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A double header! Those with the Pueblo LP get even more from this episode as we take a look at the interludes as well as the time warp(s) between the sound collage track Decade and the meta-album track Dark Energy.

Explore the themes and images of a part of southern Colorado that is neither rocky nor mountainous—this is love and infatuation: farmland style. 

Learning about art schools late in life, losing close friends, and forming first bands — it's all here in this mid-season episode, folks! You’ll even hear some bad recordings of that first band from ol' Berkley. 

Welcome to Pueblo! Maybe the most “about Pueblo” episode yet: talking about what it’s like to fall in love in town, thinking that you’ve found yourself, and, once again, local bands. TW: this episode discusses drug use and death.  

Join Berkley and his friends at the sock hop in this dive into vintage radio airchecks, memories that shake you but that you can’t shake, and the perils of making music your identity.

Take a drive around Pueblo, Colorado with Berkley and hang out in poet Juan J. Morales’s rec room as they explore driving around as a pastime, Juan’s musical legacy, and returning to sites of high emotional energy. TW: this episode…

Hear how a song about emails came together. We’re talking about how bands and relationships collapse under their own ambition and how Pueblo, Colorado has the right conditions for youngsters to experience both things.

Listener’s Guide is back! We kick off season 2 with a rousing look at leaving your hometown and how great it would be if everyone was cool when you came back to visit. There’s also some music talk in there…

We’re covering the last two tracks on Bob Cummins Jr.’s debut album, Shakewelle in this season finale. We’re talking Switch Pt. 1 and Pt. 2, which takes us into ambient music, The Beach Boys (yet again), and staying true to…

Learn what Jon Brion song doesn’t have any piano in it, what happens when you put on your songwriting pants, and get ready to hear Randy Newman string arrangements interpreted for MIDI instruments. Get ready to LISTEN.

Discover the occult connection the self-titled track to Bob Cummins Jr.’s debut album Shakewelle has to The Smiths, the wonders of Ms. Johnson’s Bakery in Austin, Texas, and the secret origin of where the title Shakewelle came from. Gather 'round…

Discover the details of the lost music video for Onli Onli by Bob Cummins Jr. from his debut album Shakewelle, how to fuck up analog tape, and what “Disney on a budget” sounds like. Check it out!