Episode 68

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Published on:

1st Jun 2026

Embrace, McGrath and Pihka Is My Name x IanGX all with new music!

Ready for a musical journey! All three of this weeks featured acts have very different musical styles but all have one thing in common, they're bloody awesome.

Switch on, lock in, this is some of the good stuff...

Embrace: 30 years making music has not dulled the flame for Embrace. ‘Avalanche’ is an album brimming with a confidence that only 3 decades of mastery can bring. It somehow manages to push the bands sound to a fresh new place whilst being quintessentially “Embrace” at the same time.

McGrath: Stunning songwriting with a traditional Irish heart its almost impossible to think that 'Rotha', given how accomplished it is, is the debut song from this young talent. It's got us suitably excited about what is to come.

Pihka Is My Name x IanGX: Pinka's scandi disco pop layers brilliantly with the rock-inspired vocals of IanGX (Katalina Kicks / Amongst Liars) to create something somewhere between Talking Heads, Marilyn Manson and 30 Seconds To Mars. Ridiculously infectious and a tune to whet the appetite for further collaborations!

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'Freshly Squeezed: A New Music Podcast' is written, researched, and hosted by Jim Salveson. Sound design and series production from Ant McGinley. This weeks episode was put together in Manchester. The show's theme tune, 'Blue Blazer' is from Manchester's Spin Klass.

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About the Podcast

Freshly Squeezed: A New Music Podcast
Discover your next favourite band.
Freshly Squeezed is a podcast for new music lovers... a place where you can hear new sounds before anyone else and discover artists before they become the next big thing.

Jim Salveson will introduce you to three new indie/rock artists every week, play you new tracks and tell the stories behind them!

The Freshly Squeezed theme is used with permission from (the brilliant) Spin Klass.

About your hosts

Jim Salveson

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Jim puts the squeeze on new music... with a reputation for finding and supporting new music talent, he is the go to man when looking for the next big thing in guitar music.

Ant McGinley

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Ant is an award winning podcast producer, host and voice actor. Also a co-founder of the Podomedy Network and Pods Up North. His work has been recognised across multiple shows with a number of awards and nominations at the ARIAs, APAs and IPAs.