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Every performer who's ever been on the road has at least one bizarro story that could have been pulled straight from the iconic music mockumentary, This is Spinal Tap. Co-hosts Allen Keller...
The Lumineers are heading out on a world tour in January, 2026, so it feels right to encore our delightful conversation with the band's co-f...
Nancy Wilson's been in the news a lot this year -- jamming live with Chappell Roan on a badass cover of Heart's hit song "Barracuda"; having...
Lead singer Raine Maida gives us a “peace” of his mind with stories about the time Sammy Hagar tried to get Our Lady Peace kicked off the Va...
Gary Kemp, whose career highlights as a musician and actor include writing Spandau Ballet's seminal hit "True," tells us about about the tim...
Just in time for Spinal Tap 2: Ed Begley Jr. is our very first TMEP Show guest who actually appeared in "This Is Spinal Tap." In Ed's memora...
This week the feature film, Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues, premieres in theaters across the USA starting on Friday, September 12. To mark...
Enjoy an entire Quick Tap dedicated to the guy who wrote “Good Day Sunshine” because, well, it sounds like he spreads that wherever he goes...
Ben tells us about living the rock star life whilst traveling around Japan with Sean Lennon, Sophia Coppola, Spike Jones, and the Beastie Bo...
Multi-instrumentalist Grasshopper revs up some stories about working with The Band legendarians Garth Hudson and Levon Helm; how Mercury Rev...
Singer Nina Ljeti, from L.A.’s power quadrophonic band Kills Birds, tweets about the time a producer responded to his unrequited love for he...
Top Trump impersonator JL Cauvin spills the Goya beans on why the President is trodding on the Constitution like a Druid stomping on a tiny...
The Notorious C.H.O. tells us how ABC TV hired a consultant to teach her to be *more Asian* for her 1994 sitcom All-American Girl; about win...
We're excited, you're excited, everyone is excited about the long-awaited release of the Spinal Tap 2 feature film on September 12, 2025. So...
Late May and early June 1983 is when The Police's defining song "Every Breath You Take" was released and promptly steamrolled its way to #1...
The 49th anniversary of Jim Morrison and the Doors taking the stage for the first time as the house band at LA's legendary Whisky a Go Go is...
Peace and reconcilation are possible. Devo's Gerald "Jerry" Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh being together on the road for their "50 Years of D...
OK Go's new album, "And the Adjacent Possible," delivers a full-on OKGo-ian video for the song Love that rivals the legendary videos that pu...
Among auspicious April events in rock 'n' roll history, April 13, 1983, is the date that Violent Femmes released their beloved, eponymous fi...
People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith is taking over Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Luminaries including Bruce Sp...
With the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary still freshly in the rearview, we're revisiting our conversation with the OG Californian himse...
In recognition of Kurt Cobain's February birthday (he would have been 58 on 2/20/25), and 30 years since the release of Garbage's first albu...
Allen and his band, Happiless, put out a song — Hopscotch Town — way back in 2014 that sounds pretty prescient today. It's about a place whe...
Before January wraps, let's celebrate that 39 years ago this month on January 18, 1986, the Replacements got banned for life from SNL. In th...
The TMEP Showoffs are getting into show business, and especially the motion picture business, by finally posting VIDEOS featuring some of ou...
On the year-ending TMEP Show wrap up, Allen reveals the startling results of his 2024 Apple Music Replay and Alex reveals the show’s secret...
In this holiday episode, our friend Corin Tucker from Sleater-Kinney tells about the time she and bandmates Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weis...
If you know the movie “This Is Spinal Tap,” you will certainly recall the moment Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls describes himself as the ba...
As Tokyo Police Club winds up their illustrious recording and live-concert career, Graham reminisces about the cursed tour van they bought i...
Some auditions are really ODDitions in disguise. On this TMEP Show Quick Tap, Divine Sweater lead singer Meghan Kelleher reveals how a one-o...
One of our favorite guests, 311’s Nick Hexum, returns to talk turkey with your favorite host, Allen, about their favorite band, The Clash, a...
Eli tells us about the time his band Moon Kissed was on its way to a big gig at SXSW in Austin, Texas when the COVID shut down blew out the...
On today’s TMEP Show Quick Tap (short episodes with short stories for short attention spans) we hear stories from artists who just so happen...
On Election Day, we go two steps FORWARD by taking one small step back to our 2022 conversation with artist/activist Shepard Fairey who desi...
Our guests regale us with Spinal Tap Moments when they experienced the famous at their most shameless. Peter Jest, owner of the legendary Mi...
Vicki bangs out some manic Spinal Tap Moments like the time the Bangles had an uncomfortable listening party with Prince at two in the morni...
Nick tells us about getting head at CBGBs. Actually, he gets Talking Heads when David Byrne gives out what may have been his very first auto...
Glen croaks out some of the best Spinal Tap Moments we’ve heard including the day his band did an in-store promotion in a Footloose town whe...
Strange things happen when shows are a bit off. Like the time YouTube phenom Kyle Gordon played a gig and 1/3rd of the audience was unruly,...
This month, FX released the second season of its hit show, The Old Man, so we decided to replay this classic episode with one of the stars,...
On the week of the onstage fight between Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro, Ken Stringfellow tells us about the ti...
The Hooters’ Eric Bazilian tells us a bazillion stories including the time he had to skip a flight from L.A. because Ringo Starr wanted to w...
When you’re a struggling band on the road, you sometimes have to crash wherever you can like in the homes of potential serial killers who’ve...
Erik tell us about the time he angered drummer Rat Scabies from legendary British punk band, The Damned, and lived to tell about it. In fact...
Influential drummer (and epic storyteller) Todd Sucherman gets multiple rimshots telling us what it was like playing the late night TV circu...
You may be driven to tears during this episode as Lo Moon’s Matt Lowell recounts the time the guy driving their tour bus searched for their...
Comedic Renaissance man David Wain from sketch-comedy groups The State and Stella tells us about turning down the chance to see the Nirvana...
"Wild 'N Out" and "Whose Line Is It Anyway?” guest star Nyima Funk riffs on the time she played a Motor City gig with her Second City Detroi...
We’ve had more stories than we care to mention about musicians having to jump through poops, we mean HOOPS, to answer nature’s call on the r...
You may yawn during this episode — technicolor yawn, that is — when WeirDass’ Bob Dassie regurgitates a tale about the time he barfed on the...
Kevin bares all in this revealing chat about appearing on stage wearing nothing but a cummerbund; stripping off their identity and slipping...