Elizabeth Nelson

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Paranoid Style is a garage-punk-pop outfit built around singer songwriter Elizabeth Nelson. Elizabeth joins Rhett this week to talk about their new album, “For Executive Meeting”, as well as the many other creative projects she’s involved in, like an upcoming piece about Springsteen’s “Nebraska”. Elizabeth and Rhett discuss what it means to be a musician and a published music critic, the process she employs to get a multitude of things done, and why it’s important to take a compliment. Plus, she explains the origin of the unique name of her band. Elizabeth Nelson is singer-songwriter for the Washington, DC–based garage-punk band the Paranoid Style, a civil servant in the field of education policy, and a regular contributor to The Ringer, Oxford American, The New York Times Magazine, and Pitchfork, among other publications. In 2020, Spin Magazine ranked the Paranoid Style the 27th best rock & roll band currently working, thereby adding 26 names to her renowned Enemies List. Listen to For Executive Meeting Paranoid Style on IG @paranoid_style Rhett on IG: @rhettmiller Website: Rhettmiller.com Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. Find Rhett's podcast #WheelsOff and other music-powered shows on @Osirispod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	ahead and get involved. Grab a Coke, drink it in.
0:49.6	Osiris.
0:52.6	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:57.8	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:59.2	That's when it got wheels off.
1:02.2	We started ugly, we ain't going to stop.
1:04.5	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
1:07.9	That's when it got wheels off.
1:18.1	Elizabeth Nelson is all the things, and she's brilliant at all of them.
1:21.5	Not fair, not fair, man.
1:31.3	Elizabeth Nelson is a songwriter and a journalist and a TV writer, and she does all sorts of great activism.
1:36.3	She works in the field of education policy. She has a day job writing about guitar specs for Finder.
1:40.3	She's written for all sorts of big publications, and her band, Paranoid style, is
1:48.6	really cool. They're a beloved indie rock band, smart as a whip, great music. She's just,
2:00.3	she's kind of the perfect wheels-off guest. I'm so glad that I was
2:06.7	introduced to her and she was willing to do this because I feel like the information and the hot
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