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We're back with another one of those super popular New Music Showcase things that you all seem to love so much! This time around, we're discussing Afternoon X , the latest offering from UK psychedelic pop outfit Vanishing Twin! You can check out the music RIGHT HERE if you're interested, and you should be very interested. And don't forget to vote in our latest poll! If it's a N...

The show that talks about you on purpose is back, dear listener! This particular episode (which was culled from a once-lost recording made in June of 2023) is a bit of a strange one, if we're being honest. Things start off well enough. We discuss feedback regarding the music of Art d'Ecco and Kim Gordon , which is fine. Then a whole bunch of other stuff happens. Bad jokes are shared. Rambl...

This week on the show that talks about stuff on purpose, we're shining a spotlight on 1981's fantasy cult classic DRAGONSLAYER , the delightful story of a beleaguered sorcerer's apprentice who bites off more than he can chew when he decides he's ready to do battle with a very old and very angry dragon that's made an uneasy peace with a nearby kingdom. It's a tale as old as...

It's time for another New Music Showcase! This week, we're taking a closer look at Anatomy Of Sight , the latest release from MALKA , also known as multi-talented Scottish musician Tamara Schlesinger. You can check it out for yourself RIGHT HERE . What did you think of Anatomy Of Sight ? Do you think it's worthy of inclusion in the TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on ? It's time for you to...

Our friends Gore & Carey, " The Gruesome Twosome ", over at 66.6 KTRP , are hosting the 2023 TRAPPO Music Awards ! The music world's premiere awards show is back, celebrating the greatest artistic achievements of the year that was. Dear listeners like you picked the winners in 21 exciting categories, and now you get to find out who won alongside a live studio audience! Congratula...

The show that talks about YOU on purpose is back for the first time in 2024! We're opening up TRAPPO's Mail Bag once again to address your feedback, dear listener! This time around, we're discussing the state of American comic books, what it feels like to be Jack "The King" Kirby", Dustin finds his self-confidence, TV presenter Jeremy Wade makes an appearance, the Imposs...

Happy 2024, dear listener! In this first new episode of the new year, we're taking a closer look at Holy Waters , the latest full-length album from the UK's Jacob Allen, A.K.A. dream-soul maven Puma Blue . Check it out at your leisure, CLICK HERE to listen to Holy Waters , then follow THIS LINK to our blog and vote in the NMS poll ! You get to decide whether or not Holy Waters is inducted...

It's the last episode of TRAPPO for the year, so we figured we might as well go big! After over two years of listeners asking us to cover Frank Zappa, we're finally building our very own Frank Zappa Can(n)on ! Now you can listen along and vehemently disagree with each and every one of our choices! Join the conversation! I'm sure we're big stupid idiots who didn't highlight any...

This week on the show that talks about stuff on purpose, we're discussing the 2022 indie Cryptid thriller All Eyes, a film by The Brothers Greenlee. It's the story of a disgraced podcaster who seeks redemption by traveling to Oklahoma to help a beleaguered farmer trap and kill a local legendary monster... and this monster is positively covered in eyeballs. Hence the film's name. Now yo...

This week on TRAPPO , we're doing another one of those New Music Showcase thingies that people seem to tolerate so well. Have you heard Hollow World , the debut album from Finnish psych/doom outfit Orbiter ? No? Then you need to get on that! Check out our latest New Music Showcase and we'll tell you all about it, dear listener! We've got a poll! I know it's very exciting! You get t...

The show that talks about you on purpose is back! This time around, we're discussing listener responses from our month-long Good, Great or Garbage experiment back in February. Why has it taken us so long to respond to your comments from February? Put simply, the raw audio from this recording was lost for quite a while, and it's just taken us a bit of time to get back around to this. Sorry...

What better way to celebrate Black Friday than by taking a little road trip to Death Folk Country ? It's not just a recent solo album from Windhand frontwoman Dorthia Cottrell... it's also a state of mind. It's also the newest edition of TRAPPO's New Music Showcase ! So listen to your 63rd favorite podcast discuss these cool tunes for a little while this weekend, when you're no...

This week on the show that talks about stuff on purpose, we're taking a closer look at a pair of recent- ish releases: Dance You Monster To My Soft Song! from avant-garde metal artist Victory Over The Sun and DK.01 from electro-pop veterans Das Koolies. It's a full throttle musical thrill ride here on TRAPPO , so strap in and get ready to have your minds blown! We, being the hosts of TRAPP...

It's time, at long last, for another episode of the show that talks about you on purpose! That's right, dear listener... the Mail Bag is filled to the brim with your feedback, and now we're going to dump all that feedback into the floor and pick through all the dross to find a few comments that might actually be worth our time. Only kidding, dear listener. We don't pick favorites w...

Spooky season is over, dear listener. For now, the show that talks about stuff on purpose is moving on from one format ( KTRP ) that nobody listens to, in order to focus on another format that nobody listens to. That's right! It's time for another New Music Showcase ! Please try to contain your excitement, friends. This week, we're looking at Kara Jackson's debut album, Why Does Th...

KTRP is back on the air this haunted Halloween night with a special broadcast of Transmissions From Elsewhere ! The good Doctor Butcher is on assignment this week, so your favorite utility players Gore & Carey, A.K.A. " The Gruesome Twosome ", are filling in for a spooky night of Cryptid-centric calls from true believers near and far! It's going to be a bumpy ride, dear listener,...

The spooky season is upon us! Naturally, that means it's time for TRAPPO to talk about scary movies! This time around, we wanted to bring some much-needed attention to what is, sadly, a largely forgotten pioneer of the "found footage" genre, 1998's The Last Broadcast , directed by DIY cinematic trailblazers Lance Weiler and Stefan Avalos. We think it's a movie that deserves a...

We're back with the second part of our incredibly long season three premiere! Eleven albums down, and eleven more to go! Which amazing new musical masterworks will be inducted into the TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on in this scintillating episode? Tune in to find out, dear listener! There's also a conversation going on right now, and we'd love you to be a part of it. What conversation? Wher...

TRAPPO is back for season three with a two-episode premiere! It's time for more essential albums to be inducted into the illustrious TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on , and this season we're turning it up to eleven! That's eleven albums, dear listener! Eleven albums per host, meaning twenty-two albums in total. That's a lot of essential music, and that's why we needed two episodes to...

It's the second-season finale of the show that talks about stuff on purpose, and we've got a doozy for you this week, dear listener! It's been a while since we've done a mix-tape here on TRAPPO , so we thought we'd wrap up our second season with another one of those beauties. But not just any mix-tape, friends! This is a very special mix-tape, one that's near and dear to ou...

In this informal episode, your hosts Dustin & Ky discuss their shared past with the versatile medium of comics! Nostalgic memories of browsing quarter bins in dingy old shops, discovering amazing new stories by talented artists and writers! And Dustin also shares the origin of his limited kinship with Jack "The King" Kirby. Join the conversation! Visit the official TRAPPO blog and te...

BLACK SUMMER concludes with this special album exchange! We begin by choosing two Black Metal-related albums recommended by listeners from TRAPPO's Black Metal Mail Bag : "Orphans Of The Black Sun" by Mütterlein & "Fear Not The Dark nor The Sun's Return" by Vulgarite . Then we conclude with a pair of personal picks: "Dopethrone" from Electric Wizard &...

BLACK SUMMER rages on with this exhaustive SPOTLIGHT episode focusing on musician Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix's Transcendental Black Metal band Liturgy , more specifically their fifth full-length album, 2020's epic Origin of the Alimonies . This is a deep dive, everybody. A lot of seemingly disparate topics are covered here, but it all makes some semblance of sense in the end. I think. Mayb...

The horrible glory of TRAPPO's BLACK SUMMER continues unabated with a deep dive on the " Black Gaze " phenomenon with a brand-new episode of TRAPPO Investigates . Once upon a time, we began a new series here called TRAPPO Investigates with an episode called " What Is Shoegaze ", and just about everybody who listened to that particular episode had something negative to say a...

Two Mail Bags in a row?! It's an embarrassment of riches as we begin our impromptu month-long exploration of the world of Black Metal with this very special installment of TRAPPO's Mail Bag ! This episode addresses a whole bunch (like a lot ) of listener comments relating to Black Metal and... other things that will not be mentioned here. It's a real journey, folks. Let's just leav...