One of the most inventive, funniest bands you'll hear today are Getdown Services. Duo Ben and Josh join me on selling ice cream together, being The First Wedding Band and taking aim at themselves. Their new EP 'Your Medal's In The Post' is out 14 November. Photo: Sion Waters Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping...
Oct 29, 2024•46 min•Ep. 405
The Iceage frontman's debut solo album is out tomorrow, and it's an aching listen. Elias talks about supermarket and bar work, but following the feeling that music is all there is. Heavy Glory is out tomorrow. Photo: Ilaria Ieie Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the...
Oct 24, 2024•35 min•Ep. 404
From his living sofa ahead of his Royal Albert Hall show on 28 October (which also features Jarvis Cocker), Chilly puts the misconceptions about his music - and lyrical mask - straight. His latest album Gonzo is out now. Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first y...
Oct 22, 2024•56 min•Ep. 403
Bringing together jazz, funk, dub, reggae and club culture, Galliano have put out their first album in 27 years. Rob tells us about the affliction of 'career vs. music', shapeshifting London and their upcoming shows in Manchester, Bristol and London's Shepherds Bush Empire. Halfway, Somewhere is out now on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings. Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes m...
Oct 17, 2024•46 min•Ep. 402
King Crimson's latter day singer and guitarist, plus mixer, actor and writer Jakko Jakszyk on early years in Watford, saying yes to every opportunity that came his way and digging into the stories from his memoir Who's The Boy With The Lovely Hair - out on Thursday. Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTI...
Oct 15, 2024•39 min•Ep. 401
For episode 400, here's songwriter, comedian and actor Tim Heidecker on where the music part comes from, the second verse, never knowing what's the going to resonate with the general public and not having any expectations. His new solo album Slipping Away is out next Friday, 18 October. Photo: Chantal Anderson Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with u...
Oct 10, 2024•48 min•Ep. 400
Dexter Holland from The Offspring on his 101 part time jobs. From being a professor in molecular biology, blasting through in a stadium rock band that's been running since the 90s, building a hot sauce brand and keeping it all together. The Offspring's new album SUPERCHARGED is out this Friday. Photo: Daveed Benito DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at ...
Oct 08, 2024•39 min•Ep. 399
Balance and Composure tomorrow release their first album in eight years. Jon remembers first tours, working at the call centre with his mum and playing hacky sack at the horseradish factory. DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 03, 2024•45 min•Ep. 398
An immediately recognisable voice in punk and hardcore, singer and grapic novelist Patrick Kindlon joins on truck driving, becoming a step dad and building a life around music. Photo: Manuel Barajas DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 01, 2024•53 min•Ep. 397
The Hard Quartet is the new band from Matt Sweeney, Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly and Jim White and it's great rock n roll. Matt remembers playing in Johnny Cash's band with Tom Petty's members, Guitar Moves and winging it. Photo: Malcolm Donaldson DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. V...
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Alastair Shuttleworth of LICE on the Bristol pub where they made a home, freelance journalism and radio, staying late at work to write lyrics and how they built their own Intonarumori. Third Time At The Beach is out now on AD 93. DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
Sep 24, 2024•32 min•Ep. 395
Sitting in the corner of their namesake pub in Stockport, Blossoms' Tom Ogden and Joe Donovan tell us the story of the band, from working at a local hotel and tailors to receiving the news of their first record deal, up to headlining the 30,000 capacity Wythenshawe Park. Their fifth album Gary is out now! DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://di...
Sep 17, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 395
Ahead of her new album Someday, Now out this Friday, Katy talks about how she's stopped writing about herself negatively, being connected by music and working at a cafe in Bristol. DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 16, 2024•21 min•Ep. 394
Rosie Lowe's new album Lover, Other is an excellent sonic exploration, and the journey up to her fourth album is just as searching. We got 9am coffee before sitting in her living room and band's rehearsal space, looking towards their performance at London's ICA later this month. Photo: Gabby Laurent DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distroki...
Sep 13, 2024•48 min•Ep. 393
Get floored by Hannah McKittrick's new single 'Utensil', and hear her story of growing up writing solitarily in surburban Australia, pottering around Scotland and how she's been writing in a diffused way. Photo: Ollie Cox Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun an...
Sep 11, 2024•37 min•Ep. 392
Joey Valence and Brae talk writing songs rapidly, filming on bad cameras, fashion and the deluxe edition of No Hands - out this Friday. Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 3...
Sep 10, 2024•26 min•Ep. 391
At the wonderful End of the Road festival in Dorset, we hear from harpist Mary Lattimore and nature rockers Gently Tender. Films reference by Mary include Good One, Janet Planet and Unarius. Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads a...
Sep 09, 2024•24 min•Ep. 390
The ultimate swooning songs of MJ Lenderman are getting topped up with his new album Manning Fireworks. Also playing in Wednesday and performing with Waxahatchee, he's an enigmatic source of belters to ride bikes to. He tells us about growing up in North Carolina, growing up quickly as a result of touring, and the changes he's currently going through. Photo: Charlie Boss Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus...
Sep 05, 2024•26 min
Joanna Sternberg is a New Yorker who writes as a way to communicate. Their style makes you feel completely at home; like it's midweek lunchtime and you're sat on the sofa eating a biscuit watching TV. Their new track A Country Dance closes Between the Temples (Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane), and I really enjoyed this chat chronologising Joanna's life in songwriting. Photo: Julie Orlick Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New E...
Sep 04, 2024•24 min•Ep. 379
Before releasing their mind-bending, James Ford-produced debut album WOOF. this Friday, Fat Dog's Joe Love and Chris Hughes spoke with me about dressing up, Catan, the highs of their live shows, picking up shifts at the Brixton Windmill and cheese maturing. With thanks to Aoife Kitt and Domino Record Co. Photo: Pooney Ghana Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters inter...
Sep 03, 2024•33 min•Ep. 387
Two torchbearers of punk rock and hardcore adjacent music today, the two singers of Militarie Gun (Ian Shelton) and Spiritual Cramp (Michael Bingham) join today on work follies and family business. Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited up...
Aug 29, 2024•27 min
Under blue sky at Reading 2024, we spoke with Australia's G Flip, following their Drumless EP and before a UK tour next week, and the lightning fast Bad Nerves, whose album Still Nervous is a ripper (also touring extensively in US, Europe and UK this year). Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 Distr...
Aug 28, 2024•26 min
More Reading 2024 highlights join on today's episode - three bands carving out their own lanes and energies talk being independent artists in 2024. Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their re...
Aug 28, 2024•29 min
At Reading Festival we caught up with two of the weekend's highlights. KNEECAP in the glow of their debut album and film, and Denzel Curry - whose new album King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 is out now. Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unli...
Aug 27, 2024•24 min
Artist, filmmaker and storyteller Cameron Lew tells us about the origins of Ginger Root, funding his way through college, his creative partner David Gutel and having fun being the main rule. Ginger Root's new album SHINBANGUMI is out 13 September. Photo: David Gutel Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE...
Aug 22, 2024•43 min•Ep. 386
In a powerful blend of cooling indie-rock with Illuminati Hotties, Sarah Tudzin is a producer with a laundry list of excellent credits. Winning a GRAMMY with her production work on Boygenius' The Record, and working with Weyes Blood and Cloud Nothings over the years, Sarah worked on borrowed studio time and bedroom setups for years. Illuminati Hotties' new album POWER is out this Friday on Hopeless. Photo: Shervin Lainez Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney...
Aug 20, 2024•56 min•Ep. 385
GK and Eliza from VENUS GRRRLS join on today's episode, with their new single 'Darla' out now and their UK headline tour creeping up next month. We talk about GK's leukemia and chemotherapy, what it was like putting the band on hold while she was in hospital, and Eliza's youth spent in Scotland learning to shred. Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive work...
Aug 15, 2024•56 min•Ep. 383
Opening up publicly for the first time on an experience of being spiked at a music industry event, Josephine Vander West of That Woman shares her years of resilience as a musician.That Woman's excellent debut album Find Joy is out now. Photo: Josh Shinner Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroK...
Aug 13, 2024•50 min•Ep. 383
Inspired songwriter Bill Callahan joins us today, on how Kim Gordon gave him early support, his first royalty check from Drag City, writing letters, the pathology of songwriting, funding early albums by working at KFC and responsibilities. His latest album Resuscitate! is out now on Drag City and he's playing in Paris, Brussels, Dublin, Manchester and London next month. All info at dragcity.com. Photo: Hanly Banks Callahan Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackn...
Aug 08, 2024•37 min•Ep. 382
The legendary Belfast intrumental group are releasing their new album Megafauna this Friday, and it sounds wonderful. Rory Friers tells us about their beginnings as teenage skater kids wanting to create something, becoming self-sufficient and the lessons learned in that, and how they feel like protectors of a unique community. Photo: Tom McGeehan Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair worksh...
Aug 07, 2024•39 min•Ep. 381