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Ep. #1091: Ray Bull

Tucker Elkins and Aaron Graham from Ray Bull are here to discuss their new album, Please Stop Laughing, loving New York, being reunited with your old furniture and coffee mugs after your roommate moves out, art school, high art, academia, and folk art, their efforts to create viral segments to draw people to their music, having eclectic musical interests and learning how to play music on some of the loudest instruments around, loving Rufus Wainwright and his whole musical family, exploring various musical directions without having an identity crisis, working with producer Al Carlson and how two people can reflect Ray Bull’s sound live, shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1076: Morgan Nagler

Post author By vish
Post date March 12, 2026

Morgan Nagler is here to discuss her long-awaited debut solo album, I’ve Got Nothing to Lose, and I’m Losing It, her connection to nature, compiling songs she wrote during a long relationship that she realized predicted the end of that relationship, fuelling up with grassoline, a deep bond she has formed with Kim Deal after Deal suggested they write songs together, her prolific child acting career and the clever way she earned a role on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, encountering Michael Jackson during a screen test for the “Smooth Criminal” video, whether she’ll ever act again, the dynamic, multi-genre sound of her new record, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1025: Esther Rose

Post author By vish
Post date October 11, 2025

Esther Rose is here to discuss her new album Want, living in New Mexico and how locals regard Vince Gilligan’s groundbreaking TV shows, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, growing up in Detroit and going to London, Ontario to attend punk shows, the raw, confessional work of John Lennon, dealing with trauma and exploring ketamine-based psychedelic therapy, giving up drinking and pondering alcohol’s oddly dominant role in the music industry, recording emotional songs live to tape, loving standup comedy and Ann Powers’ book Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, writing new songs, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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