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Creating a vulnerable, hearty connection with a proper dose of humour, Nick Carpenter's Medium Build is built on adolescent experience. He talks curiosity, trying to be in the moment and how to 'jush' your eggs. His new EP Marietta is out now. Photo: Silken Weinbe

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Following their decidedly dynamic rocking new album Emita Ox, the three members of Hello Mary reflect on a year of touring as adolescents. Helena, Mikaela and Stella look back on touring with Dinosaur Jr. and American Football, wanting to quit high school to tour and having gratitude for DIY culture. Photo: Jessica Gurewitz

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A band based on community, Maruja walk us through playing to zero people and band practices just working out the business schtick, to creating a powerful community of grace, empathy and release. Their new track Break The Tension is streaming now.

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Imogen and the Knife holds a deep, rare beauty. Imogen tells us of growing up around Newcastle at the same time as Sam Fender, late night bar shifts in London and putting the effort in to learn how the business works. Photo: Shaye Tek

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Murph of legendary indie night reliables The Wombats joins today, on living in LA, nearly joining a wedding band and getting fired from a diner, and how Christmas can be a heavy time for everyone. The Wombat's new album Oh! The Ocean is out in February. Photo: Julia Friedland-Godfrey

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Celebrating the launch of West Yorkshire Music Network, we heard from four Leeds homebodies - Simon Rix of Kaiser Chiefs, BBC 6 Music's Emily Pilbeam, GK of Venus Grrrls and Hang Lington on a life of music full-send.

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One of this year's most comforting records is Paradise Pop. 10. Its author joins us on running, writing with Phoebe Bridgers, and the omnipresent expectation of the work gaffe.

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Emma Richardson's the new(ish) bassist in Pixies, but she's lived two lifetimes - first in Band of Skulls and then as an artist. Pixies' new album The Night the Zombies Came, and you can catch them on tour soon.

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Set building for Ralph Lauren, parenting multiple kids and living a lazy susan of musical projects, does Clam Baker Jr have the same 24 hours as the rest of us? Warmduscher's fifth album Too Cold To Hold is out this Friday.

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3 GRAMMYs and Tiny Desk Winner are footnotes in Fantastic Negrito's story. From hosting warehouse parties frequented by will.i.am and Thundercat, to weed farming and touring with Chris Cornell, we rattle through the years. Son Of A Broken Man is out now.

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Before they opened for The Libertines and the Roundhouse, HotWax joined us at the Hawley Arms to chat growing up Hastings, independent venues and bar etiquette. Their debut album Hot Shock is out next March.

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From an early Sears Christmas advert, comedian, songwriter, actor Cat Cohen set off on a path of all the jobs. She talks how her music taste is The OC Soundtrack, self delusion and we find out here mum is old college friends with MJ Lenderman's mum. Her new special Come For Me is streaming on Veeps, and her debut album Overdressed is out 15 November. Photo: Devin Bowman

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A new parent with a firefighter dad, vetenarian wife and thousands of hours on the road with Boston Manor, Henry Cox has led an interesting life. Boston Manor's excellent new album Sundiver is out now, and they're about to be on tour in Europe. Photo: Megan Doherty

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One of the most inventive, funniest bands you'll hear today are Getdown Services. Duo Ben and Josh join me on selling ice cream together, being The First Wedding Band and taking aim at themselves. Their new EP 'Your Medal's In The Post' is out 14 November. Photo: Sion Waters

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The Iceage frontman's debut solo album is out tomorrow, and it's an aching listen. Elias talks about supermarket and bar work, but following the feeling that music is all there is. Heavy Glory is out tomorrow. Photo: Ilaria Ieie

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From his living sofa ahead of his Royal Albert Hall show on 28 October (which also features Jarvis Cocker), Chilly puts the misconceptions about his music - and lyrical mask - straight. His latest album Gonzo is out now.

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Bringing together jazz, funk, dub, reggae and club culture, Galliano have put out their first album in 27 years. Rob tells us about the affliction of 'career vs. music', shapeshifting London and their upcoming shows in Manchester, Bristol and London's Shepherds Bush Empire. Halfway, Somewhere is out now on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings.

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King Crimson's latter day singer and guitarist, plus mixer, actor and writer Jakko Jakszyk on early years in Watford, saying yes to every opportunity that came his way and digging into the stories from his memoir Who's The Boy With The Lovely Hair - out on Thursday.

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For episode 400, here's songwriter, comedian and actor Tim Heidecker on where the music part comes from, the second verse, never knowing what's the going to resonate with the general public and not having any expectations. His new solo album Slipping Away is out next Friday, 18 October. Photo: Chantal Anderson

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Dexter Holland from The Offspring on his 101 part time jobs. From being a professor in molecular biology, blasting through in a stadium rock band that's been running since the 90s, building a hot sauce brand and keeping it all together. The Offspring's new album SUPERCHARGED is out this Friday. Photo: Daveed Benito

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Balance and Composure tomorrow release their first album in eight years. Jon remembers first tours, working at the call centre with his mum and playing hacky sack at the horseradish factory.

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An immediately recognisable voice in punk and hardcore, singer and grapic novelist Patrick Kindlon joins on truck driving, becoming a step dad and building a life around music. Photo: Manuel Barajas

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The Hard Quartet is the new band from Matt Sweeney, Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly and Jim White and it's great rock n roll. Matt remembers playing in Johnny Cash's band with Tom Petty's members, Guitar Moves and winging it. Photo: Malcolm Donaldson

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Alastair Shuttleworth of LICE on the Bristol pub where they made a home, freelance journalism and radio, staying late at work to write lyrics and how they built their own Intonarumori. Third Time At The Beach is out now on AD 93.

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Sitting in the corner of their namesake pub in Stockport, Blossoms' Tom Ogden and Joe Donovan tell us the story of the band, from working at a local hotel and tailors to receiving the news of their first record deal, up to headlining the 30,000 capacity Wythenshawe Park. Their fifth album Gary is out now!

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Ahead of her new album Someday, Now out this Friday, Katy talks about how she's stopped writing about herself negatively, being connected by music and working at a cafe in Bristol.

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Rosie Lowe's new album Lover, Other is an excellent sonic exploration, and the journey up to her fourth album is just as searching. We got 9am coffee before sitting in her living room and band's rehearsal space, looking towards their performance at London's ICA later this month. Photo: Gabby Laurent

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Get floored by Hannah McKittrick's new single 'Utensil', and hear her story of growing up writing solitarily in surburban Australia, pottering around Scotland and how she's been writing in a diffused way. Photo: Ollie Cox

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Joey Valence and Brae talk writing songs rapidly, filming on bad cameras, fashion and the deluxe edition of No Hands - out this Friday.

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At the wonderful End of the Road festival in Dorset, we hear from harpist Mary Lattimore and nature rockers Gently Tender.

Films reference by Mary include Good One, Janet Planet and Unarius.

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A sardonic blast of breezy indie rock, MJ Lenderman is about release his fourth studio album Manning Fireworks. Also playing in Wednesday and performing with Waxahatchee, he's an enigmatic source of belters to ride bikes to. He tells us about growing up in North Carolina, growing up quickly as a result of touring, and the changes he's currently going through. Photo: Charlie Boss

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Joanna Sternberg is a New Yorker who writes as a way to communicate. Their style makes you feel completely at home; like it's midweek lunchtime and you're sat on the sofa eating a biscuit watching TV. Their new track A Country Dance closes Between the Temples (Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane), and I really enjoyed this chat chronologising Joanna's life in songwriting. Photo: Julie Orlick

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Before releasing their mind-bending, James Ford-produced debut album WOOF. this Friday, Fat Dog's Joe Love and Chris Hughes spoke with me about dressing up, Catan, the highs of their live shows, picking up shifts at the Brixton Windmill and cheese maturing. With thanks to Aoife Kitt and Domino Record Co. Photo: Pooney Ghana

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Two torchbearers of punk rock and hardcore adjacent music today, the two singers of Militarie Gun (Ian Shelton) and Spiritual Cramp (Michael Bingham) join today on work follies and family business.

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Under blue sky at Reading 2024, we spoke with Australia's G Flip, following their Drumless EP and before a UK tour next week, and the lightning fast Bad Nerves, whose album Still Nervous is a ripper (also touring extensively in US, Europe and UK this year).

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More Reading 2024 highlights join on today's episode - three bands carving out their own lanes and energies talk being independent artists in 2024.

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At Reading Festival we caught up with two of the weekend's highlights. KNEECAP in the glow of their debut album and film, and Denzel Curry - whose new album King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 is out now.

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Artist, filmmaker and storyteller Cameron Lew tells us about the origins of Ginger Root, funding his way through college, his creative partner David Gutel and having fun being the main rule. Ginger Root's new album SHINBANGUMI is out 13 September. Photo: David Gutel

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In a powerful blend of cooling indie-rock with Illuminati Hotties, Sarah Tudzin is a producer with a laundry list of excellent credits. Winning a GRAMMY with her production work on Boygenius' The Record, and working with Weyes Blood and Cloud Nothings over the years, Sarah worked on borrowed studio time and bedroom setups for years. Illuminati Hotties' new album POWER is out this Friday on Hopeless. Photo: Shervin Lainez

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GK and Eliza from VENUS GRRRLS join on today's episode, with their new single 'Darla' out now and their UK headline tour creeping up next month. We talk about GK's leukemia and chemotherapy, what it was like putting the band on hold while she was in hospital, and Eliza's youth spent in Scotland learning to shred.

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Opening up publicly for the first time on an experience of being spiked at a music industry event, Josephine Vander West of That Woman shares her years of resilience as a musician.That Woman's excellent debut album Find Joy is out now. Photo: Josh Shinner

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Inspired songwriter Bill Callahan joins us today, on how Kim Gordon gave him early support, his first royalty check from Drag City, writing letters, the pathology of songwriting, funding early albums by working at KFC and responsibilities. His latest album Resuscitate! is out now on Drag City and he's playing in Paris, Brussels, Dublin, Manchester and London next month. All info at dragcity.com. Photo: Hanly Banks Callahan

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The legendary Belfast intrumental group are releasing their new album Megafauna this Friday, and it sounds wonderful. Rory Friers tells us about their beginnings as teenage skater kids wanting to create something, becoming self-sufficient and the lessons learned in that, and how they feel like protectors of a unique community. Photo: Tom McGeehan

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Taking off on his solo career, The Vamps' Bradley Simpson is channeling his love for heavier and groovier rock. In this chat we hear about his love for mid-2000s indie, vintage guitars, and his time working as a golf caddy for his dad. His newest single Daisies is out there to stream.

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After daytimes running a tattoo studio and booking bands, James and Sam are in it for the weekend experiences of visiting new places and playing wild shows. Today they've shared the numbingly good 'Vision Of Me', from their third album Reason Enough out 27 September. Photo: Sandra Ebert. Assistant edited by Luke Howard Mayes

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About to release the excellent new album Disaster Tricks, Dimitri of Horse Jumper Of Love talks drinking, Jackass, his pizza shop-running dad and keeping their nose to the grindstone. Disaster Tricks is out 16 August and you can catch HJOL on tour this year. Photo: POND Creative

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Problem Patterns join us from 2000 Trees on flooded cafes, doing a Masters in worms and the importance of passing down knowledge. Photo: Sophie Porter

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Meryl Streek joins Giles at 2000 Trees on Dublin, applying for a job under Meryl Streek and their new album Songs For The Deceased - out 25 October. Catch Meryl Streek on tour in the UK this November. Photo: Laurent Barnard

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Motor neurone disease sufferer Jake Popyura leads Supermilk, about to put out their new record High Precision Ghosts on 9 August. Jake talks about his journey so far of being diagnosed, how he's made stage-friendly props to help playing live, and spreading the message of MND experiences.

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Leader of inclusive rockers Los Campesinos!, Gareth David shares his approach to being a musician, the social responsibility that it brings, pressing the emergency button at Safeways, and LC!'s new album All Hell - out this Friday. Photo: Martyna Bannister

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Ahead of their UK dates supporting Ocean Alley, Hockey Dad talk early years of touring, lifeguarding and their new album Rebuild Repeat. Photo: Chris Frape

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Ahead a string of dates supporting IDLES, Angélica Garcia joins us on working at a raunchy nightclub in NYC, playing piano in rural Richmond and the pamphlets about Jesus that look like $1.

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Chicago songwriter Kara Jackson joins today on the arts scene she came up through, self-production and doing all the music-adjacent jobs as a musician.

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Man of mischief and soul nourishing songwriter Fran Healy joins to talk about LA Times (out 12 July), supporting The Killers, being a wet donkey jacket and getting stuck at Glastonbury. Photo: Steve Gullick

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After teaching himself how to shred and self-produce, Alfie Templeman talks self-doubt, London and Nando's with Nile Rodgers. Radiosoul is out now on Chess Club Records.

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New York wonderkinds Been Stellar join on today's episode, on awkward label meetings, having the practice space downstairs, infinite regression and injuries from ice cream scooping under the influence. Scream from New York, NY is out now via Dirt Hit. Photo: Gabe Long

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Ahead of their new album Afraid of Tomorrows, out in the morning, Lia and Callum talk boozing, health, and finding new sounds on the album. Catch The Mysterines at 2000 Trees next month.

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On the week of their debut album Fine Art, Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí weigh in on drugs, Irish Americans, sperm banks and bee keeping. Fine Art is out now on Heavenly Recordings. Photo: Peadar Ó Goill

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We join Orlando Weeks at his Loja exhibition in Peckham, where he was making art prints during the day and performing at night, to talk industriousness, specificity, and what success means. His wonderful new album Loja, featuring guest spots by Katy J Pearson and Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale, is out now.

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With their stellar Top 10 album Western Approaches, Liverpool's Red Rum Club put their SAS level of hard work to good use. On this chat with an audience at Liverpool Sound City, Fran and Simon tell their story of bar band to stadium headliners.

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About to release their tenth record Stung!, here is POND's Nick Allbrook on being a landscape gardener, trying to assimilate into regular society after touring, and one sketchy trial shift that ended in... success!

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AURORA joins Giles talking about her work on Frozen Planet II and Disney's Frozen, having a powerful voice in social and political movements, and what you should name your cat. Her new album What Happened To The Heart? lands this Friday. Photo: Wanda Martin

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Owen's Mike Kinsella, on parenting, not knowing people were listening to American Football for years, and whether or not he's ever played a powerchord. Owen's new album The Falls of Sioux is out now, and he's on tour in the UK next week. Photo - Alexia Viscius

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About to release their new album Below The Waste (7 June), Goat Girl's Lottie Pendlebury discusses anxiety, taking time to figure out what the artform is, Universal Credit and being open to learning.

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Uploading personal photos to your company's iCloud is a life lesson in work gaffes. Bri and Lila from Crumb join on today's episode, the week after the release of new album AMAMA - a contender for 2024's album of the year.

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Molly Lewis whistled on Barbie, with Dr. Dre, Karen O and Parkway Drive, and left Elon Musk hanging. Her new record On The Lips is out now and if you want to save money on that immersion bath, you can listen to it now.

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On Episode 350, British legend Suggs joins us about his shortlived careers as a butcher/gardener/painter/plasterer, being caught skiving on MotD and getting kicked out of Madness, and writing a book as well as his one man play. The expanded edition of Madness' first Number 1 album Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est La Vie is out 7 June.

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On Villagers' excellent new record That Golden Time, Conor O'Brien returns to lone intimacy. Conor chats painting houses in Dublin, tragicomedy and finding new life in physical excercise.

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As Lauren Mayberry gears up for life as a solo artist, she chats about freedom and sexuality, TikTok cats and the DIY Glasgow scene. Lauren has a new documentary on iPlayer as part of 6 Music's Change The Tune campaign against online abuse, and her new track Change Shapes is out now.

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On the day Jordan Rakei moved from Australia to London, he knew nobody in his new city. Now a fully fledged Londoner, Jordan tells us about fighting through his shyness in the name of sharing music, balancing family and writing life, and that one memorable work gaffe.

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Joe and Callum reflect on their years of sh*t jobs, getting signed after a tiler was playing them while working at an A&R's house, waste removal and working at Wetherspoons. Postindustrial Hometown Blues is out today!

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Katherine Priddy's album The Pendulum Swing is a sweeping, timeless snapshot of folk. Here she tells us about bigger gigs, moving beyond a hobby and supporting Fairport Convention’s Richard Thompson.

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Two of the youngest artists at Sound City, Yee Loi and Alex Turner, and Grace from gothic shredders of the north VENUS GRRRLS speaks about their youth music organisation.

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Callum from The Mysterines and all four Crawlers join from Liverpool Sound City - talking working at Anfield and spilled milk at McDonald's.

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At Sound City we spoke with Antony Szmierek about his former life as a secondary school English teacher, Kwoli Black on the grind and Joshua Epithet about opening up.

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We hear from Brooke Combe, Home Counties and The Lottery Winners from this year's Liverpool Sound City. Thank you LSC, Virgin Music Group and Modern Sky for having us.

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Are Other Half east anglia's best band? You decide! Announcing their new album Dark Ageism with a very cool track 'Lifted Fingers' (ft. Nada Surf's Mathew Caws), Sophie joins on today's Stop 'N' Chat with the funniest memories of her late dad, stories from the estate and the Bouncing Souls memory device. Dark Ageism is out 21 June on Big Scary Monsters.

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Disneyland in Dagenham is a collection of Scott's memories and jaunts, out next Friday. Here he tells us about life changing in his 40s, working at a detox clinic and leaving the front door open.

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Renowned indie shredder El Kempner joins on today's episode, on Elliott Smith, taking a step back from touring with Palehound, and a Zoom acoustic version of 'Independence Day'. Palehound's awesome record Eye On The Bat is out now. Photo: Tonje Thilesen

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Their fifth album comes out tomorrow, so William and Charlie talk working in the restaurant industry, kitchens, power-washing garbage and a bit about Anthony Bourdain.

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Miles Kane And The Evils join us from Record Store Day 24, talking parents' record collections, surf guitar and an alternative life in hairdressing. Miles Kane And The Evils is streaming on 3 May.

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Junodream guitarist Dougal Gray tells us about their aspirations, the reality of being a band in 2024 and getting fired. Their debut Pools of Colour is out now.

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From working as a teacher in China to trying to find a crapper for his pre-show ritual at Berghain, Lias tells us about his various ups and downs of trying to live an honest life in music. Fat White Family's fourth album Forgiveness Is Yours is out this Friday.

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Sam and Lucy of Dog Unit, who just released the excellent At Home album, chat to me about their record shop counter days, darker days, and the trick to a good recommendation (ask the record shop counter).

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At Record Store Day this Saturday gone, Felix and Tiger from Divorce spoke to us about discovering new music, Jamiroquai and working at the opticians.

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At Rough Trade East on Record Store Day 2024, Kate Stables of This Is The Kit spoke to me about an early love of drum and bass, working at the pub and her band's live album recorded on Cornish clifftop open-air venue, The Minack Theatre.

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Christina and Ralph from Cuffed Up join today, talking about their self-produced new album All You Got, working unpaid internships, teaching yourself to fish, and learning by f**king up.

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Charles and Henry Hendy remember doing everything they could to get to gigs, a decade on the dole and nothing being more important than the tunes.

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Currently on tour in the UK, Microwave's Nathan Hardy shares first-hand experience of being Mormon, how the band became self-sufficient and looking to other artists for inspiration. Microwave's new album 'Let's Start Degeneracy' is out 26 April.

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Holding the ultimate part-time job of being in Fleetwood Mac, Crowded House's Neil Finn joins on today's episode. With memories from Luton, London and the morgue. Crowded House's new album Gravity Stairs comes out 31 May and their new single 'Teenage Summer' is out now.

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Two all-timer job stories here with Gustaf, who've just released their new album Package Pt. 2. Going to jail on the job and being caught out in a poop swindle - what more could you ask for?

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Grant Nicholas and Taka Hirose join on the release week of their 12th album 'Black / Red', on forgetting lyrics, how they've kept writing after 30 years and whether it's 'drink cider from a lemon' or 'eleven'.

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In the glow of their new album 'Humble As The Sun', Bobby Vylan shares his lesser known years of selling vintage swag, MC'ing and working at Carphone Warehouse.

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Aussie rockn'roller Peter Bibby has just shared his new track 'Fun Guy', so here is discussing taking one to the face during a bar shift, doing the bins and being a plasterer.

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Felix on getting beaten up at his own gig, the risks of white trousers and the one subject he'd love to write a song about. Divorce's new single 'Gears' is out now, and they headline Islington Assembly Hall on 23 October.

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From open mic nights to Scala, Catrin and Jack from Another Sky tell their stories of dodgy part time jobs, sticking with a plan and the plan goddamn working! Their new album Beach Day is out on Fiction Records.

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Getting hyped on doing a marathon in every US state, Dylan Baldi of Cloud Nothings (and his dog) tells about writing a song a day, memorable first tours, The Wipers and Greg Sage, and getting merked by school kids. Cloud Nothings' new album Final Summer is out 19 April on Pure Noise.

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While She Sleeps are a DIY arena band. From their fifth album SLEEPS SOCIETY, the Sheffield band built a community that allowed them to create as freely as they like while maintaining a rare kind of stability, all with the help of their individual fans. Their sixth album SELF HELL comes out this Friday.

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On their new album All Now, out today, The Staves are awash with life's experiences. The sister duo perform three songs acoustic: 'I Don't Say It, But I Feel It', 'All Now', and 'I'll Never Leave You Alone'. Plus stories from their upbringing in Waford, how they've kept their band and sisterhood spirits alive, and how they don't have LinkedIn. Photo: Harvey Pearson

Producer: Eva Nagengast

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Songwriter and producer Sam Evian is on today's episode, on moving from New York to the Catskills mountains, cold plunges, his new record Plunge (out on Friday), and a cold fish moment. Photo: C J Harvey

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About to release their excellent new album Vows in May, here's Hot Water Music's Chris Wollard from 2022.

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Instead of our planned SXSW coverage, here's Amy from Amyl and The Sniffers from 2021.

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One of today's great songwriters, Bill Ryder-Jones talks writer's block, pub communities and producing. His excellent new album Iechyd Da is out now on Domino. Photo: Marieke Macklon

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As a programmer in fintech, Lea shares memories of making it work from the road - even at the most nerve-wracking of times.

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Furnished with a GRAMMY for their Stumpwork album artwork, London band Dry Cleaning remember retail with Hollywood stars, falling asleep at their computers and getting conned on the job. Their first EPs Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess are re-issued this week on 4AD.

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Film school, first tours, freewheeling rock 'n' roll. Ben Hozie of NY art punks BODEGA gives his version of the story. Our Brand Could Be Your Life is out 12 April, those two released singles are damn hot. Photo: EBRU YILDIZ

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Calling your boss a prick live on Glastonbury iPlayer, while he's watching with your colleagues? Classic move from Cath of Gaffa Tape Sandy. This band are excellent and their new album Hold My Hand, God Damn It is out 31 May via Alcopop! Records.

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Caught inbetween touring, his Masters degree and a national shortage of ADHD medication, Etienne Quartey-Papafio shows us the reality of prioritsing music. Whitelands' debut album Night-bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day is out now on Sonic Cathedral, go and give it a spin.

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From Watford's Harlequin Centre to Roll Deep, self-reliance, 1Xtra and winning over punk fans, Manga's on his own trip. His 16-track new album Everything Is Under Control is out now - come fly with this guy.

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Remembering Ewen MacIntosh, here's a few moments of our chat in 2019. He kindly agreed to do this podcast when I introduced myself on the 177 bus in Peckham; we exchanged numbers and he met me at Soho Radio to record this. RIP Ewen.

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WOT? This rapscallion from the North West tells of the toll multiple jobs and not seeing friends takes on them, having ADHD, addictive nature of needing to be seen, not being able to afford music lessons, working at Cyberdog, at the soft play center, tattooing, going on The Voice and bully bosses.

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Crooner Vince Freeman laments his short-lived career as a horsebox barista, and when his family business in France was mistaken for a brothel. His debut album 'Scars, Ghosts and Glory' is out 22 March.

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11 years and 23 albums into a life of music, Ed Harcourt remembers totalling cars, building a home studio and beginning a curiosity into film scoring. His new album El Magnifico is a sweeping concert of just brilliant songs, and it's out 29 March. Photo: Steve Gullick

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From first bands to EE's 7th album, Jonathan Higgs has surged through a path of his own. He talks new album Mountainhead (out 1 March), acidentally nicking a flowerpot while live on Radio 1 and the moment his keyboard crashed through itself during a quiet live moment. Photo: Steve Gullick

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On the second night at Signature Brew, Joe Talbot talks being a carer for his sick mother, working on the tills at Sainsburys, at the call center and as a bouncer. Plus his last vision of a stampede of Yorkshire Terriers. Recorded by Lucy Hookway, Assistant Produced by Olivia Swash. Photo: Danny Barnes

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10 For The People, Jamie's third album, is poems for the people. Giving and receiving strength from his community, most powerful in Liverpool, Webster has blossomed naturally as the spokesperson for Britain's forgotten. In our chat live at Merseymade, Liverpool, Jamie describes his background as an electrician and how he'll celebrate selling out Sefton Park (40,000 partygoers) with a packet of crisps on the sofa.

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Joe Talbot's stamina is to be admired. On this first of two live nights at Signature Brew, Joe Talbot tells us about the split moment that changed his life, gratitude, the power of purpose and IDLES being his life gift. Recorded by Lucy Hookway, Assistant Produced by Olivia Swash. Associated Producer: Tuftii.

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GRAMMY nominated producer and fellow Berko guy on how he found his space in the studio, moving to LA and working on Queens Of The Stone Age's new record In Times New Roman...

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Norman Brannon creates the best kind of music journalism, reflecting the heart and galvanisation of a genre in a mutual conversation with hardcore's most interesting and groundbreaking characters. Previously of Texas Is The Reason, New End Original and Shelter, Brannon is currently a touring member of Thursday - the band that introduced me to hardcore-adjacent music at a young age. Follow Anti-Matter at https://antimatter.substack.com/

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Hardcore and punk would be very different today it weren't for Title Fight. Now, Ned Russin joins me about his journey beyond his old band, thinking it to be "dangerous" to start a new musical project and how Glitterer has taken its time to becoming this very full and rewarding sound it is on Rationale - out 23 February. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: MGMPHOTOCO

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Tom May is a such a legend. Here he is fending off my dumb questions like a pro. Subscribe and Sign Up to my newsletter: 101parttimejobs.com

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Phoebe Lunny remembers the Brighton Machete Man and Bristol Poo Girl on this very special Stop & Chat. Lambrini Girls' debut EP You're Welcome is out now on Big Scary Monsters.

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Doug and Lewis on feeling the eyeballs leading up to 2024's most anticipated debut, setting the bar high and how go make a living playing in a band (spoiler: hospitality work). Edited by Olivia Swash. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: Tatiana Pozuelo

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Julia, Gretchen and Lydia of lowkey rockers Chastity Belt ruminate on their instinctual nature, unintentional albums and knowing the right balance of touring. Live Laugh Love is out 29 March. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: Jena Feldman

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The soberer, indie rock Charles Bukowski LIQUID MIKE is here about being a postal worker. He was also a census taker and he self-records all his own records. Line this good stuff up next to The Rentals and true Fountains of Wayne. Come on!! Paul Bunyan's Slingshot is gonna be one of the pop punk / indie / rock albums of the year. Sign up to my newsletter to get exclusive content: 101parttimejobs.com

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Just as they release Down There!, Folly Group's Sean and Kai give their take on collaboration, good jobs, bad jobs, and working full-time while being in a band that's ON. Absolve yourself of your worst work story: WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: Matt Ritson

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Kicked out of school at 15, our Cal has been estimating it from the start. Listen to this obituary of activity and pre-order The Chisel's new album What A Fucking Nightmare, out in a couple of weeks. Catch them on tour in the UK with Rifle, too. Absolve yourself of your worst work story: WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: Nick Suchack

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Martin Courtney is giving it another shot. Daniel (23 February via Domino) follows 2020's The Main Thing, which was underpinned by Courtney's relationship with being a full-time musician. In this episode, he reflects on the unexpected attention his band received in their early iteration and how his daily life is about to be shaken up by the touring schedule of a new album. Absolve yourself of your worst work story: WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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Max Levy of Garden Centre tells me about the hat-wearing job in Brighton, working at the football museum, and writing loads of lyrics at the new 9-5. We talk about Sister Midnight, who are creating a new music venue in London: https://www.sistermidnight.org/ Absolve yourself of your worst work story: WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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A highlight of Kevin Morby's episode in 2020. Tell me your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: Katie Crutchfield

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Lily and Phoebe eye up the mountain of touring as their You're Welcome EP comes out. First broadcast 6 June 2023. Tell me your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: Marilena Vlachopoulou

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Ian Shelton tells us about making music videos, truck driving jobs and touring since he was 17. Life Under The Gun is out now. Tell me your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech:

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Jacob from HEALTH tells me about early European trips, DIY scenes and how the band started working with Rockstar Games. RAT WARS is out now. Tell me your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: 

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E tells us about making the move to LA, finding his place as a full-time songwriter and Christmas songs. 'Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This?' and Eels Good, Essential Ells Vol.2 are out now. Tell me your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: Rocky Schenck

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Drummer of the legendary New Jersey band The Gaslight Anthem, the lovely Benny Horowitz joins me today. Talking woodshops, relationships, coming back from their time off, and their new album History Books - out now. Tell me your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: Kelsey Hunter Ayres

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A classical flute player, Jem Siow from SPEED is not your usual hardcore vocalist. In this episode, Jem tells us about going to university to study flute ("it was like Whiplash"), learning the hard way that it wasn't his right path and solidifying his home in hardcore in the process. Gang Called Speed is out now via Flatspot. Tell me your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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The Rattlesnakes singer tells me about the first CDs he bought on Watford High Street, his journey through Gallows and Pure Love, building his autonomy zone and how the new album Dark Rainbow is about being kind to himself. Dark Rainbow is out 26 January. Tell me your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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THE Lauran Hibberd joins today, telling us how she's a grower, saying hi to Avril, offering advice on how to talk to groups of people, the passing of her dad, her favourite Gilmore Girls episode and more. Her second album Girlfriend Material is out in March. Tell me your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: Emily Marcovecchio

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Ukranian born Eguene Hutz tells me about moving to New York, labouring, getting kicked out of CBGBs and more. 'Solidartity', Gogol Bordello's cover of Angelic Upstarts featuring Bernard Sumner is out now. Catch the band on tour next week. Tell me your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: Virlana Tkacz

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Big Willy Anderson comes to play ball. We talk Assn'Up, scaling up Hotline TNT, the relatinship with Third Man Records, working as a substitute teacher, managing a comic book store and more! Cartwheel is out now and it's awesome. Tell me your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: Wes Knoll

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Ahead of their new record I Got Heaven, Mannequin Pussy's Marisa Dabice tells me about her teenage cancer diagnosis, finding her people and rude customers. Tell me your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: Millicent Hailes

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On the 300th episode, I speak with Philadelphia constant hitmaker Kurt Vile about growing up and home recording, driving forklifts, writting Lotta Sea Lice with Courtney Barnett and interesting times over his years playing music. Back To Moon Beach is out now. Tell me your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Photo: Lance Bangs

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Remarkable songwriter Ben Gregory joins for our 299th episode, talking growing up in heady indie-rockers Blaenavon, living in Berlin and how studying has affected Ben's lyrics and songwriting. Bodied and Same Mistakes (Live) is out now via Transgressive. Tell us your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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Belfast producer, composer and DJ David Holmes joins today, a week after releasing his new album with Raven Violet, Blind On A Galloping Horse. Tell us your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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Dan Yemin is a clinical psychologist (I somehow missed pointing that out in the intro, so pretend I mentioned it) and an ommitter of some of the highest statuture of punk records. To celebrate Paint It Black's ripping new album Famine, I spoke to him in three parts: his experiences in Lifetime, Kid Dynamite and Paint It Black / Open City. Tell us your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech:    https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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Arabella tells me about her early recording years, containing multitudes, being a BRIT Awards table server, her London black book, working at Rough Trade and more. Baby Queen's debut album Quarter Life Crisis is out now. Tell us your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech:   https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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His new album The City Needs Part Deux is out now. Here David tells me about putting out music independently, Spotify numbers, being at peace with where he's at and club bouncers. Tell us your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech:  https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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Gavin Rossdale tells me about early London years, always looking to David Bowie and how his songwriting is always in progression. Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994 - 2023 is out tomorrow. Tell us your work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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Ahead of his debut album The Heart Of It, Jelani Blackman tells me about the epiphony he had at Lake Garda, the meaning of work, greenlights and collaboration. Tell us your favourite work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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Emily Haines talks NYC in the 2000s, moving to the West Coast, journaling and one coat hanger frenzied morning. Formentera II is out now. Tell us your favourite work story, WhatsApp a voice note or message at 07904243 101. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech:   https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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Lindsey Jordan tells us about horror films and poetry, progression in lyrics, getting unfairly fired from a Froyo bar and a panic attack on-stage. Valentine Demos is out on Friday. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech:  https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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Zac tells me about old side jobs recording engineer and delivering pizzas, not detouring from simple songs, getting sober, growingup in Hawaii and Gathering of the Juggalos. Catch FIDLAR live in the UK in November. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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Buck tells me about growing up in Texas around minutiae jazz players, going to Berklee College of Music to study Jazz, moving to Brooklyn, metal sculpting, cutting steel and pedicabbing. Vampire Empire b/w Born For Loving You is out now: https://bigthief.ffm.to/bornforlovingyou Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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Bobbie is Pip Blom's new album, and here Pip tells me about finding friends in indie rock, language barriers/enablers, teleprompter speed dial and working at gardening centre 2 days a week. Pick up Bobbie from Heavenly Recordings: https://heavenlyemporium.com/release/391128-pip-blom-bobbie Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8

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Sam and Josh tell me about about starting the magazine from an idea and a blank page, how the record label came about and times of pushing trollies and teaching football. Learn your favourite song and download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with songs, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech:

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Oscar's new EP If Only is out tomorrow. Here he is talking about time in Wunderhorse and Broadside Hacks, his Yellow Room studio and some classic work scrapes.

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Jack Steadman tells me about being a believer in growth, the joy of sampling, time in India, his Astronomy degree and more! Bombay Bicycle Club's sixth album My Big Day comes out on Friday.

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On the release day of Big Red, Katie tells us about previously working at a coffee and donut shop ("it's a good life"), being committed to music before becoming known and everything behind the lyrics and setting of Big Red. Listen to the EP now: https://katiegregsonmacleod.lnk.to/bio

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Before their new album Some Of It Was True comes out this Friday, The Menzingers' Tom and Joe tell me about running the band by committee and splitting it four ways, the impact Bouncing Souls had on them, being respectful and of course some classic work gaffes. Photo: Danielle Dubois

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Andrew remembers tales like getting a job the day he arrived in NYC, his visual art and high maintenance around the city. Several Songs About Fire is out tomorrow.

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Leo and Sofia tell me about their years as an air hostess, round-the-clock care and driving an ICE CREAM VAN - plus the secret ingredient to bubble rackets. Their debut album Unum is out on Friday!

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Mat tells me about 3D printing, building a square drumset, acknowledging your own character traits to keep growing and why he doesn't record many bands anymore. Citizen's new album Calling The Dogs is out this Friday!

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James and Irv tell me about working at call centres and pizza places, tour tiredness, moving to London and a few work fuck-yous.

Their new single Heart In The Hole is out now!

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Kula Shaker's Crispian Mills tell me about how opportunities have changed for new bands, inventing mushroom house, pain in music and the battle to stay human. Pre-order Kula Shaker's new album Natural Magick today: https://slinky.to/NaturalMagick

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Voice of unsigned bands John Kennedy joins me today talking about his own story of making music number one, his role as X-Posure chief on Radio X and how your band can get in touch with him.

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Holden Jaffe on the accumulative effect of doing nice things, finding your identity as an artist, writing on the road, moving to LA and writing with Arlo Parks over voice notes.

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Sam from The Paper Kites tells me about new album At the Roadhouse, growing up outside of Melbourne, the space and time he needs the write, and days working at a cinema and shoe factory.

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Queer rapper, performance artist, poet and activist Mykki Blanco spoke to me from holiday before she started her new course at grad school. She remembers stories of tumblr era, DIY punk, how social media gave rise to queer artists and her dream job as a rare book dealer.

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Jacob Ewald talks about learning as he goes, committing to the music, the two sides to the music industry and getting into the idea of asking for help.

'Crying, Waving, Laughing, Smiling' is out on Friday!

Photo: Ashley Gellman

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In this single, Jeff Rosenstock takes us back to his days scrambling for graphic design jobs and the conversation that stopped him giving up touring.

This episode was first aired in 2020.

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Still Love, Teenage Wrist's new album, is a total rocker. Here Marshall and Anthony talk the tumbledryer feeling of touring, growing in public and being a Taskrabbit regular.

Photo: Joe Calixto

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Launching their Golden Days Signature Brew beer, Mamas Gun had a brief chat with me on stage before they brew the roof off with groovy tunes.

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From Toronto Katie speaks to me about why she started wearing a mask, working at a record store, Canada and we trade ghost stories.

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Justice talks about his Brand New Soul feeling, working security, getting his teeth knocked out 7 times, crazy nights at Cafe Tattoo in Baltimore and faking passing out.

Brand New Soul is out now: https://popwigrecords.bandcamp.com/album/brand-new-soul-2

Photo: Steve Levy

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James Skelly tells us how he's re-connected with fans, Merseybeat, being a mood-catcher and shutting down his parents' pub for a day.

Photo: Jack Finnigan

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Thom from The Lottery Winners on never having a hot drink in his life, his teenage double life, doing ear piercings at Claire's Accessories and turning the tables at the Job Centre...

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Jess and Steph from Isle of Wight's Coach Party tell me how quickly the band took over their lives, running a vegan cafe, the absurdity of packing for tour and their new album KILLJOY - out this Friday.

Photo: Megan Doherty

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Graham Sayle got tried by his school students, talks DIY BMX culture and building cool asf tables.

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Kat Moss tells us about watching MCR Reading Fest videos, building lego all day and a good good shot at 101 Part Time Jobs BINGO

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Theresa from Yonaka joined me to talk about her first job at the fish + chip shop, retail days and camping essentials.

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At Khazali's first festival, he told us about serving bubble teas (can you choke on them?) and gave a good whack at 101 Part Time Jobs BINGO...

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Nieve Ella talks being a hairdressers' duaghter, The 1975 and gives a luke warm go at 101 Part Time Jobs B I N G O...

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Liverpool's Jamie Webster on having a good festival time, working for his dad, loving pub gigs and lookalike couples...

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Georgia joins me at Reading 2023 with her love for QOTSA and Arctic Monkeys, Reply All'ing and her Pop Bitch dream.

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James and Damien from The Murder Capital take me in at Reading Festival, talking Limp Bizkit, fisherman dads, wanting to sample Vashti Bunyan and a hot shot at 101 Part Time Jobs Bingo...

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KennyHoopla regales us with his Domino's days, his ideal hardcore singer steez and provides a good shot at 101 Part Time Jobs Bingo!

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Dylan from Spanish Love Songs tells us about their new album 'No Joy', dealing with worry and finding appreciation for the good moments.

Catch them in the UK with Hot Mulligan starting on Friday!

Photo: Hannah Hall

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The Garageband Superstar on meeting Joe Cole, festival imodium and a claim as winner of 101 Part Time Jobs bingo...

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Full band Yard Act join on the first in a week of Reading Special 101's. Topics broached include paper rounds, Isle of Man creamaries and the Poo Lady.

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Michael Taylor talks growing up with punk rock, how the longer you do music the more care it needs, when inspiration sustained without money, and the living evolution of a song.

Hiss Golden Messenger's new album Jump For Joy is out tomorrow

Photo: Graham Tolbert

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Live from ATG 2023, Kate from Pupil Slicer joined me to talk about the start of the band, meeting bands they aspired to sound like and how much ATG means to them.

Get cheaper tickets to next year's festival: https://arctangent.co.uk/

Pupil Slicer's second album Blossom is out now: https://shop.prostheticrecords.com/products/pupil-slicer-blossom

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Asha from Sorry tells me about how songs are like puzzles, being disenchanted with music and a false start in bar work.

'Screaming In The Rain Again' is out now and you can catch Sorry in Japan, Australia and the UK in the nearish future.

Photo: Peter Eason-Daniels

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'At Your Worst' is out in the world, so Calum Scott joins on today's episode. Carrying stories of making small mistakes at work to the tune of £250k (!), working for the local council, growing up in Hull, skateboarding and the feeling behind his excellent new single.

Photo: Tom Cockram

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John Dwyer talks about his industrious years in high maintenance, moving from Rhode Island to the West Coast, writing songs while watching TV and getting fired for being too rude at the rude restaurant.

Intercepted Message is out now: https://ohsees.bandcamp.com/album/intercepted-message

Photo: Thomas Girard

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Theo joined me to talk about assisting and directing films, getting fired for eating too many on-set sandwiches, Static Shock, being a Ukrainian uber driver and a horror porn b-movie assistant.

Powerplant - Grass EP: https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/grass

Photo: Lloyd Clipston

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Ben Spence of Fuzzbrain studios, Micromoon and Hoodstock joins me talking about building a music community in East London, Hoodstock and its fund, how he got into recording bands and how everyone should allow themselves the freedom to have an idea and do it.

Get your ticket to Hoodstock: https://www.colourfactory.com/whatson/hoodstock-2023

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Ahead of their third album Death Is Nothing To Us, Pat spoke with me about having parents in the miliatary, being around caskets in middle school, ignoring the march of time, High Vis, songs being his own life preservers and working at Dead Eye's boat washing company in New Bedford

Death Is Nothing To Us: https://runforcoverrecords.com/products/fiddlehead-death-is-nothing-to-us-pre-order

Photo: Pooneh Ghana

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Cal and Sophie join me with stories of working at rival chip vans, accidental dirty protests while working at Schuh and loving time in the car playing gigs.

Soft Action is out now: https://bsmrocks.bandcamp.com/album/soft-action

Photo: Lauren Quarmby

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"I am the least employable person ever." A week before his new album Bunny, WJH joins me to talk about the mix-up that led to recording in New York, the funky first demos he sent to Yala! and getting busted nicking baklavas.

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Before her new record Echo the Diamond comes out, Margaret Glaspy tells me about her completist nature, working as a nanny and guitar teacher, Courtney Dauwalter and finding the joypoint.

Echo the Diamond is out next Friday

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Brian and a background Mat join on today's episode, talking homemade fun, emotional lyrics and their kindred spirit.

You Are Who You Hang Out With is out now, catch them on their UK tour in December: https://www.thefrontbottoms.com/tour

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Girl Ray's Iris and Poppy talking being disco asf, working on film shoot coffee trucks and at Rough Trade East, and pose the question 'who will bake us a cake tomorrow?'

Photo: Eerie Rose

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"I've booked my ideal festival" - ATG booker James Scarlett joins me to talk about a few of the most exciting bands to look forward to at ATG 2023.

Including Chat Pile, '68, Pelagic Records and YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO.

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His new album One Man Band is out this Friday, and on today's episode Miles Kane talks self confidence, his advice from Paul Weller, recording with his cousins James and Ian Skelly in The Coral and working at the toy department at M&S.

Photo: Charlie Salt

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A trip down memory lane with Hak Baker and two intimate live tracks, 'Bricks in the Wall' and 'Almost Lost London' from his new album Worlds End FM.

Recorded live at Strongroom in July 2023. Thanks to our sponsors Signature Brew and Sailor Jerry

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The Hives' incomparable Howlin' Pelle joins on today's episode, on being naughty by nature, pushing through the 10 years The Hives had between albums, stints as a mailman (gave him a tight buttock) and sign writer, the affect Alan McGee had on the band and being treated awfully when they first came to the UK.

The Hives' new album The Death of Randy Fitzsimmonds is out 11 August

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4-time GRAMMY nominated Canadian songwriter, author, poet and activist Allison Russell joins on today's episode, on finding her network of musicians and friends, the abuse she suffered early on in life, and her album of reclmatation, The Returner - out 8 September.

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Singer and guitarist Vinny Neff joins today, with stories from being baby faced and working at a bar restaurant, being fired by his sister, moving to New York and immersing into the Derry community there, making their own music videos, studying architecture and more.

Django Django's new album Off Planet is out now

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Rhys from Ulrika Spacek joins today, on how spicy to make M.I.A.'s drink, a disaster tour with DIIV, the 5 years of making Compact Trauma and having his band bitten while leafletting.

Compact Trauma is out now on Tough Love Records

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I went down to 2000 Trees last weekend to have some fun, see some bands, lost my phone in The Bronx pit to find it later on the floor, and also speak with Prima Queen and Bad Nerves.

Both have excellent records out; Prima Queen 'Not The Baby' and Bad Nerves' s/t. Go and enjoy them!

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Dublin garage punk band Sprints' Karla Chubb joins today, on how a job at Nando's changed her life, being open to new experiences and their new label City Slang.

Their new single 'Adore Adore Adore' is out now

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Juan joins me to talk about his traumatic childhood move from Uruguay to New York, using music as a tool for feeling better, his work at a picture frame job and at being yelled at at the restuarant.

The intro is a 101 take on Blister in the Sun by Violent Femmes.

Thanks for listening!

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One of my favourite songwriters Andrew McMahon joins on today's episode, telling stories of strong wills, people pleasing, surfing and coming to accept he might forget a lyric or two. Plus tales from in the Wilderness, Jack's Mannequin and Something Corporate.

Listen to his new album Tilt At The Wind No More and catch him on tour.

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Intro track is a 101 take on Blister in the Sun by Violent Femmes.

Thanks for listening!

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Zac joins us with tales from gardening and two strange weeks at a coffee hut.

Song: Deadletter 'The Snitching Hour'

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Mike and Jon from Timeshares + Tom from No Trigger join on this LIVE EPISODE

Thank you to Booze Cruise for having us

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Before her show at Son Estrella Galicia x Paper Dress, Jessica Winter told me about her times at Pizza Hut, Dominos and the Navy.

Song: Jessica Winter ft Lynks 'Clutter'

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Gengahr have been a band since they were 12 YEARS OLD. Felix talks through the lessons he's learned and how being a tennis teacher is key to his life balance.

Red Sun Titans is out now: https://gengahrband.bandcamp.com/album/red-sun-titans-1

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Thanks Jason Cavalier for the music

Song: Gengahr 'Red Sun Titans'

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Had a great time with my new friends Bill and Bob from Bonny Doon. Open up for stories of the total commitment to playing music, psychedelics when recording and the head injury that orbits their brilliant new album, Let There Be Music.

Pick yourself up the album: https://bonnydoon.bandcamp.com/album/let-there-be-music https://www.anti.com/artists/bonny-doon/

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James Goodson is a punk rock publicist. No formal training, no internships - just years playing in bands and finding out what it means to share the message and music of wonderful bands like Samiam and the Bouncing Souls. James talks about his time as a substitute teacher and how we was very content at his grocery store job.

All of DAZY's buzzing music can be found at https://dazysound.bandcamp.com/

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Divorce 'Birds'

Thyrsis 'Durnovaria'

King Krule 'Flimsier'

Problem Patterns 'Letter of Resignation'

Powerplant 'Beautiful Boy'

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Militarie Gun have a truly exciting energy and on this episode we have their leader Ian Shelton. Filmmaking, screenprinting, truck driving... it's all here.

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Songs: Militarie Gun 'Will Logic'

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Tapir! - On A Grassy Knoll (We'll Bow Together)

The Natvral - Lucifer's Glory

Hey Colossus - My Name In Blood

Angel Dus$t ft. Mat Kerekes - Very Aggressive

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Tom Gilbert speaks to me about their 39-date tour, aux-ing The Oozes in taxis, writing Disney reviews on Letterboxd and a conversation about how to react when an artist you love does something you don't.

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Songs: The Oozes 'Ready'

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Lily and Phoebe join me today talking about running out of bellongings to sell for rent, why they're going to places they don't belong and quitting jobs to go on tour this summer.

Listen to You're Welcome: https://bsmrocks.bandcamp.com/album/youre-welcome

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Songs: Lambrini Girls 'White Van'

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No Elegant Way To Sell Out is Ellie Bleach's excellent latest EP. About to release new music, Ellie talks with me about ballroom dancing, Southend-On-Sea's Adventure Island and her Cherry B supply.

Listen to Ellie Bleach: https://elliebleach.bandcamp.com/

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Songs: Ellie Bleach 'Doing Really Well Thanks'

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Georgie Stott joins on today's episode, with music-work stories from Brighton, the NHS, cafes and more.

Get SUEP's 'Shop' EP: https://memorialsofdistinction.bandcamp.com/album/shop-2

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Songs: SUEP 'Domesticated Dream'

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Marissa tells me about spiking her boss' coffee with bleach, hating on the GAP and her ace artwork.

Screaming Females 'Desire Pathway': https://screamingfemales.bandcamp.com/album/desire-pathway

Photo: Krista Schlueter

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Songs: Screaming Females 'Let You Go', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’

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Nature TV ‘Illusions’

Teenage Fanclub ‘Foreign Land’

Lambrini Girls ‘White Van’

Militarie Gun ‘Will Logic’

Guided By Voices ‘Seedling’

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Ahead of I Thought I Was Better Than You (out 2 June), Baxter talks death, taxes and some inbetween.

Thanks Jamie at Rough Trade, Liam Clayton for editing and Jason Cavalier for the jingle production.

Photo: Tom Beard

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Gently Tender and former Palma Violets singer Sam Fryer talks getting fired from Royal Albert Hall, getting lamped at Stamford Bridge and his (and my) cricket team, Paddington Rabbits.

Photo: Richie Racoon

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Jason Cavalier produced the cover of Blister in the Sun by Violent Femmes & Waitress In The Sky by The Replacements

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Songs: Gently Tender 'Love All The Population', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’

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Jenny Lewis ‘Giddy Up’

Bojockey ‘Magpie’

Horse Jumper of Love ‘Singing by the Sink’

The Chisel ‘Cry Yours Eyes Out’

Spiritual Cramp ‘Phone Lines Down’

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2000 Trees booker James Scarlett tells us what to look forward to at the festival this July!

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Songs: Empire State Bastard 'Harvest', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’

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Adam McIlwee in full and uncut on today's episode - and no, he didn't work at the Scranton Chili's.

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Jason Cavalier produced the cover of Gold Soundz by Pavement & Waitress In Thee Sky by The Replacements

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Songs: Wicca Phase Springs Eternal 'Moving Without Movement', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’

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Body Type's voices Annabel and Sophie join on today's episode, chatting self-made artwork, touring with Pixies, taking responsibilites in the band and the free lunch.

Expired Candy is out 2 June on Poison City Records: https://bodytypemusic.bandcamp.com/album/expired-candy

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Photo: Toni Wilkinson

Jason Cavalier produced the cover of Gold Soundz by Pavement & Waitress In Thee Sky by The Replacements

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Songs: Body Type 'Weekend', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’

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Glasgow twins Rachael and Paul join me on the impact of the 4-track recorded Rachael got as a child, recording Secret Measure with excellent producer Ali Chant - and another story of cleaning up human turd from a basement!

Secret Measure is out now on Rock Action: https://rockaction.scot/products/secret-measure

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Jason Cavalier produced the cover of Blister In The Sun by Violent Femmes & Waitress In Thee Sky by The Replacements

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Songs: Cloth 'Pigeon', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’

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On the morning of his new album's release, Greg sat on his porch and spoke with me about years of songwriting, Philadelphia and the job he picked up on a street intersection.

Greg Mendez's self-titled new album is out now: https://gregmendez.bandcamp.com/album/greg-mendez

Photo: Veronica Mendez

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Jason Cavalier produced the cover of Blister In The Sun by Violent Femmes

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Songs: Greg Mendez 'Maria', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’

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Rob Taylor, Los Campesinos! multi-instrumentalist, has a track from 10 years ago become a TikTok hit. We talk about early days in Cardiff, running for his supper and being an illustrator.

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Songs: Sparky Deathcap 'September', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’

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Baxter Dury ‘Celebrate Me’

Garden Centre ‘Chicken’

Body Type ‘Holding On’

Delivery ‘Lifetimer’

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LA Priest's Sam Dust joins me ahead of the new album Fase Luna - out this Friday. Listen in for stories of building drum machines and mad scientist life.

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Songs: LA Priest 'Star', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’

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Jack and Harry from SUDS join on today's, talking about their Norwich record & clothes shop Lowell, community and working at high street chains.

Their EP In The Undergrowth is out now

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Songs: SUDS 'Notice Me', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town 

Development Plan ‘Busway’

CMAT ‘Whatever’s Inconvenient’

JOHN ‘Trauma Mosaic’

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal 

‘It’s Getting Dark’