![]() ![]() We don't really plan or script anything, so what you hear is just us talking.”Īs of this writing, WHOOOSH! is now at over 80 episodes and counting since its launch last year. I could really only do it with someone like Simon, with who I have that sort of a brother-sister relationship. Even though I spent many years as a publicist and then in social media, this is not my forte. This isn't my vocation and I didn't study to do this. “A lot of people say to me, 'Oh, you were born to do this,' which is a lovely compliment,” she says. Aside from the music played on the program, a key part of WHOOOSH! has been the spontaneous and witty repartee between Le Bon and Krassner. On past occasions, the program has featured guests-among them actress and Duran Duran fan Wendi McLendon-Covey (Bridesmaids, The Goldbergs). It's really nice for them to get to be promoted by him.” But for the most part, most of the artists he plays don't have big followings. Of course, every now and again, there's like Tame Impala or a reggae act that has a huge Instagram following. ![]() I think he feels like he's in a position to give back, and say to these lesser-known artists: ‘I have a platform and I want to draw attention to your music.’ For the most part, he does not play bands with huge followings. Part of what's so about this,” says Krassner “and certainly more for Simon than for me, is he gets to hear all this great new music. ![]() I saw people that I wouldn't have thought listened to WHOOOSH! say, ‘Oh, I first heard this song on a show on Sirius.’ We weren't exactly name-checked, but I know they were talking about us. I asked, 'Did you first hear that on WHOOOSH!?' And she said, 'Yes.' I feel like we sort of spotlighted them in a big way because Simon talked about the song over many episodes. “I recently saw a friend's top 10 singles of 2021 posted online and “Chaise Longue” was their number one song. I think they're so great.”īefore America caught up with hot British indie act Wet Leg, WHOOOSH! was one of the first non-U.K.-based outlets to play the duo’s music. “That's one of the bands that I personally discovered in the course of putting together playlists for the radio show,” Le Bon told Newsweek this past summer. White, Sinead O'Brien, and the Japanese female rock band CHAI who appeared on Future Past. Among the musicians are Twin Shadow, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Mike Kota, deep tan, Matthew E. We're thinking, ‘Should we do this every week?’ The band's management was encouraging, and then we started doing it every week.”Įach show episode focuses on new music curated by Le Bon from emerging artists, while Krassner provides the backstory about them. put it on YouTube and it got a lot of reaction. That was like how off-the-cuff the show was. “He said, 'Alright, you wanna do it with me? 'We'll just talk and play a bunch of songs,’ and I'm like, 'Okay.' We joked that the very first song we ever played was “A Horse With No Name”-that was the first single Simon ever bought as a kid. ![]() Krassner recalls the conversation she had with Le Bon about doing a music podcast during the band's period of inactivity. Now people talk about Simon that way, and artists that are played tag the show in social posts. He's become a tastemaker whereas maybe people thought of John or Nick in that way and not necessarily him. “I've known him forever,” Krassner says of Le Bon, “and I've never known him to be this excited about something week after week. WHOOOSH!-it's the sound of your mind expanding to take on a new idea." What a revelation-there is so much great new talent, so much music out there. So I switched on my ears, and went on a trip down a sonic rabbit hole. "It dawned on me that the only music I was listening to was what I was working on, and the stuff that got me into a band in the first place. "It all began as a lockdown thing," Le Bon said in a press statement. WHOOOSH! has been airing on SiriusXM since January after it first launched as a podcast on over a year ago. During that long hiatus between studio work and touring, the band members looked to other ways to stay engaged with the public via online: bassist John Taylor did a bass tutorial and also chatted with his bandmate, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, on Instagram Live, while drummer Roger Taylor recorded a series of videos highlighting his desert island discs.įor his part, Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon eased into an unexpected role: that of a deejay for his weekly music radio show WHOOOSH!, which co-hosts with Katy Krassner, a longtime associate of the band. When the world did shut down, it resulted in the postponement of the album's release by a year. Before the pandemic lockdown in March 2020, the British rock band Duran Duran were in the process of completing work on their 15th studio album Future Past. ![]()
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