Ep468: Justin Trosper of Unwound
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Justin Trosper of Unwound discusses the band's resurgence, vinyl reissues, intergenerational fanbase, reflections on maintaining artistic integrity and what may be next for the band.
Topics Include:
- Unwound's upcoming debut in Australia this November
- Thoughts on Unwound still generating excitement after all these years
- Younger fans connecting with Unwound's music, seeing it as new and relevant
- Artistic purity and maintaining integrity
- Other band's covering Unwound - obligatory Melvins reference
- Working with Kill Rock Stars and the freedom they had
- Recording Leaves Turn Inside You - Making MagRecOne recording studio
- Working with Numero Group, developing boxsets
- Finding materials, tapes, artwork for vinyl reissues
- 4 boxsets: Kid Is Gone, Rat Conspiracy, No Energy, Empire - anything missing?
- Unwound has an archival ethic - UnwoundArchive.com
- Relationship with Vern after Unwound's breakup
- Lots of video and unexplored tapes
- What happened to the cover art for "Fake Train"?
- Is there the possibility of new material from Unwound?
- Does Justin still collect records?
- I'm sending Justin some records
- Playing the "Guess the Runout Groove Etching" game with Justin
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:40.4 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:44.0 | Ah, well, hello, everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:46.3 | Welcome to episode 468 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:52.9 | And I am a bit exhausted today yesterday was a big day |
| 0:56.6 | at the glebe record fair and uh it was so great to meet so many of you listeners there who stopped |
| 1:03.2 | by and said hi and talked about records for a bit uh but uh again it was a big day on my feet |
| 1:09.2 | pretty much the whole day up up at 4 a.m. |
| 1:12.3 | And back late. |
| 1:13.6 | So, yeah, I definitely need an extra cup of coffee today. |
| 1:17.2 | So again, thank you, everyone who swung by the Glebe Record Fair. |
| 1:20.4 | Hope to see you with the next one. |
| 1:22.0 | And speaking of meeting up at record fairs, just a heads up, I'll be back in Los Angeles |
| 1:26.9 | and Las Vegas in November and December. |
| 1:30.7 | So, just firming up my details right now, if you are in any of those locales, DM me, |
| 1:37.3 | and maybe we could do a record meetup somewhere. |
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