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This Song: Walker Lukens

This year, Austin’s Walker Lukens released his second album Tell It To The Judge, produced by Spoon’s Jim Eno. It’s a hook-laden mix of pop, rock, electronic, and obtuse lyrics, music that you can emotionally understand without necessarily literally understanding. Listen as Lukens describes how Fleetwood Mac’s “Sara” works in a similar way for him, and hear how it’s gotten him through some tough times.

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This Song: Night Drive

Night Drive’s self titled debut album is full of dark yet catchy sci-fi inspired synth pop. Listen as Brandon Duhon and Rodney Connell, the creative duo behind the band, explore how Abba’s “Gimme Gimme Gimme” and Radiohead’s Kid A led them to this sound.

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This Song: Cut/Copy

Australian electronic band Cut/Copy has a new record out called Haiku from Zero. They’ve been making music that melds samples with live instrumentation since the early 2000’s. Listen as founder Dan Whitford explains how hearing The Avalanches “A Different Feeling” when he first started his career helped open his eyes to how creative and expansive dance music could be.

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Listen to Songs from Episode 107 of This Song

This Song: Angel Olsen

Singer and Songwriter Angel Olsen’s latest record “Phases” is a collection of B-sides and rarities that chronicles her musical journey. Listen as she describes how the The Velvet Underground influenced her on that journey, and how Lou Reed’s “Coney Island Baby” is helping her in the current moment.

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This Song: Hamilton Leithauser

Hamilton Leithauser is the former lead singer of the Walkmen and as well as a talented solo artist. Last year, he teamed up with former Vampire Weekend member Rostam for I Had A Dream That You Were Mine, and he also just released a duet with Angel Olsen called “Heartstruck (Wild Hunger).” Listen as Leithauser talks about how Fleet Foxes’ “Ragged Wood” helped shake him out of a creative rut, what it was like to collaborate with Rostam, and how his latest single with Olsen was difficult for him to “get out of the shed.”

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Listen to Songs from Episode 105 of This Song

This Song: Gregory Porter

On “Nat King Cole and Me,” Grammy winning jazz vocalist and songwriter Gregory Porter pays tribute to one of the greatest jazz artists of the 20th century. Listen as he describes the profound effect that Nat King Cole’s music had on him as a young child, and how his relationship to that music has inspired him throughout his career.

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This Song: Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes have just released their third full length record, “Crack Up,” after a six year break. Listen to lead singer and songwriter Robin Pecknold as he explores the effect Glen Campbell’s recording of Brian Wilson penned “Guess I’m Dumb” had on his songwriting. And you’re definitely going to dig his theory as to why music is such an effective emotion transmitter.

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This Song: Iron and Wine

Sam Beam, aka Iron and Wine, has been testing the boundaries of folk music since the early 2000’s. Hear how Big Star’s “Take Care” helped him to evolve his ideas of what he could do with musical arrangements, and listen as he proposes a theory as to why music moves emotion. Warning: his theory may give you the good chills.

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This Song: Suzanna Choffel

Austin singer-songwriter Suzanna Choffel describes the vibe behind Reggae music and shares how Bob Marley exposed her to the magic of chasing suffering with love. While she grew up hearing hints of this sound from Sublime and The Police, it wasn’t until Bob Marley that the voice and vibe of reggae taught her how to express the jarring truth in a beautiful, poetic, and gentle way. Step out of the world of chaos, and for a moment be reminded by reggae that, while so much is happening, there is also so much space; every little piece has it’s part.

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This Song’s 100th Episode! Elizabeth and Lisel McQueen

It’s This Song’s 100th Episode!!!! To celebrate we’ve made it a family affair. Host Elizabeth McQueen gets interviewed by her 8 year old daughter Lisel about how Rebecca Sugar’s “Here Comes a Thought” from Steven Universe expanded her idea of what songs can do. Then Lisel explains to Elizabeth how “Peace and Love on the Planet Earth,” also from Steven Universe, blows her mind and is helping her process big ideas like, Peace, War, Death and Birth and the fact that the earth may explode some day.

And Antonette Masando, creator of the She’s the Boss podcast and former This Song intern, explains how Nicki Minaj’s “Fly” and Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come” changed her life.

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This Song: Ty Segall

Psychedelic garage-rocker Ty Segall tells KUTX host Taylor Wallace how The Band’s “The Weight” inspired the name of his new puppy, how much he loves The Grateful Dead, and how both bands helped him wrap his head around lyrical storytelling.

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This Song: Middle Kids

Hannah Joy, lead singer and songwriter of the Australian trio Middle Kids, talks about how Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac inspires her as a female artist and describes why she decided to transition from a solo piano based artist to a guitar playing leader of a band.

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This Song: Collie Buddz

What’s really going on with reggae? In this episode, Collie Buddz gives host Elizabeth McQueen a crash course in Sound Clash, Dubplate, Conscious Reggae, and shares the impact Garnet Silk’s song “Lord Watch Over Our Shoulders” had on his music. Hear how the genre has transformed the songwriting, sampling, beat making and lifestyle of this week’s artist and see some of your favorite classic songs in a whole new light.

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This Song: Nathaniel Rateliff

“I just remember how graceful the words were, how easy the melody was, and how every line was perfect and thought out,” says Nathaniel Rateliff of Leonard Cohen. Hear how Cohen’s measured and thoughtful poetry, the stream of consciousness lyrical prowess of Bob Dylan, and the rollicking tunes found on The Basement Tapes caused Nathaniel Rateliff and his longtime friend Joseph Pope III to find the balance between sharing songs of meaning and significance and just having a good time with friends.

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Listen to Songs from Episode 96 of This Song

This Song: Descendents

Karl Alvarez, bassist for the legendary punk rock band Descendents, describes how the Beach Boys “Help Me Rhonda” and L.A. Power Pop band The Last guided the band’s early sound, and continues to influence them on their latest record “Hypercaffium Spazzinate.”

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This Song: Matthew Sweet

In this week’s episode Matthew Sweet, the man who has been creating brilliant pop gems since the 90’s, takes you on a journey. First he explores why John Lennon is the most inspiring Beatle. Then he leads you through his forays into bands with the likes of Michael Stipe and Shawn Mullins. And he ends by describing his organic songwriting process and explaining why he’s not comfortable being called a “pop craftsman.”

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This Song: St. Paul and the Broken Bones

There’s no denying that St. Paul and the Broken Bones are full of soul, and in this episode you get a little taste of where it all came from. From a cappella versions of “Amazing Grace”, to Otis Redding and Miles Davis, the Alabama-based bands depth of spirit is influenced by passionate, emotional music. “Being able to draw emotions out of yourself and people is a very powerful thing,” says lead singer Paul Janeway, “It’s what we do for a living, and we love doing it.”

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This Song: The Mastersons

Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore spend most of their lives on the road, both as members of Steve Earle’s band, The Dukes, and as the husband and wife duo, The Mastersons. Their discussion with Elizabeth touches on Daniel Lanios’ late night landscapes; the harmonies of Emmylou Harris, The Louvin Brothers and The Jayhawks and how one Johnny Gimble fiddle solo changed their lives and shaped the sound of their latest record “Transient Lullaby.”

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This Song: Brett Dennen

Singer-Songwriter Brett Dennen describes the first time he heard Joni Mitchell’s “All I Want,” explains how it revealed the kind of artist he would later strive to be, and describes the process he went through making his new record “Por Favor.” Then listener Joanna Castillo tells us why Kathy Mattea’s song “Where’ve You Been” always makes her want to cry.

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This Song: Shinyribs

Kevin Russell has been making some of the best music in Austin since his days with the Gourds, but it wasn’t until he really found his soul groove with his solo project Shinyribs that he truly found his mission — to dance and get the world to dance with him. Hear how “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas got him started down that path and get yourself a snack of greasy greens and boudin as Kevin gives you a primer on swamp pop.

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