The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser, Telescreens frontman Jackson Hamm and Thesaurus Rex’s Calvin Rezen and Varun Jhunjhunwalla are the guests on the newest installment of the Lipps Service podcast, speaking with host Scott Lipps following their performances at the show’s first live taping in New York in June.
Leithauser talks about his newest album, This Side of the Island, his take on the era of the New York music scene chronicled by the book Meet Me in the Bathroom and the Walkmen’s reunion after a decade-long break. Hamm gets into Telescreens’ early days playing at West Village club the Bitter End, his favorite local bands, what it was like opening for Franz Ferdinand on tour and his take on the new Turnstile album.
To close, Rezen and Jhunjhunwalla discuss how the band formed, their musical influences and how they come up with their thought-provoking lyrics.
On the previous episode of Lipps Service, Australian rock duo Royel Otis chatted about their upcoming album, hickey, plus their viral hit covers of the Cranberries’ “Linger” and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor.”
Since it began in 2018, the acclaimed podcast has featured many of the biggest voices and personalities in music, including exclusive interviews with Anthony Kiedis, David Lee Roth, Hozier, Maynard James Keenan, the Police’s Stewart Copeland, Mick Fleetwood, Nikki Sixx, Dove Cameron, Perry Farrell, the Kills and many more. Every few weeks, a new episode of SPIN Presents Lipps Service is available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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