Right from the top of LABYRINTHITIS, the 13th album from our guest today, new wave art rock master Dan Bejar of , you get an example of what makes him such a compelling artist. “It’s in Your Heart Now” starts, and then its real beat stutters in,...

Our guests this week are Chad Clark and Erin Nelson of DC post-punk band . Clark emerged from the DC/Dischord punk scene with his band Smart Went Crazy, and he worked on records by Fugazi, Dismemberment Plan, Lungfish, Q & Not U, and many more. He...

Though Sonic Youth ended a decade ago, the band's archives have continued to surprise. The latest from the SY vault is , a collection of instrumentals recorded during the band's final era, including some with and contributions from The Eternal ...

"Anything that knocks ya out, hits you harder than you planned," sings on "Genuine Hesitation," which opens K Bay, the third solo album from the Spacebomb founder. And it's a knockout of a record, to be sure. A spirited producer and collaborator...

This week on the show, we’re joined by Ade Blackburn of Clinic. The Liverpool-based duo of Blackburn and Jonathan Hartley released a great record last year called Fantasy Island, full of skittering drum machines, cavernous sounds, and fuzzed...

This week on the show, we're joined by world renowned whistler Molly Lewis. Last year, she released a great EP called The Forgotten Edge via Jagjaguwar. With its exotica and spaghetti western motifs, the EP is a supremely playful and lovely listen. And Lewis is a...

"Transmissions is a lovely name; I think that's a very crucial name for this age." So says mystic musician our guest this week on the show. Sitting down with host , His Orangeness (AKA Edward Larry Gordon) discusses his new collaboration with NOUS...

Today on Transmissions: Cate Le Bon, who, for the last decade plus, has made some of our favorite modern records, as well as producing great work for other artists, like Deerhunter and John Grant, who joined us last year on the podcast to t their...

Welcome back to our weekly podcast Transmissions. Today on the show, occult scholar . He’s the author of a staggering number of metaphysical books and the tremendous historical project, Occult America, a deeply researched book that examines how...

Welcome to a bonus edition of Transmissions with David Bazan of Pedro The Lion joining host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss the release of the band's surprise album . Like 2019's Phoenix, the record focuses on Bazan's youth in Arizona. In this loose...

Our guest today is Haley Fohr, better known as Circuit des Yeux and Jackie Lynn. Her latest is called iO, and it’s a stunning work of art rock bravado. In our 2021 contributor Tyler Wilcox wrote: “On the new Circuit des Yeux album, Haley Fohr...

This week on Transmissions, the final episode of the season: Steve Berlin. Steve plays saxophone in Los Lobos, whose new album is called, Native Sons. It features Los Angeles-centric covers by the likes of WAR, The Beach Boys, Buffalo...

This week on Transmissions, our weekly series of strange conversations: Roberto Carlos Lange of Helado Negro. His new album of electronic bliss pop, psychedelic ambient, and soulful love songs is called Lange joined host Jason P. Woodbury for a...

This week on Transmissions, our weekly series of strange conversations: Scott Hirsch. Perhaps you know his name from the credits of albums by or Alice Gerrard. Or perhaps you're into his solo records: the nocturnally grooving is the latest. He's...

This week on the Transmissions, Jeffrey Alexander of The Heavy Lidders and Dire Wolves. For decades now, he's been a fixture in the psychedelic mutant underground. He's got a great new out now on Arrowhawk with his song-oriented project the Heavy...

Hey, welcome back to Transmissions, we're so glad to have you here tuning in. Today on the show, I’m joined by two lifers of independent rock, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang. Their latest is a tremendous album called A Sky Record. Reviewing the...

This week on Transmissions: the magnificent Neko Case. She’s recently launched , a newsletter of nature writing. We don't need to tell you that Neko Case is a great writer—her work with the New Pornographers, Case/Lang/Veirs and her solo albums...

Today on Transmissions, author, artist, guitarist, and creator Alan Licht. He's the author of Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020. It features some incredible talks with ANOHNI, Tony Conrad, Greg Tate, Yo La Tengo,...

Today on the show, returning Transmissions guest Nick Lowe. 20 years ago, he released The Convincer, which many folks argue is his best album. It's reissued by Yep Roc Records this week. Following his rough and rowdy start at Stiff, his work...

Welcome to Transmissions. Today on the show: Chris Swanson, co-founder of Secretly Group. This year marks 25 years of two of the flagship labels in the group, Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar, and to celebrate they’ve got tons going on—including...

Thanks for joining us on Transmissions. Our guest this week is Bela Koe-Krompecher, who’s written a terrific book called , about his time in the ‘80s rock & roll underground of Columbus, Ohio, and the tumultuous lives—and far too early...

This week on Transmissions, Jon Wurster, the drummer of , Bob Mould Band, and Superchunk and one-half of and Wurster, the long running radio comedy duo as featured on . In his wide-ranging talk with Jason Woodbury, he discusses growing up in...

As a curator at the Alan Lomax Archive, Nathan Salsburg is no stranger to reaching deep into the past to bring forth music that speaks to us in the present moment. As a guitarist and songwriter, he's primarily focused on instrumental sounds, but on...

“Music shapes us and fundamentally changes us. Once we have listened we do not stop. We do not ever recover from music. We will return again and again to the radio, the record store, the bedroom where girls listen to records all day.” That’s a...

A sprawling talk with record maker John Leckie. As a tape operator at Abbey Road, he oversaw the All Things Must Pass and Plastic Ono Band sessions and rolled tape on Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Kevin Ayers, Fela Kuti, and more. Soon he began producing...