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A weekly digest covering some of the important stories from the world of music with interviews and expert analysis, hosted and produced by journalist and critic Robert Ham.
Episodes
A short and sweet episode to close out May. Robert Ham is joined by rock writer Alan Di Perna and Gabriele Rossi Rognoni to discuss the exhibit they co-curated Kurt Cobain Unplugged, which celebrates the performance that Nirvana recorded for MTV Unplugged in 1993.
This week, host Robert Ham speaks to Peter Baumann, a former member of Tangerine Dream who recently released a new solo album called Nightfall, and Robert Forster, co-founder of The Go-Betweens, about his ninth solo effort Strawberries.
This week, Robert Ham is joined by singer-songwriter Amanda Ekery whose new album Arabe is being released today, and the people behind the wild new documentary Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted (including Swamp Dogg himself!) have a freewheeling conversation about the film and so much more.
This week, Robert Ham is joined by singer-songwriter Samantha Crain to discuss her new album Gumshoe, and multi-disciplinary artist Sally Potter to talk about her new album ANATOMY.
This week, Robert Ham speaks with singer-songwriter Kendall Jane Meade about her powerful new album Space, and jazz artist and composer Ingrid Laubrock joins the show to discuss her recently released magnum opus Purposing The Air.
This week, Robert Ham spends the full episode with Peter Holsapple, the renowned singer/songwriter who is a member of the groups the dBs, the Continental Drifters, and the Paranoid Style, and spent some time in the touring versions of R.E.M. and Hootie & the Blowfish. He joins the show to talk about his long history in the music biz and to discuss the creation of his most recent solo album The Face of ’68, which was released on...
This week, Robert Ham speaks with Michael Kurtz, co-founder of Record Store Day, and Michael Imperioli, an award-winning actor and one-third of the band ZOPA.
This week, Robert Ham is joined by Eric Isaacson, the founder of Mississippi Records, to talk about his time working with beloved singer-songwriter Michael Hurley who passed away recently at age 83, and Tracii Guns, the longtime leader of sleaze rock paragons L.A. Guns.
This week, Robert Ham is joined by Wolfgang Flür, a former member of Kraftwerk with a new solo album out this week, and Wolfgang Seidel, a musician and author whose book Krautrock Eruption: An Alternative History of German Underground in the 60s and 70s is out this month in a new English translation.
On this week's show, Robert Ham is joined by theremin virtuoso Hekla to learn more about her new album Turnar, and the brilliant multi-instrumentalist and producer Adrian Younge who discusses his new tropicalia-inspired album Something About April III.
On this week's show, Robert Ham speaks with Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock, the authors of the new book Lollapalooza: The Uncensored History of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival.
This week, host Robert Ham welcomes Steve Smith, the bassist and founding member of pop-punk icons The Vapors, to talk about the group's new album Wasp In A Jar, and Ebonie Smith, the esteemed audio engineer and producer who founded Gender Amplified, a nonprofit that supports women and gender-expansive artists in the music industry.
This week, Robert Ham speaks with Don Leisure and Kev Tame, two of the minds behind Tyrchu Sain, an album celebrating 55 years of Welsh pop music released on Sain Records, and Kristin Daelyn, a singer-songwriter responsible for the stunning new album Beyond The Break.
This week, Robert Ham speaks with Janine Rainforth, former leader of post-punk ensemble Maximum Joy, about her first ever solo album Soul Retrieval, and Eva Arijdis Fuentes chats about her new documentary Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus.
This week, Robert speaks to Liz Pelly about her damning new book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, and U.K. singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan whose comeback album Lookaftering was just re-released for its 20th anniversary.
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This week, Robert spends the full episode with James Brandon Lewis, the prolific jazz saxophonist whose new album Apple Cores is out today via Anti- Records.
On this week's show, Robert Ham is joined by Sarah Belle Reid, the multi-instrumentalist who collaborated with Vinny Golia on the new album Accidental Ornithology, and Damon Locks, a Chicago icon responsible for the daring new record List of Demands.
This week, Robert Ham speaks to Andrew Reich, the Emmy-winning TV writer and producer who is now sitting in the director's chair with Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story, a documentary about one of the best American rock bands of all time, and Jim White, an Americana artist set to release Precious Bane, a dark and beautiful album he made in collaboration with the U.K. artist Trey Blake.
On this week's episode, your host Robert Ham is joined by Tamara Lindeman, the leader of the folk-pop group The Weather Station, to discuss their new album Humanhood, and Ondi Timoner, the director of the great music documentary DIG!, who chats about the creation of DIG! XX, a 20th anniversary version of the film with 40 extra minutes of footage.
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Our first episode of 2025! This time around, we're joined by Mark Feldman, co-founder of Bang! The Drum School, to talk about his new book Drumming Decoded, and filmmaker Bess Kargman joins the show to discuss her documentary Diane Warren: Relentless, a portrait of the famed songwriter responsible for such hits as "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" and "If I Could Turn Back Time."
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