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Dec. 9, 2025

Chicago

When Chicago released their debut album in 1969, they blended brass, jazz sophistication, and rock power into something completely their own. By 1975, when Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits arrived, the band had already ama...

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Dec. 4, 2025

Justin Richmond on You'll Hear It: "Still Crazy After All These Years…

Justin joined You'll Hear It's Adam Maness and Peter Martin to talk Still Crazy After All These Years. Paul Simon's Grammy-winning album was born out of divorce, and produced some of his greatest songs of all time, like "50 W...

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Dec. 1, 2025

How to Experience the Joy of Giving Right Now: A Giving Tuesday Speci…

According to the science, it really is better to give than receive. Donating a dollar; sharing a kind word or lending someone a hand changes lives, but can also hugely boost your happiness. So we're teaming up with other podc...

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Nov. 25, 2025

Drew Holcomb (Live from NYC's Cherry Lane Theatre)

In July, Malcolm Gladwell taped a live episode of Broken Record at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City. It was a wonderful night of conversation and music. Drew Holcomb—a Memphis native who has spent the past 20 years pe...

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Nov. 18, 2025

S.G. Goodman

When S.G. Goodman released her debut album, Old Time Feeling, in 2020, critics hailed it as a stunning introduction to a bold new voice in Americana. Co-produced with Jim James of My Morning Jacket, the album showcased Goodma...

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Nov. 11, 2025

Heavyweight Presents: The Messenger

We’re excited to share an episode from one of our favorite podcasts, Heavyweight, a new addition to the Pushkin slate of shows. Heavyweight, hosted by Jonathan Goldstein, creates space for difficult conversations and resolvin...

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Nov. 4, 2025

Joe Boyd

Joe Boyd has spent more than six decades as a producer, label executive, and writer whose influence extends far beyond the studio. From producing Nick Drake's luminous folk albums to working with Fairport Convention, Pink Flo...

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Oct. 28, 2025

Jensen McRae

Jensen McRae writes songs that cut straight to the bone—intimate, unflinching examinations of identity, relationships, and the complexities of coming of age in today's world. Since releasing her debut EP, Who Hurt You?, in 20...

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Oct. 23, 2025

David Gilmour

David Gilmour is one of the most influential guitarists in rock history. Since joining Pink Floyd in 1967, his songwriting, vocals, and distinctive guitar tone have helped shape classic albums like The Dark Side of the Moon a...

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Oct. 21, 2025

The 500 Presents: Jeff Daniels

We're sharing an episode from another podcast we think you'll enjoy, The 500 with Josh Adam Meyers . Adam counts down Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums of all time with musicians, comedians, and actors. The second (and last...

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Oct. 14, 2025

John Oates

John Oates—one half of Hall & Oates, one of the best-selling duos in pop history—is going back to his roots with his new self-titled solo album. Before forming Hall & Oates, John was steeped in folk and Delta blues, and this ...

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Oct. 7, 2025

Chino Moreno

Chino Moreno is the lead singer of Deftones, the Sacramento band experiencing a resurgence as a new generation discovers their ’90s hits on social media. This year, Deftones have been selling out arenas while putting the fini...

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Sept. 30, 2025

Miguel

Miguel, the Grammy-winning alt-R&B pioneer is back with a new album, Caos —his first full-length in eight years. It’s the latest step in a career that’s always pushed the boundaries of R&B, from his 2010 debut through albums ...

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Sept. 23, 2025

Sublime

30 years ago, Sublime released the album that defined Southern California’s music scene for a generation. Now the band is preparing to put out their fourth full-length, and for the first time, Bradley Nowell’s son, Jakob Nowe...

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Sept. 16, 2025

The Favors (Finneas & Ashe)

Word first broke about the band The Favors back in February, when cryptic posts revealed that Billie Eilish’s producer and brother, Finneas, was making new music with singer Ashe. Soon after, both artists began performing the...

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Sept. 9, 2025

Gene Simmons

What was meant to be an hour-long interview with Gene Simmons turned into one of the stranger conversations we’ve had on Broken Record . As co-founder, bassist, and co-frontman of KISS alongside Paul Stanley, Simmons created ...

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Sept. 2, 2025

Loudon Wainwright III

In 2022, at 75 years-old, Loudon Wainwright III released Lifetime Achievement —an aptly titled album from a songwriter whose debut came more than fifty years earlier. Over the decades, Loudon has built a reputation for his co...

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Aug. 26, 2025

Infinity Song: Live From Tribeca Festival

Great musical chemistry often starts at home. Think of family bands like Sly and the Family Stone, The Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, Haim, Oasis, AC/DC, and The Jacksons. Infinity Song, our guests today, carry on that tradition. ...

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Aug. 19, 2025

Margo Price

Margo Price’s new album, Hard Headed Woman, was recorded in the heart of Nashville at the legendary RCA Studio A—the very place where the “Nashville Sound” was born, and where greats like Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, and Char...

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Aug. 12, 2025

Annahstasia

Soaring, lush and steeped in soul, Annahstasia has a voice that feels distant and intimate all at once. She was scouted in high school for a career in pop music but after some strange dealings set out down the road of self di...

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Aug. 5, 2025

Spellling

Chrystia Cabral is the experimental, often mystically-inclined Oakland artist who records as Spellling. Since her 2019 debut, she’s built a reputation for richly imaginative music that defies easy categorization. Her third al...

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July 29, 2025

Daron Malakian

Daron Malakian first made his name as the enigmatic guitarist and songwriter behind System of a Down. Between 1998 and 2005, the band released five albums—three of which debuted at number one on the Billboard charts. In 2006,...

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July 22, 2025

Introducing Charlie’s Place: A Cultural Haven That Brought People Tog…

Here’s a preview from a new podcast, Charlie’s Place. How did a Black man in 1940s Jim Crow South open a club where Black and white people danced together? Charlie’s Place was revolutionary, and that meant it was dangerous. H...

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July 15, 2025

Bilal

Today, we’re joined by one of the most inventive and electrifying vocalists in modern soul music: Bilal. Since the release of his debut album 1st Born Second in 2001, Bilal has defied categorization by design and by circumsta...

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