Music That Matters, Vol. 703 - Special PNKSLM Edition

The Runcast with John Richards

KEXP

Music

4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this unique edition of Music That Matters, KEXP’s Atticus focuses on Sweden’s PNKSLM Recordings (Sudakistan, Chemtrails, HOLY). Along with playing some of his favorite releases, he talks with founders Luke Reilly and Johan Alm about the origins and future of the label, what it takes for them to sign a new band, touring in the US vs Europe and more. Get ready for a mix of sweet garage and punk from across the world while gaining insight into the label where it all began.

1. Sudakistan - Two Steps Back
2. High Sunn - Those Last Words
3. Sleep Eaters - Valley of Dogs
4. MISS WORLD - (U Watch My) Stories (But U Don't Like My Posts)
5. Shit Girlfriend - Mummy’s Boy
6. Chemtrails - I’ll Never Be
7. Spice Boys - Spice City Boys
8. HOLY - You shine on me (feat. Boys)
9. Beach Skulls - Baby’s A Liar
10. Arre! Arre! - I Feel It All
11. Mind Rays - Cease / Commence
12. ShitKid - Get jealous
13. Les Big Byrd - Snö Golem
14. Hollow Ship - We Were Kings

Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Music That Matters podcast. My name is Atticus, and I'm excited to present you with a very special punk slime edition of the podcast this week.
0:08.9	Punk slime is a Swedish-based label that started around 2013, and I've been continually putting out some of my favorite garage, punk, and really just amazing records over the last few years.
0:18.4	I've got to talk to Luke and Johan who run the label, and ask them about the founding of the label
0:21.8	and what they have going on in the near future.
0:25.2	I'm going to get this out of the way first,
0:26.9	because your name is abbreviated.
0:28.6	It is pronounced punk slime, right?
0:30.7	Oh, no.
0:31.3	I'm so surprised you.
0:32.7	I'm surprised you knew what it was.
0:34.6	I mean, what, 90% of the time?
0:37.2	Yeah, we get pink slim.
0:39.0	Pink slime.
0:39.9	Pink slime.
0:41.1	I mean, those at least make somehow sense.
0:43.8	There's been a lot of weird ones I can't remember.
0:46.4	Okay, so we got that out of the way.
0:48.4	How did you guys get your start?
0:50.6	So, 2013, I moved over to Stockholm.
0:53.5	I was working at bigger record label, a local label here.
0:59.4	Yeah, but it was an imprint on Universal, so it was a lot of fairly large acts, but only here in Sweden.
1:07.0	Yeah, I'd always sort of toyed with the idea of having a little label of my own.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KEXP, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of KEXP and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.