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Live For This
by Paul and Jenn LFT
Each week, Jenn and Paul amplify their takes on music news, show reviews in the Midwest and beyond, and much more. Expect raw, unfiltered discussions on all things music, and more as they share adventures and inspiring stories of the awesome people they’ve met along the way.Join us on Live for This, and immerse yourself in the moments that matter. Because if you don’t live for something, you’ll die for nothing.
Episodes
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"You're Done, He's Done"
Welcome back, we're here to prep you for the impending week. We have your local concert calendar, Michael McDonald spreading his seed, Instagram forcing Creed back into our lives, a very Alanis Christmas, heavy handed security at the Turnstile show, and Olivia Rodrigo being a big White Stripes…
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Really Big Show
Back for another week. Jenn tells us about the Lambrini Girls concert, we talk LCD Soundsystem doing Residencypalooza, Ovrkast v Outkast in a court of law, Carly Rae touring, Macklemore's benefit shows. We talk our favorite musical gear, bands due for a resurgence, compact discs, and the best…
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They Have a Pepper Bar
Life, uh, gets in the way. We're back and we're talking Mackling Less with Macklemore, Nice as F*ck reunion, Pilgrimage Fest, Lambrini Girls. We dabble in the sandwich arts, discuss nice artists that make mid music, and find out Jenn hasn't heard the term "cheeks" used to negatively describe...
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PRETTY STRAIGHT FORWARD
We're back, it's our show, we do as we deem fit. Life is hard and we're learning how to be harder, it just takes some time. Today we have Dolly, Kacey Musgrave's touring clackers, Sir Elton in South America, Tame Impala stepping away from autographs, Miley..., P!nk being a mean girl, and the...
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Limp through This
Another humbling week finds us back with a new episode. We talk about litigious Demon Hunters, a "10 Things I Hate About You" Musical, RIP Columbia House, the new trailer for the Oasis documentary, Camp Flog Gnaw, and AC/DC and Foo Fighters at the Dome At America's Center. We sift through a rough...
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Just Be Whimsical, Don't Force the Whimsy, B*tch
We get knocked down and we get back up again. The only way through is forward and after another undesirable week off, we return refreshed with news and goofs. Let's go!
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Crawling out of the crap
We're back, sorry about that, cyclospora isn't one to be trifled with. We got news, new music, we talk misheard lyrics, songs made just for a movie, and abrasive albums! SOCIAL MEDIA Live For This on Facebook Live For This on Instagram Live For This @ BlueSky Email us at [email protected]...
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Billable Hours are Undefeated
Welcome back, have a seat, let's go. SOCIAL MEDIA Live For This on Facebook Live For This on Instagram Live For This @ BlueSky Email us at [email protected] and unless you know us, we're not interested in any unsolicited services or suggestions!
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Heck of a Hullabaloo
Hey dorks, new show. Got music news with Ariana Grande, the passing of Bonnie Tyler, Portlandia, the B-52s, BAD VIBES AT THE ELECTRIC FOREST, and positivity. SOCIALS Live For This on Facebook Live For This on Instagram Live For This @ BlueSky And feel free to email us at [email protected]
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Can You Please Just Be Normal For Like Two Hours?
We're back and you people are still crapping your pants. Listen man, you aren't the only dude psyched for the gig, maybe cool it a little bit, you're being a little weirdo with those Olivia Rodrigo branded adult diapers. Now quiet, Lee Greenwood is about to start. SOCIAL MEDIA Live For This on...
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That's a Q4 Problem
We're back! We have Jack White finding out third time wasn't the charm, Kirk Hammett being introduced to Swifties, new Beabadoobee. Melissa Auf Der Maur has a photo book coming out, the Leonard Cohen Estate SLAMS the Trump Administration, so does Gwar, a massive Joy Division live anthology…
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Done Bonked My Nog' Again
Sorry for the week off, folks, but we're back. We're talking hygiene, Pride, new music, America250, the death of legends, and honestly a lot. It's good to be back. SOCIALS Live For This on Facebook Live For This on Instagram Life For This @ BlueSky
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Vive Para Esto
Slow week, folks. Talking some upcoming concerts, some new releases, MIA suing, Mastodon's new track, Charli XCX, and we look at the mascots and songs of the World Cup! SOCIALS Live For This on Facebook Live For This on Instagram Live For This @ BlueSky Email us at [email protected]
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Missing the mark(s)
Back again. We talk about wrestling, Freedom 250, Power to the People Fest, passing of saxophone legends, and we recap the release of the Riot Fest announcement. SOCIALS Live For This on Facebook Live For This on Instagram Live For This @ BlueSky Email us at [email protected] you cowards.
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You Don't Owe Me Nothing
Hey welcome back. We have high art, we have high drama, we have fire alarms... we have five alarm fires, thanks Spotify. We ask each other if musicians and musical artists are obligated to make art that has "meaning," how to kill a room, and what we're listening to! Hit us up on the socials Live...
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C's Get Pedigrees
We're back. We touch on some news, like an impending Weird Al musical, Bring Me the Horizon getting brained, Duran Duran confusing the year, gatekeeping, but the big one? We decided we wanted our swing at The New York Times editorial board that decided who the top 30 America's Greatest Living...
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Struggling With Accountability
Another one. Talking about tour cancellations, lack of accountability, MIA going MIA, Steven Tyler having to account for being an abomination, then we open it up a little. We talk music an awful lot on here and there are other things we live for, but not much more. We peel back the curtain and...
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Paid for by Big Burger
It's good to be back! We have a fun one for you guys! Trent Reznor thinks today's music culture sucks, Post Malone and Jelly Roll cancel tour dates, Brady Ebert keeps catching charges, and we look at multiple facets that go into what makes a live music experience the magic that it is. As always,...
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A Little Less Vindication, A Little More Hype
Back at it. We recap RSD 26, weekend two of Coachella, talk Kim Petras, new Beck and tour, new Modest Mouse and tour. Jenn talks about authenticity in art. This week Paul and Jenn listened to an album recommended by the other. Stipulation is, of course, that it has to be new to the listener. Jenn...
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I Want You To Put The Word Out There That We Back Up
Understand me? We back up. We had a rough month and a half since our last episode. It's always something, ain't it? We got your annual Record Store Day update with a little wishlist Paul's got going, what we saw and didn't see in Coachella weekend 1, what we want in weekend 2, the TurnstileMZ...
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Cosmic Glue Holding This Whole Thing Together
Back into the swing of it, folks. 2026 is in full effect and it's goofy as hell. This week we talk Zombie Warped Tour, Record Store Day's 2026 Ambassador, Hayley Williams again, and that wily old man Bruce Springsteen showing up with Tom Morello in the Twin Cities. We discuss why you don't meet...
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The Best of 2025 vol. 2: Thank God That's Over
Happy Hellworld, everybody! 2025 is over but we can't return 2026 to the store, unfortunately. We briefly touch on a couple of music news bits that interested us before delving into the meat of the program: our top 5 records of 2025. We hope that if you haven't taken the time to listen to the…
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The Best of 2025 vol. 1
Happy New Years, folks. 2025 is finally over. Great year for music, which is great for us! Bad year for... almost everything else for us here at LFT, but did you see? It's over. We survived. We dig in to some light news and then break down our set-up: albums 10-6 of our favorites will be…
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Russell Re-Brand Yourself
2025 has been a great year for music with a lot of very difficult decisions looming as to what is our favorites. Today, we touch on a little bit of music news and talk about our criteria for what makes our best of lists. We talk about albums and works that *just* falls outside of our respective…
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Art as Ambience
After an unexpected hiatus (shout out highway department!) we're back. Just getting caught up on the past few weeks, talking about ladies in music, creation from the created, top 40, dated album covers... brother. Or sister. Friend: We had a good time. Paul had too much fun with his microphone...
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Halloweiners: Devilishly Delightful
It's spooky season, folks, and you know what that means. We talk the Touché Amoré Stage Four Ten Year Anniversary tour, another Billie Eilish W, Vans making American Football shoes, grunge representation in the Rock and Roll HOF, Radiohead awakening from their seven year slumber, baseball walk up...
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They've got a good fan base, they've got integrity
It's a busy time of year for your girl Jenn. Time to record is a premium but you know what? She took time to spend it with me. We recorded that time. And buddy? It's yours! This week we talk about Spotify, Ticketmaster/LiveNation, Chappel Roan's philanthropic efforts, and Gen X dad's geekin' for...
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Boiled chicken, white rice, mayo on the side
We're back this week with Taylor Swift (we're sorry), reunited Rush, personal and professional integrity, and Zach Bryan inserting himself into our lives against our will. We tried winging it on our games and we're actually very proud of our humble offering this week. Join us. You, too, can live...
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Work Sucks? I know.
The world burns around us. Yet, music persists. Might as well have some fun with it! We hit the show calendar and new releases, 2026 festival announcements and tours, Lola Young stepping back from music, the Nevermind baby getting rejected again, a Replacements biopic... and talk international...
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Ra Ra Riot Fest: The Reviewening
We did it, guys. We did the thing that's the name of the show. We lived for this: Riot Fest Day 1. We sit down and talk about transportation and transit to an around Chicago, the food, the sights, the overheard conversations, and most importantly, the music. It was such a fun time, a great...
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Ra Ra Riot Fest
Sorry for the delay, sometimes we get sick around this house! We did our best to recover before we head to Chicago for Riot Fest. So this week we talk about what we're looking forward to eating, seeing, doing, listening to, living for our whirlwind couple of days of music in the City by the Lake....
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Gimme Merch, Bringin' Fire - Get Me That Which I Desire
Another week, another good time with the squad. We talk Oasis's etched in stone playlist, an update on Lil Nas X, Mastodon saluting Brent Hinds, Camp Flog Gnaw revealed, and did you know August 28th is National Radio Commercial Day? We talk some commercials we remember from the radio! This…
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Worked You Into a Shoot, Brother
The team are back with a concert calendar, the sad news of the passing of Brent Hinds, Lil Nas X making a scene, Gary Oldman's thoughts on a post David Bowie world, Rob Halford's sadness, Slipknot selling their back catalog. We swing around to college football, Victor Robles throwing a bat at…
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You Thought You Knew (But You Had NO Idea)
The squad this week dive into Jack White's beautifully pure love of baseball, Nine Inch Nails hitting the road in North America, an unrequested Kevin Federline memoir, hope for Tiny Desk, Mastodon drama (Mastodrama,) and future Chappell Roan plans. We wheel into sports and talk UFC on the South...
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What's it mean to be a man? What's it take?
We're back, July ends TODAY, but we don't stop. The gang talks about Ozzy's influence on Lita Ford, new Tame Impala, "new" Chappell Roan, new Hayley Williams, the Jet2 Holiday promo meme being used for disgusting purposes. We are expecting and accepting gratitude from the city of Cincinnati for...
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Hold My Hand, Break My Brain
We're back! July is almost over, summer is in full humid swing and so are we. We talk about Ozzy's passing, new Tyler the Creator, Stevie Wonder on retirement, Metallica helping Tomorrowland, Billie Eilish working with James Cameron. Over in sports we talk about the evergreen Chris Paul still...
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The Half Year Retrospective
Folks, we put aside our traditions, our weekly games, our sports. This week, we talk about some of our favorite musical everythings of the year. Albums, singles, concepts, future releases. 2025 has been pretty darn nice. So come hang out, give us a lil listen, maybe drop us a line. It's good to…
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The Internet's Most Tryin'est Music Nerds
Folks, good to see you there. Thanks for joining us again. This week, we're talking some events around our little St. Louis part of the world, Billie Joe Armstrong shutting down a fan with main character syndrome, Dua Lipa doing two sold out nights at Wembley, Brent Hinds formerly of Mastodon…
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Practice Makes Burfict
Folks, sorry for the break. Literally. Be careful in the rain. But we're back with a boat load of news! Sad news with the passing of Brian Wilson and Sly Stone. Total bummer. Jenn went and saw Kendrick and SZA, Turnstile is gearing up for Turnstile Summer, LORDE DOING LORDE THINGS, Kesha doing...
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Don't Stop B Now
Folks, another one in the books. This is our sweet 16...th episode. We talk about the terrible plane crash involving Devil Wears Prada founding drummer Daniel Williams, Twenty One Pilots making more new music, Freddie Mercury's alleged "lovechild" (this term is used but being protested by Jenn,)...
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We Love a Tush Push
Folks, we're back. We have another goofy ol' time talking about Jane's Addiction, Charli XCX, Blink-182, Planned Parenthood, Robbie Williams for some inexplicable reason, Josh Freese and Foo Fighters fallout, Miley with new music, Dua Lipa tour info, Billie Eilish tour news, the ill advised and...
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Just Cracked a Dead Billionaire
Folks, this is not a mammoth episode. We do have a bit of news for you. We talk the Turnstile benefit show in Baltimore, Lorde announcing the Ultrasound Tour (when we were recording last week, oddly,) John Moreland/Zach Bryan drama, Kesha's thoughts on her dumbest song, a Lemmy statue salute, the...
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Responsibility, What's That?
Folks, this is truly a mammoth episode. We have a lot of news we unpack but we take time out to talk about Mental Health Awareness Month and a handful of artists who have been open about their struggles, including some more about Mark Hoppus's mental state when his cancer was diagnosed. We talk...
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When you have to choose between the truth and the legend, choose the legend.
Folks. It's May. Can you believe that? That's wild. We talk an awful lot about things happening around Los Angeles, unfortunately more on Katy Perry, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, MATT PINFIELD!, doubling up on the NFL Draft since it's over, and hypothetical situations that might…
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Industry Plants & Girls Named Spice
Folks, we're back! This is a big boy of an episode, just full of delicious treats. We hit on a sloppy Coachella weekend 2, the AMA nominees, RIOT FEST!, Newport Jazz Fest, K Dot and SZA kicking off their tour, new Megan Thee Stallion, Lorde making an event too viral, SPORTS!, booking your own...
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The Beautiful Nightmare That Knows Their Name
Folks, this is a humdinger. This is, somehow, our LONGEST episode. I don't know either, man, time totally flew by on this one. We talked about Blue Origin, big big talk on Coachella, our experience on Record Store Day, Lollapalooza drama from 1994, Lil Nas X, JD Vance breaking stuff, the NBA/NHL...
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Never Enough Letters
Folks, we're back. Another week, another batch. What baked up this week? Well, Weezer's bassist's wife pulled a gun on police. High Vis tour cancelled. Blink 182 announces a tour. Turnstile drops a new single. Modest Mouse joins the celebrity cruise business. Johnny Marr tapped for a Record Store...
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Joie de Live for This
This week we got a cracker for you! We talk about upcoming concerts, one we went to, Record Store Day(!), Best Friends Forever Festival announcements, bbno$, Miley, Gorillaz, Converge, Turnstile *DEEP BREATH* the NFL Draft, NHL coming in hot, baseball starting... But most importantly, Paul…
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A Pod with No Cinderellas
Coming at you this week with another regular show where we break down another wild week in music. Jack White? Björk? We talk about them. Oasis? You know it. Lauren Mayberry? SZA's tour advice? A Portraits of Past reunion? Yes! And the Mack was Returned but after posting bail. Let's spend some…
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A Buffet for Your Ears
Hello! It's the podcast that is jam packed with festival, tour, and music news, some Cincinnati sports slander, Paul learns how to bleep things out, and once again, your hosts had a great time! Sit down. Live for this. Follow us around the internet: Instagram - Live for This Podcast BlueSky -...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Each week, Jenn and Paul amplify their takes on music news, show reviews in the Midwest and beyond, and much more. Expect raw, unfiltered discussions on all things music, and more as they share adventures and inspiring stories of the awesome people they’ve met along the way.Join us on Live for This, and immerse yourself in the moments that matter. Because if you don’t live for something, you’ll die for nothing.
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Paul and Jenn LFT
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Each week, Jenn and Paul amplify their takes on music news, show reviews in the Midwest and beyond, and much more. Expect raw, unfiltered discussions on all things music, and more as they share adventures and inspiring stories of the awesome people they’ve met along the way.Join us on Live for...
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