The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers

In our first episode of 2026, the l egendary UK  record producer, remixer,  and dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood reflects on his fourth solo studio effort, The Collapse of Everything , released last summer on his On-U Sound label. He explains how the album's melodic, contemplative sonic headspace balances modern plugin technology with the raw, "breathing" energy of live performances.   He also talks ab...

Happy New Year from the Record Store Day Podcast! As we hustle 2025 out the door, we give you one final holiday treat. Actor John C. Reilly has made a name for himself in the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, in the movie musical Chicago , and in comedy films like Step Brothers, Talladega Nights, and the cult comedy, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a parody of rock music biopics.    But in 2025, Reil...

We're simply having a wonderful holiday special, and you're invited.   While music fans may be divided about the merits of Paul McCartney's enduring holiday offering "Wonderful Christmastime," it's hard to deny that the Holidays are always packed with new releases from both of his legendary bands. 2025 brought us both the latest installment in The Beatles Anthology albums (and the updated streamin...

Bestselling author Alan Light is here to unravel the enduring allure of Fleetwood Mac' s monumental 1977 album, Rumours . In Light's comprehensive new book Don't Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac's Rumours , Light explores the album's transformation from a pop phenomenon to a cultural touchstone, and its unique ability to remain relevant in today's rapidly changing contemporary music scene....

Last week, Old Crow Medicine Show released their very first holiday album, OCMS XMAS (in stores now from Hartland Records). Front man, Ketch Secor is here to tell us why they covered his favorite Christmas song, John & Yoko's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," the influence of Bob Dylan's spiritual era, and why records and record stores are so vital at the holidays, and all year 'round! The Record Store...

Midlake front man Eric Pulido talks to Paul about the band's just released sixth studio album , A Bridge To Far , and expounds on life in their hometown of Denton, Texas (Sly Stone's birthplace!), working with producer Sam Evian and guest vocalist Madison Cunningham, and adding horns to Midlake's already expansive pastoral soundscape. The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show writte...

Record Store Day Black Friday 2025 is this Friday, November 28 th. This week's episode is the second of two special spotlights on a few of the featured titles from the Black Friday List, which is up now at RecordStoreDay.com. This week, we welcome back Talking Heads drummer and co-founder Chris Frantz to unpack Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live a vinyl collection from Rhino Records exclusively for...

Record Store Day Black Friday 2025 is coming up on November 28th. This week and next week's episodes of the podcast will shine a spotlight on a few of the featured titles from the  Black Friday List, which is up now at RecordStoreDay.com. This week, we welcome back "The Jazz Detective,"  Zev Feldman, and while of course he brought along some super cool jazz titles from Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bill Ev...

Jay Ferguson and Chris Murphy from Canadian alt-rock legends SLOAN return to the Record Store Day Podcast to talk about the recent release of Sloan's 14th studio album, Based On The Best Seller , in stores now on the Yep Roc and Murderecords labels. We unpack some of the key tracks on the LP, with Chris & Jay elaborating on what it's like to be closing in on 35 years playing together in the band,...

Rodney Crowell discusses his new album, Airline Highway. The legendary Houston-born singer, songwriter and guitarist first moved to Nashville in 1972, where he kicked off his stellar 50+ year career which includes stints as a key member of Emmylou Harris's Hot Band , and later as producer, collaborator and one-time husband of Rosanne Cash . The new album follows on the heels of his Grammy nominate...

Before Paul went away on his own book tour for J ohn Candy: A Life In Comedy , he conducted a few interviews with authors who have just published fantastic music biographies . We'll be featuring some of them while Paul is out on the road. This week, a reprise of Paul's conversation with Warren Zanes , author of Deliver Me From Nowhere , about the making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album, which...

Before Paul went away on his own book tour for J ohn Candy: A Life In Comedy , he conducted a few interviews with authors who have just published fantastic music biographies . We'll be featuring some of them while Paul is out on the road. This week, acclaimed Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick discusses his new and extensively researched book, The Colonel And The King : T o m Parker, Elvis P...

Before Paul went away on his own two-week book tour for John Candy: A Life In Comedy (out now!), he conducted a few interviews with other authors who have just published fantastic biographies of some of the people who make the records . We'll feature two of these over the next two weeks. This week, Bill Janovitz  returns to test drive his new, and definitive, biography of The Cars, entitled Let Th...

Welcome to our 200th episode of The Record Store Day Podcast and the beginning of our seventh season!  This week, we delve into the history of the fabled "Paisley Underground" music scene with California's coolest, jangliest and trippiest band,  Rain Parade . Co-founder Matt Piucci is here to talk about their influential sound, and such perennial Record Store Day favorite reissues as Emergency Thi...

Todd Rundgren returns to our program, this time as the Keynote Speaker at Record Store Day Summer Camp 2025, in New Orleans, this past July . This wide-ranging interview with our host Paul Myers (author of A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studi o), was recorded onstage in the packed ballroom of NOLA's fabulous Hotel Monteleone and introduced by RSD's Carrie Colliton. The Record Store Day...

Lady Wray is here, on the eve of releasing her new album Cover Girl (Big Crown Records), to talk about her ongoing journey to find herself, and how friends, family, and producer Leon Michels, helped her bring this soulful and deeply personal music into sharper focus. The Record Store Day Podcast  is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers , who also composed...

Welcome to an RSD Pod Record Stores And Photography Special ! This week, we have two segments that both involve three of our favorite things, records, record stores, and photography.  Brandon Sasway from Revilla Grooves & Gear in Milltown, NJ, is here with music photographer Ray Lego to talk about their big event, Noise In Focus: 30 Years Of Music Photography, which is happening at Revilla on Sept...

Tift Merritt marked the occasion of the 20th anniversary of her landmark album Tambourine to issue a brand new companion album of the kitchen demo recordings she made at the time. One Riot Records is issuing a vinyl edition of that collection,  Time And Patience: Tambourine Kitchen Recordings , plus a new 20th anniversary vinyl pressing of  Tambourine.   Tift zooms in from her home in Raleigh, Nor...

This week, we meet  Austin and Taryn Durry , the two siblings at the core of Minneapolis indie band , Durry, to unpack  This Movie Sucks (Big Pip Records/Thirty Tigers ) their recently released second album which does not, in fact, suck. They also discuss their brother and sister chemistry, their close relationship to their fans, their viral video hits, and how songs like "Porcupine" are bringing...

In June, New York City based indie rock band, Hotline TNT  released their third album of what many are calling "American Shoegaze" indie rock , Raspberry Moon (Third Man Records). After two Hotline albums where frontman and songwriter  Will Anderson did most of the recording by himself, album number three finds him welcoming in his bandmates (Haylen Trammel, Lucky Hunter, and Mike Ralston) and pro...

Early in August, Record Store Day held their annual "Summer Camp" meeting in New Orleans, once again returning to the lovely Hotel Monteleone, in the heart of the French Quarter, for a few days of meeting, schmoozing, and, frankly, Big Easy cuisine. During the week, host Paul Myers recorded a couple of live interviews with musicians talking about their approach to the music business in 2025.  Toda...

This summer, the Ohio-based musical group Caamp released their fifth and most adventurous album to date, Copper Changes Color which they call "a celebration of the dreams and bonds that endure." Co-produced by Beatriz Artola (Fleet Foxes, Sharon Van Etten) and Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, R.E.M.), their songs are raw and vulnerable, alternating between breezy anthems and pensive meditations,...

On May 29, 1997,  Jeff Buckley drowned in Wolf River, Memphis, Tennessee, just as he was preparing to record the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut album,  Grace . He was only 30 years old. In the time since his tragic death, his legacy has only grown, and the music remains a unique testament to his singular voice and songwriting talent. Director Amy Berg (West of Memphis, Janis: Little G...

On July 22, 2025, we lost Birmingham-born rock vocalist and cultural icon Ozzy Osbourne , rock's "prince of darkness," at the age of 76. His death, from complications due to Parkinson's Disease, ends a career spanning five decades, in which he pioneered an entire subgenre of heavy metal music, as frontman for Black Sabbath , before going on to an even bigger career as a solo artist, where he is cr...

Our guest Chris Stamey 's new album is called Anything Is Possible , and during long and fruitful musical career, he's done just about everything. As a founding member of The dB's he helped define an era of 1970s indie rock and power pop, and his solo work (and duo work with his fellow dB Peter Holsapple) only widened his songwriting vocabulary. Among the distinguished guests joining Stamey on Any...