We have a heart-to-heart with this Rock & Roll Hall-of-Famer about the time their record label tried to release the band’s second album BEFORE IT WAS DONE; why their hit song “Barracuda” was inspired by a “slime ball”; and how the music of the 1980’s was ruined by overthinking and cocaine. Nancy’s website: https://nancywilsonofheart.com On…

Need a Quick Infusion of Spinal Tap Moments? Try Quick Taps – short episodes with short stories for short attention spans. In this edition, we go deep…very deep. Hear about the time singer Madisenxoxo got overexposed during a photo shoot; pro diver Tom Haig discovered the desert might not be the best place for aquatic…

Grammy-winning rocker Dave Pirner bares his soul with stories about the time he deftly avoided a dispute between three of his bandmates’ girlfriends; how his first taste of the big time was on a couch-surfing tour with Hüsker Dü; and when he knew it was time to leave the hotel room of Rolling Stone Keith…

Need a Quick Infusion of Spinal Tap Moments? Try Quick Taps – short episodes with short stories for short attention spans. On this edition, you’ll hear about the time The New Pornographers were haunted by the late Levon Helm during a recording session; when a writer novelizing Steven Spielberg’s Poltergeist caused an electrical storm with…

Need a Quick Infusion of Spinal Tap Moments? Try Quick Taps – short episodes with short stories for short attention spans. On this 11th edition of our QTs (11? Sound familiar?), hear some horror stories of “Hell Holes” on the road like the time Swamp Thing crashed at a summer camp filled with mystery meat;…

In this TMEP classic, Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley from Drive-By Truckers tell us about the time then-DBT’er Jason Isbell was approached by a chatty fan while taking “a monument”; why “Horse Pussy” was once under consideration as their band name; and the crazy moment the Commodores serenaded Alabama’s segregationist Governor George Wallace. DBT IG,…

Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan jams with us about the time his group headlined for a seafood buffet; why a misspelling in the Chapel Hill phonebook was the inspiration for their band name; and how a chance meeting at the merch table led to Merge Records signing Arcade Fire. On the Interwebs: https://mergerecords.com Socials: @mergerecords ————————————————–…

Need a Quick Infusion of Spinal Tap Moments? Try Quick Taps – short episodes with short stories for short attention spans. Hear about the time Nick Lowe dropped in on an obscure Milwaukee band and became an instant fan; Wayne Newton kindly chauffeured some out-of-town Vegas guests in the middle of the night; and an…

In this TMEP classic, Jon Langford taps the deep, dark bowels of punk rock to share his 1979 prediction that U2’s career was “going nowhere”; how Lester Bangs declared the Mekons to be better than REO Speedwagon and Budgie…combined; and about being dissed at the A&M Records Christmas party. This Spinal Tap Moment swap meet…

In another one of our faves from the TMEP vault, we revisit our lively chat with Modern Family’s two-time Emmy Award-winning actress — the hilariously funny Julie “Claire Dunphy” Bowen who spills the beans about the time she was supposed to film a sex scene on Jim Morrison’s grave; her Mrs. Robinson thang for Harry…