This Might Be A Podcast

Franz Nicolay of The Hold Steady returns to the show to discuss I Can Hear You off of Factory Showroom, a song recorded on an Edison wax cylinder recorder.

Debate team style, the pro-Mink Car Team of Greg and Steve Clark face off against the Anti-Mink Car Team of Gur Samuel and Rich Jeffery to determine once and for all - does Mink Car rule or suck?

Bob Nanna of Braid, Hey Mercedes and Lifted Bells joins Greg to talk about Erase off of Glean. This episode also offers a great primer to learn about Nanna if you're unfamiliar with this influential emo and indie musician.

Jared Pike joins Greg in-studio to talk about Lie Still, Little Bottle off of Lincoln. Prepare to be soothed by Jared's radio announcer voice as we talk about... the stick!

Lesley Gouger returns to the show to chat about this odd duck in the TMBG catalog, Untitled, the track of Gloria's phone message on the Dial-a-Song machine. Lesley and Greg do their own cover of the track, and play some rare extra clips of the original message.

Lafayette, IN musician Sid Punk visits the studio to talk about I Should Be Allowed to Think and things get... punk.

Mega-fan Mike Buffington picks an obscure one for this week, Siftin' off the I Palindrome I EP. Greg and Mike get deep into this rare instrumental, and Mike busts out his Micro Moog and talks about his custom Chessmaster guitar.

Recorded live at the GMan Tavern in Chicago on July 26th, join our roundtable of Rachel Jones, Spencer Parks, Marcus Nuccio (Pet Symmetry) and Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes) as we discuss the classic TMBG hit Birdhouse in Your Soul.

John Walker, host of the FYIZ podcasts as well as an assistant engineer on this very podcast, drops by to talk about Canajoharie off of the album Join Us.

Musicology PhD candidate Rachel Jones and Greg get super nerdy over Flood's We Want A Rock, go on many music-related tangents, and find a lot of cool covers.