No Dogs in Space is back to feed your need for obsessive music history

After a more than two-year break, No Dogs in Space is back with a fourth season called Punk 2.0. Hosts Carolina Hidalgo and Marcus Parks relaunched the show with a multipart visit to the New York Dolls, the protopunk/glam act closely tied to New York’s early scene. The hosts say the new season is a deliberate return to the podcast’s strengths: focused punk storytelling. Hidalgo and Parks experimented with broader and more eclectic approaches for previous seasons — at one point pondering episodes on Beethoven and spending long periods translating German for an experimental-rock series — but decided the most compelling material and their clearest expertise lie in punk narratives. The relaunch did not come easily. Hidalgo and Parks made several false starts while developing the season. They spent more than six months preparing a DC-punk series that initially centered on Bad Brains, but abandoned that plan after confronting the band’s homophobic history. A subsequent effort to cover the entire DC scene expanded beyond manageable bounds and was shelved after about eight months, although work from that period yielded a planned two-part Link Wray series set to premiere later in the year. Episodes of No Dogs in Space continue to lean into tangents and character-driven anecdotes. Hidalgo said research into the New York Dolls led her into the story of Mott the Hoople and singer Ian Hunter; Parks highlighted figures such as drag performer Jackie Curtis, whom he sees as influential on punk style. The hosts described their tendency toward obsessive research as central to the show — a trait they now connect to recent autism diagnoses — and the season is being released on traditional podcast platforms like Apple Podcasts and Spotify, with the addition of full video episodes on YouTube for the first time.