This Might Be A Podcast

Outdoor Velour's bari sax player Joe Fisch joins bandmate Greg at Velour Underground Studios to talk about the sax-heavy TMBG tune Dirt Bike, from 1994's John Henry. We discuss the John Henry Demos version, the promotional Hypercard midi version, and play a live Outdoor Velour cover of the tune.

On February 23rd, Greg assembled a gang of five in front of a rowdy crowd at 6th Street Dive in Lafayette, IN to chatter about "Don't Let's Start." We had a friggin' ball. Listen to us retail you with stories about William Allen White, share our opinions on the Johns' teeth, and take comments from the crowd including a take that this song has the best bassline in all of new wave music. Enjoy!

Greg takes a 3-month boat voyage around the horn to Australia to talk to Matty Rendell, famous Australian Twitter personality, to talk about a song he heard two days before recording. Do we like each other? Do we like Terminator 2 and Nirvana? Reading in the bath? You'll have to listen to find out!

Marcus Nuccio of Pet Symmetry and The Please and Thank Yous calls up Greg to discuss a favorite TMBG song from his childhood, The World's Address off of Lincoln with a focus on the Joshua Fried 1989 remix as well. They get into the big question - is it the world's address or the world's a dress? The also dig into who this Joshua Fried guy is, listen to a bit of his more recent output, and talk about remixes as a musical genre.

Hutch Harris, solo artist formerly of indie / punk / garage band The Thermals (Sub Pop, Kill Rock Stars, Saddle Creek) talks to Greg about one of his favorite TMBG songs, Dead from Flood. We ponder Linnell's piano education and how he got so awesome, how this is essentially a solo track, and despite being so stripped down how it manages to rock so hard. Also get a Thermals crash course and hear about Hutch's new solo album Only Water.

Greg makes a very expensive long distance call to England to talk to the talented artist Abi Bash about one of the weirdest TMBG songs the podcast has yet to cover, Door to Door Minotaur off their newest album, My Murdered Remains. Hear Abi rep team Flans hard.

Greg and talented folk musician Scott Currie talk about the I Like Fun track By the Time You Get This. We get deep into the lyrics, musical phrasing, and the dark, dark lyrics and video.

Greg snagged They Might Be Giants' bassist Danny Weinkauf to record an exclusive episode, and here's a teaser of Danny talking about stumbling into being a bass player, his gear, and how he writes kids songs. Head to http://Patreon.com/thismightbeapodcast to hear the full 90 minute episode!

Greg meets on video chat with a guy he's never met in person, Danny Leary. They are Twitter and Facebook friends now, but had never talked until Greg hit record. Danny Leary picked Black Ops, so listen to these new friends discuss both the Nanobots version and the alternate Phone Power version, the political nature of the lyrics, the weird music video, and for some reason blink-182.

Greg tries to contain his excitement as he talks to They Might Be Giants' drummer MARTY BELLER. Check out this teaser of Marty talking about learning drums as a kid and joining his first rock band. Head to http://Patreon.com/thismightbeapodcast to hear the full 95-minute episode!