Isle of Wight emotional nerd posse Plastic Mermaids spray thoughts on TikTok, eating horse poo, directing their own music videos and a fail job interview at Halfords.Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line

If You Only Feel It Once, Bleach Lab's new EP is out this Friday. Here's Frank and Jenna on being a unit, being a shoegaze band, working in local government and syncing, movie soundtracks and being 'shoegaze'. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festiv

Gabrielle Aplin tells me about finding her home volunteering at a farm, making her own clothes and her new album Phosphorescent - out 13 January.Rival Schools are playing 2000 Trees Festival, headling the second stage. Get your early (cheaper) tickets a

Chardine, Estella and Steph of Big Joanie join me today, ahead of their second album Back Home - out 4 November. Talking Third Man Records, DIY Space For London, touring with Courtney Barnett and lots more. Photo: Ajamu X Rival Schools are playing 2000 Tr

Singer of LA rock'n'rollers Starcrawler, Arrow de Wilde tells me about her love for gardening and making her own home. Plus the adverts her songs have soundtracked.She Said is out now!Rival Schools are playing 2000 Trees Festival 2023. Get your early (c

Doug Martsch (!) joins us on today's episode, a few weeks since When The Wind Forgets Your Name has been out, to talk working at Kinko's, prioritising music but never imagining a full-time job of it, making funny music videos, and some more. Rival Schools

Robbie Furze tells me about dodging a bullet while managing a club in LA, East London in the early mid noughties, being big in Asia and how a tour with Wolf Alice reinvigorated The Big Pinks future.The Love Thats Ours is out this Friday: https://thebig

Garageband Superstar is Lauran Hibberd's debut album. Here she talks about not being concerned about what other bands are doing, career opportunities on the Isle of Wight, her first band playing Pixies, Weezer and Wheatus covers, accidentally writing Gara

This Friday! The Amazons' new album How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me? is out.Matt Thomson tells me about working at Oxfam Music in Reading, struggling while working at a s

Tony Molina's incredible new album In The Fade is out now. He talks about working at San Francisco's Vogue Cinema, growing up in a supportive punk/hardcore scene and why he prefers making records o