Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo on the Fake Punks Who Scared Everyone
The Sonic Youth guitarist tells Broken Record’s Justin Richmond why the band’s offstage life was boring on purpose, and how a dying friend’s bass line saved Firehose Sonic Youth spent…
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Dave Grohl Opens Up About Making the Foo Fighters‘ New Album in Seven Days, His Life After Nirvana, and Why Rock Isn‘t Dead
The rock icon sits down with the Broken Record podcast for one of his most candid conversations in years Dave Grohl has never been short on stories. Sitting down with…
Solitude Isn‘t the Opposite of Connection—The Data Proves It
A historian, a Yale psychologist, and a bestselling author make the case that solitude and loneliness are not the same thing—and that mistaking one for the other may be making…
The Kids Are Actually Alright: What Lost 1970s Tapes Reveal About the Youth Mental Health Crisis
Are today’s young people really struggling more than any generation before them? For years, psychologists, including The Happiness Lab’s Dr. Laurie Santos, pointed to rising rates of anxiety and depression…
Why Your Dad‘s Fantasy Football League Might Be Saving His Life
Actor Andrew McCarthy drove 10,000 miles to reconnect with the men in his life, and a Harvard behavioral scientist thinks the fix for the male loneliness crisis might already be…
Pushkin Industries Partners with Critical Frequency for New Narrative Podcast First America for America 250
The Series Hosted by Award-Winning Journalist Rebecca Nagle Will Launch Monday, June 22 New York, New York – June 5, 2026 – Pushkin Industries and Critical Frequency announced today the launch…
Interpol‘s Daniel Kessler on Four Years of Rejection, a Brush With David Bowie, and Finally Making a Record Back Home in New York
The guitarist tells Broken Record’s Leah Rose how the band’s eighth album, This Mirror Weighs a Ton, came together in New York Interpol guitarist Daniel Kessler has spent nearly three…
Brittany Howard on How a Bar Owner‘s Favor Brought Alabama Shakes Back From an 11-Year Break
he singer tells Broken Record’s Justin Richmond how a friend’s struggling Tuscaloosa brewery turned into I Must Be Dreaming, and why soul bands, not metal bands, are the real party…
David Porter Sets the Record Straight on the “Myth” That Ended Stax Records
The Stax songwriter tells Broken Record’s Bruce Headlam how a sloped movie-theater floor, a driver named Otis Redding, and a dead-end street in Memphis built one of American music’s defining…
Radiohead‘s Ed O‘Brien on ”Escaping a Dark Knight of the Soul” to Make His Most Personal Record Yet
Radiohead guitarist and songwriter Ed O’Briend tells Broken Record’s Justin Richmond how depression, a Welsh hillside and a borrowed band of musicians turned into his second album, Blue Morpho—and why…