Folk-rock talk with room to wander.
This Side of the Mic follows The Currys as Tommy, Galen, and Jimmy move between songs, road stories, trivia, and running jokes. The music talk is real, but the pleasure is how casually it shares space with travel mishaps, holiday bits, and odd little questions.
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This Side of the Mic is a relaxed music-and-life show built around The Currys, a folk-rock harmony band from Charlottesville, Virginia. Tommy, Galen, and Jimmy carry it with the ease of people who have logged a lot of songs, flights, family updates, and inside jokes together. The show has a simple center. Music matters. Around that center, almost anything can happen. One episode might move from a new song into a trivia game about John Denver, the Beatles, and tour behavior. Another might pause on a cover like "The Parting Glass" before turning into a blind ranking of oddly specific preferences. The tone stays warm, but it has a dry edge. Someone spills a beer, someone smells like a hoodie that needed attention, someone uses email as a makeshift document system, and the others do not let the moment pass quietly. Travel is a recurring part of the texture. Cuba, Guatemala, the Galapagos, Florida, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, and holiday tour stops all appear as pieces of a working band’s calendar rather than glossy postcards. Family life comes through the same way. Baby announcements arrive with jokes about anticlimax, fanfare, and impossible future birth rates. The music craft talk is concrete without turning stiff. Arrangements, mandolin choices, covers, writing cycles, EPs, Christmas albums, festivals, and future projects surface naturally in conversation. The show also likes games. Hot-seat segments, blind rankings, karaoke premises, listener questions, and trivia give the episodes shape without sanding down the chatter. Patreon shout-outs and named supporters give it a community feel, but not in a polished campaign voice. It feels closer to being allowed to sit in on the end of rehearsal, after the practical details have started drifting into stories. The pacing is unhurried. The jokes often come first, then the sincere point lands a few minutes later. For listeners who like music podcasts with personality, this one offers band chemistry more than industry posture. It is thoughtful, rambling, funny, and quietly specific about the strange everyday work of making songs with other people.
Made for: Best for listeners who like musician-led conversations, gentle banter, road stories, and songcraft without a formal interview structure. It especially suits fans of harmony bands, tour diaries, and recurring games.
What sets it apart: The draw is the band’s easy shared history: serious craft talk keeps bumping into family news, travel logistics, listener games, and small domestic disasters. It feels intimate because the tangents are part of how the music gets discussed.
This Side of the Mic is a podcast by folk-rock harmony band The Currys where they talk seriously about songs and un-seriously about everything else.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Currys make songwriting and band life legible through musical games, practical detail and the easy friction of longtime collaborators.
Tommy, Galen and Jimmy turn working-band conversation into a loose, good-humored account of how musicians think together. The Currys move easily among songwriting, touring, rearranging material for mandolin and the practical absurdities of band life, with games and trivia giving…
Three bandmates turn mandolin arranging, music trivia, and a spilled beer into your kind of hang.
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A warm Curry hangout where baby news, listener questions, and hot-seat bits keep the family texture front and center.
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Loose band banter and a ranking game that still lands on real opinions under the jokes.
The Currys settle into a space between a band hang and a music-nerd argument, opening with smell jokes, a hoodie that probably needs a wash, and a beer-spill story from a Florida drive before the talk wanders into a ranking game. That looseness is part of the appeal.
Travel updates and trivia keep this basement session loose, funny, and easy to follow.
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The Currys start with the kind of easy chaos that makes their shows feel lived-in.
The Currys return to the basement after some time away.
The hosts of a folk-rock band joke about their appearance, fast food habits, and upcoming tour dates after returning from the Galapagos Islands.
The hosts, members of The Currys, introduce the podcast and engage in lighthearted holiday banter.
The Currys banter about windshield wipers, Thanksgiving, and their upcoming Christmas tour.
The band The Currys discuss their recent travels to Cuba and Guatemala while introducing their podcast about songs.
The band The Currys discuss their recent travels to Cuba and Guatemala, upcoming shows, and plans for their next musical project.
The hosts of a folk-rock band discuss their recent illness and set up the podcast's format of serious song talk and unserious banter.
The band The Currys announce their first Christmas album and discuss their excitement and preparation.
The Currys announce their new EP 'Others' and discuss its creation, crowdfunding, and release details.
The band The Currys introduce their podcast and discuss upcoming song releases and Patreon content.
The band The Currys announce and discuss their upcoming EP release, including new songs and old singles.
The band The Currys discuss upcoming tour dates and new music releases in a lighthearted, humorous manner.
The hosts of a folk rock band's podcast introduce themselves and engage in casual, humorous banter about audio mishaps and spilled tea before starting the episode.
The show opens by setting songs aside and turning toward travel.