the Book Of Very Very Bad Things Podzine - a 3:33 A.M. Studios Production

Hello all and welcome to Season 3 of the show! We return with some format changes, a new team member, and some industry heavyweights! Producer and engineer (Jerry Cantrell), Grammy Nominated Mr. Paul Fig (of Amen and Blue Bird) and Christopher Lewis (of The Kinison) have dropped their second album together, and it is an indie rock masterpiece. All Music used by kind permission. "Martyrs" b...

This is the final chapter of Book II! Thank you all for your support. Book III Begins this Samhain! To celebrate the release of his book Encyclopedia Obscurum, as well as the reissue of Timescale Zero's "Welcome to the Kali Yuga" via Damien Moyal's Lore Fanzine, I give you Adel Souto. Herein lies a longform summoning of our nether selves, called upon to converge and build to a psyc...

Tonight we celebrate the triumphant return of one of our all time favorite bands, The Julies! Chris Newark and I dive into where they've been for over 2 decades, how this album came into the universe, family, love, children, gun control, mortality... We explore, ponder, and pontificate together for your listening delectation. https://thejulies.bandcamp .com https://lostinohio .com All music us...

Tonight I mine the virtues and sonic glory of the spiritual essence of Rock and Roll with one of it's greatest practitioners, Chuck French. Chuck along with the most fierce psychadelia laced Punks known to man, Git Some, have returned from an elongated slumber with their most realized work yet, New Blood. This conversation barely scratches the surface of the unique heft and sonically monolithi...

Dave Clifford is the thinking man's musician. Having served time in bands of such import as Red Sparrowes, The VSS, and Sub Pop alum Pleasure Forever, he has seen every angle of independent music and lived to speak of it. Pleasure Forever have issued their first collection of new material in over 20 years with the incomparable "Distal", an EP so Gothic that it mines a stygian abyss tha...

Hello all ye Friends and compatriots! Welcome to an episode that I had never imagined I'd reach. 100. To celebrate, we decided to have a freewheeling conversation with Tara Van Flower. What we'd gotten was a rare interview with Mike VanPortfleet, who had forsworn interviews, AND an acoustic performance of "Where Has All The Time Gone"! We'd also gotten a bevy of well-wishes fro...

Hello all ye Friends and compatriots! Welcome to an episode that I had never imagined I'd reach. 100. To celebrate, we decided to have a freewheeling conversation with Tara Van Flower. What we'd gotten was a rare interview with Mike VanPortfleet, who had forsworn interviews, AND an acoustic performance of "Where Has All The Time Gone"! We'd also gotten a bevy of well-wishes fro...

No. 2.0... Go! The second 90 minutes of my conversation with Jack of Soft Riot, in which, we further traverse the multitudinous aspects os music culture, childhood touchstones, the word "Post", and other ponderous pontifications. https://softriot .com https://softriot.bandcamp .com https://linktr .ee/BookOfVeryVeryBadThings Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-book-of-very-v...

JJD of Soft Riot and I hunker down for a trans-Atlantic, conversational Odyssey in 2 parts. The Canadian ex-pat began his career in the Punk sphere, playing in indie darling band Radio Berlin. after leaving for the UK, he began to stir up new anarchy with the New Wave and Industrial informed sounds of Soft Riot. This is part one of a 2 part journey into the world of JJD. https://softriot .com Soft...

Tonight, we dissect the long shadows that haunt the duo behind Violet Silhouette. No topic was off limits a we navigated the long shadows that scurry behind these bold and unfettered artists. Matters of spirit, soul, and etherial creatures... The deeds of the divine and the corporeal....And the new single "Strange Wind". https://violetsilhouette.bandcamp .com https://violetsilhouette .com...

Tonight, I offer a special episode of the Book, featuring a great friend of the show, artist Adam Norvell. We discuss his musical project, the Neo-Folk entity Peace Through Decay, the beginnings of his art, the paranormal, UFOs, high strangeness, spirituality.... TRIGGER WARNING!!! We get into the topics of substance abuse, self harm, and suicide. Be prepared. https://peacethroughdecay.bandcamp .c...

Tonight, we are pleased to offer our discussion with vocalist and guitarist Matt Curtis, of A La Carte Records artists Plight. Hailing from Brooklyn, NYC, Plight have been gaining a lumbering momentum since the Linger E.P. and B-Sides single dropped in 2019. In January of this year, they released the seismically melodic "Plastic Sun" to great fanfare and critical adoration. Using elements...

Tonight we sit with our friend Tony Arnold, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist behind Fueral Date. Herein, we discuss the machinations of his music, the life experiences behind the lyrics, recovering from Catholicism, the folly of party politics, and much more... FUNERAL DATE post-punk / darkwave from Ocean Springs, MS BIO Funeral Date is a post-punk/darkwave project from Ocean Springs, MS, founde...

Tonight, we celebrate the art and music of Michael Thorn, former coordinator for Maximum Rock & Roll, member of Architects of the New Christ Rebellion, Inept, Kill The Man Who Questions, Stockholm Syndrome, and War All The Time, and currently the publisher of Razorblades & Aspirin zine. We delve into what it looks like to be an appreciator and participant in Hardcore Punk as an adult, how...

There sauce is always better the next day! Welcome to the second helping of the wit, wisdom, and warmth of the lovely Dave Nesmith! Tonight, we are pleased to share the first taste of the new Bats & Mice record with "Space Race", a melodic slice of powerful, melodic Post-Hardcore. I couldn't be more honored! Dave's discography can be found and purchased at https://lovitt .com h...

Dave Nesmith has been in more bands than almost anyone I know. He has the distinction of playing in Men's Recovery Project with legendary Punk ne'er-do-well and merry prankster Sam McPheeters (Born Against/Vermiform Records). He started out as an emcee in a Hip Hop group, played Pop-Punk in Gefilte Fish, Sleepytime Trio, Maximillian Colby, The Rah Bras, Regents, Bats & Mice, and Sweatp...

Tonight, Rid Of Me guitarist and Knife Hits label head Mike McGinnis wax poetic about life in the post-Covid space, suffering tempered via art, camaraderie, and the almighty riff. Do not Miss this Jhon! https://knifehitsrecords ,com https://https://ridofme.bandcamp .com All songs used by permission. Martyrs by Heart Out Theme by GOWN https://word4wordinterpretation .com Support this podcast at — h...

Join Nat Danger and I as we sit to discuss SPACESHIPS incredible new album RUINS! We delve into family, love , The Cure, spirituality, how Christians sully the word of Christ (well, RIGHTY Christians), and the mysteries of music. I deeply love that I've uncovered this crucial episode! https://friendclubrecords .com https://wearespaceships.bandcamp .com All songs from "RUINS" used by pe...

On the second episode of the evening, I sit with an absolute staple in the Scranton. PA music scene, Clyde of Sleeplore. Combining elements of Post-Rock, Shoegaze, Britpop, 90's Alt Rock and Indie, Sleeplore harnesses an emotional charge that even it's creator doesn't fully realize it's impact upon the beholder. that is, actually, what makes this work so beautiful. it is devoid of...

a La Carte Records, the record collective that is responsible for releasing classic releases by the likes of Old Moon, Lesser Care, Don't Get Lemon, The True Faith, and Soft Kill, are an absolute force in modern independent music. Tonight, Francisco (one of it's founders), gives us the skinny on its machinations, inception, and mission. We also delve into his heroic origin story, the esote...

Tonight it is my pleasure to introduce you to Now After Nothing’s Matt Spatial. His music is sublime, bleak, gloomy, and pop inflected Darkwave from the city that gave us Killer Mike and Outkast. On this episode we traverse his journey to this project, his love of My Bloody Valentine and Jane's Addiction, politics, relationships, and the majesty of song. ATLANTA, GA | FEBRUARY 24, 2023:  Today...

Happy Friday and Release Day to Damien, as the modern masterpiece "Total Power" dropped today. Every time Damien and I get together, we tend to ruminate upon the foibles of mankind as well as the music industry. This conversation lasted nearly 5 hours. I submit to you a mere snippet, one that you are sure to enjoy. Buy at http://mindovermatterrecords.com , http://damiendone.bandcamp.com ....

Actor/Musician/Homeslice Michael Malarkey (Vampire Diaries,Project Blue Book, Westworld, you already know all of this stuff!) and Musician/Film Maker Matt Mitchell, sat with yours truly to examine the remote nature of their collaboration, the reverse engineering of the vocals, their spheres of influence, the Stay On Main hotel... We tend to be Chatty Cathys. Order Burial Clouds music, merch, and m...

Duncan Barlow and Ashli State of Louisville Post-Hardcore phenom Guilt sat down with us to bask in the glory and wilt in the sunless cold of 90's Hardcore, the recording of a modern masterpiece, and laughing through the pain. The vinyls is already sold out, but check out https://mindovermatterrecords.com to keep an eye out for another pressing, as well as all of the other goodies our pal Austi...

Blue collar Dark Synthwave Chanteuse Hannah Hoffman sat with us while at work in order to shed some precious light onto the abysmal spaces that this E.P., "Bound By This", inhabits. We leave no stone unturned as we map the topography of her journey to these 4 songs, and examine the characters that inhabit each world that they serve as a narrative about. This is a project that will certainl...