260: Peter Berkman (Anamanaguchi): Crib Notes on Square Waves
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy welcomes Peter Berkman of Anamanaguchi.
On this episode, Jeremy and Peter talk karaoke choices, music video Easter Eggs, the band American Football, loud neighbors, Mega Man 2, Smashing Pumpkins, playing violin, chip music, starting Anamanaguchi, 8-Bit Peoples, touring for the first time, Scott Pilgrim, RSS feeds, boss level music, Kickstarter, playing on Jimmy Fallon, their new album "Anyway", and so much more!!!
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| 1:09.7 | First ever. First ever podcast. |
| 1:13.6 | First ever podcast. |
| 1:38.1 | Welcome to the first ever podcast. |
| 1:39.4 | My name is Jeremy Bollm. |
| 1:41.6 | I am your host, and if this is your first time here, |
| 1:43.9 | this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds about the first experiences in their art form that led them to where they are today. This is |
| 1:49.0 | episode 260, and my guest this week is Peter Berkman of the band Anamonaguchi. They have a |
| 1:57.8 | brand new record, which is out now. It is called Anyway, came out via polyvinyl records, and it sounds like this. |
| 2:05.3 | Which if you know anything about this band, |
| 2:18.3 | it is that they have never had vocals before, |
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