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Celebrating Stax Records 50th Anniversary and the relaunch of the legendary label with past and present day Stax artists.
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From the people who created Record Store Day, The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers is an informative, record store-centric interview show featuring conversations with great guests talking about records, record stores and experiences in the physical retail space.
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Hip Hop & Rap radio show with new releases, interviews, news, events listings and more Includes the features; 'News From Planet Hip Hop', 'STAX OF WAX' and 'The UK Rap Round Up' and 'Doin' It Down Under'. For more info visit rapshack.co.uk Join us on the following: Instagram : thereala_gee_ Twitter: @rapshack_co_uk @A_Gee_ https://www.facebook.com/therealA.Gee https://www.facebook.com/Rapshack
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Shelby Lynne's voice resonates with hard-won wisdom and the unseen scars of love and loss. After returning home to Nashville after years in Palm Springs, CA, she and a core unit of talented women collaborated on her stunning new album, Consequences of the Crown which her new label (Monument Records) accurately describes as "a haunting exploration o…
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Legendary L.A. punk rockers X began their career in 1977, and this month they released the ninth album, Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum Records). Founder members John Doe and Exene Cervenka are here to talk about their long and storied career, and the significance of an album they are calling their "farewell." Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Collito…
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Marc Maron Returns, Dan Pasternack on Bob Newhart (1929-2024), Harvest Records (Asheville, NC)
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Comedy records are records too! WTF podcast host Marc Maron returns to the show to talk about his new vinyl LP, From Bleak To Dark (Craft Recordings) and a bit about the comedy albums of his youth. And since we just lost comedy legend Bob Newhart, the deadpan comic responsible for one of the most historic comedy albums of all time, The Button-Down …
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Brigitte Calls Me Baby is a Chicago-based band with a sound that, while rooted in 2024 could have easily made it onto the soundtrack of an 80s John Hughes' teen comedy. But as frontpserson and songwriter Wes Leavins explains to Paul, there's more to the story, including his involvement in Baz Luhrmann's biopic, Elvis. We unpack the band's just-rele…
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Lawrence Rothman (they/them) is a gender fluid singer songwriter (and music producer) born in St. Louis, MO, and currently living in Los Angeles, CA. In the course of discussing their recently released album The Plow That Broke The Plains, Lawrence describes a lot of the pain and struggle that went into the songs. It's a frank and honest conversati…
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BJ Barham (American Aquarium) unpacks The Fear Of Standing Still
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American Aquarium frontman and songwriter BJ Barham talks about the inspirations behind his band's new album, The Fear of Standing Still, out this week from Thirty Tigers/Losing Side Records. BJ hails from from North Carolina, where he used to work with Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton, who is also here to give us some deep background on…
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Ringo Starr and Dhani Harrison REPRISE, plus a preview of Blur Live At Wembley from Travis & Lisa at The Guestroom
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There's kind of a theme to this week's show, which is admittedly a bit of a mashup of two previous episodes plus a new chat with Travis & Lisa from The Guestroom in Louisville, KY. It all started last summer, when Lisa and Travis flew to London to see Blur in concert at the legendary Wembley Stadium. Cut to this year, and the July 26 release of the…
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Mac & Laura from Superchunk celebrate 35 years of Merge Records.
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After last week's all-Memphis lineup (Episode #134) it's time for a little North Carolina love as we welcome Superchunk founders Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance to talk about their little indie label that could, Merge Records, as they celebrate 35 years with the big MERGE 35 festival in Chapel Hill, NC, July 24-27. Meanwhile over in Raleigh, RSD c…
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Memphis: Rob Bowman on Stax Records, plus Eric Friedl and Zac Ives from Goner Records.
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Let's go to Memphis in the meantime, baby! Our featured interview is with Rob Bowman, the Toronto based academic scholar and Grammy Award-winning professor of ethnomusicology. Notably, Rob is a recognized authority on Stax Records, and has produced numerous Stax box sets in addition to writing an exhaustively researched book, Soulsville USA: The St…
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This year, the genre-straddling Hawthorne, California rock band Redd Kross are celebrating 45 years as a band, and as such, founding brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald have been involved in a number of biographical projects including a memoir, Now You’re One Of Us (with author Dan Epstein), and director Andrew Reich’s career-spanning documentary, Bor…
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Ann Powers on The Path of Joni Mitchell
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Paul welcomes best-selling author and award-winning journalist Ann Powers to discuss her incredible new book, Traveling: On The Path Of Joni Mitchell (Dey St). Plus, Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton checks in from Raleigh, North Carolina. The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by…
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Guitarist's guitarist and UK folk/rock legend Richard Thompson joins Paul to discuss his brand new album Ship to Shore (out now from New West Records), but also his early work with Sandy Denny in Fairport Convention, the great duo records with Linda Thompson, and his 90s solo work with Mitchell Froom. He also expounds on his memoir, the importance …
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Ringo Starr, Abe Laboriel, Jr., Beatles author Debbie Gendler.
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Getting Ringo Starr don't come easy, but we did it! Ringo is here to chat about his new Crooked Boy EP (written and produced by Linda Perry), while also sharing some Beatles memories about the Get Back / Let It Be documentaries, his love of Country music and why he'll still be touring on his 84th birthday. We also brought in Abe Laboriel, Jr., who …
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Andrew Bird takes a slight detour into the world of jazz standards while keeping his own impeccable standards high on the brand new Andrew Bird Trio album Sunday Morning Put-On (Loma Vista). Paul has a forthright conversation with a virtuoso musician, smart producer, and as we discuss, an occasional actor (TV's Fargo). And listen to the end of the …
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Shannon Shaw opens up about the tragic events that informed the new Shannon & The Clams album, The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound) which is a surprisingly upbeat, yet poignant narrative on heartache and healing, grief and resilience in the aftermath of devastating loss, and a tribute to the power of art and community to triumph over tra…
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Blitzen Trapper's Eric Earley, and a few words about Steve Albini (1962-2024)
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Blitzen Trapper's Eric Earley explains the zen inspirations behind his band's newest album, 100's of 1000's, Millions of Billions (May 17 on Yep Roc). RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton drops by with news of a Blitzen Trapper adjacent promotion to win a Steve Keene painting of Bob Pollard's artwork for the new album (details at RecordStoreDay.com) and …
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Last year, The Lemon Twigs' Brian & Michael D'Addario made their RSD Podcast debut to talk about one of the best albums of 2023, Everything Harmony. Exactly one year later, they're back with a brand new album, A Dream Is All We Know, recorded mostly by themselves at their Brooklyn studio, except for one track on which they collaborated with Sean On…
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English/Irish composer and arranger Sean O'Hagan (Microdisney, Stereolab) is perhaps best known as the visionary behind The High Llamas, whose second album Gideon Gaye (1994) blended a healthy respect for the harmonic tableaus of both Brian Wilson and Steely Dan with a delicate UK pop sound reminiscent of his contemporaries such as Prefab Sprout. O…
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As the dust settles after Record Store Day 2024, Joe Pernice joins the "second-timers club," returning to our podcast to unpack Who Will You Believe? the new album from The Pernice Brothers (New West Records). The Record Store Day Podcast is written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected inter…
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RSD 2024 Preview #7 with Dhani Harrison, Eric Levin from Criminal Records (ATL), and a look at Nat King Cole.
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For the last six episodes, we've been previewing some of the titles on the list for Record Store Day 2024 (April 20). This week, we wind down this series with a very special exclusive interview with musician and composer Dhani Harrison, who also happens to be the president of Dark Horse Records, the label founded by his father, the late and beloved…
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Stan Ridgway (Wall of Voodoo), and Celebrating the Funky Soul of Westbound Records
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As we countdown to Record Store Day 2024, (April 20), we continue to spotlight a few of the special RSD releases from The List (go to RecordStoreDay.com for the whole thing). This week, Wall Of Voodoo founding member Stan Ridway regales us with tales of wild Los Angeles, and the circumstances leading up to the two Wall Of Voodoo RSD titles on offer…
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Charlie Benante (Anthrax) and the RSD LOUD List with Steven Williams (Down In The Valley, Minneapolis)
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This week, our Record Store Day 2024 preview series brings us to the LOUD part of the list (the full list is at RecordStoreDay.com). Charlie Benante (Anthrax, Pantera, Stormtroopers of Death) is here to talk about the RSD Exclusive 7" single he did with Anthrax's Scott Ian, and Dave Grohl (collectively known as G.B.I), a cover of the Bad Brains DC …
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America (Gerry Beckley & Dewey Bunnell), and Zev Feldman Looks at the RSD Jazz List 2024
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As we continue the countdown to Record Store Day 2024 (April 20) we're covering diverse ends of The List (always accessible at RecordStoreDay.com) This week, founding members of America, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, are here to talk about their RSD Exclusive Release Event, America: Live From The Hollywood Bowl 1975, recorded during America's "i…
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De La Soul, and a look at the 2024 RSD Hip Hop List with Phillip Rollins (OffBeat Records, Jackson, MS)
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The list of releases coming out on Record Store Day 2024 (April 20) is expansive, so we're taking on different aspects of the list every week. This week we couldn't be more thrilled to welcome Posdnuos (Plug 1) and Maseo (Plug 3) from the legendary De La Soul to talk about their fallen brother Dave "Trugoy the Dove" Jolicoeur (Plug 2), and their la…
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RSD PREVIEW: Steve Conte, plus a look at NUGGETS LIVE with Rick Johnson and Jon Wurster.
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Hey we're WEEKLY now! This week, we continue to ramp up to Record Store Day (April 20) with another look at two special releases coming out on that special day. RSD's Rick Johnson has put together a live recording of last November's tribute concert, Lenny Kaye & Friends: Live At The Cat's Cradle, a 50th Anniversary Celebration of Nuggets. We'll hea…
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