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Jim Adkins

Music Interview podcast about songwriting featuring Jim Adkins (from Jimmy Eat World) and guests.

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  • 20 episodes
  • Avg 56 min
  • English
  • #21
    Jul 19, 2023 · 56 min

    Andy Hull (Manchester Orchestra) - EP21

    I hang out with Amplified Echoes tourmate, Andy Hull from Manchester Orchestra. We get into our split cover song collab, becoming comfortable hearing your own voice and adopting character writing to get “you” out of the way.

  • #20
    Dec 3, 2020 · 54 min

    Marc Rebillet - EP20

    Jim talks with M. Rebillet about his one-man-wrecking-crew, take no prisoners, play-to-the-back-of-the-room performance. Which since the majority of his show is improv, is also his writing sessions.

  • #19
    Nov 19, 2020 · 51 min

    Frank Turner - EP19

    Frank and Jim chat away through the English dusk about punk rock, imaginary listeners projecting their lives onto musicians and the universality of dressing rooms with no waste basket.

  • #18
    Nov 5, 2020 · 58 min

    Ken Andrews (Failure) - EP18

    Ken and Jim get nerd rapping about the DAW writing vs analog realm writing, the perils of instrument switching mid-song and lyric writing tips to keep you from getting psyched out.

  • #17
    Oct 29, 2020 · 56 min

    Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes) - EP 17

    Jim and Bob talk about art vs content, creative restrictions on purpose and having stage hands load in a bunch of tv’s as props for your dude-with-a-guitar set.

  • #16
    Oct 22, 2020 · 57 min

    William Ryan Key (Yellowcard) - EP16

    New friend Ryan and Jim talk about all the places one receives an education in music ... institutions and bus lounge interventions. Huh ... Institutions and Interventions kind of sounds like a good name for an album. Dibs.

  • #15
    Oct 15, 2020 · 1 hr

    Joey Burns (Calexico) - EP15

    Jim and a recently Boisien Joey Burns talk about remote collaboration, racing train noise to get takes in and the choice to approach writing with ensemble feels in mind.

  • #14
    Oct 8, 2020 · 1 hr 3 min

    Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast) - EP14

    Bethany and Jim get deep on the psychology of control vs letting go, coming to acceptance with imaginary audience reactions and the real, real, real. GET THE MUG: https://kingsroadmerch.com/jim-adkins... Subscribe: https://smarturl.it/JEWSubscribe More Jimmy Eat World: Website: https://www.jimmyeatworld.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jimmyeatworld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimmyeatworld/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimmyeatworld Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Ayl7mCk0nScecqOzvNp6s?si=MbdpB2sETYupWQgha07PDw Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/jimmy-eat-world/id3446973 Bethany Cosentino : https://bestcoast.net Animations and Logo: Tonianne Tartaro @tonianaro and Emily Argiro @em_argiro Credit Sequence Music: “Flying On By” by Jackson, Finn and Jim Adkins. Published by Red Pods Of Fire Music (Kobalt) Produced and Edited by Jim Adkins

  • #13
    Oct 1, 2020 · 54 min

    Mike Kinsella (Owen, American Football) - EP13

    Mike Kinsella (American Football, Owen, Joan Of Arc etc …) and Jim get into the weeds with vocal performance delivery choices, letting kids watch Reanimator and how your creative output is allowed go beyond the boundaries of your current self perception.

  • #12
    Sep 24, 2020 · 42 min

    Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) - EP12

    Gerard and Jim talk about making intentional choices to get around expectations psyching you out and how unlikely it may be that anyone reads the episode notes.

  • #11
    Sep 17, 2020 · 50 min

    Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids) - EP11

    Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kids and more talks with Jim about the state of lockdown musician life, writing on commission and battling the negative inner voice.

  • #10
    Sep 10, 2020 · 50 min

    Justin Meldal-Johnsen - EP10

    Jim and producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen try to break down why we like what we like to a simple place. And, how the core of creative puzzle-solving is basically the core of everything else.

  • #9
    Sep 3, 2020 · 1 hr

    Courtney Marie Andrews - EP09

    Courtney and Jim rap about writing whilst abroad, launching an album during a pandemic and holding out for an inspired work.

  • #7
    Aug 27, 2020 · 53 min

    David Bazan (Pedro the Lion) - EP07

    David and Jim talk about the places you go in your own head when performing, the hesitance to let things suck and letting the creative magnet draw in whatever might come.

  • #6
    Aug 25, 2020 · 57 min

    Tegan Quin (Tegan and Sara) - EP06

    Jim and Tegan chat about quarantine projects, reinventing your musical identity and defiantly flying into proverbial hurricane wall of the “rules”, without any.

  • #5
    Aug 20, 2020 · 42 min

    Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) - EP05

    Jim and Ben chat from the early days of COVID lockdown about letting go of the pressure to create, remote collab work and assembling a rock-voltron of people you have worked with to channel into an imaginary guide.

  • #4
    Aug 18, 2020 · 58 min

    Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional) - EP04

    Jim and Chris chop it up about studio environments, tweaking out on Axe-Fx and summoning the willingness to trash that one cool thing you absolutely think you need … that you really don’t.

  • #3
    Aug 13, 2020 · 1 hr 8 min

    Nate Ruess (Fun, The Format) - EP 03

    Nate Ruess (Fun, The Format) raps out with Jim (Adkins) about the cringe factor in co-write sessions, writing to avoid writing and Static Prevails-times.

  • #2
    Aug 11, 2020 · 1 hr 8 min

    Steve Aoki - EP02

    Jim and Steve talk about crawling out of the primordial punk rock ooze, playing (then later sleeping) in Steve’s kitchen and the differences between how EDM and rock world approach song structure.

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