Episodes
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Fluxblog 483: DANPILLED Michael McDonald special feat. Jesse Hawken
Danpilled is back! I recently made a guest appearance on Jesse Hawken’s Junk Filter podcast to talk about Steely Dan collaborator Michael McDonald. Jesse and I discussed McDonald’s distinctive voice, his prolific guest appearances on a wide range of records from the 70s and 80s, his work with...
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Fluxpod Special: AC Newman of The New Pornographers
Thank you for reading Fluxblog. This post is public so feel free to share it. This special edition episode of Fluxpod is an interview with Carl Newman, the primary songwriter, singer, and guitarist of The New Pornographers. This conversation is focused on his songwriting process and working with...
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Will Sheff on his new album Nothing Special
This is a nice long interview with Will Sheff, a musician best known as the songwriter and frontman of Okkervil River. We talk about his new album Nothing Special, which is his first record under his own name, and why he decided to step away from the Okkervil River name. We get into some fairly...
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What's going on with the concert industry in this phase of the pandemic?
This episode features Billboard journalist Eric Renner Brown, who has spent the past few years covering the concert industry for Pollstar. We talk about his experience of covering the industry through the chaos of the first phase of the pandemic, and what's been happening with small venues, huge...
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Pop Pantheon • Leo Season
This episode features Louis, the host of the Pop Pantheon podcast. We talk about the show and his history as a DJ and along the way go off on tangents about several pop stars including Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, and Rihanna. If you love pop this episode is for you! LEO SEASON ♌️🦁🌞🔥 is…
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What does it mean to FLOP? What is flop mindset??
This episode is a marathon of all four episodes of FLOPUARY, a miniseries meditation on the concept of flopping by myself and Molly O'Brien of And Introducing. The miniseries was previously behind the paywall on the Fluxblog Patreon and originally came out in February of this year. We cover a lot...
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DANPILLED V: Steely Dan chat with Carrie Courogen and Jesse Hawken
Everyone's favorite sporadically produced and confusingly released Steely Dan podcast is back! This time Jesse Hawken and I are joined by the writer Carrie Courogen to talk about recent Dan shows, the whole Aimee Mann thing, a recently unearthed Dan cover of Joni Mitchell, and a bunch of classic...
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Brian Hiatt of Rolling Stone • This Was Summer 2004
This episode of Fluxpod features Brian Hiatt, the host of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast and one of the most prolific features writers in the history of that magazine. In this conversation we talked about his long career at Rolling Stone, how he approaches talking to some of the most famous...
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Briana Cheng on A&R + This Was Summer 1978
This week’s episode features Briana Cheng, an A&R for 4AD and owner of the artist management company B4. We talk about what she does, how she works with new artists, and how high personal stakes put her in the position to take working in the music industry very seriously from a young age. There’s...
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Karina Longworth + This Was Summer 1984
This week’s episode of Fluxpod features Karina Longworth, creator and host of the long-running film history podcast You Must Remember This. In this conversation we talk about her current ongoing series Erotic 80s/90s, the formative influence of Madonna, MTV's The Real World, art school, the…
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Nabil Ayers • This Was Summer 1999
This week’s episode of Fluxpod features Nabil Ayers, president of the Beggars Banquet label group and author of the new memoir My Life in the Sunshine. We talk about the book, which is largely about his complicated relationship with his biological father, the musician Roy Ayers, and also get into...
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New Fluxpod season featuring Tom Scharpling!
Here's the first episode of a new season of Fluxpod! Every free episode will be syndicated through the Fluxblog Substack, but if you’d like to hear all the bonus episodes including several miniseries you need to sign up for the Fluxblog Patreon. Tom Scharpling is one of the best broadcasters in…
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Fluxpod is an ever-changing show in which I talk to various cool people – musicians, music industry people, writers, critics, etc – about music. Every episode is its own thing!
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