V/A Club

Friends. We. Are. BACK. I say that a lot. It remains true. Today, I'm happy to bring you my conversation with Ted Leo! We talk about Tolkien-punk, Alex Lifeson, the time Ted Leo had his front licene plates stolen and a beautiful story about getting pulled over by the cops and crying to Thin Lizzy. You can find Ted Leo on Twitter and Instagram, Patreon and on his website, tedleo.comYou can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week.

Hey friendsWe're back! Some say it couldn't be done! And yet, here we are! We're back with new episodes, releasing on a semi-regular basis for as long as I can before I burn out! THRILLED to be joined by my guest on this episode, Dan Campbell of the Wonder Years and today with a new record with side project Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties! I tell Dan about crying listening to a song of his, i misremember the name of it, we start an airline business, he's crying at a concert, and he tells me the name of his future dream Weakerthans tribute comp. It's all hereYou can find Dan Campbell on all social media platforms like Twitter and InstagramBuy In Lieu of Flowers, the new record from Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties HEREYou can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week.

Hey everyone. Apologies, this episode took longer to get to you than i would have liked, i explain why in the intro. Basically, voice bad, record hard. But here it is, your oops all tears voice memo episode! We'll be back with NEW episodes in February! You can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREOur logo is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you soon. 

Hey friends. Welcome back to Blue Eyes Crying By The chips, I'm your host, Niko Stratis. I'm a writer living in Toronto. I'm currently writing two books at once, one is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, forthcoming from the American Music Series at the University of Texas Press. The other is a novel called Girls of Summer, it's a queer love store centred around the Vans Warped Tour at the Calgary Speedway in 2001. This is my podcast about the beautiful songs that we love, and times we have cried to them in public. I use public loosely, public can mean whatever it means to the guest. Really I'm here to talk about emotions and music and the intersection of these two things with peopleMy guest is Shelli Nicole, culture writer, curator and editor! You can read her work in a great many places, but I highly recommend her newsletter, hishelli.netWe talk about SO many things, this was one of my all time favourite episodes to record. We get into writing, culture, emotions, hiding to cry, the stereotypes of sadness, and so much more. Also, a song by an artist I didn't know before Shelli wanted to talk about them: Mereba.You can follow Shelli on Twitter and InstagramYou can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREOur logo is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week.

Hi friendsI'm back, and I brought my friend Alicia Gaines with me to talk about Chicago, the science of crying, shoegaze, RIDE, what Alicia calls "walk into the ocean music" and so much more. Such a fun chat with one of my all time favourite people!You can follow Alicia on Twitter and Ganser on Twitter and InstagramAlso, details on how YOU can submit a cry story for our upcoming, end of the year cry jamobree!Simply send me an audio file (voice note from your phone is FINE) at my email, nikodrewstratis@gmail.com and use the subject CRY STORY and please include your name if you'd like me to use it, your pronouns, etc in the body of the email!You can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week.

My guest today is writer, editor, podcaster, hiker, apple enthusiast: Daniel Lavery! We talk about what makes a guide hiker, apples, David Letterman, crying and  Michael Martin Murphey!You can find Daniel on Twitter HEREAlso, details on how YOU can submit a cry story for our upcoming, end of the year cry jamobree!Simply send me an audio file (voice note from your phone is FINE) at my email, nikodrewstratis@gmail.com and use the subject CRY STORY and please include your name if you'd like me to use it, your pronouns, etc in the body of the email!You can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week.

My guest on the podcast this week is Riley Macleod, someone I've been looking for an opportunity to chat with into a microphone for a good long time. We talk about crying, we talk about religion and sobriety and video games and earnestness, and we talk about The Weakerthans and John Samson.You can find Riley on Twitter. You can read Aftermath.Site HEREAlso, details on how YOU can submit a cry story for our upcoming, end of the year cry jamobree!Simply send me an audio file (voice note from your phone is FINE) at my email, nikodrewstratis@gmail.com and use the subject CRY STORY and please include your name if you'd like me to use it, your pronouns, etc in the body of the email!You can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week.

Hey friendsWe're back! Today, my guest is my friend Alex Steed, host of the You Are Good podcast and a man of endless talents! We talk about trying out material on our doctors, we talk about Nine Inch Nails, we talk about the pain of showing people who you are and being rejected for it. A cavalcade of emotions!You can find Alex Steed on all social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram you can find You Are Good on all podcast platforms, and follow them on Twitter and InstagramAlso, details on how YOU can submit a cry story for our upcoming, end of the year cry jamobree!Simply send me an audio file (voice note from your phone is FINE) at my email, nikodrewstratis@gmail.com and use the subject CRY STORY and please include your name if you'd like me to use it, your pronouns, etc in the body of the email!You can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week.

Hey friends, the episode I had planned for this week had some technical issues, so I'm instead here with a quick solo story about a cry I had this week, and some details on how YOU can submit a cry story for our upcoming, end of the year cry jamobree!Simply send me an audio file (voice note from your phone is FINE) at my email, nikodrewstratis@gmail.com and use the subject CRY STORY and please include your name if you'd like me to use it, your pronouns, etc in the body of the email!You can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week.

we are BACK baby. Once again, the peoples podcast about crying. The most popular podcast about crying. This time with my guest, one of my absolute favourite people and brilliant writer Dani Janae!Dani and I talk about learning to arrive at our emotions, processing why we cry to the songs that we love, and crying listening to L.T.D. You'll love it.You can find Dani on Twitter and a lot of her work through her Linktree, as well as her Newsletter In the episode we talk about two pieces she wrote about crying to The National and Death Cab for CutieYou can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week.

We took a week off, we are back on, it's Blue eyes Crying By The Chips with my guest, writer Jaya Saxena! We talk about names, we talk about crying, we talk about memories, we talk about crying, Jaya makes a good two genders joke. This one has it all!Find Jaya on Twitter, Bluesky and Instagram You can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week.

Hey friends.Today's episode is an all-timer! It's Maris Kreizman! Maris and I talk about crying playlists, musical theatre, a petition to make Whitney Houston the most famous person from New Jersey, Harry Nilsson and so much more!You can, and should, follow Maris on Twitter, or Bluesky and listen to her podcast You can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week.

Hi friends. So excited for you to hear this week's episode, with my guest, writer and comedian Josh Gondelman! We talk about the Roadrunners artistic period, personal yearbooks, and the song "Chicago" by Sufjan Stevens. You can find Josh on Twitter and Instagram, subscribe to Josh's newsletter That's Marvelous HERE You can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week.

Thrilled to be joined by the amazing and talented Emily St. James for our first long player of an episode, about amongst other things being the kind of billionaire leftists like, fictionmania, transition and Taylor Swift. This was such a fun conversation with Emily, and I really hope you love it. A real emotional journey that covers all the best emotions life can muster.You can find Emily on Twitter and Bluesky You can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week.

We are BACK! Episode 4, with my guest Rax King, one of my favourite writers, a great podcaster with her show Low Culture Boil and one of the funniest people on the internet. You can follow Rax on Twitter and Instagram , subscribe to her PatreonYou can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out her INCREDIBLE work HERELeave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell your friends! Help me get the word out about this show, it really, really helps. Okay, love you, see you next week. 

Today's guest is none other than the writer of "Crying In The Grocery Store", the theme song for this show Augusta Koch of Gladie!We talk about crying, we talk about posturing in music scenes and the difference in processing emotions after we got sober and Augusta tells me a story about crying to a song by a band a lot of people have assumed would show up in this show. There are some solemn vows made to abide by viral Twitter campaigns that I expect us all to live up to. You can find Gladie on Twitter and Instagram Follow me on Twitter and Instagram

Hi hiWelcome back for episode 2 of Blue Eyes Crying By The Chips, very thrilled to be here with my guest Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz, Sad13, her book of poetry Cry Perfume  and more. We talk about crying, I propose at least one business idea. It's a good time. Speedy Ortiz has a new record out now, that you should buy. It's called Rabbit Rabbit and you can find it on Bandcamp HEREFollow Sadie on Twitter and Instagram You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram Read my newsletter Anxiety Shark HEREOkay, see you all next week for more. 

OH hiLook, people have been asking me. Niko, when is V/A Club coming back? It's not. But we're using the feed for something new. It's a new show, by me, it's called Blue Eyes Crying By The Chips, it's about the beautiful songs that we love and the places we have cried listening to them.join us every Friday for season one of a show I already love and want to do forever,  My first guest is my friend, writer and podcaster Elamin Abdelmahmoud. He's the host of Commotion on CBC and the author of the lovely and brilliant book Son Of Nowhere.You can follow him on Twitter HERE You can find Commotion on CBC HERE or your podcast platform of choiceYou can find me, Niko Stratis, on all social media platforms @ Niko Stratis. I tend to use Twitter the most, or my newsletter, Anxiety Shark.Our theme song is by Augusta Koch of Gladie, find Gladie on Bandcamp HEREShow artwork is by Amanda Wong, check out he INCREDIBLE work HEREOkay, that's it. See you next Friday. 

We're back for another round! Sorry for the wait, glad to see you here again! We're talking with Marissa Moss today, who has an excellent new book called Her Country that is available NOW and you should buy it, read it, tell everyone about it.You can listen to the Boys On The Side soundtrack on YouTube like I had to HERE You can follow Marissa Moss on Twitter and Instagram, you can buy her book at your local bookstore or HEREYou can follow me, Niko Stratis, on Twitter and Instagram

Hi friendsWell, I had someone who had to change plans last minute this week, so I texted my friend Brian Fallon, you know, from the Singles episode and said "do you want to talk to me about So I Married An Axe Murderer today" and he said name the time and I'm there.So, today we welcome back returning guest Brian Fallon to talk about the So I Married An Axe Murderer soundtrack, salsa commercials, Springsteen's cowboy hat era and what a burden writing a song as good as "There She Goes" must be. You can follow Brian Fallon on Twitter and Instagram, you can follow his band The Gaslight Anthem on Twitter and InstagramYou can follow me, Niko Stratis, on Twitter and InstagramYou can follow the show on Twitter and Instagram

Hi friends, we're back! Taking the red pill with Alicia Gaines of Ganser and talking about The Matrix! We get into it alllll including how hard we don't want to have to talk about the very first artist on the tracklist! You can follow Alicia on Twitter and Ganser on Twitter and InstagramYou can follow me, Niko Stratis, on Twitter and InstagramYou can follow the show on Twitter and InstagramWe have a Patreon that you can sign up for here! Our theme song is by Matty Grace, show art is Rachael PleetOkay love you bye

Hi!Welcome back. Did you think we were gone forever? Are we really here? V/A Club is back baybeeeeeee. Today we're talking with my good friend Brian Fallon about the soundtrack to the movie Singles, from 1992. You know the one, it's got Pearl Jam in it, before we really knew we loved Pearl Jam so much. It's got Paul Westerberg, freshly away from The Replacements. Screaming Trees, Alive In Chains and so much more.We also talk about Stranger Things, Zakk Wylde, New Jersey and hand talking and a lot of other divergences. It's fun, we're a fun office.You can follow Brian Fallon on Twitter and Instagram, you can follow his band The Gaslight Anthem on Twitter and InstagramYou can follow me, Niko Stratis, on Twitter and InstagramYou can follow the show on Twitter and Instagram We have a Patreon that you can sign up for here! Patrons get the show a day early, and also exclusive writing by me! I will have an essay about a band tied to the singles soundtrack up there next week, and maybe something else! We'll see!!Our theme song is by Matty Grace, show art is Rachael PleetOkay love you bye

Hi friends!Third times the charm! Looks like we made it! Today's episode is about the soundtrack to The Crow from 1994! If you are now or have ever been goth, this is the one for you!Alex, as I'm sure you know, has his own excellent podcast called You Are Good, you can find it at all the pod places and on Twitter and Instagramyou can find V/A Club on Twitter and Instagram tooOkay, I hope you like it, more soonLoveNiko

Hi friendsWe're here, we're back, we're talking about the soundtrack to 1995's Angus. If you've never seen Angus, don't worry! All you need to know is that the soundtrack is incredible, it has a classic Green Day song , a great unheard Weezer song from the best era of Weezer and the Goo Goo Dolls. Thanks to Matty Grace for joining me on this ride, Matty also wrote "Love Theme to V/A Club", the theme for the podcastYou can find Matty on Twitter and Instagram You can find Matty's band Cluttered on Twitter and Instagram and Bandcamp Thanks everyone for supporting the show, it's a lot of work to do on my own and I love you all for listening!Niko

What's with today, today?Hi friends, welcome to V/A Club, a podcast about movie soundtracks! Episode one baby! We did it!Today, we're talking about the Empire Records soundtrack with my friend Elise Okusami, aka Oceanator! Oceanator has a new record out TODAY, it's called - coincidentally - Nothings Ever Fine. You can buy it HERE . You can find Oceanator on the web via her website, Oceanator.surf or on TWITTER and INSTAGRAM you can find the Oceanator cover of "Plowed" by Sponge HERE you can find me, Niko Stratis, online at my website nikostratis.com or on TWITTER and INSTAGRAMYou can follow V/A Club on TWITTER and INSTAGRAMPlease, if you like the show, leave a review and follow us on your podcast platform of choice!

Hi friendsWelcome to V/A Club: a podcast about movie soundtracks. I'm your host, Niko Stratis.This is just a little teaser episode, our first proper episode drops April 8th - Rex Manning Day, I  hope you'll join me.You can find me, Niko on Twitter and Instagram and you can follow V/A Club on Twitter and InstagramThe theme song - Love Theme to V/A Club, is by Matty Grace, you can find her on Twitter and Instagram, and her band Cluttered on Twitter and InstagramThe show artwork is by Rachael Pleet, you can find her art on InstagramWe have a Patreon, it's $2/month. You can find it HERE. I'll be uploading essays, playlists, and whatever else I can think of.Please share, rate, review, etc.Thanks, I love you.Niko