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John Flansburgh on 40 Years of They Might Be Giants!
John Flansburgh, co-founder of They Might Be Giants, joins Scott Saldinger on The Hang! to talk about 40 years of making music, the unlikely beginnings of Dial-A-Song, their new album *The World Is to Dig*, and why the band is still finding ways to surprise its fans.
It all started, at least for Flansburgh, with seeing Elvis Costello perform in a small London club when he was 17. That show changed his thinking about songwriting and what it meant to be a musician. Punk and new wave were opening doors for people who didn't fit the traditional rock-star image. You didn't have to be a virtuoso…
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