Podcast Episodes

Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo

Season 6 Episode 225

Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo helped transform the possibilities of the electric guitar at a time when its role in rock music could seem well established…

14 hours ago

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Brandon Flowers

Season 6 Episode 224

Brandon Flowers’ new album, Thrasher, is a beautifully written ode to the Southwest where he grew up. It’s a deeply personal record, shining a light …

1 week ago

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Tom Morello

Season 6 Episode 223

Tom Morello arrived in Los Angeles from Libertyville, Illinois, in the mid-1980s with a Harvard political science degree in his pocket and a guitar s…

2 weeks ago

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David Porter

Season 6 Episode 222

David Porter's story goes well beyond writing songs and releasing albums for Stax Records. His recent memoir, The Soul Man, tells how he and his part…

3 weeks ago

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Travis Barker

Season 6 Episode 221

Travis Barker grew up in Fontana, California, and was gifted his first drum kit at the age of four from his mother, who made him promise before she d…

4 weeks ago

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Interpol's Daniel Kessler

Season 6 Episode 220

Daniel Kessler grew up between London, Paris, and Washington, D.C., listening to his older brother’s early UK rock records. He picked up guitar as a …

1 month ago

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Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard

Season 6 Episode 219

Brittany Howard has never been the type to do things quietly. Whether it was fronting Alabama Shakes with a voice that could fill a room and level it…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Wu-Tang v. Shaolin | From Revisionist History: The Staten Island Problem

Season 6

In Revisionist History's new season The Staten Island Problem, senior producer Ben Naddaff-Hafrey investigates the story of what was, at the time, th…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Harvey Mason Jr.

Season 6 Episode 218

Harvey Mason Jr. grew up steeped in music. His father, Harvey Mason Sr., was half of Herbie Hancock's Headhunters rhythm section and played on countl…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Daveed Diggs on the Need for Artistic Expression | From Who's With Me? with W. Kamau Bell

Season 6

My friend W. Kamau Bell has a new show out, Who's With Me?. Known for having conversations about the issues that divide, enrage, and confuse us, Kama…

2 months ago

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