My Favorite Album with Jeremy Dylan

Today, the great Dominic Monaghan (Lord of the Rings, Lost, Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan) joins me for a truly epic deep dive into The Beatles White Album. We get into Dom's Beatles origin story, his conflicted feelings about John Lennon , how the album is an audition for the Beatles respective solo careers, his Beatles tattoos and whether he has pried an early look at Peter Jackson 's new Be...

Fresh off releasing the greatest album of 2021, Middle Kids frontwoman Hannah Joy makes a welcome return to the show to talk about The National 's seminal 2013 album 'Trouble Will Find Me'. We talk about The National's reputation as a band who make 'grower' albums, how this album represents the culmination of the band's career to that time, the use of rhythm, space and texture and how that influen...

Today I'm joined by Australian music legend Murray Cook (The Wiggles, The Soul Movers) to discuss David Bowie's nailed-on glam rock classic 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'. Murray tells the tale of how he traded away a Slade LP for this album, we debate its 'concept album' bonafides, we gush over the greatness of Spiders guitarist Mick Ronson, why the record was mor...

Today, the woman being El Perro del Mar , Sarah Assbring, goes from subject of this podcast to a guest, as she joins me in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Spiritualized 's 2001 album 'Let It Come Down'. We talk about how the album shook up Sarah's life during a period where she had walked away from performing as a singer-songwriter, how the ambition of the record continues to inspire her, t...

Today spellbinding singer-songwriter-doctor Sophie Payten aka Gordi joins me to dive into the world of Bon Iver 's 2016 game changer '22, A Million'. We dig into how Sophie feels about frequent comparisons between her and Bon Iver, how this album upended what people thought of as Bon Iver's sound, different interpretations of the album's opening line 'It might be over soon', what it was like for S...

Australian comedy legend Colin Lane (Lano and Woodley) is a self-proclaimed sceptic when it comes to people's deep emotional connection to pop stars, but he proves a game guest on this week's podcast, as he and I mark Elton John 's first appearance on the show by talking about 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'. We get into the ins and outs of Elton's partnership with Bernie Taupin , how much the songs r...

Today one Australia's most compelling artists, Mo'Ju , joins me for a celebration of the love child of Raymond Chandler and the Cookie Monster, Tom Waits , and his classic 1978 album 'Blue Valentine'. We talk about the Tom Waits musical universe, how Waits uses a clearly defined persona to keep his private life private, the film noir sensibility that pervades Waits' lyrics, how Mo'Ju chased the so...

Today music journalist (People, Rolling Stone) and co-host of the Rivals podcast Jordan Runtagh joins me from New York City to finally tackle one of our white whales - The Beach Boys immortal classic 'Pet Sounds'. Yes, somehow we are in year eight of the show without anyone doing the record. Never fear, we get into it in some detail today, from the background of the record and Brian Wilson 's shif...

Today we're bringing you a fascinating conversation with Batwoman's Nicole Kang on country icon Patsy Cline 's 'Sentimentally Yours', the last album the legendary singer recorded before her tragically premature death at age 30. Nicole tells the story of how Cline's music formed part of the tapestry of her childhood and became an essential shibboleth of her relationship with her taciturn immigrant...

Today New York bred Nashville based singer-songwriter Jillette Johnson joins me on the eve of her new album release, to discuss Patty Griffin 's game-changing genre-defying second album  Flaming Red . Like Bob Dylan , Patty shocked a lot of people when she 'went electric' on this record, and we get into why this album was different to her folky debut, the reactions upon its release, why it's impos...

Today, legendary songwriter and Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson joins me to talk about the Joni Mitchell masterpiece that isn't  'Blue' - 1976's 'Hejira'. We talk about where the title came from, how a teenage infatuation led Dan to Joni, why Jaco Pastorius is like Hannibal Lector, the album's lyrical themes of groundedness vs freedom, key songs like  Amelia  and  Furry Sings the Blues  and how Dan'...

We're kicking off 2021 with the legendary producer, guitarist and singer/songwriter Daniel Lanois , talking about one of the greatest debut albums of all time, The Jimi Hendrix Experience 's 1967 barnstormer 'Are You Experienced?' We delve into Daniel's discovery of the record while he was a teenage record producer in Canada, how the album opened up his imagination, the idiosyncrasies and nuances...

Singer/songwriter/fiddle wizard Amanda Shires joins me over chicken-fried steak to talk/argue about the great Leonard Cohen and his 1971 masterpiece 'Songs of Love and Hate'. Is the album depressing? What is Leonard Cohen's best song? Is co-writing good or bad and should Amanda do it? Did she steal one of Cohen's coat hangers? Why did she write a song about wanting to hang out with Cohen? What abo...

We're on a break at the moment but I thought it would be interesting to revisit this episode from four years ago, our end of the year 2016 wrap up, featuring a bunch of different interviews touching on the big stories in music of the year, including the traumatic aftershock of the US election and the creeping dread of the incoming Trump administration, and the realisation that 2017 maybe was going...

Longtime friend of the show and host of the Empire Film Podcast, Chris Hewitt, returns to talk about the classic Hollywood thriller 'The Hunt for Red October', the first film adapted from Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, starring Alec Baldwin as Ryan and the late great Sir Sean Connery as Russian (just go with it) Captain Ramius. We discuss if this is Connery's best post-Bond role, why Baldwin might...

Normally on this show we venerate musicians, today we're mocking them as we present a little compilation of music jokes guests have told me this year, never before heard until now. Listen to gags from Georgia Mooney , Fred Armisen , Stella Mozgawa , Edith Bowman , Seja Vogel , Dan Wilson and even your host.

Today, legendary Nashville singer-songwriter Kim Richey joins me to talk about Joni Mitchell 's classic 1974 double live album 'Miles of Aisles'. We talk about how the record acts as a great entry point to Joni's early career, the way Joni and LA Express reinterpret her early folk songs, the difference between Joni's lyrical style and peers like Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan , Joni's influence on Ki...

Today I'm sharing a conversation I had with the great gentleman of rock'n'roll Nick Lowe , in what was meant to be the first episode of a new podcast about live shows and touring. It turned out 2020 wasn't the best year to launch a show like that, so instead I'm bringing this chat to you now. We talk about everything from how his mid-career reinvention as the only gracefully ageing man in rock has...

Today I'm joined by songwriting duo and hosts of the brilliant  Sodajerker on Songwriting  podcast, Simon Barber and Brian O'Connor , to talk about Paul Simon 's classic middle-aged divorcee record  Still Crazy After All These Years . We talk about how the album reflects an 'adult' approach in subject matter and composition, how aspects of it reveal more as the listener ages, the balance between s...

Today, Aussie hip-hop king L-Fresh the Lion joins me to discuss the fascinating and emotionally compelling J Cole concept album '4 Your Eyez Only'. We delve into how Cole use's the album to tell the story of a late friend in the guise of a first person narrative, how he intermingles stories from his own life, why the album needs to be listened to in full, Cole's rare status as a music star who tak...

Today the brilliant British broadcaster and podcaster Edith Bowman joins me to talk about Midlake 's 2006 cult classic  The Trials of Van Occupanther , how it soundtracked her early relationship with her husband, its qualities of instant nostalgia and why she returns to it time and time again, including as a balm during lockdown. Plus, we talk about her experiences with live music during lockdown,...