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Tom Petty's unexpected death in October 2017 effectively marked the end of the Heartbreakers. The band reunited a handful of times to pay tribute to the late singer, but its members have otherwise used the unfortunate opportunity to explore life beyond its confines. For Mike Campbell, the event marked the beginnings of a second career. His guitar playing and songwriter were foundational to the Heartbreakers' massive success, and he'd cowritten with Don Henley and Stevie Nicks, including the Billboard topping "Boys of Summer." But now it's his name on the band, performing as Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs. This June, the group released Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, its third full-length since 2020.

#mike campbell #tom petty

Released at the end of August, Kantos is a “party album about the possible end of humanity as we know it.” A few months later, that possibility seems ever more probable. A one-time resident of both New York City and Athens, GA, Kaoru Dill-Ishibashi now spends his days in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Central California, heading over Highway 17 to surf when not making music. The singer and multi-instrumentalist is an industry veteran, fronting Brooklyn indie band Jupiter One and spending time as a member of Elephant 6 offshoot, Of Montreal. The Berklee grad has also performed with a wide range of fellow musicians, including Regina Spektor.

#kishi bashi

When I Get Through follows Breymer's (Sarah Walk) journey up to the day of their top surgery. It's a candid account of the conversations and emotions that precede such a life alternating moment. The musician joins us to discuss the journey and the decision recount the events on their new LP.

#breymer

Halloween comes early this year, as Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones join us to discuss the final days of their Kickstarter campaign for Dracula Book II: The Brides. The comics veterans talk about their planned four volume series and the lasting legacy of Bram Stoker's monster.

#matt wagner #grendel

New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler returns to the show. The artist recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to release a new book collecting minicomics and other appearances by his best-known creation, Too Much Coffee Man.

#shannon wheeler #too much coffee man

Band People is part music writing and part business book, rounded out by academic research and a host of footnotes. It's a pragmatic look at the life of road warriors in an increasingly untenable industry. More than anything, however, it's a labor of love from lifelong touring musician, Franz Nicolay.

#franz nicolay

He's quick to laugh with a twang that betrays his Southern Missouri origin. Steve Cropper discusses his accomplishments with modesty, rarely offering a glimpse into a career that profoundly impacted the course of 20th century popular music. As a core, founding member of Booker T & the MGs, the guitars helped form the backbone of the Stax Record sound. Cropper cowrote some of the era's most iconic songs, including "Knock on Wood," "In the Midnight Hour" and "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, the latter of which he almost mixed following Otis Redding's untimely passing. The MGs made their own mark with the massive success of "Green Onions," before Cropper transitioned into a successful producing career and served as the longstanding guitarist for comedy duo, The Blues Brothers.

#steve cropper #booker t and the mgs #stax records

In November, Tokyo Police Club will play its final show. Saying goodbye is never easy, but the Ontario-based band's members seem surprisingly okay with the whole thing.

At the end of the day, very few of us manage to eke out a 20-year career playing with high school friends.

Graham Wright acknowledges that, perhaps, the reality of the situation hasn't entirely set in, but for now, the band is enjoying what's left of the ride.

#tokyo police club #graham wright

Comics and animation can both be grueling -- especially drawing a 400 page comic or animated a hand-drawn, feature length film. As such, one must be discriminating in choosing such projects.

For Dash Shaw, the choice comes down to two principles: 1. It has to seem like he's the only one who can create it and 2.

It needs to contain an element of "why would anyone do that."

Both can be seen in his most recent, deeply idiosyncratic works in comics ("Blurry") and film ("Cryptozoo").

#dash shaw

While their music owes debts to the towering giants of rock, soul and the Mexican and Brazilian music before them, no one sounds like Chicano Batman.

Formed in Los Angeles in 2008, the group released its self-titled debut two years later.

But it was 2020's Invisible People and its infectious lead track, "Color My Life" that cemented the group's place in the indie universe.

Released at the end of March, Notebook Fantasy sees the band continuing to grow, exploring new sounds while staying loyal to the elements that have helped the group stand out from the pack.

#chicano batman

In 2020, Joe Gatto struck out on his own. It was surprising turn, as the Impractical Joker left a beloved and lucrative TV series that found him performing alongside a trio of lifelong friends.

The move, Gatto says, was about prioritizing what matter -- namely, his wife and children.

Of course, a resume like his means starting over doesn't require a clean slate.

Gatto has since launched a successful standup career with multiple tours culminating in his first special, September's "Messing With People."

#impractical jokers #joe gatto

Jet lag is a drag, leaving Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak at a decided disadvantage during our conversation.

Mercury Rev just got back from Australia, but the veteran guitarist happily powers through.

It's just one of those annoying things that one grapples with, being one of two consistent members of a globe trotting band for the last 35 years.

Grasshopper's answers are thoughtful and engaged, as we wade through Mercury Rev's celebrated history.

#mercury rev

Her coauthor and husband, Scott Marvel Cassidy, is at the dentist for an emergency root canal, so Maria Bamford and I push ahead.

Decades after establishing herself as one of standup's sharpest -- and funniest minds -- she's trying her hand at yet another medium.

In June, Fantagraphics released Hogbook and Laser Eyes, a collaboration between Bamford and Marvel Cassidy that recounts their meeting, marriage and lives through the eyes of their beloved elderly rescue pugs.

#maria bamford #fantagraphics books

A-Side Graffiti includes, among other things, a surprisingly faithful cover of Dr. Frank N. Furter's "Sweet Transvestite."

The song finds Jack Grisham dueting with fellow So. Cal. punk legend, Keith Morris. TSOL's career has been surprising, above all.

Ever the consummate showman and raconteur, Grisham presided over the group's initial shift from hardcore to gothic rock, before exiting the band in 1983.

By the turn of the millennium, he had returned to the fold. Outside the band, Grisham has maintained several other fascinating careers, as a writer, filmmaker and 2003 California gubernatorial candidate.

#jack grisham #tsol

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Episode 668: Buddy Bradley Returns (with Peter Bagge)

[Apologies for poor audio quality on my end. Technical difficulties suck]

Hate returns. So, too, does Peter Bagge. The cartoonist has joined us several times over the years. This time he's back to talk Hate Revisited, a return to form that reunites him with Buddy Bradley, Lisa and the rest of the crew in the modern day -- save for Stinky, that is. Poor, poor Stinky.

#peter bagge #buddy bradley #fantagraphics books

A new album on a new label, The Well I Fell Into is a chance to consider and process the old and – hopefully – move on.

A breakup album of sorts, Why’s eighth finds frontman Yoni Wolf processing the end of a year’s long relationship.

As relationships go, however, Why has been remarkably long lived and fruitful.

After beginning life as a solo act in the mid-90s, Why became a full-fledged group in 2004, whose core remains 20 years later.

#yoni wolf #why

Magick Show bills itself as a “masterclass in modern occultism.” It’s hard to argue with the tagline.

Richard Metzger is in his element interviewing dozens of experts on different aspects of the occult, in a bid to contextualize the centuries-old phenomenon for the modern moment.

Metzger is the man for the job. At the turn of the century, he served as the host of UK interview show, Disinformation.

The series gave rise to his first book, Disinformation: The Interviews, followed soon after by The Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult.

For the past decade-and-a-half, Metzger has served as the cofounder and editor-in-chief of culture blog, Dangerous Minds.

#richard metzger #dangerous minds #magick show #disinformation

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