Discograffiti’s 9-hour interview with David Pajo continues with Part 3, in which the indie rock legend reveals the surprise derivation of the Papa M band name from none other than Prince himself; exactly which substances David experimented with during his various recordings; and the 3 vastly different Papa M records he’s currently in the midst of making! Don’t miss out on five weeks of essential Pajo Patreon Collections—Subscribe at Patreon.com/Discograffiti. Next Week: DAVID PAJO PART 4: SLINT!...
Jun 09, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Alongside esteemed co-host Joe Kennedy, we crack open and peer awestruck Into the innards of this crazed beast of an LP, the 1990 Steve Albini-produced masterpiece by Kim Deal, Tanya Donelly, and co. Coming this Friday: DAVID PAJO PART 3 — PAPA M! CONNECT Join our Soldiers of Sound Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1839109176272153 Patreon: www.Patreon.com/Discograffiti Podfollow: https://podfollow.com/1592182331 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/discograffitipod/ Facebook: ht...
Jun 07, 2023•36 min
This past Friday heralded the release of Bully’s fourth album—and third for SubPop—and Alicia talks with Discograffiti about everything she learned from working with Steve Albini, the importance of the Little Sampson pedal to her life, and whether or not she gives a rat's ass about Britpop music. Check out her best one yet, "Lucky For You." Coming this Friday: DAVID PAJO PART 3: PAPA M! Alicia’s self-directed video for “Hard To Love”: https://youtu.be/myv2QDJe0JM The video for “Lose You”: https:...
Jun 05, 2023•9 min
Today, June 2nd heralds the release of Bully’s fourth album—and third for SubPop—as Alicia takes Discograffiti’s hand, along with yours, and quite graciously acts as a tour guide through her best one yet, "Lucky For You." Next Week: DAVID PAJO PART 3: PAPA M! Alicia’s self-directed video for “Hard To Love”: https://youtu.be/myv2QDJe0JM The video for “Lose You”: https://youtu.be/TyGvAV2L4pY CONNECT Join our Soldiers of Sound Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1839109176272153 Patreon...
Jun 02, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Discograffiti’s 9-hour interview with indie rock legend David Pajo continues with Part 2, the absolute rawest of the five installments. Pajo gives Discograffiti an honest assessment of his Zwan experience, not to mention his brief spells in The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, and Gang of Four, our mutual misadventures with a host of narcotics…and ultimately ending up at a harrowing yet triumphant re-evaluation of his suicide attempt. Don’t miss out on five weeks of essential Pajo Patreon Collections—...
May 26, 2023•49 min
Our 9-hour interview with indie rock legend David Pajo covers every single aspect of his career—his influences, Slint, Tortoise, and his consistently amazing solo career, typically released under the moniker Papa M. In Part 1, “Favorites, Firsts, & Flavorings,” Pajo talks with Discograffiti about his favorite albums of all time, his pre-Slint metal outfits, and the myriad post-Slint bands in which he’s played where the members are on the lookout for that indefinable Pajo flavor. We’ll learn ...
May 19, 2023•1 hr 7 min
John talks to Discograffiti about the pronounced changes in Michael Jackson’s demeanor that international fame brought during their work on the "Black Or White" video, his very favorites of his own filmography, and most importantly…exactly what kind of tip you can expect when waiting on director David Fincher. The Making Of Beverly Hills Cop III: https://youtu.be/o1IIBajDP7o “Black Or White” Behind The Scenes: https://youtu.be/a9U44IBo7Z4 Blues Brothers 2000 Behind The Scenes: https://youtu.be/4...
May 12, 2023•52 min
Landis talks with Discograffiti about the making of the Thriller Video, giving us a blow-by-blow account of its genesis and what it was like to work with Michael Jackson...plus the time Prince pitched John to direct Purple Rain, and revealing tales about his decades-long friendship with David Bowie! Next Week: Landis Vol. 5: The Black & White Video, Beverly Hills Cop III, and working with Sylvester Stallone! The Making of Thriller Featurette: https://youtu.be/3r2ivB71RG0 Trading Places Behin...
May 05, 2023•47 min
But I’m okay now. CONNECT Join our Soldiers of Sound Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1839109176272153 Patreon: www.Patreon.com/Discograffiti Podfollow: https://podfollow.com/1592182331 Merch Shop: https://discograffiti.creator-spring.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/discograffitipod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Discograffiti/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Discograffiti YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClyaQCdvDelj5EiKj6IRLhw Web site: http://discograffiti.c...
May 01, 2023•8 min
We’ll learn about the real reason why Landis’s grandiose vision for The Incredible Shrinking Woman fell apart, the true origin of the Blues Brothers, and that time John locked horns with a very angry Cab Calloway! Next Week: LANDIS VOL. 4: THE THRILLER VIDEO & COMING TO AMERICA! The Blues Brothers Behind-The-Scenes Featurette: https://youtu.be/suUcZVh_WNM “Galaxy Glue” from The Incredible Shrinking Woman: https://youtu.be/KbZQXK6kBEs The American Werewolf Transformation Scene: https://youtu....
Apr 28, 2023•36 min
We’ll learn about the time John spent on location with Spielberg for the Jaws shoot during which he rewrote Close Encounters, how he met the Zucker Brothers and launched Kentucky Fried Movie, and how Animal House transformed into a college raunchfest from its genesis as a dark comedy about Charlie Manson’s high school days. Next Week: Part 1 of a gargantuan 9-hour interview with the great DAVID PAJO! The Zucker Brothers ruminating on Kentucky Fried's genesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr_o...
Apr 21, 2023•46 min
In this very special hour-long interview, we’ll learn about the time No Age almost broke up, the most awkward celebrity interactions both of us have ever experienced, the joys and pitfalls of sobriety, and the ways in which their early band Wives differed from the incredible two-man juggernaut that is No Age. Next Week: DAVID PAJO, EPISODE 1! CONNECT Join our Soldiers of Sound Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1839109176272153 Patreon: www.Patreon.com/Discograffiti Podfollow: https...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 3 min
The man behind the greatest band to ever come out of Brazil talks in great detail about every song from that astounding first album—inarguably one of the greatest debuts of all time. We’ll learn about three aspects of the record that were improvised right there on the spot, the Mutantes song that Sergio says features the very first sample in music history, and how many stars out of five Sergio gives his own debut. Last but not least, we find out who his favorite Beatle is! Next Week: A soul-bear...
Apr 07, 2023•37 min
The man behind the greatest band to ever come out of Brazil generously bares his soul in part one of this very special and long-promised double-parter. We’ll learn about which song on Os Mutantes’ debut was actually Sergio’s very first composition ever, the origin of the Tropicalia movement and his part in it, and the real truth behind feeding guitars through honest-to-goodness sewing machines! Next Week: Sergio Dias, Part 2! Official playlist curated by Dave on Spotify: https://spotify.link/Q13...
Mar 31, 2023•54 min
Sure, it’s a music commentary podcast—but when you’re friends with John Landis, you invite John Landis on the show. Not to mention the man is one of the foremost music directors who ever was—simply for The Blues Brothers and Michael Jackson’s Thriller Video alone. For the next 6 months, there will be one Landis episode a month, as we dissect his entire career, Discograffiti-style. We’ll learn about the torrent of classic European films on which John worked in every possible capacity in the 1960s...
Mar 24, 2023•55 min
Throughout the course of Bert Sommer's post-Woodstock career, we’re reminded over and over again how unfair fate can be. Join us, along with Bert Sommer’s biographer Sharon Watts and Music Expert Angie Pope, as we learn about the debilitating drug habit that led to Bert’s early 1970s incarceration, the honest-to-God Sid & Marty Krofft kids TV show on which Bert wound up later in the decade, the shockingly unexpected creative team behind Bert’s very last attempt at the big time, and the car-c...
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 4 min
For this second installment of our “We Are Stardust, We Are Over” series, you are in for the ride of your life. Throughout the course of Bert Sommer's career--which seemed pre-destined for success--we’re reminded once again of how unfair fate can be. Join us, along with an unprecedented three guests, all of whom add gobs of insight into the mysterious figure who never was quite able to grab ahold of the brass ring. We’ll learn about the bus ride that changed Bert’s life, the 5 classics that he c...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 19 min
De La Soul has one of the best catalogs in the history of hip hop, but due to legal problems with Tommy Boy, the majority of it’s been unavailable on streaming services. In late 2021, the group members announced that the catalog would finally be coming to streaming, but it took a year and a half for it to come to pass. Today's the day!! We’ll learn about all the crucial elements that producer Prince Paul brought to the table, the mid-’60s pop band that set the sample wars in motion, and the rap ...
Mar 03, 2023•1 hr 11 min
After a childhood jamming with Leslie West and touring in the road band of The Music Explosion, our guest Ira Stone answered a newspaper ad in May 1969 that changed his life—Bert Sommer needed a guitarist for a gig coming up in August, a little thing called Woodstock. We’ll learn about how Ira and Leslie West obtained their unique guitar sound together, the making of Leslie West’s “Great Fatsby” record, which song Ira was playing when the very first standing ovation at Woodstock went down, and t...
Feb 25, 2023•33 min
The Private Press is the coveted jewel of our Patreon experience, but in the spirit of giving here’s an absolutely free primo sample! The tale of Dennis The Fox is a wild one, and serves as a bizarro world, subterranean parallel to the successfully orchestrated David Bowie/Tony DeFries starmaking machine. The main difference? Dennis’s machine didn’t launch a thing. Recorded in a vacated menswear shop, “Mother Trucker” went nowhere fast. However, as we all know by this point, that doesn’t mean it...
Feb 18, 2023•46 min
As the first band to play the infamous 1969 Woodstock Festival, you’d think you’d have heard more about Sweetwater. Let band expert Corbin Betleyoun help you understand why you probably haven’t! Next week: The Private Press with Paul Major presents DENNIS THE FOX's 1972 masterpiece "Mother Trucker!" Official playlist curated by Dave on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7fo672DlgIw5FEpcCnbE4q?si=hZ-VLWTsTISb71oBIU2w7w 1968 “Why Oh Why” video: https://youtu.be/34PAx65iDTw Sweetwater’s com...
Feb 11, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Crosby’s passing feels like the end of something big. It’s hit us hard here at Discograffiti Central, and so everything got pushed two weeks, original co-host Joe Kennedy was harangued back into the ring, and so ensued the ultimate eulogy—an exploratory saunter through the man’s life and work that’ll allow us all to both commiserate and celebrate the fruits of Croz’s wild ride together. Part 2 takes in everything from the debut Crosby & Nash LP, through his harrowing years of hard drug abuse...
Feb 05, 2023•43 min
Crosby’s passing feels like the end of something big. It’s hit us hard here at Discograffiti Central, and so everything got pushed two weeks, original co-host Joe Kennedy was harangued back into the ring, and so ensued the ultimate eulogy—an exploratory saunter through the man’s life and work that’ll allow us all to both commiserate and celebrate the fruits of Croz’s wild ride together. Part 1 takes in everything from “Mr. Tambourine Man” to “If I Could Only Remember My Name.” Next week: Croz Pa...
Jan 29, 2023•49 min
An extremely special, normally Patreon-only podcast intro to THE PRIVATE PRESS WITH PAUL MAJOR TV SHOW! The series was always eventually intended to heavily feature the artists themselves, so this particular episode, then, serves as the ground-zero template for its televised incarnation…seeing as the man himself, Michael Farneti, helps Dave & Paul lift the lathe for what is quite unbelievably Michael’s 2nd interview ever. Don’t miss the series that’s soon to be a tv show in 2023…say you knew...
Jan 22, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Music seeps outta this man’s soul, whether through his own brilliant tunes or through the lucky slew of artists whose outputs’ have been graced with Rado’s production touch: including Tim Heidecker, Whitney, The Lemon Twigs, Father John Misty, The Killers, Jackie Cohen...and Weyes Blood, whose new masterpiece "And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow" is chock full of Rado magic. No question is off limits, so come gather with us as we collectively seek to understand the complexity of his mind and manif...
Jan 15, 2023•24 min
Once upon a time, before there was even a thing called punk, along came a bunch of punks, a gang of servicemen stationed in Germany who shaved the tops of their heads and very briefly engaged in complete musical insanity, the reverberations of which I still feel in my innards when it’s cranked up high. Next week: An Interview With Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado! Official playlist curated by Dave on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jR7WvC0MY7YDcxaF2LTN2?si=set8WAfSTMKndZATzLQzZA Boys Are Boys...
Jan 08, 2023•1 hr 23 min
What’s The Wrecking Crew without Don Randi? When original co-host Joe Kennedy and I taped our David Axelrod episode back in late 2021, we intentionally recorded an entire separate career-spanning non-Axelrod show with the man because, well…Brian Wilson, Lee & Nancy, Spector, The Monkees, Buffalo Springfield. Elvis. Be My Baby. The tales are fascinating and endless. Next week: Banjo ambient mastermind Andrew Tuttle rates The Monks! Official playlist curated by Dave on Spotify: https://open.sp...
Jan 01, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Our Christmas Special is a 2 1/2 hour “Greatest Sleep Albums Of All Time” behemoth recorded with special guest Sleep With Me host Drew Ackerman, and this thing’s scientifically designed—utilizing the latest in cutting-edge digression technology—to put you right to beddy-bye. Here, then, are the greatest LPs to which one can drift off, in a show designed to actually put you to sleep before it ends…now finally extended to almost twice its length in a “form meets content” supernova. And check out t...
Dec 25, 2022•2 hr 37 min
And so it continues, the great primer on what not to do…and how signing to a major’s not the end of all your problems, it’s actually just the beginning! Plus, Randy ranks every last Jesus Lizard release! Next week, we bring you Tryptophantasy: the 2 1/2 hour “Greatest Sleep Albums Of All Time” Holiday Supermix recorded with special guest Sleep With Me host Drew Ackerman. Official playlist curated by Dave on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ZNfwYcG6SOvDljw8STYzt?si=Rl-ZTDsYToigvG-lbBSf...
Dec 18, 2022•1 hr 2 min
The Almighty Jesus Lizard get the respect they deserve, with a rollercoaster two-parter featuring towering rock god Randy Randall from the equally indomitable No Age ranking his idol’s discography like the teenage music fan we all still are inside, when it comes down to it. Look for the super-revealing interview with Randy coming down the Patreon pike on December 15th! Next week: Part Two. Official playlist curated by Dave on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/57ovxCQ28pfAUsv8ADB8Em?si=H...
Dec 11, 2022•1 hr 1 min
