Original Air Date: September 1, 2021
This week, BONES interviews Shmucku about “SCA_TER_D” from CONSUMED. “I love music that’s oversaturated with cool sound design, it’s just gotta have tons of bits and bobs of weird sounds to listen to. Every time you go back and listen to the track you can find something new... I'm really all about that.”
Original Air Date: August 3, 2021
This week, BONES interviews apha about “hey goodwin” from ROSTER. “I think hearing all of these voices in stereo imaging all around your head, saying they believe in you… I think that’s a great feeling.”
Original Air Date: July 21, 2021
CW Discussions of ableism, death and COVID-19 from 19:47-26:15
This week, BONES interviews jennifer cat about “solar eclipse” from #14. “I love harmonies. Like I’m an absolute sucker for a good close harmony. It just, y’know, speaks to my soul in some way.”
Original Air Date: July 7, 2021
Our last episode with Aoife as host! This week, Aoife interviews Mitchell Keys about “blood, sweat, tears, and blood” from ROSTER. “...It’s someone who looks around and sees that everyone is not like him, but he can’t quite place a finger on why.”
Original Air Date: April 28, 2021
With some changes happening this week, we’ve once again dug into our idol/board archives! This week, Not Aoife interviews BONES about editing the plodcast idol board, from Fourth Strike. “I find it to be relaxing, for one thing. Editing, like I said, gets me in the zone in a way that I can just focus on it and like, you know, just crank some stuff out,” BONES says, explaining what makes editing idol board so interesting. “But it’s also really fascinating and interesting to hear the ways that so many incredible artists make the music that they do.”
Original Air Date: April 7, 2021
This week, Aoife interviews Ethan Geller about “arturo huerta and henry marshmallow” from REDEMPTION ARC. “I kind of like that experience of being surprised by something and then wanting to listen to something by somebody because you don’t know, how many different pieces of music are going to be in that track,” Ethan explains his interest in multi-part songs. “It adds kind of like this weird, twisty form to everything that I’m into.”
Original Air Date: April 7, 2021
This week, Not Aoife interviews Aoife about the plodcast idol board, from Fourth Strike. “There are so many songs that I feel, like, kind of get missed. So, like, one thing is I want to show how literally there is not a single bad song and how amazing some of the stuff is,” Aoife says, explaining why she makes idol board, “and along the way learn some stuff about music theory and music creation that I can use myself.”
Original Air Date: April 7, 2021
This week, Aoife interviews em grace about “Steal Home” from Storm’s Coming. em grace explains the garages’ connection with labor: “Classic country western is very much a song of the working people, and even on the very first garages album you’ve got june september like, uh, doing union anthems.”
Original Air Date: March 17, 2021
This week, Aoife interviews autumn about “the twelfth trip around the sun” from we are the garages (vol 2). ” I guess I’m also just excited about the great unknown. So much is possible, and we have no idea,” autumn said, looking forward to season 12 of blaseball. “That’s kind of why I wrote the song because I was looking forward to that unknown, and it’s been a while since I’ve had it.”
Original Air Date: March 10, 2021
This week, Aoife interviews VigilantBaker about “curse of crows” from DEICIDE. “Still, the whole stance of violence and sort of lack of forgiveness- they’re not really something I personally feel very much. For better or worse, we tend to forgive people,” VigilantBaker says, getting philosophical, “whereas, on the other hand, these crows, these forces of nature, they don’t really have these complex emotions; they don’t have these conflicts we might have within ourselves.”