You Probably Haven't Heard of Them

We take a mental health week and talk about other projects from artists we have talked about on the show. It's an easy, breezy, covergirl kinda conversation.

Casey, Benjamin, and Max take a deep dig into one of the seminal albums of the early Metal world, Cynic's "Focus". They also talk about video game boss battle music!

This week we talk about a killer young hip hop artist A.Rob and his album "Abstract Blessings". What on the surface seems like a straight-ahead hip hop album turns out to have a lot to unpack!

In what must be the longest title in YPHHT's history and also a band that we each grew to love independently of each other, we get really deep into GSY!BE's unbelievable post-rock masterpiece, Lift Your Skinny Fists. We dig into feelings, and how the music is constructed to tell a story without any words at all. We might not sleep anymore on the beach, but we LOVE this record!

The boys put the kettle on, wrap themselves in a nice duvet, and engage in some self care with ANIMA!'s "Grow Your Garden", a gentle synth-pop album that has beats both dance-able and therapeutic.

We sit down with Ethan, the mastermind of the Get Together about his three surreal, masterfully-crafted rock EPs titled Lemon, Melon, and Orange!! After showering him with compliments, we ask the hard questions, the real questions, then when he's at his emotionally most vulnerable point, we play Band Names!!

Like fine connoisseurs of jazz fusion they painstakingly dissect the inner workings of the ultimate Jazz/Rock duo Marbin, reducing The Shred to its elemental components and reverse engineering the delicate formulae that hide beneath. Also Max is like "prowwwwwwowowoww weedly weedly weedly". In other news, Benjamin fixed the Neelytron, so let's see if Marbin is actually jazz!!

Max, Ben, and Casey reminisce about days of rocking olde, drunkenly pining after women, and talking about how sad but so so so good "Tennessee" by Lucero is.

We're back folks and we're listening to the massively fun and thought-provoking album "Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?" by Fantastic Negrito!!We've missed you all so much and we're ready to party! So let's dig in!

Do you like p-p-p-pirate ghosts? If not, then this episode is for you, because there aren't any!The boys take a break from not releasing content to talk about spooky music with the amazing Adam O'Dell! Will you be afraid? No, it's not that kind of podcast. Will you laugh? Also no, but at least we're trying!Stay tuned for Season 2 coming up in [message redacted]

In our final episode of the season we tackle the goliath work of musical art extraordinaire the Esperanza Spalding masterpiece "Emily's D+Evolution". Ben takes a dig at internet trolls, Casey gets his mind wrecked, and Max goes all in on the rich history surrounding this album.Stay tuned to the end for our season finale announcements!https://open.spotify.com/album/1aGm5Dz2FocgtXxKfrK0gnGo listen at that link. In fact, skip the episode and just listen to the album.

Join Casey and Benjamin as they break down the hauntingly beautiful jazz album Highway Rider by Brad Mehldau with the help of composer, professor, and comedian Adam O'Dell.Highway Rider: https://open.spotify.com/album/4tYokQ6vjGVHC0wEBMbeY0Adam O'Dell: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEaNIM4ukCBdT0yd7Xg38iA

Get your tripsitter because in this episode we dive into African psychedelic rock master Mdou Moctar's intense album "Ilana (the Creator)". Ben and Casey argue semantics, Casey amd max talk history, and the whole gang gets a little too heavy.

That's right we're doing a jazz album!Well, live show anyway. This week we talk about the immensely powerful and virtuosic French-Lebanese jazz trumpet player Ibrahim Maalouf's live performance at the Babylon in Instanbul. Hold on to your jazz butts, jazzbos because we get deep innit. 

In this ridiculous episode, we discuss one of Midlake's early albums, Bamnan and Slivercork. We each take turns pitching a turn-of-the-millenium hipster screenplay, Benjamin brings up 9/11 (take a drink), the Robot Button makes a triumphant return, and Casey delights in fanciful thoughts of hot air balloons.Check this album out here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3Dv1IKOCVTMI6i79vicPgwAnd Midlake has a ton of music so hack your way through their entire discography and tell us what you think!

In this bonus quarantine episode of You Probably Havent Heard of Them, Benjamin, Casey, and Max argue over their hottest takes on music and pop culture and somehow emerge as friends.

Max tries to ease Casey and Benjamin into punk music with pop-punk progenitors Hüsker Dü.

On the first episode of our new side series Extended Play, Max, Casey, and friend of the program Brian talk about the greatest film of all time and its soundtrack: Space Jam! Casey gushes about his love for Basketball Jones, Max defends 90s power ballad titan Diane Warren, and Brian whips out a gotdamn piano to the surprise of everyone. So c'mon and slam. Welcome to the jam.

Our dear friend Brian Eiffes  joins us for the dangerously sublime album Splendor and Misery by the band Clippng. with Daveed Diggs at the helm of a generation ship as the sole survivor. Casey puts on the ol' tinfoil hat, Brian brags that he took notes (ohhhhh so cooooool), Max talks about the delicate fusion of genre, and Benjamin says we're gonna play Band Names with our guest and then skips it. Whoops.Check out Clippng. right the-hell-now:https://clppng.bandcamp.com/album/splendor-misery

We are joined by Kevin Gastonguay, who plays keyboards on our first ever LIVE album review, Cory Wong's "Live in MLPS".Kevin regales us with tales of Prince's legacy in the Twin Cities, Casey won't let us get a word in edgewise, Max brings the worst band-name ever to the table, and Benjamin correctly identifies Kevin as "the dark one" of the band.Check out the live album here, according to Kevin it's better on video! Too bad Casey didn't tell us there was a video before we recorded this episode!!https://youtu.be/C5XPSwZefs4Cory Wong is also all over Spotify, youtube, and everywhere else you get your music.Kevin Gastonguay has his own music too with the New Sound Underground and an upcoming solo project, so keep your eyes peeled here:https://soundcloud.com/kevin-gastonguay

In what must certainly be the weirdest episode yet, the gang dives into the hectic modern "jazz" album Naked City by John Zorn.Casey and Benjamin talk avant garde philosophy, Benjamin won't stop bringing up Fiddler on the Roof, and Max realizes he should have released a study guide for his poor stupid co-hosts.Check out John Zorn anywhere you can except Spotify. Maybe ask your weird friend that's into Schoenberg if he has a copy of this record (he does).Otherwise try here:https://www.amazon.com/Naked-City-John-Zorn/dp/B000005J08Or here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i56QO9O8qso&list=PLSCSp1orGuYc6e7Blv-kaDt3nDr6ITGwy

In this episode we talk about some albums we liked from the Grammys. We talk about Tyler the Creator, Tank and the Bangas, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, and the Black Pumas. Max delights in nerddom for Tyler the Creator, Casey name drops every band he's going to see live, and Benjamin drops the hottest Billie Eilish take outside of Twitter.To see our cool Grammys playlist, grab this here link:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/291s8vq4DDAkanOFwDZOZg?si=yUi-euO3TSiGjZLmbqbSrA&fbclid=IwAR3772qqgjQRh5bKLA-bft7CRu4D-qmr3ia-7u1iwNTgre2Frp16I7vGi54 

In this episode, we invite Dillon Rairdin of Treesreach to listen to us bloviate about his music. We force Dillon to make up a band that doesn't exist, Benjamin volunteers Max to write an entire musical, and Casey abstains from substances in a YPHHT first.If you want to hear some Treesreach, check 'em out at their fancy website and buy some merch:https://treesreach.com/Great news, they're still kickin, giggin, and looking at writing another album so keep an eye on these Iowa wunderkinder! 

In episode 6 we celebrate the complex mystery that is Morphine's "Cure For Pain". Benjamin notices we only do sophomore albums, Max digs deep into the Boston scene without bringing up Flogging Molly, and Casey gets through the episode without noticing he needed to go to a hospital the whole damn time!Check Morphine out here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0FocpOyE7RnaNsiaEhSbp6Sadly, while Morphine has a lot of cool stuff to listen to, their vocalist Mark Sandman passed away on stage in 1999 in Italy.

In Episode 5 we wax poetic about our bygone youth while rocking out to Astra Heights "Good Problems". Max takes a swing at a giant corporation, Casey makes up episode segments on the fly, and we all do our best Classic Rock Daytime Radio DJ impression.Check out the album here: https://open.spotify.com/album/77Rv6V41gCaBNi7CgDtSUsThere's also a re-release we discuss that's full of great hooks and new ideas, so give that one a listen too: https://open.spotify.com/album/7nb807Tj9WWnUEqyqXQWk1Great news! Astra Heights is still alive and kicking and was even kind enough to reach out and thank us for "keeping the flame alive"! So go love them publicly.

We get real deep talking about Atlanta, Georgia Jazz/Hip-hop experience Monkier. Stravinsky gets brought up at least once, Casey almost cries, and all three of us ponder the deep and mysterious origin story of the band's front man, Zac Evans.Check 'em out: https://open.spotify.com/album/0g73xOafLSlREDX3qagHPjGreat news, while they don't perform live a ton of the time they do have a second album and I have it on good authority that they're working on number three!

Max takes us on a magical journey into the world of second wave Emo through the lens of Rainer Maria's sophomore album "Look Now Look Again". Benjamin gets giddy about words, and Casey laments the lack of synths.Check 'em out: https://open.spotify.com/album/56YkqH5Vv03PAeMzcuQzoQAnd great news, they've been going strong for many years and have tons of content.

We check out UK electro-acoustic jazz fusion group The Comet is Coming. Casey's sound has a heart attack, we talk about live shows vs albums, and make cheap cracks about festivals.Check 'em out here: https://open.spotify.com/album/2mvz0NPBCPTbSEgRViuDLKGreat news, by the way, they're still very active and have quite a bit of music to listen to. Enjoy!

In our inaugural episode we talk about the 2008 Dark Cabaret/Baroque Pop album Conical Monocle by Columbus, Ohio's own wunderkinds Pretty Balanced (also known as The Alphabet).Check it out here: https://open.spotify.com/album/1ZCdWxieRwcQd60bSe6E6jSadly, the band is broken up but the three albums they have, two as Pretty Balanced and one as The Alphabet, are well worth a listen.

A quick four minute preview before we launch four episodes of You Probably Haven't Heard of Them on January 6th, 2020. Stick around, subscribe, review, and share for the best music you've never heard!