The Charlatans are about to release their fourteenth album We Are Love, a gladly psychedelic swish featuring perhaps my favourite Charlatans track ‘For The Girls’ - dedicated to band members’ families. Tim remembers the moment of running into Bez and Shaun Ryder of The Happy Mondays as he was checking into the hotel to detox, his favourite moments of the longer new Charalatans live shows, and how recording We Are Love at Rockfield was an embrace to his late bandmate Rob Collins. We Are Love is out 31 October. Thanks to Fender. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As teenagers wide-eyed to the world of Fat White Family and the notorious Queen's Head in Brixton, Charlie Steen and Shame did the honourable thing: dive heard first into everything. Still friends and still excited about making albums and touring, Charlie tells us about moving through south London in his twenties, living in the wahsing room and grifting at the Nepalese. Shame's excellent fourth album Cuthroat is out now. See Charlie's art at steenhub.com. Thanks to Elephant's Head, Camden. Mentioned: King Krule, Steve Lamace, The Stooges, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Alabama 3, Viagra Boys, Jimi Hendrix, Roxy Music, David Bowie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inside Sheffield's Crookes Social Club, Malevolence's Alex, Charlie and Wilkie talk us through being a band since they were teenagers, going hard at touring before they made any money - making it happen out of pure passion and belief, looking up to While She Sleeps and Bring Me The Horizon before playing together and becoming friends, and living out their teenage dreams. Where Only The Truth Is Spoken is out now on MLVLTD. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Akil Godsey is excellent nominative determinsim. End It's loudmouth (and why shouldn't he be?) singer walks us through growing up in an extremely religious household in Baltimore, before long nights of Hey Mister and finding his people at local hardcore shows. Plus drugs, alcohol and bowling. End It's debut album Wrong Side of Heaven is out now on Flatspot. Photo: Kenny Savercool Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon and Liz from The Beths join on the work of songwriting reflection, youth music workshops in Aotearoa before studying jazz at college and teaching trumpet, and their mid-album crisis mode. Straight Line Was A Lie is out now on ANTI-. Photo: Frances Carter Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices