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  1. NEM#204: Tim and Sue Lee Learn Their Craft, from Windbreakers to Bark

    <p>Tim began with The Windbreakers in Mississippi in 1982 and has released around 30 albums including solo albums starting in the late '80s plus albums with his wife Susan Bauer Lee (first on bass, then on drums) as The Tim Lee 3 and now Ba

  2. NEM#203: Andy White Tells the Truth

    <p>Andy has released 20 albums since 1986, touring with just him and his acoustic guitar. We discuss "The Happiness Index" from <em>AT</em> (2023), his second collaboration with Tim Finn; the title track from <em>The Guilty and the Innocent

  3. REISSUE-NEM#41: Glenn Mercer (Feelies): Produce Yourself

    <p>Glenn's albums with the Feelies since 1980 have a unique sound, due to his insistence that production is part of the composing process.</p> <p>We discuss "Been Replaced" and "Gone Gone Gone," from The Feelies' 2017album <em>Here Before</

  4. NEM#202: Richard Lloyd (Television): Guitar is Combustible

    <p>Richard joined Television in 1973 and has released three albums with them, plus seven solo albums starting in 1980. He has also played with Matthew Sweet, John Doe, Rocket from the Tomb, and others, and has a 2019 memoir <em>Everything I

  5. NEM#201: Ivan Neville Gets Personal (but Still Funky)

    <p>Ivan is the keyboardist/singer/multi-instrumentalist son of Aaron Neville and has played with the Neville Brothers, The Rolling Stones The Spin Doctors, etc. He has released eight albums since 1988, half of these under the band name Dump

  6. NEM#200: Mikaela Davis: Singer-Songwriter-Harpist

    <p>Mikaela has a degree in harp performance and has been recording since 2011. We discuss "Cinderella" (and listen at the end to "Leave It Alone") from her second label-released album, <em>And Southern Star </em>(2023), "Left Hand Path" (20

  7. NEM#199: Alan Jenkins’ Cornucopia of Experiments

    <p>Alan has released 50+ albums, starting in the late '70s with The Deep Freeze Mice, then with several collaborative bands, experimental surf in the '00s with The Thurston Lava Tube, and now typically records as Alan Jenkins and the Ketter

  8. NEM#198: Chris Stamey Keeps on Developing

    <p>Chris started in the mid 70s in Sneakers, then backed Alex Chilton, started a record label, and then founded the dB's, which he left after two albums in 1983. He then became a producer and has released nine solo albums plus avant garde g

  9. NEM#197: Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah’s African Head Charge

    <p>Bonjo started in the '70s as a session hand percussionist, played for a few years with Creation Rebel, and became a band leader in 1980, first recording a bit as Noah House of Dread, then creating African Head Charge, which has had more

  10. NEM#196: Michael Gira (Swans) Is Not Done

    <p>Swans started in the early '80s with a brutal sound gradually became more subtle and textured. The band broke up in 1995 after ten albums (and three other releases under the name World of Skin), then Michael released a couple of solo alb

  11. NEM#195: Nicholas Tremulis Reads Better Books

    <p>Nick has fronted 10+ carefully arranged solo albums since 1985 in various styles from R&B to Latin to alt-country.</p> <p>We discuss "Amanda and the God’s Honest Truth" from <em>Rarified World</em> (2021), "Buffalo Man" from <em>Little B

  12. NEM#194: Vashti Bunyan Is Not a Folk Singer

    <p>Vashti was discovered in the mid-60s by the Rolling Stones manager, recorded a seminal acoustic album in 1970, then quit music until her work was rediscovered in 2000, recording two albums and releasing an autobiography since then.</p> <

  13. NEM#193: Peter Case’s Songs About Now

    <p>Initially compared as a rock singer with John Lennon in the late '70s and early '80s with The Nerves and The Plimsouls, his subsequent sixteen solo albums beginning in 1986 have embraced blues, solo acoustic guitar, and on his new album,

  14. NEM#192: Guitarist Ivan Julian Serves the Song

    <p>Ivan was a founding member of Richard Hell and the Voidoids in 1977, fronted The Outsets in the '80s, and has put out two solo albums while playing with Matthew Sweet, Shriekback, and other projects.</p> <p>We discuss "I am Not a Drone (

  15. NEM#191: Chris Slusarenko and John Moen As (And Before) Eyelids

    <p>Chris and John are veterans of the Portland music scene since the mid '80s. By the '00s, John was drumming for bands like the Decembrists, while Chris was playing bass for Guided by Voices. They recorded together as Boston Spaceships (ak

  16. NEM#190: Jad Fair (Half Japanese): Being Productive = Being Yourself

    <p>Jad estimates he's released over 180 albums between his band, solo, and collaborative work. He started Half Japanese with his brother David in 1975.</p> <p>We discuss "Fate Is On Our Side" by Jad with Samuel Locke Ward from <em>Happy Hea

  17. NEM#189: Claire Hamill’s Epic Journey

    <p>Claire is a folky singer-songwriter whose 13 albums since 1971 have ventured into prog, new age, dance, adult contemporary, and more.</p> <p>We discuss "Aphrodite Obscured" from <em>A Pocket Full of Love Songs</em> (2022), "Love Has a Mi

  18. NEM#188: Pat Irwin (Raybeats, B-52s, SUSS) Writes for TV (and Himself)

    <p>Pat started in the late '70s New York No Wave scene with 8-Eyed spy, but quickly got into soundtrack work for shows like <em>Nurse Jackie</em>, plus cartoons and indie films.</p> <p>We discuss clips from <em>Dexter: New Blood</em> (2022)

  19. REISSUE-NEM#61: Richard X. Heyman Is Incognito (Yet a Cornerstone)

    <p>Richard garnered early fame as drummer for '60s New Jersey garage band The Doughboys and has put out 14 albums, largely as a one-man band, since 1988.</p> <p>We discuss the title track (and near the end play "And Then") from <em>Incognit

  20. NEM#187: Eszter Balint Interprets Her Past

    <p>Eszter is an actor/musician, gaining initial fame starring in Jim Jarmusch's first major film <em>Stranger Than Paradise</em> (1984). She has released four albums of often autobiographical songs since 1998.</p> <p>We discuss "The First D

  21. NEM#186: Simon Ratcliffe (Basement Jaxx, Village of the Sun): From House Music to Jazz Fusion

    <p>Simon has produced programmed dance music since the early '90s, winning Grammys and topping charts with his partner Felix Buxton as Basement Jaxx through their seven albums and several EPs.</p> <p>We discuss "Village of the Sun" by his n

  22. NEM#185: Bruce Thomas’ Bass Lines Before, After, and During the Attractions

    <p>Bruce is best known as Elvis Costello's bassist for his first on about a dozen albums as The Attractions, but he's been in bands since 1970 and has done numerous session gigs.</p> <p>We discuss his work on "Blood Makes Noise" by Susanne

  23. NEM#184: Mike Baggetta Feels Out the Guitar

    <p>Mike has put out 18 releases of largely instrumental guitar music since 2004 and is now playing with legendary bassist <a href="http://nakedlyexaminedmusic.com/nem108-mike-watt/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mike Watt</a> an

  24. NEM#183: Neil Gust (No. 2, Heatmiser) Walks Around

    <p>Neil is known as the long-time collaborator of the late Elliot Smith in the Portland band Heatmiser, which released three albums and an EP starting in 1993. Then Neil fronted the band No. 2 for two albums before taking a break until rece

  25. NEM#182: Allan and Barb Vest Together as doubleVee

    <p>Through the 00's and four studio albums, Allan led the "baroque pop" Oklahoma band Starlight Mints. Then he met his wife Barb; as doubleVee, they've released two albums and an EP since 2017.</p> <p>The three of us talk about "The Middle

  26. NEM#181: Robyn Hitchcock Forgets Himself, Sharply

    <p>Robyn has been producing a distinctive flavor of very British rock with surrealist lyrics for 35+ albums since 1979.</p> <p>We discuss "The Raging Muse" (and close by listening to "The Shuffle Man") from <em>Shufflemania</em> (2022), "Ma

  27. NEM#180: Rebecca Pidgeon’s Inner Speech

    <p>Rebecca has balanced her musical career with her acting career since the mid '80s, starting in Scotland with Ruby Blue and then moving to New York in 1989 and releasing 10+ solo albums.</p> <p>We discuss "Silent Sound" from <em>Parts of

  28. NEM#179: Mike Lindup’s Atlantean Visions and Level 42

    <p>Mike played keyboards and shared lead vocals for synth jazz-pop Level 42's initial run for nine albums from 1982-1994 (and rejoined in 2006) and is working on his fourth solo release.</p> <p>We talk about his new single, "Atlantia," plus

  29. NEM#178: Chastity Brown in Wonderment

    <p>Chastity has since 2007 released seven albums from Minneapolis that she calls "new blues," but which spread into pop, Americana, soul, and Irish-flavored spirituals.</p> <p>We discuss "Wonderment" and listen at the end to "Back Seat" fro

  30. NEM#177: Susan Cattaneo Leaves Nashville and Finds Herself

    <p>Susan teaches songwriting at Berklee and has released six albums since 2009. She wanted to be a Nashville songwriter, decided to then sing country songs herself, but that felt phony, so she remade her whole style.</p> <p>We discuss "Brok

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