264: Peter Helmis (Algernon Cadwallader): The Silly Side of Serious
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy welcomes Peter Helmis of Algernon Cadwallader
On this episode, Jeremy and Peter talk Saddle Creek Records, Kriss Kross, the parental advisory sticker, Hot Topic, Dippin Dotz, Stone Temple Pilots, learning guitar, Joshua Fit For Battle, apprehension to sing, his prolific output, Halfway to Holland's first tour starting the day high school ended, the paper atlas, their new album "Trying to Not Have a Thought", and so much more!!
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| 0:00.0 | First ever |
| 0:11.0 | Pondes |
| 0:14.0 | First ever |
| 0:17.0 | Punch |
| 0:19.0 | First ever podcast, first ever, the first ever podcast. I am your host, and if this is your first time here, 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 episode 264. And my guest this week is Peter Helmiss of the band Algernon Cadwalliter. |
| 0:56.2 | Their excellent new album, Trying Not to Have a Thought, is available now via Saddle Creek Records, |
| 1:01.6 | and they have a full U.S. tour kicking off November 6th in Portland, Oregon, |
| 1:06.9 | ending December 15th in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 1:11.1 | You can check dates for that over at Algernon cadwalliter.com. |
| 1:16.2 | So look, I never met Peter before. |
| 1:18.3 | I have tremendous respect for him and Algernon. |
| 1:21.5 | They were always a band that I was almost kind of intimidated by for some reason. |
| 1:26.7 | They just seemed like they knew what they were doing at all times. |
| 1:29.9 | And it's kind of funny to talk to him about that because I think he might argue the other |
| 1:34.2 | direction. |
| 1:34.9 | But for a band that was always seemingly one step ahead of a lot of people and a lot of the |
| 1:39.3 | things that they did and the music that they were making, it's just always exciting to see |
| 1:43.3 | a reunion going so well, |
| 1:45.1 | especially including a new record that is being so positively received. |
| 1:50.1 | You know, for those that care or pay attention, |
| 1:52.6 | I mean, the fact that Pitchfork just gave it best new music, |
| 1:54.9 | I think they got an 8.4. |
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