Episodes

  • Episode 445 Musician Larry Mullins Part 1

    Episode 445 Musician Larry Mullins Part 1
    Mar 27 2026
    Larry Mullins, also known as Toby Dammit, is a musician, record producer, and composer who plays drums, percussion, and keyboards. He performs as a member of the bands Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Swans, and previously played with Iggy Pop and The Stooges. He has also worked on scores for film and television and appeared in a performance role in the series Babylon Berlin. Stay tuned next week for Part 2.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Episode 444: Musician and Author Ian Svenonius

    Episode 444: Musician and Author Ian Svenonius
    Mar 15 2026
    Ian Svenonius is a musician and author who began his career in the 1980s Washington D.C. punk scene. He has been the lead vocalist for several bands, including The Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, and Chain and The Gang, and later released music under the electronic solo project Escape-ism. In addition to his musical output and hosting a talk show on VBS.tv, Ian has written several books of essays and cultural criticism. His published works include Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group (2012) and the essay collection Censorship Now!! (2015).
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Episode 443 Swans Guitarist Norman Westberg

    Episode 443 Swans Guitarist Norman Westberg
    Mar 7 2026
    Norman Westberg is a guitarist known for anchoring the monolithic avant-rock of Swans. Away from the band's trademark volume, however, his solo work—like the Lawrence English-produced After Vacation—abandons traditional riffs for meditative, ambient drone. By manipulating sustained tones through effect pedals, Norman restructures the instrument's sound into atmospheric compositions. His career balances decades of dense post-punk with restrained, minimalist solo recordings.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Episode 442 UK Artist Nuha Ruby Rah

    Episode 442 UK Artist Nuha Ruby Rah
    Mar 1 2026
    Nuha Ruby Ra is a UK artist who has released two EPs, including Machine Like Me (March 2023). She has toured across the UK and Europe with acts such as Self Esteem, Yard Act, Warmduscher, and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, and has performed at festivals including Glastonbury, The Great Escape, Green Man, Wilderness, Bluedot, Latitude, Boardmasters, Grauzone, Left of the Dial, and Reeperbahn.
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    59 mins
  • Episode 441 Gary Wilson

    Episode 441 Gary Wilson
    Feb 21 2026
    In 1977, Gary Wilson finished recording You Think You Really Know Me in his parents' basement and released it himself. Through the 1980s, his work in experimental music that draws across styles including new wave, rock, funk, jazz, lounge, and avant-garde. developed a following. After a 1981 tour, he was largely out of public view. Gary resurfaced around 1996, and Michael Wolk filmed his 2002 return to the stage for the documentary You Think You Really Know Me: The Gary Wilson Story. Gary has released seventeen full-length albums.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Episode 440 Percussionist Blake Fleming

    Episode 440 Percussionist Blake Fleming
    Feb 14 2026
    Blake Fleming is a percussionist, author, and educator known for his work with experimental bands and for writing The Book of Rhythm, an encyclopedia of over 5,000 organized rhythms for all instruments. The book has been sold in more than 20 countries and was a top 5 instruction title in the 2020 Modern Drummer Reader's Poll, and Blake was featured in SPIN's 100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music. He has recorded and toured across jazz, rock, and avant-garde scenes, and his drumming has been covered by outlets including The New York Times, NPR, Spin, Rolling Stone, MOJO, Modern Drummer, and Pitchfork. In addition to studio work and teaching students worldwide through live online lessons, he has completed his second full-length album, The Beat Fantastic, scheduled for release later this summer on vinyl and digitally via blakefleming.bandcamp.com. Blake co-founded and drummed for the math-rock/post-hardcore group Dazzling Killmen in the early 1990s, later touring with Japan's Zeni Geva in 1996. In the late '90s, he formed the experimental instrumental quartet Laddio Bolocko, and in 2001 became the co-founding drummer of The Mars Volta, recording early demos and briefly returning for touring in 2006. He went on to form Electric Turn To Me, contributed to projects like The Rollo Treadway. Blake has an extensive studio résumé, recording with Omar Rodríguez-López on multiple solo releases and contributing session work for artists including Kim Taylor, The Ropes, and Israel Nash Gripka.
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Episode 339 Musician Stephen Mattos

    Episode 339 Musician Stephen Mattos
    Feb 7 2026
    Rhode Islander, Stephen Mattos is a musician and librarian. He's been performing since the late 2000s under the name Chrome Jackson, and his latest band is , THERE. Outside of music, he spends his time cycling, working on photography, and cooking and gardening with his wife, artist Alicia Renadette. Stephen previously co-founded bands including Arab on Radar, Athletic Automaton and Doomsday Student.
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Episode 338 Sonny Vincent

    Episode 338 Sonny Vincent
    Jan 31 2026
    Sonny Vincent fronted Testors in the mid-1970s New York punk scene, playing CBGB and Max's Kansas City before the band split in 1981. He later formed Sonny Vincent and the Extreme and Model Prisoners, and went on to record and tour with Maureen "Mo" Tucker and Sterling Morrison from the Velvet Underground. He has continued releasing records and wrote the memoir Snake Pit Therapy.
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    1 hr and 5 mins