Volcano Vinyl is a weekly podcast hosted by old friends and musicians Brian Schmutz (The Starting Line, Person L, Legendary Divorce) & Brian Medlin (The Minor Times, Person L, Wives, Legendary Divorce, etc...). Listen along in real time with Brian and Brian as they explore a full length vinyl record while crowding around an active Volcano. Recorded in Potato's House on Baloney Avenue in Philadelphia, PA.
Brian and Brian end the show forever with a party record, She's So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper. VV-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com tVVitter: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Funstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian picks one of his all time favorite albums as his final selection of the season, Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys. Mike D-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Tweetrock: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Yauchstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Inspired by a podfather's recommendation of the River's Edge soundtrack for the show, Brian spins the perfect soundtrack for our current nightmare plague world: Reign in Blood by Slayer. Slay-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Tweets in Blood/Tweeting Blood: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Thrashstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian spins the monumental landmark Alanis Morissette album Jagged Little Pill. E-lanis: volcanovinyl@gmail.com You Oughta Tweet: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Pillstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian follows up the Ned Doheny and Azymuth episodes with the debut album from the inspiration for those episodes, Foxbase Alpha by Saint Etienne. St.-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Tweetbase: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Etstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian keeps the duo energy going on the show by spinning Elephant by The White Stripes. Meg-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Baloney Twitter Army: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Stripestagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
On the eve of its 20th anniversary, Brian and Brian listen to OutKast's Stankonia. B.O.B.-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com We Luv Deez Tweetz: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Stankstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian spins literal white reggae when he spins The Police's 2nd album Reggatta de Blanc. Sting-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Tweeting out an S.O.S.: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Reggattagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian spins the 1975 self-titled debut from Azymuth, or Azimüth as they were known back then, and introduces their Brazilian "crazy samba" jazz funk sound to the show. Azi-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Twyzimüth: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Aztagram: instragam.com/volcanovinyl
Brian spins Rolling Stone's recently updated #1 album of all time What's Going On by Marvin Gaye. Mercy E-mail Me: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Inner Twitter Blues: twitter.com/volcanovinyl What's Gramming On: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Brian and Brian listen to (What's the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis. Noel-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Don't Tweet Back in Anger: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Instaglory: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian and Brian cross Steely Dan off of the list by listening to their album Aja like adults. Steely-mail: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Twitter Dan: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Instaja: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian and Brian finally discuss their histories with screamo while listening to The Underdark by Funeral Diner. After the record, stick around for an interview with Funeral Diner vocalist Seth Babb. Go to repeaterrecords.com to check out Seth's record label. The Underdark is REP 001! The Undermail: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Subtweeting: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Instafuneral: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Straight Up? Brian and Brian listen to Badfinger. Bad-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Tweet Up: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Fingstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
If you came expecting a screamo record, our sincere apologies! Brian explains the screamo delay and then spins Laurel Canyon deepcut Ned Doheny's 70s pop rock album Hard Candy. Ned-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Sweets: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Candygram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Wrapping up the show's 4th anniversary celebration month, Brian and Brian spin Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, featuring past VV artists Atoms for Peace's bass player Flea. Flea-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Tweet It Away: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Peppstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Continuing the show's anniversary celebration month, Brian and Brian spin the legendary debut album by Wu-Tang Clan. Wu-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Twutter: twitter.com/volcanovinyl 36stagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Continuing the August celebration of the show's 4th year, Brian and Brian discuss the pros and cons of Paul Simon's most celebrated and most controversial solo album Graceland. Al-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Tweetland: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Gracestagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
To start the month-long celebration of the show's 4th anniversary, Brian and Brian spin hip hop classic The Chronic by Dr. Dre. Dr. E-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Dr. Twitter: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Dr. Instagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian spins shoegaze innovators My Bloody Valentine's 1991 album Loveless. Brian's band Desperate Living's new EP City Sadness is out TODAY. Purchase at livingdesperate.bandcamp.com, stream on Spotify. My Bloody V-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Tweetless: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Instaglide: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian spins the first solo Beach Boys album, drummer Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue. Beach-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Pacific Ocean Tweets: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Dennstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian spins the debut self-titled album by Betty Davis, which came up organically on our previous episode focusing on her ex-husband Miles Davis. Betty-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Your Tweet Our Tweet: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Bettstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian has a little fun and plays an album Brian specifically said he didn't like, Bitches Brew by Miles Davis. E-miles: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Twitter Brew: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Bitchstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
What is the difference between a "one hit wonder" type of band and a band with a "signature song"? And which one is Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, if either? Brian and Brian discuss while listening to their debut album Wooly Bully. Sham-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com (One) Hitter Twitter: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Pharaohstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Melissa Auf der Maur describes the 90s alt rock band Brainiac as "Devo robots meets punk rock James Brown in a one of a kind new wave industrial band." Why is their music just hitting Brian and Brian now??? 3-MA1L5: volcanovinyl@gmail.com TW1TT3R: twitter.com/volcanovinyl 1N5TA9RAM: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian plays Surfer Rosa by Pixies, another album from Kurt Cobain's top 50 albums list. Pixie-mail: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Where Are Our Tweets: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Surfstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian continues to chip away at the albums on Kurt Cobain's top 50 albums list with the debut album by Wipers. Sage-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Are These Tweets?: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Wipestagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Returning VV champions Brad Corbitt and Zach Calhoun rejoin Brian and Brian to listen to Ready to Die by The Notorious B.I.G. Check out Brad's podcast We Weren't Friends in High School at wwfinhighschool.libsyn.com and his YouTube show First Watch Rewatch youtube.com/REDSHIRTPLAYA Check out Zach's new podcast Saniac at saniacpodcast.com Biggie-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com The Tweetorious VV: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Puffstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian and Brian get deep into the 90s as they listen to Purple by Stone Temple Pilots. STP-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Big Tweety: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Purpstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian breaks out the fine china with a VG rating on Discogs when he plays Body and Soul by legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday. Soul-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Tweetie Holiday: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Billstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Special b-b-b-b-bonus episode guest Nathan Allebach (twitter.com/nathanallebach) talks with Brian and Brian about going viral as Steak-Umm's social media manager in a time of high viral angst, about transitioning from the music world to the advertising world, and about Manchester Orchestra while we listen to their 2014 album Cope. E-umms: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Tweetchester Orchestra: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Copestagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian turns the temperature up by spinning birthday boy Stevie Wonder's 19th album Hotter Than July. Steve-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Twitter Wonder: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Scorchstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian raises the Pink Flag in salute of first wave punk legends Wire's debut album. Sorry for Brian's mic issues! #quarprobs Wire-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Tweet Flag: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Wirestagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
B-B-B-Bonus ep! Very special guest and Bassmaster General of our theme song Danny Black (Good Old War) "spins" one of his all time favorite albums, Animals by Pink Floyd. You can listen to "Dirty Games", the first single from Danny's forthcoming album Black Ryno, right now with the links below. Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/50V8skTWdMeRHgX9TzPs2V Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/dirty-games-single/1505774980 Ani-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Tweety Black: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Danstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian just watched the HBO doc Elvis Presley: The Searcher and boy is he revved up about it. So revved up that he lets Aphex Twin crash the episode where they listen to Elvis is Back? (Briefly!) E-mail: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Elvis Tweetly: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Instagram is Back: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian spins the critically-acclaimed debut album from NYC art-punk legends Television. Moon-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Marquee Tweets: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Telegram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian figured out how to spin his own copy of News of the World by Queen during a quarantine livestream. Queen-mail: volcanovinyl@gmail.com We will tweet you: twitter.com/volcanovinyl We are the instagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian spins the debut album from the Mahavishnu Orchestra, as suggested in a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts from listener J. Gray. Please chalk up any audio issues from the recording of this livestreamed episode to us...trying to fuse jazz influences into our show production. We will be livestreaming once again on Wednesday 4/15 at 8(ish)pm EST. Details will be up on our socials about an hour before we start. e-maha: volcanovinyl@gmail.com The Inner Tweeting Flame: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Orchestragram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
For the first ever livestreamed edition of Volcano Vinyl, Brian "spins" Fun House by The Stooges. We were attempting to make the experience of recording this episode live online match the anxious energy The Stooges captured on the album. Please chalk any audio issues up to us just....being punk, ok? Thanks to everyone who joined us for this episode, and apologies for the issues. We will be better for our next livestream, in which we will record vv263 on Wednesday, April 8th. We expect to go live around 8ish EST. Details to follow on our social media accounts. Ig-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Tweet House: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Iggstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Amidst a lockdown and worldwide crisis, Brian and Brian found a way to listen to the debut album by Mott the Hoople together. Brian and Brian are going to attempt a first ever livestreamed edition of Volcano Vinyl on Wednesday 4/1 at 8pm EST (ish). We hereby cordially invite you to listen to one full length record all the way through with us, two musicians and very old friends. We will release details on how to join the session on 4/1 on our social media accounts which, hey, who knows, might be linked right below this. Worth a look. Mott the Twitter: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Ianstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl Quarantine mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com
What is Footwork? Brian explains with the help of RP Boo's 2018 debut full length I'll Tell You What!, and he did that. Some visual aids to play, either on a stand-alone viewing...or muted, with vv260 as the soundtrack: youtube.com/watch?v=_jTfw19RgBo (the first video we watch on this episode) youtube.com/watch?v=5DdPtat5NE8 (ladies of Chicago) youtube.com/watch?v=-_eGbAvMl6k (Indiana vs Chicago) RP-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Twitterwork: twitter.com/volcanovinyl InstaBoo: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian continues his recent emo kick by spinning Control by Pedro the Lion. Pedro the e-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Pedro the twitter: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Pedro the instagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian spins the brand new debut album from the Ty Segall/Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt) collabo project Wasted Shirt, which had just arrived in the mail the day of the recording. Bri-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Wasted Tweets: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Fungstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian revisits his emo roots and spins EndSerenading by Mineral. End-Mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Wakingtotwitter: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Minstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Frogs must be falling from the sky because Brian is spinning the soundtrack for Magnolia by Aimee Mann. Aimee-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Paul Twitter Anderson: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Mannagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Following up on the epic Timbuk 3 episode, Brian spins another male/female duo, The Kills, and their 3rd album Midnight Boom. VV-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com Twitter Boom: twitter.com/volcanovinyl What Instagram Used to Be: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Tying in with the upcoming Academy Awards, Brian spins Cold Fact, the debut album by Rodriguez. Rodriguez was the main subject of the documentary Searching for Sugar Man which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2012. Shout out to Drew Scott in Melbourne for suggesting this one! Sugar-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com I Twitter: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Sixtogram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Very special guest John Bowes has built a growing merch empire in Cold Cuts. He has toured the world harder than most musicians we know with his hardcore band CDC. And he has seen Justin Bieber in concert twice. We dig into all of these things and more with John while listening to The Bieb's 2015 album Purpose. Cold Cuts: www.coldcutsmerch.com CDC: twitter.com/cdchardcore Belieb-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com You Should Go and Tweet Yourself: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Biebstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian spins the debut album from one hit wonders Timbuk 3, who are best known for "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades". 3-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com We Gotta Make Tweets: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Instabuk: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Brian spins a personal classic/sleeper influence for both hosts, You'd Prefer an Astronaut by Hum. You could call this one "The Pod"-cast. Hum-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com We'd Like Your Tweets Long: twitter.com/volcanovinyl You'd Prefer an Instagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl
Journalism caps off, energy domes on! Brian's legendary cousin Matthew Aubertin talks to us about his life in the shark capital of the world (not just the US), the record club he's started with his fellow 'cudas, his band Holy Human, and the Brian Eno-produced debut album from New Wave legends Devo. And yes, we do ask about his Best of 2019 list. Hear Matthew's band Holy Human: https://open.spotify.com/album/1qsfI5hy0xsn5H9qRx9qpx Q-mails: volcanovinyl@gmail.com (no thank you, Kellogg's!) Tweetersbaugh: twitter.com/volcanovinyl Mattstagram: instagram.com/volcanovinyl