The Sound and the Story

I had an in-depth quaratine call with Max Stern of Signals Midwest about their latest album Pin. Go buy it directly from the artist here.

Songs featured in this episode (in chronological order):

Can't Help But Wonder

Pin

Your Old New Apartment

Also mentioned:

Wil Wagner - More Like Signals MidBEST

I talk to Amy and Daniel of Future Teens about their Dan Campbell-aproved record, Breakup Season.

You can find Future Teens on Twitter @FutureTeensUSA and at futureteensusa.com.

Kevin Devine, a unique, thoughtful, loquacious, multi-talented musician talks about the ten-year anniversary of Brother's Blood as well as a whole lot of other things. Go buy his stuff at kevindevine.net.

We pay our dues to the surprise record from wunderkind Phoebe Bridgers (boygenius) and former wunderkind Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes).

Full chronological playlist:

Songs by Better Oblivion Community Center unless otherwise noted.

Chesapeake

My City

Conor Oberst - College

Bright Eyes - If Winter Ends

Bright Eyes - The City Has Sex

Bright Eyes - June on the West Coast

Bright Eyes - Interview from An Attempt to Tip the Scales

Bright Eyes - False Advertising

Conor Oberst - You All Loved Him Once

Phoebe Bridgers - Steamroller

The Replacements - Here Comes a Regular

Didn't Know What I Was in For

Sleepwalkin'

Dylan Thomas

Service Road

Forest Lawn

Big Black Heart

Phoebe Bridgers - Would You Rather (feat. Conor Oberst)

In this two-part interview with Erik Garlington, the brains and brawn behind the black and queer pop-punk outfit Proper., we discuss both his records, "The Surburbs Have Ruined My Life" and "I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better," and how his background of being an outsider and a military brat lead him on a wild journey to be a pop-punk singer in New York City.

Full chronological playlist:

"Germany, 1991"

"A$AP Rocky Type Beat"

"Not Black Enough"

"Curtains Down! Throw in the Towel!"

"Bragging Rights (ft. Willow Hawks of The Sonder Bombs)"

"No Loitering"

I interview the very talented and very funny Deanna Belos of Sincere Engineer about her debut album Rhombithian. We talk about the expectations of growing up, lab mice, relationships, and the time Deanna almost died getting coffee.

Full chronilogical playlist:

Corn Dog Sonnet No. 7

Clip from the film Dirty Work

Overbite

Let You Down

Ghosts In The Graveyard

blink-182, the band every punk pretends they hate, grows up on their untitled album.

All songs by blink-182 unless otherwise noted:

Here's Your Letter

Circle Jerks - I Just Want Some Skank

Frank Turner - Dammit - Live at Salty Dog Cruise 2006

Going Away to College - Live at the Pop Disaster Tour 2002

Dammit

Touchdown Boy

Dick Lips

All Systems Go

Feeling This

Obvious

Violence

Interview with Tom DeLonge

Down

Go

Easy Target

I Miss You

Asthenia

Always

Dammit - Live in Montreal 1998

In a Sound and the Story first, I interview Dylan Slocum of Spanish Love Songs about their album schmaltz. We talk about Dylan's painful journey south and the mechanics of mediocrity.

Full chronilogical playlist (all songs by Spanish Love Songs):

Beer and Nyquil (Hold It Together)

Sequels, Remakes, and Adaptations

Nuevo

Buffalo Buffalo

The Boy Considers His Haircut

Otis / Carl

Funeral (Phoebe Bridgers cover)

And at 54:58, you can hear Dylan's mom sighing "wow" under her breath as noted in The Boy Considers His Haircut.

Today we talk about depression.

Full chronological playlist:

The Weakerthans - Virtute at Rest

Bright Eyes - Poison Oak

The Good Life - O'Rourke's, 1:20 A.M.

Laura Jane Grace - Manic Depression

Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral

Elliott Smith - 2:45 am

Frightened Rabbit - Floating in the Forth

Luke Rainsford - Frame

Titus Andronicus - No Future, Part Three: Escape from No Future

Frou Frou - Let Go

Local News Legend - i wrote this when I was super mentally bad a few months ago :^(

Jetty Bones - Bringing It Up

Van Morrison - Slim Slow Slider

Here is a Spotify playlist of this episode's songs.