Live podcast tours offer fans a chance to see their favorite podcasters live. For the podcasters, there are two obvious benefits, besides the money made on the tour. First, the podcasters receive that immediate feedback from the live audience that they don't receive while recording. Second, attendance at these live events demonstrates how dedicated the fans of the show are.
How Long Gone joined the Talkhouse podcast network
last year, delivering their singular brand of charm, unscriptable humor
and colorful commentary on all things culture, fashion and fitness to
widespread fan and critical acclaim spanning The New York Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone, W Magazine, Interview Magazine, Vulture and more.
Hosts Chris Black and Jason Stewart
have taken the show on the road with sold-out live shows in the US and
UK. They just wrapped a May stint with an appearance at LA’s Just Like
Heaven festival and are thrilled to continue with additional North American appearances throughout June.
Tickets are available here.
Maintaining a tireless clip of three shows per week, and a growing audience of more than half a million monthly listeners, the podcast has welcomed an illustrious array of guests from the worlds of music (Jenny Lewis, Phoebe Bridgers, Waxahatchee, Amen Dunes, Caroline Polachek, Modest Mouse, Shamir, Sleater-Kinney), film (BJ Novak, Paul Scheer, Lee Pace), journalism and media (Bret Easton Ellis, The New Yorker's Naomi Fry, GQ's Will Welch, The Guardian’s Laura Snapes), art and design (Aries' Sofia Prantera, Chloe Wise, Roe Ethridge), culinary arts (Carla Lalli Music, Ghetto Gastro, Uncle Paulie), fellow podcasters (Chapo Trap House, Zane Lowe), and comedy (Moshe Kasher, Bowen Yang, Tom Scharpling, Cat Cohen, Esther King, Robby Hoffman).
Over the past four years, How Long Gone has expanded its brand to include collaborations with record label Jagjaguwar, MatchesFashion, Palmes and others.
Black and Stewart have built How Long Gone into something compelling and unique. First launched in the early weeks of the pandemic as a way for the pair to stay in touch and chat with their (smart, successful, often famous) friends, How Long Gone has now run for more than 450 episodes, each one acting like a comedy show, in-depth interview and niche scene report rolled into one.
How Long Gone Tour Dates - TICKETS
6/19: Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
6/20: Toronto, ON @ Great Hall
6/26: Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
6/27: Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
6/28: Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
7/01: St Paul, MN @ Turf Club
Black, 40, works as a creative consultant for brands such as Thom Browne and J Crew; Stewart, 42, is a DJ who threw an influential weekly party at Los Angeles’ now-defunct Cinespace club and taught Zac Efron how to DJ for the 2015 electronic dance music movie We Are Your Friends. Neither are bothered by the idea that their discussion of insidery restaurants, bars, publications and parties – many of which are discussed totally sans-context – may seem too niche. Black describes this quality as the podcast’s “special sauce”, and both hosts agree it is an inherent part of the appeal.
“The way I grew up was like, if you’re hanging out with cool older kids, and they mention a band or a place or a movie, instead of saying, ‘Oh, I don’t know what that is,’ you just laugh and smile, and then you go home, take the time to research what they’re talking about, and discover it yourself,” says Stewart in a Guardian article. “I want to create that for this generation.”
The Guardian characterized the hosts as "extremely funny in a way that is not
mannered or hammy. They say they are never short of material, which
makes it easy to keep up the three-to-four episode a week clip they have
developed."
“Every day, there are 10 new things to talk about – there are 10 new apps, there’s 10 new fashion lines to make fun of, there are 10 new albums that are bad,” said Stewart in that same Guardian article. “It’s like going to a museum and
everyone’s looking at the same painting, and we’re the guided tour. What
else do you need?”
How Long Gone has inadvertently become one of the most insightful looks at sobriety in podcasting. Black is sober, after battling an addiction to prescription opiates in his 30s, while Stewart still drinks and takes drugs; the resulting conversations they have on the podcast about drugs and sobriety are vastly different from those on more specifically wellness-minded shows.
In general, How Long Gone has an air of unproduced reality that sets it apart from a lot of the more scripted-feeling chat shows that abound. Celebrity guests seem endeared to Black and Stewart’s conversational style, which means that How Long Gone’s interviews often feel more revealing.
Check out How Long Gone and the tour dates and ticket info.
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