Unplugged Revisited

Lori Goldston joins the show to discuss playing cello with Nirvana on their legendary MTV Unplugged performance. She also discusses her time with the band before and after the Unplugged taping, as she toured with them on the North American leg of their In Utero tour from October ’93 to January ’94. Goldston can be seen and heard on Nirvana’s Unplugged in New York and Live and Loud album/DVD releases.

If you dig the show, want to share your own Unplugged memories, ask a question, request a show topic, or connect with the pod for any reason, there are a couple ways you can get in touch:

• You can email me at [email protected],
• You can reach out on twitter at @unplugged_pod,
• You can leave a voicemail (that’ll maybe get played on the show) by dialing 234-REVISIT (234-738-4748)

MC Lyte joins the show to discuss playing MTV Unplugged twice: first on the 1991 YO! Unplugged hip-hop show (alongside A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and LL Cool J) and then on the second Spoken Word episode from 1994. Tune in to hear her reminisce about playing “Cappuccino” with a live band (and how that informed some of the songs on her next album), as well as how validating the experience of publicly performing her poem “An Open Letter to My Biological Father” was for someone who had been writing poetry since she was a kid.

If you dig the show, want to share your own Unplugged memories, ask a question, request a show topic, or connect with the pod for any reason, there are a couple ways you can get in touch:

• You can email me at [email protected],
• You can reach out on twitter at @unplugged_pod,
• You can leave a voicemail (that’ll maybe get played on the show) by dialing 234-REVISIT (234-738-4748)

Natalie Merchant joins the show to discuss both of her appearances on MTV Unplugged back when she was the lead singer of 10,000 Maniacs. Tune in to hear her stories about the band’s very early Unplugged in 1990, their massively popular second episode in 1993 (with special guest David Byrne), and how the process of instrumentally reimagining their songs for the show helped influence creative elements of her solo career. Plus, she tells the amazing story of getting to sing “Because the Night” with Patti Smith at an Ann Arbor bar in 1997 following a memorial service for poet Allen Ginsberg.

If you dig the show, want to share your own Unplugged memories, ask a question, request a show topic, or connect with the pod for any reason, there are a couple ways you can get in touch:

• You can email me at [email protected],
• You can reach out on twitter at @unplugged_pod,
• You can leave a voicemail (that’ll maybe get played on the show) by dialing 234-REVISIT (234-738-4748)

UR003 - "Unplugged 101, Part 3" (2000-2024) is the third explainer episode outlining the entire 35-year-plus spectrum of MTV Unplugged. This episode kicks off with the Unplugged 2.0 reboot of 2001 (the return of R.E.M., Lauryn Hill, Jay-Z and the Roots, Dashboard Confessional, and more) and tracks the dynamic peaks and valleys of the subsequent two-and-a-half decades of award-winning revivals, inactive stretches, and one-off specials. This episode features both seasoned vets (such as a-ha, Bon Jovi, Scorpions, Liam Gallagher, and the return of Tony Bennett) and some of the most popular and polarizing artists of the twenty-first century (including Paramore, Alicia Keys, Korn, Adele, Lil Wayne, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Bleachers, and many more).

If you dig the show, want to share your own Unplugged memories, ask a question, request a show topic, or connect with the pod for any reason, there are a couple ways you can get in touch:

• You can email me at [email protected],
• You can reach out on twitter at @unplugged_pod,
• You can leave a voicemail (that’ll maybe get played on the show) by dialing 234-REVISIT (234-738-4748)

UR002 - "Unplugged 101, Part 2" (1994-1999) is the second of three explainer episodes outlining the entire 35-year-plus spectrum of MTV Unplugged. This episode covers 1994 to 1999 and discusses what exactly MTV Unplugged did with their multi-tentacled creative platform throughout the second half of the decade, as well as how they handled the pre-Y2K dismount of the show’s imperial ‘90s run right before the turn of the century-slash-millennium.

If you dig the show, want to share your own Unplugged memories, ask a question, request a show topic, or connect with the pod for any reason, there are a couple ways you can get in touch:

• You can email me at [email protected],
• You can reach out on twitter at @unplugged_pod,
• You can leave a voicemail (that’ll maybe get played on the show) by dialing 234-REVISIT (234-738-4748)

UR001 - Unplugged 101, Part 1 (1989-1993) is the first of three explainer episodes outlining the entire 35-year-plus spectrum of MTV Unplugged. This episode covers MTV Unplugged's earliest days in 1989, all the way through its hard-earned, momentum-building early-‘90s pop cultural ubiquity, and right up to the transcendently magical apex of the ’93 season closer with Nirvana.

If you dig the show, want to share your own Unplugged memories, ask a question, request a show topic, or connect with the pod for any reason, there are a couple ways you can get in touch:

• You can email me at [email protected],
• You can reach out on twitter at @unplugged_pod,
• You can leave a voicemail (that’ll maybe get played on the show) by dialing 234-REVISIT (234-738-4748)