Keep the Dream Alive
5 videos • 772 views • by True Anon TrueAnon Presents: Keep the Dream Alive is a new podcast miniseries originally released in February 2022. Produced over a two-year period, it’s a history of legendary (and now-defunct) analog recording studio Tiny Telephone San Francisco, as told by its founder, John Vanderslice, and various musicians and engineers who passed through the studio over its 23-year run (Ben Gibbard, John Darnielle, Daniel Handler, Merrill Garbus, John Congleton, and more). Any music fan unfamiliar with Tiny Telephone is likely to have heard music produced there, including records from Death Cab for Cutie, The Mountain Goats, Spoon, Sleater-Kinney, Deerhoof, and The Magnetic Fields. But Keep the Dream Alive is not aimed solely at indie-rock diehards or studio gearheads — it’s a human story about love and loss, the tension between art and commerce, and the joy and loneliness of the working-class musician. Keep the Dream Alive represents the latest evolution of the TrueAnon perspective, while still containing many of TrueAnon’s ever-present themes, like the human cost of market logic and the city of San Francisco as technocapitalist frontier. John Vanderslice is an American musician and record producer. He is currently based out of Los Angeles, where he has been exploring new sonic pastures under the name ORANGEPURPLEBEACH.