Life’s Work: A Podcast About Laura Stevenson’s ‘Sit Resist'

Life’s Work: A Podcast About Laura Stevenson’s ‘Sit Resist’” is a multi-part limited series co-produced by Better Yet and Don Giovanni about the 2011 sophomore album by NY songwriter Laura Stevenson. It is also an oral history of the late 2000s to early 2010s Brooklyn DIY scene, and how the reverberations of one album, the people that created it, and the scene it came out of, can offer comfort and inspire unknown numbers of people in its wake. Sit Resist is available in a new expanded edition, remastered at Abbey Road, with a bonus disc of unheard b-sides, outtakes, demo, and live recordings.

Episodes

Episode 7: Life's Work

September 1, 2020 • 36 mins

This final episode discusses the lasting impact of Sit Resist, including on the songwriters that started up in its wake and how the album helped to widen the umbrella term “punk.” Stevie Knipe of Adult Mom and Lucy Dacus outline how Stevenson’s music...

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Episode 6: Side B

August 25, 2020 • 26 mins

On this week’s episode of “Life’s Work,” focus is placed on the songs that would make up Side B of Sit Resist. The second half of the album explores themes of depression, isolation, and fear of the unknown. Here we see the juxtaposition of heavy subject...

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Episode 5: Side A

August 18, 2020 • 27 mins

Episode 5 sees Stevenson and the band enter the studio to record Sit Resist, focusing on the songs that make up Side A of the album. A wide range of influences, aesthetics, and approaches - some specific to the early 21st century time period in...

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Episode 4: Early Stages, Baby

August 11, 2020 • 20 mins

Episode 4 covers the DIY scene of the late aughts and early 2010s, and Stevenson’s full-band performances with a revolving cast of accompanying musicians at Death By Audio, Silent Barn, and the annual Hillstock festival which bandmate Alex Billig...

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Episode 3: The Source And The Sound

August 4, 2020 • 30 mins

Episode 3 takes a deeper dive into the writing and arranging process of the songs that would make up “Sit Resist”, as the primary contributors assemble in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn in late 2009 and early 2010. Also discussed are the earliest musical influences on Stevenson’s writing, which predate her experiences in the punk and ska scene: those being the Great American Songbook standards popular in the era of her m...

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Episode 2: I Am Underneath

July 28, 2020 • 27 mins

Episode 2 tells the story of Stevenson’s early days growing up feeling out of place, eventually finding comfort in the Long Island ska scene. It was there that she first met Jeff Rosenstock who would eventually recruit her to join his new band Bomb The...

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Episode 1: Make A Little Shape

July 21, 2020 • 22 mins

Episode One of “Life’s Work: A Podcast About Laura Stevenson’s ‘Sit Resist’” covers the period of time beginning in 2008 when Stevenson was writing and recording the songs that would make up her debut album “A Record”. Also covered is the formative full-US tour that Laura and her band did with Bomb The Music Industry! in 2009, and the loose assembling of the band lineup that would contribute to the arranging of the songs that would...

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Life’s Work: A Podcast About Laura Stevenson’s ‘Sit Resist'

Episodes

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Episode 5: Side A

Episode 4: Early Stages, Baby

Episode 3: The Source And The Sound

Episode 2: I Am Underneath

Episode 1: Make A Little Shape

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Episode 7: Life's Work

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