He co-produced the albums Equal Scary People for the singer-songwriter Sara Hickman and El Gato Negro for the conjunto musician Santiago Jimenez, Jr.

He composed music for and appears as an extra in David Byrne's 1986 movie True Stories.

His instrumental "Mall Muzak" and "Buster's Theme" appears on the associated album Sounds from True Stories.

[2] He produced and, along with Brave Combo, performed all of the music for the 2008 animated PBS television series Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns.

[4] "I’m a vegetarian, and one of my goals is to take some of the emphasis in the polka thing away from the meat and the beer, and to focus more on the music," Finch said in a 2000 interview with MTV.