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No Tags

Chal Ravens & Tom Lea

No Tags is a podcast and newsletter from Chal Ravens and Tom Lea chronicling underground music culture. notagspodcast.substack.com

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75 episodes

  1. 75: Octo Octa and Eris Drew are better living through alchemy 2:15:35
  2. 74: What does it take to run a clubnight for 20 years? 1:34:53
  3. 73: Dance music has entered its proteinmaxxed era 52:52
  4. 72: When is a festival not a festival? 1:39:52
  5. 71: Second quarter report – the best music of 2026 so far 2:03:27
  6. 70: The true story of real dubstep 1:45:33
  7. 69: Your favourite DJ is a psyop 1:29:01
  8. 68: Djrum or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Clang 1:46:17
  9. 67: Sheffield, Synth City 1:55:38
  10. 66: First Quarter Report – the best music of the last three months 1:15:46
  11. 65: The indies fight back! Damon Krukowski on the value of sound 1:55:13
  12. 64: A new film canon! Rockufiction 1:12:38
  13. 63: ⁠Baltimore is still the engine room of US club music 1:35:22
  14. 62: Lil Internet changed our minds about AI music 1:33:03
  15. 61: Is clubbing really in decline? We asked Ed Gillett 1:15:30
  16. 60: A radical vision for club culture with Anjali Prashar-Savoie 1:25:50
  17. 59: The best music of 2025 2:13:44
  18. 58: Deepfake Jorja and the biggest bangers of the 21st century 1:19:16
  19. 57: The second No Tags book is here! 47:51
  20. 56: Burial whisperer Dan Hancox on grime reunions, the power of crowds and sodcasting 1:36:58
  21. 55: One monoculture after another 45:33
  22. 54: Flags, football shirts and indie nationalism 51:38
  23. 53: Holly Dicker will be the last hardcore raver standing 1:46:49
  24. 52: Will the AI slopwave ruin music for good? 1:20:04
  25. 51: The best music of 2025 so far 1:55:58
  26. 50: Jeff Weiss is still waiting for Britney Spears 1:33:29
  27. 49: When does a simulation become a dystopia? 47:59
  28. 48: How (not) to run a DIY festival, with Field Maneuvers 1:37:48
  29. 47: Free parties, rave theories and a moment with Grace Sands 1:34:57
  30. 46: Paul Woolford is peaking 1:08:00
  31. 45: What makes the perfect night out? 1:03:51
  32. 44: Derrick Gee, the internet's most professional music fan 1:18:10
  33. 43: Should dance music boycott Boiler Room over Palestine? 1:22:51
  34. 42: Between two hardcores with aya 1:15:34
  35. 41: Major labels are hoovering up what's left of independent music 1:00:30
  36. 40: All the things Spotify didn't want you to know but Liz Pelly found out 1:18:32
  37. 39: Big Beat Cinema²: Bigger, Breaksier, Uncut 1:16:22
  38. 38: How umru laid the building blocks of hyperpop 1:42:17
  39. 37: Big Beat Cinema 1:26:40
  40. 36: God did not intend his creation to go raving in IKEA 1:01:19
  41. 35: The best (and worst?) music of 2024 2:16:31
  42. 34: Zombie Nation is the artist, not the song 55:18
  43. 33: The No Tags book is here! 43:38
  44. 32: Midland is reborn and jamming with Arthur Russell 1:25:39
  45. 31: No tags and it's completely different but also still no tags 1:05:47
  46. 30: Amy Lamé, we hardly knew yé 57:57
  47. 29: Vivian Host has caught every beat 1:23:11
  48. 28: Why has the festival bubble burst? 51:57
  49. 27: What would OK Williams do? 1:36:54
  50. 26: What the hell was indie sleaze? 43:33