Velocities In Music

Bands will often change and evolve their sound over time, and sometimes bands will change their lineup as well, bringing new members into the fold as others leave. As fans, we get attached to our favorite bands and their members, and sometimes when these sonic shifts and personnel changes line up, it can feel like a betrayal. After all, they're not even the same band anymore--how dare they go by the same name! In this episode, we explore some examples of when bands did or didn't change their name after a significant lineup change, and discuss when we think it's appropriate to just call it a new band. What do you think? When should a band change their name, and when is it okay to keep the same name? Bands discussed in this episode include: Joy Division Metallica Stone Temple Pilots Black Sabbath Fleetwood Mac AC/DC Iron Maiden Pink Floyd Sublime (with Rome) Velvet Underground Boston Journey At the Drive-In King Crimson The Fall

People track their tastes in many different ways, and some prefer not to at all. At Velocities In Music, we like to make lists of our favorite albums every few years and compare them to old lists so we can know more about how our tastes have changed. In this episode, we compare our lists of our 200 favorite albums in 2019, after almost 10 years of Velocities In Music, with our lists from 2010, when Velocities In Music was just getting started. Jake's List: http://www.velocitiesinmusic.com/lists/jakes-favorite-200-albums-2019/ Tom's List: http://www.velocitiesinmusic.com/lists/toms-favorite-200-albums-2019/

As Velocities In Music approaches its 10-year anniversary, Jake and Tom reflect on how their tastes have changed over the last decade, and how VIM has specifically contributed to that change.

For decades people have been making each other mixtapes, mixes, and playlists for a variety of reasons in a variety of formats. As technology has evolved and made these easier to create, convenience is at an all-time high, but crafting personalized mixtapes has become something of a lost art. In this podcast, we highlight some key mixtape experiences in our lives and why the practice is still important to us today.   Listen to the Mr. Anchovy playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/039UPGIdiYAFy92w9bZFOv?si=7zFSZYQnTaisPiPEuSrKtA

Jake and Tom discuss the pros and cons of attending record fairs, and share the hauls from their respective fairs in Phoenix and Des Moines.

In early 1966, after being dissatisfied with the results of his recording sessions in New York, Bob Dylan went to Nashville to cut his new album with some of the city's studio musicians. These rapid-fire sessions would become Blonde on Blonde, considered to be the first rock double-album and a masterpiece of the genre. In this podcast we walk through a brief history of the record and break it down track by track, addressing questions like: What's the best song on Blonde on Blonde? Should he have cut it down to a single disc, and if so, which songs should have been removed? Should Blonde on Blonde be considered one of the greatest albums of all time? What's the best word to describe Dylan's hair in 1966?

Listen to the playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/0XUMcTDr8UFJZJQhq0xuov?si=--eVYF24QF-x4S67kxbLRQ A lot of great songs came out in 2018--some of them are from our favorite albums of the year, and some of them aren't. In this podcast, we highlight our 25 favorite songs of 2018 and a few one-offs that didn't make the list.

Another year of music is in the books! In this podcast we highlight our 20 favorite albums from 2018 and discuss what we thought of the year's music as a whole.

Talking Heads: 77 is a classic debut album from one of rock music's most adventurous and influential bands. In this podcast, we walk through the album track by track and discuss its writing, production, performances, and legacy as one of the best rock albums of all time. Dedicated to Jeremy Nifras for winning Season 2 of the VIM Music League!

This podcast was requested by Sean Murphy, winner of the first VIM Music League! It's safe to say that everyone grows up with music around, to some degree. However, our friends, family, and culture can shape the way we listen to music based on what we're exposed to and how we internalize it, and this makes everybody's musical upbringing unique. In this podcast, we talk about our own musical upbringings--the music that shaped our childhoods and made us the listeners we are today, the people who got us there, the artists we outgrew, and the artists we never stopped loving.

In an age where we have instant access to all the new albums being released each week, keeping up with new music can feel like a full-time job. In this episode, we discuss the various ways you can prioritize your precious music-listening time. How do you balance your focus between new music, old music you've heard about and have been meaning to listen to, and your old favorites?

In the third and final installment of our David Bowie deep-dive, we start with his more polarizing albums from the 90s and move through his 2000s work up to his final album, Blackstar, in 2016.

In the second part of this deep-dive, we start the last half of David Bowie's prolific run of albums in the 1970s with 1976's Station to Station, followed by the infamous Berlin trilogy and his shift into the 1980s.

David Bowie was an inspirational creative force and a top-notch performer and songwriter. During his nearly 50-year musical career, he recorded several masterpiece-level albums and constantly reinvented his image and his music, defining genres and redefining what it was to be a rock star. In the first part of this 3-part deep-dive, we cover his first nine studio albums, starting with his self-titled debut in 1967 and ending with Young Americans in 1975.

From the thousands of songs we listened to in 2017, it's difficult to narrow it down a list to our 30 favorites. Some are more Jake picks, some our more Tom picks, and some were equally adored by both of us. In this episode, we talk through our combined 30 top songs of 2017 and why each one deserves to be on our list.   Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/18snaqNNkvvsi3FTtzmRgy?si=WUKK9XBBSqGrcFanZetlEw

2017 was a great year for music--we saw a lot of well-established artists return with their strongest releases in years, and several unique and innovative newcomers who have the potential to push music into new territory. In this episode, we talk through our 20 favorite albums of 2017.

When talking about music with fellow friends and enthusiasts, it's common to hear artists mentioned as being "ahead of their time." But what does that mean? And what artists does that label apply to? In this podcast, we explore this concept and give examples of artists we believe were truly ahead of their time.

In this episode, Jake and Tom catch up on the life changes they've faced over the past several months and how music has played a role in the transition. Topics include The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Brand New, record shopping, and musical catharsis.

Velocities In Music isn't just about music discussion--it's also about Jake and Tom trying their hardest to trip each other up and make each other laugh while they talk about their favorite music. This episode captures all the slip-ups from the podcast's first two years, the cutting-room floor material that nobody was meant (or probably wants) to hear. Please be aware that by listening to this, you are subjecting yourself to: - Adult language and content - Endless wheezing - Terrible puns - Really, really stupid jokes

Jake and Tom discuss the future of the Velocities in Music podcast, and Tom talks about his experience at 80/35 Music Festival in Des Moines, Iowa.

Listen to the Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/6wdn1EQtwVtrA7aFjYCTgB Featured Albums: Forest Swords - Compassion (2:05) Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog (3:51) Perfume Genius - No Shape (7:03) Slowdive - Slowdive (8:34) The Afghan Whigs - In Spades (10:20) Oxbow - Thin Black Duke (12:21) At the Drive-In - Interalia (13:55) Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions (17:27) Honorable Mentions: Logic - Everybody (19:11) Juana Molina - Halo (20:39) Moon Duo - Occult Architecture, Vol.2 (21:37) Blondie - Pollinator (22:04) John Moreland - Big Bad Luv (22:51) Harry Styles - Harry Styles (23:17) Pwr Bttm - Pageant (24:26) Jim Jones & the Righteous Mind - Super Natural (25:16) Paul Weller - A Kind Revolution (25:58) Girlpool - Powerplant (26:38) The Mountain Goats - Goths (27:14) Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology (28:04) Don Bryant - Don't Give Up on Love (28:42) Paramore - After Laughter (29:15) Sun Kil Moon & Jesu - 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth (29:49) Pumarosa - The Witch (30:41) Aldous Harding - Party (31:14) Nick Hakim - Green Twins (32:06) Land of Talk - Life After Youth (32:59) (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket (33:37) Wavves - You're Welcome (34:40) Justin Townes Earle - Kids in the Street (35:15) Pokey LaFarge - Manic Revelations (36:14) The Charlatans - Different Days (36:45) The Heliocentrics - A World of Masks (37:11) Not Recommended: Kasabian - For Crying Out Loud (37:56) Black Lips - Satan's Graffiti or God's Art? (38:38) Pond - The Weather (39:07) Jlin - Black Origami (39:40)

Spoon has been a seminal indie/alternative rock band through the 2000s, with history going back to the early and mid 90s. In this podcast, we cover Spoon's most recent five albums, rank all nine albums, and discuss where we'd like to see the band go next. Best of Spoon Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/7EkcvHhVV4ZNGvv89N9sl2

Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/6uT1oe0dU6Oy5UidtchJrW Featured Albums: Father John Misty - Pure Comedy (2:06) Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (27:57) Gorillaz - Humanz (32:47) The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions (41:14) Feist - Pleasure (43:25) Honorable Mention: Arca - Arca (46:12) Wire - Silver/Lead (47:19) Guided By Voices - August By Cake (48:22) Joey Bada$$ - All Amerikkkan Bada$$ (49:07) Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar (50:10) Andrew Combs - Canyons of My Mind (50:45) Yorkston/Thorne/Khan - Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars (51:19) Future Islands - The Far Field (52:07) Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock (52:57) Fionn Regan - The Meetings of the Waters (54:11) Woods - Love Is Love (55:16) Actress - AZD (55:50) Maximo Park - Risk to Exist (56:25) Timber Timbre - Sincerely, Future Pollution (57:19) The Black Angels - Death Song (58:47) Charly Bliss - Guppy (59:18) Tara Jane O'Neil - Tara Jane O'Neil (1:00:26) Little Cub - Still Life (1:00:58) Willie Nelson - God's Problem Child (1:01:53) Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory (1:02:32) Mew - Visuals (1:03:06) Ryuichi Sakamoto - async (1:04:11) Thurston Moore - Rock n Roll Consciousness (1:04:40) BNQT - Volume 1 (1:05:38) Mark Lanegan Band - Gargoyle (1:06:38) Sylvan Esso - What Now (1:07:35) New Found Glory - Makes Me Sick (1:08:30) Not Recommended: Happyness - Write In (1:09:19) Little Dragon - Season High (1:10:07) Diet Cig - Swear I'm Good at This (1:11:03) Incubus - 8 (1:12:04) While She Sleeps - You Are We (1:12:53)

Spoon has been a seminal indie/alternative rock band through the 2000s, with history going back to the early and mid 90s. In this podcast, we follow Spoon through their formation and up to their 4th LP, Kill the Moonlight. Best of Spoon Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/7EkcvHhVV4ZNGvv89N9sl2

On this podcast, Jake and Tom discuss the albums they purchased on their last few vinyl-buying excursions.

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/50GI8eRZ5eRxF4ResrCpjK Featured Albums: Grandaddy - Last Place (1:59) The Shins - Heartworms (3:11) Jay Som - Everybody Works (5:12) Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me (6:44) Laura Marling - Semper Femina (9:38) Spoon - Hot Thoughts (11:19) Mastodon - Emperor of Sand (12:12) Desperate Journalist - Grow Up (16:47) Tennis - Yours Conditionally (18:10) Honorable Mentions: Temples - Volcano (19:53) Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai (20:36) Why? - Moh Lhean (21:15) Nadia Reid - Preservation (2:13) Blanck Mass - World Eater (22:55) Sondre Lerche - Pleasure (23:43) Chicano Batman - Freedom is Free (24:12) Spectres - Condition (24:54) Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator (25:31) Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir (26:02) Valerie June - The Order of Time (27:01) Depeche Mode - Spirit (27:45) Idles - Brutalism (28:49) Obituary - Obituary (29:16) Pulled Apart by Horses - The Haze (30:03) Sorority Noise - You're Not As ___ As You Think (30:36) The Bug & Earth - Concrete Desert (31:15) Pallbearer - Heartless (31:51) Craig Finn - We All Want the Same Things (32:49) Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens (33:23) Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms (33:56) Saltland - A Common Truth (34:42) British Sea Power - Let the Dancers Inherit the Party (35:32) Pharmakon - Contact (36:15) Aimee Mann - Mental Illness (37:14) Real Estate - In Mind (37:55) The Jesus and Mary Chain - Damage and Joy (39:02) Les Amazones d'Afrique - Republique Amazone (39:43) Not Recommended: Sleaford Mods - English Tapas (40:03) Minus the Bear - Voids (41:35) Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales- Room 29 (42:19) Conor Oberst - Salutations (43:18) The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics (44:20) Jamiroquai - Automaton (45:21)

Velocities In Music started at the beginning of 2010, and since then we've had the privilege of witnessing the release of some monumental albums. In this podcast, we highlight our top 20 albums of the decade so far. Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/41qlohpNu8qObXNg9hcMnw Full List: http://www.velocitiesinmusic.com/lists/best-albums-of-the-decade-so-far/

On this show, we talk a lot about ways of discovering new music. One way that we discover new music is through Music Leagues: friendly, competitive events where everyone playing submits a song and votes for the other songs that they liked. If this sounds like something you and your friends (or coworkers) would enjoy, take a look at our example documents and start a Music League of your own: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxPjHMrv-jexdVBKVnpzWnlqNE0

Listen to the playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/1xzK543YVcqiMbBODahmgP Featured Albums: Elbow - Little Fictions Sampha - Process Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now Lowly - Heba Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors Ryan Adams - Prisoner Sun Kil Moon - Common as Light and Love are Red Valleys of Blood Honorable Mentions: The Menzingers - After the Party Eliza Carthy - Big Machine Moon Duo - Occult Architecture, Vol.1 Duke Garwood - Garden of Ashes Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Backlash The Sadies - Northern Passages Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins Tinariwen - Elwan Noveller - A Pink Sunset for No One Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana Crystal Fairy - Crystal Fairy The Feelies - In Between Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Tourist Lawrence English - Cruel Optimism Molly Burch - Please Be Mine Moire - No Future The Necks - Unfold Xiu Xiu - Forget PVT - New Spirit Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon Peter Silberman - Impermanence Sherwood & Pinch - Man vs. Sofa Immolation - Atonement Thundercat - Drunk Not Recommended: Surfer Blood - Snowdonia Lupe Fiasco - Drogas Light Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering Acceptance - Colliding By Design

As music in the latter half of the 90s drifted away from the Britpop style Blur had helped popularize, the band shifted into a noisier and more aggressive style of music. In this episode, we cover Blur's 1997 self-titled album through 2015's The Magic Whip, a period filled with inner conflict, departures, reunions, and transformations from a band who never seemed comfortable doing the same thing twice.

Starting as a young band in London in the late 80s and early 90s, Blur rose to fame in a few short years and helped the Britpop movement reach its peak. In the first episode of this two-part series, we cover their first four albums: Leisure, Modern Life is Rubbish, Parklife, and The Great Escape.

Listen to the songs featured in this episode here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/2333pXtn664J7VXlysgsC1 Featured Albums: Bonobo - Migration The xx - I See You The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody Foxygen - Hang Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in This Town Honorable Mentions: Sohn - Rennen Code Orange - Forever Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day Throwing Snow - Embers William Basinski - A Shadow In Time Michael Chapman - 50 Tycho - Epoch The Proper Ornaments - Foxhole Ronika - Lose My Cool Gabriel Garzon-Montano - Jardin Emptyset - Borders Tift Merritt - Stitch of the World Sacred Paws - Strike a Match Piano Magic - Closure Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness Not Recommended: Sundara Karma - Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect AFI - AFI (The Blood Album) Mark Eitzel - Hey Mr Ferryman

It's official--Jake finally got a record player. In this podcast, we go through the records we bought on Jake's maiden record-shopping voyage. 

Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/1QcB6L0iHx5DskJfkvFkED In this podcast we recommend albums from 2016 that we didn't include in a monthly wrap-up throughout the year. Albums included are: Featured Albums: Beyonce - Lemonade Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner The Amazing - Ambulance Frank Ocean - Blonde Ka - Honor Killed the Samurai Solange - A Seat At the Table Childish Gambino - "Awaken, My Love!" Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3 Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat Honorable Mentions: Rihanna - Anti Basement - Promise Everything Matmos - Ultimate Care II Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Leaves Lucius - Good Grief Gnod - Mirror Autolux - Pussy's Dead The Hotelier - Goodness Vektor - Terminal Redux Little Scream - Cult Following Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life Nicolas Jaar - Sirens Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason The Rolling Stones - Blue and Lonesome Nine Inch Nails - Not the Actual Events (EP) J. Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only Noname - Telefone Jeff Rosenstock - Worry The Dear Hunter - Act V Street Sects - End Position Kevin Morby - Singing Saw Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp  

2016 may have been an even better year for songs than it was for albums. We listened to thousands of tracks throughout the year, and in this podcast we cover the 30 of them that impacted us the most. Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1215237538/playlist/6e3mK7YoGU7drMJ2ShaWpC

In this podcast we cover our 20 favorite albums of 2016. See our top 70 list here: http://www.velocitiesinmusic.com/lists/top-albums-2016/

In the third and final installment of our Metallica deep-dive, we explore the music the band has put out since the year 2000, as well as where we would like to see Metallica go in the future. Albums covered include: - St. Anger - Death Magnetic - Lulu (with Lou Reed) - Hardwired... To Self Destruct

In the second installment of our Metallica deep-dive, we follow the band into the 1990s, where they polish their sound further, achieve massive mainstream success, and continue to change their style. Albums include Metallica (Black Album), Load, Reload, Garage Inc, and S&M.

We're joined in this episode by Emily and Dan from Cross Record, who share insights on their songwriting and recording process, what it's like to perform as a duo, and the future of their band. If you haven't, be sure to check out their new album, Wabi Sabi: https://open.spotify.com/album/4NtiklQ1pE4FHngLr5pKw8 http://www.crossrecord.com/

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/3kGURT4gOQ5ZJ2xNzCNBv7 Not Recommended: Justice - Woman Bruno Mars - 24K Magic The Weeknd - Starboy Featured Albums: Lambchop - FLOTUS Jim James - Eternally Even Common - Black America Again Sleigh Bells - Jessica Rabbit Loscil - Monument Builders A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service Honorable Mentions: Shirley Collins - Lodestar American Wrestlers - Goodbye Terrible Youth Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions - Until the Hunter STRFKR - Being No One, Going Nowhere Alicia Keys - Here Martha Wainwright - Goodnight City Romare - Love Songs, Pt. 2 Emeli Sande - Long Live the Angels Sad13 - Slugger Animals as Leaders - The Madness of Many Wolf People - Ruins Daniel Bachman - Daniel Bachman

Metallica has always been one of the most celebrated and yet divisive bands in hard rock and metal music. In this episode, we dig into the four LPs they released in the 1980s, starting with their debut, Kill Em All, and ending with ...And Justice For All.

In this podcast, we cover albums that were released in October 2016. Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/30QacVauM8vnCqy5vxCzMu Albums covered in this wrap-up include: Phantogram - Three Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like A Levee Conor Oberst - Ruminations D.D. Dumbo - Utopia Defeated Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos Goat - Requiem Shovels & Rope - Little Seeds Julia Jacklin - Don't Let the Kids Win Phish - Big Boat Norah Jones - Day Breaks Green Day - Revolution Radio Kings of Leon - WALLS The Orb - COW / Chill Out, World! Swet Shop Boys - Cashmere Two Door Cinema Club - Gameshow The Early Years - II The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation C Duncan - The Midnight Sun Jagwar Ma - Every Now & Then The Dean Ween Group - The Deaner Album Katie Gately - Color Trophy Eyes - Chemical Miracle Moby & the Void Pacific Choir - These Systems Are Failing Syd Arthur - Apricity NxWorries - Yes Lawd! Pretenders - Alone Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth The Radio Dept. - Running out of Love Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues Lady Gaga - Joanne American Football - American Football (LP2) John K. Samson - Winter Wheat Tanya Tagaq - Retribution Frank Iero and the Patience - Parachutes Helmet - Dead to the World The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Third World Pyramid Marching Church - Telling It Like It Is Alejandro Escovedo - Burn Something Beautiful

Humans are creatures of habit. We create our own rituals and traditions to look forward to, and music can play a big part of that. Aside from specific holiday music that society has pushed on us for generations, we all have music that we associate with specific seasons or times of the year that is much more personal. In this podcast, Jake and Tom share the music they come back to every spring, summer, fall, and winter, and give their stories on why. What music do you come back to around the same time each year?

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/5KVhzgoqiJG07O8hy9j5kF Helms Alee - Stillicide James Vincent McMorrow - We Move Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree Angel Olsen - MY WOMAN Eluvium - False Readings On Local Natives - Sunlit Youth Jack White - Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 Drugdealer - The End of Comedy Teenage Fanclub - Here Okkervil River - Away Wilco - Schmilco MIA - AIM Clipping - Splendor & Misery Preoccupations - Preoccupations Touche Amore - Stage Four Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years The Handsome Family - Unseen Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me Pixies - Head Carrier Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch Kishi Bashi - Sonderlust July Talk - Touch How to Dress Well - Care Warpaint - Heads Up Beach Slang - A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings Devendra Banhart - Ape In Pink Marble Merchandise - A Corpse Wired for Sound Flock of Dimes - If You See Me, Say Yes Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine Grouplove - Big Mess Banks - The Altar Opeth - Sorceress Bon Iver - 22, A Million Public Access T.V. - Never Enough Drive-By Truckers - American Band S U R V I V E - RR7349 Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/7abxk7nBZ77Hza79o3XlT4 Jake and Tom have been touched by the Boognish to create the brownest episode of Velocities In Music yet. Join them as they explore Ween's nine studio albums, from the inane absurdity to the struggling heartbreak that their music represents. It'll be a real good time, mang.

Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/2kpFNDXxf4nniaBDxUqqW2 Albums covered in this podcast: Wye Oak - Tween Haley Bonar - Impossible Dream Russian Circles - Guidance 65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe (Soundtrack) Wild Beasts - Boy King Dinosaur Jr. - Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not Nonkeen - Oddments of the Gamble Hieroglyphic Being - The Disco's of Imhotep Blossoms - Blossoms Factory Floor - 25 25 Ed Harcourt - Furnaces Thee Oh Sees - A Weird Exits Lydia Loveless - Real Horseback - Dead Ringers The Moles - Tonight's Music Young the Giant - Home of the Strange Of Montreal - Innocence Reaches Black Foxxes - I'm Not Well Bayside - Vacancy Lisa Hannigan - At Swim Gonjasufi - Callus Cass McCombs - Mangy Love De La Soul - And the Anonymous Nobody Crystal Castles - Amnesty (I) Britney Spears - Glory The Album Leaf - Between Waves Glass Animals - How to Be a Human Being  

Today, Sunny Day Real Estate may be considered a staple in the emo genre, but what they accomplished during their relatively short time as a band spans far beyond the confines of that genre. In this deep-dive, we discuss the band's successes and shortcomings, and what makes them one of today's most influential yet underappreciated bands. Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/04FgMPfmA7VGpJtHobDRj0

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/3hVnxbxLt8DwSjoVxkaTdB Albums covered in this wrap-up: Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night Metronomy - Summer 08 Blink-182 - California Bat for Lashes - The Bride GOGGS - GOGGS The Avalanches - Wildflower Junius Meyvant - Floating Harmonies Aphex Twin - Cheetah (EP) Ian William Craig - Centres BadBadNotGood - IV Shura - Nothing's Real The Julie Ruin - Hit Reset Snoop Dogg - Coolaid Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate Schoolboy Q - Blank Face LP Omni - Deluxe Big Business - Command Your Weather Clams Casino - 32 Levels Amanda Palmer - You Got Me Singing Chevelle - The North Corridor Rhyton - Redshift Elysia Crampton - Demon City Viola Beach - Viola Beach Billy Talent - Afraid of Heights Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate Owen - The King of Whys Nao - For All We Know  

We're joined this episode by Joe Vickers, drummer and founding member of Caspian. Joe takes us through Caspian's songwriting and album-crafting process, along with his thoughts on the post-rock genre, touring, and Pokémon Go. Be sure to check Caspian's touring schedule to see if they're coming to a city near you this summer or fall: https://www.facebook.com/CaspianTheBand/events  

Today in 2016, for all practical purposes, music is free. But should it be? As technology has evolved and music has become more easily accessible to the masses, it has drastically changed the way people listen to music, as well as the way artists write and release music. In this episode, we explore the pros and cons of these changes and how the cost associated with music has gotten to where it is now.

Spotify playlist of all included song clips: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/269DlAU2eCH5SuSSrtesEM Albums covered in this podcast: Melvins - Basses Loaded The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Monolith of Phobos William Tyler - Modern Country Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger Moonface - My Best Human Face Amber Arcades - Fading Lines Cat's Eyes - Treasure House The Kills - Ash & Ice Tegan and Sara - Love You To Death The Strokes - Future Present Past (EP) Sumac - What One Becomes Dan Lissvik - Midnight Band of Horses - Why Are You OK? Brandy Clark - Big Day In a Small Town Diarrhea Planet - Turn to Gold Peter Bjorn and John - Breakin' Point Garbage - Strange Little Birds Swans - The Glowing Man The Low Anthem - Eyeland Mitski - Puberty 2 The Invisible - Patience Gemma Ray - The Exodus Suite case/lang/veirs - case/lang/veirs Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room Lone - Levitate Gojira - Magma YG - Still Brazy NAILS - You Will Never Be One of Us Hot Hot Heat - Hot Hot Heat Christian Fennesz - It's Hard for Me to Say I'm Sorry DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall The Avett Brothers - True Sadness Deerhoof - The Magic Broods - Conscious Blood Orange - Freetown Sound