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From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones,

a podcast about the songs that we just can't stop listening to.

I'm Evie Stokes, and this week I'm talking with prolific artist and producer, Adrian Kassada.

Thanks, Adrian, for taking the time to chat with us today.

Tell us a little bit about yourself. Yeah, I'm a guitarist producer, um, podcaster now. No, I'm just

kidding. No, guitarist producer based in Austin, Texas. I'm originally from Laredo, Texas,

which is south of Austin.

If you basically go down on the interstate until you hit Mexico, that's where I'm from.

I moved to Austin when I was 18 and never went back. So yeah, I'm, you know, half-border

kid, half-Austin, Texas kid. And you've been making music your whole life now?

I started playing guitar when I was maybe 13 or 14 at my dad's insistence.

I was obsessed with music, but I was actually when I was a kid, a visual artist, and

I got a degree in painting, even I used to be a painter.

But I was so into music, my dad would always push me into playing music and he suggested that I take piano lessons and at that time I was a skater and like listening to hip hop and too cool for the piano I was like oh piano's for nerds like so I'll play guitar and now I'm like well I still joke with my dad about that I'm like one of my few regrets in life is that I did not start piano when I was 13 because it's like the best instrument for a musical foundation. So I started playing guitar around that age. And what do you play these days? You play guitar? And what else do you play? I dabble in keys and drums and bass and everything else to get my ideas across, you know, but guitar is what I'm most

proficient at, guitar and bass. Are you still making any visual art today, still painting?

No. So, true story here, I got an art degree. I have a degree in painting. I was an oil painter.

And I was already, when I was in college,

starting to play in bands and really go towards music, but I didn't want to be in school. I

didn't want to change majors and I didn't want to be there forever. So I was like, I'll just

finish my degree and get out of here. I was like two years into it. So I finished, and I loved

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