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June 26, 2025 23 mins

s1.2 Post-Fame Plus  
June 26, 2025 
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In this second bonus episode of "Post-Fame Plus," hosts Glen Erickson and Alexi Erickson share their music discoveries and personal memories associated with them. Glen introduces Purity Ring's new single 'Many Lives,' reminiscing about a memorable daddy-daughter concert night in 2016. Alexi dives into Backseat Lovers' album 'Waiting to Spill,' discussing its impact on her musical evolution and its timeless appeal. They also touch on other related artists like Joe P and Dell Water Gap.

Purity Ring - “many lives” (song)(https://open.spotify.com/track/0m7IhMn1LE5oyrGju7KqtY?si=c64d582a5df8416e*)*
band website: https://purityringthing.com/

Backseat Lovers - “Waiting To Spill” (album)  (https://open.spotify.com/album/2Gb2plO2TkNRIgoCuJGm7C?si=z4zrZ_mATyCX8aclE2Zsxw*)*
band website: https://www.thebackseatlovers.com/


hosts: Glen Erickson, Alexi Erickson

AFE website: https://www.almostfamousenough.com
AFE instagram: https://www.instagram.com/almostfamousenough
Almost Famous Enough Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1o1PRD2X0i3Otmpn8vi2zP?si=1ece497360564480


Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Post Fame Plus

01:11 Glen's Song Pick: Many Lives by Purity Ring

02:49 Purity Ring Concert Memories

05:35 Glen's Love for Electronic Music

09:56 Alexi's Album Pick: Waiting to Spill by Backseat Lovers

12:05 The Impact of Waiting to Spill

18:07 The Importance of Listening to Full Albums

22:36 Conclusion and Next Episode Teaser

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Episode Transcript

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alexi (00:18):
Always ready.

Glen Erickson (00:19):
Okay.
Hello and welcome to Post FamePlus Post Fame Plus is the
season one bonus series betweenmyself, Glen Erickson and Alexi
Erickson, my daughter andco-host.
Hi Alexi.

alexi (00:34):
Hi.

Glen Erickson (00:35):
So the premise of Post Fame Plus, for us, of
course, is our opportunity to dowhat we always did in our Post
Fame segments, which is sharemusical ideas and inspirations,
what's new, all of that sort ofstuff.
And we are following a formatwhere one person brings a song.
With some backstory and theother person brings a full album

(00:56):
they think should be listened toas a full album with some
backstory, of course, to supporttheir reasons.
And the switch up this week isthat I am doing this song and
you are doing the full album.
So, which means I get to gofirst with the song.
Are you ready?
Are you ready for it?

alexi (01:13):
I'm a little nervous.

Glen Erickson (01:14):
Okay, well, I don't know if you would've seen
it, So there was a brand newsingle dropped that caught me by
complete surprise last week, andI don't know if you saw it, but
it got me very excited.
It's a song called Many Lives,lowercase m lowercase l by the
band, Purity Ring.

alexi (01:36):
I didn't.

Glen Erickson (01:37):
You didn't see that

alexi (01:39):
I'm so mad I did not at all.

Glen Erickson (01:42):
brand new single from Purity Ring many lives.
Which I think there's evenanother song, it, it's Teasing a
full album because I'm prettyclear.
So Purity Ring, uh, of course isa Canadian band, an actual, most
people still consider they wouldbe called an Edmonton based
band.
Uh, just sort of based on somegeography of Corin Roddick and

(02:04):
Megan James.
And I think Megan was Edmontonand Corrin was Calgary and
Edmonton, but.
Yeah.
Anyhow, we, we were quite happyto claim Purity Ring for
ourselves and absolutely lovedthe band and they totally blew
up with their electronic popmusic back in, uh, like the

(02:25):
2015.
Well, I mean, the first album,maybe it was 2012, the one that
we fell in love with wasreleased in 2015.
So, but they have a new song.
Uh, it looks like a new albumcoming out.
New song is called Many Lives.
It's very good and it soundscompletely Purity Ring, so,

alexi (02:44):
it

Glen Erickson (02:45):
which is pretty awesome.
Uh, backstory, of course.
Lexi is October 21st, 2016.

alexi (02:55):
Mm-hmm.

Glen Erickson (02:56):
Daddy daughter date night.
You were a little over a littlefresh into being 11 years old.
I think only, and we had.
Probably for a couple years, Ithink gone out of the kids bop
phase of learning music andloving music and into other
things.

(03:16):
I think your first concert Itechnically took you to was
Selena Gomez, wasn't it?
At the arena?
I.

alexi (03:22):
Yeah.
That was technically the first.

Glen Erickson (03:24):
But to me, like this was the first concert, like
I got you tickets before, youknow, but to me this was taking
you to something that I thoughtyou could appreciate but was
much more in my world.
So, um, it was at the Wind SpearCenter and I had to go because I
had seen the setup of what Istill to this day think is

(03:45):
probably one of the mostbeautiful stage performance
setups.

alexi (03:49):
Yeah,

Glen Erickson (03:50):
I had ever seen, if you recall.
So everything felt pink to me.
That's what I sort of rememberit as is they needed the whole
depth of the stage.
This is what's fun is that it'sjust two of them.
They're electronic pop duo, likethe, the, yeah, the guy Korin
runs all the music and thenMegan sings as far as the

(04:10):
performance goes.
And,

alexi (04:12):
Yeah.

Glen Erickson (04:12):
And so it was like he had this like podium
that looked like Superman'scrystal castles.
Do you remember?
It was just these differentheights of these crystal looking
like pillars in front of him,and he just would.
Touch them and they would dodifferent things, and I'm sure
he had some incredible setup tobe able to run all of the tracks

(04:33):
and the music and all thisstuff.
But the control over it wasbeautiful.
But then behind it was justsheets of curtains of what
looked like rope lights, rightin just straight rows and
columns, like a grid that wasprobably like 50 by 50.
With space hanging from theceiling that she could weave her

(04:53):
way and walk through and theyhad different timing for the
lights and it was likespectacularly set up.
Yeah.
And I loved it'cause um, I justremember feeling like, because
it was electronic music, but itwas kind of this album.
They brought in more vocals andstuff than the first album.
Fine.

(05:13):
Um, well I always wanna call itFine Shrine.
That was the single, it wascalled Shrines, their first
record.
That kind of blew them up intoworld, but they became more
lyrical and vocal with, with thenext record, another eternity.
So, um.
And I loved it and I thought youwould appreciate it and I'd play
it for you in the car.

(05:33):
And you did.
And then,

alexi (05:34):
Yeah.

Glen Erickson (05:35):
um, and I loved electronic music and I think
nobody even knew I lovedelectronic music.
'cause I was like so clearly aguitar guy.
But all the way back to highschool when they had like the
classic synthesizers in our, inour music room.
Like, I mean, the.
The classic, the truthsynthesizer isn't the one that

(05:55):
just has all the patches andsounds and presets, right?
Like, like the old Yamaha DXseven and everything since, but
like the Roland Juno and theseother ones where it was based on
modulation, right?
And so you would just press akey and you could set the the
pass and the oscillation andthese filters.

(06:16):
And these sounds would sometimeslike progress through a little a
algorithm or, anyhow, Iabsolutely loved all of those
textures so much and I wouldplay with them forever.
And I got into electronic bandslater, like, um, M 83 was a big
one that I think for a lot ofpeople that kind of crossed over
into indie music in a bandcalled Caribou.

(06:38):
And then I liked the ones thatbecame.
A little more clean and on thenose, like Tyco and The Postal
Service, it basically came intothat.
Um, but a lot of vocals andmelody still in those ones, not
pure, kind of the more indieshoe GRI of M 83 and then got
into bands like Blonde Redheadand Phantogram, and then even a

(07:00):
band called Brood, which Ithought was incredible.
All sort of felt like theyrippled out of this stuff.
So, um.
Anyhow, all of that to me, Icould pull all of that into a
nutshell of what the best partof it is to me.
And often it was that PurityRing album and sort of all
crystallized around us going forthat little, daddy date night

(07:20):
thing, which I don't know howsharing a photo works.
Can you see this?

alexi (07:27):
Oh

Glen Erickson (07:27):
no, I don't know how this works on here.
If it's not working.
I'm gonna do an edit.
I'm gonna, okay.
Well, I don't know how it worksin the recording.
If I have to just plop the photoin.
I'll fix it afterwards.
This was our outfit date.
We had the matching black ChuckTaylor's, of course, and black
jeans, or I don't know if you,yeah, I think yours are jeans.

(07:47):
But you had the cutest littlepink top.
Anyhow, um, she had, she'swearing this sweet little, if
you can't see it, I'll post thisphoto probably on our social
'cause it's so cute.
I still, I still dress likethat.
Like this is the funny thing,like 10 years later I'm just
wearing all black like jeans, mykeys lanyard, hanging out with

(08:08):
my black leather jacket over topof a black hoodie and my black
Tok.

alexi (08:11):
classic

Glen Erickson (08:12):
Um, yeah, a hundred percent.
And you're just wearing the mostadorable little pink thing with
your hair.
And anyhow, and it was perfectpink to go to Purity Ring.

alexi (08:21):
I felt so I remember that was like my first like cropped
piece of clothing ever and Ilike I was just the coolest
little like punk girl ever.
I had this, oh,

Glen Erickson (08:39):
Uh, well, I loved it.
That was absolutely.
Awesome.
And that's like I had to go, youknow what?
I had to go troll your mom'sFacebook to find that photo.

alexi (08:50):
That's kind of awful, but

Glen Erickson (08:52):
I,

alexi (08:52):
of adoring.

Glen Erickson (08:53):
I knew it existed and I didn't know where I
couldn't find it.
And I had to troll your mom'sFacebook photos all the way
back.

alexi (09:01):
For ages, I've seen our Selena Gomez one,

Glen Erickson (09:04):
Oh yeah, me too.

alexi (09:05):
scenes with like the, like bright hearts and poker dot
whatever on them, but I haven'tseen that one.

Glen Erickson (09:12):
You mean the leggings that had just like
bright color shapes all overthem?
Yeah.
And that was at the old McEwenhost, that photo.
I remember it really well.
But yeah, I had to go dig'causeI knew that one existed and
anyhow, it was fun.
Anyhow, so that's, um, I was soexcited when their new single
came out and that it is a reallygood song, many Lives by Purity

(09:33):
ring.
So, um, that was, that was mysingle.

alexi (09:37):
Okay, well I'll have to listen to it.

Glen Erickson (09:39):
Yep.

alexi (09:39):
Uh, crazy.
I dunno how you, I dunno how youintroduced a new song and also
threw me back down memory laneso hard in one go.
No problem.

Glen Erickson (09:50):
That's what it's supposed to do for us music, so,
okay.
So that's my song.
And you told me you had an albumthat was gonna be fairly
predictable, so.

alexi (10:01):
Yeah.
Just outta the ballpark.
Just guess what, what even band,it's gonna be, you actually
might be wrong because I'm,

Glen Erickson (10:07):
Well, I don't want to guess'cause I'm pretty
sure I'm gonna be wrong'causeyou're like, it's gonna be
predictable.
And I'm like, that could be likethree, there's three different
ways I could come at predictablefor you.
So I'm not, I'm not sure.
A part of me thought is it gonnalike the Lumineers kind of edge
where it was like,

alexi (10:26):
That's too basic.
That's too like,

Glen Erickson (10:28):
okay.
See that's what I mean.
Is that the, is when you saypredictable, is it basic?
So I'm not gonna guess so I'mgonna let, I'm just gonna let
you do it.

alexi (10:35):
That was your guess, basically.
Okay.
Um, no.
Okay.
I chose this'cause it's becomevery like, full circle and I
feel like it's gonna be fullcircle for the rest of my life.
Um, but backseat lovers classicfor

Glen Erickson (10:51):
Yep.

alexi (10:52):
Um, their album Waiting to Spill, that's, that's the one
I've chosen for my first albumbecause, um, this was like the
first album for me.
That like really was like yeah,like start to finish, like could
listen to, came out, let melook.
I think 2020, when did we go toVancouver together

Glen Erickson (11:17):
For bleachers?

alexi (11:19):
for bleachers 2020.

Glen Erickson (11:21):
No, that was after that.
That was maybe three years ago.
So 22.

alexi (11:28):
Okay, let me look.
cause this is important.
this album came out, so forBackseat Lovers, they had, um,
their first album come out andit had songs like Killby Girl,
um, that like blew up

Glen Erickson (11:42):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.

alexi (11:43):
the internet, uh, and became very, I don't know, kind
of popular.
Um.
then they didn't release for awhile and then they came out
with this album waiting, waitingto spill.
it was just like a very morelike, mature and like, I don't
know, like, just like, it wasalmost like a different band.

(12:03):
Like they just like found theirrhythm.
but it's so like the whole albumis just basically about like and
growth and like uncertainty.
Just like all the, like good andbad and everything in between.
Feelings of like getting older,like as a person.
yeah.

(12:23):
So I like, I don't know.
I found it when we went on thatVancouver trip, um, because it
was relatively new that year andyeah, I downloaded it and when
we were in the, from the time welike got to the airport until we
got off the plane, I just hadthe album on repeat looping.
Um, like a little bit of a crazyperson I think, but, um,

Glen Erickson (12:43):
Like a, like a guy in a hospital room playing
a, an album over

alexi (12:47):
played an

Glen Erickson (12:47):
A little crazy.

alexi (12:48):
Yeah.
Sounds familiar.
Um, yeah, so I wrote, I wrote acouple things about it.
Um, the last song on the track,it's called Viciously Lonely,
and it's like such a last songof an album.
Song, if that makes

Glen Erickson (13:04):
Mm-hmm.

alexi (13:05):
wraps up like, I've never heard an album Choose a last
song for said album.
Like better, like it

Glen Erickson (13:11):
Hmm.

alexi (13:11):
up everything you feel while you listen to the whole
album up in like a song.
and then the last like 20seconds of that song is just
like, obviously like an audiorecording of.
band in their studio allchatting and it's like evidently
like raining outside and it'slike you're kinda like a fly on
the wall of like them producingthe album.

(13:34):
And I just think that's such acool kinda artsy little take to
throw onto the end of an album.
which I really like.
And they're like a bunch ofyoung men too.
So like the whole album of beingabout like.
Kind of growing up and thenthrowing that out on there.
I don't know.
I love that.
But um,

Glen Erickson (13:49):
Hmm.

alexi (13:49):
like a lot of like raw vulnerability, messy kind of
coming of age is what I waswriting.
they have a lot of guitar in it,

Glen Erickson (13:59):
Yeah.

alexi (13:59):
for texture, if that makes sense.
Like

Glen Erickson (14:02):
Yep.

alexi (14:02):
just like.

Glen Erickson (14:03):
It's not riff based.

alexi (14:05):
It is not, it's they, have like guitar already within
songs and then I just likealways throw on another layer of
like guitar for like texture ina song and they do it so
beautifully.
yeah,

Glen Erickson (14:18):
So my, my interaction with you on that is
I, would you say this was like agateway band, an album for you
to a lot of the current bands, Ithink there's a lot of bands
that fit in this kind ofvertical now.
And, and you're right, if we goback three years.

(14:40):
you know, I feel like maybe thatis accurate to when you started
playing playlists in the car.
That felt like they were mypotential playlists and we
started to evolve, you know,into similar spaces with music
again for the first time in along time.
So, yeah, that's what makes methink that question right away
is if that was kind of thegateway into that for you.

(15:02):
Because you're right.
I was always kind of taken withlike, oh, Lexi's listening to
indie rock bands, kind of, butit's kind of a new indie rock
that isn't.
You know, it's not like the oldversion of the explosion of
like, when, when, when, like thestrokes and, and, um, the high,
yeah.
All those ones like were like,they were still so guitar heavy,

(15:24):
riffy, and you're right, thisfelt more like foster the
people, which kind of was a, apre predecessor for, but you
know, yeah.
Kind of felt like that to me.

alexi (15:36):
yeah.
No, it was, feel like it'sexactly that.
Like that was kind of like my,know.
That was kind of like, I thinkit also reflected, I.
Like kind of that period of mylife, like that when I
discovered it, I feel like I wasin a transition period of like
growing up, obviously.

Glen Erickson (15:53):
Mm-hmm.

alexi (15:54):
it was just like a weird like kind of reflection of like
I was at that moment when Ifound it.
yeah, like my music taste waschanging and like my style was
changing and like, all those funthings.

Glen Erickson (16:06):
Yep.

alexi (16:06):
then it definitely, definitely got into me like.
Getting into this kind of styleof music?
Way more, for sure.
Uh, yeah.
And it has like, three of thesongs on her are still like,
some of my all time songs,

Glen Erickson (16:22):
Yeah.

alexi (16:23):
like I would say, yeah, there's no misses.
All of them.
I'm like, they're likebeautifully.
There's one of them on there andit's like, it literally is just
like a beautifully composed likeballad and it's like.
The vocals give you like thisachy feeling and like you just
like, it's like sad song almost,but then like there's just like
a very like indie kinda like

Glen Erickson (16:44):
Mm-hmm.

alexi (16:45):
on and then all of a sudden you like burst into the
chorus and then you're like,wait, what?
Just, I don't know.
It's great.
I love it.

Glen Erickson (16:53):
Well, I mean that's what a great album does
for you is it kind of takes youthrough that ride.
But also I think it'sinteresting'cause there's not a
lot of records where youactually talk about the subject
matter.
So it's not, that's one of thefirst things that I noticed in
your initial description andthen you followed it up actually
talking about how it related.
You know, to just where you wereat that time in your life, and

(17:16):
you're always going to attachthat album now to that period of
your life too, which is a coolthing that we have and that's
relatable with everybody.
I love those conversations withpeople.
I.

alexi (17:29):
sure.
And I didn't realize it at thetime either.
Like I think is the other thinglike that, like I remember album
being from that time in my life,but I, I chose it for this
podcast.
but I, I went back to itrecently and then I was
listening to it and then I waslike, oh, this was so like, you
know, that phase in my life.
And then I was like actuallylike

Glen Erickson (17:51):
Hmm.

alexi (17:51):
the lyrics and I was like.
Oh, like

Glen Erickson (17:53):
Yeah.

alexi (17:54):
that part of my life, probably like for a reason.

Glen Erickson (17:57):
I like that you noted that the last song felt
like it was a deliberate lastsong and a perfect fit, because
I don't feel like we notice thatvery much anymore.
I mean, A, we're partially doingthis'cause I don't think people
think about full albums the waythat they used to through the
most of the history of recordedmusic, because they were so
locked to a format.

(18:18):
So a full album was a physicalthing you call in your hand that
could actually only play.
So many minutes of music andthey would just cre And so the
medium came around to defininghow people like built music
releases and, and the way thatthey sat in our lives.
And that kind of changed intothe MP three area.

(18:40):
Area or era, sorry.
And then into the Spotifystreaming era.
Obviously with, I don't alwaysnotice if bands pay attention
or, or the way they used to it.
It seemed like they werespecifically selecting which
songs went in what order, and so

alexi (18:57):
Yeah,

Glen Erickson (18:58):
I think it's special just when you love a
full album, if you can actuallyfeel like it had that kind of a
care and attention put into it.

alexi (19:06):
right.
When, um, when I was in Europelast summer, Kind of like bigger
albums I was waiting for cameout um, Eric, my boyfriend, like
we were texting about them atthe time of like, um, you know,
like, oh listen, gimme yourthoughts kinda thing.
But that's one thing he hadsaid.
He was like, oh, like I alwayslisten first song to last song

(19:30):
in order.
Like I don't hit shuffle onSpotify or anything.
'cause he is like, the artistslike, do it for a reason and
that like, just doesn't getlike, respected the same way
anymore.

Glen Erickson (19:40):
That's great.

alexi (19:41):
Like shuffling or like hitting a random song.
And I was just like, oh.
Like I've been doing that forsuch a long time, but I never
like thought about it that way.
And I was like, that's so true.

Glen Erickson (19:50):
Yep.

alexi (19:50):
And again, like if you shuffled that album and that
like came second, all I thinkthat would just be lost on you.

Glen Erickson (19:57):
Yeah.
Okay.
One last question, um, aboutthat album or that band for you?
'cause I'm just curious.
So, uh, I sort of said it feltlike that was a gateway and that
since that.
Like there's been a kind of anexplosion of a lot of bands that
could probably fit all on asimilar playlist.
Now, what is one other band thatyou feel kind of is the easiest

(20:22):
first next step for somebody?
Like if you listen to this,you're probably also gonna want
to listen to what.

alexi (20:32):
lemme look at that.
Era of my life.
Um, that's hard I think I gotlaunched into like so much.
Okay.
Um, of maybe Joe P it's not aband, it's an artist.

(20:53):
Maybe Joe P

Glen Erickson (20:55):
Yeah, that's fair.
I know that he's big for you andthat's very similar.
I think you're right.

alexi (21:03):
it's.
Yeah, I think he, takes it a, agood way also.
Um, no, that's like less, Idon't know, like there's,
there's so many that come up tomy brain that are just like
different versions of it and I'mlooking and like,

Glen Erickson (21:20):
Yeah, but like what's, what's the biggest one?
Like what's the,

alexi (21:24):
Oh, I have like a bunch that are like kinda.
Maybe, um,

Glen Erickson (21:31):
okay, I'm waiting for you to say, I'm waiting for
you to say the biggest one.
The most obvious one to me thatanybody should know.

alexi (21:37):
What,

Glen Erickson (21:38):
There should be one that you should say off the
top of your tongue.
Like if you've been talkingabout backseat lovers, everyone
should also know Dell Water gap.

alexi (21:47):
okay.
Okay.
Sure.

Glen Erickson (21:48):
Am I not wrong?
Like,

alexi (21:50):
really correct.
Um,

Glen Erickson (21:53):
I mean that's two songs from that artist that,
that are like on every coolindie bop playlist that I've
ever made.

alexi (22:02):
He feels a little Yes.
He's like backseat lovers.
And then you like, have a littletouch of like, pop

Glen Erickson (22:09):
Yeah, it's a little more pop.
Yeah, that's fair.

alexi (22:12):
was gonna say, um, also like Bri, what's his name?
Briton.
Marney,

Glen Erickson (22:18):
Yeah.

alexi (22:19):
yeah.
Him as well.

Glen Erickson (22:21):
Okay.

alexi (22:22):
He's.
He's on the same playing

Glen Erickson (22:24):
Yeah, we got a real banger too.
Okay, well that's awesome.
We covered

alexi (22:29):
Yep.

Glen Erickson (22:29):
pretty decent ground, some pretty important.
Eras of history and even got thecutest photo into all of this.
So this is, um, it's gonna be soout there.
So this was a fantastic episodeof Post Fame Plus.
looking forward to the next onewhere we'll switch it back and
you'll take over the song andI'll have to come up with

(22:51):
another album.
So looking forward to it.
Okay,

alexi (22:55):
Okay,

Glen Erickson (22:56):
we got through it.
Thank you.
Bye.

alexi (22:57):
bye.
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New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!

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