Episode 211: Eef Barzelay (Clem Snide)
Championed over the years by the likes of Americana superstar Scott Avett and music mogul Seymour Stein, the music of Clem Snide mainstay Eef Barzelay has become an optimistic, yet matter-of-fact touc...
4 Feb 20251h 6min
Episode 210: Jeff Parker (ETA IVtet / Tortoise)
With high marks from The New York Times, Pitchfork and more -- plus overwhelming support from the indie record store community -- Jeff Parker's latest album The Way Out of Easy is inarguably one of th...
7 Jan 20251h 2min
Episode 209: Atmosphere (Slug & Ant)
In 1995, a fervent and wry rapper (Sean Daley, aka Slug) and a dexterous deejay (Anthony Davis; Ant for short) helped co-found a platform to help put Midwest -- and more precisely, Minnesotan -- hip-h...
17 Dec 20241h 13min
Episode 208: LIVE! with Craig Finn of The Hold Steady
Bruce Springsteen once said that the secret to good songwriting was striking a balance between the personal and the universal: Get specific with people and locations first before shading in the rest w...
3 Dec 202458min
Episode 207: Superdrag's John Davis
Between his father's banjo picking and his mother's love of Motown, Superdrag's John Davis eventually began writing tunes that would channel Stax's classic soul and Big Star-adjacent power-pop through...
12 Nov 20241h 8min
Episode 206: DC Glenn of Tag Team ("Whoomp! There It Is")
On a random night in August 1992, while DJ'ing at an Atlanta strip club, Cecil Glenn pops in a tape he and his musical counterpart Steve Gibson have been working on. Influenced by the pulsing Miami Ba...
29 Okt 20241h 14min
SECOND SPIN: Amythyst Kiah (January 2022)
This is an encore presentation of a previous episode, originally airing in January 2022. --- Championed by some today's biggest names on the fringes of country music, singer/songwriter Amythyst Kiah r...
8 Okt 202458min
Episode 205: Smoking Popes
It's not out of bounds to say that the Smoking Popes began as a bit of a joke. Vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Josh Caterer deems the earliest incarnation of the band as "a Spinal Tap version of ha...
24 Sep 20241h 26min
