Sam Fender is a singer and songwriter from the town of North Shields in England. He won the Brit Award for Best Rock/Alternative Act twice. His most recent album is called People Watching, and just like his first two albums, it went to #1 on the UK album charts. To help produce the album, Sam enlisted Adam Granduciel, the singer and frontman of the Grammy-winning band The War On Drugs. For this episode, I talked to Sam, and his bandmate Joe Atkinson, about the title track from People Watching, and the long journey that it took to get made, from Sam’s kitchen, to the Hollywood Hills, to Abbey Road.

You can buy or stream “People Watching” here.

Illustration by Carlos Lerma.

For a transcript of this episode, click here.

footnotes:
Annie Orwin
Brooke Bentham – backing vocals
Dru Michael – drums
Dean Thompson – lead guitar
Mark Webb – trumpet
Johnny ‘Bluehat’ Davis – tenor sax
Jon Natchez– baritone sax
Rosie Danvers – strings arranger
Sleeper Sounds
Tom Petty
Billy Connolly
Check out the Perfume Genius episode to learn more about the binaural mic
Lost in the Dream – The War On Drugs
Dancing in the Dark – Bruce Springsteen

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Fall Out Boy is a band from Chicago that formed in 2001. Their first album, Take This To Your Grave, was a hit, especially in the punk rock world. When they put out their second album, though, in 2005, that was on a whole other scale. That album is called From Under the Cork Tree, and it went double platinum, and they were nominated for a Grammy for Best New Artist. For this episode, I talked to the band’s singer, Patrick Stump, about how they made their breakout hit from that album, the song “Sugar, We’re Goin Down.”

You can buy or stream “Sugar, We’re Goin Down” here.

Illustration by Carlos Lerma.

For a transcript of this episode, click here.

footnotes:
Pete Wentz – bass
Joe Trohman – guitar
Andy Hurley – drums
Neal Avron – producer
Fueled by Ramen and Island Records
The Blue Meanies
Yogi Berra
Sean O’Keefe
Mike Fasano
November Rain – Guns N’ Roses
Knockout
TRL (Total Request Live) on MTV

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