Rainbow Kitten Surprise, plus Steve Conte remembers David Johansen (1950-2025)
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
Release Date: 03/04/2025
Durry
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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 young kids and their rock inclined parents together at their shows. The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also...
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Hotline TNT's Will Anderson
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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 producer Amos Pitsch (Tenement) to collaborate more fully. Anderson is here to explain how the band and the new album came together. The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly...
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David Rawlings (Live Interview At RSD Summer Camp 2025 in New Orleans).
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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. Today, we are sharing one of them. Guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer David Rawlings, whose most recent album with Gillian Welch, Woodland, was one of the best records of 2024, sat down...
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Caamp, plus Remembering Terry Reid (1949-2025)
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
This summer, the Ohio-based musical group Caamp released theirfifth 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, and the performances are honest and intuitive to match. Founding member Evan Westfall tells us about building a record upon what they band refer to as "love and trust in the face of doubt and...
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Director Amy Berg Discusses "It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley"
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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 Girl Blue), talks to us about her moving and emotional new documentary It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley, which has its theatrical debut this week. The Record Store Day Podcast is a...
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Remembering Ozzy (1948-2025) with writer Sylvie Simmons, and Women In Vinyl's Jenn D'Eugenio
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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 credited for introducing the guitarist Randy Rhoads to the wider rock world, and for creating the wildly popular Ozzfest tours. Then, when he'd done it all, he and members of his family, Jack, Kelly, and...
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Chris Stamey
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
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 Anything Is Possible are another NC music legend Mitch Easter, plus some friends of the podcast, including The Lemon Twigs, Pat Sansone (Wilco), Marshall Crenshaw, and many more. Lately, Chris has been...
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Daryl Hall
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
Daryl Hall has been one of the most identifiable voices and songwriters on records and radios for over half a century and he's still doing it. As the lead singer and principal songwriter in Hall & Oates he had a string of hits (quite a few of them co-written with Sara and Janna Allen) that included "She's Gone," "Sara Smile," "Rich Girl," "One on One," "I Can't Go For That," "Make My Dreams (Come True)," "Private Eyes," "Out of Touch," and more. And as a solo artist he's made landmark records like Sacred Songs (with King Crimson's Robert Fripp) and last year's D album, a collaboration...
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Filmmaker Mark Romanek's Music Video Legacy
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
Filmmaker Mark Romanek's early love of cinema not only lead him to early acclaim at Sundance for his 1986 film Static, but his later award-winning feature films like One Hour Photo (2002), and Never Let Me Go (2010). But it also lead him to become one of the most prolific and identifiable auteurs of the 1990's music video boom, with a client list that includes Jay-Z, Beck, Fiona Apple, Beyonce, Nine Inch Nails, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, David Bowie, and even Johnny Cash. In this week's Special Episode, we take a detour from chats with musical artists and record producers to talk...
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Ken Pomeroy
The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers
Ken Pomeroy is a 22-year-old Oklahoma born singer songwriter whose songs have wide open spaces where animals and memories run wild. Her Cherokee name, ᎤᏍᏗ ᏀᏯ ᏓᎶᏂᎨ ᎤᏍᏗᎦ, roughly translates to "little wolf," and on her recent album, Cruel Joke (in stores now from Rounder Records) you can hear the influence of her Native American heritage in the natural images of her songs like "Coyote," "Wolf In Sheep's Clothing," and "Cicadas," (featuring John Moreland) the latter of which was recently featured in Sterlin Harjo's milestone Hulu series, Reservation Dogs. The...
info_outlineNorth Carolina band, Rainbow Kitten Surprise are re-issuing their 2015 album RKS for Record Store Day (April 12) as an expanded double album featuring nine previously unreleased demo tracks, and pressed on rainbow tricolor vinyl in a gatefold sleeve. We speak with singer Ela Melo about the history of her band, their roots, and the way they make their music.
And guitarist Steve Conte returns to the program to remember David Johansen, the New York Dolls frontman (and erstwhile Buster Poindexter) who passed away at the age of 75 on February 28. Steve was in the 2000s lineup of the NY Dolls and shares his stories of working with the man some called simply "David Jo."
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 Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.
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This episode is dedicated to Angie Stone, Joey Molland, and David Johansen.