Oct 14, 2026 · 50 min · 13 segments
What's in a name? A lot of killer riffs, to name one thing. Trev Lukather joins us to talk about the rebirth of his band, Levara, and their first new single in five years, Underneath it All. Along the…
Matt WardlawHost
It kind of speaks to, Trev, it, it speaks to, like, what if we did this again? It kinda has that vein just right off the top.
What if we did this again? What if we didn't rely on outside label, uh, you know, politics and, and, and, and kind of being like, you know, it, you know, "When can we release this song? When can we do this?" And, and, "Hey, you gotta do 80 TikToks and that's how you're gonna do this." It's like...
Isn't it exhausting, like, like, as far as, like, as a music lover, the mystery of what people do.
Like, like, we loved bands and, and the legends and rock stars were because the mystery.
And they didn't make fools of themselves, other than in funny drunk stories you would hear through other people's mouths.
But, like, man, I've felt that, like, TikTok and all these, these social media pressures have taken the mystery of the artist and what makes them unique and, and forces it down everyone's throat, where it's just not that interesting anymore, you know?
It's, like, what if, like, we didn't just follow the, the, the typical industry rules? And then when you talk to people at labels, like, people I know that work at labels when I was hiring stuff, you know, when you're realizing that, like, you know, well, when I, when I talk about artist development, like, artist development's dead.
Like, why is that? And why is it that every, like, you know, is it still possible that there's still some old school methods that can happen and, and break bands? And they're all like, "Yeah.
It kind of speaks to, Trev, it, it speaks to, like, what if we did this again? It kinda has that vein just right off the top.
What if we did this again? What if we didn't rely on outside label, uh, you know, politics and, and, and, and kind of being like, you know, it, you know, "When can we release this song? When can we do this?" And, and, "Hey, you gotta do 80 TikToks and that's how you're gonna do this." It's like...
Isn't it exhausting, like, like, as far as, like, as a music lover, the mystery of what people do.
Like, like, we loved bands and, and the legends and rock stars were because the mystery.
And they didn't make fools of themselves, other than in funny drunk stories you would hear through other people's mouths.
But, like, man, I've felt that, like, TikTok and all these, these social media pressures have taken the mystery of the artist and what makes them unique and, and forces it down everyone's throat, where it's just not that interesting anymore, you know?
It's, like, what if, like, we didn't just follow the, the, the typical industry rules? And then when you talk to people at labels, like, people I know that work at labels when I was hiring stuff, you know, when you're realizing that, like, you know, well, when I, when I talk about artist development, like, artist development's dead.
Like, why is that? And why is it that every, like, you know, is it still possible that there's still some old school methods that can happen and, and break bands? And they're all like, "Yeah.
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