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How Jenny Eliscu’s ‘LSQ’ Podcast Hit 100 Episodes (And Then Some)

The rock interview podcast 'LSQ' by Jenny Eliscu recently hit 100 episodes.

I’ve been fortunate to have awesome outlets for other types of interviews over the years – cover stories for Rolling Stone, festival chats for Sirius XM, and everything in between – but I still yearned to capture more thoughtful, extensive conversations where the artists could talk about their earlier life and the moments that forged their approach to their craft. I often think of a story the National’s Aaron Dessner shared in his interview for episode two, about when he and his brother Bryce were six years old, how they discovered a dusty old drum set in the furnace room of the basement, and it was this 1959 blue sparkle Slingerland that their dad had gotten for his bar mitzvah. Or the story Michelle Branch told in episode 50 about how she was so tenacious as an unsigned teenage singer-songwriter that she drove a neighbor’s golf cart to a Sedona restaurant to hand-off her demo tape to some record exec she heard was dining there.

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