Artists talking where the press cycle thins out.
Talkhouse Podcast turns artist admiration into conversation, placing songwriters, performers, and filmmakers across from peers who understand the work from inside. The tone moves easily from record-shop enthusiasm to heavy talk about loss, touring, politics, and the private costs of making art.
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Talkhouse Podcast is a long-running conversation space for musicians, filmmakers, comedians, and other creative people who tend to meet as peers rather than as interview subjects. The format gives the episodes a lived-in looseness. Recent installments move through Scottish emotional rock, 90s shoegaze, British filmmaking, post-punk, Americana, indie pop, and songwriter confession without treating those worlds as separate silos. A new record may be the doorway, but it rarely stays the whole subject. James Graham’s episode with Rachel Goswell carries the weight of loss, mental illness, friendship, and the return of The Twilight Sad after years away. It is heavy material, handled through artist-to-artist recognition rather than spectacle. Andrea Arnold and Jason Williamson connect cinema, working-class roots, soundtrack choices, Sleaford Mods, and the experience of appearing in Bird. The result has grit. The show also has room for lighter curiosity. The Music Person excerpt with Florence Shaw frames Dry Cleaning’s deadpan style through school, band life, and the details of how a South London group came together. King Tuff and Morgan Nagler bring another corner of the map: L.A. songwriting circles, Laurel Canyon-tinted pop, garage-rock directness, solo debut, and the pleasure of songs that do not overcomplicate their charge. Matt Berninger’s conversations show the series at its most vulnerable. With Eric Bachmann, the talk circles self-loathing, fan relationships, touring, and the exposed feeling of performing songs that reveal too much. With Alan Sparhawk, grief and music sit close together after Mimi Parker’s death, alongside the strange forward motion of new albums and family voices. Clairo and Hannah Cohen offer a softer but equally specific mode, with slow recording, the Catskills, romantic partnership, Sufjan Stevens, and soundtracks without movies. Across episodes, the editorial voice is warm, knowledgeable, and occasionally opinionated. It names scenes and influences without turning them into homework. It is especially strong when artists admire each other enough to drop the pose. For listeners who follow indie music as a network of friendships, influences, recoveries, and second acts, Talkhouse Podcast makes the connections audible.
Made for: For listeners who follow indie rock, songwriter culture, film, and left-field pop beyond release dates and promo blurbs. It suits people who want creative context, emotional candor, and scene history in the same conversation.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is the peer dynamic: artists often speak with friends, collaborators, or mutual admirers, so the talk can skip boilerplate and reach craft, grief, fandom, and performance quickly.
Your favorite musicians, filmmakers, and other creative minds one-on-one. No moderator, no script, no typical questions. The Talkhouse Podcast offers unique insights into creative work from all genres and generations. Explore more illuminating shows on the Talkhouse Podcast Network.
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Two songwriters talk stage fright, self-loathing, and the strange comfort of being understood.
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Andrea Arnold and Jason Williamson probe how a work changes once it meets reality.
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Florence Shaw connects writing, drawing, and lyrics to the need to be understood.
Florence Shaw's conversation with Dylan Tupper-Rupert treats the music life as a problem of communication: how writing words and drawing pictures can become the clearest way of meeting the world.
Funk history, straight from the players.
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Actor Haley Joel Osment and comedian Matt Walsh discuss their new film 'Not A Nightmare', Osment's experiences with the L.A.
Filmmaker Andrea Arnold and Sleaford Mods vocalist Jason Williamson have a candid conversation about their collaboration on Arnold's film 'Bird' and her music video for his band.
Dylan Tupper-Rupert hosts Florence Shaw of the London band Dry Cleaning on Music Person.
Mark Gardener and Pete Fij recall signing with Alan McGee's Creation Records after early gigs and label showcases.
James Graham of The Twilight Sad and Rachel Goswell of Slowdive discuss touring, stage personas, anxiety, mental health, and losing their mothers to dementia.
Andrea Arnold and Sleaford Mods vocalist Jason Williamson discuss their collaboration on Bird and Arnold's music video for No Touch.
Dylan Tupper-Rupert interviews Florence Shaw of Dry Cleaning about the band’s postponed North American tour, which became financially unsustainable because of rising travel and overhead costs.
Morgan Nagler and King Tuff discuss Nagler’s solo album I’ve Got Nothing to Lose and I’m Losing It, King Tuff’s album Moo, and their upcoming tour from New York to California.
This episode features an interview between musician Langhorne Slim and Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper, discussing Slim's new album and Klepper's unique blend of comedy and political reporting.
Eric Bachmann and Matt Berninger talk through Bachmann's blocked RCA, his "collaterals," and the PVCs that still set off panic.
This episode features a conversation between host Josh Modell and musicians Matt Berninger (The National) and Alan Sparhawk (Low), discussing Sparhawk's career, his wife Mimi Parker's death, and his recent albums.
This episode features a conversation between songwriters Clairo and Hannah Cohen discussing their recent albums, creative influences, and the dynamics of making music with romantic partners.