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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 remastered reissue of the rare 1968 self-titled album by Tulsa psych rockers, Marble Phrogg. And Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton talks about a couple of albums from the RSD 2023 list that caught her ear. Record Store Day 2023 is April 22nd, for the full RSD 2023 list go to RecordStoreDay.com. Sponsored as always by Tito's Handmade Vodka, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, and Crosley Turntables. Written, produced, and hosted by Paul Myers with theme and interstitial music by Paul Myers. Please rate, review, and subscribe to The Record Store Day Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. 

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 Day list for 2023. For the most recent RSD information go to RecordStoreDay.com. Produced, written, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also does the theme music. Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley Turntables.  Please subscribe and listen to the Record Store Day Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.   

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 tributes come via Matt Jencik from Reckless Records in Chicago, and Why Patti Smith Matters author Caryn Rose. Mr. Stepney is remembered by his three daughters, Eibur, Charlene, and Chanté, and Paul's brother Mike Myers shares personal memories of working with "Santa Monica Burt" Bacharach on Austin Powers and beyond.  And RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton checks in from Raleigh, NC. For the latest Record Day News, go to RecordStoreDay.com. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. Written, produced, recorded, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also made the theme music. Please listen, subscribe and rate our program wherever you get your podcasts.  

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 Ambassadors, Amanda Shires & Jason Isbell.  For the latest RSD information go to RecordStoreDay.com.   Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables.   Written, produced, edited, and hosted by Paul Myers, with theme music by Paul Myers.   Please listen and subscribe to the Record Store Day Podcast wherever you get podcasts.

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 RecordStoreDay.com. Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. Produced, written, and hosted by Paul Myers, with theme music and selected interstitial music by Paul Myers. Please subscribe to the Record Store Day Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

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 reality. For the most up to date information about Record Store Day, go to RecordStoreDay.com. Sponsored as always by Tito's Handmade Vodka, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, and Crosley turntables. Produced, engineered, written and hosted by Paul Myers, with theme music and selected interstitial music by Paul Myers (phew). Happy 2023. Please subscribe to the Record Store Day Podcast wherever you do that sort of thing, and for heaven's sake tell your influential friends about us.

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 Paul's tribute to Terry Hall who passed away as we were putting this show together. For more information about Record Store Day go to RecordStoreDay.com. Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. Have a safe and happy holiday, and wonderfully musical 2023.

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 Tito's Handmade Vodka, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, and Crosley turntables. Produced, written, and hosted by Paul Myers, with theme music and selected interstitial music by Paul Myers. Please subscribe to the Record Store Day Podcast wherever you do that sort of thing, and for heaven's sake tell your influential friends about us.

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 Pickups talks about Silversun VIGups, their joint RSD Black Friday single with Garbage's Butch Vig. RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton discusses some "pairings" on her RSD Black Friday wishlist.  RSD Black Friday is November 25, go to RecordStoreDay.com for the whole list. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. Please subscribe the Record Store Day Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Happy Thanksgiving to those who observe.

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 Letts' life, Rebel Dread.  Terry Currier from Music Millennium in Portland, Oregon, returns to the show to remember the 1999 instore concert that is at the heart of this year's RSD Black Friday limited edition vinyl release, Joe Strummer - Live At Music Millennium. Comedian and drummer Fred Armisen pops in to tell us about the time he met Joe and The Clash. Plus our regular check-in with RSD's Carrie Colliton remembers Public Image Ltd's Keith Levene (also a founding member of The Clash!) For the most up-to-date information about Record Store Day, go to RecordStoreDay.com. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. Please subscribe to the Record Store Day Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Follow host Paul Myers on Twitter and Instagram @pulmyears.

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 about RSD and RSD Black Friday (November 25) go to RecordStoreDay.com. Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. Please subscribe to the Record Store Day Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Paul Myers on Twitter (for now) @pulmyears Happy November!  

Welcome to Season 4! Just in time for Halloween, Silversun Pickups have a haunting new Butch Vig produced album, Physical Thrills, and Paul caught up with Silversun's Brian Aubert to chat about it as he was doing laundry. Mike Grimes from Grimey's discusses Nashville's recent week-long celebration of the life and music of John Prine. RSD's Carrie Colliton drops in to talk about Ten Bands One Cause. Go to RecordStoreDay.com for the latest on RSD and RSD Black Friday, November 25. Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. Please rate us and subscribe to us wherever you get podcasts.

On Episode 78, Paul chats with Lydia Night of the L.A. post-punk band The Regrettes about feeling one's feelings and the pursuit of Further Joy, which also happens to be the title of their recent poppy and hooky LP.  Paul says a few words to observe the passing of jazz icon, Pharoah Sanders. Record Store Day's Carrie Colliton talks about RSD Black Friday (Nov. 25), and a new RSD partnership with rising TikTok star, joe p. For the latest news from Record Store Day go to RecordStoreDay.com. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. Please rate us, review us, and subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Paul Myers on Twitter and Insta: @pulmyears

It may be Fall, but School's Out for Paul as he chats with one of his earliest rockstar heroes, Alice Cooper, in honor of the DVD release of Alice Cooper: Live From The Astroturf, the concert documentary from a 2015 in-store appearance by the surviving original members of the Alice Cooper Group at Good Records in Dallas, TX. Paul also chats with Good Records' Chris Penn about how he pulled off the "Coop' coupe" and the roots of their store. RSD Black Friday is November 25 and fresh from publishing this year's release list, RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton chats about some of the highlights. Go to RecordStoreDay.com for the full list and more. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. Please subscribe to us wherever you get podcasts, and follow Paul Myers on Twitter (@pulmyears) if you feel so inclined.

Today's theme is survivors. Back in February, Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba sat down with Paul for an intimate chat about his recent album, All The Truth That I Can Tell, touching on songwriting, love of family, and surviving a catastrophic motorcycle accident that forced to have to relearn how to play the guitar and just about everything else. And Curious Collections Vinyl Records And More owner Mary House talks about surviving cancer and a pandemic to run her mightly record store in a Texas college town. And as always, Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton teleports in from Raleigh, NC. For all the latest RSD updates go to RecordStoreDay.com. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. Please subscribe, rate, and review The Record Store Day Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Paul Myers on Twitter @pulmyears

Every year, the people who put together Record Store Day have their big meeting in New Orleans which they call RSD Summer Camp. This year, Paul Myers hosted the Key Note, an onstage conversation with two Merge recording artists; NOLA local Dawn Richard, and The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle. Somehow, our pristine recording of this wonderful chat got lost or destroyed (we never found out) but we *did* manage to find a "bootleg" of the event, which we cleaned up a little so you can hear it here. Plus, RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton explains the whole Summer Camp thing. For the latest RSD news, go to RecordStoreDay.com The Mountain Goats' Bleed Out and Dawn Richard's Second Line are in stores now from Merge Records. Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. Please subscribe to the Record Store Day Podcast wherever you get podcasts. Follow Paul Myers on Twitter @pulmyears (he often tweets about the show!)

For Summer Replay 2022, we've taken three conversations from our past season; each of these women are unique musicians in their own right and we're so glad they were on our show. Bonnie Raitt is a living legend who zoomed by talk all about her recent album, And Just Like That, and so much more. Rhian Teasdale from Wet Leg (one of the hottest bands of the year) spoke to us from a hotel at an exciting time for the band that she and Hester Chambers formed on the Isle of Wight just a few years ago. Yola has journeyed from Bristol, UK, to Nashville, USA, where she set Music City on fire with Walk Through Fire album, and recent big statement, Stand For Myself. For updates on Record Store Day events and programs go to RecordStoreDay.com. Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley. Please subscribe wherever you get podcasts, and follow Paul Myers on Twitter: @pulmyears (he often tweets about the show!)

Craig Finn (from The Hold Steady) on deceptive memory, unreliable self-narrators, and his new solo album A Legacy Of Rentals. Ex-Jellyish members Roger Joseph Manning Jr. and Tim Smith talk about their recent work in The Lickerish Quartet. Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton checks in from RSD HQ in Raleigh, NC.  For the latest Record Store Day updates go to RecordStoreDay.com. Continuing thanks to our sponsors, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley. Please subscribe to the Record Store Day Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Paul Myers on Twitter @Pulmyears

Stars' Torquil Campbell looks into the rear view mirror at the events leading up to Stars' lovely and melancholic new album, From Capleton Hill. All three Blake Babies - Juliana Hatfield, Freda Love Smith, and John Strohm celebrate a new reissue of their 1990 indie classic, Sunburn. Bill Kopp talks about his new book Disturbing The Peace, which provides the 411 on legendary SF indie label, 415 Records. Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton praises a new RSD reissue of Linda Martell's Color Me Country. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley. Go to RecordStoreDay.com for the latest RSD news. Please subscribe to our podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Paul Myers on Twitter @pulmyears 

Soccer Mommy's Sophie Allison peels back the luscious layers of her densely catchy new album Sometimes, Forever. Nabil Ayers, President of Beggars Group US sheds some light on his career as a record executive, former record store employee and owner, musician, and now author of a compelling new memoir My Life In The Sunshine, in which he talks about growing up as a mixed-race kid in the shadow of his estranged father the legendary musician Roy Ayers. RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton zooms in from Raleigh, NC. Go to RecordStoreDay.com for all the latest RSD news. Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley. Please subscribe to the RSD Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.