Looking For The Magic
9 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsElizabeth Nelson & Amy Rigby talk about music - living it, loving it - just like they're hanging out in a dingy backstage somewhere. Loosely themed episodes cover current fave reads and listens; music memories and influences; songwriting, recording, performing and the pain and fun of looking for the magic.Elizabeth Nelson is singer-songwriter for the D.C.-based garage-punk band the Paranoid Style and a regular contributor to The Ringer, Oxford American and Pitchfork amongst others. In 2020 Spin Magazine ranked the Paranoid Style the 27th best rock & roll band currently working, thereby adding twenty six names to her renowned Enemies List.Amy Rigby has been writing, performing and recording her transcendent songs about everyday life for over thirty years, first with bands Last Roundup and the Shams in NYC’s East Village, then as a solo artist beginning with classic album Diary Of A Mod Housewife up through The Old Guys (2018) and 2020 single “Vote That Fucker Out” with sometime duo partner Wreckless Eric. Her first book, Girl To City: A Memoir was published last year.
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Episodes
LFTM - Ass+U+Me
February 04, 2021 00:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBElizabeth and Amy talk about assumptions.
LFTM - Prove You Are Alive
January 28, 2021 00:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBTonight we're going to party on the Looking For The Magic podcast - Amy and @paranoiacs Elizabeth Nelson will discuss the weird magic of birthday shows, wedding gigs gone wrong...join us live at 6:30 pm, working on your birthday is proof you're alive. Happy Birthday Amy!
LFTM - Feels Like The First Time
January 14, 2021 00:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBElizabeth and Amy discuss firsts. First studio recording sessions, first tours and more! Looking For the Magic stream live on Youtube Wednesday's at 6:30pm EST on the LFTM youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcVrR6LQ_mBP3ae1IOBs56Q
LFTM - Protests! 01-06-20
January 07, 2021 00:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBElizabeth and Amy discuss the unfolding insurrection in Washington D.C. and talk about protest songs.
Personal Worst
January 03, 2021 00:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBGood riddance to 2020, the shittiest year. Sharing stories of worst gigs, stage outfits, venues and performances by other bands. Also things we thought might be crap that turned out to be good. Referenced in this episode: The Center Of Nowhere - documentary about Springfield MO music scene Bobby Keys documentary: Every Night's A Saturday Night Glenfarg Philly Business suits on stage "The jacket" Replacements at the Ritz Luton on LSD Love for NRBQ Rod Stewart's autobiography
No Snow, No Show
December 18, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBElizabeth and Amy brave a December snow storm Wednesday night. It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Bee Gees doc Luc Sante's Maybe The People Would Be The Times Alright Alright Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused Braving the elements Jimmy Page's argyle vest; Kurt Cobain's sweater Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah shows & Do You Remember That Sex Pistols Pittsburgh show that never happened
Live
December 05, 2020 22:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBWe share memories of first live shows, last live shows, best nights ever and hope for future gigs. Peter Murphy at Roseland Sonny & Cher The late David Olney Drive-By Truckers Wussy Fave music venues https://youtu.be/PwXQpT7Vkqk
Positively Bob
November 30, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBThis is the second episode of our new podcast about music. This week we share some reflections on Columbia Recording Artist Bob Dylan. Show Notes: 11.25.20 Conversations with Tom Petty / Paul Zollo They Might Be Giants / Live at The Music Hall of Williamsburg 11.29.15 Emma Swift / Blonde on the Tracks Peter Paul & Mary / Blowin’ in the Wind Hippies / Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again Bob Dylan / Biograph Bob Dylan / True Confessions Tour with Tom Petty & The Heartb...
Heroes
November 30, 2020 00:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBLooking For The Magic gets off to a start with a discussion of current reads, brushes with greatness and things you shouldn't say to your heroes. Discussed in this episode: Peter Frampton's memoir Do You Feel Like I Do Chris Frantz's book - Remain In Love Pittsburgh Richard Thompson Shants Interviewing NRBQ; Terry Adams Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys Touring with Warren Zevon Jill Sobule Tom Petty Joe Strummer; The Clash Beethoven; Theme from St. Elmo's Fire Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream &...