Bothering the Band

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.

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...

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.