No Filler Music Podcast

We flipped on the mics for an early morning recording of this month's Whatcha Heard. Tracklist Milly - Marcy David Byrne - Strange Overtones No Vacation - Days Little Big League - Dark Matter Helium - Vibrations Karate - Bass Sounds Dy Cleaning - Gary Ashby Shipping News - Axons and Dendrites Magic Shoppe - Hatchling Been Stellar - Kids 1995 Floatie - The Envoy This show is part of the Pantheon Po...

We're dusting off an episode from August 25th, 2019 for a closer look at the shoegazing dream pop outfit Slowdive. As one of the early pioneers of the genre, Slowdive's melancholy, druggy & spaced-out ​vibes sound just as fresh and modern today as it did in the early 90s. No Filler is part of Pantheon Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once again we cover shoegaze pioneers Slowdive. We chat about their triumphant return with their 2017 self-titled release that proved they still had a place at the head of the table. Tracklist: Star Rover Slomo Don't Know Why Go Get It No Filler is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Special thanks to Better Help and AKG for sponsoring this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...

Shortly after Doolittle, bassist Kim Deal needed an outlet to channel her creative energies in ways she wasn't able to under Black Francis' firm grip on the Pixies' songwriting process. So she formed a supergroup called The Breeders, teamed up with producer Steve Albini, and cranked out their debut record Pod in just 10 days. The result is an unapologetically straight-forward indie rock album that...

It's our monthly mixtape for August, with everything from Pink Floyd's heavier side to a folky, softer Slowdive side project, from some dark-synth dance pop to some new wave post-punk and everything in between. Stereolab, Nurse With Wound - Simple Headphone Mind True Widow - Theurgist Charade - One More Roll Hotline TNT - Nightlighter Autolux - Robots In The Garden Pink Floyd - The Nile Song Mojav...

Industrial synth-pop? Noise gaze? What exactly is electronic body music? All of these words have been used to describe the musical stylings of HEALTH, a band that refuses to stop screaming at you in every song title. Travis is joined by long-time friend of the pod Nathan Forster to dive into a handful of HEALTH tunes to get to the bottom of the band's unique blend of noise rock and synth-pop. Trac...

Ambient drone metal, dream sludge, bliss metal: it goes by many names, but one has finally stuck. The term is "doomgaze", and it's exactly what it sounds like: the reverb-drenched guitars and soft dreamy vocals of shoegaze played at the heavy, sludge-like pace of doom metal. That sound goes back much further than you might think, but didn't catch on until the mid 2010s with a steady rise in popula...

If you're a fan of shoegaze, you know that wall-of-sound when you hear it. Brooklyn-based Spotlights takes that wall-of-sound and cranks up the distortion, infusing the hazy, quiet vocals of dreampop with the heavy sludge of doom metal. Some would call them a doomgaze band, but they prefer the term dreamsludge. We chat about tracks spanning from their first EP to their 2nd full-length, Love & Deca...

Doomgaze is exactly what it sounds like: a blend of the slow and sludgy pace of doom metal with the wall-of-sound and ethereal vocals we've come to associate with shoegaze. Pencey Sloe is a French band that appear to have unintentionally stumbled into this label, or as lead singer Diane Pellotieri often puts it, their style is "completely uncontrolled, free, and blind." While the "doom" part of th...

For this month's Whatcha Heard, we dive into a variety of different folk from pop to freak, gazers from shoe to doom; and rock from psychedelic to grunge. Tracklist: Honeyglaze - Creative Jealousy Loop - Afterglow Built To Spill - Understood Sunbeam Sound Machine - Seems Like You Made Holy Wave - Schmetterling Rocketship - Your New Boyfriend Minaxi - Manchala Grouper - Come Softly - For Daniel D....

As a shoegaze band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, Pinkshinyultrablast describe that isolation from the global music scene as a feature not a bug. That freedom from the judgements and structures of the global scene led them to create a whole new subgenre under the shoegaze umbrella called "thunder pop". Join us as we chat about their debut record Everything Else Matters and their perfectly calibrat...

Over the past decade, there's been a definitive shift happening in the indie-rock scene that leans very heavily toward that iconic 90s rock sound that we all know and love. Whether it be grunge, shoegaze, or any flavor on the wide spectrum of the alt-rock sound, modern bands are taking all of those waypoints in rock and breathing new life into them. And we argue on this episode that no band does i...

Emerging from New York's noise rock scene, Band Of Susans broke away from the rock clichés that were all but set in stone by the late eighties, liberating the genre alongside their grungy shoegaze counterparts. On this week's episode, we dive into a handful of non-singles from "The Word And The Flesh" and "Veil". Tracklist: Mood Swing Trouble Follows Silver Lining Not In This Life Trouble Spot Big...

On this month's Whatcha Heard, we kick off our monthly mixtape with a brand new single from Texas native alt-rockers, Narrow Head. From there we listen to everything from lo-fi indie pop to 90s shoegaze (no surprises there), psychedelic dream pop to 70s post punk and much more.  Tracklist bar italia - skylinny bar italia - Mariana Trenchrock Pet Shimmers - Super Natural Teeth Arp - Flourescences R...

Throughout the mid-nineties as proto-grunge, radio-friendly Nirvana knockoffs were signing record deals like they were going out of style, Sloan took the road less traveled after signing with Geffen Records, even in the face of mounting pressure from the label to stay on that grungy, noise rock course. A second full-length album found the group heading in a more refined pop sound, a world away fro...

Considered by many to be one of America's best entries into the shoegaze genre during its 90s heyday, we talk about Swirlies' 1996 record They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons. The band spent a long time in the studio with this record, going on to refer to it as their "longest labor of love". The result is a collection of wide-ranging styles that blend lo-fi, no...

For our very first listener-suggested episode, we talk about the amazing Swervedriver and focus on their first 2 records: Raise and Mezcal Head. Similar to bands like Hum and Catherine Wheel, Swervedriver mixes elements of grunge, alt-rock, and shoegaze to create their sound. Tracklist: Son of Mustang Ford Sci-Flyer Sandblasted Never Lose That Feeling MM Abduction A Change Is Gonna Come Deep Wound...

We're back from our 2 week hiatus with May's Whatcha Heard, our monthly mixtape featuring 10 tracks that we can't get enough of. This month features everything from psychedelic folk to dystopian synthwave, the genre-defying Bjork to 90s post-hardcore, and plenty more to keep you interested. Tracklist: Toro y Moi - Days In Love Bjork - I Miss You Kikagaku Moyo - Cardboard Pile Yura Yura Teikoku - O...

We're back from vacation with a short and sweet episode on the post-hardcore noise rock stylings of Unwound, a band that created, as Fred Thomas of AllMusic once said, "some of the more influential and lasting work of their era, with their cloudy moods and explosively tense group dynamics culminating in some truly transcendent albums." On this episode, we're diving into our favorite album from the...

Another rewind episode? What are you guys on vacation or something? Yes. Yes we are. Now considered a touchstone record of the emo genre, we take a look at Jimmy Eat World's 1999 classic Clarity, and how the sound they were perfecting ushered us into the third wave of emo music. Before that we go all the way back to the spring of 1985 in Washington D.C. to explore the origins of emo, and discuss h...

On this rewind episode pulled from the No Filler vaults we bask in the shimmering, deafening, lush haze of our favorite subgenre: shoegaze. We pick a few random branches on the shoegaze tree and admire all that makes grunge's less popular sibling so goddamn amazing. Tracklist: Oeil - Strawberry Cream Letting Up Despite Great Faults - The Colors Aren't You Or Me The December Sound - Never The Decem...

We turn up the gain and aggression just a tad as we take one step closer to metal with tracks from Helmet's Meantime and Betty. Helmet carved out their own space in the 90s rock spectrum with a unique blend of metal-leaning riffs, melodic grooves, and alt-rock vocals. Tracklist: Unsung Iron Head You Borrowed Wilma's Rainbow Speechless Beautiful Love This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast. Learn...

Tracklist: Jack White - The White Raven Phife Dawg - Residual Curiosities (feat. Lyric Jones) Rain Parade - Kaleidoscope Pinch - Returnity Nothing - Bernie Sanders trauma ray - Nühevan Momma - Medicine Ataraxia - Deja Vu Should - Memdrive Elephant Tree - Wither Iron Curtain - Love Can Never Die Seam - Berlitz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For those just getting into the shoegaze genre, there are a handful of albums that are must-listens. Of course at the top sits My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless", Slowdive's "Souvlaki", and Ride's "Nowhere". But while there are must-listen albums, perhaps more important are the must-listen songs. And for many, Drop Nineteen's Delaware features one of shoegaze's greatest moments: the ethereal, slow-b...

Tracklist: Thoughtforms Baby Talk Scarlet Leaves Me Cold Downer Sweetness And Light Breeze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices