Episode Nine’s curator is our great friend and Weathervane supporter, Christopher Powell. He is plays the drums for Philadelphia’s Man Man, writes and performs in his own project under the name Spaceship Aloha, and you may remember him as a special guest musician alongside Sufjan Stevens in Cat Martino’s session earlier this year. He’s a genius artist and a downright delight to be around. 
    Chris suggested a great songwriter and visual artist / performer named Tim Fite. Tim, whose music has run the gamut of genres, shares one simple goal with Powell: to make art and to have fun doing it.

The two came together at Miner Street Recordings in Philadelphia to record "Punch Drunk" - a thumping hip-hop track, true to its own name. What none of us could have expected, however, was that by the time the day was finished, this Shaking Through recording session would give birth to a new project, a collaboration with a life of its own. That’s right - this final episode of 2012 captures not only the birth of a song... here we have the birth of whole new musical project called Grant$.