Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer talks to Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Steve Taylor’s 1987 album I Predict 1990. This episode cuts off right at the end, as…

Stream or download this episode. Nathan Gilmour discusses Michael Gerson’s “The Last Temptation” and David French’s response with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs.

Stream or download this episode.  Listen to Donovan’s Brain. Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and guest Christina Bieber Lake about the 1944 radio production of Donovan’s Brain–a tale well-calculated to keep…

Download or stream this episode. Visit our website. Josh and Michial discuss the tenth Disney animated feature, 1948’s Melody Time.

Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer talks to Gregory Alan Thornbury about his latest book, Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?: Larry Norman and the Perils of…

Stream or download this episode. Visit the Before They Were Live website. Josh Altmanshofer and Michial Farmer talk about 1943’s The Three Caballeros, the first truly bad Disney animated feature.

Stream or download this episode.  Josh Altmanshofer and Michial Farmer discuss Walt Disney’s first package film, 1943’s Saludos Amigos.

On the anniversary of Julia Ward Howe’s death, Nathan Gilmour discusses patriotic hymns with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer.

A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: 16 Horsepower WHO ARE THEY? Someone once described them to me as a Flannery O’Connor short story come to life–which sounds about right, actually.…

Listen to this episode. Michial Farmer discusses Olivier Messiaen’s modernist piece Quatuor pour le fin du temps with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs. Hear the piece. “An Audubon in Sound.”

Listen to this episode. Visit our website. Josh Altmanshofer and Michial Farmer discuss 1941’s Dumbo with special guest Victoria Reynolds Farmer!

Listen to this episode. With Michial Farmer out sick, David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour talk about Sophocles’s play Oedipus at Colonus. The last few minutes of the show are lost…

Download or stream this episode. We’re back! Nathan Gilmour discusses the 1987 Rob Reiner classic The Princess Bride with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer.

A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Michael Knott WHO IS HE? Well, he’s the lead singer of Lifesavers Underground, for one–but also of Lifesavers, Lifesavors, the Aunt Bettys, Cush (for…

Josh Altmanshofer and Michial Farmer talk about Walt Disney’s third feature film, 1940’s Fantasia. Download or stream this episode. Visit our website.