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Johnny Marr - "I wrote songs to solve my problems"

Sign up to our newsletter to win a Johnny Marr signed The Age of Everything LP : https://www.101ptj.fyi/ The world's most influential guitarist joins today on wearing ey

Stop & Chat: Sorcha Richardson

Sorcha Richardson's Draw The Outline is an album you need on your radar. She tells about early years discovering her voice, working at record labels, a chance advert sync

C.O.F.F.I.N. - "Don't underestimate your ability to have an affect"

While over for their London documentary screening, the Manly-Australia band joined on starting as teenagers and booking local shows, developing an understanding on how to

Stop & Chat: corto.alto

Liam Shortall, who's just released his mind melting new record Some Small Fortune, joins on going to music university at 16, playing in wedding bands and his parents runn

Interpol - "There's a magic that happens between us"

Interpol's Paul Banks and Daniel Kessler on the alchemy behind the band, making the tectonically powerful new record This Mirror Weighs A Ton with established pop produce

Stop & Chat: Le Ren

If you're into timeless Americana folk, you gotta listen to Le Ren's new album Don't Be Funny Without Me - out tomorrow. Lauren joins us on playing to her 90-year-olds gr

Brian Fallon - "I'm happy for the first time ever"

Brian Fallon is back, baby. Not Bad For New Jersey, out 10 September, is his best batch of songs in years. He wears the same cologne as Blink 182's Travis Barker. He's do

The Tubs - "My songs do a hatchet job on myself"

If you don't yet know The Tubs - get quick now on the train the jangletown. Owen Williams joins on how he confronts intrusive thoughts with songwriting, the hundreds of h

Stop & Chat: Man/Woman/Chainsaw

MWC have released an excellent and likely enduring debut record with Cannonball. Vera and one of the two Billys join us on being lockdown teenagers, being a six-piece ban

Powerplant - "The suffering is the joy"

Theo Zhykharyev joins on doubling down on Powerplant and becoming an admin email demon, how he can't go back to his home country of Ukraine, living in a guardianship and

Freddie Meredith - Need A Light?

Freddie Meredith on the plight of self-taped auditions, working at the pub and his fringe show about a desperate smoking area dweller. Catch him at Baby Grand at Pleasanc

Rory Marshall - Thank You For The Opportunity

Rory's Edinburgh Fringe show starts this week. Last week he joined us on putting together its final touches, playing in a band, his laundry list of jobs and stage fright.

Brògeal - Deer Shed Festival

Falkirk romantic punk rockers Brògeal join us at Deer Shed to talk about working a double pizza team during Covid, putting on shows in their hometown and making dreary da

The North - Truck Festival

The North are good rock 'n roll powerpop - reminds me of The Exploding Hearts, Buzzcocks or early Cribs, who I saw them do a fine job of supporting a few weeks ago. Sian

Joe and the Shitboys - Truck Festival

At Truck Festival, Ziggy and Joe from the Shitboys discuss working in sewage and building sites, what it's like to have a queer vegan message in the conservative Faroe Is

Nell Mescal - "I have to get better at shooting my shot"

Gettting in a room to write with Big Thief, Billie Marten and Tomberlin collaborator Philip Weinrobe, Nell Mescal's satisfying new track 'Settles' is out now. She talks a

The Mary Wallopers - "Grannies are being arrested for wearing a t-shirt"

Andrew and Charles Hendy of The Mary Wallopers sit with us on bucking society's norms, speaking up for equality, justice and fairness, trad songs that have lasted hundred

Stop & Chat: Ebbb

Ebbb's debut album Shallow Hits is a must listen. It's an addictive, satisying listen that keeps getting better as your work your way through it, giving a solid amount of

Getdown Services - "We were desperately trying to escape a routine"

Josh and Ben - along with their DIY label Breakfast Records and manager Alice - are sailing on in unchartered, French house inspired waters. Having recently become the bi

Mini Skirt - Bricklaying, Painting, Tour When You Wanna

10 years of being a band, Mini Skirt have been pulling the thread and getting as much out of playing music as they can. Happy bricklaying or painting at home and happy en