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My Favorite Album with Jeremy Dylan

Oct 29, 2015

Punk rocker (World War IX), The Daily Show producer and cartoonist Justin Melkmann joins me to discuss NYC legend Lou Reed and his 1975 album 'Coney Island Baby'.

We talk about how the album is one of Reed's most sincere works, why Justin passed up the chance to meet Reed, the musical link from Reed to punk, the Lou...


Oct 26, 2015

Grammy winning singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves talks her love iconic iconoclast John Prine and his self-titled debut album. Kacey talks about performing with Prine, playing him the song she wrote about him, how his approach to lyric writing inspired her own songs, why she put her Grammy in a Prine exhibit in the...


Oct 22, 2015

For the special 100th episode extravaganza of 'My Favorite Album', I go from Sydney to Nashville to Melbourne, speaking to artists, journalists, producers and label execs to find out the answer to a question dear to my heart - 'Does the album have a future'?

We hear from Kacey Musgraves on why she plans to keep making...


Oct 20, 2015

Canada's finest exponent of both kinds of music, punk rocker turned idiosyncratic Americana singer-songwriter Corb Lund, joins me in an Irish pub to talk his favorite album, the Western classic 'Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs' by Marty Robbins.

Corb talks about how he discovered the album as a child, the balance...


Oct 15, 2015

Lead guitarist and songwriter for Australian rock band Bad Dreems, Alex Cameron, joins me to talk about the classic debut album from Manchester post-punk icons Joy Divison 'Unknown Pleasures', the relationship between mental illness and creativity, why depression is often romanticised by music fans, depersonalisation...