Crate Diggers

Welcome to episode 19 of Crate Diggers! Crate Diggers is a music interview podcast using vinyl records as a jumping off point for conversations between artists and other cool people. Crate Diggers is hosted by DJ and artist Verbz and is engineered / produced by...

Welcome to episode 18 of Crate Diggers! Back once again, Crate Diggers is a music / interview podcast using vinyl records as a jumping off point for conversations between artists or other cool people. Crate Diggers is hosted by DJ and artist, Verbz and is...

Welcome to episode 17 of Crate Diggers! Crate Diggers is a music / interview podcast using vinyl records as a jumping off point for conversations with artists and other cool people. Crate Diggers is hosted by Verbz, a DJ and artist from Portland and is...

Welcome to episode 16 of Crate Diggers, a music / interview podcast using vinyl records as a jumping off point for conversations between artists and other cool people! Episode 16 features up and coming Portland rappers, 2Reps. Ace and Freddy of 2Reps have quietly been...

Welcome to episode 15 of Crate Diggers! Back once again with one of Portland’s finest, the guest for episode 15 is Wes Guy.  An up and coming rapper with a giant heart and a lot of promise, Wes Guy released Perfectly, Imperfect in January of...

Welcome to episode 14 of Crate Diggers! We’re back from space once again with one of the finest producers in Portland. The guest for episode 14 is HOT16, formerly known as Dun Diggy, a producer and DJ from Portland. He is long time friend and...

Welcome to episode 13 of Crate Diggers! The Space Gods are back for Space Mission 3, featuring Verbz & Steez, the duo behind Crate Diggers. On the Space Mission series, Verbz & Steez share some of their personal vinyl collections all while navigating the galaxies....

Thank you for checking out episode 12 of Crate Diggers! Crate Diggers is back once again with another one of our friends from KPSU, Portland State University’s own radio station. As a former Viking, I have an affinity for the the crew at KPSU, especially...

Thank you for checking out episode 11 of Crate Diggers! Episode 11 of Crate Diggers features Portland producer & DJ, Samarei. The winner of the 2014 iStandard Producer Showcase Portland Edition, Samarei recently released an excellent album called Best In Class featuring artists like Open Mike...

Hello and welcome to episode 10 of Crate Diggers! Episode 10 is the second in our Space Gods Mission series featuring Steez & I sharing some of our personal vinyl collection and some of my stories from the road after recent shows with Ab-Soul of...

Hello and welcome to episode 9 of Crate Diggers! This is the first episode brought to you on our brand new site CrateDiggers.net! CrateDiggers.net features every past episode with artists like Lawz Spoken, Trox, G_Force, Tope, and more. You can now support Crate Diggers through our...

Hello and welcome to episode 8 of Crate Diggers! We are a music interview podcast using vinyl records as a jumping off point for conversations between artists. Episode 8 is our very first of a continuing series we’re calling Space Gods Missions. The Space Gods...

We’re back again with another installment of the Crate Diggers podcast. EPPisode 7 features one of Portland’s best MCs, EPP of TxE! We talk growth in music and life in Portland. We play some records straight out of my personal crates. Epp even drops some EXCLUSIVE...

Thank you for checking out episode 6 of Crate Diggers! We’ve recently joined Mixcloud and have been gradually uploading past episodes of our podcast. Episode 6 features Andy LaBar, a music blogger and long time friend. Andy was influential in introducing me to new artists...

It’s time for another installment of Crate Diggers! Episode 5 is part 2 of our Dilla Snowpocalypse series, featuring Jay Dee aka J Dilla related vinyl. My guests producer / MC Calvin Valentine (@CalvinValentine) and Crate Diggers in house producer Steez! We tell stories, play some of...

Welcome to episode 4 of Crate Diggers! This is a special episode dedicated to one of my favorite artists, J Dilla. As Portland became a frozen tundra prowled by packs of Siberian wolves, me and my Jeep kept my dad’s adventurous spirit alive and took...

My good friends TxE released their abum Vs PRTLND ! Get it on the TxE Bandcamp page. Now on to episode 3 of Crate Diggers with my guest Lawz Spoken! Lawz Spoken is a super producer from Oregon most well known for his work with Sandpeople, OnlyOne, and battle...

Welcome to episode 2 of Crate Diggers hosted by Verbz, a new podcast where musicians and other cool people bring over their records and talk music, life, and other bullshit. Today’s episode features Trox, an extremely talented producer based out of Portland, Oregon. Trox has worked...

Welcome to episode 1 of Crate Diggers, a new podcast hosted Verbz! Crate Diggers was inspired a love for vinyl records and an obsession with podcasts. Inspired by comedy podcasts like Who Charted, Comedy Bang Bang, WTF with Marc Maron, and Making It with Riki Lindhome, we set...