I hang out with Amplified Echoes tourmate, Andy Hull from Manchester Orchestra. We get into our split cover song collab, becoming comfortable hearing your own voice and adopting character writing to get “you” out of the way.

Jim talks with M. Rebillet about his one-man-wrecking-crew, take no prisoners, play-to-the-back-of-the-room performance. Which since the majority of his show is improv, is also his writing sessions.

Frank and Jim chat away through the English dusk about punk rock, imaginary listeners projecting their lives onto musicians and the universality of dressing rooms with no waste basket.

Ken and Jim get nerd rapping about the DAW writing vs analog realm writing, the perils of instrument switching mid-song and lyric writing tips to keep you from getting psyched out.

Jim and Bob talk about art vs content, creative restrictions on purpose and having stage hands load in a bunch of tv’s as props for your dude-with-a-guitar set.

New friend Ryan and Jim talk about all the places one receives an education in music ... institutions and bus lounge interventions. Huh ... Institutions and Interventions kind of sounds like a good name for an album. Dibs.

Jim and a recently Boisien Joey Burns talk about remote collaboration, racing train noise to get takes in and the choice to approach writing with ensemble feels in mind.

Mike Kinsella (American Football, Owen, Joan Of Arc etc …) and Jim get into the weeds with vocal performance delivery choices, letting kids watch Reanimator and how your creative output is allowed go beyond the boundaries of your current self perception.

Gerard and Jim talk about making intentional choices to get around expectations psyching you out and how unlikely it may be that anyone reads the episode notes.