Pretty Good Vibrations

** This is Part 2 of 3 ** Lace up your boots, clip on your suspenders, and put on your pork pie hat because we are taking back to your roots! Remember when stomp-clapping indie folk took the entire (white) world by storm? Well, some of that stuff holds up, some doesn't, and plenty of what's been recording both before and since is haunting and beautiful. Ben Bishop (90s Punk Tournament, Dad's Casse...

Lace up your boots, clip on your suspenders, and put on your pork pie hat because we are taking back to your roots! Remember when stomp-clapping indie folk took the entire (white) world by storm? Well, some of that stuff holds up, some doesn't, and plenty of what's been recording both before and since is haunting and beautiful. Ben Bishop (90s Punk Tournament, Dad's Cassette Case) returns for a 34...

Some songs come straight out of the gate like bats out of hell. They announce themselves with maximum energy as the band first kicks in. I love these songs! For the first installment, Captain Ryan Downs joins me as we each choose 6 of our favorite rip-roarin' classic tunes. Spotify playlist for today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6qjeLJStfGqwlIF3T7Oq7h?si=cd3d89cbec5c425b Dan's musi...

California punks Rancid and NOFX have tread much of the same ground, festival lineups, a split EP where they cover each other's songs, and mental space among their large fanbases. But who is better? This is the obvious question that needs answering. You're welcome! My good friend Joey Libolt joins me as Rancid and their family of artists, including Transplants, Operation Ivy, and Tim Armstrong's s...

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Who is your favorite Beatle? And do you take into account what they wrote, recorded, and released after the Beatles' breakup? The Fab Four's collective solo efforts are an uneven but rich trove of pop music from the 1970s and beyond. Tyson Motsenbocker returns to help me run a death match of albums by John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Spotify playlist for today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/pla...

We're trying out a new episode style, which on-air I called "Sugar, We're Throwin' Down" but in the future, I will probably refer to it as "David vs. Goliath." At any rate, it was my guest David Stuart's idea and basic structure, and I love it! He brought in a favorite and underrated album, The Starting Line's "Direction," which competed head-to-head with the winner of an 8-album mini-tournament o...

As my guest (Joe Greenetz of Sherwood) explains, for two glorious years in the mid-late 1990s, the Music Television channel put out compilation albums of new songs by breaking artists, most of them firmly in the rock/alternative realm. And, frankly, the people deserve to know definitively which of the two volumes is the superior collection. So we had no choice but to test out a new episode style/g...

** This is Part 2 ** If you know, you know. And if you don't know, the chances that you will be glad that you found out are pretty slim! Artists include Pierce the Veil, Sason, Silverstein, Hawthorne Heights, Underoath, Emery, Chiodos, and more. Jed Payne (Church and Other Drugs) is my fantastic co-host for this one! Spotify playlist for today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Gi1fs63m...

If you know, you know. And if you don't know, the chances that you will be glad that you found out are pretty slim! Artists include Pierce the Veil, Sason, Silverstein, Hawthorne Heights, Underoath, Emery, Chiodos, and more. Jed Payne (Church and Other Drugs) is my fantastic co-host for this one! Spotify playlist for today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Gi1fs63mkkVz2XexnLrRd?si=9cc0...

** This is part 2 -- start at Part 1 ** Do you have what it takes to become Chief Rudeboy?! Grab your passports and your time machines as Chris Cron (Melee) and I take you back to 1960s Jamaica and 1980s England. First Wave and 2-Tone ska artists will duke it out in a winner-takes-all tournament. Spotify playlist for today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1GSiMy9phtwtmltmkJjXRh?si=d95f...

Do you have what it takes to become Chief Rudeboy?! Grab your passports and your time machines as Chris Cron (Melee) and I take you back to 1960s Jamaica and 1980s England. First Wave and 2-Tone ska artists will duke it out in a winner-takes-all tournament. The actual tournament starts around the 29:00 mark if you'd like to skip our throat-clearing and personal ska stories. Don't worry -- eventual...

** This is part 2 -- start last week for part 1 ** Do you stop at Pinkerton? The Green Album? Or do you celebrate the guys' entire catalog? Original member of the Rebel Weezer Alliance (and high school bandmate of mine) Roman Honeycutt joins me as seemingly every single idea Rivers Cuomo has ever had dukes it out in a 16-album tournament! I come to some important realizations here, both as a resul...

Do you stop at Pinkerton? The Green Album? Or do you celebrate the guys' entire catalog? Original member of the Rebel Weezer Alliance (and high school bandmate of mine) Roman Honeycutt joins me as seemingly every single idea Rivers Cuomo has ever had dukes it out in a 16-album tournament! I come to some important realizations here, both as a result of prepping for this episode and recording it. On...

** This is Part 2 -- start at last week's Part 1 for context ** I met my guest and friend Jeff Martin on tour in 2005; both Sherwood and his band This Day & Age were opening up for The Rocket Summer. Over the years, we have stayed in touch, and this week and next we will be talking through our favorite tourmates from those years, including Hellogoodbye, Say Anything, The Format, Copeland, and many...

I met my guest and friend Jeff Martin on tour in 2005; both Sherwood and his band This Day & Age were opening up for The Rocket Summer. Over the years, we have stayed in touch, and this week and next we will be talking through our favorite tourmates from those years, including Hellogoodbye, Say Anything, The Format, Copeland, and many more. We also talk about the role that many years on the road h...

** This is Part 2 -- start last week with Part 1 ** Summer approaches. Days grow longer. You forget to wear sunscreen, but you never forget your first musical love -- and mine was The Beach Boys. Jason Holstrom (United State of Electronica, Sunstrom Sound) joins me for a massive 32-album tournament, a winding journey through the entirety of their catalog. This part is 2 hours long, with another 3...

Summer approaches. Days grow longer. You forget to wear sunscreen, but you never forget your first musical love -- and mine was The Beach Boys. Jason Holstrom (United State of Electronica, Sunstrom Sound) joins me for a massive 32-album tournament, a winding journey through the entirety of their catalog. This part is 2 hours long, with another 3 hours and change to come next week, but with so much...

*Part 2 -- check out Part 1 from last week* Grab a 6-pack (or don’t if you’re Straight Edge) and get in the van! Your buddy’s copy of Book Your Own Fucking Life doesn’t have too many pages stuck together, and it looks like there’s just enough gas to get to Bakersfield for tonight’s basement show. Comedian Sam Tallent joins me as we pit songs by Black Flag, Bad Brains, Descendents, Dead Kennedys, M...

Grab a 6-pack (or don’t if you’re Straight Edge) and get in the van! Your buddy’s copy of Book Your Own Fucking Life doesn’t have too many pages stuck together, and it looks like there’s just enough gas to get to Bakersfield for tonight’s basement show. Comedian Sam Tallent joins me as we pit songs by Black Flag, Bad Brains, Descendents, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Circle Jerks, and more against...

What were you doing in August of 2004? I'll tell you what my guest Joe Greenetz and I were doing: sweating it out on the Vans Warped Tour with our band Sherwood. Joe and I give some brief context of our experience that summer before launching into an efficient 16-artist bracket focused on bands we heard daily walking the festival grounds, regretfully guzzling free-to-artists Monster energy drinks...

The Rolling Stones, Broken Social Scene, LCD Soundsystem, Aerosmith, and other artists populate the musical memory of comedian Simon Gibson (Cannonball, Inside Jokes), whose father was a local musician in Portland, OR throughout Simon’s early life. We also hear the soundtrack to his early-2000s move to Los Angeles to pursue comedy and about the friends who helped him see the value in digging deepe...

*This is part 2 - check part 1 from last week!* Ever wondered how White Evangelical Protestants got the way they are? The music that generation created played an outsized role in the formation of their subculture, one that would come to dominate a large chunk of American sociopolitics in the coming 6 decades. And you know what? Some of it rules. (Some emphatically does not.) Lindsay Strannigan (Ho...

Ever wondered how White Evangelical Protestants got the way they are? The music that generation created played an outsized role in the formation of their subculture, one that would come to dominate a large chunk of American sociopolitics in the coming 6 decades. And you know what? Some of it rules. (Some emphatically does not.) Lindsay Strannigan (Holy Ghosting Podcast, formerly of The Militia Gro...

Today we hear arguments in The United States vs. Nu-Metal. So de-tune your guitars, turn your hats backward, put up an ad at Guitar Center that says “Rap-rock band looking for DJ to fill out our sound,” and find something to break! A soundtrack of Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Korn, and even Rage Against the Machine (do they count??) dots the landscape of a surprisingly astute and sociology-heavy case ma...