Pretty Good Vibrations

** This is Part 2 ** ** Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lJfetnfLjBE ** Scott Carlton, longtime close friend of mine and alum of Drive Thru and Tooth & Nail Records, finally convinced me to look deep into the darkest corners of human life and art... 80s glam metal, also known as "hair metal." We're talking Twisted Sister, Poison, Bon Jovi, Quiet Riot. We're talking about some of the...

** Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yue3dHk2yfc ** Scott Carlton, longtime close friend of mine and alum of Drive Thru and Tooth & Nail Records, finally convinced me to look deep into the darkest corners of human life and art... 80s glam metal, also known as "hair metal." We're talking Twisted Sister, Poison, Bon Jovi, Quiet Riot. We're talking about some of the most embarrassing mo...

** Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2PWn23bi-3E ** ** This is Part 2; look at last week for Part 1 ** For a special episode of Pretty Good Vibrations, I was joined by my Sherwood bandmates Mike Leibovich and Joe Greenetz. Over two episodes, we talked through our 20 favorite Sherwood songs in chronological order. We also discussed every release at an album-level, from the Sherwood EP...

** Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dr8Jd5eVTyI ** For a special episode of Pretty Good Vibrations, I was joined by my Sherwood bandmates Mike Leibovich and Joe Greenetz. Over two episodes, we talked through our 20 favorite Sherwood songs in chronological order. We also discussed every release at an album-level, from the Sherwood EP (2004) to Some Things Never Leave You (2016). We a...

** Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPmW3MYvcbd8CMLOUC4o-RA ** On the inaugural "Wish I Wrote That" episode, I sit down with my old friend Ethan Luck (Relient K, Project 86, The O.C. Supertones, The Dingees, Demon Hunter) to talk about SoCal punk band Face to Face. I highlight their 2000 track "You Couldn't Had Everything," why I wished I had written the song back wh...

** This is Part 2 -- start last week with Part 1 ** Nirvana. The Smashing Pumpkins. Rage Against the Machine. Sublime. Green Day. Oasis. Soundgarden. Cake. Those of us who came of age with these bands should consider ourselves lucky. What a rich time for rock (and pop) music! Sherwood's own Joe Greenetz, who has been "preparing for this moment all his life," returns for a 35-artist mega-tournament...

Nirvana. The Smashing Pumpkins. Rage Against the Machine. Sublime. Green Day. Oasis. Soundgarden. Cake. Those of us who came of age with these bands should consider ourselves lucky. What a rich time for rock (and pop) music! Sherwood's own Joe Greenetz, who has been "preparing for this moment all his life," returns for a 35-artist mega-tournament to crown the Kings (or Queens) of Teen Angst. Spoti...

** This is the 2nd and final part. Check last week for Part 1 ** AFI. The Used. Taking Back Sunday. Thrice. At the Drive-In. Remember? We sure do. And Jed Payne (Scremo Tournament) is back, baby, to soak neck-tattoo-deep in the scene that defined so much of our 20s. Listen as 32 post-hardcore artists from the 2000s go head to head in a March Madness-style mega-tournament. Spotify playlist: https:/...

AFI. The Used. Taking Back Sunday. Thrice. At the Drive-In. Remember? We sure do. And Jed Payne (Scremo Tournament) is back, baby, to soak neck-tattoo-deep in the scene that defined so much of our 20s. Listen as 32 post-hardcore artists from the 2000s go head to head in a March Madness-style mega-tournament. Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ppI7S3zj40b5Zi6LsXU6U?si=81e031b29d36...

Each year, Dan makes a mix of the songs that spent the most time in his head during the preceding 12 months. Some years, there is both a "rock" mix and an "everything else" mix, and 2023 is such a year. Presented today with a bit of context and explanation are the non-heavy songs; the full mix is also available as both a Spotify and Apple Music playlist for your listening convenience. Artists incl...

** This is part 2 -- start last week for part 1 ** Turn the radio off and instead get on your skankin' boots, suspenders, and pork pie hat, and meet us down at the rec center for the show! Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, The Suicide Machines, Less Than Jake, Rancid, NOFX, Save Ferris, The Interrupters, Five Iron Frenzy, and more meet in a winner-take-all tournament with returning guest Joey Libolt (Ran...

Turn the radio off and instead get on your skankin' boots, suspenders, and pork pie hat, and meet us down at the rec center for the show! Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, The Suicide Machines, Less Than Jake, Rancid, NOFX, Save Ferris, The Interrupters, Five Iron Frenzy, and more meet in a winner-take-all tournament with returning guest Joey Libolt (Rancid vs. NOFX). Spotify playlist: https://open.spoti...

I have found myself coming back time and again to power pop since recording the recent tournament episodes with Steve. I have been listening to the Spotify playlist we made as well as drawing more connections, so I figured I would put some of those together with some song clips. Enjoy! PGV Shirts: prettygoodvibrations.bigcartel.com PGV Facebook Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/802...

** This is Part 2 ** Death Cab for Cutie. Vampire Weekend. HAIM. Lana Del Rey. beabadoobee. The Head and the Heart. Florence and the Machine. The Shins. Feist. You know you love it! This is the soundtrack to white coastal millennials becoming adults. And are we still working on that? Because we're still listening to indie pop, and we likely will never stop. Death Cab and The Postal Service just so...

Death Cab for Cutie. Vampire Weekend. HAIM. Lana Del Rey. beabadoobee. The Head and the Heart. Florence and the Machine. The Shins. Feist. You know you love it! This is the soundtrack to white coastal millennials becoming adults. And are we still working on that? Because we're still listening to indie pop, and we likely will never stop. Death Cab and The Postal Service just sold out a bunch of are...

Each year, Dan makes a mix of the songs that spent the most time in his head during the preceding 12 months. Some years, there is both a "rock" mix and an "everything else" mix, and 2023 is such a year. Presented today with a bit of context and explanation are the heavier songs; the full mix is also available as both a Spotify and Apple Music playlist for your listening convenience. Artists includ...

** This is part 2 ** Fountains of Wayne. Nada Surf. Alvvays. Phantom Planet. Superdrag. In the 90s, a new generation of (mostly sad) boys who grew up on the Beatles, Beach Boys, and Byrds bought distortion pedals for their electric guitars and reinterpreted 60s and 70s pop for their Gen X peers. Since then, a steady stream of louder power pop has found its way to the headphones of (mostly sad) boy...

Fountains of Wayne. Nada Surf. Alvvays. Phantom Planet. Superdrag. In the 90s, a new generation of (mostly sad) boys who grew up on the Beatles, Beach Boys, and Byrds bought distortion pedals for their electric guitars and reinterpreted 60s and 70s pop for their Gen X peers. Since then, a steady stream of louder power pop has found its way to the headphones of (mostly sad) boys (and sometimes girl...

David Stuart returns for the innagural episode of a new format we are trying, focused on shorter takes from each of us, huddled around the same time period and genre. In this case, that's 2000s emo, with arguments presented about Saves the Day (3:30), Jimmy World You (32:40), Motion City Soundtrack (56:00), and The Used (1:04:00). ** JOIN THE NEW FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/802...

* This is Part 2 -- go to last week for Part 1 * It's alternative, but not TOO crunchy. It's pop, but not TOO pop. You know what we're talking about: bands like Counting Crows, Matchbox 20, Gin Blossoms, and the Goo Goo Dolls. It's got rock instrumentation, but it's built for radio. And because these songs were so ubiquitous, hearing them takes us RIGHT BACK to our lives in the 1990s. Other artist...

It's alternative, but not TOO crunchy. It's pop, but not TOO pop. You know what we're talking about: bands like Counting Crows, Matchbox 20, Gin Blossoms, and the Goo Goo Dolls. It's got rock instrumentation, but it's built for radio. And because these songs were so ubiquitous, hearing them takes us RIGHT BACK to our lives in the 1990s. Other artists discussed: Third Eye Blind, Dave Matthews Band,...

** JOIN THE NEW FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/802347208310205/ ** By "new," we mean "their first album came out in 2015 or later." Chad Mitchell, maybe my "best new music friend" if you know what I mean by that, joins me to talk through each of our top 10 "new" emo and/or punk bands. I chose to be vulnerable and selected mine entirely based on the total number of Apple Music play...

Just like last time with The Starting Line's "Direction," "Emotion" will have to go up against the winner of an 8-album mini-tournament of 2015's biggest pop albums: OneDirection, Mark Ronson, Justin Beiber, Adele, Ellie Goulding, Selena Gomez, and more. Joe Greenetz (Sherwood) joins me again and does the deciding! Nothing weird about two men in their early 40s talking about music kind of made for...

My old friend DJay Brawner, filmmaker, music video director, and co-owner of the Tuff creative agency, joins me to talk through 10 important music video projects from the early days of his career (No Use for a Name) to his current projects (Taking Back Sunday, All Time Low). We get a behind-the-scenes sense of DJay's job on set and stories about many of the videos. https://tuff.la/ Spotify playlis...

** This is Part 3 of 3 ** Lace up your boots, clip on your suspenders, and put on your pork pie hat because we are taking back to your roots! Remember when stomp-clapping indie folk took the entire (white) world by storm? Well, some of that stuff holds up, some doesn't, and plenty of what's been recording both before and since is haunting and beautiful. Ben Bishop (90s Punk Tournament, Dad's Casse...