Savage Beast: Indie Music Podcast

Paul comes up with the least google-able band name of all time. Joe recounts his Pumpkins arena show experience. Counting Crows are better than Bush, and Liz Phair is Dad Rock now. Should you skip your son's birth to see Pearl Jam... again? Plus: Sudan Archives, Alan Braufman, and history’s most hilarious fires.

Paul gets stoned and listens to a playlist Joe made for the sole purpose of blowing his mind. Then, we go deep.

How and why does smoking weed change the way you hear music? We made each other a playlist to listen to while high; in Part 1, we discuss Paul's trippy playlist for Joe, who wrote a hilarious journal while listening. Plus there's a Jay Leno thing with funny rap headlines.

Our nicest albums of Q1 2018. Everything on this pod slaps, even the country pop.

A very necessary pod on Pusha T, Childish Gambino, and Kanye . A very unnecessary discussion of the new Smashing Pumpkins single. Joe is sorry he forgot which Beastie Boy died.

Kanye dropped Pusha T's new album while we were recording, but we managed to keep recording rather than listening to it immediately. Then Paul brings two new electronic albums by Jon Hopkins and DJ Knock Knock for our consideration. We also take some time to talk about Scott Hutchinson, the lead singer of Frightened Rabbit who passed away in May.

Paranoia, paranoia, our favorite lyrics are rather catchy! Just say I've never met Ye! I’m running underground with the pods, diggin’ in…uh… sod. We reveal our most cherished lyrical passages from 90’s alt rock.

Albums we liked from the second half of 2017.

When Jack White's rap career died, Paul inherited a small fortune, so Joe offered him a menu of overpriced trophy vinyl to spend it on. After the splurge, we talk about what a music collection means in an era when you no longer need one. Let's get ready to crumble!

Hipsters play this in their Prius, cube and ellipticals. We celebrate Dr. Dre's 90's hip hop classic, in tribute to those with big enough egos to do this podcast for two whole years.

Pumpkins reunion tour; La Monte Young's 5-hour piano masterpiece; why we love Neutral Milk Hotel; separating the art from the artist. Was going to put a joke about Billy playing piano live for 5 hours but then realized he once played an 8-hour synth jam at his tea house. Joe took 11 days to upload this because he is very important and super busy.

We're back from hiatus just in time to get deported to Coachella. After debating which musician would make the best boss on a reboot of The Office, we reveal our musical resolutions for 2018, one of which includes "The 1975", surprisingly not preceded with the phrase "I pledge to run over with a spring-tooth harrow..." Joe spent a lot of time editing out his coughing so you could listen to this ep...

After convincing Marvin Gaye to join Radiohead, we talk about how Chuck Klosterman is once again very wrong and annoying about something. Then we review Billy Corgan’s new album, and, in a mirror of Billy’s biggest blunders over the past decade, Joe messes up the audio production on this episode for no apparent reason.

Should you lie to your children about Piebald? Alex Parisi is back for another chat. First, we prove that Harvey Danger is definitely emo. The decision is now canon and can never be reversed. Then, Paul is accused of loving Prog Rock. The World is A Beautiful Place and We Are Not Afraid to Podcast. The last half of the episode we talk about Brand New… but when we recorded this we were not aware th...

What album cover did you dress up as for Halloween? Paul and Joe were Neil Young and the Tree Neil Young is Leaning On from the cover of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Meanwhile, Damo Suzuki’s Yelp profile picture is a photo of Nujabes.

Announcing the Paul & Joe Well-Endowed Chair for the Study of Heartland Rock, Passive Aggressive Lyrical Texts, and Korean Debate Team Rap. Please note that Class 609, the Perverted Arts of Szechuan, will not meet this week because Professor Corgan read a mean comment online.

Back in September, three dudes had a very special podcast show. They talked about TV theme songs, from famous ones to ones you probably don't even know. End of clever song parody. Our movies & TV expert Taylor is back, and we all talk about theme songs, from Mission Impossible and Cheers to True Detective and Mad Men. It was fun. LAW AND ORDER SOUND.

Revealed! Our Best of Q2 2017: Big Thief, White Reaper, Chastity Belt, Richard Dawson, Thurston Moore, Mac DeMarco, Fleet Foxes, Joni Void, Colin Stetson and Kendrick, of course.

Analysis of new tracks from two divas, Taylor and Billy. We go crazy and pull a couple fans onstage!

Hootie. Spin Doctors. Deep Blue Something. Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite, we decide the lasting value of several 90's pop rock favorites.

Everything Sucks Now! Joe's been dunking on Arcade Fire for years, but after hearing their new album he's throwing lobs to Paul. With all this negative content, there's no way Bill Simmons will like us as much as Lil Yachty. Come, invest in Soundcloud's down round with us!

If you like that little field recording sample in the background of the second verse of Exit Music (for a Film), you are gonna love our podcast. An in-depth analysis of the OK Computer reissue.

Battlestar Spotifyica must jump from song to song using the app's Related Artists feature, trying to get from Linkin Park to something decent as quickly as possible. Also, how obvious is Pat Benatar's wokeness? Let's go to the zoo and find out.

Fleet Foxes and Big Thief reviews. MTV News layoffs reveal Chance to be kind of a douche. Crappy-sounding audio really gets Paul's goat.

Priests, Raekwon, Jonwayne, Cherry Glazerr, Julie Byrne, Wild Pink, Pissed Jeans, Aye Nako, Sacred Paws, Vagabon, Aster More.