Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads,talks about his work on the new remastered 40th Anniversary audio release of the Stop Making Sense live soundtrack on the occasion of a new theatrical release of filmmaker Jonathan Demme's landmark concert film.  Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses, 50 Foot Wave) chats with Paul about her arresting new solo album Clear Pond Road (Fire Records). RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton breaks some news about a special event with Killer Mike in NYC, and both she and Paul pour...

After two music book episodes, RSD Goes To The Movies, pointing our lens at two rock documentaries, each told from inside two different psychedelically-incinded music scenes.  Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo is here with Rob Hatch-Miller (Other Music) to discuss C.B. Stockfleth's film, The Elephant 6 Recording Co., but first, director Roddy Bogawa talks about the film he made with the late Storm Thorgerson (of Hipgnosis) called Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink...

Part two of our Summer Music Book Series features author and former Del Fuegos guitarist Warren Zanes discussing his recent book, Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' (Crown) And on Zoom from Paris, Kate Stables, leader and songwriter for the band This Is The Kit talks about the band's newest album Careful of Your Keepers (Rough Trade). RSD's Carrie Colliton has the week off. The Record Store Day podcast is written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul...

In part one of our Summer Music Book Series, we discuss Steely Dan with Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay whose new book, Quantum Criminals (University of Texas Press) is a beautifully illustrated catalogue of ramblers and wild gamblers who populate the songs of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. And with the passing of Sinéad O'Connor, writer David Wild joins us to remember interviewing her in 1991 for her Rolling Stone cover story during the year she broke in America, while touching on some of...

To celebrate our 100th episode, we take a brief look at merely some of the "First Record I Ever Bought" stories for a selection of our guests over the four seasons so far: Tony Visconti, Margo Price, Fred Armisen, Rhian Teasdale (Wet Leg), Bonnie Raitt, Jane Wiedlin (Go-Go's), Robyn Hitchcock, Questlove, Susanna Hoffs (Bangles), Marc Maron, Jason Isbell, Lucinda Williams, Andy Partridge (XTC), Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast), Alice Cooper, Robert Glasper, Johnny Marr (The Smiths), Joe...

Lloyd Cole unpacks his wonderful new album On Pain (earMUSIC) and explains how he's trying to put the soul back into the machine.  Stewart Copeland, drummer, composer, and co-founder of The Police, returns to the podcast to explain how and why has reworked many of his former band's songs on his recently released album, Police Deranged For Orchestra (Shelter/BMG). Angela Cuddy and Janice Morro, both teachers at Marshwood Great Works School in Maine, tell us how their fifth graders staged...

June 18th marked Paul McCartney's 81st birthday, and on Episode #98, Dana Carvey talks about his meetings with McCartney, Neil Young, Todd Rundgren, Graham Nash, David Crosby. While Dana is renowned for his work on Saturday Night Live, playing Garth Algar in Wayne's World, and his hit podcast Fly On The Wall (with David Spade), this exclusive RSD Pod conversation centers on his musical stories, including memories of SNL's late music supervisor Hal Willner, stealing drumsticks from Mickey...

Jason Isbell (reigning RSD co-ambassador for 2023, along with his wife Amanda Shires) returns to discuss Weathervanes (Southeastern Records)his new album with the 400 Unit. We also get his thoughts on working with Martin Scorsese on Killers Of The Flower Moon, and his experiences after Sam Jones' recent documentary, Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed. NPR's Ann Powers joins us to help celebrate and contextualize the iconic and heroic Tina Turner, who passed away at the age of 83 on...

The New Pornographers' Carl Newman discusses the many themes of isolation and collapse on the band's recently released 9th studio album, Continue As A Guest (Merge Records), a joyously dark and tuneful reaction to what Newman refers to as "the ambivalence of day-to-day life during the pandemic and the endless pitfalls of living online." Plus the return of Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton, who calls in from Nashville music conference to share some impressive stats from April's...

The Lemon Twigs, Brian & Michael D'Addario, join Paul to discuss their fifth full-length studio LP, Everything Harmony (Captured Tracks). And Nicholas Jennings, author of Lightfoot, the defintive biography of Gordon Lightfoot, unpacks the legacy of the legendary Canadian troubadour who passed away in Toronto at the age of 84 on May 1st. Written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, with theme music and selected interstitial music by Paul Myers. For the latest information...

On Episode 94, we welcome back two returning guests. Buffalo Tom's Bill Janovitz is here to discuss his new book, a definitive and expansive biography of Leon Russell: The Master Of Space And Time's Journey Thorught Rock & Roll History (Hachette Books). We also hear a couple of selections from the newly reissued Leon Russell: Signature Songs collection on Dark Horse Records, plus a few other classic Russell tracks. And Canadian songwriter's songwriter Ron Sexsmith gives us the...

Part 2 of our two-part Record Store Day 2023 roundup ahead of Record Store Day, April 22. 2023 Record Store Day Ambassadors, Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires, are here to talk about being the First Couple of Vinyl and to celebrate two special RSD releases: Amanda Shires - Live At Columbia Studio A (ATO) and Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires - The Sound Emporium EP (Southeastern). Amythyst Kiah explains her motivations for covering the four songs on her Pensive Pop EP (Rounder) Composer Joff...

Record Store Day 2023 is April 22, and we're doing two back to back episodes to feature a few of the artists with titles coming out on the big day. In part one, Ivy's Dominique Durand & Andy Chase are here to talk about the late Adam Schlesinger, and their landmark 1997 album Apartment Life, in advance of the RSD 2023 release of the The Apartment Life Demos. Composer, self-styled rhythmatist, and founder of The Police, Stewart Copeland tips his hi-hat about his alter ego Klark Kent,...

Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins, Sean Watkins, and Chris Thile discuss their brand new album Celebrants (Thirty Tigers) Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton talks with Paul about more titles from the upcoming Record Store Day 2023 list. Record Store Day is April 22, 2023, go to RecordStoreDay.com for the list and the latest information from the Record Store Day world. Sponsored by Tito's Handmade Vodka, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, and Crosley turntables.  Written, produced, engineered...

Charlotte Kemp Muhl and Jack James from UNI and The Urchins teleport in to discuss the gritty glam rock futurism on their recently released debut album Simulator (Chimera Music). Black Pumas co-founder Adrian Quesada expounds on his two new solo records, the moody instrumental Jaguar Sound, and the "balada" styled Boleros Psicodélicos (both on ATO Records). Justin Sowers from Guestroom Records in Oklahoma talks about the upcoming Record Store Day release (on their own Guestroom label) of a...

We ride the rails with self-styled "vagrant" troubadour Charley Crockett, a man of many stories, some of which are on his newest album The Man From Waco. Glen Phillips (Toad The Wet Sprocket) talks about the deeper philosophical thoughts underlying his new solo album, There Is So Much Here.  Jeff Ferguson and Ellen Rehak talk about their upstart record shop, Run Out Groove Records in Burbank, CA. And RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton returns to talk about the recent launch of the Record Store...

With so many icons leaving us at an alarming rate, we can barely keep up with all the tributes. And this week, even though we had just recorded a solid three tributes to the long gone soul producer and arranger Charles Stepney, the more recently departed legendary composer Burt Bacharach and Television's visionary co-founder, Tom Verlaine, we got late word that Trugoy the Dove from De La Soul, a/k/a David Jolicouer, had passed (so we'll have a feature on him next time.) Our two Verlaine...

On our first all new episode of 2023, Margo Price returns to our program to talk about her superb new album, Strays, and her revealing, best-selling memoir, Maybe We'll Make It. Author Michael Walker (Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood) joins Paul to contextualize and eulogize David Crosby. This year's Record Store Day is Saturday April 22, and Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton returns to the podcast to announce this year's Record Store Day...

In the episode we mourn the loss and celebrate the legacy of Paul's all-time favorite guitarist, Jeff Beck, in conversation with Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid. Plus, we continue our look back at 2022, with Scenes From A Rearview Mirror 2022 Part 2, including excerpts from our interviews with Aoife O’Donovan, Tears For Fears’ Curt Smith, Tori Amos, Sloan’s Chris Murphy, Don Letts, Marshall Crenshaw, and Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott. For more information about Record Store Day itself, go to...

RSD Podcast presents Scenes From A Rearview Mirror 2022 Part 1, featuring selected clips from a few of our interviews with Bonnie Raitt, Sophie Allison from Soccer Mommy, Robert Glasper, Rhian Teasdale from Wet Leg, Jeff Tweedy from Wilco, Lydia Night from The Regrettes, Alice Cooper, Mark Mothersbaugh & Gerald V. Casale from Devo, Torquil Campbell from Stars, and Johnny Marr. Enduring thanks to Record Store Day co-founders Carrie Colliton and Michael Kurtz for making this show a...

For the final new episode of 2022, Paul speaks with former John Hughes music supervisor Tarquin Gotch about the new box set Life Moves Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtapes. We also check in with Julia Nash and Mark Skillicorn whose documentary, Industrial Accident, tells the story of Wax Trax! Records in Chicago, one of John Hughes favorite places to find music for his films. RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton drops by to close out another great year of RSD Podcasts. Listen to the end to hear...

Frequent guest Todd Rundgren returns to our show once again, this time from the launch pad of Space Force, his new album of collaborations with a wide array of guest artists. Plus, we remember Christine McVie with New York based music journalist Carrie Courogen. And our own Carrie, RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton also has a few things to say about Fleetwood Mac's fallen Songbird. For the most up to date information about Record Store Day, go to RecordStoreDay.com. Sponsored as always by...

Hot on the heels of Part 1 comes Part 2 of our Record Store Day Black Friday 2022 preview. This time, Marshall Crenshaw does a deep dive on his landmark eponymous 1982 debut album, and talks about Robert Gordon, legendary record producer Tom Wilson, and why the term "power pop" always wrankled him. DEVO co-founder Gerald V. Casale unveils his brand new solo EP, The Invisible Man. Todd Rundgren pops by briefly to remember his 1972 album Something/Anything? and Brian Aubert from Silversun...

Part one of our two-part celebration of RSD Black Friday (November 25) focuses on the late Joe Strummer (1952-2002) and his world. Joe's surviving life partner Lucinda Tait remembers life with Joe during the time of his last band The Mescaleros, and discusses the expansive Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years recently released on the Dark Horse Records label. Joe's friend, filmmaker Don Letts talks about Joe, forming Big Audio Dynamite (B.A.D.) with Mick Jones, and the new documentary about...

The subtitle for Episode 80 is Toronto Rocks! Toronto born host Paul Myers gets homesick and catches up with Sloan's Chris Murphy on the occasion of the release their aptly titled 13th album, Steady.  Toronto indie-rock legend Ian Blurton talks about his new project Ian Blurton's Future Now and their new album, Second Skin. Plus Stephen Yorke of Toronto's Dead Dog Records. Paul and RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton tip their caps to the musical legacy of Jerry Lee Lewis. For information...