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Hosted by Evan Toth · music · EN-US · 215 episodes
The Sharp Notes is a conversation podcast exploring music, sound, and the craft behind the records we love. Host Evan Toth speaks with musicians, producers, and industry voices about the art of listening and the stories pressed into every groove.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Sharp Notes is a conversation podcast exploring music, sound, and the craft behind the records we love. Host Evan Toth speaks with musicians, producers, and industry voices about the art of listening and the stories pressed into every groove.
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth is hosted by Evan Toth. The show has published 215 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Benny Sings on "22 Durnham Dew", Family, and the Beauty of Being “Boring”" (21 October 2026, 24 minutes), "Eddie Brigati of The Rascals: Live at The Sharp Notes" (14 October 2026, 60 minutes), and "Peter M. Bernstein: Ghostbusters, Elmer Bernstein, and the Art of Film Music" (7 October 2026, 40 minutes).
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 41 minutes across 215 episodes.
Booking probability for The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth are Music & Recording and Artists, Writers & Performers. The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth has a music audience.
Evan Toth hosts The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth, a music show with 215 episodes published.
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The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
Benny Sings has spent more than two decades refining one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary pop music. The Dutch singer, songwriter, and producer has a knack for creating songs that feel immediately...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
On this episode of The Sharp Notes, we’re doing something a little different. We recently welcomed Eddie Brigati of the Rascals to The Sharp Notes at Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey for a live conversation in...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
There are certain film scores that become so closely associated with the movies they accompany that it’s hard to imagine one without the other. Elmer Bernstein’s music for Ghostbusters is one of those scores: playful...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
Record collectors have never exactly demanded convenience. We like shelves, sleeves, turntables, careful handling, and we have the occasional mild panic over a fingerprint. So perhaps Tiny Vinyl makes perfect sense. At...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
There are records that disappear because nobody wanted them, and then there are records that somehow manage to wait nearly 50 years for the right moment to arrive. Gravest Gravy belongs firmly in the second category. In...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
There are interviewers who ask questions, and then there are interviewers who understand that the question is only a doorway to something bigger. Anthony Mason has spent decades walking through those doorways for CBS...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
Tonight we’re very pleased to welcome Nabil Ayers: a writer, podcaster, record store co-founder, label executive, musician and someone whose life and work sit directly at the crossroads of music, identity, memory, and...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
<p>Rhino Records began the way so many great record stories begin: with a little bit of money, a lot of taste, and a store full of people who believe that - above it all - it’s the music that matters.</p><p>In this...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
<p>Arturo Sandoval has lived several musical lives: Cuban-born trumpet virtuoso, Afro-Cuban jazz pioneer, Dizzy Gillespie protégé, composer, bandleader, and one of the most decorated musicians of his generation. He is a...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
<p>Today, we return to one of the most discussed albums in pop history: The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds.</p><p>Nearly 60 years after Brian Wilson assembled its world of harmonies, longing, bass lines, sound effects, and...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
<p>What does it mean for a musician to be free?</p><p>Not free as a slogan, or a genre label, but truly free: free to search, free to return, free to follow a sound across a lifetime.</p><p>Alan Braufman has been asking...
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<p>Jarrod Lawson returns at an interesting moment in his career. With Just Let It, his third studio album, he’s not simply refining the sound that first brought him attention, he’s reshaping it. Long associated with a...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
<p>Mikaela Davis makes music that feels grounded, but never predictable. She has built a singular voice around the harp, and she uses it as a real expressive force, not as an ornament. On her new album Graceland Way...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
<p>There’s a version of Spin Magazine that most people remember. The 1990s disruptor. Irreverent, artist-driven, willing to challenge the norms of mainstream music coverage while helping define the alternative music...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
<p>There’s a version of Frank Hannon most listeners think they know. As co-founder and lead guitarist of Tesla, his playing helped define a more grounded, blues-informed alternative to the excess of late ’80s hard rock...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
<p>Welcome to <b>The Sharp Notes Podcast</b>. I’m Evan Toth, and this episode was recorded live in front of an audience at <b>The Sharp Notes record store inside the Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
<p>We welcome back a familiar and always thoughtful voice in music criticism and biography, Jude Warne. With the recent paperback release of her acclaimed authorized biography America: The Band, and the arrival of her...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
<p>This episode is a little different, because what you’re about to hear was recorded live, in front of an audience, right here inside The Sharp Notes record store at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey. You...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
<p>This episode’s guest is one of those rare studio minds who makes the control room feel less like a workplace and more like a laboratory with excellent taste.</p><p><b>Sylvia Massy</b> is a producer, mixer, and...
The Sharp Notes with Evan Toth
<p>Some conversations begin with music. This one begins with language. A little French. A little English. When this interview takes place, it's a late night in Brussels, where the streets are quiet, the restaurants are...
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