Against Everyone with Conner Habib

To cap off my episodes on music, here's a mix tape for you of some of my favorite songs and some stories about them, too. It includes rarities, songs you might not know, live performances, and more.

TRACK LIST

Persevere by Dave Le'Aupepe/Gang of Youths (live/acoustic) from AEWCH 31

Purple Haze by Ris Paul Ric from Purple Haze

Before You Go by Sarah Jaffe (live/a cappella)

When the Breakers go Back on Fulltime by Daoirí Farrell

As Long As I Live by Bruce Penninsula

Absence by Antarctica

Josh Has A Crush on a Femme from Reed by The New Bad Things

Swan Swan H by REM (early version)

Jesus Christ by The Pupils

The Rest of the Day by Bedhead

Here Comes the Flood by Peter Gabriel from the 1979 BBC Xmas Special

Special Diamonds by Geoff Farina

Oscillator by Satisfact

People Die by Travis Morrison

Now You Are Free by Augustines

I talk with my favorite live singer, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, about earworms, songs we sing at home, the power of singing, and more in the third episode in my series of eps on musicians talking about music.

In the second episode in my series talking about music with musicians, Ian Lynch (LANKUM + FIRE DRAW NEAR podcast) and I discuss how traditional Irish music pulls from the earth and horror and rebellion to vitalize itself and its listeners, both boozy and sobered.

Kicking off my series of episodes talking about music in our lives and world with musicians is prolific musical artist Will Oldham AKA Bonnie "Prince" Billy!

Concluding my series on HORROR, I talk about horror's offerings to the world - which go much deeper than most people (even horror scholars!) suggest.

In the fourth of my episodes on horror, I talk with new horror star CJ Leede (Maeve Fly) and seasoned master Paul Tremblay (The Cabin at the End of the World, The Beast You Are) about the burdens and pleasures of writing such dark material.

In the third episode on HORROR, I talk with two award winning horror authors - John Langan (The Fisherman) and Sophie White (Where I End) - about the way horror inheres in places and in the bodies of everyone we know!

In this second episode on a series on horror, I talk with masters of the genre Sara Gran (Come Closer, The Book of the Most Precious Substance) and Nathan Ballingrud (North American Lake Monsters, The Strange) about creating forceful and frightening art, the fear of not knowing the truth (and the fear of investigating), why horror films scare us in a different way than horror novels/stories, and more.

Kicking off a series of episodes on horror, I talk with cosmic horror writer and scholar Matt Cardin!

How to identify and avoid false spiritual paths, and how to cultivate true ones (without judgment!)