Hosts Tom Davies and Mike Holdsworth sit down with Sharon Van Etten to conduct an interview-by-song across her illustrious catalog. If you can believe it, we’re commemorating ten years since the release of ‘Are We There,’ one of her most powerful and timeless collections, with a new limited-edition vinyl and a 7” including a live rendition of beloved tune “Every Time the Sun Comes Up.” Sharon’s polymathic nature is on full display in this episode, discussing producing, performing, writing, colla...
Aug 19, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Our Secretly Frequencies hosts sit down with Paul Mahern from Zero Boys to conduct an interview-by-song with a blind playlist of tracks spanning the band’s esteemed catalog. We’re celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Zero Boy’s ‘History Of...’ with a special reissue, including a previously-unheard 1980 live set at Indianapolis venue Crazy Al’s. Paul has been a literal professor of punk rock history, in addition to his storied career as a musician, producer, and engineer, so pull up a chair an...
Aug 12, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 3Ep. 8
We’re back in label mode today with the revered Ghostly International and our guests, label owner/founder Sam Valenti and Molly Smith, Ghostly’s Senior Art Director. Currently celebrating its 25th year, Ghostly established itself as one of the most well-loved artist-centric labels around, having put out records by the likes of Tycho, ADULT., Gold Panda, Matthew Dear, School of Seven Bells and Telefon Tel Aviv. In the last few years, the label's scope has been broadening with releases from Julie ...
Aug 05, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Today’s guest is Ruban Nielson of the mighty Unknown Mortal Orchestra. The project was started in Auckland in the late noughties by Ruben, and grew over the following years, expanding to include friend Jake Portrait and brother Kody and a number of other incredible musicians along the way. UMO - as they are affectionately known - have released five albums, four with Jagjaguwar, of sprawling, psychedelic rock music. Now based in Portland, Oregon, Ruban chats with us about his early analog influen...
Jul 29, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Geographically, Bizhiki is almost wholly a made-in-Wisconsin project, a collaboration between Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings, Joe Rainey and the multi-instrumentalist Sean Carey (aka S. Carey), who for years has been a secret weapon within the Bon Iver family. The collaboration between these three musicians first began at the Eaux Claires festival in 2015. The festival was being organized on Ojibwe’s ancestral homelands, and the organizers didn’t feel right without the inclusion of the native communi...
Jul 22, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Secretly Society presents a three-episode mini-series about collaboration, friendship, and a community-driven project; originally formed by Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner in 2008, this is the magical and illusive tale of Big Red Machine. This series is narrated by music writer and broadcaster Laura Barton, including live interviews with Vernon, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Sharon Van Etten, Anais Mitchell, and more. The conclusion to the story, for now. Big Red Machine has been a rejection of ...
Jul 15, 2024•33 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Secretly Society presents a three-episode mini-series about collaboration, friendship, and a community-driven project; originally formed by Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner in 2008, this is the magical and illusive tale of Big Red Machine. This series is narrated by music writer and broadcaster Laura Barton, including live interviews with Vernon, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Sharon Van Etten, Anais Mitchell, and more. Part Two finds Vernon and Dessner working out just what Big Red Machine was, a...
Jul 08, 2024•31 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Secretly Society presents a three-episode mini-series about collaboration, friendship, and a community-driven project; originally formed by Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner in 2008, this is the magical and illusive tale of Big Red Machine. This series is narrated by music writer and broadcaster Laura Barton, including live interviews with Vernon, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Sharon Van Etten, Anais Mitchell, and more. Part One starts with a pivotal Myspace exchange and a shared raw piano track b...
Jul 04, 2024•33 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Today we're going to be chatting with the band Bonny Light Horseman. That's right, all three of them! Over two and a soon-to-be-released third record, Bonny Light Horseman have crafted and created an immediately recognizable folk sound all of their own and picked up a Grammy nomination along the way. A bit of a supergroup comprising Eric D. Johnson, who you may know from Fruit Bats; Anais Mitchell, highly-acclaimed musician and writer of the wildly popular musical, Hadestown ; and Josh Kaufman, ...
Jun 24, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 1
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of Lost In The Dream, The War On Drugs put together a special long-form episode of their Super High Quality Podcast to tell the behind-the-scenes story of how the record was made. Between sessions in Hoboken and North Carolina, Adam Granduciel worked regularly with engineer Jeff Zeigler in Philly adding “paint” to a collection of songs that would be widely hailed as the band’s first masterpiece on its release in March 2014. As the band struggled against the r...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Join Tom Davies and Manish Agarwal in an artist interview with Kid Millions and Bobby Matador from the band that stands to be a beacon of Jagjaguwar's history - Oneida. Turn the clocks back to 1999 to listen through the vast and (generally) celebrated discography, featuring clips from albums Enemy Hogs , Come on Everybody Lets Rock , Anthem of the Moon , Each One Teach One , Secret Wars , The Wedding , Happy New Year , Rated O , Romance , and most recently Success . Get immersed in a band that r...
Feb 20, 2024•59 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Join hosts Tom Davies and Secretly Group's Director of A&R, Ophir Admony in a return to chat with Numero Group's record label founders Ken Shipley and Rob Sevier about the exploration into the reissues of the 80's and 90's Post Hardcore, Emo, and Punk records . Start with Ken and Rob's idea to use their formula of record reissues to move away from their previous unilateral focus of Disco, Soul, and Gospel of the 60s and 70s as they found trust among artist scenes that left them inspired in t...
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Join hosts Tom Davies and Secretly Group's Senior Creative Director (Global Sync), Jen Newcomer who welcome Numero Group's record label founders Ken Shipley and Rob Sevier to the podcast for their first of two episodes this season. Celebrate the twenty years of a label with the motto "no basement too dank, no box too dusty". Stay through stories about Ryan Gosling, and how he contributed to a now infamous sync in the film Blue Valentine, to the story of Shira Small - a teenager in the 1970's who...
Jan 23, 2024•57 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Secretly Society presents a four-episode mini-series about friendship, music, and a story that is both heartbreaking and heartwarming alike - DeYarmond Edison. This series is narrated by the author, a friend of the band, and executive producer of the DeYarmond Edison official boxset 'Epoch', Grayson Haver Currin. This episode starts us off in the heat of the North Carolina summer, where many changes are coming to a head between Justin falling ill with mono, and the members leaving their previous...
Dec 19, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Secretly Society presents a four-episode mini-series about friendship, music, and a story that is both heartbreaking and heartwarming alike - DeYarmond Edison. This series is narrated by author, a friend of the band, and executive producer of the DeYarmond Edison official boxset 'Epoch', Grayson Haver Currin. This episode starts us off with DeYarmond Edison fresh off the heels of their Bickett Residency, and going back to Wisconsin for the first time since their move for a hometown show at the h...
Dec 19, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Secretly Society presents a four-episode mini-series about friendship, music, and a story that is both heartbreaking and heartwarming alike - DeYarmond Edison. This series is narrated by the author, a friend of the band, and executive producer of the DeYarmond Edison official boxset 'Epoch', Grayson Haver Currin. This episode starts us off with DeYarmond Edison's move to Raleigh, North Carolina, a town with a buzzing music scene including the likes of The Rosebuds, Bowerbirds, and Ticonderoga. H...
Dec 12, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Secretly Society presents a four-episode mini-series about friendship, music, and what happens when a band comes apart. This is a story that is both heartbreaking and heartwarming alike - this is the lore of DeYarmond Edison. This series is narrated by the author, a friend of the band, and executive producer of the DeYarmond Edison official boxset Epoch, Grayson Haver Currin. This episode starts us off with four high schoolers: Justin Vernon, Joe Westerlund, Phil Cook, and Brad Cook, on the prec...
Dec 12, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Join hosts Tom Davies and the band's namesake, KCRW's Chery Glaser, for an artist interview with Secretly Canadian's Clem Creevy of Cherry Glazerr. Listen as they dive into the beginnings of Clem's career as a solo artist releasing music on Soundcloud under the alias of Clembutt, through the releases of Haxel Princess , Apocolipstick , Stuffed & Ready , and, self-described as "the album I've always dreamed of writing", I Don’t Want You Anymore . Hear about Clem's love for scary ladies, a squ...
Nov 14, 2023•50 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Join hosts Tom Davies and Chris Catchpole in an artist interview that unveils the celebrated catalog of Dead Ocean's own Kevin Morby. Find yourself smack dab in New York's DIY indie scene, where Kevin gained his bearings playing as a live musician with the band Woods, to becoming the solo act that has been lovingly compared to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Patti Smith. Kevin opens up about his experience with The Babies' Our House on the Hill , as well as his own solo records Harlem River , Singing...
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Join hosts Tom Davies and Kate Hutchinson as they chat with Dead Oceans record label founder Phil Waldorf and Secretly Group founder Chris Swanson for a peak behind the curtain at the label's sixteen-plus years. Discover the backstory of the label pre-streaming, inspired by the simple idea of crate digging at a record store and the joys of fandom, to the monumental successes shared by the artists, including Phosphorescent, Phoebe Bridgers, Japanese Breakfast, Shame, Mitski and so many more, over...
Oct 24, 2023•52 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Join hosts Tom Davies and Joy Warmann as they conduct Secretly Frequencies' inaugural artist interview with one of Jagjaguwar's finest, Jamila Woods. Follow along a journey of growth and unraveling through the ebbs and flows of her first band M&O, to her first solo album HEAVN , the definitive LEGACY! LEGACY! , and her latest (and greatest, so far), Water Made Us . Hear stories about Jamila's collaborations with other celebrated Chicago artists such as producer oddCouple, Peter CottonTale, S...
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 2
Secretly Society welcomes you back for an exhilarating second season. Stay with us over the next few months to follow the abundant tales we've built up including those with the label founders of both Dead Oceans and Numero Group. We present the full and unabridged re-telling and first-person interviews from the band whose ultimate break up led to the birth of two bands that changed the music landscape thereafter: Bon Iver, and Megafaun, as narrated by the executive producer and author of 'Epoch'...
Oct 23, 2023•4 min
Hosts Tom Davies and Michelle Kambasha sit down with Jagjaguwar founder Darius Van Arman and his partner in Secretly Group, Chris Swanson, for a blind playlist of tracks spanning the label's twenty-five-plus years. Find out which Jag artists once played punk house parties naked, who had Prince backstage and more, as we explore the "sentimental noise" of the Jagjaguwar catalog.
May 26, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 7
The making of Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman's “dream record” 2007’s Night Falls Over Kortedala, hailed by Pitchfork and The Guardian as one of the greatest albums of its era. Now re-born as the album The Linden Trees Are Still In Blossom. Guests include Annika Norlin, Laura Snapes, Chris and Ben Swanson, and Lisa Nilsson.
May 04, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman's beginnings as a musician in Gothenburg, Sweden, his signing to Secretly Canadian, and the making of his long-lost cult compilation album 2005’s Oh You’re So Silent Jens. Now re-born as the album The Cherry Trees Are Still In Blossom. Featuring guests including Laura Snapes, Chris and Ben Swanson, and Dillon.
Apr 27, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Hosts Tom Davies and Manish Agarwal sit down with Secretly Canadian co-founders Chris and Ben Swanson to conduct an interview-by-song. Prompting the brothers with a blind playlist of tracks spanning their 25 year history as a label, Tom and Manish share Dave Grohl’s favorite band of 2009, hear about an accidental hug from Drew Barrymore, and discuss the fruits of a life-long obsession with CD reissues.
Apr 04, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 4
2009 would prove a pivotal year in Jason Molina’s life, a turning point that would lead to his tragic death only a few, short years later. But as he embarked on a batch of solo studio sessions in London that January––the sessions that would become Eight Gates––it would have been nearly impossible to imagine that they would be his last.
Feb 28, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Jason Molina’s friends and collaborators were well versed in his penchant for tall tales and his use of “truthlets”––benign fibs––in the service of a good story. But as Molina’s problems with alcohol began to flare, the lines between truth and fiction seemed to grow increasingly blurry.
Feb 21, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. frontman Jason Molina was living in London when writer Justin Taylor caught up with him for an interview in 2010. This previously unreleased audio finds Molina in good spirits, discussing life in London, and provides a rare glimpse of his gregarious, often talebearing personality––one perhaps at odds with his darker musical persona.
Feb 14, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Launch trailer for the Secretly Society podcast, an original production of Secretly Group.
Jan 28, 2022•2 min
