For decades, the innovative guitarist Marc Ribot has been a first-call session musician, lending his singular instrumental voice to recordings by Tom Waits, Marianne Faithfull, Elvis Costello, T-Bone Burnett and many more. On his brand new album, Map Of A Blue City (New West Records), Ribot adds his actual voice to the music for his first ever voca…

Zev Feldman, a/k/a "The Jazz Detective," returns to our show to talk about a newly released 1980 live set from the late great alto sax legend, Art Pepper, An Afternoon In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (Elemental Music), plus a little about his work on the recent sold out Record Store Day Release from Patsy Cline: Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (…

Singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, record producer, and A&R man Swamp Dogg has done it all in his 65 plus years in the music business. Starting out in West Virginia in the 1950s, as "Little" Jerry Williams, he blazed a trail across the country with stops in Nashville, and finally his funky home in Los Angeles, which is the setting for the grea…

"The Basher" himself, Nick Lowe returns to the Record Store Day Podcast to talk about his recent records with Los Straitjackets, including this year's RSD First Release live disc, (Not) Indoor Safari Vol. 1. But while we've got, we get the esteemed songwriter and record producer to go crate digging through his expansive back catalogue of recorded w…

Songwriter Lilly Hiatt recently released a cracking new set called Forever (New West Records) that her friend and fan Patterson Hood (Drive By Truckers) describes as "a killer album." Patterson is certainly right about that. Lilly makes her RSD Podcast debut to discuss, among other things, working at home with her husband Coley Hinson, long distanc…

With Record Store Day 2025 in the books, we continue to feature some of the talented recording artists who make the records; and this week we have one of the all-time greats. Bob Mould has enjoyed a long and illustrious career in which he has frequently been the guitarist and singer fronting superb rock trios, starting in Minnesota with the seminal…

Record Store Day 2025 is April 12th. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, including The List, visit RecordStoreDay.com) In the last installment of our month-long Record Store Day 2025 preview series, we meet the members of L.A. band, Wallows (Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters, and Cole Preston) in anticipation of their RSD First Relea…

Neil Finn returns to our program to talk about the impending vinyl debut of Neil Finn: Sessions At West 54th, a Record Store Day Exclusive release (on two LPs), with 16 tracks from the popular PBS live music program of the same name, hosted by David Byrne and featuring songs from Finn's debut solo album Try Whistling This, plus a few Crowded House …

Sean Ono Lennon joins us to discuss his production of the RSD release Power To The People, a 4-song live EP by John Lennon & Yoko Ono that Sean produced from recordings made at his parents' 1972 One To One concert in New York. That concert is the subject of a new documentary, One To One: John & Yoko, directed by acclaimed Scottish filmmaker Kevin M…

Musician and Oscar winning actor Jeff Bridges joins us to unpack his Record Store Day 2025 release, Slow Magic 1977-1978 (Light In The Attic Records), in a wide-ranging musical conversation that finds Bridges recalling moments from his entire career. "The Dude" (from The Big Lebowski) abides us with tales of his famous acting family (father Lloyd, …

Sunny War (a/k/a Sydney Ward) has lived through quite a few of her nine lives, rising out of substance abuse and poverty on the strength of her musical talent and finely tuned wit. She joins us to discuss her recently released album Armageddon In A Summer Dress (New West Records) which reunites her with her Anarchist Gospel producer Andrija Tokic, …

North Carolina band, Rainbow Kitten Surprise are re-issuing their 2015 album RKS for Record Store Day (April 12) as an expanded double album featuring nine previously unreleased demo tracks, and pressed on rainbow tricolor vinyl in a gatefold sleeve. We speak with singer Ela Melo about the history of her band, their roots, and the way they make the…

Montreal-based Basia Bulat has been nominated five times for Canada's prestigious Juno Awards, and is a three time finalist for the coveted Polaris Music Prize. She just released her seventh album, Basia's Palace (Secret City Records) (which she co-produced with Mark Lawson) mixed by Tucker Martine (Neko Case, The National), with string arrangement…

While we're on a brief hiatus from making all-new episodes, we thought it would be fun to compile all the moments where Paul asks his guests "What Was The First Record You Ever Bought?" and put them in a couple of "clip shows." Last week was part one, so here's part two, featuring Shannon Shaw (from Shannon & The Clams), Joey Santiago (from Pixies)…

While we're on a brief hiatus from making all-new episodes, we thought it would be fun to compile all the moments where Paul asks his guests "What Was The First Record You Ever Bought?" and put them in a couple of "clip shows." Here's part one, featuring De La Soul, Dhani Harrison, Mac McCaughan & Laura Ballance (from Superchunk), Ringo Starr, Shel…

Belle And Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch is here to discuss his new semi-autobiographical novel, Nobody's Empire, his struggles with chronic fatigue, and how his band saved his life. And we take a minute to pay our respects to Marianne Faithfull, the enigmatic legend who passed away on January 30th. The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat s…

It's been nearly eight years since today's guest Benjamin Booker released his critically acclaimed second album, Witness, but now he's back with a vengeance with his powerful new album Lower, in stores now, which he made in collaboration with producer Kenny Segal. Booker explains his long road to this highly personal collection of songs. And this p…

Pixies guitarist and founding member Joey Santiago is here to talk about their most recent album, The Night The Zombies Came (BMG) which is in stores now (where you can also pick up their amazing back catalogue and also Frank Black albums too). And Paul has a few words in memoriam for filmmaker, musician, and music lover David Lynch, who passed awa…

As apocapytic fires continue to ravage Los Angeles, we spoke with Laura Segura, Executive Director of Musicares.org about how you can help the people who bring you the music by donating at Musicares.org/firerelief , and how music business professionals get get assistance by emailing [email protected] And as the Scottish group Travis set…

We hope you like innovative jazz-based electric guitarists, because our first episode of 2025 focuses on two of 'em. Jeff Parker is here to talk about his recent jazz album for Nonesuch, The Way Out Of Easy, credited to Jeff Parker And The ETA IVtet. Parker talks about working with his L.A. based quartet, which features bassist Anna Butterss, drumm…

Paul goes home to Canada for Christmas, and the maple syrup is flowing. We close out 2024 with a snow-covered treat, a special celebration of Record Store Day Canada's Ambassadors for 2024, The Tragically Hip. Celebrating their 40th year, the band were the subject of a retrospective 4-part Amazon Prime documentary, The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehe…

This holiday season, the singer/songwriter, piano player, and all around musical overachiever Ben Folds released an album called Sleigher (in stores now from New West Records). It's not so much a "Ben Folds Christmas record" as it is a Ben Folds record set at Christmas. For this episode, which makes its debut on Christmas Eve, Paul chats with Ben a…

As Christmas nears, we caught up with the legendary rock vocalist Steve Perry, a certified Rock & Roll Hall of Famer who first made his name as the former lead singer for Journey before going on to a successful solo career with era-defining '80s hits like "Oh Sherrie" and "Foolish Heart." The occasion for this chat is the release of Perry's Holiday…

Holiday Gift Ideas for Record Fans, Pt. 1 As the holiday season gets into full swing, we feature two books (and one accompanying record) that would make great gifts for any record loving person in your life. The always fascinating Robyn Hitchcock returns to the RSD Pod to talk about his new memoir, 1967: How I Got There, And Why I Never Left, as we…

This year, The dB's (Peter Holsapple, Chris Stamey, Will Rigby, and Gene Holder) reissued their first two albums, Stands For deciBels and Repercussion (both from 1981) for the first time on vinyl via the emerging indie label Propeller Sound Recordings. To celebrate we invited Peter and Will to peel back the stories and songs within the grooves of t…