Podcasts by Pass-Through Frequencies

Pass-Through Frequencies - EP00 - Intro from 2023-12-14T11:41:21.654708

This is an Interview-based podcast about songwriting with me (Jim Adkins from Jimmy Eat World) and other guests. In this series I chat with music people about their process, preparation and executi...

Mark Hoppus (Blink-182) - EP 01 from 2023-12-14T11:41:21.650466

In the first episode of the series Jim and Mark chop it up about the early days of making albums, collaboration in “these times” and no matter how harsh your inner critic is there’s someone who ...

Flynt Flossy (Turquoise Jeep) - EP08 from 2023-12-14T11:41:21.603617

Jim and the Floss get to the root of why we choose to create art, challenging your self perceptions and breakdancing.

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Courtney Marie Andrews - EP09 from 2023-12-14T11:41:21.598299

Courtney and Jim rap about writing whilst abroad, launching an album during a pandemic and holding out for an inspired work.

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Mike Kinsella (Owen, American Football) - EP13 from 2023-12-14T11:41:21.584497

Mike Kinsella (American Football, Owen, Joan Of Arc etc …) and Jim get into the weeds with vocal performance delivery choices, letting kids watch Reanimator and how your creative output is allow...

Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast) - EP14 from 2023-12-14T11:41:21.578669

Bethany and Jim get deep on the psychology of control vs letting go, coming to acceptance with imaginary audience reactions and the real, real, real.

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Ken Andrews (Failure) - EP18 from 2023-12-14T11:41:21.561397

Ken and Jim get nerd rapping about the DAW writing vs analog realm writing, the perils of instrument switching mid-song and lyric writing tips to keep you from getting psyched out.
 

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Marc Rebillet - EP20 from 2023-12-14T11:41:21.551820

Jim talks with M. Rebillet about his one-man-wrecking-crew, take-no-prisoners, get-the-back-of-the-house-jumping stage show . Which, since the majority of his show is improv doubles as his writi...

Andy Hull (Manchester Orchestra) - EP21 from 2023-07-19T13:00

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Frank Turner - EP19 from 2020-11-19T16:15:12

Frank and Jim chat away through the English dusk about punk rock, imaginary listeners projecting their lives onto musicians and the universality of dressing rooms with no waste basket. 

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Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes) - EP 17 from 2020-10-29T12:00

Jim and Bob talk about art vs content, creative restrictions on purpose and having stage hands load in a bunch of tv’s as props for your dude-with-a-guitar set.

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William Ryan Key (Yellowcard) - EP16 from 2020-10-22T12:00

New friend Ryan and Jim talk about all the places one receives an education in music ... institutions and bus lounge interventions. Huh, Institutions and Interventions kind of sounds like a good...

Joey Burns (Calexico) - EP15 from 2020-10-15T12:00

Jim and a recently Boisien Joey Burns talk about remote collaboration, racing train noise to get takes in and the choice to approach writing with ensemble feels in mind.

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Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) - EP12 from 2020-09-24T12:00:06

Gerard and Jim talk about making intentional choices to get around expectations psyching you out and how unlikely it may be that anyone reads the episode notes.

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Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids) - EP11 from 2020-09-17T12:00:08

Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kids and more talks with Jim about the state of lockdown musician life, writing on commission and battling the negative inner voice. 

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Justin Meldal-Johnsen - EP10 from 2020-09-10T12:00:12

Jim and producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen try to break down why we like what we like to a simple place. And how, the core of creative puzzle-solving is basically the core of everything else. 

David Bazan (Pedro the Lion) - EP07 from 2020-08-27T12:00:24

David and Jim talk about the places you go in your own head when performing, the hesitance to let things suck and letting the creative magnet draw in whatever might come.

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Tegan Quin (Tegan and Sara) - EP06 from 2020-08-25T12:00:13

Jim and Tegan chat about quarantine projects, reinventing your musical identity and defiantly flying into proverbial hurricane wall of the “rules”, without any. 

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Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) - EP05 from 2020-08-20T12:00:09

Jim and Ben chat from the early days of COVID lockdown about letting go of the pressure to create, remote collab work and assembling a rock-voltron of people you have worked with to channel into...

Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional) - EP04 from 2020-08-18T12:00:01

Jim and Chris chop it up about studio environments, tweaking out on Axe-Fx and summoning the willingness to trash that one cool thing you absolutely think you need … that you really don’t. 

Nate Ruess (Fun, The Format) - EP 03 from 2020-08-13T12:00:06

Nate Ruess (Fun, The Format) raps out with Jim (Adkins) about the cringe factor in co-write sessions, writing to avoid writing and Static Prevails-times.

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Steve Aoki - EP02 from 2020-08-11T12:00:11

Jim and Steve talk about crawling out of the primordial punk rock ooze, playing (then later sleeping) in Steve’s kitchen and the differences between how EDM and rock world approach song structur...