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The Album Club

The Album Club

A funny and informative podcast which looks at some of the world's greatest albums

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Ep. 76 - L7 - Bricks Are Heavy (with Donita Sparks)

The pioneering Grunge/Punk/Metal band's breakthrough album, Bricks Are Heavy is our latest subject. And to help us get a better understandin...

02:28:29Apr 8, 2021

Ep. 75 - The Lemonheads - It's a shame about Ray (with Evan Dando)

Straight outta lockdown! We had the immense pleasure of chatting with 90’s alt-nation rock royalty - the kaleidoscopic, beautiful and gilded...

02:30:22Feb 26, 2021

Ep. 75 - The Raveonettes - Pretty in Black (with Sune Rose Wagner)

Our last lockdown episode finishes a shitty year with a bang. A real gem of the 2000s, Pretty in Black saw The Raveonettes enlist the help o...

103110:08Dec 22, 2020

Ep. 74 - Mark Lanegan - Interview

Mark Lanegan's 35 year music career has been prolific and diverse, after starting with the Screaming Trees, he has worked with/in Mad Season...

54:50Oct 22, 2020

Bonus Episode - The making of Helmet's Betty - the Page Hamilton interview

The man, the myth, the legend and super-cool guy Page Hamilton joins ask ostensibly to talk about making the Betty album but we also talk ab...

60:36Aug 25, 2020

Ep.72 - Helmet - Betty (featuring Page Hamilton)

We do 90's a lot. But we've been saving this absolute gem for a while. Helmet's '94 sledgehammer classic release, "Betty" refined the band's...

150:19Aug 16, 2020

Bonus Episode - The making of Daydream Nation - the Nick Sansano interview

Our interview in full with the talented Mr Nick Sansano who moved from hip hop engineering to producing a landmark album in alternative rock...

42:36Jun 30, 2020

Ep. 72 - Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (featuring Nick Sansano)

Spirit desire... Sonic Youth's 5th album was released on October 18th 1988 and changed the trajectory of rock. Blending the avant garde, dis...

159:56Jun 16, 2020

Ep. 71 - The Clash - London Calling (part two)

In the second part of our double episode on The Clash's masterpiece, we take you through the back half of the album where things get kinda w...

117:42May 5, 2020

Ep. 70 - The Clash - London Calling (Part One)

We finally cover our first double album and our most requested album meaning the favourite album of Album Club listeners. So we decided to g...

116:29Mar 29, 2020

Ep.69 - The Gun Club - Fire of Love (featuring Terry Graham)

They came from LA with a sound like no other, scraping up remnants of roots music, blues, country and mixing it up and thrashing it out with...

147:59Feb 20, 2020

Ep.68 - Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea

One of the most enduring, puzzling, mythical, personal and unique albums of recent times, In the Aeroplane over Sea continues to find new li...

144:19Jan 7, 2020

Ep. 67 - Ramones - Rocket to Russia

1234! This episode explores Forest Hills' finest punk underdogs' 3rd album and who, why and what TF were the Ramones. We examine how they st...

142:49Nov 4, 2019

Ep.66 - P.J. Harvey - Dry

The seering debut from the chanteuse of Dorset is the subject of today's dicussion. P.J. Harvey arrived fully formed with album, although sh...

127:13Oct 7, 2019

Ep.65 - Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

They came from L.A. with a message to the world and a huge sound that has never been replicated. Like its cover, Rage's first album was an e...

158:00Sep 16, 2019

Ep.64 - Alexander 'Skip' Spence - Oar

In 1968, Skip Spence tried to murder his Moby Grape bandmates with an axe under the influence of acid and black magic. He was put in an insa...

132:24Aug 18, 2019

Ep. 63 - Moby Grape - Moby Grape

Listen my friends! It's the story of Moby Grape, the band most likely to succeed, that failed, horrendously, though through no fault of thei...

120:36Jul 15, 2019

Ep. 62 - The Vines - Highly Evolved w. Patrick Matthews (Part 2)

In the second half of the 2 part special on The Vines' explosive debut album, original assist and co-founder of the band, Patrick Matthews t...

113:26May 18, 2019

Ep.61 - The Vines - Highly Evolved w. Patrick Matthews (part one)

We were lucky to have The Vines co-founder and former bassist Pat Matthews with us to talk about The Vines debut smash album Highly Evolved....

83:37May 5, 2019

Ep. 60 - The Libertines - The Libertines

An ending fitting for the start. In part 2 of our Libertines double header we find out what happened after the release of Up the Bracket and...

137:01Apr 22, 2019