Desperate For Attention
Chris Payne & Leslie Simon have interviewed all your favorite bands - join us for story-swapping and pop-culture ✨ news you can use ✨
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Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
On Episode 2 of their new podcast DESPERATE FOR ATTENTION, co-hosts Chris Payne and Leslie Simon discuss the inevitable possibility that essential bands from the 2000s are tomorrow’s classic rock icons.
Over the years, we’ve covered—and interviewed—the era’s biggest rock bands. Now we’re picking the top 11 that’ll define the generation.
The Strokes? My Chemical Romance? Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Slipknot? The Killers?
Some of these bands made it, some didn’t. Listen to find out if your favorites will stand the test of time.
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Monday Dec 02, 2024
Monday Dec 02, 2024
On the first episode of their new podcast DESPERATE FOR ATTENTION, co-hosts Chris Payne and Leslie Simon are desperate to know if Ryan Ross will join Brendon Urie & Co when Panic! At The Disco headline When We Were Young Festival 2025. The band is billed to play their 2005 debut album "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" in its entirety, but which members will be on-stage for the affair? Chris has some inside intel.
Plus, find out what it was like when all four original members played Las Vegas tour guides to Leslie while she wrote the band's 2006 Alternative Press cover story.
Finally, how will When We Were Young Festival fare when Warped Tour reemerges to celebrate 30 years of punk-rock summer camp?
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Desperate For Attention
Each week, journalists Chris Payne and Leslie Simon discuss the latest pop-culture headlines hitting our social feeds, lovingly dissect the current state of music, revisit delicious watercooler moments from the early aughts, and examine the life and times of the scene's biggest bands.
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Chris Payne is a culture journalist who's written for outlets like Vulture, The Ringer, Lit Hub, Stereogum, Grammy.com, and Billboard, where he worked as a staff writer for seven years. Over the years, he's interviewed artists like Billie Eilish, Travis Barker, Pete Wentz, Pusha T, Rivers Cuomo, Sam Smith, Run the Jewels, Mitski, James Murphy, Johnny Marr, and Tegan & Sara. He's also the author of the book Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion, 1999-2008. Chris currently lives in Brooklyn.
Leslie Simon (@redpatterndress) is the former managing editor of Alternative Press Magazine, who penned lauded cover stories on bands like My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and Paramore. She's the co-author of the book Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide To Emo Culture, in addition to authoring books like Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks And Other Misfits Are Taking Over The World and Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide To Your Favorite Music Scenes. Leslie currently lives in Los Angeles where she enjoys watching past seasons of This Old House with her rescue pup Stanley Tucci (@stanleytuccithepoochie).