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Welcome to 'Identified', a podcast hosted by Nabil Ayers, music executive and author of 'My Life in the Sunshine'.
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Silversun Pickups' Brian Aubert: "Family Is Where You Don't Have to Perform" (opens the original)
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Brian Aubert of Silversun Pickups doesn't believe in perfect families, just ones where you feel safe and loved. Everything else, he says, is colouring. On this episode of Identified with Nabil Ayers, he traces where that idea comes from: a childhood in Los Angeles shadowed by his mother's brain tumour, she was given six months in 1980, and lived sixteen more years, and summers in Kailua, Hawaii, inside a sprawling "calabash" family where nobody's quite sure who's actually related. Along the way:
X Ambassadors and The Story of the Band Two Brothers Never Meant to Start (opens the original)
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Sam and Casey Harris of X Ambassadors never meant to be in a band together. They were two brothers making music separately in the same house, until Casey started sneaking downstairs to jam with Sam's band. On this episode of Identified with Nabil Ayers, they trace how brotherhood became the band. This is a conversation about family as both anchor and choice: growing up in a small upstate New York college town with a film-publicist dad away on sets for months at a time; the acrimonious split thei
Jon Ronson on Family and the Extraordinary Story Behind The Castle (opens the original)
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Jon Ronson joins Nabil Ayers on Identified for a conversation about family, fatherhood, growing up in Wales, finding his identity as a writer, and the strange series of events that ultimately led to his new book, The Castle. Jon traces his story back to Cardiff, where he grew up feeling like a square peg in a round hole. He remembers being dropped off alone at a Specials concert at just 12 years old, pretending to faint so he could get over the barrier, and unexpectedly meeting Terry Hall backst
Reissue: Hermanos Gutiérrez on Their Musical Beginnings, and the Meaning of Family (opens the original)
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Hermanos Gutiérrez never planned to be a band. On this episode of Identified, Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez sit down with host Nabil Ayers to trace where their music, and their bond, actually comes from: an older brother who became a father figure, a younger brother who picked up the guitar just to feel close to him, and the day a roommate overheard them playing and said, "you should be a band." Guests: Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez (Hermanos Gutiérrez) Host: Nabil Ayers Executive Producer:
Reissue: Comedian Reggie Watts on the Meaning of Family and Belonging (opens the original)
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A brand new and exclusive reissue from the Identified archive, with one of our most fascinating guests, Reggie Watts. Reggie Watts joins Nabil Ayers on Identified to trace where he actually comes from — a military childhood from Germany to Great Falls, Montana; the house he grew up in and still owns today; and the "ship of orphans" of friends who became his real family. This is a conversation about chosen family and belonging: being a biracial kid and a self-styled outsider in a very white place
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