Like What You Like – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Dave Collis and Mercedes Webb of Slow Mass join the show to talk about their new record Low On Foot, out now on Landland Colportage. We get into the creation of Low On Foot and the circumstances surrounding its release, from being recorded and ready to release to 4 years later when the record finally saw a wider release. Dave and Mercedes discuss their experiences finding music at a young age that eventually led them to pursuing their own songwriting. We of course connect on the music discoveries that were pivotal to each of their tastes, as well as the music they carry with them still.

Bands Mentioned:

Hop Along, Algernon Cadwallader, Dave Matthews Band, Cloud Mouth, Morning Arms, Wild Bell, Modest Mouse, The Killers, Muse, The Killers, Interpol, The Walkmen, Beastie Boys, Pinback, Blink-182, Elvis Costello, The Stranglers , The Jam, Led Zepplin, Cream, Yes, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Lucy Dacus, Dr. Dog, Mogwai , The Seeds, Duster, Q and not U, Black Eyes, Hella, Lightning Bolt, Death Cab For Cutie, Andrew Bird, Mitch Mead, Downward, Prize Horse, Pygmy Lush, Foo Fighters, Bellows, Snoozer, Spirit Of The Beehive, Lithuania, Minus The Bear, Spite House, Underoath, Hovvdy, Porches  

Have a question or suggestion for the show, email me at blake@lwylmusic.com.

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Marcus Joins the show for a fantastic conversation about his new album Take A Beat from his project Wrong Numbers. You may know Marcus from his drumming in the highly adored Pet Symmetry and the fast-growing Ratboys. Wrong Numbers contains fun flourishes and invigorating musical moments that I've come to expect from Marcus' other projects.

In this episode we get into Marcus' history within the Chicago music scene, meeting the people he would end knowing to this day, an insane mixed bill show from 2013 getting into electronic music hardware, developing his solo songwriting process, collecting musical ideas for the Wrong Numbers project, lots of production talk (cool), abandoning sp*tify, mindfully listening to music, modding old ipods, and more (if you can believe it)

Bands Mentioned

This is Lorelei

Boards of Canada

Aphex Twin

Venetian Snares

Radiohead

Fugazi

Bad Brains

Gorrilaz

Rush

Pinback

Fear Before The March of Flames

Heavy Heavty Low Low

Hotline TNT

Grace Notary is currently the brand marketing & partnerships manager at 16 On Center, a hospitality group that produces local festivals and represents Chicago’s most iconic independent music venues -  Salt Shed, Empty Bottle, Thalia Hall, The Promontory, and SPACE.

This was a wonderful conversation breaking out LWYL's usual artist interviews branching into the wider music industry. I was intrigued to learn about the ins and outs of Grace's work at some of Chicago's most prominent independent venues. I hope you learn something new!

Blake's Recommendation:

The new single by MSPAINT - Angel

Will Lindsay joins the show to talk about his new project Buying Fireworks In Indiana. I originally met Will through interviewing his other project Caracara back in 2022 while they were on tour in Chicago. Through some circumstances of fate Will found himself living in Chicago and since him and I have become fast friends. This chat encompassess Will’s journey of founding Buying Fireworks In Indiana, the creative challenges that have fueled it, how current and past experiences have helped from a new venture, tackling the abstract challenge of making art on social media, and of course the music that helped inspire it.

Will Lindsay is a musician and storyteller who’s spent the past decade chasing songs and dodging algorithms. He fronts the critically acclaimed Philadelphia indie-punk band Caracara, and before that, made noisy, joyful chaos as W.C. Lindsay. He’s toured the world, lost sleep in vans, and somehow managed to make music that people actually felt.
Now, he’s pouring all of that into Buying Fireworks in Indiana—a solo project that blends indie electronic music, cinematic video essays, and longform writing into something you can’t quite describe at parties. The project is a search—for feeling, for meaning, for stories that don’t disappear into the void of infinite scroll.
Shaped by years of DIY shows, overnight drives, and conversations in strange corners of the world, Buying Fireworks in Indiana is part travelogue, part love letter to subculture. It’s a living archive of underground music, fleeting moments, and people chasing something just out of frame.
Musically, the project lives between genres—in a space Lindsay calls “drum & bliss”—a blend of indie electronic, future garage, post-punk, and melodic drum & bass. It’s emotionally charged and built for movement: dancing, driving, drifting, disappearing.
The rest of the story unfolds in essays and videos—dispatches from the road, meditations on art and impermanence, and quiet glimpses of the collaborations that become the songs.
Buying Fireworks in Indiana is a listener-reader-supported project. If the music hits, if the stories get under your skin—becoming a paid subscriber is how you keep it alive. Premium supporters help ensure the next chapter is not only possible, but honest, wild, and worth doing.
In a digital landscape that can amplify and erase with the same swipe, Lindsay leans into the contradiction—making art that holds tension between nostalgia and progress, tradition and invention. Buying Fireworks in Indiana isn’t just his journey; it’s an open invitation to hop in and come along.

Links:

Web / Newsletter: https://buyingfire.works/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2fSit0fOVH1HGhF1u5cGSg
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@buyingfireworks
Insta / Threads: @buyingfireworks
PI.FYI: https://www.pi.fyi/u/buyingfireworks

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This was a great casual chat and I hope you’ll check out the new music Will has coming at the end of this month.

Seamus Kreitzer is the singer/guitarist for the twangy and jangly Disaster Kid, who just released an excellent new EP called Rare Bird. In this interview we discuss the inception and recording of this new record as well as the transitional point that it represents for the band. This was a very laid back conversation that veered into the inception of Disaster Kid, weekender touring, being from the Twin Cities (Minneapolis & St. Paul), which obviously led us to talking about The Replacements, and we of course talk about the music that Seamus loves.

Stream Rare Bird now!

Blake's Recommendation at the end of the episode is for the new Djo album The Crux

LWYL regulars, Matt Kistler and Jack Tecca join the show to countdown each of their 5 favorite records from the first 3 months of 2025.

We also discuss the albums that just missed our lists and what we are looking forward to this year.

Jack Tecca is a Chicago-based musician who performs under his own name as well as with his bands As A Ghost and Type Shit.

Matt Kistler is a Chicago-based musician and podcaster. Matt performs ambient music as Blood Pact Scout and plays in such bands as Jeff Schaller and the Long Way Home, This Page Intentionally Left Blank, Type Shit and others. Matt is also the co-host of the other music podcast in Chicago, Noise Floor, along with Troy Sennet.

Andrew Smith is a drummer, producer and one part of the legendary DIY venue Empty Bliss. You may know Andrew from his many, many bands from Chicago. From the intense blast beats of meth. to the alt-rocking of Footballhead, Andrew is a technician behind the kit - no matter the genre he's playing. In this conversation we talk about how he started playing the drums, the music that continues to inspire him, how he conceptualizes his playing in various projects, his experience living in a DIY venue, he shares his love for Swans and gives a beginner's guide, and much more...

Go listen to Andrew's bands and see him live somewhere around the world.

Andrew's upcoming shows:

Footballhead

> TONIGHT (4/4/25) San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger

> 4/5/25 Houston, TX @ Secret Group

>4/25/25 Chicago @ House of Blues with The Used performing the S/T 

Low Animal

>4/26 Chicago @ Beat Kitchen

Black Nail

>5/1 Chicago @ Empty Bliss

Modest Merch is a screen printing shop owned and operated by Mike Galati in Chicago, IL. Mike is a fixture of the Chicago DIY scene, having printed countless shirts over the past 13 years of operation. We get into Mike's story of being able to support himself by printing t-shirts for bands, what it was like getting started, the feeling of delivering a band's first merch item, discovering his favorite music, hot dogs, double dogs, combos and much more!

If you want to get in touch with Mike about merch you can reach him over email

modestmerch@gmail.com

The playlist Mike Mentioned (On Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Q6PASeKfYD8YlBU3000XS?si=8ef28c9f099d4f5e

Here's something different for you, a draft! Podcast regulars, Jack Tecca (As A Ghost, Type Shit), Matt Kistler (This Page Intentionally Left Blank, Type Shit, Jeff Schaller and the Long Way Home, Blood Pact Scout), and Zack Weiss (Aprés Pompeii) join the show to do a new format for LWYL. Our draft categories were inspired by recent podcast guests from the past year. We delve into all the nooks and crannies of our favorite Bands, Cities, More Bands, Movies, and a bonus category you won't want to miss.

Hoping to do more fun formats like this in the future. I hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening!

More interviews next week!

Ryan Nolen is the singer/guitarist for the amped-up alternative rock band Footballhead. Ryan is a native of the greater Chicagoland area. Venturing briefly to California for college but eventually returning to Chicago, diving head first into the city's music scene. In this interview we discuss the songwriting prowess of Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind), being exposed to life changing music as a passenger, critiques of the inclusion of lettuce in burritos, defending butt-rock, 1-year of Overthinking Everything, New music and a lot more.