Fresh Sounds Podcast
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.
Episodes
95 episodes
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. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 28
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16:43
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 fixati...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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17:23
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 arc...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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15:21
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 92, July 15, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Melbourne’s The Pro-Teens, London’s Two Shell, Brooklyn’s Mice Parade, and Toronto’s Alvvays. For the archive track this week, Mark goes back to 1994 for a slice of what was called slowcore bac...
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Season 3
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Episode 26
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15:23
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 91, July 1, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Nashville’s Soccer Mommy, Hamburg’s Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Detroit’s Omar-S with Supercoolwicked on vocals, and Brisbane’s Moses Gunn Collective. For the archive track this week, Bre...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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15:48
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 90, June 24, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Bristol’s Ishmael Ensemble, remixed by Medlar, London’s Sports Team, and while we are there, a new tune from Dry Cleaning, and similar from LA’s MUNA. For the archive track this week, Mark goes...
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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15:05
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 89, June 17, 2022
This week's show covers new music from NYC’s Grace Ives, a new track from London’s Greentea Peng, some fusion electronics from The Range, and a new collaborative single between West London’s Lava La Rue and Cork, Ireland’s Biig Piig. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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16:27
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 88, June 10, 2022
This week's show covers new music from the French band Phoenix, from a new synthpop project from Morgan Geist and Kelley Polar, called Au Suisse, a track that blends Dap Tone retro with Bollywood and Turkish elements from the pairing of El Mich...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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16:34
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 87, June 3, 2022
This week's show covers new music from a duet between the French producers Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon, and LA R&B artist Sunni Colón. Next, some noisy dreampop from Ireland’s Just Mustard. We also feature a new track from London’s KH, which i...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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15:48
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 86, May 27, 2022
This week's show covers new music from a duet between Nigeria’s Obongjayar and British jazz musician Nubya Garcia, a new Daphni tune, a song from Morocco’s Moktar Gania & Gnawa Soul, and a new song from Ghost Power, which features Tim Gane,...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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16:32
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 85, May 20, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Athens, Greece’s Σtella from her new Redinho-produced album, London’s The Hics, Athens, Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers, and the team of Danger Mouse and Black Thought, of The Roots. Brendan took ...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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14:50
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 84, May 13, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Sydney’s The Lazy Eyes, LA transplant Carly Rae Jepsen, Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, and London’s Steak. Mark plucked this week’s jewel from the Fresh Sounds Music Archive. This time, it is a...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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16:29
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 83, May 6, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Ghent’s Bolis Pupul, Aix-en-Provence’s Melody’s Echo Chamber, London’s Sault, and Oakland’s Hazel English. For the archive pick this week, Brendan went back to 1989 for the debut single from In...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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17:05
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 82, April 29, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Tokyo’s Kikagaku Moyo, Virginia Beach’s Pusha T, a Penelope Isles track remixed by Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, and some new post-punk from Portland, Oregon’s Soft Kill. For the archive pick this we...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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17:33
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 81, April 22, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Brisbane’s Hatchie, the excellent pairing of LA’s Mykki Blanco and Michael Stipe--of R.E.M. fame!--, a bit of techno from one of the two new albums from Stockholm’s Axel Boman, and some excellent music fro...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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16:10
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 80, April 15, 2022
This week's show covers new music from London’s Jamie xx, Brooklyn’s Boyish, a film soundtrack by Pennsylvania’s Alex G, and a track from the debut album by London’s Walt Disco.For the archive pick this week, Mark dusts off a 1989 gem f...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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16:42
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 79, April 8, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Boston’s Cave In, London’s Kit Sebastian, Brisbane’s Confidence Man, and a great new single from Athens-based Σtella with an assist from London’s Redinho. For the archive pick this week,...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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16:32
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 78, April 1, 2022
This week's show covers new music from LA’s Sudan Archives, a new single from Britain’s Yungblud, a great tune from Detroit’s Elzhi, produced by LA’s Georgia Anne Muldrow, and a hot tune from London’s Ibibio Sound Machine.For the ...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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14:59
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 77, March 25, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Barcelona’s Rosalía, with an assist from The Weeknd, a new single from Amsterdam’s Weval, a deep cut from the new album by Christchurch, New Zealand’s Yumi Zouma, and a new single from London’s Robohands w...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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15:09
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 76, March 18, 2022
This week's show covers new music from an LA and NYC combo, of American Dance Ghosts and Baltra, a new dance banger from NYC’s Doss, a lounge-y new track from Austin’s Flyjack and London’s Scrimshire, and some new indie rock from Philly’s The D...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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16:27
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 75, March 11, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Britain’s Tears For Fears, Brisbane’s Sampology, Stavanger, Norway’s Beachheads, and the pairing of Paris’s Janko Nilovic with backing by The Soul Surfers, of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.For the ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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14:16
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 74, March 4, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Glasgow’s Belle & Sebastian, Baltimore’s Future Islands, Boston’s Pixies, and Los Angeles’ Lo Moon. For the archive pick this week, Mark digs up a gem from 1998: Fatboy Slim’s undying...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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16:40
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 73, February 25, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Sweden’s Sally Shapiro, London’s Babeheaven with an assist from the Brooklyn rapper Navy Blue, a new single from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever of Melboune, Australia, and a bopping new tune from the Bay ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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14:53
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 72, February 18, 2022
This week's show covers new music from Zurich’s Mano Le Tough, Philadelphia’s Empath, a great collaboration between Harvey Sutherland and Dâm-Funk, and some great indie rock from Toronto’s Georgia Harmer.For the archive pick this week, M...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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14:49
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 71, February 11, 2022
This week's show covers new music from NYC’s Caroline Polachek, a nu-Balearic track from Saint Petersburg, Russia’s A Vision of Panorama, a new climate change anthem from Durham, NC’s Superchunk, and a new dance single from London’s Seb Wildblo...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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14:54