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| Introducing 'Break Stuff' | 27 Aug 2024 | 00:11:56 | |
Hey babes, Bandsplain is still on summer break. But in the meantime, we've got a special treat for you, courtesy The Ringer and friend of the pod Steven Hyden.
In 1999, a music festival took place in upstate New York that became a social experiment. There were riots, looting, and numerous assaults. And it was set to a soundtrack of the era’s most aggressive rock bands. Incredibly, it was the third iteration of Woodstock, a festival known for peace, love, and hippie idealism. But Woodstock ’99 revealed some hard truths behind the myths of the 1960s, and the danger that nostalgia can engender.
Steven digs deep into the history and legacy of Woodstock '99 in 'Break Stuff,' an eight-part documentary series. This is a clip from Episode 1, which is out now. To hear more, subscribe to the show on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/66M93mO2xsieeujoVZqd0x?si=c9730334434e4752
Thanks for listening. Be back soon.
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| The Grunge Draft with Chris Ryan, Rob Harvilla, and Sean Fennessey | 25 Jul 2024 | 02:04:44 | |
It’s draft time once again on Bandsplain. Chris Ryan, Rob Harvilla, and Sean Fennessey join us for the not just a little chaotic Grunge draft where everybody is a Loser in one way or another. Also, a ska season is suggested as a threat, the gang discuss the most 90’s feeling pop star of today, and we hear about Sean’s cool metal friend from high school. All that and more, on this week’s Bandsplain.
Follow Chris Ryan on Twitter @ChrisRyan77
Follow Rob Harvilla on Twitter @Harvilla
Follow Sean Fennessey on Twitter @SeanFennessey
Listen to songs we detail in the episode HERE
Host: Yasi Salek
Guests: Chris Ryan, Rob Harvilla, Sean Fennessey
Producer: Jesse Miller-Gordon
Audio Editor: Adrian Bridges
Additional Production Supervision: Justin Sayles
Theme Song: Bethany Cosentino
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| 24 Question Party People: Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux, RTX, and Black Bananas | 28 May 2024 | 01:23:58 | |
Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux, RTX, and Black Bananas comes by the pod to talk about personal style, early-2000s reality television, lychee fruit, memes from loving husbands, the 'Grease' soundtrack, why she’s a Deadhead, and more.
Host: Yasi Salek
Guest: Jennifer Herrema
Producer: Chris Sutton
Additional Production Supervision: Justin Sayles
Theme Song: Hether Fortune
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| Sunny Day Real Estate with Ian Cohen | 10 Nov 2022 | 03:34:12 | |
Emerging from Seattle’s early 90s grunge dominance, Sunny Day Real Estate became legends of an emerging midwestern emo sound that began to redefine the boundaries of the genre. Meeting us there in the blue where the words are not is writer and podcaster Ian Cohen.
Follow Ian Cohen on Twitter @en_cohen and listen to his podcast Indiecast @Indiecast1
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| Big Star with Rob Sheffield | 27 Oct 2022 | 04:53:30 | |
Rolling Stone writer and author Rob Sheffield joins us to dissect the long, storied history of the legendary Big Star, a band with a handful of records and an indelible legacy that reaches beyond the decades of their origin.
Follow Rob Sheffield on Twitter @robsheff
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| The Offspring with Daniel Kohn | 20 Oct 2022 | 03:24:30 | |
The Offspring were one in a wave of southern California bands that ushered in a renewed interest in punk rock to the ears of the masses, becoming one of the best-selling punk rock bands of all time and here to help us come out and play is Daniel Kohn.
Follow Daniel Kohn on Twitter at @danielkohn.
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| Third Eye Blind with Chris Black | 13 Oct 2022 | 03:24:39 | |
Third Eye Blind may have doot-doot-dooted their way to late 90s radio ubiquity, but there’s so much more to the story. Chris Black returns for a reconsideration of the earworm songwriting and complex lore of the singular Stephen Jenkins.
Follow Chris Black on Twitter at @donetodeath. Subscribe to How Long Gone on Spotify.
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| Smashing Pumpkins: Part 2 with Rob Harvilla | 06 Oct 2022 | 03:12:58 | |
Rob Harvilla and Yasi continue their epic trek through the Smashing Pumpkins story post-1993’s Siamese Dream, in which the Pumpkins transcend 1990s alt rock cultishness into rock phenom status with their opus double-album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
Follow Rob Harvilla at @harvilla on Twitter and listen to his The Ringer podcast, 60 Songs That Explain the 90s.
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| Smashing Pumpkins: Part 1 with Rob Harvilla | 29 Sep 2022 | 03:12:29 | |
Rob Harvilla joins us for the noble effort of explaining The Smashing Pumpkins, one of the most commercially successful and musically impactful rock bands of the 1990s. Yasi and Rob cover the first half of the band’s breakthrough career and comb through the origin story of Billy Corgan’s emergent and unusual celebrity.
Follow Rob Harvilla at @harvilla on Twitter and listen to his The Ringer podcast, 60 Songs That Explain the 90s.
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| Bad Brains with Atiba Jefferson | 02 Jun 2022 | 02:54:13 | |
Bad Brains were one of the most influential hardcore bands of all time, from inventing moshing to being groundbreaking black punks who injected hardcore with a Rastafarian philosophy and reggae influence. Though they were “banned in DC,” they built the foundation for hardcore and the history of punk to come. Photographer and unofficial mayor of LA Atiba Jefferson brings his lifelong fandom to the table as he and Yasi chart the history of Bad Brains.
Follow Atiba Jefferson on Instagram at @atibaphoto.
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| PJ Harvey: Part 2 with Ann Powers | 26 May 2022 | 03:02:20 | |
Ann Powers returns for part 2 of PJ Harvey, covering the next period of Harvey’s prolific career—from To Bring You My Love on—which was punctuated by confident creative expansions, big-hitting collaborations, flirtations with pop success, and continued artistic investigations into riveting subjects.
Follow Ann Powers on Twitter at @annkpowers, and find her latest book, Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music wherever fine books are sold.
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| PJ Harvey: Part 1 with Ann Powers | 19 May 2022 | 03:44:41 | |
For Yasi’s birthday, she can have a two part PJ Harvey episode as a treat. Ann Powers of NPR Music is welcomed back to Bandsplain to dissect the lauded work and cinematic life of Polly Jean Harvey, who Ann calls “the artiest rock star of the late 20th century” and a vector for deep discussions on gender, sexuality, mysticism, mythmaking, and art.
Follow Ann Powers on Twitter at @annkpowers, and find her latest book, Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music wherever fine books are sold.
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| Neutral Milk Hotel with Mark Richardson | 12 May 2022 | 03:37:22 | |
Neutral Milk Hotel released only two studio albums in the mid-to-late 90s, On Avery Island and In An Aeroplane Over the Sea, but they’ve since been consecrated as quintessential indie rock classics. Emerging from the Elephant 6 musical collective, bandleader Jeff Mangum led this eccentric musical experiment that left much mystery, and a large cult following, in its wake. This week, Wall Street Journal’s rock and pop music critic and former editor-in-chief of Pitchfork Mark Richardson to explain Neutral Milk Hotel.
Follow Mark Richardson on Twitter at @markrichardson.
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| The Breeders with Caryn Ganz | 23 May 2024 | 03:23:22 | |
Kim Deal initially formed The Breeders with her sister Kelley as a side project while she was in the Pixies so that she could record her own songs, but it definitely turned into something way bigger, more iconic, and more influential than that. Through shifting line ups and several starts and stops, the band managed to make some of the best rock albums of the 90’s and beyond, setting the bar for coolness and influencing artists from Nirvana to Olivia Rodrigo along the way. Author and New York Times pop music editor Caryn Ganz joins us to talk about their history, their impact, and of course, their incredible music.
Follow Caryn Ganz on Twitter @mehpatrol
Listen to songs we detail in the episode HERE
Host: Yasi Salek
Guest: Caryn Ganz
Producer: Jesse Miller-Gordon
Audio Editor: Adrian Bridges
Additional Production Supervision: Justin Sayles
Theme Song: Bethany Cosentino
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| The Slits with Zoë Howe | 05 May 2022 | 04:25:40 | |
In the mid-70s, four not-so-typical teenage girls came barreling into the nascent UK punk scene. The Slits split in the early 80s, but their impact on punk was profound and foundational. Zoë Howe, author of Typical Girls, the Story of the Slits, joins Yasi to talk about the revolution of the Slits.
Follow Zoë Howe on Twitter @ladyzoe2dots, and check out her book, Typical Girls, the Story of the Slits, on her website, zoehowe.com.
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| Primus with Christopher Weingarten | 28 Apr 2022 | 03:24:17 | |
Primus, led by bass-slappin’ virtuoso Les Claypool, emerged from the Bay Area’s funk-punk-metal hybrid scene of the late 80s and 90s, to become a textbook cult band—you either love ‘em or hate ‘em. Music journalist Christopher Weingarten makes the case for the true cult fandom of Primus and the oddball, arty genius of Les Claypool.
Follow Christopher Weingarten on Twitter @1000TimesYes and pick up his 33 ⅓ book on Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
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| Operation Ivy with Corbett Redford | 21 Apr 2022 | 02:37:17 | |
Operation Ivy was likely your favorite band’s favorite band, and Corbett Redford, director of the documentary Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk, tells us why. These teenage pioneers of ska-inflected punk were a flagship band of Berkeley’s 924 Gilman scene in the mid 1980s, releasing only one full length that galvanized a scene and several generations of future punks.
Follow Corbett Redford on Twitter at @CorbettRedford and check out Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk.
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| Rilo Kiley with Quinn Moreland | 14 Apr 2022 | 03:05:23 | |
Pitchfork’s Quinn Moreland joins us to explain the reverberations of Jenny Lewis’s reign as the queen of 2000s indie rock with her band of Los Angeles darlings, Rilo Kiley.
Follow Quinn Moreland on Twitter at @quinnmoreland.
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| Radiohead: Part 2 with Cole Cuchna | 07 Apr 2022 | 03:35:05 | |
We’re back with Cole Cuchna, host of Dissect and Key Notes, for Part 2 of Radiohead, starting from their revolutionary 2000 album Kid A through their continuing evolution both as a band and as individual artists. Steven Hyden, author of This Isn’t Happening: Radiohead’s Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century, also joins us for an examination of Kid A’s impact on music criticism and the album’s context within rock music history.
Follow Cole Cuchna on Twitter at @dissectpodcast and check out his podcasts Dissect and Key Notes, only on Spotify.
Follow Steven Hyden on Twitter @Steven_Hyden, and check out his podcasts Indiecast and 36 From the Vault. Find his book This Isn’t Happening: Radiohead’s Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century wherever fine books are sold.
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| Radiohead: Part 1 with Cole Cuchna | 31 Mar 2022 | 02:43:42 | |
Cole Cuchna, host of Dissect and Key Notes, brings his keyboard to Bandsplain for Part 1 of our deep dive into the history, music theory, and immense, innovative impact Radiohead has had on music at large. Covering their first era, Cole and Yasi take us through the band’s Oxford origins, to how they grappled with and later defied Creep’s one-hit-wonder status, all the way up to their groundbreaking work on OK Computer. Stay tuned next week for Part 2 of Radiohead.
Follow Cole Cuchna on Twitter at @dissectpodcast and check out his podcasts Dissect and Key Notes, only on Spotify.
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| Mailbag Part Deux | 24 Mar 2022 | 01:25:36 | |
Once again, Yasi and Producer Dylan take a little breather from the 60 page Google Docs and 5 hour episodes to answer your burning questions, including: the making of Bandsplain, what bands we’re listening to now, and why we haven’t done Guided By Voices yet. Special shout out to our Gen Z listeners who called in, you are very cool.
Check out the artists Yasi and Dylan recommended in this episode:
Turnstile
Enumclaw
Big Thief
Soccer Mommy
Snail Mail
SASAMI
Girlpool
Wednesday
OVLOV
Young Guv
Fucked Up
Niis
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| Liz Phair with Niko Stratis | 17 Mar 2022 | 03:50:00 | |
A major figure in the cool girl canon, Liz Phair broke through Chicago’s indie rock scene (and its politics) with her seminal 1993 debut, Exile in Guyville, setting her off on a fearlessly confessional path of continual, defiant self-reinvention. Writer Niko Stratis talks with Yasi about Liz Phair’s bold songwriting and boundary-pushing across the worlds of provincial indie rock and chart-topping pop.
Follow Niko Stratis at @nikostratis.
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| 311 with Marty Sartini Garner | 10 Mar 2022 | 03:37:19 | |
In honor of 3/11 day, we present to you: 311. Purveyors of positivity as well as amber-colored energies, 311’s extensive career gets a thorough and loving look from writer and known Excitable, Marty Sartini Garner.
Follow Marty Sartini Garner at @mrrrty.
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| Randy Newman with Molly Lambert | 03 Mar 2022 | 02:19:37 | |
Songwriter laureate of Los Angeles Randy Newman gets explained by the Valley’s own Molly Lambert. Infinitely more prolific, and controversial, than his common image suggests as the “I Love LA” and Toy Story theme song guy, Molly takes Yasi on a tour of his extensive and complex oeuvre as Hollywood songman.
Follow Molly Lambert at @mollylambert.
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| 24 Question Party People: Shannon Shaw of Shannon and the Clams | 21 May 2024 | 01:45:25 | |
Shannon Shaw of Shannon and the Clams comes by the pod to talk about their beautiful new album, 'The Moon Is in the Wrong Place'; bad smoothies; dealing with grief through making art; Primus fandom; FMK the Beatles; being saved by Drew Carey; her future career as a product jingle writer; and more.
Host: Yasi Salek
Guest: Shannon Shaw
Producer: Chris Sutton
Additional Production Supervision: Justin Sayles
Theme Song: Hether Fortune
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| Sublime with Jeff Weiss | 24 Feb 2022 | 02:03:10 | |
Sublime, the ultimate legacy band for stoner kids everywhere, get explained by return guest Jeff Weiss. Jeff joins Yasi to make the case on how Sublime’s Long Beach heritage and their of-its-time infusions of ska, punk, rock, and reggae made them a ubiquitous Southern Californian musical export, even after singer Bradley Newell’s passing in 1996.
Follow Jeff Weiss at @passionweiss and check out The LAnd magazine at @theLAndmagazine.
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| Pavement with Chris Ryan | 17 Feb 2022 | 03:54:05 | |
The Ringer’s Chris Ryan joins us for a long-awaited Bandsplain on one of Yasi’s all-time favorite bands: Pavement. Steeped in Californian suburban ennui, the casual, scruffy brilliance of Pavement pierced through the indie rock heyday of the post-grunge 90s to make them one of the most enduring rock bands from that moment.
Follow Chris Ryan on Twitter at @ChrisRyan77 and check out his Ringer podcasts The Watch, The Rewatchables, Music Exists, and The Ringer NBA Show.
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| Minutemen with Joe Gross | 10 Feb 2022 | 02:50:57 | |
Minutemen from San Pedro, CA were a band of childhood soulmates whose experimental sound, working class roots, and lucid politics made them all-timers in the history of punk. Joe Gross returns to highlight Minutemen’s DIY ethos of “jamming econo,” and the timeless influence they had on the whole of independent music that came after them.
Follow Joe Gross on Twitter at @joegross and pick up his 33 ⅓ book on Fugazi’s In On the Killtaker wherever fine books are sold.
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| Nine Inch Nails with Geoff Rickly | 03 Feb 2022 | 03:49:58 | |
Geoff Rickly from Thursday guides us through the extended universe of Trent Reznor, who took the pulse and grit of industrial music into the mainstream with NIИ’s 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine, and became one of rock’s darkest and most impactful innovators of the next few decades.
Follow Geoff Rickly on Twitter at @GeoffRickly.
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| Fishbone with Joseph Patel | 27 Jan 2022 | 02:23:38 | |
Our Red Hot Chili Peppers Gen X-pert Joseph Patel, producer of Summer of Soul, returns to Bandsplain one of the Pep’s most influential, yet underappreciated, LA scene contemporaries: Fishbone. Their eclectic fusions of punk, funk, ska, metal, and soul earned these childhood friends from South Central a true cult following in the late 80s and early 90s, despite the industry racism and internal dysfunction that fumbled their mainstream potential.
Follow Joseph Patel on Twitter at @jazzbeezy and watch his documentary Summer of Soul.
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| Weezer with Barry Johnson | 20 Jan 2022 | 04:01:14 | |
Barry Johnson of Joyce Manor joins Yasi for a thorough investigation into Weezer, the early nineties major label breakouts who have served as a gateway rock band for many a preteen since. Barry and Yasi plumb the depths of one idiosyncratic frontman, Rivers Cuomo, while examining the transmutations of alt-rock from the nineties to the aughts, and Weezer’s robustly maintained fandom community who’ve stayed with them to this day.
Follow Barry Johnson on Twitter at @joycemanor.
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| Sheryl Crow with Bethany Cosentino | 13 Jan 2022 | 02:59:37 | |
We’re back! At Bandsplain, all we wanna do is have some fun, and Yasi had the feeling she wasn’t the only one. So this week, friend of the show Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast joins us to make the case for Sheryl Crow. In 1986, Sheryl’s winding road began when she left small town Missouri for Hollywood, where she toured with Michael Jackson, scrapped her own debut album, and survived off trail mix until her breakthrough Tuesday Night Music Club put her on the map. Bethany and Yasi uncover the tragedies and successes of Sheryl’s story as she spent the next few decades navigating the underbelly of celebrity and the mess of music media while becoming one of the quintessential songwriters of her time.
Follow Bethany Cosentino on Twitter at @bestcoast.
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| Gin Blossoms with Bob Mehr | 09 Dec 2021 | 02:30:40 | |
Bob Mehr returns to Bandsplain for an in-depth look at oft overlooked stalwarts of the 90s rock charts, Gin Blossoms. Looking at the history before a slew of hit singles brought the band into the realm of grocery store soundtrack ubiquity (Hey Jealousy, Found Out About You, Follow You Down), Bob leads us through their origins in Tempe, Arizona’s fruitful scene of the late 80s and the tragic story of songwriter Doug Hopkins to the admirable longevity of some of their best-crafted rock songs.
Content warning: this episode addresses suicide and substance abuse.
Follow Bob Mehr on Twitter at @BobMehr and find Trouble Boys: the True Story of the Replacements wherever books are sold.
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| Lifter Puller & The Hold Steady with Darcie Wilder | 02 Dec 2021 | 02:25:13 | |
From Lifter Puller’s scrappy Minneapolis origins to the Hold Steady’s reign as “America’s best bar band,” Yasi is joined by writer Darcie Wilder of Gawker to unpack this pair of critically beloved and certifiably cult bands who culled as much from Catholic symbolism and Springsteenian character studies as they did from the social milieu of the Brooklyn aughts zeitgeist.
Follow Darcie Wilder on Twitter @333333333433333 and pick up her book, “literally show me a healthy person.”
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| Fountains of Wayne LIVE with Max Collins | 18 Nov 2021 | 02:00:02 | |
We’re coming at you from Zebulon in Los Angeles with our very first LIVE episode, where we’re blessed by the presence of Max Collins of Eve 6 as he discusses who he thinks is America’s greatest rock n’ roll band: Fountains of Wayne.
Follow Max Collins on Twitter at @eve6.
We’re off next week for Thanksgiving. See you back here on Thursday, December 2 for an all new episode of Bandsplain.
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| Alice in Chains with Rob Harvilla | 16 May 2024 | 04:59:08 | |
Alice in Chains emerged from the Seattle scene an entity unto themselves. Formed from remnants of local hair metal bands, they naturally evolved into the groove heavy band with a distinct vocal style we know today. Rob Harvilla joins us to parse the legacy of perhaps the most populist band of the Grunge era.
Follow Rob Harvilla on Twitter @harvilla
Listen to songs we detail in the episode HERE
Host: Yasi Salek
Guest: Rob Harvilla
Producer: Jesse Miller-Gordon
Audio Editor: Adrian Bridges
Additional Production Supervision: Justin Sayles
Theme Song: Bethany Cosentino
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| Reba McEntire with Natalie Weiner | 11 Nov 2021 | 02:23:30 | |
Yasi is joined by journalist Natalie Weiner to unpack the four-decade reign of Reba, Queen of Country, from her humble Oklahoma rodeo origins all the way through her world domination as a multiplatinum-selling artist, award-winning star of screen and stage, and intrepid entrepreneur.
Follow Natalie Weiner on Twitter @natalieweiner and check out her podcast, Rebawatchables.
Check out Reba’s podcast, Living & Learning with Reba McEntire, only on Spotify.
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| Pixies with Gina Arnold | 04 Nov 2021 | 03:08:45 | |
Gina Arnold—author, academic, and architect of Yasi’s youth—graces us with her perspective on Pixies, the seminal cult indie rock band from Boston.
Follow Gina Arnold on Twitter at @ginanarchy and check out her books Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana, the 33 ⅓ book on Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville, and Kiss This: Punk in the Present Tense.
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| The Misfits with Mike Gitter | 28 Oct 2021 | 02:14:06 | |
If you’re gonna scream, scream with us. Glenn Danzig’s iconic punk outfit The Misfits get the Bandsplain treatment thanks to Mike Gitter, A&R man and progenitor of XXX Fan Zine. Yasi and Mike traverse the spooky landscape of The Misfits, from the history of horrorcore to punks pumping iron on tour, and the countless drummers in between it all.
Follow Mike Gitter on Twitter at @TheGitter and pick up his book, “XXX Fanzine 1983-1988: Hardcore & Punk n the Eighties,” wherever fine books are sold.
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| Metallica: Part 2 with Joe Gross | 21 Oct 2021 | 02:49:36 | |
Here is part two of our Metallica episode, because nothing else matters. Journalist Joe Gross takes us through the latter years of Metallica. We investigate the ups and downs of their musical explorations, personnel changes, and famously documented self-help odyssey, all of which follows their 16x platinum blockbuster, the self-titled Black Album.
Follow Joe Gross on Twitter at @joegross and pick up his 33 ⅓ book on Fugazi’s In On the Killtaker wherever fine books are sold.
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| Metallica: Part 1 with Kory Grow | 14 Oct 2021 | 02:37:43 | |
For whom the pod casts: we bring you part one of our mega-episode on Metallica, the biggest heavy metal band of all time. Rolling Stone senior writer Kory Grow has spent years writing about the band, and takes us through the beginning half of their career, from their origins to tragedy to triumph, and off to never never land.
Follow Kory Grow on Twitter at @korygrow.
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| Guns N' Roses with Riki Rachtman | 07 Oct 2021 | 03:11:54 | |
We’re back with guns blazing. Yasi dons her top hat and talks with storied Guns N’ Roses associate Riki Rachtman, former host of MTV’s Headbangers Ball and original co-owner of the legendary rock n’ roll hangout the Cathouse Hollywood.
Follow Riki Rachtman on Twitter at @RikiRachtman.
Further reading:
“Reckless Road: Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction” by Marc Canter
“Slash” by Slash
“It's So Easy: and other lies” by Duff McKagan
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| Listener Mailbag | 23 Sep 2021 | 00:49:09 | |
Today, Yasi and Producer Dylan open up the listener mailbag to dish out flawless and meaningful life advice, as well as compelling answers to your burning questions. We do it for you, Reply Guy Army. We do it for you.
We’re taking a week off and Bandsplain will be back on October 7th!
In our break, check out our new show, The 33 ⅓ Podcast, hosted by Prince Paul. Each week we dive into one iconic album with a brilliant guest, using the source material of the 33 ⅓ book series.
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| Cocteau Twins with Claire Shaffer | 16 Sep 2021 | 02:23:00 | |
The Scottish dreampop progenitors Cocteau Twins have a surprisingly dramatic backstory for being known as the ultimate band of ethereal, cryptic musicians. We get into all of it with Rolling Stone alum Claire Shaffer, who helps us decode their mystique, as well as to champion the “no English, just vibes” lyrical philosophy of one brilliant Elizabeth Fraser.
Follow Claire Shaffer on Twitter at @claireeshaffer.
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| Gram Parsons with John Strohm | 09 Sep 2021 | 02:23:32 | |
Cosmic country pioneer, Emmylou Harris collaborator, Keith Richards bestie, and spiritual grandfather of any country-twinged rock of the last half century, the one and only Gram Parsons is celebrated by our new friend John Strohm, president of Rounder Records, founding member of the Blake Babies, and former member of the Lemonheads.
Follow John Strohm on Twitter at @johnpstrohm and Rounder Records at @RounderRecords.
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| Tracy Chapman with Ann-Derrick Gaillot | 02 Sep 2021 | 01:38:00 | |
Writer Ann-Derrick Gaillot takes us through the decades-spanning career of Tracy Chapman, whose breakout hit Fast Car propelled her into the canon of singer-songwriters when she was just 24 years old.
Follow Ann-Derrick Gaillot at @AnnDerrickG.
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| Remembering Steve Albini, Plus Our Favorite Albini Albums With Rob Harvilla | 14 May 2024 | 01:10:12 | |
Rob Harvilla joins Yasi to talk about Steve Albini's legacy, in music and also outside of it.
Host: Yasi Salek
Guest: Rob Harvilla
Producer: Chris Sutton
Additional Production Supervision: Justin Sayles
Theme Song: Bethany Cosentino
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| The Doors with Jeff Weiss | 26 Aug 2021 | 02:26:52 | |
We strip down the mythical, mysterious layers of foundational band The Doors and the original rock n’ roll martyr, Jim Morrison. Fellow child of LA Jeff Weiss of the LAnd Magazine is our guest.
Follow Jeff Weiss at @passionweiss and check out The LAnd magazine at @theLAndmagazine.
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| U2 with Rob Harvella | 19 Aug 2021 | 03:11:32 | |
Return guest and best friend Rob Harvilla of The Ringer’s 60 Songs That Explain the 90’s takes us through the humble Irish beginnings to era-defining rock superstardom of U2.
Follow Rob Harvilla at @harvilla on Twitter and listen to his The Ringer podcast, 60 Songs That Explain the 90s, only on Spotify.
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| Wilco with Jason P. Woodbury | 12 Aug 2021 | 02:15:55 | |
With the help of writer and DJ Jason P. Woodbury of Aquarium Drunkard’s Transmissions podcast, we examine the sprawling and experimental output of Jeff Tweedy’s Wilco, from its alt-country roots to the dad rock clichés and their many genre-transcending moments throughout.
Follow Jason P. Woodbury on Twitter at @jasonpwoodbury and check out Transmissions [https://open.spotify.com/show/1ErL7gvZD6v3HJ4Nx5oexm?si=M0X_aN3eTPeJnKhQHQWX9w&dl_branch=1].
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