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From pooping on planes to putting butter in the glove compartment, Johnny and Cody of Evil Island join us and get us all horny for their upcoming album Terraform The Afterlife!

From burning CDs to chance encounters in the kitchen, this episode with Tom May, vocalist and guitarist for the Philly punk band The Menzingers is elegant and full of fireworks!

Our good friend Eric D Johnson aka Fruit Bats is back on this perfectly packed pod for some new questions, old questions, and a few surprises!

With the freedom of a 17-year-old and the wisdom of a grandfather, we get down and deep with our friend Fantastic Negrito, whose new (live) album, Alive!, drops on July 17th!

From basketball to painting, we configure the kitchen with Francis of Delirium, whose recent album "Run, Run Pure Beauty" is like a lunch break at the butcher shop. 

From books to basketball, Ryan Kattner is like our cool distant cousin who comes to visit like every five years. We have an awesome time, share dope stories, and then he dips out, leaving us wanting more!

Our convo with Cinnamon was sugar, spice and everything nice (plus crazy cats, repeat puzzles, thinking in bets, and so much more)!

A lifetime in the making, this episode with Edwin McCain is epic! We discuss everything from fixing laundry machines to the sound of other people cutting their nails, and so much more. 

Walking the dog, watching Pocahontas, and selling bromance with BIG SPECIAL, who have a new EP called O' Joy dropping on June 5th!

With a voice like a choir of angels, we welcome Tyler Ballgame to Bothering the Band to discuss really "important" matters!

Hung loose and watched Shrek 2 with our good friend Leah of Ok Cowgirl, who is back on the podcast to discuss doing cowgirl stuff and so much more!

Calling all Panda Heads and thieves, join us as we bothered Jordan, Jeff, and Shane of Mo Lowda & The Humble, whom we have been trying to get on the pod forever!

Class is in session on this week's very special episode with Julez and the Rollerz as it is take-your-kid-to-work day again so our host's daughter is asking the questions!

We did a little gardening with Payam, Jacob, and Sameer of Young the Giant, whose new album Victory Garden will be released on May 1st, 2026!

We hung out with Inner Wave and got into the good stuff...music, memories, and the hilarious moments that shaped where they are now. 

We had so much fun bothering bolth Jade and Jessica of the band Hotel Fiction that our faces still hurt from all the giggling about Smash Mouth, basic bros liking the movie Interstellar, and so much more!

Despite the trashcan controversy, we had a blast getting musically tattooed by Alexandra Antonopoulos of Honeycrush, who we've been wanting to have on since the beginning. 

Take your medication and return your shopping cart, because this episode with Vladimir John Ondrasik III of Five for Fighting is like the perfect high five!

Getting diplomatic about basketball, sobriety, soda pop and punk rock with Charlie Paulson, guitarist for Goldfinger!

Getting to bother Peter Silberman of The Antlers was a young man's dream come true. Listen to this musical time machine!

What does Kyle Gass do when he's not playing with the Greatest Band in the World? He assembles an otherworldly super-team of badass dudes to back him up in his own project, the Kyle Gass Band...and here we have them all on Bothering the Band!

On this episode, Sean Solomon satirizes everything from music to art to his Aunt Linda, so listen and check out his debut solo album, The World Is Not Good Enough, coming in April!

On this episode, we hang with the one‑and‑only Jorge Garcia — actor, storyteller, and good‑vibes expert — for goofy questions, wild hypotheticals, and laughs that might make you snort!

Sharing secrets and double dutch in mesh shorts while listening to the Joe Rogan Experience with Ramesh Srivastava of the band Voxtrot, whose new album "Dreamers in Exile" drops on February 27th!

Put on your orange jeans and get ready to sing little songs around the house about bug experiences with stand-up comedian, classically trained violist, award-winning filmmaker, and weekend vampire Isbael Hagen!

The one-and-only Reggie Watts makes our bucket list dreams come true on this laughter-filled episode in which we talk music, comedy, looping, and the quiet chaos of a creative brain that never really shuts off. 

We spazzed out, but also got poetic, face to face with the one-and-only, multi-talented N8NOFACE (whose stories are like mini movies, so listen up)!

We rode quads, shot BB guns, played Golden Eye, and didn't stop singing and laughing with our new best buds...Tom, Eric, and Ethan of the comedy band Wolves of Glendale!

We had fun frolicking with our new BFF, singer/songwriter and social media maven Fia James, who has new tunes dropping soon!

Season 6 of Bothering the Band begins with Joe Talbot of the incredible band Idles warming up to us with poetry and positive reassurances that what we are doing is not dumb. 

Eating pancakes with Adea Frances & Billy Rymer of Atomic Life is the perfect way to cap off an epic season 5! Special thanks goes to our friend Kelly Munday for making episode one happen.

Cruising around in Joe Strummer's Cadillac, vaping with one hand and eating cupcakes with the other, while talking about duvet hacks with Monique from Save Ferris...our younger selves could not be more stoked!

Listen to this badass bonus hang with our talented pals Eamon McGrath and Craig Bjerring (aka Oldseed), in which we talk about life, snacks, and the challenge of making their recent remotely remote record "Jet Lag" all while interrupting each other.

Musician and social media personality, Petey USA joins us for a good conversation about songs, social media, squirrels, swamps, smoking cigs and surviving it all with humor intact.

Buckle the heck in because we had an absolute blast with comedian-actor-turned-pop-punk rocker Lauren Ash, who you may know from the hilarious show Superstore, but who now is following lifelong dreams and refusing to play by the rules.

Put on soundproofing headphones and a blindfold, because this episode with Bobby Burg and Melina Ausikaitis of Aitis Band is a mix of haunted houses and “that’s what she said” jokes.
Special thanks to our brand whisperer & spiritual sage Enid Casablanca for joining us this week!

Welcome to the Podemic, where we bother Brendon Walsh & Sean O’Connor (of fellow Ruinous Media podcast Off the Records) while finger blasting C3PO with a handful of butter and Robitussin on our funniest episode ever?

Asa Taccone, Grammy-nominated songwriter, hitmaker, and mastermind behind everything from Portugal, the Man's “Feel It Still” to SNL’s “Dick in a Box" joins us to talk dental hygiene, Diet Coke, Electric Guest's new album 10K and hella more!

This episode is chaos in the best way. The audio? Terrible. Mike’s truck? Victim of a hit and run. But somehow, in the middle of it all, we got to bothering the legendary Norwegian free jazz monsters (just kidding; they are pure rock-n-roll) The Thing!

our episode with singer, rocker, and rapper grandson (aka Jordan Benjamin) explodes with hope and optimism, just like his lean and ferocious new album Inertia!

Dive into this awesome episode with the endlessly witty UK band Sports Team, recorded remotely around a pool in the Hollywood Hills while they were on tour with Supergrass, proving dreams come true for both sides. 

We are chuckin' & wingin' a sequel to the film Titanic on this raucous bonus episode with rodeo core rocker Dead Tooth!

We smoked crack at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter with Tom and Will of our new favorite band Radium Dolls!

We discuss live music, wonder if Tom Cruise has ever had Papa Johns, and talk a lot about Taskmaster with the hilarious comedian/actor Michael Rowland, who currently stars on the Fox comedy Animal Control. 

Let the natural light of Dan Mangan wash over you as he is back on Bothering the Band to discuss sequels, sex, sandwiches, saunas, and his sensational new album, Natural Light. 

We beefed around and built a blanket fort with actor/comedian/author/improviser Bobby Moynihan, who talked about his very first CD, a Drunk Uncle movie, and more!

Directed by Christopher Nolan, this episode of Bothering the Band with Kelcey Ayer is filled with action, comedy, drama, sun-induced sneezes, Slipknot, shower caps and so much more!

In the words of our wayward host, "Billie Marten makes music that feels me as much as I feel it," and she is back on the pod with all the feelings and smiles to discuss her incredible new album Dog Eared. Listen to this episode and then feel Billie's music as it feels you.

Light the fireworks for this salute-worthy episode with the hilarious actor/comedian/podcaster Jon Gabrus! From inertia to nostalgia, music to comedy, this episode is a power-hour filled with nuggets of gold.

This week on Bothering the Band, we’re joined by comedian, actor, writer, bird guy, Adam Cayton-Holland! It’s part comedy deep dive, part birdwatching fever dream, part defending Dave Matthews Band, and all very, very dumb (in the best way). Plus, he drops some major movie news at the end!