John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats) with Maggie Smith
This week’s episode of the Talkhouse Podcast began somewhere not particularly known for good or fruitful ideas: Twitter. That’s where the poet Maggie Smith dropped a funny notion, which songwriter Joh...
5 Aug 202141min
Mike Mills (R.E.M.) with Jason Narducy (Superchunk, Bob Mould)
Jason Narducy is a Chicago guy, but he spends a ton of his time—or at least he used to—on tour, playing bass for both Bob Mould and Superchunk. In early 2020, a local theatre mounted a production of a...
29 Jul 202132min
Chet Faker (Nick Murphy) with Soulwax
Nick Murphy is best known for his downtempo electronic project Chet Faker, which is confusing because it also sounds like a guy’s name—but which released one of the best albums of 2014, Built On Glass...
22 Jul 202140min
Dorian Electra with Claud
On this week’s Talkhouse Podcast, we’ve got a pair of incredible young songwriter-performers whose music isn’t super similar, but who both embrace a sort of ultra-modern mish-mash of styles: Dorian El...
15 Jul 202136min
Liz Phair with Zella Day
Liz Phair crashed into the indie-rock world in a huge way in the early ‘90s with her instant classic album Exile In Guyville, and she was already the talk of the town—in this case Chicago—before she h...
8 Jul 202148min
Morgan Simpson of Black Midi with Bill Bruford (King Crimson, Yes)
This week on the Talkhouse Podcast we’ve got a special treat for the drummers and drum geeks out there: a conversation between Morgan Simpson of Black Midi and Bill Bruford of, as he says in their cha...
1 Jul 202151min
Michael Stipe with Jim McKay
On the latest episode of the Talkhouse Podcast, former REM frontman Michael Stipe talks with veteran indie director Jim McKay about the production company they’ve run together since the late 1980s, C-...
24 Jun 202143min
Edgar Wright with Ron and Russell Mael (Sparks)
On the latest episode of the Talkhouse Podcast, director Edgar Wright chats with musicians Ron and Russell Mael of the beloved cult band Sparks, who are the subject of Wright’s deeply enjoyable new do...
17 Jun 202141min
