $5 will get you a 60 song compilation and help make a difference where it’s needed most.
FLINT, MI – Pre-orders are now available for Not Safe To Drink: Music For Flint Water Crisis Relief. The charity compilation, which will be released digitally on February 20, is being offered in exchange for a minimum donation of $5 through Bandcamp. All proceeds raised will go to benefit FlintKids.Org, a charity that focuses on the long term fixes and aid related to lead exposure in Flint, Michigan’s children.
A track list for Not Safe To Drink is not yet available, but so far more than 50 artists from the worlds of punk, rock, alternative, and metal have contributed material to the release. A list of artists already confirmed to appear can be found below:
Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties
Allout Helter
American Opera*
Ana*
Anti-Flag
Arms Aloft
Autumn Coma
Baggage
Big D and the Kids Table
Birdhouse
Blight
Bluffing The Ghosts
BRAIDEDVEINS*
Building Birds
Burning Cities
Call In The Cavalry
Cerna
Craig Owens*
Dalinian
Deadbeat Beat
Deer Widow
Desires
Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)
Fine Fine Titans
Grey Gordon
Half Hearted Hero
Heartless Breakers
I Set My Friends On Fire
It Lies Within
J. Navarro & The Traitors
Jamie Kilstein*
Jeff Rosenstock
Kid Dreamer
King 810
Kriss Gaynes*
Lawnmower*
Lights Over Bridgeport
Meat Wave
Midwest*
Nothing Gold*
Oakhill
Pentimento
Personification*
Propagandhi
Real Friends
Rival Summers
Safe To Say
Second To None
Starsleeper
Sunglasses On A Plane*
Suicide Machines
Sweat
Taking Back Sunday
The Faraday Cage
The Major Minor
The Most Dangerous Animal
The Nightmare Police
The Obsessives
The Swellers*
The Teaheads
Timeshares
Tripp N’ Dixie
Tunde Olaniran
Unison*
We Came As Romans
Wince
(* = recording original song for compilation)
About Not Safe To Drink: Frustrated with the lack of response from the music industry at large to the Flint water crisis, Michigan natives Jonathan Diener (drummer for The Swellers) and James Shotwell (Marketing coordinator for Haulix) have partnered create a compilation aimed at bringing attention and relief to the problems plaguing those that live in The Vehicle City. Their involvement, as well as that of every artist and label that contributes material, is entirely unpaid.
On this episode of INSIDE MUSIC, host James Shotwell calls Jonathan Diener of The Swellers to discuss a charity compilation the two are creating to help the people of Flint, Michigan. The issues plaguing the citizens of Flint go deeper than bad water, though that problem is one in need of immediate resolution, and during their Chat Jono and James outline numerous ways you, the listener, can do you part and help those in need. For more information the crisis in flint, visit www.facebook.com/notsafetodrink
The music you hear in this episode is “Like You Do” (Acoustic) from Taking Back Sunday. The song, which is available now if you know where to look, will appear on the Not Safe To Drink: Music For Flint Water Crisis Relief.
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