If you're looking for a one-stop update on 2016's best rock records, look no further than this episode. Steve previews two big May releases -- the Hotelier's Goodness and Car Seat Headrest's Teens of Denial — with members of both bands. For fans, it's ...

Classic rock fans have long recognized Cheap Trick as one of America's best live bands. But it took the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame until 2016 to properly honor Rockford's finest. Right before Cheap Trick was inducted in early April, Steve spoke with gu...

The author of Our Band Could Be Your Life stops by to discuss the landmark book on the 15th anniversary of its publication, and explains why the '80s aren't all that different from today. Azerrad also talks about his experience as Nirvana's official bi...

Our first two-time guest is none other than Chuck Klosterman, who returns to discuss the new Weezer album and whether "giving the people what they want" is truly a bad thing. Chuck and Steve also speculate about the new Radiohead LP and decide whether ...

For more than 20 years, Deftones have ranked among the best and most adventurous bands in hard rock. On Friday, the band adds to its legacy with its eighth album, Gore. In advance of Gore's release, Steve talk with lead singer Chino Moreno about the re...

Like a lot of music fans who came of age in the 90s, Steve learned about music from reading album reviews. But now that social media and streaming services has made music and music opinions so accessible, why are critics still relying on this slow, for...

Another class of inductees is about to enter the Rock Hall, and some of the choices (Chicago? Steve Miller?) seem like the opposite of rock. How do we fix this oft-maligned institution? To figure this out, Steve talks with a Hall Voter and one of his f...

With the first quarter of the year almost over, Steve decided to invite the makers of his two favorite LPs of early 2016 on the pod. First, he talks with Amber Webber of epic rockers Black Mountain, whose first album in six years, IV, comes out April ...

As the co-creator and executive producer of Billions, Brian Koppelman is currently in charge of one of TV's most popular new dramas. But before he was a successful writer of films and TV shows, Brian was a music nerd who worked in the record business, ...

Modern Baseball is a young band, but they've already had a career's worth of high and lows. Steve sits down with the the pop-punk quartet's songwriters, Brendan Lukens and Jake Ewald, to discuss Modern Baseball's early days, Lukens' recent treatment fo...