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The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 6: Death Cab For Cutie
Season 5 Episode 6
How to characterise an American indie band over almost three decades and 10 albums, each with a subtly different flavour? One recent review I read de…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 5: Embrace, with Danny McNamara
Season 5 Episode 5
Before I spoke with Danny McNamara, he’d emailed me to say how much he loved Brett Anderson’s quote - the one we’ve set out to make famous on The Art…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 4: Alela Diane
Season 5 Episode 4
Having helped pave the way, Alela remains at the heart of a very strong current movement for female troubadours - a scene driven by the success of th…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 3: Interpol
Season 5 Episode 3
Interpol have honed their craft over 20 years since they ‘blasted’ onto the scene in 2002 with Turn On The Bright Lights - another one of those infam…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 2: The Waterboys, with Mike Scott
Season 5 Episode 2
“I’ve recognised that music is sort of like an inner voice that is telling me what to do. When I was younger it was telling me what to sound like. As…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 5, Episode 1: Everything Everything
Season 5 Episode 1
The music journalist Paul Lester described Everything Everything as “a riot in a melody factory”, a perfect description for a band positively clatter…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 4, Episode 7: Nerina Pallot
Season 4 Episode 7
After her second album Fires (2005) Nerina Pallot was hot property. She kissed the frog that is ‘fame’ in the music industry, with a BRIT nomination,…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Art of Longevity Season 4, Episode 6: Bruce Hornsby
Season 4 Episode 6
Inspired by recent collaborations with some of America's coolest indie A-listers (Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, Danielle Haim, Justin Vernon aka Bon…
4 years ago
The Art of Longevity Season 4, Episode 5: Calexico, with Joey Burns
We spoke to Joey Burns on the eve of Calexico's recent European shows in Brussels and London. Calexico play bigger venues in Europe than they do on t…
4 years ago
The Art of Longevity Season 4, Episode 4: The Divine Comedy
Season 4 Episode 4
When your host purchased The Divine Comedy's Fin De Siècle in 1998, I couldn’t quite penetrate it at the time. Listening again to the record in prepa…
4 years, 1 month ago