Journalist, Bandsplain host and alternative 90s know-it-all Yasi Salek on vocal fry, wearing MF Doom's mask and not judging the lyrics of eighteen-year-olds. She reveals the future of music journalism, remembers her pyjama party with Courtney Love, an early meeting with Charli xcx and how a book on Nirvana changed her life. Produced by Joe Little. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I Love People is Cory Hanson's latest soundtrack to elastic afternoons. Born from years in punk houses and assistant work in LA, and the disappointment of making something that doesn't sound like he thought it would. AI, The Velvet Sundown, Nick Cave and teaching ballet also make appearances. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For Those I Love (aka David Balfe) is about to release his excellent new album Carving The Stone. He sits on how his uncle's DVD collection gave him his hard edges, the way The Streets' Original Pirate Material changed his life, Dublin's inaffordability, making his own videos and all the different jobs he's done to keep making music. Photo: Hugh Quberzky Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're not sure what to make of gothic Midsommar clad The New Eves, keep listening. There's the poetic thud of The Velvet Underground and autodidactic brilliance of The Slights, but it's the wide-eyed willingness that makes their first release and debut album The New Eves is rising that makes this Brighton band something very very special. Sat on the seafront, we heard about how imaginative living situations and a myriad of side hustles is key to their existence, and how they might well be haunted by a scarab beetle emerged from Tutankhamun's tomb. Photo: Katie Silvester Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Swerving a teenage job at his uncle's timber yard, Laurie Vincent only ever wanted to be in a band. Soft Play shouldn't work on paper (guitar, stand-up drums, Adidas tracksuits), but it definitely does work blasted loud in massive venues. Laurie has loved, lost and reconnected as he's grown up in public. Heavy Jelly is Soft Play's return to enjoyable disruption and destruction. Now with bumper edition Heavier Jelly - ft. Kate Nash. Recorded with an audience at Tate Modern, July 2025. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices