Send us a Text Message.In Mark Oliver Everett’s autobiography “Things The Grandchildren Should Know”, the author, otherwise known as E,... more

Send us a Text Message.Marika Hackman's Big Sigh is everything a 4th album should be. Really good songs, good scheduling,... more

Send us a Text Message.Fran Healy and his band Travis have this longevity thing down. Firstly, you must have a... more

Send us a Text Message.After 25 years in the music business, both as a major label priority artist and as... more

Send us a Text Message.Try playing a Crowded House record (any of them) then let Spotify play on…you will get... more

Send us a Text Message.When Real Estate's fifth album The Main Thing was released to fairly mixed results, was it... more

Send us a Text Message.Like many women creators in the (still) white, male dominated music industry, the Staveley-Taylor sisters aka... more

Send us a Text Message.After the fiasco of having to cancel Beirut’s 2019 tour, Zach Condon knew he needed to... more

Send us a Text Message.Metric has become one of those bands that have paved the way for independence, along with... more

Send us a Text Message.I had invited Half Moon Run onto the podcast after first hearing Salt - imploring their... more

Send us a Text Message.In the 70s, the teenage years of Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys, one would have heard... more

Send us a Text Message.So many bands have a complex relationship with their biggest songs (probably because they essentially set... more

Send us a Text Message.What better guest for this 50th episode of The Art of Longevity than metal’s renaissance man... more

Send us a Text Message.Following the highly accomplished 2012 album Heaven, cult American indie band The Walkmen went on hiatus.... more

Send us a Text Message.After he “couldn’t get arrested” in the 80s, post-grunge opened a window through which a then... more

Send us a Text Message.For Ben Folds, coming back on the scene with a new studio album feels like a... more

Send us a Text Message.Asking John Grant to describe the essence of the record he is working on now, elicits... more

Send us a Text Message.What’s more important in securing a band’s longevity - hit songs or a classic album? I... more

Send us a Text Message.In this episode of the Art of Longevity, we have the pleasure of chatting with Stuart... more

Send us a Text Message.Being a longevous, ‘real deal’ music artist requires many things, but being pure in heart is... more

Send us a Text Message.It has taken Dave Rowntree ages to make his first non-soundtrack body of work outside of... more

Send us a Text Message.Gavin Rossdale doesn’t think that Bush's longevity story in the music business as high drama -... more

Send us a Text Message.The egoless band can go a lot further than most bands. A strong element of that... more

Send us a Text Message.Let’s face it, there is a patchy record for solo artists that began in popular 90s... more

Send us a Text Message.Rumer’s arrival struck a similar chord to that of Norah Jones some six years earlier i.e.... more

Send us a Text Message.The Delines’ world is a sprawling, blue collar soap opera. Flawed characters, aimless drifters, chancers and... more

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, Fenner Pearson chats to Neil Arthur about his writing process and how he... more

Send us a Text Message.After fading from view in the UK after "Strange And Beautiful" (a top 10 hit in... more

Send us a Text Message.Suede (or, The London Suede for our friends in the USA) has reached 30 years in... more

Send us a Text Message.How to characterise an American indie band over almost three decades and 10 albums, each with... more

Send us a Text Message.Before I spoke with Danny McNamara, he’d emailed me to say how much he loved Brett... more

Send us a Text Message.Having helped pave the way, Alela remains at the heart of a very strong current movement... more

Send us a Text Message.Interpol have honed their craft over 20 years since they ‘blasted’ onto the scene in 2002... more

Send us a Text Message.“I’ve recognised that music is sort of like an inner voice that is telling me what... more

Send us a Text Message.The music journalist Paul Lester described Everything Everything as “a riot in a melody factory”, a... more

Send us a Text Message.After her second album Fires (2005) Nerina Pallot was hot property. She kissed the frog that... more

Send us a Text Message.Inspired by recent collaborations with some of America's coolest indie A-listers (Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, Danielle... more

Send us a Text Message.We spoke to Joey Burns on the eve of Calexico's recent European shows in Brussels and... more

Send us a Text Message.When your host purchased The Divine Comedy's Fin De Siècle in 1998, I couldn’t quite penetrate... more

Send us a Text Message.After her fourth album The Fall in 2009 proved to be a departure from the well... more

Send us a Text Message.If all music artists of longevity have a good book in them, then Belle and Sebastian... more

Send us a Text Message.When Teenage Fanclub formed in 1989, times were unusual in music, and not in a good... more

Send us a Text Message.Steve Mason first made his name as one quarter (and the frontman of) the Beta Band,... more

Send us a Text Message.The Wombats have defied all UK press scepticism (and cynicism) to become one of the country’s... more

Send us a Text Message.In a warm and whimsical conversation with Yan (Scott Wilkinson) of Sea Power, I learned to... more

Send us a Text Message.From the earliest beginnings of 1983’s The Hurting to the band’s huge 1985 LP Songs From... more

Send us a Text Message.After the release of a ‘best of’ collection Everything Hits at Once in 2019, Spoon are... more

Send us a Text Message.When it comes to longevity, Feeder keeps coming back around, and the guitar-rock scene is all... more

Send us a Text Message.When Suzanne Vega played a short residency at New York’s exclusive, super high-end Cafe Carlisle in... more

Send us a Text Message.Discovering a band all to yourself is the best type of music discovery there is. One... more