Thursday's Geoff Rickly on Why His Band Is Like a Family
Two days before Thanksgiving, on the night of Thursday's first sold-out headline show at New York's Roseland Ballroom, Geoff Rickly got off the subway to the news that his nana had died, peacefully, i...
15 Okt 22min
Vagabon on Musical Beginnings and Moving from Cameroon to New York
Vagabon has lived in America most of her life, and still feels like she's from somewhere else. On this episode of Identified with Nabil Ayers, she traces why: born in Yaoundé, Cameroon, moved to Harle...
8 Okt 21min
Song Exploder's Hrishikesh Hirway on Honouring His Family Through Music
This is a special reissue from Season 1 of Identified. Hrishikesh Hirway has spent a decade getting artists to take their songs apart. On this episode of Identified with Nabil Ayers, the Song Exploder...
30 Sep 36min
Dawn Richard on How New Orleans Taught Her to Fight.
At the peak of her musical career, Dawn Richard lost her city. On this episode of Identified with Nabil Ayers, the New Orleans-born artist traces where she comes from: born and raised in the Ninth War...
23 Sep 22min
Chad Clark | What I Learned From My Father’s Role With Martin Luther King and Jimmy Carter
Chad Clark's father was Martin Luther King's lawyer, a man who, as Chad puts it, "changed the 20th century." On this episode of Identified with Nabil Ayers, the Beauty Pill and Smart Went Crazy music...
14 Sep 21min
Silversun Pickups' Brian Aubert: "Family Is Where You Don't Have to Perform"
Brian Aubert of Silversun Pickups doesn't believe in perfect families, just ones where you feel safe and loved. Everything else, he says, is colouring. On this episode of Identified with Nabil Ayers, ...
7 Sep 21min
X Ambassadors and The Story of the Band Two Brothers Never Meant to Start
Sam and Casey Harris of X Ambassadors never meant to be in a band together. They were two brothers making music separately in the same house, until Casey started sneaking downstairs to jam with Sam's ...
31 Aug 34min
Jon Ronson on Family and the Extraordinary Story Behind The Castle
Jon Ronson joins Nabil Ayers on Identified for a conversation about family, fatherhood, growing up in Wales, finding his identity as a writer, and the strange series of events that ultimately led to h...
24 Aug 30min
