Podcasts about record of the week

In this episode of Whole Lotta Talk, Robert Eriksson talks to us about the new Hellacopters album Overdriver and the upcoming tour. He also shares some funny stories from the recording sessions – the album was recorded so loud that they even had to fix something in the studio! Plus, he reveals how the band retreated to the Swedish wilderness to capture the perfect sound.

Our Record of the Week is from Freak Slug, which is the musical identity of Xenya Genovese. Her album, "I Blow Out Big Candles" is effortless, catchy and honestly, just a really fun time. She will be in Nashville playing at The Blue Room on March 18th.

British funk group Cymande's journey to Renascence has multiple different layers. From a successful debut album in 1972. Going on an extended hiatus only a couple of years later and a rediscovery of their music thanks to the early stages of hip hop with breakbeats and samples. Cymande returned with their first album in 41 years back in 2015 and now they've returned with a new album Renascence, this week's WNXP Record of the Week. 

The core members of NYC band Rubblebucket, Alex Toth and Kal Traver, joined us to talk about their seventh LP, 'Year of the Banana,' which is WNXP's Record of the Week the same week the group returns to Nashville on tour.

British singer-songwriter and guitarist Nilüfer Yanya released her third LP, My Method Actor, in September of 2024 and it made loads of reputed Best of the Year lists come December. We caught up with the artist on tour in October and discussed the record's symbolism, her continued collaboration with producer Will Archer, her fandom of PJ Harvey and more. Now it's WNXP's Record of the Week.

Intense emotion expressed through slamming guitars is the hallmark of Ok Cowgirl's new album, "Couldn't Save Us From My Gut," our Record of the Week on WNXP. We caught up with lead singer Leah Lavigne on a porch in East Nashville to talk about it.

Magdalena Bay is an imaginative duo from LA who released “Imaginal Disk” an album chalked full of wild production and smooth beats that ended up on many End of the Year lists, including ours. Our Record of the Week is "Imaginal Disk" by Magdalena Bay.

The music world took note when Moses Sumney posted on socials about Hurricane Helene damaging his Asheville home. For an artist like him — who selects his surroundings as carefully as the genres he works in — the impact on his outlook has been profound. Senior music writer Jewly Hight spoke with Sumney about how grounding himself in the mountains has shaped his work, including his first R&B project, the “Softcore” EP. It's WNXP's Record of the Week.

Elke's new album contains multitudes. It is a pastiche of sounds and ideas that are as complex and energetic as Elke herself. "Divine Urge" is our Record of the Week.

The Hard Quartet is a new four-piece composed of Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White, each of whom boasts big bona fides and decades of output in indie rock. The band's sonically diverse self-titled debut record on Matador features the members taking turns on lead but always gelling thanks to their affinity for each other and the "social experience" of music-making. Hear Kelly and Sweeney discuss the LP and the enviable, agenda-free hang that is The Hard Quartet.

Pressure Heaven is a new band in the Nashville music scene that's making big waves. They were named Best New Band by the Nashville Scene in their Best of Nashville issue. Pressure Heaven's sound is Deftones meets Sleigh Bells meets Nine Inch Nails, and we love it. Their EP "Head Start" is our Record of the Week.

This week our WNXP Record of the Week is Observations from a Crowded Room from Nashville singer/songwriter Joy Oladokun. Dealing with hard times while on tour, she had a day off in Bend, Oregon where she wrote the first song for the new album “Letter From A Blackbird” a response to The Beatles “Blackbird.” The album's songwriting from there would take a raw and honest account of what its like being a Black, queer artist in spaces that aren't always welcoming. She hopes this album will serve as accountability for some and inspiring for others coming behind her.

Porridge Radio's Dana Margolin said she wrote much of the band's new LP Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me in a period of disorienting stillness that she experienced in the wake of an aggressive touring schedule. Spanning identity and healing from the end of relationships, some of Margolin's rawest, most revelatory songs make up the British band's fourth album, which is WNXP's Record of the Week.

WNXP's Record of the Week is The Academy by Lutalo. The Vermont-based songwriter who has ties to Big Thief was initially cast as an indie folk artist but Lutalo says this album was meant to shrug off those limitations. Playing every instrument, they show off a masterful command of multiple styles and genres to tell crucial, and often heartbreaking, stories of their first quarter of life while also making commentary on consumerism and politics in a way that never feels preachy. The week before the release, Lutalo joined us to share some reflections on the album and insight into how a particular Nashville-based artist gave them a peek into what was possible as an artist of color in the overwhelmingly white world of indie music.

Styrofoam Winos are a radically equal in that there is no set lead singer, guitarist, drummer or bassist. It's unusual, but it works. Each song on their new album Real Time, has a different perspective and voice, but the beauty is the harmony they all create as one.

A.G. Sully grew up in Hartselle, Alabama, just a few hours away from Nashville. She describes it as very small and very conservative, but it's a place that shaped her to become who she is today. She said she started writing around sophomore year of college writing her first songs "Lil Mama" and "FOMO" which she wrote inside one of the practice rooms at MTSU. The music she started to make was a far cry from the Christian music she was used to singing. She describes her songwriting as linear and wouldn't say it was super structured. Like many artists, she takes inspiration from what's going on in her personal life. Her life between Space to Think and her new record, Premonition of Rain, has been vastly different and its reflected in the songwriting.

Our Record of the Week is with newly crowned guitar god, MJ Lenderman, where he talks about his new found attention, the character studies of Manning Fireworks and learning about rock music through Guitar Hero.

Nada Surf's "Moon Mirror" the veteran indie rock band's 10th LP now out on New West Records, is WNXP's Record of the Week. The band's front man Matthew Caws dropped by our studio to talk about the record and play songs solo acoustic.

Hinds is the duo of Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote who hail from Madrid, Spain and have made "VIVA HINDS" our Record of the Week.

One name that has kept popping up in the Nashville hip-hop scene since the late 2010s is Lul Lion. At shows, on projects and in collectives, she was often the only woman in the mix. And her music is really the only record there is of her story — she's rarely given an interview.The Tennessee native seemed to drop off the radar last year. Senior music writer Jewly Hight tracked her down in her current home LA, where she's been reinventing herself. Her new EP, “Speed of Love,” is WNXP's Record of the Week.

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds have been a band since 1983 and have gained a cult following around Nick Cave's persona as a sort of Prince of Darkness. But about ten years ago, he encountered real tragedy that changed him and his music completely. Wild God, is The Bad Seed's 18th studio album, it deals with Cave's journey through grief of the past decade and landing on new, long dormant emotions like joy, that the band are experiencing once again. WNXP was granted this rare interview with Nick Cave.

Nashville band BEAN. has only been together for a few years but has been rising through the Nashville music scene with their blend of bedroom pop and alternative soul. Their connection all started in the dorm rooms of Belmont University the same place where the wrote songs off their debut self-titled EP.

More than 20 years into the Iron & Wine project, 2024 finds singer-songwriter Sam Beam having released both a new studio album, 'Light Verse,' and a concert documentary film, 'Who Can See Forever.' Beam stopped by WNXP studios to discuss creative momentum and the importance in taking risks even though life, as he says in the documentary's trailer, has "no safety ropes." The Iron & Wine 'Light Verse' tour stops at Ryman Auditorium on Saturday, August 24.

Fana Hues started her career as a musician at two years old. "Moth" shows her expertise, blending serious song craft into pop R&B bangers. We talked to her on the balcony of The Ryman before her performance at the Mother Church.

Remi Wolf grew leaps and bounds between the release of her 2021 debut Juno (which she made entirely in bedrooms during COVID times) and this summer's launch of sophomore record Big Ideas. This period represented near-constant touring, and writing in short spurts when home in California, as the artist grappled with surging through her mid-twenties while simultaneously becoming an indie pop star. She said, "Along with it came so many new feelings. Of loneliness, isolation, community, love, friendship, confusion about my own identity, confusion about relationships. It was all a big whirlwind.” Hear Remi Wolf talk about the collaborative new record and some of her influences in this discussion.

Now residing in North Carolina where she made a record inspired by the nature of Appalachia, Rosali's "Bite Down" is our WNXP Record of the Week.

Having been in Nashville for a while, the trio Veaux were trying a bunch of different things musically, but nothing clicked until they decided to make what they want to make unapologetically. Over the next two years, the band would release singles, including their most streamed song “Strawberry Blues,” and tour the country. Now they've put together their first official project as Veaux is the new EP titled Love in the Midnight.

In 1991 the artist Angelica took a song from Rosie and the Original, kept the bubblegum pop melody, but swapped the instruments out for a fat synthesizer and released this version of Angel Baby, it was a hit, reaching number 29 on the Billboard hot 100.That singer is Angelica Garcia's mother. Garcia has released Gemelo, our Record of the Week on WNXP. It's an album that is similarly in love with the sounds of a synthesizer. Just like her mom's album.

L.A.-based indie artist Hana Vu's sophomore record 'Romanticism' explores the inner workings of her mind at age 22. Working with producer Jackson Phillips (Day Wave), Hana Vu layered synths and beats under her strong vocals and alt-grunge rock leanings on this follow-up to her acclaimed debut LP 'Public Storage.' Her tour stops in Nashville July 30.

Aaron Frazer fell in love with soul music dancing around his living room to Michael Jackson playing on the turntable as a kid. But, in a way, his love of soul amplified thanks to hip-hop and the first CD he ever owned, Will Smith's 1997 album Big Willie Style.Frazer got a soul education at the age of nine listening to the interpolation of “Just the Two of Us” by Bill Withers, Smith's “Men in Black” rap to Patrice Rushen's “Forget Me Nots,” the George Benson sample on “Miami,” and the biggest song on the record “Gettin' Jiggy Wit It,” a melody taken from Sister Sledge's “He's the Greatest Dancer.” Studying classic hip-hop records helped Frazer develop his instrumentation through the years and some of that hip hop philosophy can be heard on his second solo album Into the Blue.

Daisha McBride was just messing around when she started posting raps from her MTSU dorm room about a decade ago, but quickly got serious about her hip-hop career. She could've chased trends, or a record deal. Instead, she's learned to veer away from what doesn't work for her while steering towards what does. The paradox is that her new project, an EP titled People Like Me, offers both the clearest view of her creative and professional ethic to date and her most multi-faceted music-making. Senior music writer Jewly Hight, who's chronicled McBride's evolution over the years, digs in to the latest phase.

Brother duo Hermanos Gutiérrez's second LP for Nashville-based label Easy Eye Sound is called Sonido Cósmico, which finds the instrumental guitar band leaving the desert and ascending to space thanks to their trusted blood relative synchronicity you just can't fabricate, plus the help of extra instrumentalists in Music City. Hear the conversation with Estevan and Alejandro  Gutiérrez from WNXP's Sonic Cathedral discussing our Record of the Week, Sonido Cósmico, released in full on June 14.

Jack Antonoff has produced albums for Taylor Swift, Lorde, St. Vincent and FKA Twigs in the past couple years, he even co-produced the most recent Kendrick Lamar diss track, but what is a Jack Antonoff album like when he is in front of the mic instead of behind the producers booth? The result is our Record of the Week on WNXP.

 When you hear the title of Chicano Batman's latest album, Notebook Fantasy, you might be reminded of that time in school when your imagination took you in another direction from the subject the teacher was teaching. As our minds would float off into these hopes and dreams, as young people, we would use our notebook to illustrate those ideas. Guitarist Carlos Arevalo says it represented this time when you were young, or you could be any age, and you write down your hopes, dreams and aspirations in your journal. This was that him, Bardo Martinez, and Eduardo Arenas vision on this record. Aspiring to be greater than the last record and the records before that.

Former WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month Kyshona has a collaborative songwriting program called Your Song whose mission is helping people find their voices through songs, writing their story, and find healing through songwriting. On her latest album Legacy, our WNXP Record of the Week, she does just that. An album she's been making for a decade goes back multiple generations of her family legacy and history. She discusses the album's concept and the importance of family on this record.

Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist and singer Eric Slick, best known as the drummer for Dr. Dog, released his second solo record 'New Age Rage' in April. Before embarking on tour for this funky, dance-y, sample-rich and obviously highly percussive album, Slick visited WNXP's studio to talk about the new music and his elation to get back in front of people. The Nashville show is Friday, May 10 at The Blue Room.

The four songwriters and instrumentalists that make up Nashville punk/garage rock band Gloom Girl MFG have only played together for a couple of years, but they've quickly gelled as a group and attracted lots of positive attention for their high-energy live shows. Counted among their enthusiastic local fan base is Cage the Elephant guitarist and producer Brad Shultz, who asked to work with Gloom Girl MFG on the band's first official studio recording, Polycrisis, a six-song EP out May 3. The band joined Celia in-studio to discuss this release track by track.

Everybody's been talking about how Beyoncé's new album spotlights Black country and cowboy traditions. But even before she teased that project, author and songwriter Alice Randall had already announced her own book and album, both titled “My Black Country.” Randall's been lifting up foundational Black country voices for a lifetime, and senior music writer Jewly Hight reports she's finally being treated as one herself.

The songs that make up “Package Pt. 2” from Gustaf are a logical continuation of the powerful debut LP by the NYC five-piece, with more loud, in-your-face punk songs but also some surprising detours into experimental grooves. Gustaf's singer and lyricist Lydia Gammill shed light on this new LP, WNXP's Record of the Week, in advance of their U.S. tour, which stops in Nashville May 17 for a WNXP Presents show at DRKMTTR.

In 2012 Katie Crutchfield took the moniker of a creek by her house in central Alabama, the Waxahatchee creek and released the album American Weekend. Where she garnered a good amount of buzz in the blog era for being a songwriter in her early 20's who was a vividly personal storyteller. “My life was so chaotic. As many people's in their 20's are, you know? It was just chocked full of drama. Everything was so intense and melodramatic and every slight or heartbreak was intensely recorded on those records.” Those records resonated, and then in 2020, just before everything happened, she released the album Saint Cloud. It's ease and beauty sound tracked many people's pandemics and made Waxahatchee a much larger success. It was a record that sounded like an artist no longer trying, but finding their truest self. She's followed that with Tigers Blood, our Record of the Week on WNXP.

Adrianne Lenker is reaching the status of folk hero. Her stick-to-your-gut, freewheeling attitude is one that Adrianne Lenker brings to her new solo album, “Bright Future” our Record of the Week. “I wanted to make this record feel like you're in the room with us. ”In order to actually bring you into the room, Lenker's record label brought us to a studio in Greenwich Village to capture an interview with Lenker and three songs, live in the room, mistakes and all.

New Orleans based artist Britti had the vision she would work at a Guitar Center in Nashville and that was how she would get discovered. Although that's not exactly how it worked out, she bought a guitar and during the pandemic would sing covers on her Instagram from Lainey Wilson to John Denver. This caught the attention of Tom Osborn of Easy Eye Sound who would fly Britti out to Nashville for writing sessions with Dan Auberbach. That journey led her to her debut album Hello, I'm Britti our WNXP Record of the Week.

Philly hardcore? Indie? Punk? band Mannequin Pussy is our Record of the Week on WNXP. The album was brought to light in an effort with super producer John Congleton and shows Mannequin Pussy in their fullest dynamic range, from a screaming rage that burns with the heat of a thousand suns, but also, the hushed tones of a brushed drum stick playing softly under delicately delivered lyrics from Missy Dabice.

Nashville native Jess Awh hated country music. Until she moved away and started missing home. Now she's back and she's written an album that is country in its core but also dabbles in long extensions of layers of found sound that she has been collecting since she was 15, big droning guitar. For Nashvillians there are detailed references to what it's like to drive on Dickerson Pike after a DRKMTR show after 11 o'clock at night and the relatable song title, “Downtown Sucks You Can't Park Anymore.” Jess Awh's band is Bats and their new album, Good Game Baby is our Record of the Week.

Real Estate, a band with New Jersey roots but now spread out around the country, convened in Nashville to lay down their sixth LP, Daniel. A return to some of the early sounds of Real Estate -- uncomplicated, melody-forward, easy and breezy indie rock -- 'Daniel' showcases the songwriting of frontman Martin Courtney, who spoke with Celia about his vision for this full-length. Also reached to talk about the making of WNXP's Record of the Week was Daniel Tashian, the Nashville-based artist and producer who led Courtney and his bandmates through a quick, nine-day recording blitz in RCA Studio A on Music Row.

Keyon Harrold has showcased his trumpet playing for various artists in the studio and on the road, most notable Jay-Z on his 2007 hit “Roc Boys (And the Winner Is).” The trumpeter from Ferguson, Missouri started playing around the age of six studying the greats from Miles Davis to Clifford Brown and Clark Terry. His journey led him to a jazz camp in Colorado when he was a teenager, that's where he met future collaborators Robert Glasper and Terrace Martin. Touring with Common for his breakout album Like Water for Chocolate in the early 2000s. Although grateful for the opportunities to share the studio or stage supporting different artists, he has branched out into his own work. Harrold and his trumpet are back front and center on his third solo project Foreverland.

Record of the Week artist Madi Diaz has a lot going on. Since her reign as WNXP's Nashville Artist of the Month a couple of years ago, she's been co-signed by Muna and Waxahatchee. Her friend Kacey Musgraves jumped on a duet. She was picked by Pitchfork as a top album and Rolling Stone recently proclaimed this “the year of Madi.” Oh and Harry Styles handpicked her to not only open some shows but to join his band for a massive world tour! In our interview Madi explains how that experience “blew the lid off” her thought process around songwriting and recording. She shares a unique, recurring performance dream and a real-life nightmare (with a happy ending) that brought that feeling to life while opening for Styles. And she walks us through several tracks on Weird Faith, expanding on the big picture themes she tackles in songs like “Kiss the Wall,” “God Person” and “Obsessive Thoughts.”

Big Sigh is the fourth LP by British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Marika Hackman, and her first original material in several years. The songs that make up Big Sigh are lush, expansive, thoughtful, and deep, so unsurprisingly my conversation with Marika Hackman felt that way, too. Hear Hackman discuss the making of Big Sigh -- a collection of tunes about "relief, release and acceptance" that comes with the "tackling of quite dark themes."

Our Record of the Week is Katy Kirby's Blue Raspberry. After graduating from Belmont University here in Nashville Tennessee, Katy Kirby released Cool Dry Place on the Keeled Scales record label out of Austin. The record received acclaim far and wide. The folks over at Anti- Records, home of Tom Waits and Fleet Foxes noticed it too and signed a record deal with Katy Kirby. The new label has a new expansion of sound on the record and features many Nashville musicians and explores concepts of religion, personal identity and what it is to be real.

Ty Segall is inarguably prolific. The indie rock artist will drop his 15th full-length album, Three Bells, early this year. It must be a combination of all the aforementioned factors, with the underpinning of just being a very cool dude, that keeps the SoCal native pumping out the jams. His tour brings him to Nashville's Brooklyn Bowl on April 24, and we talked about Three Bells right before he began rehearsal for this new batch of songs. Webpost