The Fresh Sounds Podcast takes you around the world in five songs. Short reviews, song samples and a fair share of banter. Your hosts Mark Berniker and Brendan Hasenstab are avid music zealots searching the domestic and global indie universe for their favorite songs. The Fresh Sounds podcast isn’t an algorithm, it’s two great old friends keen to share great music with listeners worldwide.

Fresh Sounds Podcast
Claim This Podcastby Mark Berniker and Brendan Hasenstab
Podcast Overview
The Fresh Sounds Podcast takes you around the world in five songs. Short reviews, song samples and a fair share of banter. Your hosts Mark Berniker and Brendan Hasenstab are avid music zealots searching the domestic and global indie universe for their favorite songs. The Fresh Sounds podcast isn’t an algorithm, it’s two great old friends keen to share great music with listeners worldwide.
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6/22/2020
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Recent Episodes

August 5, 2022
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 95, August 5, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Catalonia’s Rosalía, from Malian guitarist and singer Vieux Farka Touré backed up by Houston’s Khruangbin, a new tune from Durham, NC’s The Mountain Goats, and Cambridge, England’s Anish Kumar. For the archive track this week, Brendan whips out a favorite from <checks notes> 14 years ago, from Melbourne’s Cut Copy. This is perhaps their signature song, “Lights & Music,” expertly produced by Tim Goldsworthy, then affiliated with DFA Record...

July 29, 2022
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 94, July 29, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Cambridgeshire’s SBTRKT, Newcastle Upon Tyne’s Kathryn Williams, London’s Jessie Ware, and West London’s George Riley. For the archive track this week, Mark breaks out of our recent ‘90s fixation with a tune from the aughts, 2007 in fact. Off to Paris for the Michael Jackson besotted “D.A.N.C.E” by the one and only Justice. (They soundtrack that electric Volvo XC 60 ad too, though with a different tune.) Yes, time is a flat circle and music from 20...

July 24, 2022
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 93, July 22, 2022
This week's show covers new music from London’s Hot Chip, Brighton’s Wax Machine, a collaboration between Chicago’s Sam Prekop and John McEntire, and the team-up of Paris’s Biche with the LA band Pearl & The Oysters. For the archive track this week, Brendan goes back to 1992 for some mutant hardcore punk on the melodic side of that scene. This band was signed to Sub Pop Records at the time, which was about the best indie label on the scene in those days. The track in question is by ...
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