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Weird Al talks about surviving in show business for 40 years and how he dealt with a very public career setback in the late '80s. Jenny Lewis digs...
- Added: Mar 15, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Rabid collaborator Neko Case talks about her desire to share music with others and how music served as her companion as a child. Comedian and host ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Comedian Joel Kim Booster talks about growing up as a gay Korean adoptee in a conservative Christian household and why he actually wanted homework ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Mondo Cozmo frontman Josh Ostrander talks about being an overnight sensation...20 years in the making. He also gets into his recent visit to the Se...
- Added: Feb 22, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
"Saturday Night Live" alum and stand-up comedian Brooks Wheelan discusses his one-year stint on the show and some of the reasons he didn't make it ...
- Added: Feb 01, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Wyclef Jean talks about the challenge of following up his massive success at the helm of The Fugees with something that, at the time, seemed like a...
- Added: Jan 25, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Emily and Stella of Warpaint talk about the challenge of being a band when you're, as they call themselves "a democracy of dictators." Joan Shelley...
- Added: Jan 18, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
After years away, quirky rockers Man Man are back, and frontman Ryan Kattner (a.k.a. Honus Honus) talks about how he developed his unique stage per...
- Added: Jan 11, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
We've got something a little different for you this week: a tribute to The Replacements. Music journalist and author Bob Mehr — who wrote the defin...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
In 2008, The Hold Steady released their seminal album "Stay Positive." To celebrate the record's 10th anniversary, this is part two of the story be...
- Added: Dec 14, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
In 2008, The Hold Steady released their seminal album "Stay Positive." To celebrate the record's 10th anniversary, this is part one of the story be...
- Added: Dec 07, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Jack Antonoff of Bleachers, Fun, and Steel Train talks about the importance of "buying the delusion" as an artist when no one else will believe in ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Matt Myers of Houndmouth talks about how Randy Newman inspired him as a songwriter, and the band gives us a live session. Plus you'll hear a guest ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Matisyahu helps me work through some serious issues on a very special anniversary — namely whether or not to shave my beard. I also talk to improvi...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Iconic horror director John Carpenter talks about being an outsider, what inspired him to make films, and how he accidentally became a full-time mu...
- Added: Oct 26, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace discusses her early years in punk and feeling out of place onstage before she came out as transgender. Brad...
- Added: Oct 19, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Ted Leo discusses his love for "The Lord of the Rings," growing up as a punk kid, and his complicated relationship with Catholicism. This episode a...
- Added: Aug 31, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Justin Pierre broke up his band Motion City Soundtrack in 2016. After laying low for a while, Justin's back with his solo debut. Today he talks abo...
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 4
Musician and producer Ethan Johns discusses the unique perspective he gained from growing up in the music industry and how it feels to experience s...
- Added: Jul 27, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Deltron 3030's Del the Funky Homosapien and Dan the Automator discuss authenticity in hip hop, how Mega Man inspired their last record, and resisti...
- Added: Jul 20, 2018
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 4
Renowned jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington discusses the subtle difference between being an "amateur" musician and a "professional." Friend of the...
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
In 2017, Bonnie "Prince" Billy released a collection of Merle Haggard covers called "Best Troubador." To celebrate it, he recorded an hourlong radi...
- Added: Jun 21, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff talks about how identity and artifice inform music — and why you need to just dance sometimes. We pay tribute to...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Musician Damien Jurado discusses a spiritual awakening that took hold on a beach in Florida and how that affected his music. Actor Jesse Eisenberg ...
- Added: May 18, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the seminal Zombies album "Odessey and Oracle." We'll chat with Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent of The Zom...
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
