The Super High Quality Podcast
The Super High Quality Podcast is the official podcast of The War On Drugs and Super High Quality Records. Presented as a series of audio stories told by the band members and crew and featuring previously unreleased recordings, the Super High Quality Podcast is a real-time oral history of the band's evolution in the studio as well as on the road. Through conversation and music, longtime friend and guitar tech, Dominic East, takes the band's story backstage to share candid insights into life behind the scenes with The War On Drugs.
Episodes
17 episodes
Lost In The Dream, 10th Anniversary
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of The War On Drugs' Lost In The Dream, we've put together a special long-form episode of The Super High Quality Podcast to tell the behind-the-scenes story of how the record was made. Betwee...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:32:10
The Super High Quality Podcast Trailer, Season 4
To commemorate the 10th Anniversary of The War On Drugs' 2014 album, Lost In The Dream, we've put together a special episode of the SHQ Podcast to tell the behind the scenes story of what it took to make the album. The full epis...
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Season 4
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1:59
LIVE DRUGS AGAIN - Part 4 (Aug/Sep/Oct 2022)
After a handful of North American festival dates in August, The War On Drugs headed out for their final run of shows in September and October 2022. As the band continued to refine their performances, the tour moved east to west, north to...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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24:47
LIVE DRUGS AGAIN - Part 3 (May/Jun/Jul 2022)
After returning to the US in late April 2022, The War On Drugs took a short break berore heading back out on an intense 7-week tour that took the band to Mexico, across the US, and back to Europe. After a massive show with The Strokes in ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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30:45
LIVE DRUGS AGAIN - Part 2 (Mar/Apr 2022)
Following their 6-week run of shows across the US in January and February, The War On Drugs headed to Finland in mid-March 2022 to begin 6 weeks of shows across Europe. As one of the first international bands to tour overseas as pandemic...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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24:52
LIVE DRUGS AGAIN - Part 1 (Jan/Feb 2022)
In January 2022, The War On Drugs kicked off a world tour in support of their latest album, I Don’t Live Here Anymore. At a time when there weren’t a lot of bands on the road as pandemic restrictions eased, TWOD packed multiple road cases...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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31:02
The Super High Quality Podcast Trailer, Season 3
The War On Drugs have just announced a series of sold-out “Drugcember” benefit shows to take place on December 19, 20, and 21st at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia. Proceeds from the shows will benefit The Fund for the School District of P...
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Season 3
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7:16
I Don't Live Here Anymore - Part 4
After 18 months apart, The War On Drugs were finally able to reconvene in person in the summer of 2021 ahead of their first scheduled live performances of the songs from their new album I Don’t Live Here Anymore. How does a band ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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28:29
I Don't Live Here Anymore - Part 3
No one has been as instrumental in crafting the sound of The War On Drugs’ last two albums as Shawn Everett, the multi-Grammy-winner who has formed a remarkable studio partnership with band leader Adam Granduciel. Perfectly suited to hand...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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28:37
I Don't Live Here Anymore - Part 2
Over the course of recording I Don’t Live Here Anymore, The War On Drugs continued their obsessive exploration of the recording process in sessions at some of NY and LA’s most prestigious studios. One standout session was the thr...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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26:01
I Don't Live Here Anymore - Part 1
Over 5 days in March 2018, during a short break in the band’s heavy touring schedule, Adam Granduciel took bassist Dave Hartley and multi-instrumentalist Anthony LaMarca to an Upstate New York studio. Decamping to Outlier Studios with Phi...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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30:58
The Super High Quality Podcast Trailer, Season 2
Four years since their last studio album, The War On Drugs have just released I Don’t Live Here Anymore, the follow-up to their Grammy-winning best rock album A Deeper Understanding. Season 2 of the Super High Quality P...
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Season 2
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2:34
LIVE DRUGS - Part 4
With studio sessions put on hold and their new studio album postponed, The War On Drugs decided instead to release LIVE DRUGS. In Part 4 of The Super High Quality Podcast the band members share their individual experiences under lockdown ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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27:17
LIVE DRUGS - Part 3
Perhaps no song in The War On Drugs’ catalog embodies the “sound” of the band as much as “Under The Pressure”. Part 3 of The Super High Quality Podcast, digs deep inside this ambient journey. From the improvised sonic stew that dev...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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23:09
LIVE DRUGS - Part 2
Connecting with a classic Warren Zevon album after relocating to Los Angeles where the band was recording 2017’s Grammy-winning A Deeper Understanding, Adam Granduciel presented Zevon’s classic “Accidentally Like A Martyr” as a s...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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