Infectious Groove Podcast

This week's episode features an album pick from Russ for review. We've called in a member of the OddPods Media family to help us out too! Richie from Super Media Bros sits in with Russ while we talk through one of Russ' favorite albums of the past decade: "Happier Than Ever" by Billie Eilish. Richie is new to the album and Russ was new to Billie as an artist, so that's makes for an interesting dis...

We are excited to welcome out friends from The Itch Rocks Podcast back for one more Totally Epic Cover Battle. This week find Michelle & Russ discussing the song "Beat It" from two different eras. We discuss the original version by Michael Jackson from his incredible "Thriller" album against the cover version from the band Fall Out Boy. Russ also shares some choice words for Chris Rock regardi...

Soundtracks can add so much to the experience of seeing a movie. Whether it's one of the greatest movies you've ever seen and the music helps you relieve it or you'd rather forget the movie, but want to hear the songs from it. Overall, the music from motion pictures can often outlive the movie itself. This week, we welcome Dayton back from the dockingbay77 podcast to help us discuss our all time f...

The early to mid 90s yieded a lot of diverse sounds but somehow, you usually only hear about grunge from that era. This week, the IGP crew opens up the suggestion box and let's a listener pick the album for us to review. Our listener chose an album that really shows hoo diverse that era of music was. This week we take a look at "Fashion Nugget" by Cake. Find out what Michelle thought, what Russ li...

Who knows? We do. This week the Infectious Groove Podcast returns to it's popular Totally Epic Cover Battle series and boy do we have a good one. Seth from Treble Treble podcast joins us to work through a battle featuring two artists that he loves: David Bowie and Nirvana. First released in 1970, the song "Man Who Sold The World" went on to become an enourmous hit for Nirvana when it was released...

We are kicking off Season 8 with a bang! We're discussing a topic we've meant to cover since Day 1: mixed tapes and CDs. Have you ever made one of somone? Has anyone ever made one for you? What do they mean? Are they always romantic gestures? Do they even matter in the day and age of streaming / playlists? All these questions and more answered as Michelle & Russ welcome Garrett from EverTrendi...

Back in January of 2020, we released the first episode of the Infectious Groove Podcast. Over the years, we've been shocked and delighted about so many things. We've been able to interview so many great artists. We've talked abiout so much music. From Pink Floyd to The Black Crowes to Michael Jackson and many more. Our Season 7 finale happens to line up with the anniversary of the first episode we...

Do you like new & unique sounds? Well boy howdy have we got an album for you to check out. This week, our Album Review series continues and this time it's Michelle's turnt to bring something to the table. Michelle choose an artist from New Zealand named Gin Wigmore and her third effort "Blood To Bone". Gin brings influences from all sorts and genres along with a new/fresh sound to her third al...

Way back in 1984, Don Henley was enjoying solo success after having left The Eagles. One of his most memorable hits came from his second solo album. The song "Boys Of Summer" cemented Don as a hitmaker as a solo artist. Just shy of 20 years later, The Ataris came along and released a cover version of the song to massive success. In our latest episode, we'll talk through both versions of the song a...

It's that time of year again! Time for Russ & Michelle to take a look back on what they were listening to in 2022, via Spotify Wrapped. Be prepared for the usual "reasoning" and arguments, along with some great reasons why we listened to what we listened to. Along for the ride this week is Seth, a long time supporter of our show and podcaster in his own right. Find out when & how Seth is r...

Songs popping up in commercials, movies & television is not a new thing. However, you can end up very surprised when it happens with a certain artist or song. How many people were shocked when they first heard "Revolution" by The Beatles being used to sell Nike sneakers? It can be done well, but we seem to be still figuring out how. With the recent rise in seemingly every legacy artist selling...

What would happen if someone released an album that's supposed to be "country" but instread, it sounded like soul, rock, R&B? What if that album had an incredible rendition of "In Bloom" by Nirvana? Believe it or not, someone already did that. Country / music outlaw Sturgill Simpson released exactly that ablum in April of 2016. This week, Russ & Michelle are joined by KC & Aaron of The...

Technical difficulties tried to prevent us from brining this episode to you, but if you've listened to us for any length of time you know that nothing holds us back! This week, we were supposed to be joined by Dayton from the Dockingbay77 podcast but his internet prevented that. Luckily, we have plenty of experienced podcasters in the family, so we called on Lauren from Beer'd Al Podcast to help u...

Whether you're a parent or not, you've probably wondered what music should or shouldn't be played in front of children. We tackle that topic this week on the podcast by jumping head first into how we've deal with it so far. Michelle & Russ both have children of their own, but we also called in Chris from the Dadnarok YouTube channel to give us a hand with this one. Which artists have we avoided? W...

Whether or not the Gorillaz are "real", our music discussion podcast certainly is! It's time once again for us to open our doors to a crowd pick for our album review rotation. This week not only did we let the crowd pick, but we let them join the show. Listen in as Russ sits down with Lauren and John of Beer'd Al Podcast fame while we talk through the finer points of John's pick for our album revi...

Jolene...Jolene....Jolene...Joleeeeeene! You know the song and we know you love it. Who did it better though? Was it the incredible woman who whote it, Dolly Parton? Is is possible that Jack White and his big sister Meg managed to make the better version? Join us as Michelle & Russ welcome Hillary from The Muck Podcast to talk through exactly that discussion. It's Season 7 Episode 7 of your favori...

Although much younger then many other genres, rap music already has a long and storied history. Much like any other genre, new artists are constantly breaking rules, setting new heights and exploring new sounds. During this episode, Russ is joined by Brad of the Album Concept Hour as they both list and explain their personal favorite rap albums of all time. Their picks cover almost 40 years of mus...

This week on your favorite music podcast, Michelle has chosen an album for us to review. Is this album considered country music? We cover that aspect along with our thoughts in general about the best songs, the stinkers and our overall rating. We're excited to welcome returning guest Aaron from the I Had To Say It Podcast to sit in with us for the whole discussion. Our Jammy Jams, your Feedback an...

We're got a fantastic match up this time out for the next in our series of Totally Epic Cover Battles. This time out, we're discussing a very sad song with two completely different versions that span over 30 years apart. "Oh where oh where can my baby be?" sounds FAR different coming from J Frank Wilson than it does Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam. Both versions reached high positions on the charts whe...

Very soon after we started the Infectious Groove Podcast, one of the biggest parts of our lives were taken away: LIVE CONCERTS. This might seem like a small worry for many, but for us concerts were a way of life. We, like everyone else, took precaution and waited patiently for the live concert experience to return. It's been just about a year since that happened, so we figured it was time to talk...

Release in 2010, "The Suburbs" by Arcade Fire went on to massive critical and commercial success. Would you believe that we never got around to hearing the album? On top of that, would you believe that we never even got around to listening to Arcade Fire.....at all?? Well it's true! It's not just us either. This week we're joined by Dayton of the dockingbay77 podcast who is in the same boat as us....

"When the rain's blowin' in your face...and the whole world is on your case..." that's how this modern day standard starts. Nearly unrivaled lyricist Bob Dylan first brought the song "Make You Feel My Love" to the world in the fall of 1997. Since it's release, the song has been covered hundreds of times. We figured, what better way to kick off our SEVENTH season of bringing you the Infectious Groo...

Somehow, someway, we've made it through yet another season of pretty much everyone's favorite music podcast. If you're confused as to what podcast I'm referencing, it's this one. I just figured I'd put that out there. If you're just tuning it, first of all, thank you, second of all, you're in for quite the wild ride. We've made it through a mountain of musical guests, a plethora of guest hosts, a...

First unleashed on the world in late 1979, Pink Floyd - The Wall is many things to many people. Shortly after the release of the album, the band toured with an unbelieveable stage show performing the album in it's entirety. After completion of the tour, the album was made into a motion picture by MGM in 1982. The album has been performed in it's entirety many times since, but today was focus solel...

Not many people have tried to cover the one and only, undisputed King of Pop Michael Jackson. Those that have usally find themselves trying to top something that is already perfect. A funny thing happened to the band Alien Ant Farm: they didn't set out to top Michael Jackson and they didn't even want to have their cover be the focal point of their career. Born from playing a few riffs at shows, th...