Charlotte Cornfield is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . Charlotte first came on my radar through her great 2023 record Could Have Done Anything , which I wore out after millions of listens. She’s back with another great one, Hurts Like Hell . We talked about making that record as well as her great memory for show dates, songs about sandwiches, Rush, studio memories, and making January records. Great talk and I highly recommend listening to her record as well as this episode...
May 27, 2026•40 min
Joshua Ray Walker is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . Joshua is a great singer-songwriter from Dallas, Texas, and in 2023, he was diagnosed with cancer. He was told at one point that his situation was dire. So, he went to work. He is now cancer-free, but has put out three records in a twelve-month period, which he calls “The Cancer Trilogy.” We talked about the most recent release, Ain’t Dead Yet , due in late May, as well as his second birthday memories, The White Stripes,...
May 13, 2026•48 min
Kevin Drew from Broken Social Scene is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . I met Kevin years ago at some festivals our bands played together, and have always really enjoyed speaking with him, so I was thrilled to have him on the show. We talked about the great new BSS record as well as AC/DC, losing a parent, Rosie Grier, not having children, Dinosaur Jr., and the Broken Social Scene set at Lollapalooza 2006 - the best music festival set I’ve ever witnessed. This was such a gr...
Apr 29, 2026•55 min
José González is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . José is a fantastic guitarist and songwriter who just released a great new record Against The Dying of Light . We talked about his prior studies in biochemistry, pushing away intrusive thoughts when playing live, his roots in punk and hardcore, Quicksand, Richard Dawkins and ending on a hopeful note. Really great conversation, was a pleasure to have Jose on the pod. Check it out, listen and subscribe !...
Apr 15, 2026•45 min
Buck Meek is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . Buck is, of course, a member of the incredible Big Thief band. He also makes excellent solo records including the recently released one titled The Mirror . We talked about making that record as well as sense memory, feedback loops, icehouses, influential guitar teachers, the connection between grief and love, and trusting songs. This was a great talk with an incredible musician, really pleased to have Buck on the pod. Listen and...
Apr 01, 2026•42 min
Julia Steiner from the band Ratboys is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . Ratboys originated in the dorms at the University of Notre Dame and have put out six albums since forming in 2010. This year's release, Singin’ to an Empty Chair , is an absolutely fantastic rock record, and we talked about making that as well as watching Super Bowls as a band, having a personal stake in your stories, iPods, obsessive iTunes maintenance, The Beatles' “Lady Madonna,” and so much more. Re...
Mar 18, 2026•56 min
Milo Aukerman from the Descendents is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . In summer 1987, I went to a Descendents show at First Ave in Minneapolis for what was to be the band’s final tour. Halfway through the show, the band announced they were recording a live album. That album became the classic Liveage! record, in my mind an all time great live record. Milo and I talked about that as well as Tom Lehrer, Frank Zappa’s Apostrophe (') , getting turned onto music by Rodney on th...
Mar 04, 2026•45 min
Courtney Marie Andrews is my guest on the first That’s How I Remember It of 2026. Courtney is a great songwriter, poet, painter - a true artist who does a lot of things. We talked about love and grief on her great new record Valentine as well as light affecting memory, Marin County, the musical Annie, playing covers, Warren Zevon’s Preludes, and poetry vs. songs. Really enjoyed this and happy to be back with new episodes of THIRI. Listen and subscribe !...
Feb 18, 2026•41 min
For Those I Love is a project by Irish artist David Balfe, and he is the guest on this week's episode of That’s How I Remember It . I first became acquainted with David from his self-titled 2021 record that went on to win the prestigious Choice Music Prize for "Irish Album of the Year." He’s back with another great record called Carving the Stone and we talked about both LPs as well as recording conversations, the word “stotious”, housing issues in Dublin, writing about violence, and the first n...
Dec 03, 2025•42 min
Rhett Miller is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . The Old 97s frontman has a cool new solo record A Lifetime of Riding by Night , which came out in October. We talked about that as well as remembering lyrics, teaching songwriting, persistence, The Kingston Trio, vocal surgery, Strangeways Here We Come , chain wallets, our mutual trip to Joshua Tree in 2012 and the time we met at a CMJ panel. I’ve known Rhett a long time now and really enjoy speaking to him, this was a great ...
Nov 19, 2025•50 min
Ryan Miller of Guster is the guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . We recorded it live this past August at One Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine as part of Guster’s very inspiring On the Ocean Festival. It was an amazing day and great to sit down with Ryan and talk about the last Guster record Ooh La La , The Scorpion’s “Still Loving You”, high school bands, writing songs on new instruments, Matt Johnson and The The, working with new producers, Guster’s college rep program and c...
Nov 05, 2025•56 min
Dave Hause is the guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . I first met Dave as a member of the band The Loved Ones, and we went on an epic tour of the States in 2008 together. Since then, he’s made a bunch of solo records, including the very excellent Dave Hause and the Mermaid LP, which came out in September. We talked about the new record as well as The Hooters, Billy Joel’s “Angry Young Man”, being a roadie for Sick of It All, hardcore as folklore, sobriety, remaining accessible to...
Oct 22, 2025•55 min
This November, I'm going out on tour with my friend Patterson Hood. We're calling it the Devil in the Details tour , and we're gonna be appearing on the same stage at the same time playing our songs with one auxiliary musician, a guy named Ben Hackett. This tour is gonna be magical, and I'm already excited about it. In fact, I'm so excited about it that I decided to dig into the vaults and re-air the first-ever episode of That's How I Remember It , which featured a conversation between myself an...
Oct 15, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Conor Oberst is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . I’m very excited about that because I’m a huge fan. I talked to the BRIGHT EYES songwriter about his excellent last record Five Dice, All Threes as well as Don McLean’s "American Pie," La Bamba the movie, 120 Minutes , Billy Joel, signing to Grass Records as a high school student, his creative relationship with Alex Orange Drink, Aksarben and so much more. I’d been really looking forward to this conversation, and Conor was pr...
Oct 08, 2025•46 min
Matt Berninger from The National is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . Matt checked in from a tour bus at the End of the Road festival in the UK and we talked about his great solo record Get Sunk , lyric monitors, Rizzo from Grease, roller skating, hotel bars, reading novels to plot your future, memory as fantasy and collage, writing about childhood, early 2000s NYC, and Nabokov cocktails. He also shared a traumatic Valentine’s Day story. So happy to have Matt on the show, it...
Sep 24, 2025•47 min
Dan Wriggins from the band Friendship is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . I’ve been a big fan of Dan’s band and his writing for the last few years, and I think I’ve listened to the new Friendship record Caveman Wakes Up more than anything else this year. We talked about this great record as well as basement shows, Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War,” Dave Eggers movies, writing in Asheville, recommending songs to friends, landscaping work in the Philly suburbs, and song titles as ...
Sep 10, 2025•44 min
Margaret Cho is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . Margaret is, of course, a comedy legend, but she’s so much more - a writer, an actor, a singer/songwriter, etc. I met her over a decade ago at a tribute to Bob Mould out in LA, and I was thrilled that we reconnected on this episode. We talked about Lucky Gift , her record from last year, as well as Benzodiazepines, perfume memories, ditto machines, going to see the GoGos on the Vacation tour, her early act, Lilith Fair, pub r...
Aug 27, 2025•40 min
Nick Carpenter makes music as Medium Build and he is my guest on this week’s That’s How I Remember It . In 2024, he released a great record called Country, and we talked about that as well as memorizing lyrics, Crocs, “Renegade” by Styx, Alaska, being obsessed by geography, dreaming about Marc Maron, Lou Vega’s “Mambo No. 5,” and missed connection ads being like songs. I had a great time talking to Nick, he’s funny and insightful and I was thrilled to meet him in person a few weeks later when we...
Aug 13, 2025•43 min
Chuck Cleaver and Lisa Walker, the principal songwriters in the band Wussy are my guests on this episode. It was recorded live in June in front of a great audience at Club 603 in Baltimore. Wussy put out a fantastic record called Cincinnati, Ohio last year which dealt a lot with losing their bandmate John Erhardt. We talked about that as well as the TV show Mannix , Celine Dion’s Stevie Wonder cover, the origins of their band, Club 603, breaking bones, seeing ghosts, and finding dead bodies. It’...
Jul 30, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Jeff and Steven MacDonald from Redd Kross are my guests on this episode of That’s How I Remember It , and I couldn’t be more psyched. These brothers are the subject of a fantastic recent book, an amazing documentary film, and they put out a great double record last year. I’ve been obsessed with them going back to the 80s, and we talk about that here. We also talk about them trading VHS tapes with Quentin Tarantino, seeing REO Speedwagon and Ohio Players at a live recording of Don Kirchner’s Rock...
Jul 16, 2025•54 min
Ezra Furman is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . I’ve been a massive fan since I heard her 2013 release Day of the Dog , and her new record Goodbye Small Head might be her best yet. We talked about that as well as music taking the place of religion, rituals, The Waterboys, community, the top ten hits of 1961, early songwriting attempts, memory from a trans perspective, and so much more. I have been hoping to have Ezra on the show for a long time, and it was everything I hope...
Jul 01, 2025•45 min
The case of Evan and Chris, best friends who love playing music together. But after the band suffers a terrible tragedy, they find themselves unable to regain their momentum. We pair them up with another musician who’s all too familiar with the neverending drama that comes with being in a band with friends. From the episode: Listen to The Superweaks and the single " Blindside " from their new record The Superweaks Superweekly Supercast episode where Yowei stumbles into the case Follow them on In...
Jun 30, 2025•56 min
S.G. Goodman is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . She’s got an amazing record dropping in the next few days called Planting By The Signs and we talked about that as well as survival mode, pandemic isolation, losing her dog Howard, our modern relationship with nature, a breakup being like an addiction and letting a song “go about it’s business.” It was a really great talk with a fantastic writer. I enjoyed it immensely. Listen and subscribe!...
Jun 18, 2025•46 min
Cassandra Jenkins is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . Cassandra is an amazing and inspiring songwriter and musician. She’s also a friend that I’ve made music with. We talked about growing up in a musical household, steel drums, “I Want to Dance With Somebody,” saving voicemails, our 2019 tour, her decision to re-record her most recent album, working in a flower shop, and so much more. Cassandra is super insightful, and I was so happy to finally have her on the podcast. List...
Jun 04, 2025•52 min
Alex Orange Drink, Alex Levine, is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It. I’ve know Alex for a while now, and did a UK/Euro tour with him and his brothers’ great band The So So Glos. He also makes records as a solo artist, including a great new one called Victory Lap #23 which details the battle with cancer that he faced after being diagnosed in 2023. We also talked about Chuck Berry, Michael Jordan, living with Homocystinuria, writing with Conor Oberst and Tim Armstrong, and so m...
May 21, 2025•55 min
Bartees Strange is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . In February, Bartees released a great record called Horror , and he’s on the road now in support of it. We talked a lot about the record and also about Christian rock bands, which horror movies scare him, Bon Iver’s song "Skinny Love," writing short songs on purpose, hardcore as an inspiration, and so much more. Great talk, I was really happy to get to speak to Bartees. Listen and subscribe!
May 07, 2025•40 min
Jim James of My Morning Jacket is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . I’ve been a big fan of My Morning Jacket since my old band Lifter Puller played a show with them way back in 2000. We talked briefly about that show as well as their fantastic new record, The Muppets, validation, depression, EMDR therapy, sleeping on tour buses, Danzig, The Doors, and so much more. Really a fantastic talk with Jim, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Listen and subscribe !...
Apr 23, 2025•50 min
Adam Granduciel is my guest on this episode That’s How I Remember It . Adam is the principal behind the amazing band The War on Drugs and also produced my new record Always Been. We’ve been friends since a 2009 THS/TWOD tour which we spoke about here. We also got into rock and roll ephemera, his Live Drugs records, being flattered by bootleg merch, our 2008 joint European tour that never happened, and making my record Always Been together. Grateful to Adam in so many ways including being a guest...
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr
Ben Nichols from Lucero is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . Ben just released an unplugged record which features him and Lucero piano player Rick Steff performing stripped-down versions of some Lucero classics and deep cuts. We talked about that as well as the first Violent Femmes record, The Nerves’ song “Hanging on the Telephone,” the Little Rock music scene, his brother Jeff’s movie The Bikeriders , and the time both our bands opened for the Replacements in 2014. I alway...
Mar 26, 2025•48 min
Stuart Murdoch is my guest on this episode of That’s How I Remember It . Stuart is the lead singer and songwriter of classic band Belle & Sebastian, who have consistently released amazing music since the mid '90s. He’s now also the author of a great new novel Nobody’s Empire , which mirrors his own personal experiences with chronic fatigue syndrome in the time leading up to the formation of B&S. We talked about that as well as Abba, Bay City Rollers, Come on Eileen, CS Lewis, writing let...
Mar 12, 2025•39 min
