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 conv...
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 and Split Enz faves. While we've got him, Neil catches us up on last year's critically-acclaimed Crowded House album, Gravity Stairs, and shares a few warm memories of playing in the final lineup of Fleetwood Mac alongside the since departed Christine McVie. The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. Record Store Day 2025 is April 12th. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, including The List, visit RecordStoreDay.com) Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends.
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Sean Ono Lennon, Jason Falkner (The Grays)
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 McDonald, which hits IMAX screens on April 11. And musical everyman Jason Falkner (Beck, Air, and St. Vincent) discusses the story behind his short-lived Power Pop supergroup, The Grays (Falkner, with Jon Brion, Buddy Judge, and Dan McCarroll) whose legendary 1994 album, Ro Sham Bo is finally getting its vinyl debut (as a double album) just in time for Record Store Day 2025. The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. Record Store Day 2025 is April 12th. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, including The List, visit RecordStoreDay.com) Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends. (Elbows Up, Canada!, IYKYK)
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Jeff Bridges
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, mother Dorothy, and brother Beau), growing up with Bonnie Raitt, and his award winning work with T Bone Burnett (producer of the Crazy Heart soundtrack and Bridges' self-titled 2011 album), and even recalls Rocky's Burgess Meredith (the original "Penguin" from the 1960s Batman TV series who performs spoken word poetry on Slow Magic). The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. Record Store Day 2025 is April 12th. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, including The List, visit RecordStoreDay.com) Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends.
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Sunny War
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, and features guests like Steve Ignorant (from the legendary Crass), Tre Burt, Jack Lawrence (Raconteurs), and friends of our show, John Doe and Valerie June. The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. Record Store Day 2025 is April 12th. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, including The List, visit RecordStoreDay.com) Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends. This episode dedicated to Brian James (The Damned), and Roy Ayers (RIP) and all the people who make the music. Give them their flowers while they're here, and buy their records at your local store.
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Rainbow Kitten Surprise, plus Steve Conte remembers David Johansen (1950-2025)
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 their music. And guitarist Steve Conte returns to the program to remember David Johansen, the New York Dolls frontman (and erstwhile Buster Poindexter) who passed away at the age of 75 on February 28. Steve was in the 2000s lineup of the NY Dolls and shares his stories of working with the man some called simply "David Jo." The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. Record Store Day 2025 is April 12th. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, including The List, visit RecordStoreDay.com) Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends. This episode is dedicated to Angie Stone, Joey Molland, and David Johansen.
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.