Original Air Date: March 3, 2021
This week, Aoife interviews zack.ry about “(don’t) stay null” from caught in the reverb. “it’s been sort of freeing to enter into this space where you have people you can bounce things off of and you can try things that you’re not used to,” says zack.ry, about their experiences playing with the garages. “I just wanna make music that is fun and pushes me and ultimately says something deeper about humans or about experiences from this community.”
Original Air Date: February 24, 2021
This week, Aoife interviews tegan eden about “into the shadows” from ENCORE. or, an incomplete and contradictory history of jaylen hotdogfingers, her trials and tribulations. “I feel that deeply, because we were puttin’ out like an album a week, for a hot minute there and I felt, like, so much pressure to be on every single one,” tegan says, explaining the emotional journey behind their song, “and when I finally let go of that, like… ‘They will forget about me if I’m not on this next one,’ I was so much happier making music.”
Original Air Date: February 17, 2021
This week, Aoife interviews zandterbird about “no gods, just blaseball” from the garages kill the gods. “I cheated a little bit on that song because like all my regular gear, like like my main guitar and my amp and like my pedalboard, everything is sort of locked away in a rehearsal room in another city. And that’s basically, thanks again to the pandemic going on,” zandterbird says, recounting the difficulty in recording his song, and the unique sound it led to. “So I just had like a backup guitar, like a very cheap but reliable backup guitar and I basically plugged it into my interface and I simulated the amp and, like, all the pedals which allowed me to sort of explore more different pedal settings, sort of really dial in exactly that tone that you mentioned, that sort of like that closeness.”
Original Air Date: February 10, 2021
This week, Aoife interviews bird about “godspeed” from DEICIDE. “This is, like, something that I care about,” bird explains, “and something that I think other people care about enough that if I make this song, it’s going to be, like, really, really fun and just a good experience.”
Original Air Date: January 27, 2021
This week, Aoife interviews Azure about “Ablaze” from ENCORE. or, an incomplete and contradictory history of jaylen hotdogfingers, her trials and tribulations. “It was like you were getting this sound out of a guitar, but you weren’t actually, like, playing it?” azure says, explaining the iconic soundscape of their song. “It’s kind of hellish in a way!”
Original Air Date: January 20, 2021
This week, Aoife interviews riley about “unfair deal” from DEICIDE. “Then, the bottom three strings all go down a semitone, which gives you this really weird chord that, honestly, I don’t even know how I’d begin to notate it,” riley says in regards to the spicy tonality of their DEICIDE hit. “It all seems to work despite the fact that it really shouldn’t… anyone who knows anything about music theory: please don’t come at me.”
Original Air Date: January 13, 2021
This week, Aoife interviews Mother Love Blone about “rejoice” from storm’s coming. “Like most garages’ projects, it started as a joke,” Blone says about her first lead song with the garages. “Wouldn’t it be really funny if a grunge band did a country album? … We started taking it super seriously after that.”
Original Air Date: January 6, 2021
Welcome to idol board, a Fourth Strike podcast where our host, Aoife (she/her), interviews members of the garages about their music, process, and inspirations. In this inaugural episode, yana (they/it) introduces the band. “You wanna make music? Here, come make music,” yana explains. “When it comes to the garages, … having such a collaborative mindset and such a constructive mindset has taught me so much about creating music.”
Original Air Date: January 2, 2021
Episodes will be out every Wednesday, starting January 6th, 2021.