really enjoyed chatting with Brad - what a mensch!!!

Well damn. 🖤🖤🖤 RIP to one of the best.

This week on Songs of Our Lives, it’s Ben Seretan! What a joy this episode was to record. Ben’s the best. His new album, “Sunbeam of No Illusion,” with John Thayer is one of my early favorites so far this year. PLUS, Arthur Russell, Wham!, Clarence Carter, Celine Dion, Prince, Pet Shop Boys + more!

Great episode. And yes, VU — the 1985 album — is canon.

Launching Field Studies today - a new series of 4-way splits with long-form pieces from artists I love. Inspired by the old Foxglove "Wailing Bones" series. Vol 1: Landon Caldwell, zakè, Meadow Argus, and myself. digital, pay-what-you-can.

First Patreon-exclusive episode of Songs of Our Lives is up! For these episodes, guests can only pick songs from a single artist (and the question list is totally different). First up? Marc Masters on The Velvet Underground.

New morning sounds on the way soon, but I still really want you to send me your morning sounds. Get in touch!!

New interview with Isabel Pine about recording "Fables" in a remote BC cabin, letting ravens and rustling leaves become part of the music, and why the wilderness cracked everything open for her.

New Songs of Our Lives with Tusco Embassy's Nathan Bowers! We dig into his wild 'Roulette'-style compilations, records that play a different song every time. Then we go full roulette with the interview itself. It's a blast. (Stevie Wonder, Nirvana, VU, Gang of Four, Yes, etc!) Weirdest episode yet?

New Songs of Our Lives with Tusco Embassy's Nathan Bowers! We dig into his wild 'Roulette'-style compilations, records that play a different song every time. Then we go full roulette with the interview itself. It's a blast. (Stevie Wonder, Nirvana, VU, Gang of Four, Yes, etc!) Weirdest episode yet?

New Leo Chang interview. Amplified gongs, feedback hats, and the messiness of contemporary Korean identity through sound. His Live at CPR album is stunning.

miska lamberg's "Evening, window" turns everyday noise into something luminous. We talked about sound recycling, misophonia, and making music in a world without silence. A really special record, and really love this conversation. @dragonseyerecordings.com

New interview up at Foxy Digitalis w/ Ishmael Ali. We talk about his new record, "Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper," singing, early memories, Kahil El Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, and more.

New Capsule Garden hot of the digital presses. This time out, I'm aiming at Hexpartner, f.ampism, Ursula Sereghy, RL Huber, Yves De Mey, Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Deupree, fields we found, Christina Ruf, & Helena. <3

Great #podcast, dig in

Delphine Dora's "D'une nostalgie inconnue" feels ageless. Improvised piano and harmonium from rural Portugal, interlaced with street recordings. Languid repetitions, solemn timbres. Beautiful and forlorn. Read a new interview on Foxy Digitalis w/ her about it and loads more!

Thanks for this lovely conversation @foxydigitalis.bsky.social ❤️💙💚💜🧡💛

New interview w/ Sefyu "Joe" Sidney aka head of Tiers la Familia about why kindness is the most punk rock thing possible, Buddha-nature at 40, workaholism as survival, and the personality of windows. And of course their latest record, "The Love Synthesis," on Debacle. Love this shit.

Today on Songs of Our Lives, it's Geologist! His new record, “Can I Get A Pack of Camel Lights,” is like if SST put out a hurdy gurdy record in the late 80s/early 90s. We talk about Keiji Haino, Thin Lizzy, Daft Punk, Hall & Oates, Tronics, Dory Previn, Pavement, & plenty more!

Today on Songs of Our Lives, it's Geologist! His new record, “Can I Get A Pack of Camel Lights,” is like if SST put out a hurdy gurdy record in the late 80s/early 90s. We talk about Keiji Haino, Thin Lizzy, Daft Punk, Hall & Oates, Tronics, Dory Previn, Pavement, & plenty more!

I have new music out today!

Pause for these new modes of expanding reality. Thanks to @foxydigitalis.bsky.social and friends for bringing these mindful moments to my morning 🙏✨

Launching Field Studies today - a new series of 4-way splits with long-form pieces from artists I love. Inspired by the old Foxglove "Wailing Bones" series. Vol 1: Landon Caldwell, zakè, Meadow Argus, and myself. digital, pay-what-you-can.

In honor of Pitchfork launching a new service that allows you to pay to write reviews for them, how about we all share our favorite music sites that aren’t owned by Condé Nast. I’ll start with a few: @aquariumdrunkard.com noexpectations.fyi (@joshterry.bsky.social) @foxydigitalis.bsky.social

This week's Songs of Our Lives is w/ Sam Wenc! We talk about his new solo record on Lobby Art before getting into the multitudes of Okkyung Lee, Susan Alcorn’s all-time greatness, Robert Wyatt’s immortality, the romance of Henry Flynt, Green Day, Jeremy Lee Faulkner, feeo, Neil Young + more!

New album out on The Jewel Garden today that... isn't me! A cache of tunes from Brazilian composer Luiz Ser Eu. Built from horns, harps, synth voices, piano, and an array of percussive textures, it's like an endless library where melody continues eternally, changing timbres and sources as it moves.

New album out on The Jewel Garden today that... isn't me! A cache of tunes from Brazilian composer Luiz Ser Eu. Built from horns, harps, synth voices, piano, and an array of percussive textures, it's like an endless library where melody continues eternally, changing timbres and sources as it moves.

New interview with Victoria Pham about her debut album COSMOSIS, which transforms field recordings into speculative sonic biomes. We talked about childhood sound memories, accidentally recording bat wings in a cave, and listening as stewardship rather than extraction.

Full, unabridged convo exclusively on the Foxy Digitalis Patreon. Sign up today and help keep the site pumping!

First new Songs of Our Lives for 2026! Talked to Danz CM about her recent album, "LARM," Synth History, and then got into the all-time greatness of Broadcast, Yo La Tengo’s romance, The Kinks, Link Wray, Radiohead, Eiffel 65, World Party, and lots more!

New interview with Cheryl E. Leonard on "near the bear" and building compositions from the High Arctic. We talked about walrus sounds channeled through dried kelp, listening at 79° North, and honoring the most rapidly-warming region on Earth. She's one of the best in the biz.

It of course has been a full day. But I would like to note that I'm delighted to have been one of the initial participants in this project. My track is called "Morning Walk" and it is exactly that -- a typical morning walk for me (as heard via phone in pocket, mind you).

I'm starting a new project today called Morning Sounds - a free digital series collecting unedited recordings of people's waking routines. The seed for this came from a conversation with my friend Colleen, and it's been growing in my head ever since.

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I'm starting a new project today called Morning Sounds - a free digital series collecting unedited recordings of people's waking routines. The seed for this came from a conversation with my friend Colleen, and it's been growing in my head ever since.

Steve Parker's live oak died the way his father died: slowly, despite care, despite hope. Now it performs its own requiem at Ivester Contemporary, transformed into playable records encoded with birdsong, breathed through salvaged instruments, fading like memory itself. I talked to him about it all.

Kicking off Foxy Digitalis 2026 w/ a new interview with Rachel Beetz and Heidi Ross about Somatic Steamed Eggs, a collaboration that finds profound depth in one of cooking's most elemental gestures. The result is captivating, full of life. Read all about it (+ more!)

A final look back at 2025 and all the things I got up to last year. (Plus a look ahead at some exciting things coming up in 2026 for Patreon members!)

Yann’s good folks. Subscribe if the work appeals! Oh and subscribe to @capgrasman.bsky.social and @sulkrooms.bsky.social and Claire Rousay and Cruel Diagonals and @foxydigitalis.bsky.social and etc (Seriously, I do!)

Spent 2025 learning that collapse is cumulative, intimate, and somehow full of unexpected beauty. Music was essential this year, not as escape but as companion and survival strategy. Here are the albums that helped me stay present and keep dreaming anyway.

“Music … has worked as a companion, as proof that imagination persists even when everything else feels unstable. The albums that mattered most to me this year … helped me stay present and reminded me that other people are building from fragments, too. This is art as survival strategy.”

Spent 2025 learning that collapse is cumulative, intimate, and somehow full of unexpected beauty. Music was essential this year, not as escape but as companion and survival strategy. Here are the albums that helped me stay present and keep dreaming anyway.

As always, the full, unabridged version is exclusively on Patreon. Thanks everyone who has supported the show/site this year - it's the thing that keeps it all going! Y'all are the best. Last episode of the year, but plenty of good times planned for 2026.

This week's Songs of Our Lives is the Christmas Special w/ Peter Taylor (aka MAbH)!! He's a Foxy Digitalis lifer (first started w/ the site in 2006) & we had a great time talking Xmas songs, memories, etc. The Waitresses, The Pogues, Nat King Cole, Cliff Richard, & plenty more!

As always, the full, unabridged version is exclusively on Patreon. Thanks everyone who has supported the show/site this year - it's the thing that keeps it all going! Y'all are the best. Last episode of the year, but plenty of good times planned for 2026.

This week's Songs of Our Lives is the Christmas Special w/ Peter Taylor (aka MAbH)!! He's a Foxy Digitalis lifer (first started w/ the site in 2006) & we had a great time talking Xmas songs, memories, etc. The Waitresses, The Pogues, Nat King Cole, Cliff Richard, & plenty more!

If you are on the Foxy Digitalis Patreon, you can get an early preview of the FD year-in-review piece now. Thank y'all for helping keep the site alive for another year! <3

If you are on the Foxy Digitalis Patreon, you can get an early preview of the FD year-in-review piece now. Thank y'all for helping keep the site alive for another year! <3

Davide Cedolin on "Ligurian Pastoral Vol. II," timeless terrain, and the sounds that stay with you. We talk about field recordings, the studio as canvas, and navigating between Common Fate's cosmic Americana and his solo work. New interview up on the site today.

Next week.