Best Mighty Moon Media Podcasts (2025)

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Naima Bock - Archaeology Below a Massive Dark Land 23:06

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The incredibly moving songwriter tells us about archaeological digs, finding the definition of what being a sustainable artist is, and writing a new song early this day. Naima's new Live in Toulon is out now Thank you The Shop in Deptford for hosting - find them at https://www.instagram.com/theshop.se8/ Get yourself some top class Shure microphone …

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Kojey Radical - "'Why can't you come to the rave bro?' - There's a man in a corset that needs my help" 44:26

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Kojey Radical joins us on how PRS has provided him a stable career after he was fired from every other job he had (including at Boxpark and fitting corsets), skateboarding around london and what makes a good producer. Photo: Garry Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Mighty Moon Media

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Stop & Chat: Mumble Tide 20:28

2d ago20:28

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My AOTY is Mumble Tide's 'Might As Well Play Another One', out on Breakfast Records - home to Getdown Services, Lankamer, The Cindys and many other awesome bands (follow that label if you know what's good for you!). Gina and Ryan joined me at a laundrette for this end of year Stop & Chat. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://s…

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Jeremy Corbyn - "Music gives people opportunity" 59:47

3d ago59:47

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Jeremy Corbyn has brought us together like no other politician in our lifetime. At community arts and music space New River Studios, he tells us about the importance of music in society, family, rebellion and why music lessons shouldn't only be available at private schools. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 D…

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Bill Jefferson (Mên An Tol) - "I sold Peter Doherty a harmonica and a hat" 17:55

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Living in and working at pubs, the old rooms of Peter Doherty and where Gerry Adams and Shane Macgowan hung out, is part of Bill Jefferson's story. Mên An Tol are an excellent new band, playing at The Lexington in London this coming Tuesday. Photo: Cuan Roche Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes …

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The Cribs - "We became lawyers and won our rights back" 35:17

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No-one expected The Cribs to become lawyers. Not because they're working class brothers from Wakefield, or they smashed themselves through a glass vase at the NME Awards in 2006 (24–7 Rock Star Shit) . But because they write absolute belters and shouldn't need to think about fighting for the right to be a-party to the rights of their own catalogue.…

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Cameron Winter (Geese) - Dog Walking in New York 27:57

12d ago27:57

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In case you missed it before Geese became the most talked about band in the world, we heard from frontperson and songwriter Cameron Winter this time last year. It was just around the time of his excellent debut album Heavy Metal, which a few weeks later he played songs from in a church in East London to a couple of hundred very quiet and respectful…

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Sports Team - "Adoration for drinking 10 pints and playing sloppy rock music? Amazing!” 46:34

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Stephen Malkmus, London Fields, rugby shirts and blow dried hair. Sports Team started writing good songs and putting on shows that cost a few quid to get into. Now the songs keep getting better, they've had to turn down the pyro, and released a Deluxe album. This is their story - in their words. Boys These Days - dee-lux - is out now. Get yourself …

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Indigo De Souza - "Artists can be treated in inhumane ways" 21:46

28d ago21:46

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On her new album Precipice, Indigo reflects the different feelings we wake up to. Here she talks about her first band with MJ Lenderman, waiting - and forgetting - tables, and how artists can be pushed to their limits. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unli…

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Lily Lyons - "I followed my strange instinct and was correct" 19:46

1M ago19:46

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Lily's debut album Re-Open the World feels like a best friend the morning after a big night. Close, knowing and comforting, it's an incredible record from someone who a few years ago decided they wanted to start writing songs. Lily tells us about cafe mishaps, family encouragement and the impact of The Vital Spark by Lisa Marchiano. Get yourself so…

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Saul Williams - "How many people did you kill to make tea part of your culture?" 39:59

1M ago39:59

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Artist, actor, poet and social activist Saul Williams has 101 full time jobs. On this episode Saul remembers his first lightning bolt moment that led to performing poetry with Allen Ginsberg and The Last Poets, the cultural messages in his new album 'Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at Treepeople', visiting and co-creating a film about the…

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Just Mustard "We need to invest in each other" 36:14

1M ago36:14

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Their new album We Were Just Here is a record to get lost in. Katie and David tell us how jungle influences their sound, Dundalk colloquialisms, Steve Albini, working at a candle shop and supporting The Cure. We Were Just Here is out now on Partisan Records. Photo: Conor James Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p…

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Saul Adamczewski's Insecure Men - "Every time things get good, I become a saboteur" 27:34

1M ago27:34

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A bruised man with beautiful songs, Saul Adamczewski is seven months sober with a new Insecure Men album. He was offered the chance to make A Man For All Seasons when he was living in a South London cupboard strung out on meth amphetamine, providing a lifeline not only to continue making music ("it's the only thing I can do") but to put the Fat Whi…

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Gareth David (Los Campesinos!) - "We turned down $45,000 for our principles" 35:18

2M ago35:18

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Recorded at Swn Festival in Cardiff (lovely fest if you can make it next year), Gareth David tells us about Los Campesinos!'s early years playing the student union down the road, turning down a sponsorship with Airbnb because of their involvement in listing properties on Palestinian land, and why all bands should have worked customer facing jobs. G…

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Biffy Clyro - "We were the least likely band to ever make a career out of this" 44:01

2M ago44:01

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On our 500th episode, we're joined by Biffy Clyro. Simon Neil & James and Ben Johnston take us through early gigs with Hundred Reasons, Hell is for Heroes and Reuben, getting a call to open for Weezer during a bar shift, and how they've managed to keep the fun in the band for 30 years. Their new album Futique - their fourth number one album - is ou…

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Joshua Idehen - "I wanna tell you it was determination. No, it was MONEY" 50:44

2M ago50:44

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When Joshua Idehen was working at burlesque bar, he couldn't imagine a life making music and poetry full-time. But since moving to Sweden, a country that values art by investing in artists, he has found peace with being a working musician. His debut album I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try is out in …

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Nish Kumar - "I have cried in a lot of toilets" 59:22

2M ago59:22

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At hip east London brewery Signature Brew, Nish joined us on nepo babies, late stage capitalism, crying in toilets and how a company he worked for could have made COVID-19 a whole lot easier if it hadn't been shut down. Plus mentions of TV on the Radio, Broken Bells (The Shins' James Mercer and Danger Mouse), Big Thief, Adrianne Lenker, Geese, The …

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Stop & Chat: Upchuck 2:49

2M ago2:49

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A brief and slightly chaotic moment with Upchuck, the excellent Atlanta punk band. On facing a bit of contempt from Faye Webster fans, touring with Amyl and The Sniffers, construction and bar work, and recommendations from tour including Gaws. I'm Nice Now is out now on Domino. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7…

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Stop & Chat: Home Front's Graeme MacKinnon 15:08

2M ago15:08

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I first saw Home Front supporting High Vis at Islington Assembly Hall, one of the rare shows that felt like a real moment suspended in time. I fell in love with their new wave / oi! inspired weirdo punk rock, and their new album Watch It Die (out 14 November) sounds like it's gonna be ace. Here's singer Graeme on being 42 in a punk band, punk house…

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Soulwax - "We’re addicted to when something could be a mistake" 47:13

2M ago47:13

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The Dewaele brothers are here about the perceptions of what DJs, how they've kept their magic, how artists don't make money any more so more DIY shows are happening, plus Pulp, Pavement, Laurie Anderson and Fontaines D.C. Soulwax's new album All Systems Are Lying is out this Friday. Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski Get yourself some top class Shure microp…

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David Larbi - "Me and Me gotta start getting along. We’re in this for life!" 46:54

2M ago46:54

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Poet, author and timeline cleanser David Larbi joins today. We talked about his sense of self, allowing yourself to grow despite the uncomfortability it causes, and having a good idea then following it! His new book Frequently Happy is a wonderful mix of poetry, self affirmations and journalling prompts - it's out now. Thanks to The Collab, Waltham…

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Tim Burgess (The Charlatans) - "I'm all or nothing. It’s my quest to find balance" 27:26

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Charlie Steen (Shame) - "I accidentally charged £1000 then rubbed chilli in my eyes" 47:43

2M ago47:43

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As teenagers wide-eyed to the world of Fat White Family and the notorious Queen's Head in Brixton, Charlie Steen and Shame did the honourable thing: dive heard first into everything. Still friends and still excited about making albums and touring, Charlie tells us about moving through south London in his twenties, living in the wahsing room and gri…

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Malevolence - "My teens were on difficult mode" 37:01

2M ago37:01

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Inside Sheffield's Crookes Social Club, Malevolence's Alex, Charlie and Wilkie talk us through being a band since they were teenagers, going hard at touring before they made any money - making it happen out of pure passion and belief, looking up to While She Sleeps and Bring Me The Horizon before playing together and becoming friends, and living ou…

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End It - "I used to pick up bodies” 37:35

3M ago37:35

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Akil Godsey is excellent nominative determinsim. End It's loudmouth (and why shouldn't he be?) singer walks us through growing up in an extremely religious household in Baltimore, before long nights of Hey Mister and finding his people at local hardcore shows. Plus drugs, alcohol and bowling. End It's debut album Wrong Side of Heaven is out now on …

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The Beths - "Everything is always a bit maybe" 31:38

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Jon and Liz from The Beths join on the work of songwriting reflection, youth music workshops in Aotearoa before studying jazz at college and teaching trumpet, and their mid-album crisis mode. Straight Line Was A Lie is out now on ANTI-. Photo: Frances Carter Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes m…

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Folk Bitch Trio - "I quit my job today" 30:07

3M ago30:07

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Jeanie, Gracie and Heide of Folk Bitch Trio joined us before their show at The Lexington in London. They told us about all their old jobs - Nando's, the speakeasy above a brothel, cinema, metal record store; celebrity spots - Keanu Reeves, Ralph Fiennes, Bradley Cooper, Arthur Darvill; and how Jeanie quit her job earlier that day. Now Would Be A Go…

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Matt Berninger (The National) - "Being with the audience brought me out of a serious depression" 47:20

3M ago47:20

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Matt Berninger's excellent second solo album Get Sunk follows a slow exit from a serious depression where he couldn't get out of bed. Written on baseballs, deconstructed bedposts and anything else he could write lyrics on, the National singer writes songs like he's painting a picture. Once a graphic designer during the dot-com bubble in New York, h…

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Sydney Minsky Sargeant - "We need to be careful in not making music exclusive" 44:17

3M ago44:17

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Working Men's Club's Sydney Minsky Sargeant puts out his debut album Lunga this Friday. The album was written around the track 'Lisboa', which while written years ago carries so much weight for Syd that he needed to eventually get it out his system. The whole album is ace, and is from a more mellow direction than the harshness of WMC. Here we hear …

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Field Music - "Take control of your destiny... form a Doors tribute band" 40:01

3M ago40:01

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Famed for starting a Doors covers band to supplement income performing their own music, Field Music's David Brewis says it shouldn't come as a surprise. Despite sharing rehearsal spaces with 2000's mainstream indie bands The Futureheads and Maximo Park, the Brewis brothers had no interest in pleasing anyone else; only making music for themselves. C…

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Stop & Chat: Ryan Davis (Roadhouse Band) 15:34

3M ago15:34

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This guy writes SONGS. If you're reading this and you haven't heard Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band's latest album New Threats From The Soul, stop what you're doing and take it for a long walk. If you end up coming back to listen to this, you'll hear about his time working at the influential Drag City Records, a laundry list of odd jobs, not insuri…

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Daniel Avery - "Success knocked me" 43:53

3M ago43:53

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Daniel Avery's new album Tremor is heavy in a different way. On it is collaborations with Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Walter Schreifels(Quicksand / Rival Schools), bdrmm, Julie Dawson (NewDad), yeule, Ellie, Art School Girlfriend, yunè pinku, and Cecile Believe. Here he is on the trappings and triumphs of DJ culture, and how he's unlearned from hi…

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Tyler Ballgame - "Be Outsider-You" 32:28

4M ago32:28

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Tyler Ballgame is a modern savant. On his four released tracks, there's a sweeping melancholy underpinned by the haunting beauty of Roy Orbison or wry-smiled dreamy Harry Nilsson. In this chat, Tyler talks of Shakespeare inspiration, studying songwriting Berkeley but never successfully shaking the idea that he was an outsider, and blagging a job in…

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Water From Your Eyes - "I think I worked in a cult" 24:44

4M ago24:44

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Rachel and Nate of Water From Your Eyes (and This Is Lorelei) on watching our mums dance to the classics, hanging out with Michael Hannon, getting served beers by Pavement members, using other people's shower products, working for a cult, rawdogging flights and sourcing actors on Instagram. Their new album It's A Beautiful Place is out now. Filmed …

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End of the Road's Simon Taffe - "I would have people lock up their phones " 32:30

4M ago32:30

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EOTR's story feels a movie: one man's determination to create the best music festival, unhindered by low ticket sales and financial loss, before becoming the dream weekend of music it is today. Simon Taffe tells us about his tunnel vision, seeing Oasis this summer and how he would have everyone lock up their phones if he was able to. Get yourself s…

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Gruff Glyn (Melin Melyn) - "Learn Welsh, start a band" 48:13

4M ago48:13

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Live at Green Man 2025, Gruff Glyn offers his tales of working many jobs while playing in an excellent band. Taking time off his role at the solar panel / breast enlargement call centre to play a role in The Martian (Ridley Scott) where he played table tennis with Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino; to the importance of the Welsh language and indep…

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Angel Du$t - "I have the coolest friends in the world" 14:17

4M ago14:17

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Justice Tripp on his best friends and collaborators Turnstile, the hardcore community and United & Strong Fest in London, moving into an abandoned warehouse as a teenager, creating to stay alive and Angel Du$t's new phase with Run For Cover Records. The Beat is out now. Filmed by Eva Nagengast at All Ages Records in Camden, London Get yourself some…

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Yasi Salek - "How weird would it be if I changed how I spoke for a podcast" 24:50

4M ago24:50

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Journalist, Bandsplain host and alternative 90s know-it-all Yasi Salek on vocal fry, wearing MF Doom's mask and not judging the lyrics of eighteen-year-olds. She reveals the future of music journalism, remembers her pyjama party with Courtney Love, an early meeting with Charli xcx and how a book on Nirvana changed her life. Produced by Joe Little. …

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Cory Hanson - “New bands are competing with robots for Christ's sake” 41:26

4M ago41:26

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I Love People is Cory Hanson's latest soundtrack to elastic afternoons. Born from years in punk houses and assistant work in LA, and the disappointment of making something that doesn't sound like he thought it would. AI, The Velvet Sundown, Nick Cave and teaching ballet also make appearances. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https…

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For Those I Love - " I made Alien Truther videos" 49:13

4M ago49:13

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For Those I Love (aka David Balfe) is about to release his excellent new album Carving The Stone. He sits on how his uncle's DVD collection gave him his hard edges, the way The Streets' Original Pirate Material changed his life, Dublin's inaffordability, making his own videos and all the different jobs he's done to keep making music. Photo: Hugh Qu…

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The New Eves - Haunted by Tutankhamun 23:27

4M ago23:27

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If you're not sure what to make of gothic Midsommar clad The New Eves, keep listening. There's the poetic thud of The Velvet Underground and autodidactic brilliance of The Slights, but it's the wide-eyed willingness that makes their first release and debut album The New Eves is rising that makes this Brighton band something very very special. Sat o…

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Laurie Vincent (Soft Play) - "We might change our name again" 55:25

5M ago55:25

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Swerving a teenage job at his uncle's timber yard, Laurie Vincent only ever wanted to be in a band. Soft Play shouldn't work on paper (guitar, stand-up drums, Adidas tracksuits), but it definitely does work blasted loud in massive venues. Laurie has loved, lost and reconnected as he's grown up in public. Heavy Jelly is Soft Play's return to enjoyab…

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David Yow (the Jesus Lizard) - Man of Detail 42:02

5M ago42:02

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Paving his own path and making his own noise, David Yow has been the shamanic leader of the unapologetically meaty sound of the Jesus Lizard. He's also an actor, designer and expat. The band just wrapped up shows for this year following their new album - first in 26 years - Rack. Photo: Joshua Black Wilkins Get yourself some top class Shure microph…

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jasmine.4.t - "Being loved by other trans people is very healing" 33:02

5M ago33:02

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Jasmine's heartwarming debut You Are The Morning is up there with the best of this year's records. We hear about the well paying job she just quit, the power of trans community and Yulia and the Filton 18. Find out more about Yulia: https://www.freeyulia.com/ Photo: Matt Grubb Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p…

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Allo Darlin' - Helen Mirren's stockings, Yoko Ono at Abbey Road and X-rated valentine's day cards 21:03

5M ago21:03

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The indie-pop band that everyone needs in their life is back. Bright Nights is Allo Darlin's new album, and UK people can catch them on tour this October. Tickets here: https://www.allodarlin.com/tour Want AD FREE episodes? Become a member for £4 per month: https://www.patreon.com/101parttimejobs Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: h…

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Kurupt FM's Hugo Chegwin - "I won two Ivor Novellos... I didn't know what they were" 38:00

5M ago38:00

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Kurupt FM's laidback man of leisure joins with tales from Brentford, co-writing Emeli Sandé's 'Next To Me', remixing Wiley, risking it in front of your mates and getting fired from an accounts job after he told them he could do numbers "like Rain Man". Want AD FREE episodes? Become a member for £4 per month: https://www.patreon.com/101parttimejobs …

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Onome Edgeworth (Kokoroko) - Gardening after Glastonbury 19:42

5M ago19:42

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Kokoroko's brilliant new album Tuff Times Never Last is out now, and their Brixton Academy show on 25 September will be one to remember. Percussionist Onome Edgeworth tells us about their best year yet, gardening and working as a team. Want AD FREE episodes? Become a member for £4 per month: https://www.patreon.com/101parttimejobs Get yourself some…

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Gwenno - "Survive the 21st Century: Speak Cornish" 15:24

5M ago15:24

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On her new trilingual album Utopia, Gwenno documents the last 25 years in Welsh, Cornish and English. Growing up with a Cornish poet dad, before getting a job dancing in Australia and Las Vegas, joining an indie pop group and landing behind the bar of a boozy pub. She has since won the Welsh Music Prize for her debut solo album, nominated for a Mer…

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Emma-Jean Thackray - "The jazz police hate me" 38:33

5M ago38:33

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It's a testament to Emma-Jean Thackray's endurance that Weirdo made it out. Mourning the sudden passing of her partner, writing lyrics that she couldn't imagine being released into the public and fighting for her album artwork vision, EJT is a hero. Weirdo is out now on Brownswood. Want AD FREE episodes? Become a member for £4 per month: https://ww…

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Rival Consoles - "I could spend 2000 hours on a song and not release it" 32:45

6M ago32:45

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Before the early days of Erased Tapes, Ryan Lee West has been perpetually transfixed with making things. His new album Landscape from Memory is out this Friday. Shot at AAJA, Deptford. Photo: Eva Vermandel. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited upload…