Paul McCartney prepares The Boys Of Dungeon Lane with a Paul Mescal interview special

Paul McCartney’s The Boys Of Dungeon Lane is due this Friday, and the new Paul Mescal interview special gives 26 May a notable heritage-pop and songwriter news item. Stereogum reported that the special, also titled The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, is available through Amazon Live and the Amazon Music app, with Mescal interviewing McCartney about the stories behind songs on the album.

The pairing is obviously designed for modern pop-culture symmetry: Mescal is set to play McCartney in Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles biopics, while McCartney is using the album to revisit Liverpool, youth and coming-of-age memories. For an indie music digest, this is not a small-band discovery item, but it is still relevant because songwriter history matters.

McCartney remains one of the foundations under almost every melodic pop and indie band that ever decided a bassline could sing, a chord change could lift a room, or a small memory could become a universal song. The interview reportedly covers album tracks such as Down South, Home To Us, Lost Horizon, Salesman Saint and Days We Left Behind. As a 26 May item, this is release-week context: a legacy artist reframing his own early mythology just before a new record lands. Source: https://stereogum.com/2500083/paul-mescal-interviews-paul-mccartney/news