Episode 12 features Paul's fascinating conversation with the brilliant London ex-pat, Robyn Hitchcock, discussing London, record stores, Syd Barrett, Soft Boys, Andy Partridge, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and his current life in Nashville with Emma Swift and their cats. We also check with Carrie Colliton over at RSD HQ in North Carolina, addressing the current new date for Record Store Day, June 20, the challenges of the new normal in a COVID-19 world, and how we can keep our culture workers working going forward. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Tito's Handmade Vodka. Go to Record Store Day for all info

Episode 11 is all about the love of records. Acclaimed producer and archivist, Andrew Sandoval reflects on his decades-long career curating and producing fantastic boxed sets, plus his most recent production work with The Monkees. Meanwhile, Paul goes to San Francisco's Alamo Drafthouse to chat with filmmakers Rob Hatch-Miller, Puloma Basu, and Dawn Sutter Madell about Other Music, a new documentary about that beloved Manhattan record shop, plus Carrie Colliton from RSD talks up "The List" of special releases for RSD 2020 (April 18). Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Tito's Handmade Vodka.

Episode 10: Comedians In Bars Talking About Records! On a very special episode of the RSD Pod, we talk music with three comedians - Kids In The Hall's Dave Foley, plus Caitlin Gill and Jonah Ray - in front of a well-behaved live audience at The Punch Line in San Francisco during SF Sketchfest. Meanwhile, back at Record Store Day HQ, Carrie Colliton announces this year's Record Store Day Ambassador and gets ready for the actual Record Store Day, April 18, 2020, and openly invite you to submit photos of yourself in your favorite record store with the hashtag #RSDShelfie. Go to RecordStoreDay.com for all the latest RSD News. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Tito's Handmade Vodka.

On Episode 9, Paul chats with author, journalist, podcaster and former MTV host Dave Holmes, author of the excellent Party Of One: A Memoir In 21 Songs, about records, record stores, and personal memories of the late great power pop star Tommy Keene, whom he wrote about in the literary anthology Go All The Way. And with Valentine's Day approaching, we check in with the two married couples who run Minnesota's mighty Electric Fetus stores, Dawn & Jim Novak and Stephanie & Aaron Meyerring. Also, Carrie from RSD explains what an RSD Ambassador is. Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Tito's Handmade Vodka.

Episode 8 of The Record Store Day Podcast, Jane Wiedlin welcomes Paul aboard a boat, anchored near San Francisco, to talk about her groundbreaking, chart-busting work with The Go-Go's, her cool solo stuff, growing up in the L.A. punk scene, working with Sparks, loving David Bowie, and a slew of recent Go-Go's related projects including Allison Ellwood's Sundance featured documentary, The Go-Go's, and the Broadway musical Head Over Heels which used the band's music to interpret a story loosely based on Sir Philip Sidney’s 16th-century work, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, and Tito's Handmade Vodka. Go to RecordStoreDay.com for more information about RSD 2020, April 18th.

In Episode 7, music publisher, record store nerd, and well-connected dude Tom DeSavia discusses crate digging, Linda Ronstadt, and working with John Doe of X on two books about L.A. punk, with special cameo performances from Doe himself, and in our record store segment, we meet Rachel Prin from The Record Exchange in Boise, Idaho, who shares tales of record shopping in Japan. Plus Carrie Colliton from RSD calls in from CES in Las Vegas to announce this year's date for Record Store Day! Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, and Tito's Handmade Vodka.

Happy New Year from The Record Store Day Podcast! On Episode 6, Paul takes a look back at one of his favorite albums of 2019, Spread The Feeling by The Pernice Brothers, and chats with that band's Toronto-based songwriter Joe Pernice about records and books and his departed friend, David Berman (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains) who passed away last summer. But first, we meet Paul's lifelong buddies, live show producer Dan Derbridge and music producer/video director Michael Phillip Wojewoda, for an animated discussion about coming of age in the record shops of Toronto. Sponsored by Tito's Handmade Vodka and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery. Please subscribe, rate and review us!

Episode 5 of The Record Store Day Podcast is our first Holiday Episode, and to make it merrier, Paul calls up Inara George, the L.A. songbird from The Bird & The Bee, to tell us about her musical life and interpreting masters such as Hall & Oates and Van Halen, plus music industry professional Howard Petruziello waxes on about his Christmas record collection, and we place a call to Baltimore's Sound Garden record shop for a chat with Dave Policastri about his ongoing LP a Day Project. Sponsored by Dog Fish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and of course, Record Store Day. Review and rate us wherever you get podcasts.

It's Episode 4 of the Record Store Day Podcast, and you've got a friend in us. After an exciting RSD Black Friday, Paul touches base with old friends and new ones, as we step into the Holidays with new music and conversations with Kiefo Nilsson, who talks about playing on his dad Harry Nilsson's first album in nearly 40 years, Losst And Founnd, then former Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page talks about driving downtown in the rain to visit the late-night record shops and shares a bit of his recent album Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt. II, and in a new feature, Judy Mills of Mills Record Company calls in from her store in Kansas City, MO, to talk about record store culture and being a female boss. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery dogfish.com.

Since we only drop new shows every two weeks, this episode is our last chance to feature some of the exciting RSD Black Friday Exclusive Releases out on November 29. This is Episode 3, and fittingly, we have THREE great guests to talk about their wares. Legendary English producer Nick Lowe chats about the 40th anniversary RSD edition of "Cruel To Be Kind" a two-sided single featuring the original 1979 hit backed with the remake he did with Wilco. Lisa Loeb talks about her RSD 25th anniversary limited release of "Stay (I Missed You)" backed with four never-before-released live cuts recorded in 2013 with Nine Stories, and producer Steven Mandel (The Tonight Show, The Roots, Elvis Costello) talks about Todd Rundgren's RSD exclusive single "Bang Bang," part of a larger collection of Squeeze covers that Mandel has been putting together. So much great music, and you'll hear excerpts of all of it. Sponsored once again by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (dogfish.com)