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Flavortone is a music commentary podcast hosted by Nick Scavo and Alec Sturgis.
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Signup to Generate a PitchFlavortone is hosted by Nick Scavo & Alec Sturgis. The show has published 68 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Episode 68: Fifth Annual Report" (18 February 2026, 69 minutes), "Episode 67: Now That The Audience Has Disassembled" (9 December 2025, 76 minutes), and "Episode 66: On the Sixth Day, God Made Algorithmic Music" (19 November 2025, 75 minutes).
Flavortone publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 58 minutes across 68 episodes.
Booking probability for Flavortone is 25%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Flavortone requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Flavortone's contact route on record: verified email.
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Nick Scavo & Alec Sturgis hosts Flavortone, a music podcast with 68 episodes published.
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Episode #9
<p >Celebrating the fifth anniversary of Flavortone, Alec and Nick take a step back from more intensive topical discussions to look back over the development of the podcast, and beyond, into the preceding years of...
<p >Alec and Nick take a step back from their recent concentration on digital media technologies to stage a literary review of "the audience" as an evolving element in the material, cultural and epistemological...
<p>Alec and Nick discuss the algorithm as a mysterious force within the production and consumption of music. Despite being used daily in our various contendings with digital platforms and culture, the term is often...
<p>Alec and Nick finally discuss the processes of music consumption and distribution through smart phones, and the means of production of "sounds" on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and other video sharing social media...
<p >Alec and Nick examine the emergence and proliferation of digital music technology in the 1980's as it maps onto a "solo-doloistic" turn in our increasingly individualistic music listening and production habits...
<p >Alec and Nick complete a series of discussions on foundational music discourses — classical music, sound systems, and in this episode: musical temperment. Defining temperement as the organization of the acoustic...
Episode #4
<p >Alec and Nick take up sound systems as a point of entry into the discussion of technological and cultural evolutions of listening. The episode explores a range of material, social and philosphical contexts for...
<p >Alec and Nick pull another unreleased conversation from the archive, recorded one year ago, discussing the "the miraculous" as a concept within music. The episode traces an idea of the miraculous as an occurrence in...
<p>Alec and Nick revisit an unreleased podcast from the archive, recorded one year ago, discussing the concept and experience of Turning Up. The episode reprises the idea of the Dionysian in terms of consumption of...
<p >Alec and Nick return to podcasting to discuss their special respective connections to classical music. The conversation employs a back-to-basics overview of the form: what is classical music? What is NOT classical...
Episode #58
<p >After witnessing a TikTok "beef" between the "Mozart of Gen Z" Jacob Collier and Rick Rubin, Alec and Nick take up "des arts de boeuf" as a space to discuss the implicitly disagreeable nature of musical aesthetics...
Episode #57
<p>In a novel departure from their "special relationship" to classical and experimental music, Alec and Nick take up the topic of Interpretive Dance as a discursive foil to their ongoing inquiries into music. The duo...
Episode #56
<p >Listen up daddios: in this episode, Alec & Nick take out the bindle-sticks and jugs of wine for a gone reflection on the lingering cultural legacies of bohemianism in the 21st century. Jumping into the Beat...
Episode #55
<p >In this special edition, Alec and Nick open the Flavortone vault to present The Great Bar Italia Debate — a lost episode from the summer of 2023, presented here in timely coincidence with the London group's recent...
Episode #54
<p >After a long and unanticipated hiatus from podcasting, Alec and Nick return to take a long hard look in the mirror … only to inquire why exactly they possess the impulse to use music as an aesthetic, philosophical...
<p >Alec and Nick reconvene to discuss concepts of "tradition" and "futurity" as they relate to music. Picking up on our ceaseless cultural pull toward both the past and future, the conversation focuses on how...
Episode #52
<p>In this episode Alec & Nick revisit the periodic Musician's Friend series with a Drum Edition. Considering "drum" as an instrumental category that encompasses much of contemporary musical sound, aesthetics and...
<p>Alec and Nick bust out the evil eye amulets to discuss varieties of "cursed music" and what constitutes music feeling or being "cursed." Following a line of thought from the archetypal Faustian bargain, malediction...
<p >In this 50th episode of Flavortone, Alec and Nick settle deep in cups of "earl grey, hot" from the replicator for an entry into the Star Ship Flavorphonia Captain's Log. Citing Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Picard...
<p >Alec and Nick pull back the Flavortone curtain and take up influential sitcom Frasier to discuss the decorum of Foibles as a primary engine of music. Known as a minor weakness or eccentricity in one's character, or...
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