Make it Stop: A Bad Music Podcast

Fire up the engine of your old pickup, grab a cold beer and head on down to the cornfields. Throw the radio on and watch as an endless parade of blue jean clad farmhand girls dance modestly in the headlights. Stay away from those downtown boys because they are the devil incarnate and we'd like nothing more than to steal their women, take them out to the cornfields in our old pickup, grab a cold be...

As we ring in the new year, we can't forget to pay the proper (dis)respect to the worst music that 2018 had to offer. From the requisite washed up 90s rockers, to the alt-right anthems, to the shallowest of rappers, we've got ourselves a smorgasbord of shit on this episode of Make It Stop. We didn't think it could get worse than 2017, but we should know by now that we're in a never ending race to...

Ho ho ho #stoppies, we're hoooome for the holidays! We've all been very bad boys this year and have been rightfully cursed with another lump of musical coal in our collective stockings, Smash Mouth's desperate 2005 Christma$ ca$h grab, 'The Gift of Rock'. Joining us to unwrap this precious 'gift' is our very own family, including the youngest Dunn brother Alex, "Dad for the People" Paul Dunn, and...

Part 2 of 2. Check out part 1 here!  Alright #stoppies, I know we say this a lot, but it's true--this episode is our funniest one yet. Seriously, when else have we been able to snag 2 professional comedians (Emily Ruskowski & Jenny Chalikian) and one hysterical burlesque producer/professional babe/future youtube star (Sake Toomey) together in the same room, talking about boy bands? Since TODAY, th...

Alright #stoppies, I know we say this a lot, but it's true--this episode is our funniest one yet. Seriously, when else have we been able to snag 2 professional comedians (Emily Ruskowski & Jenny Chalikian) and one hysterical burlesque producer/professional babe/future youtube star (Sake Toomey) together in the same room, talking about boy bands? Since TODAY, that's when! We brought our grown ass f...

It's a trip down memory lane this week as Mike and Heather are joined by their old friend Russell Chisholm. They reminisce about their shared love of The Best Rapper Alive Weezy Baby before diving into the worst thing he ever did -- the massively maligned 2008 rap-rock turd known as Rebirth. Lil Wayne runs the gamut on this album, churning out a wide variety of garbage -- bad punk, bad butt rock,...

Pick it up pick it up pick it up... no, please put it down. Today our guest is Andrew Lowery from DIWHY The Show and we're talking ska. Not just ska, but a 33 track novelty opus from CHRISTIAN ska stalwarts Five Iron Frenzy. It's called Cheeses of Nazareth, and it's bad in so many ways. It's irritating, it's racist, it's sanctimonious, and perhaps most eggregiously, it has the weakest "hardcore" s...

Our lifestyle determines our deathstyle, Stoppies, so we're destined to be killed by trash music. For the first time ever on Make It Stop we return to a previously reviewed artist, in this case a now Lou Reed-less Metallica, and their infamous 2003 disasterpiece St. Anger. Maggie and Ashleigh from Rock Candy Podcast join us as we discuss Lars Ulrich's shit sandwiches, Bob Rock's flowing mane, and...

It's Halloween, and that can only mean one thing: It's time for a Danzig review! Comedian Rich Karski joins us to discuss the latest effort from the diminutive, geriatric king of ghoulish tunage, 2017's Black Laden Crown. We go in depth on Danzig's bad politics, his Napoleon syndrome, and his latent homoeroticism. We discuss Danzig's drag name and why the hell he's so goshdarn looooooonely. And we...

This week on Make It Stop we’re smoking pot, loving peace, and doing sex stuff. We’re licking your teeth. We’re shoving your head into our armpits. And they weirdly smell good. In 2015, the recently liberated pop superstar Miley Cyrus collaborated with The Flaming Lips and Mike Will Made It to produce Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz, a 23 track, 92 minute slog through her drug addled psyche. Release...

On this week's episode of Make It Stop, comedian and dear friend of the pod Katie McCarthy joins us to discuss Montreal's favorite crackhead Chuggo! Arguably the most obscure album we've covered, Chuggo's Act Like You Might Know is a hidden gem rife with gross sex talk, tampon-related punchlines, and constant yelling. Katie, Heather and Mike try to figure out why Chuggo feels it is such a necessit...

Make It Stop is back and worse than ever, Stoppies! The inaugural episode of Season 2 finds Heather and Mike enduring the musical stylings of Tommy Lee for the first time since Mötley Crüe’s Theatre Of Pain. This time around it’s his nearly forgotten early 00s experimental rap rock side project Methods Of Mayhem. It’s got all the hallmarks of the genre, from gross sex lyrics about jizzy jism, to s...

Part 2 of 2.    This week Heather and Mike go head to head in the Make It Stop Thunderdome to defend their favorite bad album. Heather's weapon of choice is the eponymous debut of Waldorf, Maryland's favorite sons Good Charlotte. Mike meanwhile goes hard in the paint for another debut, this one from the infamous rap rock goofs of Limp Bizkit -- the terribly titled 3 Dollar Bill Y'all$. Whose trash...

This week Heather and Mike go head to head in the Make It Stop Thunderdome to defend their favorite bad album. Heather's weapon of choice is the eponymous debut of Waldorf, Maryland's favorite sons Good Charlotte. Mike meanwhile goes hard in the paint for another debut, this one from the infamous rap rock goofs of Limp Bizkit -- the terribly titled 3 Dollar Bill Y'all$. Whose trash will reign supr...

Ready to get faaaaar out, #stoppies? This week's adventure has us whoodly-doodling away with some reheated jams courtesy of everyone's* favorite psychedelic Dads, Phish! Originally recorded in 1986 and inexplicably re-released twice in 1998 and 2006, "The White Tape" is a dizzying and deeply misdirected spectacle of unnecessary fuzz pedals, non-sequiters about hamburgers, synthetic keyboards and s...

Our latest exploration of mid-life crisis inspired genre experimentation leads us to Dee Dee Ramone aka Dee Dee King's 1989 punk-rap flop Standing In The Spotlight. Replete with climaxless tales of surfing and wrestling, as well as cringeworthy chronicles of his failing marriage, all delivered in a cartoonish tenor recalling hip-hop classics like "The Monster Mash", Standing In The Spotlight is un...

Prince Rogers Nelson, better known as Prince, is one of the most prolific artists and songwriters of all time, having released 39 studio albums and penned literally thousands of songs before his untimely death in April 2016. With nearly 20 tracks hitting the top 10 of the Billboard 100 chart, including "When Doves Cry", which peaked at #1 for five straight weeks, Prince is renowned for his vision...

Mike's brother Alex Dunn joins Make It Stop to discuss Kid Cudi's Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven. Where to start with Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven? How can we possibly distill this recondite opus into a mere blurb? Seems impossible, but let's give it a shot: It's a bad rapper ham-handedly strumming three chords on an out of tune guitar while waxing suicidal and making farm animal noises for 90 minutes strai...

Will you take The Oath? Will You Sacrifice? This week on Make It Stop we're just barely putting up with Music From "The Elder", the biggest blunder of KISS's career. Powerslut bassist and vehement KISS hater Hugh Beckett joins us to ponder the themes and lessons explored within the "immersive" sci-fi fantasy world of "The Elder". Based on a thin story outline by Gene Simmons, this ambitious concep...

WHOOP WHOOP. This week on Make It Stop it's All in the Family, as we invite local Tinder Famous musician Squallie Greenthumb to discuss his favorite group Insane Clown Posse. The album we've chosen to discuss is Bang! Pow! Boom!, which includes the group's most infamous song and the #1 meme of 2009, "Miracles". We talk in depth about the Juggalo subculture, the Joker Cards, and how exactly magnets...

The conversation runs long this week on Make It Stop as comedian and music critic Tawanda Gona joins Heather and Mike to feast on a stale cracker. In 2017, after a lengthy string of disappointing releases, Eminem released Revival, arguably his most despicable album yet. With a bloated 80+ minute runtime, and a smorgasbord of tryhard slant rhymes, outdated edgelord humor, and convoluted double ente...

This week's episode finds us sliding knee deep into glam metal, braving the murky waters of post-vehicular manslaughter Motley Crue. Our guest, local renaissance woman (comedian/musician/record store owner) Angela Sawyer tells us tales about her 15 year old self hiding passionate Motley Crue love poems behind her suburban waterbed and why she thought they "smoked pee". Why does Vince Neil sound li...

Alright #Stoppies, it's time for yet ANOTHER round of soulless white boy blues pap, this time courtesy of your beloved childhood heroes, the Simpsons! How much sax does one album need? Is it #ImTooSaxy or #IWantToSaxYouUp? Will anyone write a 5 paragraph essay about Hinder? Why are we threatening our audience with death? Why does Mike Dunn find joy in torturing his friends on his birthday? Find ou...

Stoppies, we like you so much we're even willing to try Butt Stuff. Rather than easing our way in for our first foray into the putrid realm of Butt Rock, we're taking a full plunge, discussing Hinder's downright detestable debut Extreme Behavior. Joining us are fellow tastemakers of trash Lee Martin and Patrick SB from the Jukebox Zeroes podcast. Along the way we moan and groan and generally try t...

Mike and Heather go in RAW this week as they explore How Could It Be, the musical debut of comedy legend Eddie Murphy. Released at the apex of his Hollywood ascent, How Could It Be finds Murphy trading his well-honed comedic chops for thin, unassured falsetto vocal runs and confounding lyrics about the apocalypse. Are writing assists from juggernauts like Rick James and Stevie Wonder enough to car...