Larkin Poe

Rebecca and Megan Lovell, the GRAMMY-winning sisters who compose Larkin Poe, are “serial idea keepers.” This means they don’t write every day. Instead, “we pull back on ideas until we are ready to write,” they say. This seasonal writing, as they and other songwriters like to call it, requires discipline: you have to resist the urge to write every day and only write during certain times. The advantage of this is that the words flow freely when it’s time to write.

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Hello Mary

Hello Mary on the pod today! Stella Wave, Helena Straight, and Mikaela Oppenheimer released their debut album in 2020, when Wave was 19 and Oppenheimer and Straight were 16. The band talks about their writing processes behind their new album Emita Ox.

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Jake Duzsik of HEALTH

Here's a sampling of the authors and artists that Jake Duzsik of HEALTH discussed in our conversation: Pascal, T.S. Eliot, William Blake, Vonnegut, Joan Didion, Truman Capote, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Pynchon, Camus, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cormac McCarthy.

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DIIV

All four members of DIIV (Zachary Cole Smith, Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield, Ben Newman) join me  to talk about their individual songwriting processes., which are often dissimilar. And that difference makes for harmonious synergy.

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