Castle Rat is a self-described "medieval fantasy metal band" led by our guest, Riley Pinkerton. In her stage persona as "The Rat Queen," Pinkerton is a sword-wielding heroine on a mission to expand and defend 'The Realm' from those who seek to destroy it. Off stage, she's a friendly, glue-gun wielding creative arts kid, firmly grounded in the real world. She's here to talk about the band's most recent concept album, The Bestiary, why she feels that the body positive fantasy art of Frank Frazetta was actually empowering to women, and how she and her band all get a good laugh out of watchingl the film, This Is Spinal Tap.

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Songwriter's songwriter Joe Pernice (The Pernice Brothers, Scud Mountain Boys, The New Mendicants) joins us for his third appearance on the podcast, this time to unpack his impressive new album Sunny, I Was Wrong (New West Records), on which he's assisted by an A list of guests that include Aimee Mann, Jimmy Webb, Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Rodney Crowell, and Jale's Laura Stein, who also happens to be married to Joe. Heck, Warren Zanes (Deliver Me From Nowhere) even wrote a liner note for it.

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The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Toronto-based band Metric have come a long way since their official formation over two decades ago, but as they sang in their 2008 single "Help, I'm Alive," their hearts are still "beating like a hammer." Metric co-founder and lead singer Emily Haines is here to guide us through the "minefield of memory" and unpack the urgent and emotional songs on the band's just released 10th album, Romanticize The Dive (Thirty Tigers/MMI), and Metric's impending tour with fellow Canadian legends Broken Social Scene and (friends of the podcast), Stars.

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Didn't find everything on your RSD lists? Maybe you'll still find it on RSDMRKT.com.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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