ZERO CRED
29 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago -A podcast companion to Dan Ozzi's REPLY ALT.
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At Home with Amy Fleisher Madden (author of 'Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo')
October 22, 2023 12:32 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MBA chat about compiling a giant book of emo band photos. Get full access to ZERO CRED at danozzi.substack.com/subscribe
At Home with Julia Steiner (Ratboys)
September 07, 2023 13:45 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBA conversation with Ratboys frontperson Julia Steiner about their new album The Window, as well as iPods, The Simpsons, and where good song ideas come from. Get full access to ZERO CRED at danozzi.substack.com/subscribe
At Home with the Armed's Tony Wolski
August 25, 2023 13:30 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBTalking about working out and Perfect Saviors with the (not so) mysterious cult member. Get full access to ZERO CRED at danozzi.substack.com/subscribe
At Home with Nathaniel Shannon (St. Vitus Bar: The First Ten Years)
July 18, 2023 13:05 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBA conversation with the NY photographer about compiling a massive book documenting the history of an already iconic venue, St. Vitus. Get full access to ZERO CRED at danozzi.substack.com/subscribe
At Home with Alex Lahey
May 18, 2023 10:45 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBA chat with the songwriter on the release of her new album, 'The Answer Is Always Yes.' Get full access to ZERO CRED at danozzi.substack.com/subscribe
At Home with Drew Thomson
May 02, 2023 13:41 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBA conversation with the mastermind behind Single Mothers and the Drew Thomson Foundation. Get full access to ZERO CRED at danozzi.substack.com/subscribe
At Home with Chelsea Hodson
February 02, 2023 17:01 - 59 minutes - 27 MBA chat about writing, creativity, and starting an indie press with the Rose Books founder and author of 'Tonight I'm Someone Else.' Get full access to ZERO CRED at danozzi.substack.com/subscribe
At Home with Jim Ruland (author of Corporate Rock Sucks)
December 14, 2022 16:52 - 1 hour - 31 MBA conversation about writing rock books with Jim Ruland, author of Corporate Rock Sucks. Get full access to ZERO CRED at danozzi.substack.com/subscribe
Sellout Stories: Sarah Lewitinn (Ultragrrrl)
January 20, 2022 15:05 - 1 hourHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the only and therefore greatest email newsletter about music in the known universe. I’ve been running a series here over the last few weeks called SELLOUT STORIES where I post extended chats with some of the people who make appearances in my BELOVED and BESTSELLING new book SELLOUT. Please see past episodes with Chris #2 of Anti-Flag, Norman Brannon of Texas Is the Reason, and Riley Breckenridge of Thrice. They’re all on Spotify and Apple and blah blah blah. ...
At Home with Chris Norris (Steak Mtn.)
December 06, 2021 15:06 - 1 hourHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the best/only newsletter about music. I’ve been doing a lot of supplementary interviews around here lately about my book SELLOUT since it has consumed my damn life over the last two months. As such, I’ve run interviews about the major-label experiences of The Bronx, Less Than Jake, Anti-Flag, Texas Is the Reason, Thrice, and Murder by Death. But today I figured I’d get back to some good old fashioned non-SELLOUT content by interviewing my elusive friend Chris...
Sellout Stories: Riley Breckenridge (Thrice)
November 18, 2021 14:00 - 53 minutesHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, my perfect email newsletter about music which has never had a single typo or msitake in it! I had my West Coast SELLOUT release party last week in Los Angeles and it still amazes me that an entire venue’s worth of people will show up to hear about A BOOK. THE WRITTEN WORD! Thank you for coming if you did! I really do need to set up some events in other cities, huh? I shook a lot of hands and took many pictures with people and as a result I got sick for the ...
Sellout Stories: Norman Brannon (Texas Is the Reason)
November 05, 2021 14:14 - 1 hourHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the only/greatest newsletter about music in the world. Welp, SELLOUT has been out for a week and the response has been so overwhelming. Every morning I wake up to dozens and dozens and dozens of nice messages from you all. Apologies if I haven’t gotten to all of them but I really appreciate the support! I’ve done approximately 9,000 interviews about the book recently if you want to read/listen to any of em. There have been a few new ones I’m probly forgetting....
Sellout Stories: Chris #2 Barker (Anti-Flag)
October 18, 2021 14:05 - 58 minutesHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the greatest email newsletter about music in the world/shameless hype machine for my new book SELLOUT, which is out NEXT WEEK. (BUY IT!) Today I’d like to introduce a new podcast segment which I’m excited about called Sellout Stories. These are interviews with people whose major-label experiences (or near-miss experiences) deserve a full hour of chatting. Some people will appear in SELLOUT, some won’t. Today’s guest does! Listen above or anywhere you listen...
At Home with Franz Nicolay (author, member of The Hold Steady)
September 13, 2021 13:05 - 57 minutesHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the world’s greatest music newsletter which is also sometimes an interview podcast. Listen to all previous episodes on Spotify and Apple. The kindest praise I believe a writer can give another about their work is: I wish I’d written this. About 100 pages into Franz Nicolay’s debut novel, Someone Should Pay for Your Pain, that thought hit me like a baseball bat. God, even that title fills me with envy. Franz, an author and longtime member of The Hold Steady, ...
At Home with Brendan Kelly (The Lawrence Arms, The Falcon)
May 31, 2021 13:16 - 49 minutesHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the greatest newsletter about music, ever. Sometimes I put text into these things and sometimes I put audio conversations. Today is a convo for your listening pleasure! Hm. Do I, of all people, need to sit here and type an introduction for today’s guest, Brendan Kelly? [my producers are yelling in my earpiece that yes, in fact, I do.] OK, OK, fine, I will introduce Brendan even though I’m positive most people who are familiar with my work will also be familia...
At Home with The Armed's Adam Vallely
April 05, 2021 12:34 - 50 minutesHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the newsletter about music which is also sometimes a podcast. Listen to today’s episode and others on Spotify or Apple. I’ve got to be out of my goddamned mind to agree to interview The Armed on April Fool’s Day. Trying to get a clear picture of the enigmatic Detroit collective has been like nailing Jell-O to the wall for those who’ve tried. A few years ago, I sent a writer to profile them (which as far as I can tell is the only substantial piece ever writte...
At Home with Mikey Erg
March 08, 2021 12:30 - 57 minutesHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the only email newsletter about music that is also sometimes a podcast. Today, it’s a podcast. Listen to this episode and others on Spotify or Apple. You’d think a guy like Mikey Erg would get cynical or jaded about music. After all, the guy has played in a near limitless slew of bands over the last decade, toured through every venue in every city in America, and is practically the glue that holds The Fest’s lineup together every year. And yet, despite all hi...
At Home with Anika Pyle
March 01, 2021 15:05 - 52 minutesHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the only email newsletter about music that is also sometimes a podcast. Today, it’s a podcast. Listen to past episodes on Spotify or Apple. This post is a sappy one. Don’t say you weren’t warned! Many years ago, when I was entering the thoroughly unprofitable world of writing about rock bands for a living, I was largely figuring it out as I went along. I didn’t know where I was headed with it or where it would lead me. Hell, I still don’t know. I only knew to...
At Home with Augusta Koch (Gladie, Cayetana)
January 19, 2021 15:05 - 52 minutesHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the best email newsletter about music in the entire world which is also sometimes a podcast—the best podcast in the entire world. Today it’s a podcast. Sometime around 2013 I heard a band called Cayetana. They only had a handful of songs to their name at the time and that was all I needed to hear. I was instantly hooked on the Philly trio’s scrappy take on punk, especially the vocal work of singer Augusta Koch. Her voice had this ragged edge to it and it flar...
At Home with The Dirty Nil's Luke Bentham
January 12, 2021 15:05 - 57 minutesHello and welcome back to REPLY ALT. As previously mentioned, I had to take a short break from the newsletter game to finish the first draft of my book, so thanks for the patience. As a writer who takes pride in meeting deadlines, I am pleased to report that I stuffed everything into the mailslot at the eleventh hour. All 140,000 words of it. People keep asking how long that is in pages. I’d imagine close to 600? So yeah, it’s a big boy. I promised myself that if I met my deadline I would t...
At Home with Kevin Devine
October 13, 2020 15:29 - 54 minutesHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the best email newsletter about music in the entire world which is also sometimes a podcast—the best podcast in the entire world. Today it’s a podcast. Sometimes I will spend a few hours preparing for an interview so that I will pass as someone who at least wields some vague sense of what the fuck they’re talking about. Sometimes, if I’m being honest, I will be cramming my prep in at the very last minute. But talking to today’s guest is something I feel like ...
At Home with Laura Stevenson
October 05, 2020 16:20 - 1 hourHello and welcome to another edition of REPLY ALT, the only newsletter about music ever to exist. Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of the zine I put on sale last week. They sold out way, wayyyy faster than I’d expected, so apologies if you didn’t get one but my insecurity rendered me incapable of printing literally a single copy more than I did. Today’s newsletter is once again a podcast. Please see previous episodes with Jonah Ray, Sarah Tudzin [Illuminati Hotties], David Anthony, Chr...
At Home with Jonah Ray
September 28, 2020 14:06 - 1 hourJonah Ray, photo by me. Welcome to REPLY ALT, the world’s only newsletter about music. Today’s edition is once again a podcast. Please see previous episodes with: Sarah Tudzin [Illuminati Hotties], David Anthony, Chris Farren, Lauren Denitzio [Worriers], Todd Taylor [Razorcake], and Jenny Owen Youngs. They’re also available on streaming services like Spotify and Apple and all that. Oh and subscribe to REPLY ALT if you don’t already for some god unknown reason! Today’s newsletter/podcas...
At Home with David Anthony
September 11, 2020 12:30 - 1 hourToday’s newsletter is once again a podcast. Please see previous episodes with: Sarah Tudzin [Illuminati Hotties], Chris Farren, Lauren Denitzio [Worriers], Todd Taylor [Razorcake], and Jenny Owen Youngs. They’re available on Spotifies and Apples and all that. Oh and subscribe to REPLY ALT! If you were a listener of my old podcast, No Plus Ones, you will be familiar with today’s guest, David Anthony. But did you know that David also has an entire life outside the podcast? It’s true! In addit...
At "Home" with Illuminati Hotties' Sarah Tudzin
July 20, 2020 08:15 - 55 minutesHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the world’s only and therefore greatest email newsletter about music. Sometimes I use this newsletter’s built-in podcast feature. (Please see previous episodes with Chris Farren, Lauren Denitzio [Worriers], Todd Taylor [Razorcake], and Jenny Owen Youngs.) And today I’m once again taking a crack at it with a new episode, featuring an interview with Sarah Tudzin of Illuminati Hotties. (Also, I submitted the podcast to all the services so you should maybe hopefu...
At Home with Razorcake's Todd Taylor
July 09, 2020 12:00 - 1 hourHello and welcome to REPLY ALT, the only/best email newsletter about music. Sorry I haven’t updated in a few days. I’ve been busy stockpiling a few audio interviews for your listening displeasure. I have a freakin delightful interview running in a few days with the musician who made my favorite album of the summer, a super secret project that you perhaps caught me ominously tweeting about the other day. It’s a wild record with a wild story behind it. In the meantime, I bring you this new int...
At Home with Lauren Denitzio (Worriers)
February 23, 2020 20:09 - 46 minutesHey there and welcome to a fresh edition of REPLY ALT, music’s only email newsletter. Occasionally I like to mess around with the podcast feature of this newsletter by going to someone’s house and rummaging through their personal belongings while interviewing* them for an hour. (* = aimlessly shooting the shit because I refuse to prepare questions or topics or do anything that might make me seem like a person who has their shit together) Previous guests have included Chris Farren and Jenny O...
At Home with Jenny Owen Youngs
November 14, 2019 15:15 - 58 minutesSubscribe to REPLY ALT! It’s free! Unless you want to pay for it! Then you can pay! The last time I tried out the podcast feature on my newsletter, I visited the home of Chris Farren to record a casual chat about his new album, Born Hot. So it seemed fitting that for the second edition I visit the home of his co-conspirator Jenny Owen Youngs. I’m guessing most of the people who have followed my music journalism “career” over the years are familiar with Jenny from her time on the Revival To...
At Home with Chris Farren
October 14, 2019 12:30 - 47 minutesIn today’s edition of I’d Like to Tell You About My Friends, I’d like to tell you about my friend Christopher “Chris” Farren. Perhaps you know Chris from his past work in the band Fake Problems or his current work in the Jeff Rosenstock buddy project Antarctigo Vespucci. Or maybe you know him from the internet, where he has carved out his own little universe around himself. Or maybe you don’t know him at all. I’m quite convinced that, were Chris not a musician, he could pull down six figure...