No Filler Music Podcast

After 90s alt-rockers Hum gained a small amount of fame with their 1995 single "Stars", the band headed back to the studio to make their next record. By the time the Downward Is Heavenward was released in 1998, perhaps rock was ready for something else. The record garnered little attention, and the band dissolved, not putting out another record for another 22 years! But the record lived on, and it...

Our monthly mixtape is back and surely you know the drill by now? 10 tracks from 10 different artists, no rules just great tunes. We kick things off with a brand new single from Guerilla Toss from their brand new record Famously Alive. Tracklist: Guerilla Toss - Cannibal Capital Common Saints - Fastlane Vitesse X - Repress Reprise Strongboi -Fool Around Saunimon - JAVELIN Letting Up Despite Great...

As we continue exploring the not-so-grungy, somewhat shoegazey side of 90s alt-rock, we're diving into Pale Saints' second studio album from 1992, "In Ribbons", a record that "bristles with quirk, strangeness and charm". Tracklist: Hunted Ordeal Hair Shoes Babymaker Featherframe Porpoise No Filler is a proud member of The Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

On this week's episode, we chat about Catherine Wheel, the band that mixed new wave, grunge, and shoegaze to craft a sound truly their own. We're diving into their second studio album from 1993, "Chrome". Tracklist: Crank Flower To Hide Bill And Ben Broken Head Strange Fruit Ursa Major Space Station The Nude Texture This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choice...

We chat about R.E.M's debut record, Murmur and try to imagine what it was like to hear this style of rock for the first time in 1983. Hearing it now, R.E.M's mix of jangly 60s pop and folk rock with garage rock attitude sounds so normal and common after the band's influence shaping the sound of countless rockers for nearly four decades. But at the time, critics knew it was special. So much so that...

On our second Whatcha Heard of 2022, we bring a varied mix of new alternative, doomgaze, pioneering synth pop, and much more! Join us as we jam to our monthly mixtape and conclude that more tambourine is ultimately what we need. Tracklist Khruangbin, Leon Bridges - B Side The Smile - The Smoke Green House - Find Home The 6ths - Falling Out Of Love (With You) Cryogeyser - Nature Spotlights - Xerox...

With Miracle Legion's future in limbo after legal troubles with their label at the time, Mark Mulcahy came up with a new name for the group (and alter egos for each band member) when they were approached by Will McRobb to write songs and appear in his upcoming Nickelodeon project. The show was of course The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Not only did they appear in the opening credits and write the...

If you were in college in the early 80s and tuned in to your campus radio station, you probably heard a fair amount of R.E.M., maybe some Pixies, or The Smiths even. But you may have heard a lesser known group: Miracle Legion. With similar jangle pop melodies and vocal stylings as Peter Buck and Michael Stipe, the band was often compared to their R.E.M. counterparts. But what made Miracle Legion d...

Travis is out of town this week, so we're dropping a Rewind episode on you from our first year podcasting back in 2018, where we covered REM's 4th studio album "Life's Rich Pageant". If you were to plot R.E.M's path from underground buzz to household name, their fourth studio album Life's Rich Pageant was the turning point. Coming out of a miserable recording experience in London with Fables of th...

We're taking a break from the dream pop resurgence of the 2010s to reminisce over one of Quentin's favorite indie rock records from our high school years: Ambulance LTD's "LP" from 2004. With a frontman in constant struggle to keep his band together, and a bankrupt record label preventing him from releasing new material, Marcus Congleton's Ambulance LTD was rather short-lived. Though they may not...

In our first Whatcha Heard episode of the year, we bring everything from 90s emo to some fresh doomgaze, bedroom pop to 90s avant-pop, and a bunch of other great tunes in between. It's our monthly mixtape - join us as we jam out to everything we've been listening to lately. Tracklist: Spoon - Wild Working Men's Club - Bad Blood Cloakroom - A Force At Play Lungfish - Jonah Alex G - Forever Jurassic...

Continuing our streak devoted to dreamy indie pop from the 2010s, we listen to an album steeped in suburbia: Real Estate's Days. Everything from the album art to the lyrical themes harken back to that youthful innocence of growing up in the suburbs. The songs are simple but the song structures are anything but, with jangly guitar melodies and gorgeous harmonies lie somewhere between 60s pop and 90...

We learned about a new subgenre while researching this record: "twee pop". The term is used to describe music that is simple and innocent, with boy-girl harmonies, lyrical themes about love, and catchy melodies. It's the perfect way to describe Beach Fossil's debut 2010 record. Written, recorded, and produced by frontman and Beach Fossil's founder Dustin Payseur while longing to escape his new hom...

After signing to Sub Pop, Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand decided it was time to take Beach House's lo-fi signature sound and make everything "bigger". They kept the core ingredients (jangly guitars, organ drones, and Victoria's distinct low, Nico-esque vocals), but added more approachable, hooks and more pop-leaning choruses. You could say they put the "pop" in dream pop more so than any of thei...

Our final episode of the year means it's our final 10 tracks in our best of 2021 countdown. Join us as we listen to everything from progressive metal to psychedelic folk. Thanks as always for listening! Tracklist: Shame - This Side Of The Sun Paul Jacobs - Christopher Robbins Mr. Twin Sister - Despoil Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Corners Pressed Beach House - Once Twice Melody Alice Phoebe Lo...

Perhaps our most diverse collection of tracks so far in our Top 40 Tracks of 2021 countdown, week 3 brings everything from progressive metal to a 70s disco throwback. Tune in next week for our final picks of the year. Tracklist JW Francis - Maybe Bay Ledges - Not Now Maybe Never 79.5 - Club Level Ben Prunty - Kelp Caves Fiddlehead - Joyboy Gojira - New Found Kings of Leon - 100,000 People Bad Math...

The countdown continues with our next 10 top tracks from 2021. This batch of tunes ranges from Turkish-folk infused psychedelic rock to an indie video game score composed by one of this decade's greatest indie artists. Tune in each week of December as we countdown our Top 40 Tracks of 2021. Tracklist: Magdalena Bay - Hysterical Us Magdalena Bay - Secrets (Your Fire) Mini Trees - Doomsday Dauwd - L...

We kick off our countdown of favorite tracks from the year with 10 tracks ranging from deep jungle techno to psychedelic pop. Tune in each week of December as we countdown our Top 40 Tracks of 2021. Tracklist: Yot Club - Hole Bloodslide - Trap Door GHENGIS TRON - Pyrocene Forrest Drive West - Dualism Peggy Gou - I Go Hush Forte - FRUSTRATION (feat. Saint Lyor) Psymon Spine - Modmed Kings of Conven...

​On this week's rewind episode, we take a look at the emergence of chillwave and the role of those dime-a-dozen music blogs of the early 2000s in helping launch this short-lived & blissed-out, shoe-gaze dance genre. Our main dig is on the DIY home recordings of Ernest Greene Hemingway Jr., aka Washed Out, who, along with Toro Y Moi and Neon Indian, were the three main influencers of the chillwave...

After the success of Person Pitch, Noah Lennox took those lessons learned with him back into the studio with the rest of Animal Collective to create another touchstone record of the 2000s. This time, the melodic electronica that felt more man than machine was refined and amplified to an infectious, hypnotic, and deeply human electronic record. The record improves even more on their trademark harmo...

With our buddy Josh joining us once again, we gush over Panda Bear's 2007 touchstone indie record Person Pitch. Trading in the usual guitar for a Roland sampler, Noah Lennox created a record made up almost entirely of samples ranging from Cat Stevens to a hooting owl. His reverb-drenched vocals, often densely layered to create harmonies on par with Beach Boys, paired perfectly with his introspecti...

For our 200th episode, we chat with our old pal Josh Stewart about our short-lived indie music blog, Newdust. We reminisce about the glory days of the 2010s blog era, putting on house shows in Denton TX, and the rise of chillwave and modern dream pop. Tracklist: Balkans - Edita V Toro Y Moi - You Hid Small Black - Camouflage Beach Fossils - Youth Tennis - Marathon Long Walks On The Beach - metaPhy...

On this month's Whatcha Heard, Travis breaks our lengthy metal dry spell with some Norwegian thrash metal, Quentin gets reacquainted with one half of Air, and Adriano Celentano leaves us scratching our heads with his classic 70s hit full of English gibberish. We also dive into some dark and moody synth-pop from the 70s and 80s, and a sprinkling of post-punk and emo for good measure. Tracklist: Ani...

We get it: if you have to hear Monster Mash one more time, your boombox will be the only thing getting graveyard smashed. If you're in need for some new tunes for your costume party tonight, we've got you covered. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats takes psychedelic rock and doom metal and mashes it with The Manson Family, Universal Monsters, and all the other horror film essentials on your October watch...

In this early No Filler episode, we kicked off our deep dive into indie rock gods Spoon. We started with A Series of Sneaks, where Spoon still had their feet firmly planted in the alt rock post punk that came before them (think Pixies and Sonic Youth). We chat about how the label's lackluster support for the record jaded the band and how it ultimately helped set the tone for the album that followe...