Weekly Drive-By

This week, we're taking you back to a time before the gunshots. Originally recorded on 11/28/21 and distributed only to a select network, this episode, the first official episode of The Weekly Drive-By, and a number of others were victims of an ill-fated hard drive and presumed lost for good. Only recently were these files recovered, thanks to a source who would prefer not to be named, through...

This week's albums: bdrrm - I Don't Know [6/30/23], Backwoodz Studioz - High Bias [4/7/23], The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons [8/11/23], and Hail the Sun - Divine Inner Tension [8/11/23].After last week's near three hour show, we're pulling it back to the two hour mark this week and giving some first impressions of Argentinian contender Javier Milei, getting paranoid about kidney stones,...

This week's albums: Nicholas Britell - L to the OG (feat. Kendall Roy) [5/20/20], billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps [5/5/23]*, Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! [4/28/23], The Defiants - Drive [6/9/23], Lars Fredrik Frøislie - Fire fortellinger [6/2/23], and Gezebelle Gaburgably - Gaburger [7/4/23]. An asterisk means this is our second review. But really, this is the TV episode. We give some fina...

This week's albums: Junior Brother - Junior Brother's Favourite [4/11/23], Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest Time [7/28/23], venturing - Arizona [5/15/23], billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps [5/5/23], JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes [3/24/23], and Witch Lungs - There's Nothing Out There, What're You Worried About? [6/2/23]A day late on the upload, but hey, sometimes greatness takes...

This week's albums: Witch - Zango [6/2/23], Truculent - A Worker's Guide to Transfiguration [6/6/23], and George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya [7/28/23].We also review Christopher Nolan's new film Oppenheimer (but one of us refuses to watch it), and Ari Aster's old film Hereditary. And outside of that, we're talking about a recent cross-state bootlegging run, how life changes when you break your phone, a...

This week's albums: Gabe Lee - Drink the River [7/14/23] and leroy - Grave Robbing [7/20/23].We're feeling old this week, but also realizing kids are actually terrible with computers. Piracy might be coming back thanks to streamers ripping their own popular content out of the ether (R.I.P. Westworld). And, uh, you ever have that coworker?

A little bit of a delay on this one but hey, life happens. No new albums to review this week, but we're halfway+ through the year, so we're digging into the playlist we've been working on this year. Which songs have grown on us? Which have soured? Which ones do we like that we hadn't heard yet? What are our least favorites, and what are our favorites? But earlier on, with one us living in Birmingh...

This week's albums: Mentalt Syk - The Death of Cupid [1/1/23], Bloody Butterflies - Mutations and Transformations [7/1/23], Tainy - DATA [6/29/23], and Swans - The Beggar [6/23/23].We're back after a quick break for the 4th with a lot to talk about. There's home server updates, some mixology, a little Christology, strategies on how to defend yourself from a moose attack, and how Zuck and Musk are...

This week's albums: elliebell - Epiphanies Tore Through [4/14/23], Giobia - Acid Disorder [4/28/23], Nenagenix - Lo más cercano a caer [5/26/23], Parasite Jazz - Parasite Jazz [4/14/23], Dozer - Drifting in the Endless Void [4/21/23], Ella Zirina - Intertwined [3/10/23], Bongzilla - Dab City [6/2/23], Sarmat - Determined to Strike [6/16/23], and Sarmat - Dubious Disk [4/19/23].Lava sauce is back a...

This week's albums: Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert [6/2/23], Amaarae - Fountain Baby [6/9/23], Pest Control - Don't Test the Pest [2/10/23], Squid - O Monolith [6/9/23], and Mammal Hands - Gift from the Trees [3/31/23].We're talking about the submarine that everyone's talking about, Radical Red, the return of an enemy, moles, different styles of pizza, and a little Congress.

This week's albums: Foo Fighters - But Here We Are [6/2/23], Le Cri du Caire - Le Cri du Caire [1/27/23], Squid - O Monolith [6/9/23], and MSPAINT - Post-American [2/20/23].Long time listeners will note that two of these albums have been reviewed previously, but this time, they're being reviewed by the other host. We're also digging into the Reddit blackout some more and giving some quick thoughts...

This week's albums: Liturgy - 93696 [3/24/23], Beach Fossils - Bunny [6/2/23], Victory for the Sun - Dance You Monster to My Soft Song! [5/26/23], Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis [6/2/23], and Kostnatění - Úpal [5/26/23].Did anything happen in 2006? Is Tim Scott still a virgin? How are this year's Republican presidential candidates looking so far? What's going on with the enshittification of Red...

This week's albums: London Brew - London Brew [3/31/2023], and Aindulmedir - Star Lore [2/17/23]. Music takes a backseat this week to our final Succession discussion, where we talk about the last three episodes of the fourth season (America Decides, Church and State, and With Open Eyes) and how we'll remember and rank the show in TV history.

This week's albums: 2hollis - 2 [5/11/23], Kash Krabs - The Krusty Pack [5/3/23], Spring 2005 - Ellie Kemper [5/12/23], The Canyon Observer - Figura [1/9/23], Colin Stetson - When We Were That What Wept for the Sea [5/12/23], and Angel Olsen - Forever Means [4/14/23].HBO's streaming service got another name change, the writers are striking, flying is a terrible experience, and airports deserve to...

This week's albums - Softcult - See You in the Dark, Kara Jackson - Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love, Le Cri du Caire - Le Cri du Caire, Alfa Mist - Variables, Avalon Emerson - And the Charm, EABS Meets Jaubi - In Search of a Better Tomorrow, Animal Collective - A Night at Mr. Raindrop's Holistic Supermarket, Cacola - Alive, Jards Macalé - Coração bifurcado, Takeshi's Cashew - Enter J's C...

If you stick around to the end, we pre-review some of the albums we'll be talking about next week, but the rest of the show is more or less a reminder to podcast responsibly while we rediscover Steve Albini's thoughts on Odd Future from 2011, talk about food analogies, go over Utah's role as the newest battleground in the Woke Wars, read way too much of Cory Doctorow's essay "The Enshittification...

This week's albums: 凛として時雨 [Ling Tosite Sigure] - last aurorally [4/12/23], BRAIDS - Euphoric Recall [4/28/23] ,ТДК [TDK] - Nemesta [3/8/23], Bill Orcutt - Jump On It! [4/28/23], OZmotic & Fennesz - Senzatempo [4/14/23].On the front half, we quickly mention another recent bank failure, check in on a Drive-By alumni, give a review of Adult Swim's animated show Ballmastrz: 9009, give an ex...

This week's albums: Covet - Catharsis [4/7/23], Maruja - Knocknarea [3/17/23], Megumi Acorda - Silver Fairy [3/17/23], Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current [4/14/23], Zorn - Zorn [3/10/23], Lankum - False Lankum [3/24/23].Music's all on the back half this week, but on the front half, we get into the temptations in working from home, sip reviews centered on a single brand, and call us Click and Clac...

This week's albums: Wednesday - Rat Saw God [4/7/23], chini.png - El día libre de Polux [3/31/23], Lavarr the Starr - Illusions Ago [4/12/23], and Black Magick SS - Burning Bridges [3/15/23].More of us doing Roycast better than Roycast with the front half dedicated to the episodes 3 and 4 of Succession. Quick chats about some classic cocktails, and the Fox News / Dominion case's end. One of the mo...

This week's albums: Tim Hecker - No Highs [4/7/23], Dispirited Spirits - The Redshift Blues [3/10/23], Depeche Mode - Memento mori [3/24/23], Fall Out Boy - So Much (for) Stardust [3/24/23], and Andrea - Due in Color [3/23/23].Porters vs stouts. The absolute state of Italy. Bee sentience. The ecological niche of mosquitos. The experience of WinCo. Channeling our inner Roycast. All the ingredients...

This week's albums: Graphic Nature - A Mind Waiting to Die [2/17/23] and MSPAINT - Post-American [3/10/23]. We also get into a couple handfuls of bonus reviews, including debut albums from on4ward ( In Rainbow Roads , 1/13/23) and Black Button ( Rejoice , 1/13/23). That's all on the back half, while we spend most of the front half talking about the Season 4 premiere of HBO's Succession and jumping...

This week's albums: LOVEBITES - Judgement Day [2/22/23], slowthai - UGLY [3/3/23], Avey Tare - 7s [2/17/23], and Turpitude - Une interprétation de la dissolution glaciale en quatre mouvements [1/6/23].Music's on the back half, but in the front half we have the return of the Mocca Shots plus some other caffeine talk, a date story, and more Utah talk. We also check in on some Drive-By alumni, give a...

This week's albums: The Go! Team - Get Up Sequences Part Two [3/3/23] and The Necks - Travel [2/24/23].Apologies in advance for the poor audio quality at some spots here but you know it's gonna be worth it to hear us talk about the films in the title and the albums up top, on top of hearing our technical difficulties in real time, a new listening project one of us is starting, and some apartment h...

This week's albums: Paramore - This Is Why [2/10/23], Complete Mountain Almanac - Complete Mountain Almanac [1/27/23], Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World [2/10/23], Harto Falión & Eera - Extra Curriculum [1/27/23].Pretty self-explanatory one this week folks, but drop in for a few more gems.

This week's albums: Parannoul - After the Magic [1/28/23], The Tubs - Dead Meat [1/27/23], Wreckage - Our Time [1/1/23], and Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12 [1/17/23].If you hadn't heard, there's also a new OK Computer of RYM, so we check in on that and what it means. On top of so brief stories about the quietest room in the world and the company trying to re-create extinct animals, we talk some Oscar noms,...