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The 7-inch record isn’t just a format—it’s an art form. On each episode of The Spindle podcast, music writer Marc Masters and music historian (and music maker) John Howard dive into a great 7-inch, dissecting its background, impact, and the reasons why it stands out as a small plastic piece of music history.  This week, the duo digs into the 1988 single by Mudhoney, "Touch Me I'm Sick&qu...

This is WASTOIDS With and we're hanging with a voice that should be familiar to listeners, Marc Masters, co-host of The Spindle podcast. Every two weeks, he and his partner John Howard discuss a single 7” record here on WASTOIDS. So far, they’ve covered 45s by Flipper, Pavement, Superchunk , and Hüsker Dü.   Marc’s also a musician—he and John played in a group called The Plums—as well as one...

...And you will know us by the trail of clicks. It's time for another all-new episode of Click Vortex from WASTOIDS.  Every two weeks, Sam Means (The Format) and Jason Woodbury (Aquarium Drunkard) go on a cyberspace cruise, following links wherever they may lead. This latest episode was recorded fairly early in the morning–expect a little grogginess—and finds the intrepid online adventurers d...

Hey welcome to another episode WASTOIDS With…Blue Broderick of Diners. For the last decade, she's cruised along highways and byways of the DIY all-ages indie rock scene. Her latest is called Four Wheels and the Truth , and it’s filled with tuneful, hooky pop rock. She joined us to discuss the new album, her newfound expression of trans identity, and the music of her ‘70s inspirations, think B...

The 7-inch record isn’t just a format—it’s an art form. On each episode of The Spindle podcast, music writer Marc Masters and music historian (and music maker) John Howard dive into a great 7-inch, dissecting its background, impact, and the reasons why it stands out as a small plastic piece of music history.  This week, the duo digs into San Francisco noise punks Flipper 's 1981 single "...

WASTOIDS With is back with Trevor Shelley de Brauw, guitarist of Chicago art metal band Pelican , Chord, and RLYR, who just released a new self-titled record on Gilead Media, and it blends thrash elements with shoegaze textures, drones, and a sense of triumphant melodicism.  When de Brauw isn’t playing music, he serves as the “emo ambassador” to Chicago’s Numero Group label and works with the publ...

… Rally 'round the family with a pocket full of clicks. Today your hosts Sam Means (The Format) and Jason P. Woodbury (Aquarium Drunkard) follow a hyperlink rabbit hole into the online void. This episode finds them inspired by MTV Classic, the gentle melodies of Sarah McLachlan, oddity filled X-Files soundtracks, cosmic rap pioneers PM Dawn, pop rockers Third Eye Blind, and Tom Morello—includ...

Welcome to WASTOIDS With…Limbeck. Led by Patrick Carrie and Robb MacLean, with Justin Entsminger and Jon Phillip, Limbeck has been mixing Orange County skater vibes with rustic country-tinged indie rock since 1999.  2003’s Hi, Everything’s Great earned them a cult of devoted fans, and while they have operated in a limited capacity over the years since, the band has recently been hitting the road,...

The 7-inch record isn’t just a format–it’s an art form. On each episode of The Spindle podcast, music writer Marc Masters and music historian (and music maker) John Howard dive into a great 7-inch, dissecting its background, impact, and the reasons why it stands out as a small plastic piece of music history.  The Spindle keeps it short and to the point–just like the best 7-inches do. This episode,...

Rapper, teacher, and podcaster Mega Ran, AKA Raheem Jarbo drops by WASTOIDS to discuss the glories of vintage NBA, player and activist Craig Hodges, and his 11th album, Live 95 , a nostalgic throwback to the golden age of ’90s basketball and pop culture. Want to see more Mega Ran? Check out our live performance show Out of Site to see him in action.  If you liked this chat, please subscribe to the...

This week Sam and Jason tumble down a pop-punk themed rabbit hole with special guest Casey Shafer of Burning House management, known for his work with Monophonics. From the roots of pop punk to its '90s heyday, the trio explores exploratory the role of comps, The Vandals, the punk comedies of Penelope Spheeris, the Teen Idols, the epic 101 song-long Short Music for Short People collection, an...

N8NOFACE is one of the most energetic forces to emerge from the Southwest experimental underground. Originally known as part of the chiptune duo Crimekills, Nate’s since hit a streak of releases that blend synth pop, punk, and darkwave, equally indebted to groups like Screamers, Suicide, Ween, and Sleaford Mods.  For this episode of WASTOIDS WITH , we linked up with Nate learn how he tells the sto...

The 7-inch record isn’t just a format–it’s an art form. On each episode of The Spindle podcast, music writer Marc Masters and music historian (and music maker) John Howard dive into a great 7-inch, dissecting its background, impact, and the reasons why it stands out as a small plastic piece of music history.  The Spindle keeps it short and to the point–just like the best 7-inches do. This episode,...

It's time for WASTOIDS With… Laura Jane Grace . She’s created some of the most strident punk music of the last couple of decades, both as a solo artist and leader of Against Me! She’s currently embarked on the Carousel Tour, playing collaborative sets with Anthony Green of Circa Surviv e and T im Kasher of Cursive , along with special guests Mikey Erg, Home Is Where, and Oceanator on select d...

It's time for episode four of Click Vortex, in which your intrepid hosts Sam Means (The Format) and Jason P. Woodbury (Aquarium Drunkard) wander the environs of cyberspace, tracing the twists and turns of the hyperlinks. This week, they embrace dystopia and talk cyberpunk, dig into the work of singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, get zippy with The Kinks, go off the map with a veer into Scientolog...

The 7-inch record isn’t just a format–it’s an art form. On each episode of The Spindle podcast, music writer Marc Masters and music historian (and music maker) John Howard dive into a great 7-inch, dissecting its background, impact, and the reasons why it stands out as a small plastic piece of music history.  The Spindle keeps it short and to the point–just like the best 7-inches do. Up first? Mar...

Yesterday becomes tomorrow and today fades into nothing more than a passing dream. Are you in the grind, listener? The never-ending routine? Clearing inboxes, paying bills, shuffling obligations, rescheduling catch ups with friends? They say there’s nothing new under the sun. So often it feels that way. But then again, something occasionally comes along to shatter that adage. A rare occurrence, a...

At its best, music offers us a chance at time travel, transporting us back to moments in our past. That happens over and over again on With People, the latest album from Shaun Fleming’s Diane Coffee project. Produced by Jonathan Rado of Foxygen, it blends '70s style folk-rock with orchestral pop flourishes and focuses in on their youth in Agoura Hills, California. Fleming joins Clairaudience...

It's time for a biweekly online rabbit hole journey with Sam Means and Jason P. Woodbury. On today’s show, our click trails take us from Billy Joel to Television to the Johns (Glynn, Ethan, and Andy)—who've helped to make some of the best sounding records ever—and from Todd Rundgren to Ric Ocasek and then Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins. And of course, the boys are digress and discurse...

Ersa Lowly's topics here on Clairaudience tend toward the lofty, the paranormal, and the mystical, as above, so below. We often imagine there's a dividing line between high and low experiences, but it’s all, pardon our French, composed of the same shit. Our lowest moment is connected to our highest; our most embarrassing story says as much about us as our most laudable. So we're eng...

You have tuned your mental radio to a very particular frequency and entered a phantasmagorical zone, one in which you mustn’t take things too literally, but you must also be sure to take them seriously. It's time for Clairaudience , with Ersa Lowly. Tonight, we hear from a 1-877-WASTOIDS caller who shares a story about their imaginary friend, and then turn to the work of esotericist Alexandra...

Sam Means and Jason P. Woodbury log in and zone out in the second episode of Click Vortex: Bicoastal (kinda) Edition. On today's show, our rabbit holes lead us to Nicolas Cage, The Bangles, David Lynch, Sheryl Crow, Mitchell Froom, Phantom Planet, and much more. Click Vortex is made for you by WASTOIDS , audio and video from Hello Merch. Home to music podcasts, live performance videos, art, a...

The hands on the clock are spinning, moving both backward and forward. What time does this frenzied motion denote? Why, it means the hour is at hand: It’s time for…Clairaudience on WASTOIDS. And this week, your host Ersa Lowly is joined by the mystic mistress, Monkia George of Cosmic Hour. She’s an aura photographer, tarot reader, and a certified sound healing astrologer. She's here here to h...

To celebrate MC Magic's brand new WASTOIDS session, we've launched the Magic Dedication Line, featuring your dedications and messages to MC Magic. To see MC Magic's full set with Nichole and Alberto H, and a live band, head over to WASTOIDS right now. Follow @WASTOIDSDOTCOM to keep up to date on our videos and podcasts, and call us any time with your weirdest stories at 1-877-WASTOI...

Next time you listen to theoretical scientists describing the world of quantum physics, listen to the terminology they use. You’ll find it sounds a bit…far out. “Teleportation” is one such term. It’s possible, in the realm of quantum mechanics, to transport information through the waves, though they haven’t cracked the matter of, well, teleporting matter just yet. But if you wander into the world...