Spencer Tweedy joins Mark and Tom to talk about all of the cool stuff he’s been up to, from the Case Oats record, to the Mirror Sound book project, to starring in The Tweedy Show. They also talk about what it’s like to play drums with Mavis Staples after school (and of course they talk about all the things he loves about Chicago).

Kip Berman has charted a musical course that’s taken him to a level of fame that feels big in the indie world. His band The Pains of Being Pure at Heart earned critical praise, but that was just one stop on his journey of making music. He joins Mark and Tom for a candid conversation about making music with his friends in Pains and his new “solo” venture The Natvral.

How Mark Greenberg ended up managing Wilco’s loft is a “right place at the right time story” on the surface, but Mark’s journey to get there is the story of a music lifer who never thought he couldn’t or shouldn’t take that chance moving to Chicago or walking into Lounge Ax to ask Sue Miller if his band could get a gig there one day.

Dylan Slocum of Spanish Love Songs is about as honest a frontman as you’ll meet in the biz - and he’s definitely not a punk (just ask him). He joins Tom and Mark to talk about his creative process and how the band is making its way through the pandemic music world, including the challenge of writing angry songs at a time when everyone is hurting.

Need to remember what song Hüsker Dü opened with at their first Chicago show? Aadam Jacobs has your back. Aadam has spent his entire adult life building an archivists’ dream collection of concert recordings from Chicago’s myriad venues.

Bob Nastanovich of the bands Pavement and Silver Jews, along with the Three Songs Podcast, and Brokers Tip Records joins us to discuss his career from driving a Manhattan bus to joining Pavement, to owning racehorses, to starting his own podcast, and label.