No Dogs in Space Returns After Two Years With Punk 2.0
No Dogs in Space is back after more than two years without a new episode. The music history podcast opened its fourth season, titled Punk 2.0, with part one of a series on the New York Dolls in the week leading to Sept. 20, 2026. The Verge
The show is hosted by Carolina Hidalgo and Marcus Parks. Each series is built from research, narration and curation, rather than interviews or commentary tied to current music news.
The program is listed as part of the Last Podcast Network. Last Podcast Network New episodes are available ad-free through a SiriusXM Podcasts+ subscription. No Dogs in Space on YouTube In practice, listeners can hear the show free with ads in open podcast apps, or pay for an ad-free version.
The Punk 2.0 premiere covers the New York Dolls' early days and formation. Apple Podcasts David Johansen is the frontman of the New York Dolls. The starting point is the early 1970s New York scene, before punk had a settled name or market category, before record stores and press treated it as a defined genre.
A two-part series on Link Wray will premiere later this year. The season is organized as separate band histories, each told across multiple episodes rather than in single-episode surveys.
The hosts worked for over six months on a planned DC punk series to start with Bad Brains before abandoning it.
The first season explored punk rock through the stories of ten bands that defined the genre. The first series covered The Stooges. Last Podcast Network From the start, the format was one band at a time, with room to trace influences, lineups, recordings and local context, much like following one thread at a time through a larger archive.
The broader context here will be familiar to anyone who has maintained a long-running technical project. Long gaps often reflect rising production demands, not fading interest. Finding archival audio, clearing rights to use old recordings, sorting out conflicting accounts and synthesizing secondary sources all raise the work required for each finished hour. Dropping six months of work on one scene to restart with another is costly in the short term and tends to protect quality over time.
In my view, the model still has room to run. On-demand audio tolerates length and complexity better than short video and costs far less to produce than documentary film. A podcast can spend three hours on formation years that a general outlet would compress into a paragraph. For listeners who work in technology, that depth is the appeal. The tools have stabilized around RSS distribution, the open feed system that delivers episodes to any app, platform apps, network ad sales and subscription ad-free tiers, which leaves editorial judgment as the differentiator. If Punk 2.0 keeps its research standards while keeping the storytelling accessible, the two-year wait will matter less than what the next archives uncover.
