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  • Robyn Hitchcock (Interview)

    October 14, 2026 · 43 min

    “I guess I swapped my parents and my family for Bob Dylan,” says Robyn Hitchcock, remembering an evolutionary moment in his creative journey. “I just heard “Like a Rolling Stone” every day for two months  as I was going into my teens, it…

  • Bedouine - Interview with Azniv Korkejian

    September 30, 2026 · 48 min

    “I felt this really compelling amount of nostalgia and I was kind of living in the past, so I thought that maybe songwriting was a way to capture that and a way to protect it, because I felt like it was slipping away -- just... childhood,"…

  • Alex Cameron (Interview)

    September 8, 2026 · 41 min

    “I started writing poems and singing them over instrumental songs I’d made, and I realized that the melody was coming to me as I read them, and I was like, ‘Oh, there’s music in the words!,” says Alex Cameron, recalling how he first…

  • Finn Wolfhard (Interview)

    July 15, 2026 · 34 min

    Even during the past decade while he was busy with Stranger Things, Finn Wolfhard still has always found time to make music - whether with his teenage bands Calpurnia and The Aubreys, or more recently under his own name, starting with his…

  • Radiohead - Interview with Ed O'Brien

    July 1, 2026 · 44 min

    This spring, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien released a beautiful and soul-stirring album called Blue Morpho, and in this episode, he shares with great depth and candor what inspired the album, his approach to recording it, and the…

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  • Genesis Owusu (Interview)

    June 16, 2026 · 39 min

    “Words were always my weapon,” says Genesis Owusu, talking about the love of creative writing he discovered as a child. “Also kind of ironically, conversation wasn’t always my weapon, so I always felt like the truest and rawest and most…

  • Corook (Interview)

    June 1, 2026 · 46 min

    Like many of their fans, I discovered Corook’s music on TikTok, and I was immediately charmed by the sweetness and humor and directness of their songs. Honestly, as someone who is newer to using TikTok — I only set up my page about a year…

  • American Football - Interview with Mike Kinsella

    May 15, 2026 · 36 min

    Talking about his band American Football’s latest return following a long absence, frontman Mike Kinsella invokes the notorious D.B. Cooper, saying, “I feel like we jumped out of a plane with a suitcase of money, except it was old demos…

  • Kneecap - Interview with Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap

    April 30, 2026 · 38 min

    “Kneecap was born out of this need to represent the identity of young people who speak Irish in the city, an identity a lot of people around the world wouldn’t know exists,” says Móglaí Bap of Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap. “When I was…

  • Arlo Parks (Interview)

    April 10, 2026 · 37 min

    “I just remember being fascinated by language, it felt like this treasure I was discovering,” says Arlo Parks, of her childhood affinity with words. “I remember being obsessed with the word ‘pebble,’ and the sense of different shapes…

  • Snail Mail - Interview with Lindsey Jordan

    April 1, 2026 · 43 min

    “When I started going to rock & roll camp once a summer, I definitely always felt like there was a lot to be proven of being like a girl, a small girl,” says Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan. “My whole brain was just this ‘Be better than the…

  • Iron & Wine - Interview with Sam Beam

    March 12, 2026 · 30 min

    “I had never played a concert until I got a record deal with Sub Pop and they were like, ‘Well, you should consider going on tour,’" says Iron & Wine's Sam Beam. "I was like, ‘Oh shit.’ It’s a very atypical story, and it also made me…

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About the show

Interviews focus on key moments of discovery, and the songs/artists that have soundtracked the guest's life. Hosted by journalist and radio presenter Jenny Eliscu (@jennylsq), these are laid-back but in-depth discussions about the journey to find their creative voice and process, and how it has evolved over their career. Episodes also occasionally feature clips from Eliscu's extensive archive, which includes 25 years' worth of interview audio.