Welcome to Middle of the Dial! A new music show on the Middle of the Row: The Podcast feed.

We talk about music every now and then on the main podcast, but I’ve (Jon) created this show to focus solely on music related content; including news, song features, and interviews. So if you are a music aficionado, or even if you only found out after he died that Michael Jackson sang “Thriller”, I hope you keep listening.

On today’s inaugural show, I have an interview I did with journalist Luke O’Neil. Luke is a freelance journalist based in Boston, and a regular contributor to Esquire. We discussed his tenure as the curator of Emo Night Boston, emo music past and present, and his band no hope / no harm. At the end, we also feature their song, “Our Vile Body”. So without further ado, here’s my conversation with Luke O’Neil.