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Welcome back to '24 Question Party People.' This week's episode is one day late because of the holiday, but we'll be back Tuesdays starting next week. In this episode, we bring our 24 questions to Counting Crows front man Adam Duritz, and we manage to reflect on a range of topics, from the virtues of sincerity to his favorite blended alcoholic bev to what meme encapsulated his and Chris Carrabba's essence. As always, you’ll have to listen to figure out what any of that means.

Host: Yasi Salek
Guest: Adam Duritz
Producer: Jesse Miller-Gordon
Associate Producer: Chris Sutton
Additional Production Supervision: Justin Sayles
Theme Song: Hether Fortune

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Welcome to 24 Question Party People, hosted by Yasi Salek. Each week, a guest will be asked the same set of 23 questions (with one wild card) to wildly different results. On our inaugural episode, we welcome the legendary Liz Phair in the wake of the 30th anniversary of her first album 'Exile in Guyville' to talk music, doubters, lives unlived, and why she will never see that DM you sent. Let’s get into it, babe.

Host: Yasi Salek
Guest: Liz Phair
Producer: Jesse Miller-Gordon
Associate Producers: Chris Sutton and Troy Farkas
Additional Production Supervision: Justin Sayles

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What can be said about the original 80’s Los Angeles freak band that hasn’t been said before? Gotta listen to find out, babe. Jessica Hopper joins us this week to track Los Angeles legends Jane’s Addiction from their formation, through Lollapalooza, and back to reforming the band and living más.

Follow Jessica Hopper on Twitter @jesshopp

Listen to the songs we detail in the episode HERE

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It wasn’t the future of rap, but it was the future of rock. In 1993, one of the strongest music years in popular memory, a quirky soundtrack was released that ended up eclipsing the movie it was made for. Perennial Bandsplain favorites Sean Fennessey and Rob Harvilla join us to talk about what led to this moment, and what followed.

Follow Sean Fennessey on Twitter @seanfennessey

Follow Rob Harvilla on Twitter @Harvilla

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Two people fell in love at University and then they started writing good pop songs. Decades later they still can’t see what the big deal is, but they released three albums as The Sundays, and people never got over it. NPR editor Hazel Cills joins us to discuss the idyllic sounds and reasonable attitudes of this short lived, yet perpetually ongoing band. 

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Listen to the song we detail in the episode HERE

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Are you a tote carrying member of the Sad Dad’s club? What does it look like if you tell a different guy to draw a man? You’re going to find out, babe. This week on Bandsplain, frontman, writer, label owner and podcast host Jeremy Bolm joins us to discuss Brooklyn’s own Cincinnati band, The National. 

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Listen to the songs we detail in the episode HERE

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Part 2 of the DMB resplaining picks up right where we left off. Dave and the guys are jammed up recording, and things get a little off the rails from there. Host Yasi Salek and returning guest Grayson Haver Currin take the listener from the early internet confusion of the Lillywhite Sessions to present day and the band’s latest album, 2023’s Walk Around the Moon. 

Follow Grayson Haver Currin on Twitter @currincy

Listen to the songs we detail in the episode HERE

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Sometimes when you really love something, you don’t let it go, you revisit it again and again. That’s why we’re resplaining the Dave Matthews Band, babe. Longtime music critic and newspaper editor Grayson Haver Currin is back with us to give Dave and the Band the full Bandsplain treatment they deserve. This first episode takes us from long before Miller’s bar in Charlottesville to the heights of popularity and fame somewhere in between the Chicago river and an infamous unfinished recording session. 

Follow Grayson Haver Currin on Twitter @currincy.

Listen to the songs we detail in the episode HERE

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Rob Harvilla joins Yasi to go through listener questions. Should you resent your poser ex boyfriend? Will there ever be a cult band again? And what do you playlist for your HIIT class?? Plus a special guest you’ve all missed as much as we have. 

Follow Rob Harvilla on Twitter @Harvilla

Follow Producer Jesse on Twitter @ItsMeJMG

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Six Albums, two members. The White Stripes were there and then they weren’t. Breaking through from Detroit’s garage scene and rock n’ roll tradition to worldwide success, you now hear Seven Nation Army in arenas around the world they’ve never been to and will never play week after week. Find out how a complicated sounding relationship was simple, and a legend took shape. This week we are joined by Ringer Head of Content, podcast extraordinaire, and longtime music writer, Sean Fennessey, as we work through how an unlikely group made perfect sense for international glory. 

Follow Sean Fennessey on Twitter: @SeanFennessey

Listen to the songs we detail in the episode HERE

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