Bothering the Band

G'day, lemons and legends, we have an epic special episode with Dope Lemon aka Angus Stone, who's new album 'Golden Wolf' drops on May 9th!

We withdrew some philosophy and punk rock on our last episode of 2024 and Season 4 with Nikki and Ben of the badass Brooklyn band BODEGA.

We finally got to bother comedian Brooks Wheelan! He is a huge music fan and has a hilarious new special out called Alive in Alaska. Watch that. Listen to this. Believe in your dreams.

Skanking back into the mind of our friend Aaron Carnes to talk about gods, video games, the new edition of his incredible book "In Defense of Ska"...and so much more!

Ellory Smith is a comedian and an Emmy nominated writer that went from being a friend-of-a-friend to just a solid friend. Listen to real friends talking about music and so much more, because everyone should have an Ellory Smith in their life! 

Sometimes a band comes along at the right time and just takes over your airwaves (and your heart)...that is what Ok Cowgirl did to us, so of course we had to get frontwoman (and driving force) Leah Lavigne on the pod! 

Hilarious hijinks with our new best friend Utkarsh Ambudkar, the rapper/actor/daydream believer, who saved us from the dark sea!

Our episode with Little Hag bites down hard on your brain and doesn't let go, with infectious energy, unabashed audacity and a penchant for the uncomfortable and taboo.

Our favorite guys, Jake and Jeff, of our favorite band, Illiterate Light, are back with our favorite episode! Jump on the sugar train, baby, because of course this one is a banger...just like their new album, ARCHES!

Fresh off the release of their new album Magpie, we bother Neil and Chris of Peach Pit—who's been on our get-list forever—about book fairs, Brad Pitt, magnets and pie, of course.

Guys and ghouls, we have a spooktacular Halloween episode with our friend, the TV Guidance Counselor himself, Mr. Ken Reid! The Comedian, Podcaster, and Adult Survivor of Childhood loves horror movies, bronze age comic books, TV, punk rock, pie and pre-Millenium Popular Culture. You'll like him!

To kick off the NBA season, we have a very special basketball episode with our pal Matthew Consolazio, who makes it rain on his podcast Indie Basketball. Swish!

Creed Bratton's story has always been a music story, but a relentless drive for success and a stroke of luck led him down an entirely different path to Scranton, PA. Now, as he's just released his 10th studio album, Tao Pop, Bratton cements his place in music history as he blissfully lets us bother him about a bunch of dumb stuff. 

From the celebrated venue (Hotel Cafe) to guests Dolo Tonight (musician and internet sensation), Billy Wayne Davis (comedian), and Leighton Gray (writer, illustrator, podcaster, gamer), Joe Wong (Night Creatures) and Joe Plummer (Cold War Kids) to our pal Ellory Smith who helped jumpstart the fun, our live show in LA turned out fucking great! Thanks to everyone involved!

When she is not playing guitar on SNL, Maddie Rice is making hauntingly beautiful solo music, as well as boppable pop punk with YO!KOMODO, and on this badass bonus episode she is answering our silly questions which have nothing to do with any of her cool projects. 

Put on your cashmere jumper, rock up with a pair of Yeezies and settle into this cozy episode with Tracyanne Campbell of the Scottish indie pop band Camera Obscura.

Despite some tiny technical difficulties, this episode with Nik Ewing was a slam dunk. We talked about everything from basketball to fatherhood, Local Natives to his new solo album SONGS FOR LINNÉA. You're not gonna wanna miss this!

We got philosophical, comparing hammers in a flight path for this all too vaporwave episode with Kareem Rahma and Tyler McCauley of the band Tiny Gun.

True or False? Matthew Koma, the creative force behind Winnetka Bowling League, brings his sharp wit, musical genius, and stories from the road to Bothering the Band. False! We just talk about food poisoning, poetry, and he claps back at his pal, last week's guest  Christopher Mintz-Plasse. 

For this badass bonus episode, we got feral with our friend Adam Davis who is boppin east bay ska punk with his band Omnigone like nobody's business!

We got a little reckless and toilet papered a house with Nicholas Chamian, Ryan Dean, and Christopher Mintze-Plasse of the band Colorvison, whose music is really freaking good!

We ate 100 pancakes and then got 311 tattoos with the oh so nice Jakob Nowell of Jakobs Castle and another band you may have heard of called Sublime.

Went on a wonderful hike with granola gentleman, Nick Thorburn, a musician, cartoonist, and actor, known for fronting numerous bands, such as The Unicorns, and Islands (whose recent album is so damn good), as well as composing the soundtrack for the podcast Serial.

We get caught in the kitchen with our new boss Joe Plummer, drummer for Cold War Kids, driving force of Ruinous Media and one helluva pickleball player!

We got weird with Rob Bryn of Wild Yaks, discussing everything from Aries animal facts to communes on Staten Island...and the result is a monumental deed!

A long time coming and from all the way across the globe, we are so stoked we finally got to bother indie Aussies Eliza & The Delusionals as they just dropped their banging sophomore album Make It Feel Like The Garden!

From the celebrated venue (Mercury Lounge) to the guests (country music superstar Dale Hollow, renowned rapper/writer Dessa, filmmaker/podcaster/pop-punker Chuck Staton, and  surprise guest/BFF Brian Wecht) to our friends (Eric Schmidt and Greg Burmeister) who helped jumpstart the fun, our live show in NYC turned out fucking great! Thanks to everyone involved!

The first time Lyrics Born was on our podcast way back in the beginning was the moment we really felt like we had something special so it is pretty cool to cook with the Bay Area hip hop legend again!

Strand of Oaks has stories! From blowing the doors off a Bennigan's to reading books in the shower, this party at monster lake was worth its weight in avocados.

We got to notch another bucket list honour by bothering our host's favourite band, Tokyo Police Club, as they tessellate on their farewell tour and the band calls it quits.

Our 200th episode is perfect because it is with the one and only Frank Turner.

Our new BFF Nisa joins us to talk about music, Korean sweet potatoes, creeping on dogs, and her recent record Shapeshifting, which in our opinion requires no skips! We love that for her!

This is the second time Kerry Alexander of the Minneapolis-based indie rock band Bad Bad Hats has been on Bothering the Band, and we just freaking love her! She is promoting their recent self-titled album, and she is so funny and nice, and we will gladly have her back anytime she wants. 

Overthinking it all with Dustin Kensrue, the frontman for the band Thrice, who is also an accomplished singer/songwriter, and whose recent solo record, Desert Dreaming, is a sweet love letter to the American Southwest. 

Holy shit! Can't believe we got to bother Nathan Willett, frontman of one of our favorite bands in the world Cold War Kids, whose recent self-titled album is pretty freaking perfect!

On this episode, we get funky in a Waffle House with fellow Floridians Seranation! From saving a kitten to removing splinters, this one is worthy of three-hundred and eleven tattoos. 

You're invited to eave's drop on our wonderful conversation with musician, songwriter, and in-demand producer Sam Evian. We chat about his new album Plunge, poetry, Brazilian pop music from the 60s/70s, tuna melts, and so much more.

We rocked and fucking rolled in the attic with delinquents from New Haven, The Problem With Kids Today. They are an awesome new band with an old sound and their debut album Born to Rock is super rad!

We are so freaking honored to bother Taylor and Ryan of one of our all time favorite bands Local Natives, fresh off the release of their incredible new album, But I'll Wait For You, the companion LP to last year's Time Will Wait For No One.

Just a couple of Johnson County Kids, Addie and Pierce of The Greeting Committee are like an alt-rock choir of angels. They blessed us by answering our dumb questions about books, Taylor Swift, and favorite sizes of batteries! 

From Warped Tour to Walt Disney World, bathroom bibs to Jeep ducks, we went on a wonderfully wistful journey with Oob, Kate and Andy of the well-preserved punk rock band Tsunami Bomb!

Loryn Taggart is our new BFF and officially agreed that Bothering the Band is the Best Canadian Music Podcast in America! 

Caitlin Cook could not be more perfect for Bothering the Band! The singer-songwriter, comedian, artist, writer, director, designer, producer, is so freaking hilarious and talented, and she just crushed off-broadway with The Writing on the Stall, an entire musical based on quotes she found scrawled in bathroom stalls.

You may think you know who Kenny Hotz is, but you have no idea. Sure, he is one half of the iconic Canadian comedy show Kenny vs Spenny, and wrote for South Park. But did you know Mr. Hotz began his career as a war correspondent and photojournalist during the Gulf War? Did you know he is the "godson" of folk singer Joni Mitchell? He also did the musical score for Kenny vs. Spenny! Get to know Sir Kenny Hotz even more on this wild and wonderful episode of Bothering the Band!

We went rollerblading and then magnet fishing with Deanna Belos, the heartburn behind the fiery Chicago punk band, Sincere Engineer. In the best regards, we talked about Norm Macdonald, the tv show M.A.S.H. and so much more. Listen up! 

Ladies and gentlemen! All genders and non-binary brethren! Uncle Davids and Aunt Lindas! The moment you've all been waiting for! The dynamic duo of Ninja Sex Party return to Bothering the Band to drop knowledge, spread their dream seeds, and announce to all humans that their new album THESE NUTS is coming!

This interview with Lindsey and Julie of Deap Vally was tough to schedule but it is soooo worth it! It is also bittersweet because they are calling it quits as a band after this tour, so listen up cuz it could be like their last one, but we'd bet it's maybe their best one. 

We are soooooo thrilled/honored to have the first ever 3-time guest, singer-songwriter Danielle Durack, back on the podcast to talk shit and promote her new album, Escape Artist, which came out on Feb 16th and is soooooo damn good! 

Starting a razor scooter gang with our favorite Australian alt-rockers, Middle Kids, whose new album, Faith Crisis Pt 1, drops February 16th. Biggest belly flop thanks to Hannah, Tim and Harry for letting us bother them about a bunch of dumb shit. 

The Strumbellas are back with a brand new album (Part Time Believer arrives February 9), and we are so honored to have Jon & Jimmy on Bothering the Band to talk about a shared snow shovel, the 'afters' of Taco Bell, their favorite size of batteries, and so much more! 

Ritzy from the celebrated Welsh alt-rock band The Joy Formidable is Bat Woman! For real, when she is not rocking out with her band, she is rehabilitating freaking bats! We loved this interview and you will, too!