S4E173 - Pretenders II with Shelley Novak aka Tommy Strangie

The first album by an American band to be released on British independent label 4AD, Throwing Muses' stunningly beautiful 1986 debut got this week's guest Ronnie Barnett (The Muffs) supremely and hope...

5 Sep 1h 5min

This week's returning guest, Canadian documentary filmmaker Alan Zweig, brings a record many before him have mentioned but never pulled the trigger to tackle. Released in February 1977 to lukewarm com...

29 Aug 1h 39min

This week's returning guest, Woody Compton, brings us Social Distortion and their 2026 release 'Born To Kill'. Their first studio album in fifteen years, it's both a return to form and statement of pu...

22 Aug 1h 2min

This week's guest, record/hot sauce purveyor Kevin Chanel (Grooves Inspiralled Vinyl, El Enojado Hot Sauce), brings us singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, painter, video artist, writer and experi...

15 Aug 1h 10min

This week, returning guests Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto (hackedepicciotto) join us to discuss musician David Eugene Edwards' (16 Horsepower) offshoot project Wovenhand, and the stunning ...

8 Aug 1h 12min

This week we set the way-back machine to North Shore, Massachusetts 1986, as returning guest Tim Hinely (Dagger Zine, Where The Wild Gigs Were) brings us Moving Targets and their blistering debut albu...

1 Aug 59min

For this special BONUS episode, we asked our Patrons to send in some of their favorite ENDINGS (Outros, Codas...etc) of songs that - you know - got them high! Songs discussed in this episode: The Chai...

28 Jul 55min

Alan Peter Kuperschmidt - better known as Al Kooper - is an American songwriter, record producer, and musician who throughout much of the 1960s and 1970s was a prolific studio musician, playing organ ...

25 Jul 1h 1min