The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers

Nov 18 2024 100 ep. 66 mins 338

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From the people who created Record Store Day, The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers is an informative, record store-centric interview show featuring conversations with great guests talking about records, record stores and experiences in the physical retail space.

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RSD BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL, Pt. 1, Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)

Nov 18 2024 52 mins

Record Store Day Black Friday is November 29, and as we ramp up to the big day we offer the first of two specials. Pt. 1 features Jorma Kaukonen, founding member of the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, talking about the double album RENO ROAD, a collection of acoustic blues field recordings made with his longtime musical accomplice Jack Casady and released on Black Friday as an RSD

30 Years Of Hopeless Records

Nov 11 2024 41 mins

This year, the pioneering pop-punk and emo label Hopeless Records celebrates its 30th anniversary with a new compilation, Hopelessly Devoted To You, featuring artists from the label's current roster, such as Sweet Pill, Fame On Fire, and Sincere Engineer covering songs by artists from their previous three decades such as All Time Low, Avenged Sevenfold, Yellowcard, and New Found Gl

Hippo Campus, plus Mike Myers remembers Quincy Jones (1933-2024)

Nov 04 2024 47 mins

Happy November, anything important going on this week? Meanwhile, here at the Record Store Day Podcast, we're talking about, what else?, music. Twin Cities band Hippo Campus have just released their fourth album, Flood (in stores now on the Psychic Hotline label) and bassist Zach Sutton and guitarist Nathan Stocker are here to unpack the whole thing. Plus, as we were mixing this we

Joe Boyd

Oct 28 2024 49 mins

Joe Boyd has had many job descriptions over the course of his nearly sixty-year career in music, and there was simply no way to cover everything in this conversation. That said, Paul and Joe focus on Boyd's important new book, And The Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music, and themes of cultural cross-pollination in music, the birth of hip hop and ska, the reason H

Tony Levin

Oct 21 2024 55 mins

Master of the bass and pioneering Stick player Tony Levin regales us with tales from the court of King Crimson's Discipline era and more in this conversation recorded from the Beat tour. Our main focus is Levin's new solo album, Bringing It Down To The Bass (Flatiron Recordings) in a far-reaching chat that gets into his entire illustrious career as a road dog and first-call session

Kelly Finnigan, plus Elephant 6 Collective news with C.B. Stockfleth & Rob Hatch-Miller

Oct 14 2024 45 mins

To kick off our SIXTH SEASON of the podcast, Kelly Finnigan talks about his soulful new album A Lover Was Born (out Oct 18 on the Colemine Records label) in a conversation recorded live last summer during RSD Summer Camp at the fabulous Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans. Last year we featured the excellent documentary The Elephant 6 Recording Company, and as we run up to the RSD Blac

Slash's Orgy Of The Damned

Oct 07 2024 56 mins

Gun N' Roses founding guitarist Slash talks to us about his recent solo album Orgy Of The Damned, a collection of blues and R&B covers featuring a stellar guest list that includes Paul Rodgers, Steven Tyler, Beth Hart, Iggy Pop, Gary Clark Jr., Billy F. Gibbons, Chris Robinson and more. And Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton checks in from Raleigh, North Carolina in an ext

J.D. McPherson

Sep 30 2024 46 mins

Recently, the Oklahoma born singer, guitarist, and songwriter J.D. McPherson chats with us about his just released album, Nite Owls (New West Records), and how he aimed to blend such diverse influences as Duane Eddy, T. Rex, and Depeche Mode. The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme

Monterey Jazz Festival Special, featuring Samara Joy, Darin Atwater, and Bryan Burkert.

Sep 23 2024 52 mins

Grammy Award winning jazz vocalist/composer Samara Joy is already establishing herself as one of the hottest stars on the contemporary jazz scene. In the run-up to the October 11th release of her new album, Portrait (Verve), Ms. Joy is one of the featured performers at this years Monterey Jazz Festival (Sept 27-29). We chatted about how this twenty-something prodigy stays sane in t

The Big Star Quintet

Sep 16 2024 78 mins

Big Star drummer and founding members Jody Stephens, R.E.M.'s Mike Mills, Wilco's Pat Sansone, and Jon Auer of The Posies join Paul for a discussion of The Big Star Quintet (a supergroup which also includes Chris Stamey of The dB's) as they keep the music of Big Star alive on the 50th Anniversary tour for Big Star's second album, Radio City (available at your local independent reco