The TMEP Showoffs are getting into show business, and especially the motion picture business, by finally posting VIDEOS featuring some of our favorite guests. Feel the tug at your heartstrings as Zia McCabe from the Dandy Warhols shares the story of her emotional encounter with personal hero Willie Nelson at the Glastonbury Festival.

WATCH HERE: https://youtube.com/shorts/OobVtKwGuQg

In this early TMEP Show episode, Zia tells us about touring with her baby daughter on the bus; her dual life as a rockstar and real estate agent; and how to throw an epic house party while writing off the drugs and booze on your expense report.

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On the year-ending TMEP Show wrap up, Allen reveals the startling results of his 2024 Apple Music Replay and Alex reveals the show’s secret plan for world domination for 2025. 

Find Graham Parson's Squeezing Out Sparks album: https://www.grahamparker.net/Squeezing_Out_Sparks.html

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In this holiday episode, our friend Corin Tucker from Sleater-Kinney tells about the time she and bandmates Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss reluctantly abandoned their punk instincts and wrapped "gifts" for an uncomfortably phony photo shoot. Then host Alex Hofmann returns to a Christmas past when Radiohead flew him to their post-Pablo Honey holiday party in England...and Ed O'Brien had to nurse him back to health.

Cool Sleater-Kinney stuff is on IG: @sleater_kinney

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If you know the movie “This Is Spinal Tap,” you will certainly recall the moment Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls describes himself as the band conduit, "David and Nigel are like poets, you know, like Shelley or Byron, or people like that. The two totally distinct types of visionaries, it’s like fire and ice, and I feel my role in the band is to be kind of the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.” Well, on today’s Quick Tap, our guests tell us about the times they left puddles of themselves for a higher purpose. Songwriter Freedy Johnston introduces Lou Reed and Joey Ramone; author and rapscallion Scott Nathan recounts the time he connected Leonardo DiCaprio to a Martin Scorsese flick; and The Pulsars Dave Trumfio reminisces about how he got a rise out of Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher with rock legend Cynthia Plaster Caster.

Freedy on the 'grams: @freedyjohnston

Scott Nathan and The Big Book of Bad Decisions: https://baddecisionsbook.com

The Pulsars on IG: @pulsarsband

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As Tokyo Police Club winds up their illustrious recording and live-concert career, Graham reminisces about the cursed tour van they bought in America that they couldn’t get across the Canadian border.

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Some auditions are really ODDitions in disguise. On this TMEP Show Quick Tap, Divine Sweater lead singer Meghan Kelleher reveals how a one-off emergency gig led to a permanent one; 86-year-old TikTok influencer Annie Korzen tells us why she said "Yes" to a role on a little-known show about nothing...and banked $100,000 in residuals; and actor/comedian Jeff Grace guides us through the land mines he had to avoid after landing a role on Mad Men.

Hear Divine Sweater's album “A Time For Everything” on Bandcamp: https://divinesweater.bandcamp.com/album/a-time-for-everything

Find Annie Kozen's autobiography “The Book of Annie” on Amazon or wherever you get your books.

All about Jeff Grace: jeffgrace.com

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One of our favorite guests, 311’s Nick Hexum, returns to talk turkey with your favorite host, Allen, about their favorite band, The Clash, and Joe Strummer’s favorite movie, This Is Spinal Tap. It’s a special Thanksgiving episode of the TMEP Show that will be one of your favorites, as well. You can bet your giblets on it.

311 and Nick on IG: @311 and @Nickhexum

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Eli tells us about the time his band Moon Kissed was on its way to a big gig at SXSW in Austin, Texas when the COVID shut down blew out the conference and threatened to do the same to NYC as they rushed to get home.

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On today’s TMEP Show Quick Tap (short episodes with short stories for short attention spans) we hear stories from artists who just so happen to be female, about moments dealing with a-holes who just so happen to be male. Tyler Simone Molton from the band Lesibu Grand dishes on how often sound men ask her male bandmates how she likes her vocals...instead of just asking her; actress Dina Spybey Waters (“Six Feet Under” and “Just Like Heaven”) makes us cringe about the time she expressed concern to a producer about being objectified only to be objectified some more; and recording artist Kandle tells us her harrowing experience about nearly being kidnapped from behind the merchandise booth at her own gig. If someone can’t be safe behind a merch table, where can they???

Lesibu Grand on IG: @lesibugrand

Kandle on IG: @kandleosborne

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On Election Day, we go two steps FORWARD by taking one small step back to our 2022 conversation with artist/activist Shepard Fairey who designed both the iconic Obama “Hope” poster and Kamala Harris’ “Forward” poster. Shepard gets Frank with us about why he almost added an asterisk to an Ozzy Osbourne tour poster; the outrage he felt as a boy when the Village People’s “YMCA” fell off the top of the charts; and the reason “Diabetic” is his only tattoo.

Join Shepard's flock @obeygiant and https://obeygiant.com

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Our guests regale us with Spinal Tap Moments when they experienced the famous at their most shameless. Peter Jest, owner of the legendary Milwaukee club Shank Hall (sound familiar?) tells us about his run-ins with notorious partiers Warren Zevon and Sam Kinnison; The Pulsars Dave Trumfio dodges balls from Oasis front man Liam Gallagher; and author/photographer Scott Michael Nathan stings Sting and gets stung back.

Peter Jest's book, "We Had Fun and Nobody Died" is here: https://www.amazon.com/Had-Fun-Nobody-Died-Adventures/dp/1976600308

Find Scott Michael Nathan's book, "The Big Book of Bad Decisions" https://baddecisionsbook.com

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