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HOLIDAY SONG DRAFT with Amanda Dobbins and Rob Mahoney
Dec 18, 2025 1h 13m EXPLICIT

HOLIDAY SONG DRAFT with Amanda Dobbins and Rob Mahoney

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and Bandsplain has a very special gift for you. Rob Mahoney and Amanda Dobbins join Yasi to draft the dream holiday playlist: Justin Bieber featuring Busta...

Best Albums of the Year With Chris Ryan
Dec 11, 2025 1h 36m EXPLICIT

Best Albums of the Year With Chris Ryan

That’s (almost) a wrap on 2025, so you know what time it is. Yasi catches up with Chris Ryan to talk about the albums that defined their 2025. No rankings, no drafts, no winners or losers, just two...

Jeff Buckley With Sean Fennessey
Dec 04, 2025 3h 58m EXPLICIT

Jeff Buckley With Sean Fennessey

Yasi is joined by The Big Picture’s Sean Fennessey to dive into the brief, brilliant career of Jeff Buckley. They cover his rise on New York’s café stages and the making of his only studio album, '...

MOVIE NIGHT: 'Dig!' with Joe Coscarelli
Nov 20, 2025 1h 20m EXPLICIT

MOVIE NIGHT: 'Dig!' with Joe Coscarelli

This week on Bandsplain, Yasi and New York Times culture reporter Joe Coscarelli revisit Dig!, Ondi Timoner’s influential 2004 cult documentary that immortalized The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Th...

Massive Attack with Bre Morell
Nov 13, 2025 3h 4m EXPLICIT

Massive Attack with Bre Morell

On this week’s episode of Bandsplain, Bre Morell of Crushed joins Yasi to talk about reluctant genre inventing geniuses Massive Attack. We talk through the rich music history of Bristol, their soun...

Jimmy Eat World with Chris Ryan
Oct 30, 2025 2h 40m EXPLICIT

Jimmy Eat World with Chris Ryan

Chris Ryan is back to help tell the Jimmy Eat World story. CR and Yasi talk about the power of the split seven inch, Clarity vs Bleed American, and the magically accidental path from playing pop pu...

Alanis Morissette with Alicia Bognanno
Oct 16, 2025 2h 27m EXPLICIT

Alanis Morissette with Alicia Bognanno

With her 1996 best-selling album Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette bet on herself, turned pain into pop poetry, and gave an entire generation a new emotional vocabulary. She also broke records ...

Hair Metal Hall of Fame with Molly Lambert
Oct 09, 2025 2h 2m EXPLICIT

Hair Metal Hall of Fame with Molly Lambert

In today’s episode we’re heading back to the Sunset Strip — a leather clad world of teased hair, tight pants, and pure chaos. Guest Molly Lambert helps us remember the golden era of hair metal, whe...

Mötley Crüe with Mel Ottenberg
Oct 02, 2025 3h 49m EXPLICIT

Mötley Crüe with Mel Ottenberg

We love Mötley Crüe. Mötley Crüe loves partying (so so much). In this episode you’ll hear how Nikki, Tommy, Vince, and Mick put on their make-up and pioneered a genre, how they turned their pain, t...

Remembering Ozzy Osbourne, with Kory Grow and Rob Harvilla
Jul 25, 2025 53 min

Remembering Ozzy Osbourne, with Kory Grow and Rob Harvilla

Rob Harvilla and Rolling Stone senior writer Kory Grow join Yasi to discuss Ozzy Osbourne’s bodies of work with Black Sabbath as well as solo, his incredible impact on not just music but pop cultur...

Elastica with Miranda Sawyer
Jun 19, 2025 2h 43m EXPLICIT

Elastica with Miranda Sawyer

Boots on the ground from Notting Hill, Yasi unpacks the inimitable Elastica with music journalist Miranda Sawyer. Thanks to their angular, concise music, incredible style, and  unapologetic li...

The Jesus and Mary Chain with Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite
Jun 05, 2025 4h 37m EXPLICIT

The Jesus and Mary Chain with Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite

This week, Yasi is joined by Scottish musician and Mogwai frontman Stuart Braithwaite to talk about one of the coolest and most influential bands of all time - The Jesus and Mary Chain. From the ch...

Pulp: Part 2 (1994 to Forever?) with Siân Pattenden
May 22, 2025 2h 37m EXPLICIT

Pulp: Part 2 (1994 to Forever?) with Siân Pattenden

So you wanna live like the Common People do? It’s time for part two of the Pulp story in which Yasi and music journalist and Pulpologist Siân Pattenden start back up at the peak of Britpop, tracing...

Pulp: Part 1 (1978! through 1994) with Siân Pattenden
May 15, 2025 3h 42m EXPLICIT

Pulp: Part 1 (1978! through 1994) with Siân Pattenden

In today’s episode, we trace Pulp's story, starting from high school talent show stars up through the moment they become Britpop major players. Yasi is joined by British music journalist, author, a...

Primal Scream with Chris Ryan
May 08, 2025 3h 54m EXPLICIT

Primal Scream with Chris Ryan

Today we’re talking about a band who managed to change their sound every single album while still staying absolutely, totally, and utterly themselves: Primal Scream. Bobby Gillespie and co started ...

Perfect Song: Radiohead’s ‘Let Down’ with Cole Cuchna
May 01, 2025 1h 12m EXPLICIT

Perfect Song: Radiohead’s ‘Let Down’ with Cole Cuchna

We all know the vibe of Radiohead’s iconic 1997 album OK Computer: paranoia, anxiety, isolation. There are several bangers scattered throughout, like Karma Police and No Surprises. But which song f...