No Tags

No Tags is a podcast and newsletter from Chal Ravens and Tom Lea chronicling underground music culture.

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44: Derrick Gee, the internet's most professional music fan
Apr 24, 2025 – 01:18:10
43: Should dance music boycott Boiler Room over Palestine?
Apr 3, 2025 – 01:22:51
42: Between two hardcores with aya
Mar 20, 2025 – 01:15:34
41: Major labels are hoovering up what's left of independent music
Mar 11, 2025 – 01:00:30
40: All the things Spotify didn't want you to know but Liz Pelly found out
Feb 20, 2025 – 01:18:32
39: Big Beat Cinema²: Bigger, Breaksier, Uncut
Feb 13, 2025 – 01:16:22
38: How umru laid the building blocks of hyperpop
Feb 6, 2025 – 01:42:17
37: Big Beat Cinema
Jan 23, 2025 – 01:26:40
36: God did not intend his creation to go raving in IKEA
Jan 15, 2025 – 01:01:19
35: The best (and worst?) music of 2024
Dec 20, 2024 – 02:16:31
34: Zombie Nation is the artist, not the song
Nov 27, 2024 – 55:18
33: The No Tags book is here!
Nov 13, 2024 – 43:38
32: Midland is reborn and jamming with Arthur Russell
Oct 30, 2024 – 01:25:39
31: No tags and it's completely different but also still no tags
Oct 23, 2024 – 01:05:47
30: Amy Lamé, we hardly knew yé
Oct 9, 2024 – 57:57
29: Vivian Host has caught every beat
Oct 4, 2024 – 01:23:11
28: Why has the festival bubble burst?
Sep 19, 2024 – 51:57
27: What would OK Williams do?
Sep 12, 2024 – 01:36:54
26: What the hell was indie sleaze?
Aug 27, 2024 – 43:33
25: Jonny Banger, folk hero and rave lifer
Aug 16, 2024 – 01:25:54
24: The spirit of 2011 is haunting dance music
Aug 5, 2024 – 40:52
23: The best music of 2024 so far
Jul 29, 2024 – 01:26:47
22: So what was the sound of Tory Britain?
Jul 18, 2024 – 59:16
21: Meaghan Garvey, America's #1 vibes-based journalist
Jul 4, 2024 – 01:11:54
20: Does payola exist in underground music?
Jun 26, 2024 – 40:48
19: The expanding universe of Brazilian funk, part 2
Jun 21, 2024 – 52:16
18: The expanding universe of Brazilian funk, part 1
Jun 12, 2024 – 53:23
17: Fred Again walked so Fish56Octagon could swim
May 29, 2024 – 48:49
16: Iglooghost, rockpooling for subgenres in a parallel world
May 22, 2024 – 01:04:47
15: Learning to love lorecore
May 14, 2024 – 34:16
14: Simon Reynolds, futuromaniac
May 8, 2024 – 01:13:39
13: Cindy Lee, claire rousay and the haunted, horny sound of now
Apr 30, 2024 – 38:56
12: Why Vybz Kartel is the most important Jamaican artist of the century
Apr 16, 2024 – 50:38
11: Lena Raine and the quest for the cosy web
Mar 28, 2024 – 01:07:19
10: Dr Robin James, vibes philosopher
Mar 14, 2024 – 01:36:15
09: The most important voice in UK radio you've never heard
Feb 29, 2024 – 01:26:45
08: Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson on Dweller and making actual change
Feb 16, 2024 – 01:16:21
07: The Large, soundclash champion turned industry oracle
Feb 1, 2024 – 01:03:42
06: Music journalism, the final farewell tour
Jan 23, 2024 – 52:48
05: Jeff Weiss, reporting live from the fall of Rome
Jan 11, 2024 – 01:23:32
04: Are end of year lists over?
Dec 29, 2023 – 01:07:36
03: CCL, international selector of mystery
Dec 21, 2023 – 01:37:57
02: Sorry Records, keepers of the dance music flame
Dec 7, 2023 – 01:12:18
01: JK & Bempah, chronicling UK street music
Nov 30, 2023 – 01:11:58

Recent Reviews

Ben 'Disco Stu' Stewart

Take a listen, this may be something that you’re missin’

Enjoy listening every week. Taganista 4 life!
Reedelavega

More of this plz

My fave kinda content. People my age who still participate in dj/nightlife culture
NameTakenNameTaken89

Charming hosts with interesting guests

Really enjoy this British banter and interesting dives into various corners of music
Timajick1

Fantastic + Needed

As the world of music journalism burned, from the ashes this rises. Filling a void with intellectual discourse Ty!
Taylor Fixed Rhythms

Excited

Been so excited about this! Loved Relevant Parties, and I’m hyped to be privy to this one right from the get go. Thank you two for doing this!