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Best Of The Recoup: Thirteen Years In Urban Bohemia: A Conversation With The Dandy Warhols’ Courtney Taylor-Taylor
In 2014, we sat down with Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor and had a great chat about the making of the band’s seminal album Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia.
Song Of The Day: The Beach Boys, “I Just Got My Pay”
A fun and catchy late 60s outtake that celebrates that most special day of the week: payday!
Best Of The Recoup: Life Is Far Too Fast: A Conversation With Mike McCartney
Last year, we sat down and had a long, compelling conversation with Mike McCartney about his delightful one-off album, McGough & McGear and the era that produced it.
Song Of The Day: The Beach Boys, “Pet Sounds”
A beautiful little instrumental passage from their finest album makes for wonderful Sunday morning chill-out listening.
Best Of The Recoup: Serious Fun: A Conversation With The Knack’s Berton Averre
In 2015, we had an interesting, insightful discussion about fame and the final years of The Knack, a band known for one hit, but one that had so much more to offer.
Song Of The Day: The Beach Boys, “Girl Don’t Tell Me”
Brian Wilson offers up a surprisingly mature song about a boy being secure in the fact that his summer romance is over.
Best Of The Recoup: Frank Black And The Catholics: I Don’t Mind A Little Ear Damage
The recently released omnibus of the complete recorded works of Pixies frontman Frank Black’s band The Catholics gave us the opportunity to talk to him about this era of his vast, interesting career.
Song Of The Day: The Beach Boys, “Sweet Sunday Kind Of Love”
A rare jewel of a song taken from the last you’d expect to find it, one of brother Carl’s nicest later-era performances.
Best Of The Recoup: Final Wild Songs: A Conversation With The Long Ryders’ Sid Griffin
In the 1980s, Sid Griffin fronted The Long Ryders, who have recently released Final Wild Songs a comprehensive box set that has renewed interest in this brief but hard-working band. We sat down with Mr. Griffin in 2016 to discuss the band and the box set.
Song Of The Day: Mike Love, “Sumahama”
This unreleased version of a Mike Love composition would later be re-recorded as a Beach Boys number, but this version is the finer of the two.
