Left of the Dial

Kitzy sits down with Norelle and Matt Green from one of our new favorite bands, Stud Count, to talk about their debut self-titled album, out today on Smart Punk Records. They cover everything from the inspiration for the band's tongue-in-cheek name to dealing with the depressively gray winters of West Philly and, of course, a ton about their absolutely killer new album in between.

Stud Count is out today on Smartpunk Records. You can (and really, really should) pick it up now.

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Back in May, Kitzy and Andrea sat down with Ash and Tyler from GILT, one of our favorite bands over here at Left of the Dial. And then a bunch of stuff happened, and things got shuffled around, and you know how it goes. BUT we are very happy to finally be bringing you this conversation. We talk about vulnerability in songwriting, grief vultures, and the band's really brilliant EP Conceit, which was released earlier this year on SmartPunk records.

Catch GILT playing not one but three sets at Fest this year. Seriously, check them out. They're the best. If you don't believe us, you can check out their set from Fest 19 that we had the pleasure of recording.

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Andrea and her guest host Chris Gethard (The Chris Gethard Show, Half My Life, New Jersey Is the World) talk with the incredibly smart, thoughtful, and funny Caryn Rose about her new book Why Patti Smith Matters (University of Texas Press).

Head over to carynrose.com to join Caryn Rose's mailing list and find a list of upcoming in-person events.

Read Rose's new piece on Smith, Bruce Springsteen, and the history of "Because the Night".

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SO much good music out this month. Kitzy and Andrea are bringing you six new songs they can't get enough of. Check 'em out. Pick up their albums. You know the drill. And as Andrea mentions in this episode, our killer new theme song is a cover of The Replacements' "Left of the Dial" by the incredibly talented and lovely band, The Tisburys. You can hear the whole thing and check out the rest of their music over on Bandcamp.

FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE:

Gully Boys - "See You See"

Bartees Strange - "Wretched" (and on Jimmy Kimmel)

Beach Rats - "Blown to Bits"

Boy Jr - "Meet Me in the Middle"

A Day Without Love - "Caffeine"

Mikey Erg - "Sick as Your Secrets"

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Forever Came Calling is a band from Twentynine Palms, California. Their iconic pop-punk album, Contender, turns 10 this year, and to mark that anniversary, they’re heading out on a headlining tour this summer, hitting just about every region in the US. We were so thrilled to talk with Joe Candelaria, the band's lead vocalist and songwriter, about getting back on the road after a two-year break, revisiting songs he wrote a decade ago, showing love to your influences, being gentle with your past self, and what your favorite Ninja Turtle says about your taste in pizza. This was a really fun episode with a very thoughtful, candid guest, and we're excited for y'all to hear it!

Catch Forever Came Calling when they come through your town this summer with Pollyanna, Nominee, Homesafe, Handguns and Death Lens

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Check out Joe's Cowabunga Pizza if you ever find yourself in Twentynine Palms on a Wednesday night.

This week, The Warhawks–a killer band playing killer music outta Gloucester City, New Jersey–join Andrea and Kitzy on the podcast, which means Kitzy has to hang out while a bunch of Jersey folks talk about Jersey for an hour. They also talk a lot about The Warhawks' most recent release, This Ain't Art, which you can and should pick up now because it rules.

Catch The Warhawks at Anchor Rock Club in Atlantic City on July 2nd.

Tune in to leftofthedial.fm on July 22nd when The Warhawks will be joining us in the studio for a live session!

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New Jersey’s Long Neck has a new album, Soft Animal, due out the 21st of June. They announced the album today along with the release of its first single, the earthy and ethereal (yes, it somehow manages to be both, simultaneously) “Gardener.” The single features lush violins arranged and performed by Marlene Bellissimo with warm vocal harmonies from RN Taylor of Los Campesinos!

Long Neck’s Lily Mastrodimos joined us on the podcast today to talk about the album, its influences, and the tender experience of writing and recording “Gardener” in particular. Soft Animal is out June 21st on Plastic Miracles in the US and Specialist Subject in the UK. You can listen to “Gardender” now, and if you need more Long Neck to hold you over, check out Lily’s solo Left of the Dial studio session from last year.

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Featured in this episode:

Lande Hekt - "Going To Hell"

Frances Quinlan - "Went To LA"

Shannon Lay - "Recording 15"

Ghost Light - "Strangers"

Aimee Mann - "Patient Zero" 

Long Neck - "Gardener"

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It's only taken us two and a half years, but we're finally doing our Replacements episode, and we've brought it one of our favorite people here at Left of the Dial–Tyler Asay of The Tisburys and Riverby–to help us out.

We're especially excited about this episode because a few weeks back, we had Tyler and the rest of the Tisburys in the studio to record a cover of The Replacements' "Left of the Dial," the song from which we, big surprise, take our show's title, and we get to share that with you today! We'll be using it as our theme song from now on, too!

It's a fantastic cover, featuring vocals from The Lunar Year's Katie Hackett. You can buy it today on Bandcamp, and The Tisburys are donating all of the proceeds to abortion funds in Pennsylvania: abortionfundpa.org/donate, so you should definitely pick it up.

If you're listening to this episode the day it airs (Friday the 13th!), and you live in the Philly area, you can catch The Tisburys along with The Lunar Year and Kate Dressed Up at Dawson Street Pub.

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This week marks the official beginning of Andrea's most ambitious undertaking to date: book the little known indie darlings Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem for a Left of the Dial studio session. And she's called in Muppet superfan Patrick Cotnoir (The George Lucas Talk Show, RAAAATSCRAPS, a million other cool things) to help.

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In this episode Andrea read the quote, "For Teeth, it's always what feels right rather than what is correct." It's from the Muppets Crash Course series over at Just for the Halibut.

Songs featured in this episode:

From The Muppet Movie: Can You Picture That?

From The Muppet Show: Money & Rockin' Robin

From The Muppets at Walt Disney World Rockin' All Around the World

From The Muppets Take Manhattan: You Can't Take No For An Answer

From Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival (2016) Home

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It's Bandcamp Friday. Why not pick up one or all of our Left of the Dial studio sessions and put a little extra cash into the pockets of some really talented folks?

Andrea and Kitzy are bringing you a few new songs to usher you into the weekend. Featured in today's episode:

Mikey Erg - "Almost Like Judee Sill" off his upcoming album Love at Leeds, out June 24th on Don Giovanni Records and which you can pre-order now. In the meantime, check out our studio session with Mikey!

Teens in Trouble - "I'm Not Worried" is Teens in Trouble's first single since joining with Asian Man Records.

The Wonder Years - "Oldest Daughter"

Kayleigh Goldsworthy - "You're Good" off Kayleigh's upcoming album Learning to be Happy, May 6th.

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