On Friday, I was able to get a hold of the band The Reputation and two of the members agreed to come by the KTRU studio for a short interview. They were in Austin on Thursday night playing at the Lookout! Records showcase at SXSW, and played in Houston on Friday night.

Joel and Sean were kind enough to stop by and chat with me, and here's the recording of the interview (posted with the permission of the band). I apologize for the weird audio artifacts, my computer is acting up again. I have downsampled the audio to 56 kbps stereo, so even if the audio artifacts weren't there, it wouldn't be CD quality audio...

Please download the mp3 to your computer; I don't have enough bandwidth to do live streaming.

Both Lookout! and Initial have given me the OK, so the link is back. Full interview, with songs:

• Download the interview (10 MB) - This is from my server.
• Download the interview (10 MB) - This is from a mirror, courtesy of Bill Dickson. This should be much faster.

This one is a shorter version without the songs (Either Coast, Face It, This Town). Face It is available as a downloadable mp3 from the Lookout! Records website, and Either Coast and This Town used to be streamable from a flash app on the Reputation's site. That seems to be gone, though. Maybe it'll make a reappearance...

• Download the interview, sans songs (6 MB) - This is on my server.
• Download the interview, sans songs (6 MB) - This is on a mirror, courtesy of Bill Dickson.