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Episode 592: Flying Nun Classic Bands – The Clean, the Chills, the Bats, the Verlaines
Patrick Foster and Nick Scalera focused on classic ’80s recordings from these artists last year in Flying Nun Week I, but their careers have continued in most cases. What The Clean, The Chills, The Bats and the Verlaines did after the early days.
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Episode 589: Flying Nun Records – Pin Group, Sneaky Feelings, The Stones and More
Jim is off this week, so Nick Scalera joins Patrick to discuss his favorite topic: Flying Nun Records. It’s become an annual tradition. (Listen to episodes 330-334 for the first installments.) Today, they examine some early bands, including The Pin Group, Sneaky Feelings, The Stones, The Great Unwashed, Bird Nest Roys, Children’s Hour, The Doublehappys and This Kind of Punishment.
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Episode 508: Greatest Hits – Flying Nun Records, Our Most Popular Episode
We conclude Greatest Hits Week with our most popular episode of 2018. You all really enjoyed hearing Nick Scalera talk about the current bands in the Flying Nun Records galaxy of stars. We get it – the Courtneys, Aldous Harding, Fazerdaze, Wax Chattels – they’re great bands.
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Episode 334: Flying Nun Today – Courtneys, Aldous Harding, Fazerdaze and More
We conclude Flying Nun Week with a look at the influential New Zealand label’s current roster, including the Courtneys, Aldous Harding, Fazerdaze, Grayson Gilmour and the Wax Chattels. (Nick Scalera fills in for Jim this week.)
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Episode 333: Flying Nun – Influence on America
Day 4 of Flying Nun Week. Nick Scalera and Patrick Foster talk about American bands influenced by New Zealand indie rock. Includes covers by Jeff Mangum, Stephen Malkmus and Superchunk.
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Episode 332: Flying Nun – The Bats, Straitjacket Fits, Jean Paul Sartre Experience, 3Ds
Flying Nun Week, Part 3. Nick Scalera (filling in for Jim) and Patrick go deep on more New Zealand bands: the Bats, Straightjacket Fits, Jean Paul Sartre Experience and 3Ds.
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Episode 331: Flying Nun – Tall Dwarfs, Verlaines, Look Blue Go Purple, Chills
Day 2 of Flying Nun Week. Today, Patrick Foster and Nick Scalera (filling in for Jim) talk about some of the great bands on that classic New Zealand label: Tall Dwarfs, the Verlaines, Look Blue Go Purple and the Chills.
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Episode 330: Flying Nun Records
Nick Scalera fills in for Jim this week, to talk with Patrick about the music of Flying Nun Records, that delightfully quirky New Zealand label.
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Episode 593: New Zealand Rocks! – Death and the Maiden, Aldous Harding, Tiny Ruins and More
Patrick Foster and Nick Scalera wrap up Flying Nun Week II by discussing new music from New Zealand (Flying Nun Records or other). The legacy of the Dunedin Sound lives on in acts like Death and the Maiden, Aldous Harding, Tiny Ruins, Pickle Darling and Salad Boys.
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Episode 594: April New Music – Fontaines D.C., Witchtrial, Starcrawler
What’s Patrick been digging lately? New music from Ireland’s Fontaines D.C. and Washington DC’s Witchtrial. Plus, we play a Ramones cover by Starcrawler.