See Jimmy Eat World & Manchester Orchestra live: https://JimmyEatWorld.lnk.to/Tour GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jimmy-eat-... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe Animations and Logo: Tonianne Tartaro @tonianaro and Emily Argiro @em_argiro Credit Sequence Music: “Flying On By” by Jackson, Finn and Jim Adkins. Published by Red Pods…

Jim talks with M. Rebillet about his one-man-wrecking-crew, take-no-prisoners, get-the-back-of-the-house-jumping stage show . Which, since the majority of his show is improv doubles as his writing sessions. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe More Jimmy Eat World: Website: https://www.ji…

Frank and Jim chat away through the English dusk about punk rock, imaginary listeners projecting their lives onto musicians and the universality of dressing rooms with no waste basket. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe More Jimmy Eat World: Website: https://www.jimmyeatworld.com/ Faceb…

Ken and Jim get nerd rapping about the DAW writing vs analog realm writing, the perils of instrument switching mid-song and lyric writing tips to keep you from getting psyched out. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe More Jimmy Eat World: Website: https://www.jimmyeatworld.com/ Facebook:…

Jim and Bob talk about art vs content, creative restrictions on purpose and having stage hands load in a bunch of tv’s as props for your dude-with-a-guitar set. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe More Jimmy Eat World: Website: https://www.jimmyeatworld.com/ Facebook: https://www.faceboo…

New friend Ryan and Jim talk about all the places one receives an education in music ... institutions and bus lounge interventions. Huh, Institutions and Interventions kind of sounds like a good name for an album. Dibs. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe More Jimmy Eat World: Website: h…

Jim and a recently Boisien Joey Burns talk about remote collaboration, racing train noise to get takes in and the choice to approach writing with ensemble feels in mind. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe More Jimmy Eat World: Website: https://www.jimmyeatworld.com/ Facebook: https://ww…

Bethany and Jim get deep on the psychology of control vs letting go, coming to acceptance with imaginary audience reactions and the real, real, real. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe More Jimmy Eat World: Website: https://www.jimmyeatworld.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jimmy…

Mike Kinsella (American Football, Owen, Joan Of Arc etc …) and Jim get into the weeds with vocal performance delivery choices, letting kids watch Reanimator and how your creative output is allowed go beyond the boundaries of your current self perception. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscri…

Gerard and Jim talk about making intentional choices to get around expectations psyching you out and how unlikely it may be that anyone reads the episode notes. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe More Jimmy Eat World: Website: https://www.jimmyeatworld.com/ Facebook: https://www.faceboo…

Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kids and more talks with Jim about the state of lockdown musician life, writing on commission and battling the negative inner voice. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe More Jimmy Eat World: Website: https://www.jimmyeatworld.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.c…

Jim and producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen try to break down why we like what we like to a simple place. And how, the core of creative puzzle-solving is basically the core of everything else. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe More Jimmy Eat World: https://www.jimmyeatworld.com https://www.…

Courtney and Jim rap about writing whilst abroad, launching an album during a pandemic and holding out for an inspired work. Grab Courtney's new record - https://cma.lnk.to/OldFlowersWE Enter to win a Fender JA-90: http://bit.ly/PassThroughFrequencies Q&A Details: Post a :15 video of yourself asking a question you’d like Jim to answer on a future p…

Jim and the Floss get to the root of why we choose to create art, challenging your self perceptions and breakdancing. Thank you: Fender Guitars, www.fender.com More Jimmy Eat World: Website: https://www.jimmyeatworld.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jimmyeatworld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimmyeatworld/ Twitter: https://twitter.co…

David and Jim talk about the places you go in your own head when performing, the hesitance to let things suck and letting the creative magnet draw in whatever might come. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe Thank you: Fender - https://www.fender.com More Jimmy Eat World: https://www.jimm…

Jim and Tegan chat about quarantine projects, reinventing your musical identity and defiantly flying into proverbial hurricane wall of the “rules”, without any. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe Thank you: Fender - https://www.fender.com More Jimmy Eat World: https://www.jimmyeatworld.…

Jim and Ben chat from the early days of COVID lockdown about letting go of the pressure to create, remote collab work and assembling a rock-voltron of people you have worked with to channel into an imaginary guide. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins/?id=3455 Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe Thank you: Fender - https://www…

Jim and Chris chop it up about studio environments, tweaking out on Axe-Fx and summoning the willingness to trash that one cool thing you absolutely think you need … that you really don’t. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins/?id=3455 Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe Thank you: Fender - https://www.fender.com Danny Ortega f…

Nate Ruess (Fun, The Format) raps out with Jim (Adkins) about the cringe factor in co-write sessions, writing to avoid writing and Static Prevails-times. Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins/?id=3455 Thank you: Fender - https://www.fender.com Danny Ortega More Jimmy Eat World: https://www.ji…

Jim and Steve talk about crawling out of the primordial punk rock ooze, playing (then later sleeping) in Steve’s kitchen and the differences between how EDM and rock world approach song structure. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins/?id=3455 Thank you: Fender Guitars, www.fender.com More Jimmy Eat World: Website: https://www.jimmyeat…

In the first episode of the series Jim and Mark chop it up about the early days of making albums, collaboration in “these times” and no matter how harsh your inner critic is there’s someone who has you beat on twitter. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins/?id=3455 Thank you: Fender Guitars, www.fender.com Danny Ortega More Jimmy Eat W…

This is an Interview-based podcast about songwriting with me (Jim Adkins from Jimmy Eat World) and other guests. In this series I chat with music people about their process, preparation and execution, as well as whatever may get thrown in on the side.Af Pass-Through Frequencies LLC

This podcast is about the weirdest genre we've heard of and we talk about it with our hosts: David Reynolds, Joshua Ramos, and Franky Sainz, we also have two special guests: Ava Bazan and Anthony Sanchez. We all talk about what the weirdest genre we've heard of is and we all ended up agreeing on Deathcore.…

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Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter There’s a wordless documentary film about august Dutch drummer and visual artist Han Bennink and one scene from it has stuck in my mind since I first saw it: we see a close-up of a needle dropped on a record, and as the well-worn grooves play Tommy Flanagan’s introduction to the Charlie Parker song …

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter Within his autobiography, called Take Me to the River, published in 2000, Al Green reminisced about one cold morning in a rural Michigan hotel room while on tour, approaching the window, which looked out “across the empty highway to the frozen fields on the other side”: “As I watched while the sun s…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter The first judge to be recalled and replaced in the state of Wisconsin was Archie Simonson of Dane County. It was 1977, but the circumstances surrounding his recall remain all too familiar today: faced with three teenaged boys who had pleaded no-contest to the gang rape of a girl in a high school sta…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter It was early spring of 2012 and two friends and I were winding through Williamsburg toward the East River, working our way toward the apartment of a stranger. The building was one of those swanky, newly constructed shiny high-rises that had been and continue to pop up and penetrate the Brooklyn skyl…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter By late September of this year, the number of homicides in the city of Chicago was already climbing beyond 500, which, as the New York Times reported, is “more than in Los Angeles and New York combined.” August alone saw the killing of 90 people there, making it the deadliest month the city has seen…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter There's a great video of Dolly Parton performing her song "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?" in 1977 on the West German television show Der Musikladen. Accompanying herself on guitar, she sings a cool and bouncy version, backed up in close harmony by the boys in her band. At the song’s conclusion, she adm…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter In December 1968, a children’s opera premiered in Hamburg, Germany called Help, Help, The Globolinks! In it, the composer and lyricist, Gian Carlo Menotti allegorizes his get-off-my-lawn-you-kids-with-your-rock-’n’-roll-and-hula-hoops anxieties about the shrouding of melodic, old-fashioned music by …

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter Years ago I saw an old episode of the 1983 BBC television series called Fun to Imagine in which theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, sitting in a wing chair in his California home, takes a crack at explaining how fire works to a lay audience. He describes, in his thick Queens, New York accent, how…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter “Have you ever been embarrassed / when you’re in a smart café / when they play that Latin tempo / is your dancing quite passé?” Sure, we’ve all been there. It’s the worst. Luckily, while Madam La Zonga’s Main Street dance studio has surely long since been converted into luxury apartments, we have th…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter James Blood Ulmer’s 2005 solo release, Birthright, is an album best listened to alone in the dark, preferably at night. It is an exploratory pawing about in the world of the blues, using, to loosen the stone, the harmolodic tools forged by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, with whom Ulmer spent the major…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter “I guess I was trying to figure out how a man could do something as crazy as that,” Willie Nelson said in a 1992 interview. The “that” Nelson is referring to is the killing of a woman for reaching out to touch—supposedly with the intention to steal—a man’s horse. The song in which these events are r…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter By the time we reach the end of the first track of Jacob Collier’s debut solo record, In My Room, we’re left a bit dizzied. In the four and a half minute track, called “Woke Up Today,” we hear playfully punchy and tight synth hits—shades of bands like KNOWER and Dirty Loops abound—singable melodies …

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter Abbey Road Studios—the summer of 1967. The Beatles had, just about a month earlier, wrapped up their ground-breaking sessions that would become their eight studio album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. In walk another set of loveable English lads—The Zombies—well-dressed, well-rehearsed and r…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter It was June 2015, and Frank Fairfield was calling it quits. At long last, the anachronistic singer, guitarist, banjoist, and fiddler was officially done with the music racket. “I don’t feel I have a thing to offer,” he wrote in a Facebook post, of all places. “There are a few scattered dates already…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter In a 2013 lecture–interview for Red Bull Music Academy, Roots drummer and Tonight Show bandleader, Questlove, reminisced about his mid-'90s conscious unraveling of the metronomic precision he’d long strove for, sparked by producer Jay Dee’s work on The Pharcyde’s second record, Labcabincalifornia. T…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter In the 2013 documentary Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker—a film that only very recently was made available on streaming services—there is a full minute of footage containing people who knew pianist and singer James Booker telling the multifarious stories they had heard about how Bo…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter After a brief and goofy introductory nose-trumpet fanfare, DADO v. The Universe begins. The album’s seemingly lofty title—a title which alludes to the many personal and practical hurdles that Raphael Peterson, a.k.a. SHAPE KING, faced in bringing this project into existence—is immediately and hilari…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter Taste and judgement: the two needn’t align. In fact, as W. H. Auden once wrote, “As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don't like.” He …

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter Bill Graham barrels through his intro. In one long breath save the final word, Graham says, “For all of us here at Fillmore West this is a long-awaited privilege and a great pleasure to bring on the number-one lady, Ms Aretha… Franklin.” Pulling no punches from the start, the band, led by King Curti…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter In the 1995 book Plunderphonics, ‘Pataphysics & Pop Mechanics, guitarist Eric Rosensveig of the improvising trio called Fat, compares one of their projects to Kip Hanrahan’s projects, saying, “Players from a lot of different styles or schools, trying to create a music that doesn’t exist but nonethel…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter "He's good; you gotta give him that… He was good, but let it go… I love Bach, but come on you guys." So says Dan Reeder, the Nuremberg-based, Louisiana-born and Southern California-bred painter, instrument builder, and musician, explaining the source frustration of his gently reactionary song, “Bach…

Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter The trees are coming into leaf / Like something almost being said / The recent buds relax and spread / Their greenness is a kind of grief So begins Philip Larkin’s 1967 poem “The Trees,” which digs deep into the nature of cycles. Following four years on the heels of their first release, entitled Boy…