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Ep. #878: Ted Leo

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Ted Leo discusses the 20th anniversary tour behind Shake the Sheets and the album’s contemporary resonance, moving back to New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen’s enduring influence and the realistic aspects of The Sopranos, punk rock influences and dark songs living in sunny arrangements, loving early Beatles and being part of the Dischord Records community in D.C., dense lyricism in rock and hip-hop, the isolation and exhaustion that inspired Shake the Sheets, how the Foreign Correspondents came about and why more people should listen to Michael Pagliaro, touring more, other future plans, and much more.  

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Ep. #840: Mint Mile

Tim Midyett discusses the incredibly impassioned new Mint Mile album, Roughrider, loving a home recorded performance as much as one made at Electrical Audio, singing about sex, love, mortality, and society, football, eschewing social media one platform at a time, collaborating with Joel RL Phelps and Nina Nastasia, conjuring Lou, Iggy, and Bowie, a fine day at Abbey Road, Silkworm reissues, tour, other future plans and much more.

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Ep. #461: Shad

Shad talks about hosting Hip-Hop Evolution and every single song on A Short Story About a War, which is out now via Secret City Records! Supported by CFRU 93.3 FMPizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts.