The Lost State Show

Ozzfest is coming back, and nobody knows who's playing yet. Who should headline Ozzfest 2027? Live on the Lost State Show: the Ozzfest return, Warped Tour's comeback, why every rock festival lineup looks like 2006, Rush's Sphere residency, Behringer's $10 guitar pedals, free NAM amp captures taking over modelers, and any Black Friday deals worth it? Black Friday 2026 kicks off Nove...

This week on the Lost State Show: Elvis Presley's song owners sue Anthropic (Claude AI) over 274 songs in a $41 million AI copyright lawsuit. Fender responds to layoff rumors after its WARN notice. Turnstile played a show & raised 200k for Palestine in DC! The Circle Jerks have announced their new EP, Revenge of Nervous Breakdown, and Haywire revealed plans for a North American tour in 202...

Tonight on the Lost State Show, we're sitting down with Raf of We Were Skeletons, the Lancaster, Pennsylvania band that spent years in the trenches of East Coast DIY hardcore: basement shows, house shows, long drives, and loud, chaotic records. Whether you've followed them since the Topshelf days or you're just finding them, check out their music!🔗 We Were Skeletons🔗https://wewereske...

At the Las Vegas Sphere, James Hetfield told fans Metallica isn’t there to influence them like some other “entertainers,” as artists like Macklemore, Zach Bryan, and Jason Aldean make headlines for politics at their shows. Critics point to Metallica’s own songs about war and veterans. We break down the debate, Metallica’s Sphere residency, Turnstile being on SNL, and Frank Carter calling out a man...

MTV dropped Best Rock category after 37 years, NBC skipped Soundgarden's halftime set, and Louder Than Life just had its biggest lineup ever. Is rock dead, or just not invited to TV? On the show tonight:- MTV cuts the Best Rock category from the VMAs. Is rock dead or just off TV?- Yamaha Matteo Mancuso signature guitar- All Shall Perish crowdfund their new album: is this how bands fund records...

Ed Sheeran addresses dropping Macklemore from his tour, Glenn Danzig has Emmure's Frankie Palmeri thrown out at Louder Than Life, and a Tesla driver gets busted playing guitar at 60mph on the motorway. Plus new gear from Reverend and EHX, Peeling Flesh's new album, and we close the show with a tribute to Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory. Topics in this episode:- Ed Sheeran speaks out on the...

We're back with a stacked one! Gibson just dropped a $39,999 Billy Gibbons signature guitar, BluGuitar's AMPX is FINALLY shipping after a decade of "any day now," and T-Pain is dragging Akon back to court over nearly half a million in unpaid royalties. Come hang out!🎙️ In this episode:- Gibson unveils a $39,999 Billy Gibbons "Pearly Gates" signature Les Paul- BluGuitar&...

This week's music news roundup: End It frontman Akil Godsey gets a new tattoo referencing the "Banana Man" controversy, Southpaw FLHC deals with the fallout from Nazi imagery merch accusations, and Sleep Token drops signature guitars with Jackson and Charvel. Plus new gear from Gibson, a Guitar Hero spiritual successor stacked with big names! And what's new in the pedal world. TH...

Spotify’s board just signed off on another $1.5 billion stock buyback, so their total buyback authorization is now around $2.2 billion. Meanwhile, they keep bumping up subscriber prices, but artists are still getting fractions of a cent per stream. We’re digging into why that’s a problem, and we’ve got a few other stories this week you should check out. THE LOST STATE SHOW is a weekly livestream a...

After taking last week off, we have three stories worth talking about this week: Good Charlotte's Joel and Benji Madden gut the staff at BrooklynVegan and other music outlets they own, Josh Homme lights a cigarette onstage and goes off on corporate venues in front of 65,000 people, and the maker of the legendary King of Tone pedal says he might have to hang it up for good. THE LOST STATE SHOW...

D'Addario gets caught in an AI controversy over their new NYXL HD string demo, and Fender's cease and desist campaign over the Stratocaster body shape just keeps getting messier, now with the CEO doing damage control. We break down both stories and probably go off the rails somewhere in between THE LOST STATE SHOW is a weekly livestream at 4 pm Mondays covering music industry news, gear, p...

This week on Lost State Show, we break down some pro guitarists' pedalboards from a Music Radar article. We dig into the parasocial relationship phenomenon around artists like Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift (including fans refusing to leave their spot at the barricade to even go to the bathroom), and react to the Freedom 250 stage accident in Washington, D.C., during July 4th rehearsals and t...

Sony's trying to bulldoze a union at a punk merch shop in Minneapolis right after workers voted to unionize, and the timing that's... not subtle. Also, Jim Lill dropped a video saying preamps basically don't matter, and the entire audio engineering internet collectively lost it. THE LOST STATE SHOW is a weekly livestream at 4 pm Mondays covering music industry news, gear, production, a...

This week in gear: Höfner gets rescued from bankruptcy while Dean Guitars' parent company files for Chapter 11 the same week, opposite outcomes. What does it say about where the guitar industry's headed in 2026?Also covering: JHS Pedals' wild story about accidentally putting a rare Dumble boost circuit into a DIY kit (now an $89 standalone pedal), and Teenage Engineering's TP-7, a...

This week on The Lost State Show, Trey and Drew each bring their own list of five albums that are objectively rough from a production standpoint, but somehow became influential in their own way. We're talking blown out mixes, hard-panned stereo disasters, bedroom drum machines, and basement recordings that launched careers. From the Beatles era stereo panning that'll throw your ears off to...

Fender is coming for the entire guitar industry. We're breaking down the Fender Stratocaster copyright lawsuit, how a default judgment against a Chinese AliExpress seller turned into cease and desist letters aimed at boutique builders, major brands, and the future of the S-style guitar as we know it. LSL Guitars, PRS Silver Sky, Suhr, Ibanez, Harley Benton, nobody is safe. We talk the history...

Streaming pays nothing, so legacy acts are cashing in on nostalgia. Panic! at the Disco reunited a year after their "final show." Smashing Pumpkins announced another tour. Dez from Black Flag did a reunion with Black Flag. When We Were Young Festival built an entire business model on emo nostalgia. We're talking about when reunions are genuine versus transparent cash grabs, random al...

We put on our tinfoil hats and went full X-Files mode on Angine de Poitrine, the mysterious masked duo from Quebec that the internet can't stop talking about. Are they secretly members of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard? We investigated. The evidence is compelling. The feet are damning. The toes do not lie. Yes, we found proof they received Canadian government arts funding. Yes, King Gizzar...

Everyone is talking about Geese, but the truth is much weirder. Today, we’re looking at the 'Chaos' behind the curtain to see how the industry actually manufactures 'viral' stars. Is your favorite new band a plant, or just a product of a broken system?"We're diving into the Geese industry plant drama and the Chaotic Good marketing psyop that has everyone questioning if mus...

FEST 24 has officially been announced, and the lineup is already shaping up to be one of the most interesting in years. We're breaking down the first wave of bands heading to Gainesville, FL this October, Reunions, full album sets, and more. PUP playing The Dream Is Over in full, Bear vs. Shark returning as a Florida exclusive, Texas Is The Reason continuing their comeback, Small Brown Bike, N...

On this episode of The Lost State Show! We talk Coachella drama, Punk Island NYC just dropped their 2026 lineup, and we dig into some weird music, including masked French punk band Angine de Poitrine. Plus album and video reactions and whatever else comes up. Our friend Elle Gilliam came to hang out during the podcast! THE LOST STATE SHOW is a weekly livestream at 4 pm Mondays covering music indus...

Tonight on The Lost State Show, Drew and I get into some heavy stuff on our minds before breaking down the punk and hardcore touring world, including the shocking Turnstile situation. Former guitarist Brady Ebert is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly running over singer Brendan Yates' father. We also talk about the new Converge album announcement that dropped on April Fool's D...

Trey and Drew break down the biggest stories in music and gear this week. TONIGHT! JHS drops their first octave pedal, and it's intentionally broken Neural DSP vs Kemper vs Line 6: who's winning the amp modeling war?-Orange OR60: Is there still a case for tube amps in 2026? Guitar Center refinances its debt to 2029. Is this zombie retailer ever actually dying? THE LOST STATE SHOW Weekly li...

On this episode of the Lost State Show, we have Ben Roth visiting. Ben is an audio engineer, producer, and booking manager at Zoetropolis Theatre in Lancaster, PA. Ben runs The Kaleidoscope Recording Studio in Lancaster, where he specializes in live recordings and working with bands who want real, honest sounding records. He's recorded and mixed dozens of local and regional artists (check his...

Drew and I (Trey) dig into what happened to the local music scene, why the pipeline from small local band to something bigger seems to have disappeared, and whether streaming, venue closures, and the pressure to commodify everything killed the joy of just playing music. We share stories from their own scenes growing up in California and Pennsylvania, talk about bands they knew that went somewhere...