Dying Scene Radio Presents: Four Records – Episode 25: Todd Smailes (Suburban Life, Gentlemen Prefer Blood)

Welcome to Four Records! Each episode, we feature one guest as they discuss the four records that helped shape them at four different times in their life. This week, our guest is Todd Smailes from the bands Suburban Life and formerly Gentlemen Prefer Blood. In 2024, Suburban Life put out their debut EP, Sympathy Tracks.  […]

Welcome to Four Records! Each episode, we feature one guest as they discuss the four records that helped shape them at four different times in their life. This week, our guest is Todd Smailes from the bands Suburban Life and formerly Gentlemen Prefer Blood. In 2024, Suburban Life put out their debut EP, Sympathy Tracks


Todd Smailes’s Four Records:

0-10: Beach Boys- Pet Sounds

Teenage: Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction 

Twenties: The Weakerthans – Fallow

Recent Record: Lost Balloons – Self-Titled

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Opening song: Rad Skulls – Loud as Shit

Closing song: Lucas Perea – Underneath Ashes

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