Secretly Society
From multipart documentaries to quiz shows and beyond, the Secretly Society Podcast prioritizes the voices and stories that define the 25-year history of Secretly Canadian, Jagjaguwar, and Dead Oceans. Join our artists, staff, and collaborators, as we offer first-person perspectives on some of your favorite records––and maybe a few you might have missed.
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Secretly Weekly - Episode 8
08/14/2026
Secretly Weekly - Episode 8
Episode 8 of Secretly Weekly - a bi-weekly podcast show highlighting the most recent tracks released in the Secretly ecosystem. Everything from Secretly Group, All Flowers Group, Merge and Numero Group. A radio show delivered to your podcast feed, once every two weeks; hosted by WFHB's Music Director, Abby Noroozi. Track listing Phoebe Bridgers - I Can't Wait Kevin Morby - Field Guide for the Butterflies Way Dynamic - Officially June McDoom - Without You Halima - onyx Bullion - Roo Danielle Ponder - Sun and Moon Spike Fuck - All By Myself Dinosaur Jr. - Blowin' Up Yoko Ono - Never Say Goodbye Credit music by Richard Swift.
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Secretly Weekly - Episode 7
07/31/2026
Secretly Weekly - Episode 7
Episode 7 of Secretly Weekly - a bi-weekly podcast show highlighting the most recent tracks released in the Secretly ecosystem. Everything from Secretly Group, All Flowers Group, Merge and Numero Group. A radio show delivered to your podcast feed, once every two weeks; hosted by WFHB's Music Director, Abby Noroozi. Track listing Marmoset - Golden Cloak June Panic - David Poe The Impossible Shapes - Putrefaction Jens Lekman - You Are The Light (by which I travel into this and that) Swearing At Motorists - Flying Pizza Early Day Miners - Return of the Native Windsor For The Derby - The Melody of a Fallen Tree Havergal - New Innocent Tyro Allegory Damien Jurado - Abilene Songs: Ohia, Jason Molina - Blue Chicago Moon Credit music by Richard Swift.
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Secretly Frequencies - Eaves Wilder
07/24/2026
Secretly Frequencies - Eaves Wilder
Already stepping to the mic for Secretly Frequencies with her debut album released only this year? We wouldn't do it with just anyone; Eaves Wilder has already honed the songwriting skills and storytelling talents of a season musical veteran. A singer-songwriter hailing from London, Eaves has released a steady drip of singles and EPs leading up to her first LP, 'Little Miss Sunshine,' released on Secretly Canadian this spring. Chatting with co-hosts Tom Davies and WFHB Music Director Abby Noroozi, Eaves covers topics ranging from her 90's rock influences, writing music in her garden shed, and finding her ideal bandmates and collaborators (tougher than it sounds for an introvert). Tune in. Links: Eaves Wilder:
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Secretly Weekly - Episode 6
07/17/2026
Secretly Weekly - Episode 6
Episode 6 of Secretly Weekly - a bi-weekly podcast show highlighting the most recent tracks released in the Secretly ecosystem. Everything from Secretly Group, All Flowers Group, Merge and Numero Group. A radio show delivered to your podcast feed, once every two weeks; hosted by WFHB's Music Director, Abby Noroozi. Track listing 1. Black Marble - Jim Carol New Year 2. Nirosta Steel - English Party 3. The Cave Singers - Distant Sures 4. Will Charette - Dear Prudence 5. Max Subar - Anything Could Be 6. Here We Go Magic - Make Up Your Mind 7. Yoko Ono - Walking on Thin Ice 8. KL Hamilton - I'm Trying 9. Aaron Frazer - If I Got It (Your Love Brought It) 10. MRCY - Lorelei Credit music by Richard Swift.
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Secretly Frequencies - Superchunk - Part 2
07/10/2026
Secretly Frequencies - Superchunk - Part 2
Today, we charge onwards through Superchunk's storied catalog. Started by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1989, Superchunk have released thirteen studio albums, four singles collections, and founded and operate their own resolutely independent label Merge Records. Mac McCaughan and guitarist Jim Wilbur link up with co-hosts Tom Davies and Eric Osmon (Run For Cover Records, Lame-o Records) to discuss learning to pace their prolific output as a band while evolving their sound, putting on then-unknowns Rilo Kiley as tour openers, reuniting to record and play after a near-decade hiatus, and many more of Superchunk's experiences.
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Secretly Weekly - Episode 5
07/03/2026
Secretly Weekly - Episode 5
Episode 5 of Secretly Weekly - a bi-weekly podcast show highlighting the most recent tracks released in the Secretly ecosystem. Everything from Secretly Group, All Flowers Group, Merge and Numero Group. A radio show delivered to your podcast feed, once every two weeks; hosted by WFHB's Music Director, Abby Noroozi. Track listing Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Boys Lusine - Pendulum Bullion - Francis Ford Early Day Miners - Placer Found Superchunk - I Don't Want You Anyway Dinosaur Jr. - Several Got Away Scowl - Not Hell Not Heaven David Vandervelde - Nothin' No Jens Lekman - Still In Love With You Credit music provided by Richard Swift.
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Secretly Frequencies - Superchunk - Part 1
06/26/2026
Secretly Frequencies - Superchunk - Part 1
There's no way we could fit Superchunk's discography into a sole episode of Secretly Frequencies, and today debuts the first half of our trip through the indie stalwarts' ouevre. Started by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1989, Superchunk have released thirteen studio albums, four singles collections, and founded and operate their own resolutely independent label Merge Records. Mac McCaughan and guitarist Jim Wilbur tag-team with co-hosts Tom Davies and Eric Osmon (Run For Cover Records, Lame-o Records) to cover a couple decades' worth of music, including unexpected moments of vulnerability with Steve Albini, the evolution of the band's sound, and friendly ribbing via studio talkback. Tune in, Part 2 coming soon.
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Secretly Weekly - Episode 4
06/19/2026
Secretly Weekly - Episode 4
Episode 4 of Secretly Weekly - a bi-weekly podcast show highlighting the most recent tracks released in the Secretly ecosystem. Everything from Secretly Group, All Flowers Group, Merge and Numero Group. A radio show delivered to your podcast feed, once every two weeks; hosted by WFHB's Music Director, Abby Noroozi. Track listing 1. Baby Rose - Let Me Go 2. Elujay - Wushua 3. Danielle Ponder - Power 4. Bon Iver - Heavenly Father 5. HTRK - Eat Yr Heart 6. Jordan Patterson - Cinderella 7. Fruit Bats - Perhaps We're a Storm 8. Way Dynamic - Miffed It 9. Wednesday - Reality TV Argument Bleeds 10. Mitski - Your Best American Girl Credit music by Richard Swift.
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Secretly Weekly - Episode 3
06/05/2026
Secretly Weekly - Episode 3
Episode 3 of Secretly Weekly - a new bi-weekly podcast show highlighting the most recent tracks released in the Secretly ecosystem. Everything from Secretly Group, All Flowers Group, Merge and Numero Group. A radio show delivered to your podcast feed, once every two weeks; hosted by WFHB's Music Director, Abby Noroozi. Track listing 1. Eaves Wilder - The Great Plains 2. Bizhiki - Gigawaabamin (Come Through) 3. Chanel Beads - Dust in the Wind 4. Gigi Masin - Golden 5. Sharon Van Etten - Our Love 6. Japanese Breakfast - Orlando in Love 7. Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life 8. Whitney - Golden Days (Alt Video) 9. Greg Mendez - So Mean 10. Bill Fay - Just a Moon
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Secretly Weekly - Episode 2
05/22/2026
Secretly Weekly - Episode 2
Episode 2 of Secretly Weekly - a new bi-weekly podcast show highlighting the most recent tracks released in the Secretly ecosystem. Everything from Secretly Group, All Flowers Group, Merge and Numero Group. A radio show delivered to your podcast feed, once every two weeks; hosted by WFHB's Music Director, Abby Noroozi. Track listing: 1. Jordan Patterson - Just My Friend 2. Dua Saleh - Firestorm 3. aja monet - working class musicians 4. Kevin Morby - 100,000 5. Drunk - Hand on Deck 6. Jensen McRae - Taboo 7. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies - Lord of the Underground 8. Closure - servant to silence 9. They Hate Change - Run the Road 10. Studio - Life's A Beach! (Todd Terje Beach House Mix)
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Secretly Weekly - Episode 1
05/08/2026
Secretly Weekly - Episode 1
Introducing Secretly Weekly - a new bi-weekly podcast show highlighting the most recent tracks released in the Secretly ecosystem. Everything from Secretly Group, All Flowers Group, Merge and Numero Group. A radio show delivered to your podcast feed, once every two weeks. This week’s episode features WFHB’s Music Director Abby Noroozi, hosting a selection of songs from the wider Secretly ecosystem and select cuts from the Secretly catalog.
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East River Pipe 'Mel'
01/15/2026
East River Pipe 'Mel'
This year marks the 30th anniversary of 'Mel.' The beloved and long out-of-print East River Pipe album — F.M. Cornog’s second on Merge Records — was announced late last year as Merge’s first entry in Secretly Distribution’s Secretly Society Record Club, the first time 'Mel' would be made available on the format since its original issue in 1996. The reissue, which features new liner notes by Barbara Powers and serves as the definitive edition of 'Mel,' uniting the album with songs that were once exclusive to US and UK versions of the CD, sold out immediately. Today, that edition of the album is available for digital purchase via the Merge Records webstore and East River Pipe’s Bandcamp page. To further celebrate the occasion, Secretly Group has released a new episode of their Secretly Society podcast, featuring Powers’ reminiscence of the time during which 'Mel' was recorded and released. Like all of East River Pipe’s output, 'Mel' was written, performed, recorded, and mixed by F.M. Cornog on a Tascam 388 mini-studio at his home, which was then a small apartment in Astoria, Queens. Within that space, he conjures nothing less than the fullness of life beyond it, the characters and moods of New York, the way a city can feel limitless and isolating all at once. It’s a daunting accomplishment, one which led The New York Times to call him “the Brian Wilson of home recording.” 'Mel' is an intricately-textured indie pop tour de force, its layers of keyboard and reverb-drenched guitars giving flight to Cornog’s voice, which observes the doomed figures of the city with the intimacy of a documentarian and the egolessness of someone who has been through despair and survived. 'Mel' is an offering like few others, its 14 peerless gems a direct channel from F.M. Cornog’s heart to yours. Shelter from the storm, you might call it. Uplift for the downtrodden. A masterpiece, even among Cornog’s considerable catalog, this edition of 'Mel' is perfect for both kinds of East River Pipe fans: those who’ve been around for years, and those who didn’t know they needed these songs in their life until now. Links:
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Songs: Ohia 'Didn't It Rain'
12/17/2025
Songs: Ohia 'Didn't It Rain'
Every writer has a story about the assignment that got away; for music journalist Stephen Deusner, the story was that of Jason Molina and Songs: Ohia's 2002 record 'Didn't It Rain.' In 2014, on the wings of Secretly Canadian reissuing 'Didn’t It Rain,' Deusner pitched an ambitious oral history featuring some of the people who knew Jason best and might be able to lend some humanity to an artist who had always been mythologized — often by himself. Sadly, the piece was not published at the time, but nearly a decade to the day after its inception, the oral history was issued via Molina-verse newsletter . Reviving the oratory slant of this story of a legendary album, today's episode features interviews with Secretly Canadian co-founders Ben and Chris Swanson; Darcie Schoenman Molina, Jason’s widow; Edan Cohen, who produced 'Didn’t It Rain' at his studio in Philadelphia; and musicians who played on the record, including Mike Brenner, Jennie Benford, and Jim Krewson of Jim & Jennie & the Pinetops. Links: Jason Molina:
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90 Day Men - Part 3
12/03/2025
90 Day Men - Part 3
Back in the mid-nineties, a group emerged from St. Louis, later moving to Chicago, where they'd go on to make some of the most beguiling and unique music of the time. They were 90 Day Men. Over four albums and a few EPs, the band's sound developed into elaborate, experimental, baroque songs, influenced by the world around them and delving back into prog, sixties art rock, and beyond. Later this month Numero Group will release a new deluxe 25th anniversary edition of 90 Day Men's '(It Is It) Critical Band' LP, including a previously-unreleased album tracked at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studio in Chicago. In this final episode, host Tim Kinsella speaks to the band about their final albums, trips to Japan, the burnout of relentless shows and being a little too ahead of the musical curve. Links: 90 Day Men:
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90 Day Men - Part 2
11/26/2025
90 Day Men - Part 2
Back in the mid-nineties, a group emerged from St. Louis, later moving to Chicago, where they'd go on to make some of the most beguiling and unique music of the time. They were 90 Day Men. Over four albums and a few EPs, the band's sound developed into elaborate, experimental, baroque songs, influenced by the world around them and delving back into prog, sixties art rock, and beyond. In part two of this three-part series from the Secretly Society Podcast, Tim Kinsella, a fellow Chicagoan and friend of the band, guides us through conversations about 90 Day Men's early singles, working with labels for the first time, lineup changes and how they developed their unique sound, and their first forays into touring. Links: 90 Day Men:
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90 Day Men - Part 1
11/20/2025
90 Day Men - Part 1
Back in the mid-nineties, a group emerged from St. Louis, later moving to Chicago, where they'd go on to make some of the most beguiling and unique music of the time. They were 90 Day Men. In this three-part series from the Secretly Society Podcast, Tim Kinsella, a fellow Chicagoan and friend of the band, guides us through conversations with the members and other folks who were involved in the scenes and movements that they operated in. Over four albums and a few EPs, the band's sound developed into elaborate, experimental, baroque songs, influenced by the world around them and delving back into prog, sixties art rock, and beyond. 90 Day Men were not ahead of their time, they were of a different world entirely; their discography, and a handful of previously unheard songs, were compiled into a five-LP set by Numero Group in 2023. In this episode, Tim speaks to the band about the musical world from which they were born, and how they came to be. Links: 90 Day Men:
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Secretly Frequencies - Hatchie
11/12/2025
Secretly Frequencies - Hatchie
G'day! Today on the Secretly Society podcast we welcome one of our label family's rare Australian artists, Harriette Pilbeam, who you will know much better as Hatchie. Starting out playing in bands as a teenager in Brisbane, Hatchie put her first single out under her own name in 2017 and quickly picked up interest in both her home country and internationally. She signed with Secretly Canadian in 2021, released her much-acclaimed follow up album 'Giving the World Away' in 2022 and just dropped her latest, the sweet and salty 'Liquorice,' last week. Chatting with her fellow countryman Max Thomas, Secretly Distribution's Head of Marketing & Campaigns Asia-Pacific, and co-host Tom Davies, Hariette shoots the breeze on Letterboxd scores, dream-pop, Oasis, and much more. Links: Hatchie:
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Secretly Frequencies - Lonnie Holley
10/29/2025
Secretly Frequencies - Lonnie Holley
Today’s guest is the inimitable Lonnie Holley, and to say that he has a rich and long history is an understatement. While Lonnie is a relatively recent addition to Jagjaguwar since 2018, he’s been creating for decades as a sculptor, painter, musician, and poet; his visual art work is included in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his musical collaborators include Bon Iver, Richard Swift, and Alabaster Deplume. There’s no story quite like Lonnie’s, and co-hosts Tom Davies and longtime Jagjaguwar A&R Eric Deines make it down just the tip of the iceberg in this dynamic conversation exploring Lonnie's catalog of songs and stories. Links: Lonnie Holley:
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Secretly Frequencies - Jensen McRae
10/15/2025
Secretly Frequencies - Jensen McRae
You may have heard her on your TikTok feed, opening for MUNA, or on the silver screen; Jensen McRae is a polymath and a manifestor. She released her second album ‘I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!’ on Dead Oceans this past spring, and it’s already landed on several critics’ best-of-2025-so-far lists. Self-described as "one house down from the girl next door," Jensen joins co-hosts Catalog Project Manager Coco Segaller and A&R Samantha Urbani for a game of name that tune. Jensen covers the power of moving on, meeting your heroes, and lyrically swinging between crying and laughing (or both at the same time). Links: Jensen McRae:
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Secretly Frequencies – Porridge Radio
10/01/2025
Secretly Frequencies – Porridge Radio
Tune into Secretly Frequencies with Dana Margolin of Porridge Radio. Dana started Porridge Radio while still a university student, and met natural collaborators Georgia Stott (keyboards), Sam Yardley (drums), and Maddie Ryall, and later, Dan Hutchins (bass). The “sometimes twisted, often transcendent, always incendiary” band came to an end earlier this year, and today's chat with co-hosts Tom Davies and A&R Director Adam Nealon serves as a chance for Dana to look back over a decade spent making music under the Porridge Radio moniker. Dana reflects on visual and sonic art connections (including playing le Centre Pompidou in Paris), writing solo versus arranging with bandmates, and managing a meteoric rise while the world was largely shut down. Links: Porridge Radio:
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Secretly Frequencies - drink sum wtr
09/24/2025
Secretly Frequencies - drink sum wtr
Today’s guest is Nigil Mack, head honcho of All Flowers Group label drink sum wtr. With roots in hip hop, R&B, and alternative, the emerging record label looks beyond trends to invest in a new cultural legacy, releasing music from Annahstasia, THEY., Gareth Donkin, Aja Monet, and more. Prior to co-founding drink sum wtr, Nigil served as an A&R at Motown and Republic Records, where his signings include Kid Cudi and focused on artist development on numerous projects; an A&R consultant for Atlantic Records, and as a manger of artists such as DRAM. Now lending his ear to the independent spectrum, Nigil IDs songs for co-hosts Tom Davies and Alexandra Berenson, Senior Director of A&R, from drink sum wtr's already extensive catalog, weaving stories of his inspirations and influences along the way. Links: drink sum wtr:
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Secretly Frequencies - Durand Jones & The Indications
09/10/2025
Secretly Frequencies - Durand Jones & The Indications
To kick off our newest season, R&B sensations Durand Jones & The Indications sit down with our Secretly Frequencies hosts, Tom Davies and the band's old pal, Colemine Records' Terry Cole. Formed in Bloomington, Indiana in 2012 with an original plan to play a single show, we encounter the Indications after countless worldwide tours and four albums, with their most recent, 'Flowers,' released in June via Dead Oceans. Through an interview-by-song, the core songwriting trio of singer Durand Jones, singer/drummer Aaron Frazer, and guitarist Blake Rhein wax on breaking the musical rules, their myriad fanbase, and the power of friendship. Links: Durand Jones & The Indications:
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Secretly Frequencies - Sharon Van Etten
08/19/2024
Secretly Frequencies - Sharon Van Etten
Hosts Tom Davies and Mike Holdsworth sit down with Sharon Van Etten to conduct an interview-by-song across her illustrious catalog. If you can believe it, we’re commemorating ten years since the release of ‘Are We There,’ one of her most powerful and timeless collections, with a new limited-edition vinyl and a 7” including a live rendition of beloved tune “Every Time the Sun Comes Up.” Sharon’s polymathic nature is on full display in this episode, discussing producing, performing, writing, collaborating, and her sonic influences. Links: Sharon Van Etten:
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Secretly Frequencies - Zero Boys
08/12/2024
Secretly Frequencies - Zero Boys
Our Secretly Frequencies hosts sit down with Paul Mahern from Zero Boys to conduct an interview-by-song with a blind playlist of tracks spanning the band’s esteemed catalog. We’re celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Zero Boy’s ‘History Of...’ with a special reissue, including a previously-unheard 1980 live set at Indianapolis venue Crazy Al’s. Paul has been a literal professor of punk rock history, in addition to his storied career as a musician, producer, and engineer, so pull up a chair and have a listen – you may learn something! Links: Zero Boys:
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Secretly Frequencies - Ghostly International
08/05/2024
Secretly Frequencies - Ghostly International
We’re back in label mode today with the revered Ghostly International and our guests, label owner/founder Sam Valenti and Molly Smith, Ghostly’s Senior Art Director. Currently celebrating its 25th year, Ghostly established itself as one of the most well-loved artist-centric labels around, having put out records by the likes of Tycho, ADULT., Gold Panda, Matthew Dear, School of Seven Bells and Telefon Tel Aviv. In the last few years, the label's scope has been broadening with releases from Julie Byrne, Kate Bollinger, with many more exciting new acts to come. Sam and Molly share their memories of working with artists over multiple decades, collaborating on Ghostly’s famous aesthetic sensibilities, and more. Links: Ghostly International:
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Secretly Frequencies – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
07/29/2024
Secretly Frequencies – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Today’s guest is Ruban Nielson of the mighty Unknown Mortal Orchestra. The project was started in Auckland in the late noughties by Ruben, and grew over the following years, expanding to include friend Jake Portrait and brother Kody and a number of other incredible musicians along the way. UMO - as they are affectionately known - have released five albums, four with Jagjaguwar, of sprawling, psychedelic rock music. Now based in Portland, Oregon, Ruban chats with us about his early analog influences, songwriting processes, and more from UMO’s storied history. Links: Unknown Mortal Orchestra:
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Secretly Frequencies – Bizhiki
07/22/2024
Secretly Frequencies – Bizhiki
Geographically, Bizhiki is almost wholly a made-in-Wisconsin project, a collaboration between Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings, Joe Rainey and the multi-instrumentalist Sean Carey (aka S. Carey), who for years has been a secret weapon within the Bon Iver family. The collaboration between these three musicians first began at the Eaux Claires festival in 2015. The festival was being organized on Ojibwe’s ancestral homelands, and the organizers didn’t feel right without the inclusion of the native communities who lived nearby. The open-endedness of the initial invitation and the “let’s just do something together” spirit continues to inform Bizhiki’s process. Recording steadily over the course of years — and between several projects from Bizhiki’s members, including two solo albums (Joe Rainey's Niineta and S. Carey's Break Me Open) – the trio chipped away at an expansive, ambitious and unique record that sounds like no other music being made today. On Unbound, the powwow style is entwined with synthesized voice modulation, and hand drumming is accented with electronic samples and beats. The harmonies and resonances on this album are equal parts cultural and musical. Links: Bizhiki:
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Big Red Machine Pt. 3
07/15/2024
Big Red Machine Pt. 3
Secretly Society presents a three-episode mini-series about collaboration, friendship, and a community-driven project; originally formed by Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner in 2008, this is the magical and illusive tale of Big Red Machine. This series is narrated by music writer and broadcaster Laura Barton, including live interviews with Vernon, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Sharon Van Etten, Anais Mitchell, and more. The conclusion to the story, for now. Big Red Machine has been a rejection of the music industry's expectations weighing upon Dessner and Vernon, but also a place of solace for the pair amongst their sometimes painful struggles with mental health. The pair take turns grounding each other through their successes and supporting during their lows, while writing songs like “Brycie” and “Hutch” that pay tribute to close-knit family and friends. The pool of collaborators ripples out ever-further, and new methods of working to complement each others’ contributions carry on the experimental spirit of Big Red Machine. Links: Big Red Machine:
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Big Red Machine Pt. 2
07/08/2024
Big Red Machine Pt. 2
Secretly Society presents a three-episode mini-series about collaboration, friendship, and a community-driven project; originally formed by Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner in 2008, this is the magical and illusive tale of Big Red Machine. This series is narrated by music writer and broadcaster Laura Barton, including live interviews with Vernon, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Sharon Van Etten, Anais Mitchell, and more. Part Two finds Vernon and Dessner working out just what Big Red Machine was, and should be; exactly what role it should play in their respective musical lives was proving hard to pin down. Making their second record, more voices were added to bring Dessner and Vernon’s songs to life, expanding the Big Red Machine identity and sound, and discovering that the defining quality of the group was something intentionally experimental. Links: Big Red Machine:
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Big Red Machine Pt. 1
07/04/2024
Big Red Machine Pt. 1
Secretly Society presents a three-episode mini-series about collaboration, friendship, and a community-driven project; originally formed by Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner in 2008, this is the magical and illusive tale of Big Red Machine. This series is narrated by music writer and broadcaster Laura Barton, including live interviews with Vernon, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Sharon Van Etten, Anais Mitchell, and more. Part One starts with a pivotal Myspace exchange and a shared raw piano track between Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon, that would shape the trajectory of their relationship and careers over the upcoming years. Engage with stories about the beginning of the PEOPLE label (37do3d) in a Berlin residency as well as the ultimate cementing of their self-titled album. From long-distance partnerships, onstage improvisations, and the gathering of talented musicians, the story of Big Red Machine is an inspiring account that unveils a new energy and way of working for creatives alike. Links: Big Red Machine:
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