Free With This Months Issue

Free With This Months Issue is 5 years old! to celebrate we've rounded up two of our best friends Lisa Williams & Sarah Daniels to talk about a cd we've been wanting to cover since before we started the podcast, Kerrang's 1998 cd from December 1998! We've got metal legends, Ska-Punk classics, nu-metal titans, and distinctly more Fred Durst than Lisa was hoping for... The cd's tracklisting is 1...

For this episode of Free With This Month's Issue we're joined by Bo Nicholson from the Movieversaries & Academy Watch podcaststo talk about Q Magazine's Q2007 cd from November 2007. The episode also features discussion abut wasted drummers, funeral songs, russian literature, and an apology to the majority of the population of Wales. The cd's tracklisting is 1 - The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy 2 -...

To celebrate the We Made This podcast network's 5th birthday we're releasing a series of crossover episodes throughout the network this January. For this special bonus episode Kurt North from We Made This's X Files podcast The X-Cast joins us to talk about the 1996 compilation Songs In The Key Of X. The cd's tracklisting is 1 - Mark Snow - X-Files Theme (Extended) 2 - Soul Coughing - Unmarked Heli...

For episode 62 Birmingham's Most Rock & Roll Chef, Alex Claridge joins us again to discuss Mojo's Up Yours! Punk's Not Dead cd from March 2003. The cd's tracklisting is - 1 - The Clash - 1977 2 - The Strokes - The Modern Age 3 - The Adverts - One Chord Wonders 4 - The Hives - Main Offender 5 - Vic Godard/Subway Sect - Ambition 6 - Hot Hot Heat - Get In Or Get Out 7 - Erase Errata - Tongue Tied...

And just like that another year is over, so our old friend Leah Fitzsimmons joins us to talk about Mojo Magazine's Best of 2023 cd! The tracklisting is - 1 - Young Fathers - Drum 2 - The Tubs - Round The Bend 3 - The Coral - Oceans Apart 4 - Anohni & The Johnsons - Scapegoat 5 - Lankum - Clear Away In The Morning 6 - Grian Chatten - All Of The People 7 - Julie Byrne - Portrait Of A Clear Day 8...

For episode 60 it's a special episode on the actual greatest band in the universe (The Cure, obviously), to celebrate our guest's new book, Curepedia - An A-Z Of The Cure which is out now! This month music journalist, author, DJ, & podcaster Simon Price joins us to talk about Mojo Magazine's Why Can't I Be You, a cd of Cure covers from January 2021. Simon is another of the music journalists wh...

Steven from Kerrang Back Issues joins us again for the second of two weekly episodes to talk about Kerrang's Supersonic tapes from October 1996. This week it's Supersonic Volume two from exactly 27 years ago. The tape's full tracklisting is - 1 –Ash - Hulk Hogan's Bubble Bath (Live) 2 - Reef - I Would Have Left You 3 - Paradise Lost - Embers Fire (Live) 4 - Floodgate - Till My Soil 5 - NY Loose -...

As an extra special treat this month Steven from Kerrang Back Issues joins us for the first of two weekly episodes to talk about Kerrang's Supersonic tapes from October 1996. This week it's Supersonic Volume one from exactly 27 years ago. The tape's full tracklisting is - 1 –Kerbdog - On The Turn 2 - Symposium - Disappear 3 - Lodestar - Wait A Minute 4 - Crazy Gods Of Endless Noise - Razor Baby 5...

For episode 57 we're joined by Caroline Cawley who's the singer and guitarist for Dystopian Future Movies (who listeners to our other podcast We Dig Music will be very familiar with as they've been voted our song of the year for both 2022 & 2022, a feat only equalled by The Cure!) She's also a one of the vocalists (& tambourine virtuoso) for Church Of The Cosmic Skull. The CD she's chosen...

For episode 56 we're joined by music journalist, musician, & podcaster Neil Kulkarni, who's written for Melody Maker, DJ mag, Uncut, Kerrang, Metal Hammer, Plan B, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Terrorizer & The Quietus, and is a regular member of the mighty Chart Music podcast team. The CD we're discussing this month is Uncut Magazine's 4ad records sampler from November 1998. The cd's full tr...

Steven from Kerrang Back Issues joins us again to talk about Rare (Because Kerrang! Cares) from October 1995. The tape's full tracklisting is - 1 –Reef - Repulsive 2 - Skyscraper - Lovesick 3 - Machine Head - Hard Times 4 - Fear Factory - Your Mistake 5 - Carcass - Generation Hexed (Battery Rough Mix) 6 - Monster Magnet - Dead Christmas 7 - Rub Ultra - Suspend Your Belief 8 - Silverchair - Undecid...

For episode 54 we're joined again by Charlotte Lombardi-Whitehouse to talk about Q Magazine's Best Of The Best - 2017 In Music from January 2018. The cd's full tracklisting is - 1 - Morrissey - I Wish You Lonely 2 - Liam Gallagher - I've All I Need 3 - Stormzy - Big For Your Boots 4 - Dizzee Rascal - Space 5 - Sleaford Mods - Just Like We Do 6 - Gorillaz - Saturnz Barz 7 - Forest Swords - The High...

For episode 53 we're joined by Gaz Jones from the Track 1 Side 1 Podcast to talk about Radio Kerrang Volume 6 from April 1998 The cd's full tracklisting is - 1 - Garbage - Intro 2 - Jerry Cantrell - Cut You In 3 - Everclear - Amphetamine 4 - Bad Religion - The Biggest Killer In American History 5 - Psycore - Chocolate Milkshake 6 - One Minute Silence - Brain Spiller 7 - Bullyrag - Thugs Prayer 8 -...

For episode 52 it's the long awaited return of our We Dig Music cohost Tracey Bowen who joins us to talk about Sounds magazine's Sounds Waves 2 from March 1988 (the first time we've discussed a vinyl release!) and Melody Maker's Rollercoaster EP from March 1992. Sounds Waves 2's full tracklisting is - 1 - The Jesus And Mary Chain - Nine Million Rainy Days (Live) 2 - Head Of David - I Am Roadkill (...

For episode 51 we welcome Nick S Chandler from the Reel Talk podcast to talk about Kerrang's Best of 2004 cd from November 2004 The cd's full tracklisting is - 1 - Rammstein - Mein Teil 2 - The Rasmus - Time To Burn 3 - My Chemical Romance - You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison 4 - The Offspring - (Can't Get My) Head Around You 5 - Green Day - American Idiot 6 - Bad Religion - Los Angel...

For our 50th episode Rachel from Moshermags is back wih us again to talk about Melody Maker's St Valentines Day Massacre from February 1999. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 – Garbage - I Can't Seem To Make You Mine 2 –Sepultura - Choke 3 – Silver Sun - Would've If I Could've 4 – Fear Factory - Resurrection 5 – Terrorvision - Tequila (album version) 6 – Soulfly - Bleed 7 – Backyard Babies - Bombe...

For our first episode of 2023 and our 49th episode since we started we welcome our old friend Thew Adams (who runs the excellent Transformers youtube channel Toygrind) to talk to us about Metal Hammer's Killing Cuts 5 from April 1998 The cd's full tracklisting is - 1 - Iron Maiden - The Clansman 2 - Deftones - Lotion (Live) 3 - Sevendust - My Ruin 4 - Pitchshifter - W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G 5 - Backyard Babi...

It's the end of 2022 and christmas season so rather than our usual nostalgic journeys into the past, this month Matt Latham (who you'll know from the excellent Pick A Disc, Shipwrecked & Comatose, No Book Club, & Ask Us About Loom podcasts) joins us to discuss Mojo presents The Best of 2022 from, well, now. It's still in the shops at the time of uploading, so go to your local magazine purv...

For episode 47, Colin's Shipwrecked & Comatose cohost Mark Adams (also of the excellent Chuckyvision podcast) joins us to talk about Rock Sound's Music With Attitude Volume 5 from August 1999. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Rico Capuano, better known as Rico, who we speak fondly about in this episode, and who sadly passed away a few months ago. We highly recommend listening to his...

For episode 46, Hannah Charnock, former fanzine writer and one half of the excellent Society Owes Me A Gen X Podcast podcast joins us to talk about Vox Magazine's The Story So Far cassette from August 1996. The tape's full tracklisting is - 1 - Ash - Darkside Lightside 2 - Terrorvision - Enteralterego 3 - The Cure - Want 4 - Sparklehorse - Saturday 5 - The Jesus Lizard - More Beautiful Than Barbie...

For our 45th episode, Lewis Clark from the Cast Iron podcast joins us to talk about Kerrang's High Voltage: A Brief History of Rock cd from June 2006. The CD's full tracklisting is - 1 - Fall Out Boy - Start Today (originally by Gorilla Biscuits) 2 - Aiden - Die, Die My Darling (Originally by The Misfits) 3 - Avenged Sevenfold - Walk (Originally by Pantera) 4 - Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver (Orig...

In episode 44, Sarah Daniels & Lisa Williams join us again for our annual festival special to talk about Melody Maker's The Outsiders - Campfire Songs for the '99 Festival Season from June 1999. The cd's full tracklisting is - 1 – Shed Seven - Ocean Pie 2 – Suede - See That Girl 3 – Bis - Am I Loud Enough? 4 – The Cardigans - Losers 5 – Ultrasound - Suckle 6 – Silverchair -Ana's Song (Open Fir...

We've got an extra bonus episode for you this week as Mark Adams & Dev Elson from the ChuckyVision podcast join Colin (Ian's still on paternity leave) to talk about the soundtrack to Bride Of Chucky from October 1998. As this is a crossover episode it will be going out on both the Free With This Month's Issue & Chuckyvision podcast feeds. The cd's full tracklisting is - 1 – The Screamin' C...

In episode 43, Electronic pop producer & podcaster Peter Lewis (who records under the name Pollarik and is one of the team from the Pop Gays Of A Certain Age podcast) joins us to talk about Smash Hits' Pollwinners Party Tape from December 1996. The tape's full tracklisting is - 1 – Backstreet Boys - We've Got It Goin' On 2 – Dodgy - In A Room 3 – 3T - 24/7 4 – Boyzone - Coming Home Now 5 – Ete...

In episode 42, Lisa Williams & Sarah Daniels join us to talk about Kerrang Magazine's 1999 - The Finest Tracks Of The Year from October 1999. The cd's full tracklisting is - 1 – Korn - Wake Up 2 – Rage Against The Machine - Calm Like A Bomb 3 –earthone9 - I Nagual Eye 4 – Slipknot - Spit It Out 5 – Rob Zombie - Dragula (Charlie Clouser Remix) 6 – Biohazard - Switchback 7 – Will Haven - If She...