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Walter Martin Radio Hour: Selected Episodes
by Walter Martin
Selected public episodes from Walter Martin Radio Hour. The full show — weekly episodes, handmade playlists, interviews, and the complete back catalog — lives at waltermartin.substack.com.So who is Walter Martin?I’m a songwriter and musician and I’ve been in the bands The Walkmen and Jonathan Fire*Eater in one form or another since I was 12. Literally. I also make a lot of music under my own name and write songs for film, TV and advertising. You can learn all about my work here.What’s the deal with your radio show?In May 2024, I started a weekly radio show (Walter Martin Radio Hour) on Sunday nights on my favorite radio station, WEXT in upstate New York and I post new episodes on my Substack every Friday. I play vinyl records from my record collection and talk about why I like them and why other people might like them.What’s the show like?It’s an informal hour-long show recorded live with my favorite scratchy records. I provide some deep and shallow commentary and some mostly acc
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Spider Stacy Interview: The Pogues and 40 Years of "Rum, Sodomy & The Lash"
Browse all episodes, playlists, archives, info and the whole experience at:waltermartin.substack.comThis a selected public episode of Walter Martin Radio Hour — a weekly deep-dive radio show about music, records, and the strange emotional life we build around listening. The show is hosted by Walter Martin, a lifelong musician and songwriter (The Walkmen, solo work, film & TV).These are standalone, episodes chosen from the larger archive. The full show — including weekly music episodes, handmade playlists, interviews, Classical Club, and the complete back catalog — lives at waltermartin.substack.com.This is the front door. The whole house is over there..waltermartin.substack.com- This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wmrhselectedepisodes.substack.com
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The Sleigh Bells Episode
Browse all episodes, playlists, archives, info and the whole experience at:waltermartin.substack.comThis a selected public episode of Walter Martin Radio Hour — a weekly deep-dive radio show about music, records, and the strange emotional life we build around listening. The show is hosted by Walter Martin, a lifelong musician and songwriter (The Walkmen, solo work, film & TV).These are standalone, episodes chosen from the larger archive. The full show — including weekly music episodes, handmade playlists, interviews, Classical Club, and the complete back catalog — lives at waltermartin.substack.com.This is the front door. The whole house is over there..waltermartin.substack.com-waltermartin.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wmrhselectedepisodes.substack.com
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The Bass Episode
Browse all episodes, playlists, archives, info and the whole experience at:waltermartin.substack.comThis a selected public episode of Walter Martin Radio Hour — a weekly deep-dive radio show about music, records, and the strange emotional life we build around listening. The show is hosted by Walter Martin, a lifelong musician and songwriter (The Walkmen, solo work, film & TV).These are standalone, episodes chosen from the larger archive. The full show — including weekly music episodes, handmade playlists, interviews, Classical Club, and the complete back catalog — lives at waltermartin.substack.com.This is the front door. The whole house is over there..waltermartin.substack.com--- This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wmrhselectedepisodes.substack.com
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How I Became a Music Fanatic
Browse all episodes, playlists, archives, info and the whole experience at:waltermartin.substack.comThis a selected public episode of Walter Martin Radio Hour — a weekly deep-dive radio show about music, records, and the strange emotional life we build around listening. The show is hosted by Walter Martin, a lifelong musician and songwriter (The Walkmen, solo work, film & TV).These are standalone, episodes chosen from the larger archive. The full show — including weekly music episodes, handmade playlists, interviews, Classical Club, and the complete back catalog — lives at waltermartin.substack.com.This is the front door. The whole house is over there..waltermartin.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wmrhselectedepisodes.substack.com
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Matt Berninger Interview: When I was Seventeen
All episodes of Walter Martin Radio Hour are available at waltermartin.substack.com.-In When I Was Seventeen, we talk about the music and art that moved us at that pivotal age—and how it pushed us toward our wildest dreams of becoming musicians.My guest this week is Matt Berninger, solo artist and lead singer/lyricist of The National.We spend about ten minutes on the age of seventeen, then dive into an hour of wide-ranging conversation: first shows, bands forming, the early 2000s in NYC, breaking into the music scene, songwriting, lyric writing, and how to keep a band together for decades.Along the way we get into Ministry, The Thompson Twins, Brainiac, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Morrissey and plenty more.This a selected public episode of Walter Martin Radio Hour — a weekly deep-dive radio show about music, records, and the strange emotional life we build around listening. The show is hosted by Walter Martin, a lifelong musician and songwriter (The Walkmen, solo work, film & TV).-These are standalone, episodes chosen from the larger archive. The full show — including weekly music episodes, handmade playlists, interviews, Classical Club, and the complete back catalog — lives at waltermartin.substack.comThis is the front door. The whole house is over there.waltermartin.substack.com.-- This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wmrhselectedepisodes.substack.com
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Remembering Bobby Weir
Listening to, and playing with, the great Bob Weir.All episodes of Walter Martin Radio Hour are available at waltermartin.substack.com.This a selected public episode of Walter Martin Radio Hour — a weekly deep-dive radio show about music, records, and the strange emotional life we build around listening. The show is hosted by Walter Martin, a lifelong musician and songwriter (The Walkmen, solo work, film & TV).These are standalone, episodes chosen from the larger archive. The full show — including weekly music episodes, handmade playlists, interviews, Classical Club, and the complete back catalog — lives at waltermartin.substack.com.This is the front door. The whole house is over there.waltermartin.substack.com-waltermartin.substack.com- This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wmrhselectedepisodes.substack.com
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The Handclaps Episode
All episodes of Walter Martin Radio Hour are available at waltermartin.substack.com.This a selected public episode of Walter Martin Radio Hour — a weekly deep-dive radio show about music, records, and the strange emotional life we build around listening. The show is hosted by Walter Martin, a lifelong musician and songwriter (The Walkmen, solo work, film & TV).These are standalone, episodes chosen from the larger archive. The full show — including weekly music episodes, handmade playlists, interviews, Classical Club, and the complete back catalog — lives at waltermartin.substack.com.This is the front door. The whole house is over there.This episode will arm you with many interesting facts that you can drop into boring conversations at all of your tedious holiday events throughout this holiday season.Because in real life, as in music, when things get boring, just remember the woodblock.Yes, on this clip-clopping episode we plow through a ton of songs and examine the special place of the woodblock in recorded music. We go from 1911 to 2016. That’s right—100 years of woodblocks for your enjoyment.-- This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wmrhselectedepisodes.substack.com
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The Woodblocks Episode
All episodes of Walter Martin Radio Hour are available at waltermartin.substack.com.This a selected public episode of Walter Martin Radio Hour — a weekly deep-dive radio show about music, records, and the strange emotional life we build around listening. The show is hosted by Walter Martin, a lifelong musician and songwriter (The Walkmen, solo work, film & TV).These are standalone, episodes chosen from the larger archive. The full show — including weekly music episodes, handmade playlists, interviews, Classical Club, and the complete back catalog — lives at waltermartin.substack.com.This is the front door. The whole house is over there.This episode will arm you with many interesting facts that you can drop into boring conversations at all of your tedious holiday events throughout this holiday season.Because in real life, as in music, when things get boring, just remember the woodblock.Yes, on this clip-clopping episode we plow through a ton of songs and examine the special place of the woodblock in recorded music. We go from 1911 to 2016. That’s right—100 years of woodblocks for your enjoyment.-- This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wmrhselectedepisodes.substack.com
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Selected public episodes from Walter Martin Radio Hour. The full show — weekly episodes, handmade playlists, interviews, and the complete back catalog — lives at waltermartin.substack.com.So who is Walter Martin?I’m a songwriter and musician and I’ve been in the bands The Walkmen and Jonathan Fire*Eater in one form or another since I was 12. Literally. I also make a lot of music under my own name and write songs for film, TV and advertising. You can learn all about my work here.What’s the deal with your radio show?In May 2024, I started a weekly radio show (Walter Martin Radio Hour) on Sunday nights on my favorite radio station, WEXT in upstate New York and I post new episodes on my Substack every Friday. I play vinyl records from my record collection and talk about why I like them and why other people might like them.What’s the show like?It’s an informal hour-long show recorded live with my favorite scratchy records. I provide some deep and shallow commentary and some mostly acc
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Selected public episodes from Walter Martin Radio Hour. The full show — weekly episodes, handmade playlists, interviews, and the complete back catalog — lives at waltermartin.substack.com.So who is Walter Martin?I’m a songwriter and musician and I’ve been in the bands The Walkmen and Jonathan...
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