The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers

Omnivore Recordings co-founder Cheryl Pawelski celebrates Omnivore's 15 years of Grammy worthy re-issues and archival record projects. This fascinating conversation is peppered with plenty of fun facts and musical highlights .    The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered , and hosted by Paul Myers , who also composed the theme music and selected interst...

Happy Independents Week! Legendary jazz trumpeter Charles Tolliver is here to talk about this year's reissue of his first album as a bandleader, the 1968 set Charles Tolliver All Stars: Right Now... And Then , (which was reissued for this year's Record Store Day, and which features a stellar backing lineup that includes Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers, and Gary Bartz ), and the legacy of...

In his incredible new music biography, Where The Music Had To Go , author Jim Windolf explores the parallel careers of two of the most influential artists of the post rock & roll era, Bob Dylan and The Beatles . He's here to explain why Bob is more like a Beatle than a Rolling Stone.    For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, v isit RecordStoreDay.co m   The Record Store Day Podcast is...

The Me That Remains isn't just the first original  Amy Grant album in 13 years, produced by Mac MacAnally, it's a deeply intimate, stripped-down, folk-pop reflection on survival, aging, and reconstruction, heavily shaped by a series of profound, recent life-altering health events including a severe 2022 bicycle accident that left this multiple Grammy winner and Kennedy Center honoree with a trauma...

Last year, the legendary post-punk collective Mekons released HORROR (Fire Records), their first new album in five years. They've just released a dub remix version of songs from that record, entitled HORRORble (Mekons Vs. Tony Maimone In Dub Conference) and founding member Jon Langford is here with longtime bandmate Sally Timms for their Record Store Day Podcast debut ​ to unpack the new mixes and...

Happy June! When we first had  Sean Ono Lennon on the show we discussed his loving curation and restoration of the work of his famous parents, John Lennon & Yoko Ono. This time he's back to finally talk about his own music, made in collaboration with  Les Claypool (Primus). In this timely chat about a not-too-distant future, we unpack ( unclip? ) The Great Parrot Ox and The Golden Egg of Empathy ,...

Greatest Hits Records & Books in Media, PA, is where our guests, Stu Eli, Jesse Gennett, and Dom Glisson cooked up the idea to record and release an "audio time capsule" of the sounds of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, a/k/a "Delco." The result is the 92-track album,  The Sounds Of Delco, Vol. 1, a light-hearted but affectionate nod to their region and to the used sound effects records that wash up...

Filmmaker Adria Petty and music producer/engineer Ryan Ulyate have a deeply personal interest in maintaining the high musical and moral standards set by the late Tom Petty. In the afterglow of the highly successful Record Store Day release of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Live At The Paradise Rock Club, recorded in 1978 by Boston's WCBN radio, Adria and Ryan are here to talk about the Petty Estat...

Castle Rat is a self-described "medieval fantasy metal band" led by our guest, Riley Pinkerton . In her stage persona as "The Rat Queen," Pinkerton is a sword-wielding heroine on a mission to expand and defend 'The Realm' from those who seek to destroy it. Off stage, she's a friendly, glue-gun wielding creative arts kid, firmly grounded in the real world. She's here to talk about the band's most r...

Songwriter's songwriter J oe Pernice (The Pernice Brothers, Scud Mountain Boys, The New Mendicants) joins us for his third appearance on the podcast, this time to unpack his impressive new album Sunny, I Was Wrong (New West Records), on which he's assisted by an A list of guests that include Aimee Mann, Jimmy Webb, Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Rodney Crowell, and Jale's Laura Stein, who also ha...

Toronto-based band Metric have come a long way since their official formation over two decades ago, but as they sang in their 2008 single "Help, I'm Alive," their hearts are still "beating like a hammer." Metric co-founder and lead singer Emily Haines is here to guide us through the "minefield of memory" and unpack the urgent and emotional songs on the band's just released 10th album, Romanticize...

Squeeze co-founder Glenn Tilbrook is here to discuss the band's fantastic new album Trixies , featuring the current lineup of the beloved London, England based band bringing to life a concept album full of songs that Tilbrook and co-founder Chris Difford first wrote together over 50 years ago, well before they'd even recorded their debut album with producer John Cale. The result is arguably the ba...

Continuing our preview series in the run up to Record Store Day, April 18, Grammy and Emmy winning musician and activist Ziggy Marley is here to discuss the exclusive Record Store Day debut of his brand new album Brightside (Tuff Gong Worldwide), his new studios and HQ in L.A., the legacy of his iconic father Bob Marley, remembrances of Sly Dunbar (from Sly & Robbie), and the challenges of conquer...

Record Store Day 2026 Preview pt. 4: A Jazz & Blues Roundup. Continuing our preview series in the run up to Record Store Day, April 18, we welcome our frequent guest, Zev Feldman, a/k/a "the Jazz Detective," to discuss 11 of the Jazz and Blues titles he and his team have curated for Exclusive Release on Record Store Day. It's a fast-flying frenzy of free music finery.    The Record Store Day Podca...

Record Store Day 2026 Preview pt. 3.   Legendary music producer  Jerry Goldstein (Eric Burdon & War, Sly & The Family Stone and more) is here to discuss the fascinating and often tragic story of Ike White,  who recorded a forgotten 1974 funky soul cult classic, Changin' Times, with a mobile truck at Tehachapi State Prison while serving a life sentence for murder. That album so moved Stevie Wonder...

Record Store Day 2026 Preview pt. 2. It's Record Store Day, Charlie Brown! On this episode we'll continue to preview titles from the RSD 2026 List, as we welcome  Jason and Sean Mendelson from Lee Mendelson Film Productions, to talk about their father's enduring animation series of Charlie Brown TV Specials based on characters in the Peanuts universe created by Charles M. Schulz. This year, LMFP w...

XTC guitarist extraordinaire Dave Gregory joins us to discuss the band's very first Record Store Day Exclusive Release, a double-LP set called Live Boots , culled from a show recorded for radio broadcast at Emerald City, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey during the band's 1981 tour for their Black Sea album. Dave recalls that heady time, and expounds on his two main passions; collecting vintage guitars,...

Steve Berlin has been a member of L.A. band Los Lobos since 1984, but in the interim he has split his career between playing saxophone for that band (and The Blasters) and becoming an in-demand record producer for a host of bands including Los Lobos, Faith No More, Crash Test Dummies, and Canada's biggest band, The Tragically Hip. But in 1981, he began his production career working on an album for...

Rival Sons  frontman Jay Buchanan went deep into the desert, and himself, to summon up the powerful songs on his recently released solo album Weapons of Beauty , in stores now from Sacred Tongue Recordings (via Thirty Tigers). He also covered a beloved Leonard Cohen tune for good measure. We talk about that, and about Jay's recent work on the Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere , in t...

Every week, Paul asks his guests the familiar musical question , "What was the first record you ever bought in a record shop with your own money." For several seasons, we've been culling a few of the most interesting responses for our annual winter "clip shows". Today we present part two of two FIRST RECORD I EVER BOUGHT compilations, starring JEFF BRIDGES, KEN POMEROY, JOHN C. REILLY, ELIZABETH S...

Record Store Day co-founder Michael Kurtz returns to the podcast to talk about The List of RSD titles now posted up at RecordStoreDay.com, and explain why Bruno Mars is the perfect choice for 2026 Record Store Day Ambassador . The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers , who also composed the theme music and selected interstitia...

Every week, Paul asks his guests the familiar musical question, "What was the first record you ever bought in a record shop with your own money." For several seasons, we've been culling a few of the most interesting responses for our annual winter "clip shows". Today we present part one of two FIRST RECORD I EVER BOUGHT compilations, starring DARYL HALL, BASIA BULAT, SUNNY WAR, BOB MOULD, STUART M...

Courtney Marie Andrews joins us to discuss her brand new album  Valentine (Loose Future/Thirty Tigers), which finds the critically-acclaimed songwriter, poet (and fine art painter) expounding on themes of loss, obsession and the stunningly beautiful "record in pursuit of love" (her ninth!) which she co-produced largely "live-to-tape" with  Jerry Bernhardt .    The Record Store Day Podcast is a wee...

Nashville-based Australian singer-songwriter Emma Swift returns to our program to peel back the layers on her most recent album,  The Resurrection Gam e , a collection of moody and gorgeous original compositions released late last year on the independent Tiny Ghost Records label she co-founded and manages with her partner, Robyn Hitchcock. You may recall Swift last joined us to talk about Blonde O...

New Zealand indie pop group The Beths just released their fourth album, Straight Line Was A Lie (Anti records) and songwriter frontperson Elizabeth Stokes is here to talk about it.   The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered , and hosted by Paul Myers , who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music.  Executive Producers (for Record S...