After the Deluge: An Unofficial Jackson Browne Podcast

Chris Messina co-produced the Bon Iver records 22, a Million and I,i, among dozens more by other artists. This is a bonus of sorts before we finish up at SABLE, fABLE. Chris and I casually talk about records made on unconventional instruments, exaggerated narratives around 22, a Million, turning April Base into a proper studio, living in Eau Claire for nine years, using gear incorrectly, adapting these kinds of songs live, big-ass headphones, finishing a record in Texas, a quick pop-punk diversion, and more. https://www.messinachris.com/patreon.com/afterthedelugeinstagram.com/routinelayup

Avery Adams is a producer, musician, and chef, and Kevin W. Smith is a writer and radio host. We talk about Bon Iver's fourth album, I,i (Jagjaguar), released on August 9, 2019, an 8.8 Best New Music on Pitchfork. Also: Music writing circa 2007, For Emma vinyl sales, album “branding,” Vernon's non-falsetto register, Naeem drums, sliding on cardboard, no click, Texas, Hornsby, Beck, this album's got moments, “Hey, Ma,” bass lines, Aaron Rogers and Justin Vernon interview circa 2019, The Bee Gees, where this album stands against the discography, Radiohead, Animal Collective, Of Montreal, and indulging creative impulses. FULL EPISODE W/ PRODUCER CHRIS MESSINA ON PATREONAVERY matiakitchen.com instagram.com/rarebirdcommittee/instagram.com/realfreaque/https://www.instagram.com/nautilusenclave/KEVINhttps://kmre.org/island-time/https://keviniswriting.com/

Ian Grant is the host of the Jokermen podcast. We discuss Bon Iver's 2016 record 22, a Million (Jagjaguar). After dipping into the 9.0 Pitchfork review, we talk about a For Emma sunrise show at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, having his mind blown by this record in impact (and me ignoring it) in 2016, that year's prez election, the OP-1 synth, “It might be over soon,” Kanye briefly, Stevie Nicks singing “Wild Heart," listening Radiohead and Bon Iver while flying, “Staying at the Ace Hotel,” don't trust Spot*fy lyrics, “the days have no numbers,” saying these song titles out loud, Taylor in C0vid, and Jokermen's Beach Boys journey.THIS SHOW ON PATREONMe:⁠x.com/routinelayup⁠bsky.app/profile/routinelayup.bsky.social⁠Ian:https://bsky.app/profile/ianjgrant.comx.com/JokermenPodcastinstagram.com/jokermenpodcast

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Mark Richardson is former Editor in Chief at Pitchfork and current Rock and Pop Critic at the Wall Street Journal. We talk about the 2011 album Bon Iver, Bon Iver, for which Mark wrote the Pitchfork review (9.5). We talk about the anticipation around this record, fusing adult-contemporary and the avant-garde, Animal Collective, Bonnie Raitt, 80s R&B, sincerity vs. irony, is this “sad” music?, a careful use of arrangement and dynamics, Heath Ledger, Shakespearian verse, “Holocene,” the albums' sequencing, the midwestern-ness of it all, Kanye West, commas in the album titles, Rubber Soul/Revolver, we bow down to “Beth/Rest,” a bit of SABLE, fABLE, and Mark tells a story about how this record could have gotten a 10. Me:⁠x.com/routinelayup⁠bsky.app/profile/routinelayup.bsky.social⁠Mark:x.com/MarkRichardsonbsky.app/profile/markrichardson.bsky.socialhttps://markrichardson.org/

Chris DeVille is Managing Editor at Stereogum and author of the book Such Great Heights, available for preorder now. We talk about the 2007 Bon Iver debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago. Also going cabin-mode in the Wisconsin winter, this album's lore, the indie landscape in '08, Pitchfork kingmaking, The OC, Garden State, Popt*mism, gentrifying indie music, hearing "Skinny Love" at my bad recession-era office job, "Flume" as a thesis, stacking falsetto harmonies, the lyrics, staring out windows at crows, Sable, bass-fishing boats, "Re: Stacks" and final tracks, cooking with minimal ingredients, Blood Bank EP, the pursuit of hipness and the evolution of indie rock. Order Chris's book.Blood Bank EP episode is live now on Patreon: patreon.com/afterthedeluge--Justin: x.com/routinelayup / routinelayup.bsky.socialChris: x.com/chrisdeville / chrisdeville.bsky.social/

Season 4 of After the Deluge will go album by album through the Bon Iver discography with a new guest on each episode, starting in the cabin with For Emma, Forever Ago and going in all kinds of directions from there. Subscribe an tell a friend. Support the show, get a zine. For Emma episode is live now: patreon.com/afterthedeluge--@routinelayup

Michele Catalano has posted prolifically about music on the internet for years. She's 62 years old and recently launched ihavethatonvinyl.com. We talk seeking out new music as we age, classic rock, new wave, 2015 was a bad music year for her, she bought her new website's domain in 2004 and forgot she had it, writing about her record collection, Songs for the Deaf, Brand New, Covid collecting, any regretful purges of records?, we're bullish on CDs, Aztec Camera, her favorite Beatles album, a diabolical record-organizing system, Kevin Devine, the best music years of our lives, The Doors, is Eric Clapton about to have a moment?, Yacht Rock, the Weezer discography, deactivating her Twitter, humans sharing music with humans, and what she has in store for the site: ihavethatonvinyl.com/--@ihavethatonvinyl.com@routinelayup.bsky.socialSUPPORT THIS SHOW, GET A ZINE: patreon.com/c/afterthedeluge

Longmont Potion Castle is a beloved recording artist and anonymous prank caller from Colorado. Interview starts at 11 mins. We talk about touring-band soundtracks, flipwild, deep and uncontrollable laughter, bruschotti, piglets, “After the Deluge” by Sodom, his daily conversation style, the Longmont documentary, whether his calls are mean-spirited, squid sandwiches, Otis, he's not a comedian, a complete Darwinian society, his funky relationship with language, a feral bodybuilder, looping effects, his childhood court-ordered therapy, calling celebrities like Alex Tr*beck, LPC III, music industry evolution/devolution, Spot*fy, what are nü metal DJs doing when they scratch those records?, monetizing weird stuff, new Longmont incoming, we call my friend Matthew, Squid on my Side, Yucatan Suckerman, and the hottest new fusion band out of Colorado. Thanks to Travis and Tony for joining me for the intro. We recorded this the day before LA caught fire and we send all of our best to the city. LONGMONT  longmontpotioncastle.com x.com/LongmontPotion JUSTIN x.com/routinelayup Instagram.com/routinelayup delugepodcast@gmail.com

Dylan Tupper Rupert is the host of the podcast, Groupies: Women of the Sunset Strip from the Pill to Punk. It's the latest season of KCRW's Lost Notes. Dylan is also Producer Emeritus for Bandsplain. We talk about birth control, the dawn of punk, a scandalous version of Cosmo in 1971, making a show about sexual relationships between rock stars and teens, that Cormac McCarthy Vanity Fair story, the vampiric energy of Jimmy Page, Pamela Des Barres, Dee Dee Keel, empowerment vs. exploitation, the mid-2000s Seattle scene, The Vera Project, The Lashes, her feelings about LA,  Blood Brothers, throwing a music fest on Orcas Island, and the Jackson Browne For Everyman house. Groupies is live now on your podcast app. Subscribe to After the Deluge Patreon and get extra stuff and a free zine mailed to your home: ⁠patreon.com/afterthedeluge⁠ - instagram.com/yaydylan - instagram.com/routinelayup --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Yo this was a Patreon episode recorded with Justin Corwin a few days after the new Bright Eyes record. Now seems like a fine time to share it in this feed. Enjoy. Justin and I talk about the singles compared to the rest of the record, songs we like most and least, The National, Elon Musk in virgin whites, Cat Power, the Alex Orange Drink discourse, Bright Eyes and friendship, Mogis/Nate Walcott, Down in the Weeds, movie-dialogue motif, actually Scorsese is good and Frank Sinatra sucks, Phoebe Bridgers, Real Feel 105, Stevie Nicks singing “Silver Springs,” Conor Oberst live-show discourse, “Tin Soldier Boy” makes me want to run through a wall (positive), The Fader reporter showing Conor negative Reddit threads lol, a very titillating question about 311, and we predict the Pitchfork score.  -- Subscribe on Patreon and I'll mail you a zine: https://www.patreon.com/afterthedeluge Here's Justin Corwin's YouTube channel, The Deep Dive: https://www.youtube.com/@THEDEEPDIVE --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Jason Stewart is co-host of the podcast How Long Gone. We talk about foreplay in interviewing, lightweight counter-programming when everything's political, Ep. 50 with Willy Staley, listening to podcasts is Gen Z meditation, early Adam Carolla, The Mount Rushmore of Glendale Podcasters, not asking bands about their music, How Long Gone's marketing strategy, the Snail Mail episode, Guns & Roses bassist Duff McKagan spiked his interview, comedians who talk like your high school friends, the current state of Twitter, Jason's favorite nut, and roasting a chicken atop a bed of thick sourdough slices. (The episode descriptions for the show are a direct rip off of How Long Gone). SUPPORT ON PATREON & GET A ZINE--x.com/themjeansx.com/routinelayup --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON FOR THE FULL EPISODE & YOU'LL GET A BRIGHT EYES ZINE -- We talk about the new Bright Eyes record, Five Dice, All Threes: The singles compared to the rest of the record, The National, Elon in virgin whites, Cat Power, the Alex Orange Drink discourse, genuine friendship, Mogis/Walcott, Down in the Weeds, movie-dialogue motif, Scorsese vs. Sinatra, Phoebe Bridgers, Real Feel 105, Stevie Nicks singing “Silver Springs,” Conor Oberst live-show discourse, “Tin Soldier Boy” makes me want to run through a wall (positive), The Fader reporter showing Conor negative Reddit threads lol, a very titillating question about 311, and we predict the Pitchfork score.  Guest: Justin Corwin of The Deep Dive Me: x.com/routinelayup or instagram.com/routinelayup --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Today it's a short one about a couple of quintessential Jackson Browne songs. My guest is Patrick Lyons and the impetus for this episode is these two recent articles about the songs "These Days" and "The Pretender." Patrick wrote the latter, and both articles are great. The Song That Connects Jackson Browne, Nico and Margot Tenenbaum, by Bob Mehr (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/arts/music/jackson-browne-these-days-nico.html "The Pretender," by Patrick Lyons (Inbox-Infinity) https://www.inbox-infinity.com/the-all-timers-6-jackson-brownes-the-pretender/ -- x.com/routinelayup x.com/p_lyons_ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Alex plays in The So So Glos and was a formative influence on the new Bright Eyes record, Five Dice, All Threes — out Sept 20th. We talk about Waxahatchee, islands in the PNW, why his body can't break down protein, his cancer diagnosis, living as if you're dying, crashing at Conor Oberst's house in LA, casually writing new Bright Eyes songs, a stripped-down record, phone calls between Alex and Conor during treatment, The So So Glos reunion, what the album title means, his tricked-out In-N-Out order, The Eras Tour, Alex weighs in on 311, “I'm not slowing down, I'm speeding up,” Mike Mogis + Nate Walcott, the case for ignoring your problems, and he gives a glimpse at the intro track on Five Dice, All Threes... PATREON.COM/AFTERTHEDELUGE  x.com/routinelayup  instagram.com/routinelayup  instagram.com/alexorangedrink --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Pieter Pastoor is the host of Listening Lyrics, a weekly radio show on KDRTfm in Davis, CA. Pieter is 79 years old and he puts out a radio show every week. The first podcast-adjacent thing I ever did was go on his show a decade ago. Fun one for me. We talk about his failed attempt to interview poets in the “late 1900s,” open mic nights, recording live and not overthinking it, interviewing locals > interviewing pros, KDRT, Rita Hosking, don't be lame just make stuff, biking across Holland, Jackson Browne (ding ding), The Lovin' Spoonful, Bright Eyes' “We are Nowhere and it's Now,” Paul Simon's “Graceland,” Pieter reads a poem, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan's “Tempest,” Herb Alpert, The Avett Brothers, and: what was the best five-year stretch of your life? x.com/routinelayup instagram.com/listening_lyrics kdrt.org/programs/listening-lyrics --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Daniel Ralston is the writer and producer of the podcast series The True Story of the Fake Zombies, available everywhere. We talk about “Time of the Season” blowing up without The Zombies knowing about it, Rolling Stone's Ben Fong Torres, Buzzfeed's longform era, turning an article into a podcast, ? & the Mysterians, the ZZ Top of it all, small-town history museums, Huell Howser, 70s artists that popped off in the 80s, Jason Molina, British psych and Texas blues, Justin absolutely flubs a new podcast “segment,” Malibu real-estate scene report, Kanye's Ando house, Daniel's old neighbors (Axl Rose and a guy named “Rattlesnake”) and the current state of the The Zombies.  x.com/routinelayup x.com/danielralston https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-true-story-of-the-fak-186899838/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Steven Hyden is a writer and podcaster whose new book, There Was Nothing You Could Do, is out now. We talk about the Patio Hall of Fame, why he's a terrible DJ, vinyl is for suckers, music hits different on the patio, Skynyrd vs. Neil Young, Steve picks the most patio-friendly Radiohead and Pearl Jam records, how he writes so damn much, small-town newspapers, a Mr. Miyagi analogy we can all learn from, “liking Nebraska but not Bruce Springsteen” is a whole type of guy (aka me), Jackson Browne (mark your Bingo card), LA vs. NY mindset, are politicians still playing Born in the USA?, early 90s vs late 90s, Shania Twain, heartland rock, and is Sublime good or do they stink? x.com/routinelayup x.com/Steven_Hyden Buy Steven's Book After the Deluge Patreon --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Miranda Reinert is a writer, podcaster and zine maker. We talk about making a full-on magazine, Jimmy Montague/Taking Meds, getting ideas out of your head and into the world, The End of Merch?, your double-knee Carhartts are a social signifier, creating something that lasts, tangibility, Grace Robins-Somerville on Hole's Live Through This, what are you communicating when you post your Last.fm 4x4s and 5x5s?, Miranda's favorite hockey team, we debut a new segment, The New York Rangers are cringe, The Tampa Bay sports teams can't fill their stadiums and neither can The Black Keys, we ideate on a Cruise Concert that would kill, and a peek inside of Portable Model, Issue One.  - x.com/routinelayup - x.com/mirandareinert -- - twoflatpress.com/ - aplan.fyi/about/ - x.com/EndlessScroll_ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Do artists get worse with age or can they get more interesting? Behold the Jokermen Mindset. Ian and Evan of the Jokermen podcast and I talk about approaching music with an empty head, Dylan's Philosophy of Modern Song, when artists DO just get shittier with age, Albini & Steely Dan, what song would a group of Canadian bachelor party bros sing together over a cliffside?, “mid TV” and boring art, Hackney Diamonds, Steven Hyden, Fountain of Sorrow, Gawker, and the Jackson Browne/Warren Zevon bond. The current season of Jokermen is about The Beach Boys. It's beautiful, go listen.  patreon.com/afterthedeluge x.com/routinelayup x.com/jokermenpodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

This one's not like the others. It's four pals in a room doing an Against Me! song draft while drinking Rainiers and eating junk. It's dumb and wonderful and only on Patreon: patreon.com/afterthedeluge -- Guests: Ryan Page, RJ Myers, Matt Helms, Justin Cox (me) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Laura Jane Grace is the songwriter behind Against Me! We discuss meaningless songs, the 7-hour Beatles documentary, she quit horoscopes, big life changes, Travis Barker on Rick Rubin, Operation Ivy reunion vs. Fugazi reunion, hoarding guitars, “Fit But You Know It” by The Streets, Butch Vig gave Laura homework, Franz Ferdinand-core, bitching about the music industry in song, Laura's favorite Nirvana album, Steve Albini, Tom Petty, naiveté + inexperience + ambition + hard work = good, morning-pages, Yoga with Adriene, Steak Mtn as a pen-pal, Birds Talk Too, touching grass, George Harrison, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dysphoria Hoodie, not thinking about gender, Lay's potato chips and Billy Corgan, shredding her voice, relapsing on coffee, movies stink now, plus the current and future state of Against Me! Laura's new solo record, ⁠Hole in My Head⁠, is out now. -- twitter.com/LauraJaneGrace twitter.com/routinelayup Support the pod: patreon.com/afterthedeluge Buy a zine: afterthedeluge.bigcartel.com/ Contact me: delugepodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Full episode: patreon.com/afterthedeluge -- Laura Jane Grace is the songwriter and musician behind Against Me! Her new solo record, Hole in My Head, is out now. We talk about touring with a band vs. solo, explaining song meanings, the 7-hour Beatles documentary, she quit horoscopes, big life changes, Travis Barker and Rick Rubin, Operation Ivy reunion vs. Fugazi reunion, hoarding guitars, “Fit But You Know It” by The Streets, Butch Vig gave Laura homework, Franz Ferdinand-core, bitching about the music industry in song, Laura's favorite Nirvana album, Steve Albini, Tom Petty, naiveté + inexperience + ambition + hard work = good, morning-pages, Yoga with Adriene, Steak Mtn as a pen pal, Birds Talk Too, touching grass, George Harrison, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dysphoria Hoodie, not thinking about gender, Lay's potato chips and Billy Corgan, shredding her voice, relapsing on coffee, movies stink now, plus the current and future state of Against Me! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Jordan Kleeman started Crasshole Records as a teenager and put out several early Against Me! EPs including this legendary self-titled 12” record. We talk about the first version of “Walking is Still Honest,” why this beautiful record sounds like shit, a decade of touring with Against Me!, and holding down that synth-key note on “8 Hours of Full Sleep.” Just a wonderful person and a perfect boomerang back to the beginning of this band's story. - Connect + Get a Zine: patreon.com/afterthedeluge - Rate/review this podcast on Apple Podcasts! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

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Full Shape Shift With Me episode available now at patreon.com/afterthedeluge⁠ Thanks for supporting the show! Reach me at delugepodcast@gmail.com -- twitter.com/routinelayup instagram.com/routinelayup --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Casey Plett is an author from Canada. We talk about coming out in a Rolling Stone article, dissecting The Ocean, seeing Against Me! In Winnipeg on the Transgender Dysphoria Blues tour, low-key gesturing back to Reinventing Axl Rose w/ those first snare hits, the novel “Nevada” by Imogen Binnie, “Rough surf on the coast, I wish I could have spent the whole day alone,” misinterpreting the message of Fight Club, which of these songs are first-person?, pressure on trans artists to be positive and peppy, dead friends, “Black Me Out,” 10 years ago compared to now, the pre-backlash liminal space that this album was born into, poetic contemplation of mosh pits, Laura looked so happy in Winnipeg, ETC!  delugepodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/routinelayup https://bsky.app/profile/caseyplett.bsky.social Rolling Stone article: https://archive.is/6YEAZ Casey Plett journal: https://caseyplett.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/i-found-an-old-journal-entry-about-when-i-saw-against-me-when-they-did-their-first-tour-after-laura-jane-transd/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Steak Mtn (Christopher Norris) did the art for several Against Me! records including this one. We talk about the album White Crosses, the revolution being a lie, collaborating on art with Laura, Christopher's not a fan of anarcho-bucket music, getting that Warner Bros. money, this album has sheen but it also has teeth, the iconic Transgender Dysphoria Blues meat-cube album cover, scanning porn magazines and melting them in Photoshop, major-label tinkering, Laura being a teenage anarchist, The Ocean is an Against Me! song from the future, White Crosses is not pop-punk; it's pop-rock, more Florida talk, Robert McNamara's son is a farmer and I interviewed him once, Christopher sat on a flight with the manager who was suing the band, writing a book is hard, and he's not an artist nor is he an author, but he did design this record cover and you can buy his novel, The Holy Day, now.  steakmtn.com https://www.rosebooks.co/ twitter.com/steakmtn  twitter.com/routinelayup Email the show: delugepodcast@gmail.com  Support the show: patreon.com/afterthedeluge --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Ben Lee is a musician from Australia now in LA. We talk about New Wave, having his mind blown on a flight to Australia, trusting Tegan and Sara's taste, a punk-rock duet, why Ben covered this record, the music industry changes so why resist it, would you take the Hyundai sponsorship, would you open for Maroon 5?, New Wave is a historical document, clunky sentences as catchy choruses, “Be my Baby,” Trent Reznor, Butch Vig, Nic Johns, fan backlash, and viewing your life as an art project. Support the show! patreon.com/afterthedeluge  - x.com/benlee (Ben)   - x.com/routinelayup (Justin)  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Keegan Bradford (⁠@franziamom⁠) plays in Camp Trash and writes about music online. We talk about Against Me!'s Searching for a Former Clarity, folk-punk being out of fashion, Algernon Cadwallader as a fictional band, hostile fanbases, Florida geography and scene dynamics, the best record ever about arguing on the internet, AM!'s miserable ascent, Laura breaks out the band's financials, Former Clarity is bloated but we struggle to tighten it, Miami, tiny font and Fat Mike, antagonizing the fans, Condoleeeeza, mid-2000s Franz Ferdinand-core, Problems with everything, confessing childhood secrets, the jean-jacket patch version of a Live Laugh Love sign, John K. Samson, Justin's dead, the band sounds exhausted but there is joy in every possibility.  - x.com/franziamom (Keegan)- https://camptrash.bandcamp.com (Camp Trash)  - x.com/routinelayup (Justin) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

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This week we go to the movies. I'm joined by Dan Bassini and Andrew Valentine of the Run into the Ground podcast to talk about the 2004 Against Me! tour documentary We're Never Going Home, which sees the band getting courted by major labels and fucking with their fellow touring bands. Plus Asbury Park, depressing East Coast beaches, and iconic venue carpets. It's a fun one. [WATCH VIDEO OF THIS EPISODE] Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VYHM_4-H2s Run into the Ground: https://open.spotify.com/show/0OQ2VNOgHqPsoys5NWVnU5?si=155e6ffb1ff64d15 Dan's new book (When I Kill God...): https://www.danbassini.com/when-i-kill-god Donate in memory of Steve Poponi: https://www.gradwellhouse.com/steve-poponi --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Ryan Page plays in the band Bad Dads. We talk about being a message-board kid, bands as bumper stickers, lying to Fat Mike, “whoas,” major labels swooping in, Ardent Studios, not getting sick of the Eternal Cowboy songs, y'all overpraised the Tim remaster, spinning this CD thrice in a row, we revisit the Axl snare sound, I say “chuckles” a half-dozen times, “when I got the music, I got a place to go,” The Disco Before the Breakdown, Against Me! playing “Tonight We're Gonna Give it 35%” acoustic at Thump Records in LA, getting romantic for Florida even though we know it sucks, interpunk.com, my wellness-tonic journey, Beatles vs. Stones 2023, and We're Never Going Home.  stuff: patreon.com/afterthedeluge -- instagram.com/baddadsorcas twitter.com/routinelayup  Tnght 35% https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ndM2Sx5LU --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

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Austin Lucas is a musician whose latest album is called Reinventing Against Me! We talk about being crust-adjacent, Austin's path from hardcore to country, The Go-Gos, the Axl cover, live-streaming through the early pandemic, "Oh Donna," knocking out a record in two days, John Mellencamp's background singer, that snare drum tone, St. Anger, Fall Out Boy's “We Didn't Start the Fire,” arguing online, Jason Isbell on Twitter, coming out as trans, The Revival Tour, John Popper, Laura Jane Grace as one of our greatest songwriters, when punk bands make pop records, when the scene gets gentrified, ETC!  Support this show get a zine: patreon.com/afterthedeluge twitter.com/routinelayup instagram.com/austinlucasmusic/ austinlucas.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

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Crime as Forgiven By Against Me! was released in 2001 and followed that same year by the band's self-titled acoustic EP. Frank Turner is a musician from England. He joined us from his studio while working on his next album. We talk about knocking out records, Alternative Press, diagonal haircuts, gatekeeping subgenres of emo, Frank was a few high school grades behind Against Me!, the Crime EP was slipped to him like drugs, he loves New Wave, trying to be Neil Young, "selling out" at the dawn of social media, Love Ire & Song, feeling a little guilty around Ian MacKaye, going back in time to give Against Me! a hug, Gainesville, Tom Petty, No Idea Records, Lisa Loeb, folk is the only scene more annoying than punk, Frightened Rabbit, “Dylan goes electric,” me playing harmonica with Frank at The Fillmore, Against Me! scaring his fans in the UK, and then my wife pops in to say a quick hello. -- frank-turner.com patreon.com/afterthedeluge twitter.com/routinelayup --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Season 3 of After the Deluge will go album by album through the Against Me! discography with a new guest each week, starting with their early days in Gainesville followed by records released on No Idea and Fat Wreck Chords before signing to a major label deal. And all of that comes well before the release of Transgender Dysphoria Blues--a significant chapter unto itself. Ep. 1 guest is Frank Turner Subscribe and tell a friend! -- For bonus content, ad-free episodes, and an Against Me! zine mailed to your home, check out patreon.com/afterthedeluge. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

I talked to Dan Ozzi, author of the book Sellout, about his recent Fader piece about The Armed—a band/collective/cult from Detroit. We jump from there into early 2010s music writing, hearing new music as you get old, editing Noisey in the early 2010s, getting nostalgic about Chumped, media now vs. media then, when the label or publisher asks you to do corny stuff, selling out, "lying Lydia Tár" ...and then we close out by reacting to Barack Obama's summer playlist, which dropped right before we recorded. patreon.com/afterthedeluge -- https://twitter.com/routinelayup  https://twitter.com/danozzi  -- https://danozzi.bigcartel.com/  https://www.thefader.com/2023/06/27/cover-story-the-armed-perfect-saviors-interview-profile-2023  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Tim Kasher returns for a special episode about The Good Life's Album of the Year. We talk about Zooming with Conor Oberst on bad wifi, his upcoming tour, his high school band March Hares opening for 311, Tim's Red Hot Chili Peppers horoscope theory, Inmates, early 2000s Saddle Creek albums about substances, Cursive, debauchery and heartache, Tim loves musicals, I get a little emo about the seasons, Vanessa Carlton, Ryan Fox's slide guitar, creating albums in a world made for songs, The Good Life's website SEO, and what next? JOIN: patreon.com/afterthedeluge -- Tim: https://www.instagram.com/timkasher The Good Life: https://thegoodlifemusic.com/ Me: ⁠https://twitter.com/routinelayup⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

The next season of After the Deluge is in the works, I went on a podcast to defend Lifted, I read a book called At the Bottom of Everything, our friend Tim Kasher is returning, and I made some more Bright Eyes zines and you can get one now! - Run into the Ground podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/run-into-the-ground/id1611220387 - After the Deluge Zine: https://afterthedeluge.bigcartel.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

I talk to Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes about Jackson Browne, emo, being a child among the Saddle Creek teens, showing ambition in a slacker scene, Pitchfork reviews, a wild story behind “Soul Singer in a Session Band," his songs making sense to him but maybe not to you, Conor's media diet, listening to audiobooks about feathers, do people pay too much attention to politics now?, AI and Chat GPT, The Faint being ahead of their time, could he write “First Day of My Life” on command?, long songs and “Let's Not Shit Ourselves,” using SAT words in lyrics, that perfect Waxahatchee record, the next batch of companion EPs, opening for Paramore at the Emo Fest, that cancelled Houston show, writing songs to impress Tim Kasher, Todd Fink and Ted Stevens, leaving Saddle Creek, how to get into the band Superchunk, what does Conor Oberst think of 311?, Rage Against the Machine vs. Limp Bizkit, Down in the Weeds, feeling like The Beatles on the Wide Awake tour... not so much on the Digital Ash tour… and then we meet his dog Petra and say goodbye! Support the pod/get the zine: www.patreon.com/afterthedeluge Follow Justin: twitter.com/routinelayup Follow Bright Eyes: twitter.com/brighteyesband --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

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On this special episode we talk about non-Bright Eyes Conor Oberst projects over the last 25 years. I'm joined by Maddy, Michael, Rina, Greg, Justin and Per (Patreon supporters of this show ☺️) for a sprawling conversation about Oberst's solo records and side projects. There are many! For PART 2 (+ VIDEO) hit up patreon.com/afterthedeluge -- Here's the list of records I mention in the intro: CONOR OBERST Water (1993) Here's to Special Treatment (1994) The Soundtrack to my Movie (1996) Conor Oberst (2008) ... & the Mystic Valley Band: Outer South (2009) Upside Down Mountain (2014) Ruminations (2016) Salutations (2017) COMMANDER VENUS Do You Feel at Home? (1995) The Uneventful Vacation (1997) NORMAN BAILER Sine Sierra (1995) DEAPARACIDOS Read Music / Speak Spanish (2002) Payola (2015) MONSTERS OF FOLK Monsters of Folk (2009) - Boring / Awash in reverb / Boygenius Rolling Stone BETTER OBLIVION COMMUNITY CENTER Better Oblivion Community Center (2019) - Great / Dylan Thomas --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/afterthedeluge/support

Marc Hogan is a senior staff writer at Pitchfork and he wrote the review of Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was. In this episode we talk about a difficult decade for Conor Oberst, Audiogalaxy, patience with late-career albums, 2013's false rape allegations, being Conor's same age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, dropping a record in Covid, Ruminations, his brother's death, divorce, catastrophizing his 40th birthday, Van Morrison, Dancing and Singing, Marc's Mars Volta phase, Flea, Nothing Gets Crossed Out, old Pitchfork, who is the current Bright Eyes?, reporting on assault allegations, Drake, Hotline Bling, and the lede to Marc's 7.4 Pitchfork review. Review https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bright-eyes-down-in-the-weeds-where-the-world-once-was/ Marc twitter.com/marchogan Justin twitter.com/routinelayup Special thanks to Justin Corwin for helping guide me into this record. Check out his latest Bright Eyes video on THE DEEP DIVE. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/afterthedeluge/support

I went from not caring much at all about this record to straight-up loving it over the last month. My guest is episode is Marc Hogan of Pitchfork, and we talk not only about the record, but also the tumultuous hiatus that led up to it which included false rape allegations, an illness that cancelled a tour, the death of his brother, and a divorce. We also talk talk about Pitchfork then and Pitchfork now through the prism of Bright Eyes, and some Conor Oberst lyrics about "change." PATREON: patreon.com/afterthedeluge --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/afterthedeluge/support

Ben Dolnick is the author of four novels including The Ghost Notebooks, You Know Who You Are, and At the Bottom of Everything. He wrote this 2011 Bright Eyes essay in The Awl: https://www.theawl.com/2011/01/taste-has-never-met-shame-i-love-you-conor-oberst/ This episode features an excellent audio essay from Dominic Ronzani about why The People's Key is his favorite Bright Eyes record. It's a great supplement to the Pitchfork 5.0 Pitchfork review. We talk about Ben's Garden State moment with “Something Vague,” fear of outgrowing Bright Eyes, the idea of taste, the idea of shame, liking what you like, Ben's piano teacher digs Bright Eyes, Elliott Smith as a Tesla and Bright Eyes as a taped-together golf cart, Ben's excellent fader-knob theory about Sincerity/Professionalism, science fiction, Rastafarianism, Hitler, Ben blows my mind w/ the first lines of “Shell Games,” the post-Napster-pre-Spotify window of 2011, reptilians, pomegranates, Denny Brewer as a Joe Rogan guest, the non-rhyme fake-out on “Triple Spiral,” “Ladder Song” is a goosebumps tune, and 13-year-old Oberst's song about Space Invaders. Ben Dolnick http://bendolnick.com/ Justin Cox patreon.com/afterthedeluge twitter.com/routinelayup --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/afterthedeluge/support

Support the creation of this show at patreon.com/afterthedeluge This full episode is live over there right now and the After the Deluge zine will hit mailboxes in a month (or so!). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/afterthedeluge/support

Today we have two Bright Eyes scholars (and Patreon supporters

HEAR THIS FULL EPISODE: PATREON.COM/AFTERTHEDELUGE⁠ Brian Howe is a music, arts and culture critic for Pitchfork and many other outlets. Evan Bailey sings and plays guitar in the band Oh, Lonesome Ana. We talk about the Bright Eyes record Cassadaga, experimental album art, mysticism, fiddles, Brian discovering Fevers & Mirrors, meaning outside of religion, reassessing this record, high fidelity audio, Brian's 6.0 Pitchfork review, songs about Oberst's life vs. songs about The World, “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” Cassadaga, FL, songs that feel longer than they are, Oberst's Inside Llewyn Davis audition, getting clean in Los Angeles, “Countrypolitan," "Classic Cars," seeing the Cassadaga tour live, Kirsten Dunst, Mogis pedal steel. Justin Cox patreon.com/afterthedeluge twitter.com/routinelayup Brian Howe twitter.com/Brian_Gray_Howe https://www.waxwroth.com/ Evan Bailey (Oh, Lonesome Ana) https://ohlonesomeana.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ohlonesomeana/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afterthedeluge/support

Brian Howe is a music, arts and culture critic for Pitchfork and many other outlets. Evan Bailey sings and plays guitar in the band Oh, Lonesome Ana. We talk about Cassadaga, experimental album art, mysticism, fiddles, Brian discovering Fevers & Mirrors, meaning outside of religion, reassessing this record, high fidelity audio, Brian's 6.0 Pitchfork review, songs about Oberst's life vs. songs about The World, “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” Cassadaga, FL, songs that feel longer than they are, Oberst's Inside Llewyn Davis audition, getting clean in Los Angeles, “Countrypolitan," "Classic Cars," seeing the Cassadaga tour live, Kirsten Dunst, Mogis pedal steel. RATE/REVIEW/SHARE THIS SHOW! PATREON (BONUS STUFF + A ZINE!): PATREON.COM/AFTERTHEDELUGE Justin Cox patreon.com/afterthedeluge twitter.com/routinelayup Brian Howe twitter.com/Brian_Gray_Howe https://www.waxwroth.com/ Evan Bailey (Oh, Lonesome Ana) https://ohlonesomeana.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ohlonesomeana/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/afterthedeluge/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/afterthedeluge/support