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Blondie With Mel Ottenberg
Interview Magazine’s editor in chief, Mel Ottenberg, joins us to plot the long and fascinating history of one of America’s most important bands
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‘60 Songs’ x ‘Bandsplain’ Live at the Teragram
Listen as Rob and Yasi Salek are joined by Chris Ryan to hold the ultimate ‘60 Songs’ draft!
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One-Album Wonder: Box Car Racer With Anna Zanes
At the height of Blink-182’s success, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker set out to make a harder record, a side project, the band Box Car Racer and its titular album
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Incubus With Chris Deville
From cutting their teeth playing backyard parties to testing their mettle on the road as the sensitive misfits on the nu-metal circuit to becoming one of the more experimental bands in popular rock, Incubus have always had a strong sense of self
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Mazzy Star With Meaghan Garvey
Meaghan joins Yasi to chart how this Los Angeles band found its way into the hearts and minds of listeners everywhere with a decades-spanning career that defied convention at every turn
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Rancid With Michael Bingham
Michael Bingham from the band Spiritual Cramp joins us to chart the course and enduring music of Rancid, which exists at the intersection of the Specials and Agnostic Front
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100th Episode! Mailbag with Rob Harvilla feat. Producer Dylan.
We celebrate our 100th episode with special guests—our beloved listeners. Rob Harvilla joins us for a mailbag episode to answer your burning questions and occasionally dole out unsolicited advice.
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24 Question Party People: Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince of the Kills
Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince reflect on their long-standing friendship, making their first record in seven years, learning new things to make new music, and more.
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The ‘Singles’ Soundtrack With Sean Fennessey
Yasi and Sean talk Cameron Crowe’s homage of vignettes to his adopted home, which brought together now-iconic artists like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Chris Cornell and Soundgarden, and Mudhoney
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24 Question Party People: Dustin Payseur of Beach Fossils
On this week’s ‘24 Question Party People,’ Yasi checks in with Beach Fossils’ Dustin Payseur
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The Afghan Whigs With Chris Ryan
Afghan Whigs is a band that has always been exactly themselves, fronted by an iconoclast who approaches putting together albums like he’s making a movie
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The Smiths: Part 2 With Naomi Fry
Things move quickly for the quartet, and as quickly as they rise to deserved prominence, they just as quickly begin to see small cracks in the foundation of the band
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The Smiths: Part 1 With Naomi Fry
From 1982 to 1987, the Smiths produced more goddamn gorgeous beautiful songs than many other artists do in their entire careers. How did a stylish young guitar savant find the shyest poet, the one who lurked alone in the corner at every gig in the city?
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The 1989 Music Draft With Chris Ryan, Rob Harvilla, and Jon Caramanica
Chris Ryan, Rob Harvilla, and Jon Caramanica join Yasi in the Thunderdome to pick their favorite songs and moments from the year that started the ’90s: the last year of the ’80s
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Death Cab for Cutie With Michael Tedder
Death Cab for Cutie emerged from the Pacific Northwest in the late ’90s and came to embody the indie sound of the mid-aughts, rising to fame alongside the teenage melodrama they helped soundtrack
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Television With Evan Laffer
One of the most innovative bands of the CBGBs scene, Television paved the way for the Ramones, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Blondie, and more
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24 Question Party People: Bethany Cosentino
Yasi talks to Bethany Cosentino, a brilliant solo artist from Southern California and formerly of the band Best Coast
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Talking Heads: Part 2 With Rob Harvilla
Yasi and Rob return this week to find the Talking Heads in peril. What will become of them?
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24 Question Party People: Paul Banks of Interpol
Yasi and Paul Banks talk astrology, fatherhood, Jay-Z encounters, and so much more!
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Talking Heads: Part 1 With Rob Harvilla
One of the most groundbreaking and innovative bands to find their way into your parents’ record collection, the Talking Heads are the band you liked before you knew they were cool and you were supposed to like them
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24 Question Party People: Jenny Lewis
This week, we welcome the legendary Jenny Lewis to the program, where she and Yasi discover a deep kinship through obscure backpack rap and biohacking, as people often do
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24 Question Party People: Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind
Stephan Jenkins joins us this week to be on the receiving end of some emergency journalism before discussing Vivaldi, why someone else being 6-foot-3 caught him off guard, and the Pitchfork critic in your mind
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24 Question Party People: Ian Shelton of Militarie Gun
Ian Shelton joins the show to talk about the Adicts, Concord, California, and differing relationships to baristas
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24 Question Party People: Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell is a top-notch musician and songwriter and in this episode he answers the 24 questions with gravitas and charm plus more
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24 Question Party People: Adam Duritz
In this episode, we bring our 24 questions to Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz
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Jane’s Addiction With Jessica Hopper
Jessica Hopper joins this week to track Los Angeles legends Jane’s Addiction from their formation, through Lollapalooza, and back to re-forming the band
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‘Judgment Night’ Soundtrack With Sean Fennessey and Rob Harvilla
In 1993, one of the strongest music years in popular memory, a quirky soundtrack was released that ended up eclipsing the movie it was made for
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The Sundays With Hazel Cills
NPR editor Hazel Cills joins to discuss the idyllic sounds and reasonable attitudes of this short-lived, yet perpetually ongoing band
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The National With Jeremy Bolm
This week on ‘Bandsplain,’ frontman, writer, label owner and podcast host Jeremy Bolm joins us to discuss Brooklyn’s own Cincinnati band, the National
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Dave Matthews Band Redux: Part 2 With Grayson Haver Currin
Yasi and Grayson Haver Currin go from the early internet confusion of ‘The Lillywhite Sessions’ to present day and the band’s latest album, 2023’s ‘Walk Around the Moon’
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Dave Matthews Band Redux: Part 1 With Grayson Haver Currin
Grayson Haver Currin is back with us to give Dave and the Band the full ‘Bandsplain’ treatment they deserve
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Listener Mailbag With Rob Harvilla
Among the questions: Should you resent your poser ex-boyfriend? Will there ever be a cult band again? And what do you play for your HIIT class?