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Welcome to Backstage with Dan Digs! In this podcast we go behind the scenes at the world's best live music venues and have a chat with my favorite artists before they go on stage. If you like the sounds of Gilles Peterson, Benji B, Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC Radio 6 Music, KCRW, Lefto, Soulection, Pitchfork, The Fader, Pigeons & Planes, Noisey, Okayplayer, Complex, Stones Throw, and Ninja Tune, you'll feel right at home. Find more music, DJ sets, interviews, and radio shows at http://dandigs.com.
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Come backstage and meet Sampology! The Brisbane-based artist, producer, and DJ and I talked about his very favorite venue to play, why record stores are so important, the genius of broken beat, taking inspiration from the outdoors, and the making of his fantastic new album, Regrowth. Plus Sam played a favorite remix from the Avalanches, his favorit…
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Come backstage and meet Rosie Frater-Taylor! The London jazz-folk artist and I talked about her favorite venue to play in London, working with Chris Hyson from Snowpoet, the genius of George Benson, her childhood memories of the song "Destiny" by Zero 7, and how she put together her fantastic new album, Bloom. Plus Rosie played her favorite songs f…
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Come backstage and meet Brijean! The Oakland duo and I talked about their very favorite venue to play, how they first met, hip-hop trivia nights, opening for Channel Tres, Salami Rose Joe Louis DJing their first show, their jazz backgrounds, Brijean nudging Doug into disco music, dancing all night at house nights in Madison, Wisconsin, texting Chaz…
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Backstage with Dan Digs is back! We’re remixing it up for 2021 with new and very special “at home” editions! For episode 5 I had a chat “backstage” (meaning over Zoom from my back yard in Nashville) with Natalie Slade in Sydney, who released one of my favorite albums of 2020, Control, on Eglo Records. We talked about the Sydney warehouse scene, liv…
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Sampa the Great is great. For the fourth episode of Backstage with Dan Digs, the rogue offshoot of my regular Dublab radio show where we go behind the scenes at the world's best live music venues and have a chat with my favorite artists before their performances, I had a chat with Sampa while sitting on the stage before her recent show at Gold Digg…
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I love me a good Origin story. For the third episode of Backstage with Dan Digs, the rogue offshoot of my regular Dublab radio show where we go behind the scenes at the world's best live music venues and have a chat with my favorite artists before their performances, I caught up with London-via-New Zealand artist, musician, and Kiwi D’Angelo Jordan…
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Nothing short of glorious. For the second episode of Backstage with Dan Digs, the rogue offshoot of my regular Dublab radio show where we go behind the scenes at the world's best live music venues and have a chat with my favorite artists before their performances, I caught up with one of 2019's fastest rising stars: Slowthai. Ty and I talked about …
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Somewhere in space, this may all be happening right now. Backstage with Dan Digs is a new music-centric interview series set in green rooms and iconic concert venues across the nation. Our first episode (originally recorded in 2017) has me sitting down with none other than James Lavelle to talk about his UNKLE album The Road Pt 1, the legacy of Mo’…
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