Rough Trade & Opinions on Geese

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with Rough Trade collaborators Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee about their contributions to the music industry and their new label River Lea, which focuses on Irish folk music. The hosts also review the buzzy new album from indie rockers, Geese.

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Featured Songs:

Lankum, "Cold Old Fire," Cold Old Fire, Self Released, 2014

The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967

Geese, "Taxes," Getting Killed, Partisan, 2025

Geese, "Islands of Men," Getting Killed, Partisan, 2025

Geese, "Trinidad," Getting Killed, Partisan, 2025

Geese, "Half Real," Getting Killed, Partisan, 2025

Brighde Chaimbeul, "An Léimras / Harris Dance," The Reeling, River Lea, 2019

Raw Bar Collective, "Baile Mhúirne (feat. Nell Ní Chróinín)," Ag Fogairt an Lae, Self Released, 2016

The Wolfe Tones, "Come Out Ye Black & Tans," Let The People Sing, Dolphin, 1972

Lankum, "Go Dig My Grave," False Lankum, Rough Trade, 2023

Lisa O'Neill, "All the Tired Horses," All the Tired Horses (Single), Rough Trade, 2022

John Francis Flynn, "Mole in The Ground," Look Over the Wall, See the Sky, River Lea, 2023

Poor Creature, "The Whole Town Knows," All Smiles Tonight, River Lea, 2025

Poor Creature, "All Smiles Tonight," All Smiles Tonight, River Lea, 2025

Ye Vagabonds, "An Island," Nine Waves, River Lea, 2022

Poor Creature, "Adieu Lovely Eireann," All Smiles Tonight, River Lea, 2025

Public Image Ltd, "Flowers of Romance," Flowers of Romance, Virgin, 1981

ANOHNI, "It Must Change," My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross, Rough Trade, 2023

Robert Wyatt, "The Age of Self," Old Rottenhat, Rough Trade, 1985

The Smiths, "Frankly, Mr. Shankly," The Queen Is Dead, Rough Trade, 1986

John Fogerty, "Zanz Kant Danz," Centerfield, Warner Bros, 1984

Swell Maps, "The Helicopter Spies," Jane from Occupied Europe, Rough Trade, 1980

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0:00.0	Hey, sound opinions listeners. If you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast, and this week, Rough Trades, Jeff, Travis, and Jeanette Lee, join us to talk about their new folk label River Lee.
0:39.4	I'm Jim D. Reganus.
0:40.9	And I'm Greg Cott.
0:41.8	But first, we've got some new music to review.
0:44.3	The latest from Geese.
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1:06.2	Sound Opinions is an independent production supported by listeners like me on Patreon.
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1:18.5	episode's description. Mr. I don't deserve this.
1:40.3	Nobody deserves this.
1:45.0	Mr. Cot, that is one of the singles from the much-buzzed new Geese album, Getting Killed.
1:53.1	The song is called Taxes.
1:55.3	They don't want to pay them.
1:57.0	But who does, really, okay?
1:59.6	Who is geese?
2:01.5	Formed in Brooklyn in 2016.
2:05.0	An origin story, not unlike all those hallow gallo kids from Chicago, horse girl and
2:12.1	lifeguard.
2:13.5	These kids were high school pals at the very prestigious Brooklyn Friends School and Little Red Schoolhouse, put the band together, rehearsing in one of the parents' basements.
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