

Down With Boring
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Direct from leading UK music mag Dork, Down With Boring is our flagship podcast, delivered every two weeks. Featuring the best and most exciting new, emerging and established acts around, the latest tracks, the best new albums and loads more.
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Sep 21, 2021 • 1h 5min
Down With Boring #0067: Lil Nas X, Sundara Karma, Talk Show and more
On this week's show, we've got an album of the week from Lil Nas X, plus new music from Sundara Karma, Talk Show, Michelle and more.

Sep 14, 2021 • 51min
Down With Boring #0066: The Vaccines, MUNA, ABBA and more
We're back from the festival fun with a show packed with the best new music, latest news and a threat to Winnie the Pooh. He's got it coming.

Sep 7, 2021 • 1h 29min
Down With Boring #0065: Reading 2021
Reading Festival is great. Really great. That’s why this bank holiday weekend just passed, we headed down to Little Johns Farm to record the latest episode of our weekly radio show / podcast type ‘thingy’ Down With Boring. We’re joined by some big names as we bring you the best of what went down at Reading 2021, with Ashnikko, Declan McKenna, Girl In Red, Holly Humberstone, Sea Girls and The Wombats all featuring. Star power, huh?

Aug 23, 2021 • 1h 40min
Down With Boring #0064: 110 Above
We’re off for some festival fun at Leicestershire’s 110 Above this week as we’re joined by some top drawer Friends of the Magazine this week, with The Amazons, Black Honey, Baby Queen and Alfie Templeman all popping in for a quick chinwag – and in the case of young Alf, something altogether more sinister too. There’s also some of the best new music, including fresh material from Lorde, Blossoms and ‘more’.

Aug 17, 2021 • 1h 47min
Down With Boring #0063: Jade Bird
This week, we're joined by Jade Bird - who's just dropped her new album 'Different Kinds of Light'. There's also an album of the week from Oscar Lang and new music from Lizzo, Sea Girls and more.

Aug 9, 2021 • 1h 44min
Down With Boring #0062: MAY-A
With her brand new EP, ‘Don’t Kiss Ur Friends’ out now, we’re delighted to welcome one of our favourite new alt-popsters MAY-A to the show. Plus, there’s an album of the week from IDER as well as new music from Holly Humberstone, Chubby and the Gang, BLACKSTARKIDS and ‘more’.

Aug 8, 2021 • 44min
Mez's Sunday Lunch #0014: From York to New York
On this month's Sunday Lunch, Mez and Jake are packing their suitcases and heading out on the road for an edition packed with chat about tour life.
Tracklist:
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Bodega - How Did This Happen!?
Skaters - I Wanna Dance (But I Don't Know How)
Warpaint - Undertow

Aug 2, 2021 • 1h 28min
Down With Boring #0061: Margate Special
We’re off to sunny Margate for the latest episode of Down With Boring. With contributions from organisers-slash-headliners Sports Team, plus their guests on the bus-based extravaganza Courting and TV Priest, we have all the fun of the fair from last month’s seaside extravaganza. Plus, there’s an album of the week from Billie Eilish and new music from Bleachers, Silk Sonic, Lauran Hibberd and ‘more‘. A feast!

Jul 19, 2021 • 1h 50min
Down With Boring #0060: The Ninth Wave
With their brand new track 'Maybe You Didn't Know' just dropped, The Ninth Wave join us as part of a show filled with new music, including our album of the week from Willow. There's also fresh material from Caroline Polachek, Baby Queen, Turnstile, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard and 'more'

Jul 18, 2021 • 44min
Mez's Sunday Lunch #0013: Sports!
Join Mez and Jake as they dive gracefully into the world of sports. Journalism so hard-hitting, it's like getting whacked in the face by a squash ball. But hopefully less painful.
On this week's show:
Wet Leg - Chaise Longue
Fontaines D.C. - Television Screens
The Goa Express - Second Time
Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
IDLES - Damaged Goods
Viagra Boys - Sports


