Radiolab - Curious Sounds from the Solid Sound Festival

This fall, we're hitting the road with our brand-new live show. We're stopping in 20 cities across the US (plus 1 stop in Canada), and we have some exciting news about the special musical guests who are joining us for the tour. Listen to a quick sneak peek, and grab your tix now.

Duration: 9m
Broadcast on: 27 Jun 2013
Audio Format: other

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This is Jad, so we're about to release our next podcast. This little thing is actually not it. This is just a brief dispatch with a couple of announcements. Couple of sounds. So this past weekend, we were in Massachusetts at the Solid Sound Festival. It's a festival that's organized by the band Wilco. Every year, they get together a bunch of bands. Winico Case was there, Lo, Foxagen. Great bands. They also had comedy, John Hodgman, Reggie Watts. That's Reggie. Every time I see him, he blows my mind. It was a really fun weekend. We were invited to basically do a live read-through of part of the show that we're gonna be touring this fall. And that's actually the purpose of this little message. I wanna make sure you know that this October, November, we're gonna be hitting 21 cities as part of our live tour. And here's the news that we just got this weekend. We've added some musicians to the bill, some amazing musicians. So we've already signed up Sarah Lipstate, Brooklyn-based guitarist and film composer, Dusty's epic, amazing soundscapes. She's already on board, which is great. And now announce the Glenn Coachee, drummer from Wilco, will be joining us for a big chunk of this tour. Now, if you've never heard Glenn do his percussion thing, like on Wilco, it's more straight ahead rock, but when he's just doing percussion, it's amazing. Classically trained, so he plays bells and vibes and all kinds of things. He builds his own percussion instruments. His drum set looks like some kind of spaceship.

And he creates sounds, which are completely otherworldly. So Glenn's gonna be joining us. And he happens to play in a band called On Fillmore, and the other member of that band is bassist Darren Gray. And Darren is kind of like Glenn, but on the bass. Like he gets his bass to make noises that you just don't expect a bass to make. For instance, he has found a way to turn his bass into a tuba, literally. So it can sound like a lion? I don't know, I just wanna leave that to your imagination. So we're really excited about this, that on Fillmore, you know, Glenn and Darren

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