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For the final episode of World of Noise, Bob Ham speaks with Kristen Grainger and her husband about their work together in the folk/bluegrass ensemble True North and with Rachel Frankel and her husband, the leaders of the dream pop group Phosphene.

This week, the artist known as J. Graves joins Bob Ham to talk about her new EP Death Bed and reviving her mom's long-dormant indie label as a platform for women and nonbinary artists, and Jayson Tipp, the keyboardist and leader of Under The Lake, chats about his group's new album Your Horizon Too and about making music during a pandemic.

On another packed episode of World of Noise, Bob Ham speaks with singer/songwriter John Craigie in advance of the release of his new album Asterisk The Universe; Adam Pike, renowned producer and now bassist in noise-rock quartet ILS; and Matt Eiseman, the proponent of psychedelics who fronts the extreme metal trio Tithe.

On this week's show, Lisa Schonberg joins host Bob Ham to talk about the 5th edition of her self-published book The DIY Guide to Drums, an easy to swallow tome for budding percussionists and players looking to raise their skill level; and the members of the indiepop band BOAT are on hand to talk about the creation of their new album Tread Lightly, which was released this month on local label Magic Marker Records.

On this week's show, composer/scholar Alicia Jo Rabins talks about her work creating Girls In Trouble, a feminist study guide for the Torah that includes poetry, artwork, and songs; Alex Schiff discusses his first solo release under the name Blue Canopy; and Todd Goldstein talks about his new album of ambient instrumentals.

On this week's show, Joel Shanahan, the producer and DJ who records as Auscultation, chooses five songs that are important and influential to his work, and Luke Wyland and John Niekrasz talk about their friendship and their new project Methods Body.