RPS Presents

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah return this year with New Fragility, a record that lyrically sums up some of the collective state of unease and anxiety currently being suffered around the world. Johann Wald chats to Alec Ounsworth about songwriting, surviving initial hype and feeling like a clown at the dinner table.

Hot on the heels of her debut mixtape Demidevil, Ben Cardew interviews American rapper, singer, songwriter and pop sensation Ashnikko, to talk TikTok, bad songwriting sessions and bending pop to your will.

After leading one of New York's most beloved bands, Hamilton Leithauser proves with his latest album, The Loves Of Your Life, that there is plenty of life after The Walkmen. We talked about fatherhood, ageing gracefully in rock n' roll, $50 Old Fashioneds at The Carlyle and Ethan Hawke breaking bottles of champagne over his head.

Ben Cardew speaks to South London's finest post punks Goat Girl about lockdown, gigs under Brexit and their fabulous new album On All Fours.

With Ultra Mono, IDLES have made the ultimate soundtrack for a year of social unrest. We talk with founding member, Dev, about the makings of the fastest selling vinyl release of 2020 in the UK, dealing with post-tour blues and sleeping rough on the cold streets of London in winter.

Ben Cardew meets Klaus Flouride and East Bay Ray from legendary US punk band Dead Kennedys to talk Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables' new remix, Jello Biafra's reaction to it, Elvis Presley and the West Runton Pavilion.

John Carroll Kirby has had his fingers all over some of the most celebrated records in contemporary music. After working closely with Solange, Blood Orange, Sebastian Tellier and Frank Ocean, this year he co produced Pleasure, Joy & Happiness, the charming and meditative come-back album from Eddie Chacon, most known as half of the duo Charles & Eddie. We interviewed both artists about their collaboration, the importance of creating good vibes and how to cope with the L.A. solitude.

Radio Primavera Sound presenta la listening party de ‘Ensayo’, lo nuevo de los Nueva.  Wences Aparicio, Artur Estrada y Albert Guàrdia pasan por el estudio de RPS para comentar una a una las canciones de ‘Ensayo’ junto a Marta Salicrú.

Sopranos star, writer, director - and now renowned shoegaze fan: the slow realisation that Michael Imperioli - perhaps best known as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos - loves My Bloody Valentine as much as we love My Bloody Valentine has been one of the musical highlights of 2020. Ben Cardew talks Sopranos, Smiths, Suicide, shoegaze and the Talking Sopranos podcasts with Imperioli, settling the question of what is better: My Bloody Valentine or The Sopranos, once and for all. (Well, kind of.)

Ben Cardew talks lockdown creativity, urinals and the US ambassador with Sleaford Mods' Jason Williamson, as the band release their new compilation album All That Glue.