Figure Eights: A Music Podcast

Apr 14 2025 74 ep. 68 mins
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Figure Eights is a music podcast hosted by Nick Leet from the MPLS rock band "High on Stress"

Join Nick as he interviews musicians, producers and music industry professionals.

Check out Nick's band "High on Stress" on Bandcamp.
https://highonstressmpls.bandcamp.com

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Figure Eights (A Music Podcast) Episode 76 w_ Peter Jesperson (former Manager of the Replacements, Author, A&R, DJ, Music Appreciator)

Apr 14 2025 80 mins  
Join Nick as he talks to Peter Jesperson. Topics include: discovering and managing the Replacements, Twin Tone Records, Oarkolk, New West Records, Curtiss A, Slim Dunlap, board games with Tommy Keene and so much more. Great talk!

Figure Eights (A Music Podcast) Episode 75 w_ Madeline Bocaro (Author: In Your Mind - the Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono)

Mar 12 2025 48 mins  
Join me as I speak with author, Madeline Bocaro, about her book "In Your Mind - the Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono." Madeline also write the Sparks Fan Club Newsletter!

Figure Eights (A Music Podcast) Episode 74 w_ Jon Wurster (Bob Mould / Superchunk / the Mountain Goats)

Feb 10 2025 53 mins  
Join me as I chat with one of the great rock drummers of today, Jon Wurster. We talk about punk rock, cleaning windows, comedy, Ryan Adams, Tommy Keene, being in the right place at the right time and so much more. Great talk!

Figure Eights (A Music Podcast) Episode 73 w_ Katy Vernon & Rebecca Sorensen (Morningside After Dark)

Jan 27 2025 58 mins  
This week on the Figure Eights Podcast!I talk with Rebecca Sorensen and Katy Vernon about the Morningside After Dark event. Rebecca founded the event 13 years ago with the late, great Laurie Lindeen. We also pay tribute to Laurie.Morningside After Dark is an arts event in Edina, Minnesota that features musicians, artists and writers performing their works in the Edina Morningside C

Figure Eights (A Music Podcast) - Episode 72 w_Laurie Kaye (Author / John Lennon & Yoko Ono Interviewer)

Dec 09 2024 62 mins  
Join me for my conversation with Laurie Kaye. She takes me through her life, career, interviews with Mick Jagger, David Bowie, George Harrison and Paul McCartney, cultiminating with her interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the Dakota in NYC on the day of John Lennon's death. Great conversation on a deep and sad topic.

Figure Eights (A Music Podcast) - Episode 71 w_ Don Hardy (Award winning Filmmaker)

Dec 02 2024 68 mins  
Join me as I chat with award winning filmmaker, Don Hardy. We talk about his new music doc, "Linda Perry - Let it Die Here." It's a fantastic and courageous documentary. We discuss legacy in a disposable culture, living in the moment, taking chances and work results vs self worth. It's a great episode. Hope you dig it as much as I did.

Figure Eights (A Music Podcast) - Episode 70 w_ Alex Fuller (Pullstring)

Nov 25 2024 56 mins  
Up and coming band alert!Check out my conversation with Alex Fuller from the rock band, Pullstring. We chat about their formation, influences and their brand new record, "Out with the Old." Oh yeah, lots of the Replacements talk in this one. Check out their band. They are fairly new and they rock like you remember rock to be.

Figure Eights (A Music Podcast) - Episode 69 w_ Steve Bowman (Counting Crows / Third Eye Blind / the Bittersweets)

Nov 13 2024 52 mins  
Join me as I chat with Steve Bowman (Counting Crows / Third Eye Blind / the Bittersweets / Luce). We talk about opening for Bob Dylan the Rolling Stones, playing on David Letterman and SNL, working with animals, teaching and more. Nice guy. Tune in!

Figure Eights (A Music Podcast) - Episode 68 w_ Jim Brunzell (Sound Unseen Film Festival)

Oct 28 2024 68 mins  
Join me as I chat with Jim Brunzell (Director of the Sound Unseen Film Festival). Movie Maker calls Sound Unseen "One of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World." The festival is a unique, cutting edge "films on music" festival that started in Minneapolis 25 years ago. We discuss his upbringing, upcoming festival guests, John Doe, Linda Perry and more and I also learn that his d

Figure Eights (A Music Podcast) - Episode 67 w_ Lisa Umbarger (Toadies / SolShifter)

Oct 08 2024 70 mins  
Join me for the 4 year anniversary episode as I talk with Lisa Umbarger (the Toadies). We talk about her time in the Toadies, touring in places like North Dakota, her parents hanging out with Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor, the ghost of tour buses past, podcasting and the reasons why the Toadies made the kids sad...