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First Nights Samantha Smart, the writer, producer and star of Charliebird, on how music shaped her and her work as a filmmaker.

#Charliebird actor/writer Samantha Smart on how music shaped her as an artist

Towards a Pop Culture of Ideas or: In Defense of Trekkies Filmmakers Timour Gregory and Sasha Schneider on their new documentary, Beam Me Up, Sulu — and why Star Trek is still important.

The directors of #BeamMeUpSulu set the record straight

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Sinking into Sweet Uncertainty – Otherwise Known as Making a Movie Writer-director Emma Higgins shares some of the tracks that underpin her new music-centric film Sweetness, which is in theaters now.

Emma Higgins on the secret soundtrack of her new movie #Sweetness

A Very Special Episode: Apologizing to the Fiery Furnaces For this week’s episode, we’re going to skip the typical Talkhouse format and give you something that I think you’re going to love just as much, about a band called The Fiery Furnaces. I bet a lot of ...

Longtime radio journalist and Snap Judgment producer John Fecile takes over the Talkhouse Podcast this week for a special redemption interview with The Fiery Furnaces

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Three Great Things: Matt Johnson The writer-director-star of Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, which is out tomorrow, picks a trio of personal favorites.

#NirvannaTheBandTheShowTheMovie director Matt Johnson on Updike, the video game Hades II, and Magic: The Gathering

Ailbhe Reddy and Marissa Paternoster Want to Be Able to Take Risks The artists talk the economics of being a musician in 2026, and much more.

Marissa Paternoster (Screaming Females) and Ailbhe Reddy talk about the economics of being a musician in 2026, the importance of having multiple artistic outlets, and more

Ailbhe Reddy and Marissa Paternoster Want to Be Able to Take Risks The artists talk the economics of being a musician in 2026, and much more.

"Everyone's scrounging around for the same $250"—Marissa Paternoster (Screaming Females) and Ailbhe Reddy talk the economics of being a musician in 2026

From Newsletter to Pilot: How I Accidentally Rebuilt My Writing Career Former TV writer Jon Stahl on the unlikely genesis of his new comedy web series, Casen Pointe: True Crime Detective.

Jon Stahl on the curious roots of #CasenPointeTrueCrimeDetective

In next week’s #OneGreatThing newsletter, Elizabeth Nelson (The Paranoid Style) pays tribute to Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. Sign up now to read about it: mailchi.mp/thetalkhouse...

Finding the Magic and Humanity in Science on the Big Screen Newly returned from Sundance, Sandbox Films' Jessica Harrop on her attempts to reconceive what science documentaries can be.

Sandbox Films' Jessica Harrop on reimagining what a science doc can be

Mood Board: Blackwater Holylight’s Not Here Not Gone Sunny Faris on how Buddhism, sunsets, Carmen Maria Machado, and more inspired the band’s new record.

#MoodBoard: Blackwater Holylight shares how Buddhism, sunsets, Carmen Maria Machado, and more inspired the band’s new record

Maynard James Keenan (Tool) Talks with Daniel Ash on the Talkhouse Podcast Between these two: Tool, Bauhaus, Puscifer, Love & Rockets, A Perfect Circle and more

It's Maynard James Keenan of Tool in conversation with Daniel Ash on this week's episode of the Talkhouse Podcast

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How Francis Ford Coppola Taught Me to Build, Not Just Direct Janek Ambros on how studying the iconic director - and getting personal advice from Coppola himself - has guided him in his film career.

Janek Ambros on #FrancicFordCoppola

Drew McFadden and Leon Jean-Marie Had a Lot of Fun Making Naive Melodies The longtime friends talk recording Leon’s cover of “This Must Be The Place” for the compilation.

Drew McFadden and Leon Jean-Marie talk the process of making of 'Naive Melodies', a new compilation that reinterprets the music of Talking Heads through the lens of Black musical innovation

Pullman Is Really Busy The supergroup’s Curtis Harvey, Chris Brokaw, and Ken “Bundy K.” Brown talk getting the band back together for III.

Pullman’s Curtis Harvey, Chris Brokaw, and Ken “Bundy K.” Brown talk about getting the band back together for III

David Lynch and I: Involved in a Mystery A year after David Lynch’s death, filmmaker Robert Kolodny reveals the idiosyncratic way he has been processing the loss of the iconic auteur.

Filmmaker Robert Kolodny on life after David Lynch

Everything you missed this week across the Talkhouse Podcast Network 🎧

#OneGreatThing: soprano Tiffany Townsend really appreciates a good pair of shoes. Subscribe now to read all about it in Monday’s newsletter: mailchi.mp/thetalkhouse...

Role Models: Silver Liz Bonded Over Beach House Carrie and Matt Wagner talk their love for the dream pop band, and making music as a couple.

#RoleModels: Carrie and Matt Wagner, aka Silver Liz, talk bonding over @beachhouseband.bsky.social in college

Westerman Talks with Luke Temple on the Talkhouse Podcast On this week’s Talkhouse Podcast, we’ve paired up two songwriters who love to wander musically but whose recordings are tough to mistake for anyone else’s. It’s Luke Temple and Will Westerman.Temple h...

New on the podcast: Luke Temple and Westerman chat about Los Angeles, art vs. capitalism, and the death of the regional sound of music

Role Models: Susan Alcorn Helped Sam Wenc Stay Curious The composer and pedal steel guitarist pays tribute to the late artist, his mentor.

#RoleModels: Sam Wenc talks how Susan Alcorn—the late pedal steel guitarist, and his mentor—forever changed him as an artist

To Protest or Not to Protest Actress Irene Sofia Lucio on the question that starring in Liberation on Broadway during the time of ICE raids has forced her to reckon with.

#Liberation star Irene Sofia Lucio on taking action in this moment

Three Great Things: Anna Konkle The Pen15 creator-star, who's now starring in Untitled Home Invasion Romance, on Korean bathhouses, waiting tables and her dog George.

Anna Konkle on Korean bathhouses, waiting tables and her dog George

Bush Tetras and ESG Have a Blast From the Past Cynthia Sley and Renee Scroggins catch up about NYC in the ‘70s and ‘80s, their upcoming show in San Francisco, and more.

In advance of their show together in San Francisco Friday 99 Records alumni @bushtetras.bsky.social and ESG chop it up for @talkhouse.bsky.social!

Will Epstein and Maggie Millner Want to Defamiliarize the Mundane The singer-songwriter and the poet talk abstract versus concrete lyrics, and much more.

Will Epstein and poet Maggie Millner talk abstract versus concrete lyrical expression, the importance of prosody, and much more

Zola Jesus and Devon Welsh Will Die on the Daguerreotypes Hill The artists catch up with their friend James Samimi Farr about his debut record.

James Farr (Daguerreotypes) catches up with old friends Devon Welsh and Nika Danilova (Zola Jesus)

Big Sonia and the Big 100 On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Leah Warshawski on her grandmother, Holocaust survivor Big Sonia, and her 100th birthday.

Leah Warshawski on #BigSonia at 100

Finding Compassion, or Why My Mom is My Tripwire Chase Joliet on writing, recovery and the roots of his debut feature, Grapefruit.

Chase Joliet on writing, recovery, his mother and his debut feature, #Grapefruit

In next week’s #OneGreatThing newsletter, Adrian from Draag tells us about his cat, D’arcy. Sign up now to read it first thing Monday morning: www.talkhouse.com/one-great-th...