Lifelong friends set the world (and each other) to rights on a semi-weekly basis - from the comfort of the kitchen, with whiskey at their elbow!
The boys drag 2018 over the line FINALLY, tossing up their best hits from the year that was!
The boys discuss holiday traditions, nipple removal, Steven Pinker, English puddin', "uplifting news", and the changing American South! WAS IT A WAVE? Beastie Boys forever! Music from Desperate Journalist, and Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians (wtf). Happy Holidays folks!
Henry reports back from Shakori Hills Grassroots Music Festival, and the boys discuss festival, festival culture all over and over time. SXSW stories! Chris loses a shoe at a show. Henry pukes at one. The boys realize Daydream Nation has been out for 30 years! New Steve Perry's new album wrestled to the ground. Fleetwood Mac's new song on Ellen! Steven Pinker! New music from Echo and the Bunnymen! Active Measures!
The boys dodge Hurricane Florence to go Boston to see The The and see the city! And boats! And a Weed Festival! And Fenway! And History!
Producer Greg visits to help the boys reckon with the realities of accusations and investigations regarding something that happened in Henry's neighborhood as well as wrestle with its context and implications.
Video arcades smelled a certain way. Plastic, human beings, and electronics and darkness were a doorway to the future? Which games did you like? The boys weigh in on their favorites and why! Henry has brush with nutty liars, Chris gets famous, and new music from Tierra Whack!
The boys grab what's left on the fridge, talk about their favorites from the year thusfar of culture (and whiskeys) and introduce their NEWEST pod project!
The boys are back from vacation in Folly Beach - and catch up on the glamorous world of TV production with a man who has traveled the world (Olympics, etc!) putting it all on tape for us to see - NBC Producer Greg Levin - Also: we taste the most divisive whiskey ever - Laphroaig. Henry says it tastes like asphalt and Barbicide. And: New Father John Misty!
Chris and Henry interview The Eyebrows at the listening party for their upcoming album VOLUME! Why does popular culture/media keep revisiting the 80s? Was it the last forward thinking time? When did apathy become cool? Are we doomed to keep eating other time periods with no new ideas to be had?
The Bands Vs. The Solo Record(s) - Which would you rather take with you to the desert island? Also: Childish Gambino hits us with serious art, Carlton Pearson's Gospel of Inclusion, Cannonball Run and Dr Finger, and new great music from Lowtide.
Join us around the kitchen table, tossing back all the leftover dead soldiers - as we let go of what just didn't fit, just didn't work, made no sense, or was otherwise too great or awful to talk about the first time! New so-fresh-and-so-clean episodes coming soon!
Josh Robbins from Late Bloomer stops by the kitchen with the new album 'Waiting', and we discuss the album and how to pronounce actual words that we know - and playing the new single 'Heaven'. Special thanks to 6131 Records, and Self Aware Records. Also: What happened to Johnny Marr? And what happened to music in general anyway? What the hell is a Legacy Act?
The band Loftän speaks to the boys from the Pacific Northwest! Day drinking, great music, discussing Delilah the bus, and Team Epiphone Membership causes a rift in the whisky-time continuum, shrinking the boys into teeny tiny speakers! Also - Moral Conundrums! "What would you do?" Who was Jim Morrissey? Chris judges a movie by the title alone! You'd cut what off? Sophie's Choice did not star Renée Zellweger!
Space Shuttles make Henry cry! Chris is a Hogwarts nerd! All things Flori-duh on display on this episode. Toll Roads. Theme Park Battles. And we treat Ready Player One like serious cinema - bwaha ha.
Henry and Chris turn back to clock to 1993, drilling down to discuss why it was the badass year it was. Special Guest Expert Mich Micheals pays us a visit to discuss the roaring 90s!
What IS a cult? With the advent of movies and podcasts about famous cults - The boys take on their favorite "cults" from Scientology to Heaven's Gate to Rajneesh and some you have probably never even heard of! Music from Let's Eat Grandma!
John Fenn Steila from the band Heart of a Ghost visits the kitchen to give us the origin story of his band and their latest album "There Are Voices", and discuss UFOs, ghosts, demons, and the paranormal/supernatural! Also: Interview with the band OMNI!
Ep. #18 - Henry gets to interview Tommy Stinson - and somehow doesn't lose his shit! And the best topic ever selected: WORDS! 37 gender identities! Olympics closed down. Still talkin guns. Get Well Kevin Smith!
Great talk with our new friend and our own "Most Interesting Man in the World", Dr Marc! With stories about Trump at Mar-a-lago, Canada, Mother Teresa, and Bill Murray in Meatballs! Gun control! David Byrne! Steven Malkmus!
Olympics episode! Chris argues merits, Henry gives the nut uh! Stadium link: https://goo.gl/3x4D7e Tarantino/Uma: https://goo.gl/9VStF8 , Apology to The Fall. Military Parades? Falcon Heavy Launch! Elon Musk is Iron Man!
Which opener crushed the headliner? We tell you ours and you've told us yours! Lo! And Observe! Nassar goes away! Age gap in Hollywood! The Grammys! RIP Mark E Smith!
A Darkness Falls across the land. We are not whiskey connoisseurs. Shithole comments. Words were said and mean things! Wolff verifies Trump is a spaz! Fentanyl kills. Artist "electronification". Kendrick Lamar.
Social networking rips society apart! We need social media! More sexual harassment reckoning! Coates leaves Twitter! Virtual reality is gonna happen! Future jam - death is coming! Depression is bad! Chris hates musicals! Star Wars updated for 2018, breaking down. Godless review. McAdenville Christmas lights fully suck! #nogdband #nodepression #starwars #godless #carriefisherforever
The boys welcome 2018, following up on a listener promise to give feedback on the LP “Reputation” by one Taylor Swift - Including guest comments for us to consider! Xmas gift review/catch up! Trump tweets. #taylorswift #reputation #climax #nogdband
Time to put 2017 in the books and talk about the bits of culture that we loved during the year! Special thanks to to our new friends at Self Aware Records, who have several great new releases in 2017! Pick some up!
The big catch up! Marriage equality supreme court case! Is cake baking art? Sexual harassment tote board still filling up! Show reviews of St. Vincent, Bon Iver, and the last Slowdive show! iTunes reviews will get you a shotglass (and maybe some other stuff!). Contact us! nogdband@gmail.com, nogdband on twitter and Instagram
Special Episode this week! - The boys team up with Tyler Baum to remember friend, musician, and overall stellar human being Rodney Lanier with great songs, stories, found sounds, and a live performance!
Chris returns with talk of Chicago from the LCD Soundsystem show, then the boys attempt to take on the new sexual harassment allegations made on Louis C.K. (recorded pre-"apology")! Also Henry wrecks his motorcycle!
The boys spend a great time with Molly Brown - musician and songwriter with the Mike Strauss Band, Fat Face Band and others - Discussing music, musicians, Alaska, tuba, and being a female working in the music business!
NC State Senator Jeff Jackson joins Chris and Henry in the kitchen to get real about gerrymandering, its impact on politics nationally and especially in North Carolina! Also: Football punch-out feedback from listeners!
Henry and Chris take the challenge to discuss their top 3 albums of the 80s! Also: Current events - Weinstein, football, and snakes!
Bruce Hazel of Temperance League is our first guest! He brings the whiskey and joins the boys this week to talk the new album, his life in music, and the recent passing of Tom Petty.
This week in Episode 3, the boys discuss the works of PT Anderson! But not before we wrestle down the demons of last week - including Henry's movie homework! And Steven Seagal, and Russia?
Looks like the guys are gonna jump right in with both feet and attempt to tackle white supremacy and the rise of white identity politics in the new Trump America! (Are they nuts?) Also, on the lighter side: Did Henry do his homework from episode 1? Chris gets cocky and decides to create homework for the listeners. (Geez, this guy is unbelievable!!!!) And finally the boys breakdown the new Morrissey single - (Will they ever quite obsessing on Morrissey?)
Ep. #1: "Jim Beam Rates The Indie Rock!" Do bands get worse the longer they stay together?!?!? the boys break it down. Chris thinks he's found a movie that breaks thru Henry's "all horror movies blow" credo entitled: The Blackcoat's Daughter. Plus, Henry rants on the iPhone X. Grab ur fav brown liquor & give it a listen. Ur comments on anything discussed: the bands, movie, phone, or Henry's brown period r more than welcome along with general thoughts on the pod & episode topic ideas (these guys love biting criticism, so fire away!!!!).
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