Bruce Watson of Big Country looked back at the band’s most divisive album, Peace in Our Time.
He talked recording in LA, the label pushing a bigger 80s sound, Merry Clayton singing on “King of Emotion,” and the surreal experience of playing Russia during the Cold War.
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Lisa Loeb says her album A Simple Trick to Happiness is a personal “life examination.”
The record opens with the question: “Should I be happy?”
We also looked back at Tails, the album that followed the success of “Stay” and delivered another hit with “Do You Sleep?”
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Lily Rabedropped by to talk Shrinking Season 3 — including acting opposite Harrison Ford, Meg’s evolving relationship with Jason Segel’s character, and getting to embrace comedy after years of heavier roles.
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Tonight’s guests include Nick Hexum (311), Brandon Boyd (Incubus), and Este Haim (HAIM).
Plus new music, classics, news, and a few things best enjoyed with a slice.
6p ET on WFPK. Slice responsibly.
Edie Brickell says the songs on Heavy Makeup’s Here It Comes mostly come from pure improvisation.
“I try to make the lyrics sound like they’re expressing what the music wants to say.”
Some tracks — including “Let Them Lie” — are literally the first take.
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Danny Pudi says the Community movie is moving forward after years of the “six seasons and a movie” rally cry.
“The fans jumped onto it and really made it happen.”
We also talk Mythic Quest and Airbender.
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Tonight’s guests include The Edge (U2), Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam), and Graham Coxon (Blur).
Plus new music, classics, news, and a few other things.
6p ET on WFPK. Results may vary. Goat definitely will.
Juno Temple tells me about Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, reading the wild script during Venom 3 night shoots, collaborating with Sam Rockwell, and Gore Verbinski’s return to directing.
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ABC’s Martin Fry on 40 years of The Lexicon of Love:
“It’s a great honor to stand on stage and sing a song you wrote all those years ago and hear the audience singing it back at you. That’s a magical feeling.”
“You don’t have to follow any rules when you form a band.”
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Robin Trower says No More Worlds to Conquer doesn’t mean he’s done.
“I feel like I don’t have anything to prove… but in actual fact I still have some worlds to conquer.”
He also took aim at modern politics:
“I’m bemoaning the lack of quality in leadership today.”
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John Cale says the real magic of live music is losing control.
“There’s always going to be a fly in the ointment… something loose you can’t put back in the box. That’s the magic.”
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Maynard James Keenan says Puscifer’s new album Normal Isn’t is basically a status report on modern life — technology, politics, and the chaos of it all. But he’s clear about one thing:
“Fundamentalist extremists can go suck a bag of dicks.”
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Tonight’s guests include Micky Dolenz (The Monkees), Edie Brickell, and Lisa Loeb.
Plus new music, classics, infotainment, and whatever else.
6p ET on WFPK. One banana, three guests, four hours.
Shawn Mullins revisited Soul’s Core decades later and realized the songs mean something different now.
“The meaning of the songs have changed… it’s almost like they make sense now and they didn’t before.”
So he rerecorded the whole album as Soul’s Core Revival — jams, stories, and all.
Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath says What Now came out of the pressure of the sophomore album.
And the title: “You’re going to be asking yourself ‘what now?’ until you die.”
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Gary Numan said Intruder began with his daughter’s poem about the Earth.
“We are the intruder. We are the virus on the planet.”
He told me the album offers “no hope whatsoever,” but hopes it keeps the climate conversation alive.
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Micky Dolenz says the leap from Head (1968) to Instant Replay (1969) wasn’t a sudden shift—it was backlog.
“We were recording 24/7… sometimes two lead vocals a night.”
And there are still about 60 unreleased Monkees tracks in the vault.
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Michael Urie says Brian thought he had life completely figured out when Shrinking began. By Season 3? There’s a baby, some reality checks, and a Les Misérables sing-off with Jason Segel—while Harrison Ford silently steals the scene from the backseat.
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Ted McGinley started Shrinking as what he thought might be a small, “day player” role and ended up with one of the show’s most quietly beloved characters. “Derek is an iceberg,” he told me. “You’re seeing this, and underneath is so much more.”
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Jacob Bertrand says Cobra Kai’s finale felt like “the longest goodbye tour.”
“We started the high school graduation… but we still have senior Disney Day.”
He also admitted playing Hawk the villain was fun and talked directing a new alien-monster short film next.
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The Cornbread Mafia story has been mythologized for decades. Filmmaker Evan Mascagni and author Joe Keith Bickett are finally telling the real version, including 20-year prison sentences for something that’s legal today.
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Elbow’s 10th album nearly didn’t happen.
Guy Garvey said the band wondered if the pandemic record might’ve been their last.
Instead they went back to writing together in a room again.
“We said, ‘Should we make a really beaty album?’ And everyone just went, ‘Yeah.’”
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Jessica Williams on Shrinking Season 3: “Harrison Ford is a maniac… but he’s beyond locked in.”
She also admitted she got chills watching Ford and Michael J. Fox share scenes — and explained why the therapy office still doesn’t have a receptionist.
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Madison Beer said therapy and introspection shaped her album Silence Between Songs.
“I’ve spent the past couple of years doing a lot of work on myself internally.”
She also leaned into 60s pop influences like The Beatles and The Beach Boys while making the record.
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Amanda Shires nearly quit music before Take It Like a Man.
“I’d become disenchanted with music… I wasn’t really seeking to go back into the studio again.”
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Tonight’s guests include Martin Kove (Karate Kid), Jacob Bertrand (Cobra Kai), Matthew Vaughn (Kingsman), Louisville filmmaker Evan Mascagni, and Cornbread Mafia member Joe Keith Bickett.
Plus new music, classics, news, and notes you’ll want to copy before the bell rings.
6p ET on WFPK.
Christa Miller chased a Brandi Carlile song for Shrinking for two years before finally landing the perfect scene for it.
“It gives me goosebumps just talking about it.”
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The Cornbread Mafia story—outlaws, myths, and decades-long prison sentences—is heading to the screen.
Director Evan Mascagni and Joe Keith Bickett join the show to talk about the new documentary premiering at SXSW.
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American Football said LP3 was the first time they truly felt free to move forward.
“We cut songs that sounded too much like things we’d already done,” they told me.
Instead: new textures, guests like Hayley Williams & Rachel Goswell, and emo written from middle age.
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The Cranberries didn’t feel pressure making No Need to Argue.
“We were in our early 20s… everything was flowing,” Fergal Lawler told me.
Songs like “Zombie” were already being tested live — evolving night to night — before they ever recorded the album.
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