For each show, we take an in-depth look at one new album that we think is worth sharing, and play some selections from it. An archive of all our episodes is available at ForTheRecordPodcast.com. Contact us at FTR@ForTheRecordPodcast.com.
Australian singer-songwriter Alex the Astronaut has released her debut record of genuine, charming, folk-pop that is just the sort of music we need to be singing along…
Dublin's Fontaines D.C. avoid the sophomore slump with an album of energetic, unsettling post-punk. We discuss "A Hero's Death" on episode #132 of "For the Record." For…
Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi fame has a new band, a trio with his wife Amy Farina and Fugazi bassist Joe Lally. Coriky captures some…
Bad Moves recorded this album before the pandemic, but it's even more relevant now. In these days of constant crisis and a devastating wealth gap, are you…
The members of Ohmme are classically-trained musicians and veterans of the Chicago improvisational jazz scene. They make experimental pop that balances harmony and chaos: Beautiful, twinned…
A global pandemic, nationwide protests, pervasive social isolation, and we recently had to cancel our August wedding because of the virus. These are bleak times for many…
British band Sports Team released its first full-length, "Deep Down Happy," last week, so we revisit this episode about them recorded last year, which covers their 3…
After being unceremoniously dropped by 4AD after the label judged her to be insufficiently commercially successful, TORRES plowed her disappointment into her art to make her most…
Former frontman of The Walkmen, Hamilton Leithauser, brings us an ambitious and cinematic solo record. Its thematic focus on friends and strangers that made an impression on…
Katie Crutchfield brings a more direct and Americana-influenced sound on her fifth album as Waxahatchee, "Saint Cloud," and it may be her best yet. We discuss it…