A band based on community, Maruja walk us through playing to zero people and band practices just working out the business schtick, to creating a powerful community of grace, empathy and release. Their new track Break The Tension is streaming now. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imogen and the Knife holds a deep, rare beauty. Imogen tells us of growing up around Newcastle at the same time as Sam Fender, late night bar shifts in London and putting the effort in to learn how the business works. Photo: Shaye Tek Get yourself some Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Murph of legendary indie night reliables The Wombats joins today, on living in LA, nearly joining a wedding band and getting fired from a diner, and how Christmas can be a heavy time for everyone. The Wombat's new album Oh! The Ocean is out in February. Photo: Julia Friedland-Godfrey Get yourself some Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Celebrating the launch of West Yorkshire Music Network, we heard from four Leeds homebodies - Simon Rix of Kaiser Chiefs, BBC 6 Music's Emily Pilbeam, GK of Venus Grrrls and Hang Lington on a life of music full-send. Subscribe to West Yorkshire Music Network Get yourself some Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of this year's most comforting records is Paradise Pop. 10. Its author joins us on running, writing with Phoebe Bridgers, and the omnipresent expectation of the work gaffe. Photo: Michael Delaney Get yourself some Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emma Richardson's the new(ish) bassist in Pixies, but she's lived two lifetimes - first in Band of Skulls and then as an artist. Pixies' new album The Night the Zombies Came, and you can catch them on tour soon. Get yourself some Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Set building for Ralph Lauren, parenting multiple kids and living a lazy susan of musical projects, does Clam Baker Jr have the same 24 hours as the rest of us? Warmduscher's fifth album Too Cold To Hold is out this Friday. Get yourself some Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 GRAMMYs and Tiny Desk Winner are footnotes in Fantastic Negrito's story. From hosting warehouse parties frequented by will.i.am and Thundercat, to weed farming and touring with Chris Cornell, we rattle through the years. Son Of A Broken Man is out now. Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before they opened for The Libertines and the Roundhouse, HotWax joined us at the Hawley Arms to chat growing up Hastings, independent venues and bar etiquette. Their debut album Hot Shock is out next March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From an early Sears Christmas advert, comedian, songwriter, actor Cat Cohen set off on a path of all the jobs. She talks how her music taste is The OC Soundtrack, self delusion and we find out here mum is old college friends with MJ Lenderman's mum. Her new special Come For Me is streaming on Veeps, and her debut album Overdressed is out 15 November. Photo: Devin Bowman Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new parent with a firefighter dad, vetenarian wife and thousands of hours on the road with Boston Manor, Henry Cox has led an interesting life. Boston Manor's excellent new album Sundiver is out now, and they're about to be on tour in Europe. Photo: Megan Doherty Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the most inventive, funniest bands you'll hear today are Getdown Services. Duo Ben and Josh join me on selling ice cream together, being The First Wedding Band and taking aim at themselves. Their new EP 'Your Medal's In The Post' is out 14 November. Photo: Sion Waters Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Iceage frontman's debut solo album is out tomorrow, and it's an aching listen. Elias talks about supermarket and bar work, but following the feeling that music is all there is. Heavy Glory is out tomorrow. Photo: Ilaria Ieie Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From his living sofa ahead of his Royal Albert Hall show on 28 October (which also features Jarvis Cocker), Chilly puts the misconceptions about his music - and lyrical mask - straight. His latest album Gonzo is out now. Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bringing together jazz, funk, dub, reggae and club culture, Galliano have put out their first album in 27 years. Rob tells us about the affliction of 'career vs. music', shapeshifting London and their upcoming shows in Manchester, Bristol and London's Shepherds Bush Empire. Halfway, Somewhere is out now on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings. Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

King Crimson's latter day singer and guitarist, plus mixer, actor and writer Jakko Jakszyk on early years in Watford, saying yes to every opportunity that came his way and digging into the stories from his memoir Who's The Boy With The Lovely Hair - out on Thursday. Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For episode 400, here's songwriter, comedian and actor Tim Heidecker on where the music part comes from, the second verse, never knowing what's the going to resonate with the general public and not having any expectations. His new solo album Slipping Away is out next Friday, 18 October. Photo: Chantal Anderson Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dexter Holland from The Offspring on his 101 part time jobs. From being a professor in molecular biology, blasting through in a stadium rock band that's been running since the 90s, building a hot sauce brand and keeping it all together. The Offspring's new album SUPERCHARGED is out this Friday. Photo: Daveed Benito DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Balance and Composure tomorrow release their first album in eight years. Jon remembers first tours, working at the call centre with his mum and playing hacky sack at the horseradish factory. DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An immediately recognisable voice in punk and hardcore, singer and grapic novelist Patrick Kindlon joins on truck driving, becoming a step dad and building a life around music. Photo: Manuel Barajas DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Hard Quartet is the new band from Matt Sweeney, Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly and Jim White and it's great rock n roll. Matt remembers playing in Johnny Cash's band with Tom Petty's members, Guitar Moves and winging it. Photo: Malcolm Donaldson DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alastair Shuttleworth of LICE on the Bristol pub where they made a home, freelance journalism and radio, staying late at work to write lyrics and how they built their own Intonarumori. Third Time At The Beach is out now on AD 93. DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sitting in the corner of their namesake pub in Stockport, Blossoms' Tom Ogden and Joe Donovan tell us the story of the band, from working at a local hotel and tailors to receiving the news of their first record deal, up to headlining the 30,000 capacity Wythenshawe Park. Their fifth album Gary is out now! DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ahead of her new album Someday, Now out this Friday, Katy talks about how she's stopped writing about herself negatively, being connected by music and working at a cafe in Bristol. DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rosie Lowe's new album Lover, Other is an excellent sonic exploration, and the journey up to her fourth album is just as searching. We got 9am coffee before sitting in her living room and band's rehearsal space, looking towards their performance at London's ICA later this month. Photo: Gabby Laurent DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get floored by Hannah McKittrick's new single 'Utensil', and hear her story of growing up writing solitarily in surburban Australia, pottering around Scotland and how she's been writing in a diffused way. Photo: Ollie Cox Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joey Valence and Brae talk writing songs rapidly, filming on bad cameras, fashion and the deluxe edition of No Hands - out this Friday. Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the wonderful End of the Road festival in Dorset, we hear from harpist Mary Lattimore and nature rockers Gently Tender. Films reference by Mary include Good One, Janet Planet and Unarius. Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A sardonic blast of breezy indie rock, MJ Lenderman is about release his fourth studio album Manning Fireworks. Also playing in Wednesday and performing with Waxahatchee, he's an enigmatic source of belters to ride bikes to. He tells us about growing up in North Carolina, growing up quickly as a result of touring, and the changes he's currently going through. Photo: Charlie Boss Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joanna Sternberg is a New Yorker who writes as a way to communicate. Their style makes you feel completely at home; like it's midweek lunchtime and you're sat on the sofa eating a biscuit watching TV. Their new track A Country Dance closes Between the Temples (Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane), and I really enjoyed this chat chronologising Joanna's life in songwriting. Photo: Julie Orlick Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before releasing their mind-bending, James Ford-produced debut album WOOF. this Friday, Fat Dog's Joe Love and Chris Hughes spoke with me about dressing up, Catan, the highs of their live shows, picking up shifts at the Brixton Windmill and cheese maturing. With thanks to Aoife Kitt and Domino Record Co. Photo: Pooney Ghana Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two torchbearers of punk rock and hardcore adjacent music today, the two singers of Militarie Gun (Ian Shelton) and Spiritual Cramp (Michael Bingham) join today on work follies and family business. Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Under blue sky at Reading 2024, we spoke with Australia's G Flip, following their Drumless EP and before a UK tour next week, and the lightning fast Bad Nerves, whose album Still Nervous is a ripper (also touring extensively in US, Europe and UK this year). Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More Reading 2024 highlights join on today's episode - three bands carving out their own lanes and energies talk being independent artists in 2024. Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At Reading Festival we caught up with two of the weekend's highlights. KNEECAP in the glow of their debut album and film, and Denzel Curry - whose new album King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 is out now. Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Artist, filmmaker and storyteller Cameron Lew tells us about the origins of Ginger Root, funding his way through college, his creative partner David Gutel and having fun being the main rule. Ginger Root's new album SHINBANGUMI is out 13 September. Photo: David Gutel Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a powerful blend of cooling indie-rock with Illuminati Hotties, Sarah Tudzin is a producer with a laundry list of excellent credits. Winning a GRAMMY with her production work on Boygenius' The Record, and working with Weyes Blood and Cloud Nothings over the years, Sarah worked on borrowed studio time and bedroom setups for years. Illuminati Hotties' new album POWER is out this Friday on Hopeless. Photo: Shervin Lainez Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GK and Eliza from VENUS GRRRLS join on today's episode, with their new single 'Darla' out now and their UK headline tour creeping up next month. We talk about GK's leukemia and chemotherapy, what it was like putting the band on hold while she was in hospital, and Eliza's youth spent in Scotland learning to shred. Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Opening up publicly for the first time on an experience of being spiked at a music industry event, Josephine Vander West of That Woman shares her years of resilience as a musician.That Woman's excellent debut album Find Joy is out now. Photo: Josh Shinner Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inspired songwriter Bill Callahan joins us today, on how Kim Gordon gave him early support, his first royalty check from Drag City, writing letters, the pathology of songwriting, funding early albums by working at KFC and responsibilities. His latest album Resuscitate! is out now on Drag City and he's playing in Paris, Brussels, Dublin, Manchester and London next month. All info at dragcity.com. Photo: Hanly Banks Callahan Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The legendary Belfast intrumental group are releasing their new album Megafauna this Friday, and it sounds wonderful. Rory Friers tells us about their beginnings as teenage skater kids wanting to create something, becoming self-sufficient and the lessons learned in that, and how they feel like protectors of a unique community. Photo: Tom McGeehan Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taking off on his solo career, The Vamps' Bradley Simpson is channeling his love for heavier and groovier rock. In this chat we hear about his love for mid-2000s indie, vintage guitars, and his time working as a golf caddy for his dad. His newest single Daisies is out there to stream. Join SON Estrella Galicia on 12 September at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, witth Coach Party and The New Eves playing - plus a clothing repair workshop, Soundcrafters interactive workshop and beer pouring. Tix available now on DICE 👌 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After daytimes running a tattoo studio and booking bands, James and Sam are in it for the weekend experiences of visiting new places and playing wild shows. Today they've shared the numbingly good 'Vision Of Me', from their third album Reason Enough out 27 September. Photo: Sandra Ebert. Assistant edited by Luke Howard Mayes DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

About to release the excellent new album Disaster Tricks, Dimitri of Horse Jumper Of Love talks drinking, Jackass, his pizza shop-running dad and keeping their nose to the grindstone. Disaster Tricks is out 16 August and you can catch HJOL on tour this year. Photo: POND Creative DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Problem Patterns join us from 2000 Trees on flooded cafes, doing a Masters in worms and the importance of passing down knowledge. Photo: Sophie Porter DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meryl Streek joins Giles at 2000 Trees on Dublin, applying for a job under Meryl Streek and their new album Songs For The Deceased - out 25 October. Catch Meryl Streek on tour in the UK this November. Photo: Laurent Barnard DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Motor neurone disease sufferer Jake Popyura leads Supermilk, about to put out their new record High Precision Ghosts on 9 August. Jake talks about his journey so far of being diagnosed, how he's made stage-friendly props to help playing live, and spreading the message of MND experiences. Pre-order High Precision Ghosts at https://supermilk4u.bandcamp.com/album/high-precision-ghosts DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leader of inclusive rockers Los Campesinos!, Gareth David shares his approach to being a musician, the social responsibility that it brings, pressing the emergency button at Safeways, and LC!'s new album All Hell - out this Friday. Photo: Martyna Bannister DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ahead of their UK dates supporting Ocean Alley, Hockey Dad talk early years of touring, lifeguarding and their new album Rebuild Repeat. Photo: Chris Frape DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Get £50 off your weekend ticket to 2000 Trees festival: where The Gaslight Anthem, The Chats, Hot Mulligan and TONS of excellent bands are playing. Use 101POD at checkout: 2000trees.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices