Episodes
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Episode 30: Cypress by Let’s Active
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Having made a name for himself as an engineer and producer during the burgeoning college rock scene of the early 80s, Mitch Easter would form the band Let’s Active with bassist Faye Hunter and drummer Sara Romweber as a vehicle for his own songwriting. In Episode 30, Easter tells the story of the band’s 1984 debut full length Cypress. Recounting the events surrounding the album’s creation, the native North Carolinian touches on the band's experience working in the studio he built inside his parents' garage and how a bandmate’s really great hair would lead to their signing with I.R.S Records.
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Episode 29: Ready, Steady, Go by Holiday
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
With their matching suits and unabashed love of the classic pop song, the band Holiday would become one of the country’s finest practitioners of indie pop during the alternative rock heyday of the 1990s. In Episode 29, Holiday’s Josh Gennet and Matt Snow tell the story of the band’s sophomore record Ready, Steady, Go. Detailing the events that led to the album’s creation, the two former bandmates discuss their beginnings in the hallowed halls of Yale University as well as their experience working in the studio with producer Dave Trumfio.
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Episode 28: Starlite Walker by Silver Jews
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
In the summer of 1994, David Berman along with bandmates Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, and Steve West entered Easley McCain Recording in Memphis, Tennessee. The end result would be Starlite Walker. In Episode 28, Silver Jews founding member Bob Nastanovich tells the story of the band’s debut full length recounting Berman’s excursion into the woods of Oxford, Mississippi to write the album's lyrics as well as the impetus for and the experience of working in a professional recording studio.
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Episode 27: Once We Were Trees by Beachwood Sparks
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
In the winter of 2001, the Los Angeles based psychedelic country band Beachwood Sparks traveled to a snowy New England to make a record at J Mascis’s house. In Episode 27, bassist Brent Rademaker tells the story of the band’s sophomore album Once We Were Trees. Recounting the events that led to the album’s creation, Rademaker touches on the influences that shaped the record’s lyrics and sounds as well as the band’s experience working with producer Thom Monahan.
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Episode 26: No Medium by Rosali
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
When her plans to tour in January of 2019 get delayed, Michigan born songwriter Rosali Middleman decides to travel to South Carolina to spend some time alone and focus on new material. In Episode 26, Middleman tells the story of how her 2021 record No Medium came to be. Recorded in a Nebraska basement with David Nance Group as her backing band, the sometimes Philadelphian touches on the events that inspired the album’s lyrics and her experience of releasing music during a pandemic.
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
Episode 25: Spotlight on Optiganally Yours by Optiganally Yours
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
After a chance encounter with a mysterious instrument called an optigan at a thrift store in Oakland, musician Pea Hicks brings it to his home in San Diego and quickly begins making music with his roommate Rob Crow (Pinback, Heavy Vegetable, Thingy). In Episode 25 of In Loving Recollection, the members of Optiganally Yours tell the story of their 1997 debut album Spotlight on Optiganally Yours touching on how the concept for the band was developed and the steps that were taken to avoid being viewed as a novelty act.
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Episode 24: Light Heat by Light Heat
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Following the release of his band’s 2005 record We’re Already There, Quentin Stoltzfus would lose the right to perform and record under the name Mazarin. Eight years later, he would finally release new music under the name Light Heat. In Episode 24, Stoltzfus tells the story of Light Heat’s long journey to completion, touching on the events that inspired the record's themes of loss and hope as well as the experience of bringing the songs to fruition with the help of his friends in The Walkmen.
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Episode 23: Bright Idea by Portastatic
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
In the early 2000s, indie rock stalwarts Superchunk had entered a period of reduced activity. With his long-standing project Portastatic becoming his main musical outlet, Superchunk frontman and Merge Records co-founder Mac McCaughan travels to San Francisco with his Superchunk bandmate Jim Wilbur and brother Matt McCaughan to make a record. In Episode 23, McCaughan delves into the making of 2005’s Bright Ideas touching on how fatherhood and the era’s political climate would inspire the album’s themes.
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Episode 22: Blood Rushing by Josephine Foster
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
In January of 2012, singer-songwriter Josephine Foster, who was living abroad at the time, returned to her home state of Colorado to make a record. In Episode 22 of In Loving Recollection, Foster tells the story of her 2012 album Blood Rushing discussing the origins behind the album’s song cycle as well as her experience creating the music with producer Andrija Tokic and a cast of sympathetic musicians.
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Episode 21: Great Lakes by Great Lakes
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Wednesday May 26, 2021
When childhood friends Ben Crum, Dan Donahue, and Jamey Huggins all eventually move to Athens, Georgia in the 1990s, they begin making music under the name Great Lakes. Episode 21 of In Loving Recollection explores the making of their 2000 self-titled debut. Self-recorded at home with the assistance and support of a strong musical community, the album’s core trio discusses the trial by error process of the record’s production as well as the inspirations behind its sights and sounds.