Audiation

13/06/2025

"Four Strings and the Truth: The Bassists Who Changed Music" is back for a (mini-) Season 2.

We're kicking off with a bang: Mr. Lou Barlow (of Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh and Folk Implosion)

Like a therapy session with someone you've just met, we go in depth with Lou about his precocious musical upbringing, how the Dinosaur Jr dynamic has evolved, songwriting, 4-stringed instruments, podcasting, living life, etc.

Listen here: https://pod.link/1733284004/episode/8491820715493dc5ea69f945f992eb63

And let us know what other bass geniuses we should be approaching...

01/06/2025

We are gearing up for a new 'Monosyllabic Mini-Season' of our hit podcast about the bassists who changed music. Catch up on the first season now so you can hit the ground running.

08/05/2025

Hey y'all, we've unlocked the full video of last August's "Gender Spiral Live" show at the Bell House in Brooklyn, NY.

Check it out here: https://youtu.be/gU6nUL9zJX0

And if you're in or near Chicago and want to spiral in person with us, be sure and grab some tickets for the iO Theatre shows on May 23rd and 24th - tickets are going fast and we have a great slate of guests for each night!

Get tickets here: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36725/production/1235562

03/09/2024

That sound you hear is a sell-out crowd cheering the NY live debut of "Gender Spiral," our podcast hosted by Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas. The entire live show will come out soon, but suffice it to say that The Bell House in Brooklyn was on fire all night with laughter and mirth and good vibes.

13/08/2024

We've tracked down the legendary Mike Watt to get a full-on, XL econo episode of "Four Strings and the Truth."

Listen wherever you get your podz...

And enter to win our 1-question trivia contest for a chance to snag a free copy of "The Bastard Instrument," Brian F. Wright's just-published cultural history of the electric bass.

31/05/2024

We are very excited to announce the return of our hit podcast, "Gender Spiral" on June 4th! Hosts Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas have an amazing array of episodes and topics lined up.

You can catch up on the first season now at https://genderspiralpod.com and be sure and follow the show wherever you listen so you get the new episodes as soon as they land.

17/04/2024

"Is She Really Going Out With Him"
"I'm The Man"
"Got The Time"
"It's Different For Girls"

If you know these tunes, you know Graham Maby. He's the man who created the bass-forward sound that put Joe Jackson on the map.

And in addition to his multi-decade relationship with Joe, he's had a hand in shaping the sounds of artists ranging from Marshall Crenshaw, Freedy Johnston, Natalie Merchant and They Might Be Giants, among others.

On the new episode of "Four Strings and the Truth," we find out what makes this charming, talented and funny dude tick.

Check it out here: https://pod.link/1733284004

03/04/2024

KIRA KIRA KIRA

That's right, it's time for the Kira Roessler "Four Stings and the Truth" interview. You'll get it all: life before and after Black Flag, her decades-long collaboration with (ex-husband) watt in dos, the trials and tribulations of releasing her first solo album 40+ years after picking up her bass, and how she's pivoted to an Oscar- and Emmy-winning career in sound.

Funny, frank and not afraid to throw a few elbows, that's Kira.

Check it out here: https://pod.link/1733284004

22/03/2024

🎧 NEW PODCAST ALERT🎧

Introducing "Four Strings and the Truth: The Bassists Who Changed Music."

It's the only punk rock bass player podcast that matters.

First guest is Fugazi's Joe Lally - and stick around for future episodes featuring all the most influential bassists of the punk/new wave/hardcore era.

You can listen and subscribe here:

"Four Strings and the Truth: The Bassists Who Changed Music" features intimate conversations with players who have changed the course of the... more

16/02/2024

Grateful to receive another Ambie nomination from the Podcast Academy, this one for "Dynamite Doug," the story of Douglas Latchford, an art thief who plundered Cambodian artifacts for decades.

After the series aired, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed to start returning some of these pieces, an amazing turn of events.

Congrats to our partners Project Brazen, our narrator Ellen Wong (Knives from Scott Pilgrim!) and the amazing Audiation team who worked on this.

Check out the pod wherever you listen to such things.

31/01/2024

18/01/2024

TODAY IS THE DAY THAT YOU DECIDE...SOMETHING

We are pleased to present "The Decision Coach," a brand spankin' new show from Audiation and Audible featuring the world renowned Nell McShane Wulfhart, the eponymous Decision Coach.

Give her a really knotty decision you need to make and a couple of hours of your time, and she'll help you figure out what to do. She's helped thousands of people around the world in a single session.

Now you get to be a fly on the wall while she helps a bevy of people make life-changing choices: whether to chuck it all and move to America to pursue an acting career in middle age; whether to leave your marriage; whether to leave college to jump into a multi-faceted career, even though it will bum your mom out, and many more.

She's NOT a therapist...she's just really good at helping people make decisions...and you'll get easy-to-follow pointers on how to solve your biggest dilemmas in every episode.

Tune in on Audible!