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This week on Baxie's Musical Podcast I talk with the legendary Jimmy Flemion of The Frogs! In the early 80's Jimmy and his brother Dennis would form a band that became an underground sensation—not just because of the great Indie Pop songs that they spent years trying to perfect but for that they never intended to release! After the release of their first album, the Flemion brothers began making a series of improvised home recordings using a four-track tape recorder. Together they created more than 1,000 songs that were purely meant to amuse themselves. A majority of these songs were made up on the spot. The results were a collection of songs that were often both shocking and hilarious! Eventually however, some of these recordings fell into the hand of the late producer Steve Albini (Big Black) who presented them to Homestead Records. Many of these songs would find their was only to their second album “It's Only Right and Natural”. The album spread quickly throughout the music industry where it caught the attention of the likes of Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, and Evan Dando of the Lemonheads. The Frogs also became a favorite of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain---who famously included the album on his list of the Top 50 albums of all time. Next month, their 1996 follow-up “My Daughter the Broad” will be reissued. It's a newly expanded double album that included eight unreleased tracks. At the time of its release, it was considered one of the funniest albums of the decade. But don't kid yourself. The Frogs were incredible songwriters who were capable of making insanely great (but quirky) pop songs as well. Jimmy talks about that, their home recordings, their reputation, their wild live performances, playing Lollapalooza, the accidental drowning death of his brother Dennis in 2012, and about the upcoming documentary that's been in the works for the last ten years! This is an amazing story that's totally worth listening to! Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and in the Rock102 app! Brought to you by Metro Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Chicopee!
Smashing Pumpkins frontman and NWA President Billy Corgan joins Battle to discuss AI-generated music and why he rejected technology designed to game his songwriting. Corgan also explains why wrestling’s best days are ahead and how booking an NWA show compares to building a concert setlist.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
X Jack Bates of The Smashing Pumpkins and Peter Hook & The Light joins us for his 'Hat Trick' 3rd episode. As he is about to launch into dual US tours, Jack shares some of the interesting moments of the touring process from a seasoned bassist's perspective. Hosted by Todd Novak with Tony Dudzik #guitarpodcast #electricguitar #pedaleffects #pedalfx #theguitarknobs #guitarknobs #guitarinterview #guitaramplifier #guitarpickups #guitarsetup #fuzz #overdrive #reverb #distortion #guitartips Visit us at theguitarknobs.com Support our show on Patreon.com/theguitarknobs
Get a little Flashlight going for these three Enneagram 9s! If you are a 9, or love one, or want to love one better, give this a listen. Rev. Joe Stabile, Jeff Crosby, and Dr. Billy Schewee join Suzanne in this episode to talk about Enneagram Nines and: Generational Differences Guilt and Shame Active vs. Passive Engagement Music and more! PLUG TIME Know Your Number with Suzanne Stabile in Boston is October 2-3! lifeinthetrinityministry.com Come hear the workshop that inspired the best selling book, The Road Back to You! Friday night and all day Saturday, packed with community, compassion, and understanding. Join us at The Parish of the Epiphany in Winchester. If you can't join in person, join online! Music Samples in today's podcast: The Enneagram Journey theme song comes from Solveig Leithaug ft. Cindy Morgan, "Lift You Up" "Its Too Late" by Carole King (1971) "Blowin' in the Wind" by Chad Michell Trio (1963) "Today" by The Smashing Pumpkins (1993) "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens (1970)
What happens when two Gen X parents sit down with one of their Gen Z daughters to talk about Olivia Rodrigo? You get two generations, three perspectives, and plenty of opinions.In this episode, Giff, Brad, and Brad's daughter Isla dive into Olivia Rodrigo's you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, talking about the songs, the sound, the lyrics, and what makes Olivia such a massive star with a younger generation. Along the way, we look at how she has also connected many Gen Xers as well by following in the footsteps of many 80s and 90s hitmakers like David Byrne, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Madonna and others. Listen now to hear where our musical tastes overlap and where they definitely don't!Support our show and join our Patreon!If you enjoy the show, please rate and review us on the iTunes/Apple Podcasts app or wherever you listen. Or better yet, tell a friend to listen!Follow us on your preferred social media:TwitterFacebookInstagram
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This is the story about how a drug-related death led to the fracturing of the ‘90s alt-rock giants, how competing narratives amongst band members complicated their legacy, and what Billy Corgan’s strange interaction with a shapeshifter has to do with it all. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership. Visit www.disgracelandpod.com/merch to see the latest Disgraceland merch! Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - GET THE NEWSLETTER Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: Instagram YouTube X (formerly Twitter) Facebook Fan GroupSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hey ho hey it's Sherlock Says! This week, your hosts Rachael and Ansel are joined by Katie Grace Hennen to discuss The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, the best Sherlock Holmes story to feature the description of someone's head being smashed like a rotten pumpkin! I would have made more Smashing Pumpkins references in this description but I genuinely do not care for them, and also the world is demonstrably not a vampire, no matter what that guy says.Check out Katie's play! https://minnesotafringe.org/shows/2026/cyranoContent warning: A lot of domestic abuse, significant animal abuseContact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/sherlocksayspod?fbclid=PAAaalIOau9IFlX3ixKFo3lsvmq6U1pYn8m3cf7N6aOqkqUGCljCO0R00KZ3E
In this episode, Charles sits down with TJ Horn, a Boston-area drummer who has played with several bands — most notably the critically acclaimed Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys. Beyond his drumming career, TJ is a passionate live music fan who set a personal record in 2025 by attending 75 concerts in a single year. He's also known in certain Boston circles for his live readings of erotic fan fiction. It's a wide-ranging conversation about music, performance, and what it means to love live shows. TJ traces his passion for live music back to a 1994 Depeche Mode concert at the Blockbuster Pavilion in Glen Helen, California — a show his uncle brought him and his family to when he was just 12 years old. That night sparked a lifelong obsession. That same year, his uncle also took him to Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, and the legendary Lollapalooza '94 — where TJ saw the Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, L7, and a then-unknown Green Day, just weeks before they exploded in popularity. Over the years, TJ has accumulated remarkable concert stories: chatting with Fred Durst for 40 minutes at Ozzfest while watching Tool, seeing Porno for Pyros perform a surprise acoustic set on a walkway at Lollapalooza '95, and stumbling upon a tiny 40-person Touché Amoré show after standing in the snow for a wristband. His 75-show year in 2025 came about naturally — fueled by a wide network of friends with different musical tastes, a work schedule that freed up his evenings, and a simple philosophy of saying yes when a cheap ticket or a spare invite came along. On the music-making side, TJ is a self-taught drummer who got his start playing along to Green Day and the Ramones in his bedroom as a military kid who had just moved to Boston. He's gone on to play with bands spanning punk, hardcore, and art-rock, including The Martyrs and a rock opera project featuring Amy Winehouse's saxophonist and members of The Replacements. His longest creative relationship has been with Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys — a theatrical "steam crunk" band known for elaborate costumes, steampunk conventions, annual RPM Challenge albums, and now an upcoming horror sci-fi film directed by Walter himself. TJ also speaks fondly of the erotic fan fiction readings that made him unexpectedly famous in Boston's burlesque and cosplay scene — a side gig that started with dramatic readings of bad dating app messages and turned into a crowd-favorite variety act. For more from TJ, find him on Instagram at @tjbrokenproton. BANDS: A Tribe Called Quest, Amy Winehouse, Beastie Boys, The Boredoms, Boy's Life, The Breeders, Bridgit Calls Me Baby, Coal Chamber, Converge, Cyndi Lauper, Deftones, Depeche Mode, Dropbear, Eagles of Death Metal, Elastica, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, Face to Face, Fight, George Clinton, Green Day, Hole, Jack White, Jay-Z, L7, Lady Gaga, Less Than Jake, Letters to Cleo, Limp Bizkit, Metallica, Ministry, Motörhead, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, Ozzy Osbourne, Porno for Pyros, Ramones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Replacements, Rosalía, Salt-N-Pepa, sapling, Sex Pistols, Smashing Pumpkins, Shonen Knife, Soulfly, Stellastar, Stereolab, Suicidal Tendencies, The Killers, Tool, Touché Amoré, Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys. VENUES: Blockbuster Pavilion (Glen Helen, CA), Boston Garden, The Middle East (Boston), San Diego State University's Aztec Bowl. LINKS: TJ Instagram: @tjbrokenproton. Walter Sickert movie "Ashwire": https://www.fangoria.com/ashwire-trailer/ PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/SeeingThemLivePlease help us defer the cost of producing this podcast by making a donation on Patreon.WEBSITE - BECOME A GUEST:https://seeingthemlive.com/Visit the Seeing Them Live website and click on the link to fill out a form so we can consider you as a guest on the show.INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/seeingthemlive/FACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550090670708
SUMMER SERIES - PART 3 THIS EPISODE WE HAVE MUSIC NEWS, WE TALK ABOUT NEW RELEASES FOR AUGUST, AND END WITH ARTIST RIDERS MS FAB's TRIP BACK TO NJ THE EXTINCTION OF THE SMALL LOCAL CLUBS MUSIC NEWS : PHIL COLLINS, DAVID LEE ROTH, R.E.M., MARTHA REEVES NEW RELEASES : NIGHT RANGER, JON BATISTE, MONKEY ENGINE HAND PUMP, ANN WILSON, PHOEBE BRIDGERS, THE WARNING, SMASHING PUMPKINS, SIENNA SERA, SPARKS, STEPHEN BISHOP, KISS, BRANDON FLOWERS, THE CRAMPS, ANTHONY HOPKINS, GRACE POTTER, NATALIE MERCHANT, WEEZER, THE CRANBERRIES, PRINCE, STANLEY SIMMONS. CONCERT / ARTIST RIDERS : BON JOVI, DURAN DURAN, BLONDIE, MARIAH CAREY, FRANK SINATRA OVER 2.5 HOURS OF MUSIC TALK! ******** KNOW GOOD MUSIC can be found on Podbean (host site), Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Iheart Radio, Pandora, YouTube and almost anywhere you listen to podcasts. Links to more sources at Link Tree - www.linktr.ee/knowgoodmusic Visit our YouTube Channel where you can see video segments from all of our interviews. Just search "know good music" Please follow / subscribe & review Follow our Instagram & Facebook pages for info on upcoming podcasts and sometimes extra content Visit the Know Good Music Website for exclusive merchandise (Shirts / Mugs) TURN OFF THE TV - TURN UP THE MUSIC!
A live recording from The Big Romance about a 2008 Sub Pop-released classic album of the 2000s. Listen on Apple | Android | Patreon | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed | Podlink Step into a world of misty melodies and cavernous echoes with Seattle band Fleet Foxes' landmark debut – a defining record of the late-2000s indie folk revival. Led by Robin Pecknold, the album blends the lush, pastoral harmonies of the 1960s with a haunting baroque-pop sensibility and lyrical themes rooted in nature, tradition, and introspection. Like the Bruegel painting on its cover, every track reveals a dense, beautiful world that evokes a timeless – almost mythic Americana sound. This podcast episode is a live recording from our listening party in The Big Romance in April, with guest journalist and Fleet Foxes fan Aoife Barry. Our next Listening Party is Smashing Pumpkins later this month and it's sold out. Listen Closely: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2008) A Nialler9 listening party, hosted by Niall Byrne with guest Aoife Barry. Before the album Niall: Hello everyone, how are you? Welcome to the Listen Closely album listening party. I'm Niall, and this is Aoife Barry. Aoife: Hello. Niall: We're here tonight because Aoife picked this album, as she has before. You picked Jeff Buckley last year. Aoife: Yeah, and we ended up doing three of them. Niall: We did, we went to Cork. We did two here and then we went to Cork to talk about Jeff Buckley. And you were at the My Bloody Valentine listening party last year as well, back in October. Aoife: It must have been October, yeah. Niall: Well, obviously we're here for a very different album tonight: Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes, from 2008. As you heard there, we played a bit of the Sun Giant EP by the band, which came out a few months before this album, because we want to give the album its full due. They're a little different, and we'll talk about that. But yeah, you picked the record. Aoife: I did. I obviously must like it. And it's such an incredible record. Is there anybody here who hasn't heard it? That's really exciting, if so. I'm excited for you to hear it. You got a sneak peek there of what the vibe is going to be. I picked it because I love this record, but I also had a funny story about how I first heard them. Back in 2008, when this record came out, I'd read about this band called Fleet Foxes in a music magazine. I don't even think I'd heard a song yet, this is back in the day. And I was on holidays in Berlin, and in the tiny little hostel we were staying in, they had a sign up on the wall: "Who's playing tonight? Fleet Foxes, Café Zapata." I said to my boyfriend, "I think that's a band I read about in the magazine, will we go see them?" And he was like, "Grand." So we went, and they were unbelievable. It was so good. Beach House were supporting them. So it was 2008 smacking you in the face. Niall: Come on. Aoife: And I took photos, which I found. I have photos. Artifacts. One is terrible, the other one's not so terrible, taken on one of those little Canon digital cameras. And I still have the ticket, I kept the ticket, I'm one of those hoarders who keeps all their gig tickets. But it was so good: the venue they played in had a dragon that breathed fire out every fifteen minutes. Niall: So they'd be playing and this dragon… Aoife: I'm not even exaggerating. Fire would just shoot out of this mechanical dragon. It was so Berlin. And Fleet Foxes were so stunning, and Beach House were so stunning. I love Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, I love all those harmony vibes, I wish I was born in the seventies, sadly I was not. So I fell in love with them immediately, and I've been a big fan ever since. Although I'll say I probably dipped a little bit around the Crack-Up era, their third album, but then I saw them when Shore came out, their most recent album, and fell right back in love with them. Niall: We're going to talk about all the albums that come afterwards, but we'll start with this one, because this is presumably your favourite, or one of them. Aoife: Shore is up there as well for me, but yeah. Niall: So what was it about Fleet Foxes at the time? For context: in 2008 there was quite a lot of this kind of music around. We previously did Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago as a listening party, and the funny thing, which I only found out when we did this, is that they have the same origin story in a way. Both songwriters went to a cabin in the woods to pour their heart out and write the songs. Aoife: I think Justin Vernon just got there first in terms of the marketing. Niall: So they must have pulled back on talking about it too much, because it's basically the same thing. They never really talked about Robin Pecknold's writing process in those terms. Aoife: For Emma was such a massive moment, everybody was obsessed with this guy who broke up with a girl and went to a cabin and wrote a record about it. It was the ur indie-folk album. Niall: What was really appealing about Fleet Foxes is that they were so young, between about twenty-two and twenty-seven, and Robin Pecknold was twenty-one when he wrote the record. Which is frankly offensive, you shouldn't be allowed to be so talented at twenty-one. Aoife: I know. And they were clearly these people from Seattle, which we associate with grunge, and then it becomes this place where they're bringing out all the pastoral, outdoorsy, mountain-and-sea vibes of the Washington area. They're obviously really influenced by the seventies too, by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, by Laurel Canyon, but also by Appalachian folk. There's a real purity to what they're doing. The harmonies are unbelievable, there's even a bit of a gospel feeling. So these young guys made this album that was being called an iconic American record on release. The Guardian called it a landmark American album, something like that. And that's special, because you don't get that many records immediately being called landmark. Niall: It was a very exciting time for music around then. I actually brought some records. We mentioned Beach House and Teen Dream earlier, that's a bit later, 2010. I wanted to do a listening party for that at some point, that'd be good craic. Around that time you had Animal Collective and Panda Bear, Person Pitch was right there, that was the apex for that very experimental scene. A few years later we had Sufjan, our very first listening party. And Bon Iver, of course. There's also stuff like Neutral Milk Hotel very much of that vibe. Aoife: I've noticed people covering Neutral Milk Hotel more now. Niall: I think when we got to it, it was on its second go-round, and now it's getting a third, which is great. It's a great record. So, the band were from Seattle, they had a bit of the scruffy flannel-shirt look, but obviously didn't sound like that. The album was written in the woods, in the cabin, brought to the band, and recorded with Phil Ek. Aoife: Who did a lot of stuff with Built to Spill. Niall: Yeah, and he worked with The Shins, and Modest Mouse, a really long history. Aoife: Are The Shins from Seattle as well? Niall: I think they might be. Band of Horses is another one. So they recorded it themselves with Phil Ek, paid for it all themselves, and then the local major independent label Sub Pop came calling. Obviously known for a lot of grunge traditionally, but they'd clearly been releasing this kind of music around then too, The Shins had been on the label for a few years, Band of Horses. When it came to it, they signed to Sub Pop. Apparently there was a bidding war. Aoife: They'd become quite popular on MySpace. Anybody remember MySpace? Every time I do one of these I feel older and older, mentioning the top eight, the randomers you'd put in your top eight. Word could spread quite quickly once you got popular on MySpace. Niall: What I thought was really interesting, that I discovered when I was researching, is that recording the album was actually a total pain for them. They didn't have much money, so they ended up recording a lot of it in their houses, or in Robin Pecknold's family home. And he re-did all the vocals right before they mastered the record, because he'd been sick during the initial sessions and his voice wasn't in great shape. They recorded it all in one go, scrapped that, did another version, and kept moving the running order around. I'm always fascinated by albums where the creation was a total pain and they had no idea it would even work out. Robin Pecknold actually said, "I hope nobody cares about this album, because I just want to move on to the next one." And then it becomes this iconic record. Aoife: Isn't every artist sick of their album by the time it's done? You're like, "my paintings." Yeah. Niall: 2008 was an interesting time for it to land. The album draws on the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Nick Drake, Simon & Garfunkel, Fairport Convention, Judee Sill, very much old-timey or sixties folk and pastoral stuff. And in 2008 there's a financial crash. The album was worked on before that, but it was released into that environment, and a lot of this music seemed to catch. When things go bad, we retreat, we dream, we listen to music that's maybe the opposite of what we're feeling. There was a gentleness, an unhurriedness to it that resonated. Aoife: Grizzly Bear is another band from that time. When Jay-Z and Beyoncé went to see Grizzly Bear in Brooklyn, that was kind of where all the indie music peaked. Niall: And the other part of it, which I was involved in, was the MP3 blogs, that's where you'd hear this music. Especially the American and Canadian stuff, no one was promoting it over here yet, so you'd be months ahead. You'd hear Fleet Foxes in these MP3 formats. That was a mad period, it showed how the internet could collapse geography, a song could spread really quickly on the blogs. And in an American context, this came out post-Bush, with the Obama era coming in, a more hopeful tone. You had the Lehman Brothers crash, these global pressures, and then these hopeful times too. It's interesting to wonder whether these albums are a reaction to it, or whether they appeal to us because we want nice, happy things. I feel like Fleet Foxes have so much emotional depth: there's yearning, sadness, hope, nostalgia. Aoife: I loved Yellow House by Grizzly Bear, their first record, a complex, complicated, almost jazzy thing that sounded beautiful but had a lot going on. We weren't going for simplistic music, but we wanted music that gave us depth and beauty. Is art a solution to the world collapsing? Niall: We could be answering that in 2026. We live in a cursed timeline, as I keep saying. That's all I'm going to say. But what else happened in 2008 in the wider circle of music? Portishead returned with Third. TV on the Radio released Dear Science. MGMT released Oracular Spectacular, 'Kids' and all that. Cut Copy released In Ghost Colours, Indie Sleaze night on Saturday, folks, come on. Kanye put out 808s & Heartbreak, that was November that year. Rihanna was at the peak of her powers. Aoife: Katy Perry appeared that year. And 'American Boy'. Niall: 'American Boy', still one of the best pop songs, fire. Iron & Wine was the other one I forgot to mention. So it was a really vibrant, varied year. As you heard, there's the Sun Giant EP too. Aoife: The thing about that is it came out before the album, but was recorded after. The album was done, in the bag. Niall: They decided to go into the studio and record Sun Giant, a collection of songs intended to sell on tour. It ended up being quite popular, and for a lot of people it was their first time discovering Fleet Foxes. Aoife: It wasn't like The Coronas' 'San Diego Song', their summer-holiday anthem, or anything like that. But it came out before the album, and then the album arrives. Niall: So what was the reaction at the time? Was it immediate? Aoife: Things happened really quickly. In January that year they got all the MySpace attention, and by June the album was coming out. Really, really quick. There was so much chatter about them, which is partly why I'd seen the name, and a music blog like yours would have seen it too, and known they were one of the big bands. In a way that's harder now. Niall: These days you see bands like Geese getting a lot of attention because they use companies that help them go viral. You didn't really have that then. Now you'd dress yourself up in some gimmick, polka dots, whatever, and go viral all over the internet for it. I couldn't imagine these lads doing that. Aoife: No. But maybe in a way they were cosplaying living in the forest, on the Puget Sound. Niall: Anyway, when the album came out, people loved them, and it really hit it off. Because they sound so seventies, your parents would love the records and you'd love the records. There's almost a lullaby quality to the folk stuff too. The music is applicable to anybody of any generation, and there's something lovely about nostalgic music that reminds you of a better time. To finish on that point: I think there's something very mysterious about Fleet Foxes, they feel out of time. They're these young, scruffy lads with the beards, but there's a mystery to them. They didn't come across as the hipster end of things, they weren't leaning into anything. They were presented as the kind of band that wouldn't have had phones, would have lived off-grid, which is funny because they were a MySpace band. They're the most un-MySpace band you can imagine. Surprise people, do something a bit different, don't be exactly what people want you to be, and they'll love you for it. And then your songs are unbelievable too, soaring and stunning. Can we talk for a second about the cover? It's an original painting from 1559 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish Proverbs. It depicts a densely populated Flemish village scene illustrating 126 folk proverbs. There's a lot there. Some on this side are cut off, but for example, this woman here, she's putting the blue cloak on her husband, meaning she deceives him. This guy is casting roses before swine, wasting effort on the unworthy. And right at the top there's a man running through a field with his arse on fire, chasing pigs, "he who eats fire craps sparks," do not be surprised at the outcome if you attempt a dangerous venture. There are 126 of those. Aoife: The interesting thing is that the band managed to get permission to use it. Really unusual to be allowed use it as commercial artwork. Niall: And apparently the museum that holds the artwork were delighted. A lot of stars aligned for them. It's an iconic cover because it's so different from what anybody else was doing, clearly of a particular period, and it has that Where's Wally quality. I have a quote about it. Robin said: "We were trying to figure out what we wanted to do, and my brother had been working some stuff out, when I saw this Bruegel painting in a book my girlfriend had. I liked that it had a really intriguing meaning, there's a story to each little scene, which felt fitting for the record. It was dense but unified, not a collage. It has a Where's Waldo quality, something you could look at for a long time on a vinyl sleeve and keep finding new little things. It was very easy to get the museum in Berlin that has it to say yes, they were super excited the band wanted to use it, and put it in their newsletter. When you open it up, on the inside there's a Paisley pattern traced from the back of a book that Skyler's mum got me. We wanted two very different feelings." So, what to look out for when we press play very shortly? Aoife: When I was going back to this, I had it in my head that every song was one of these big songs, because there are so many big moments. But actually there are two tracks that are pretty much acoustic, so it's interesting to notice how they go from the big sound to the small. And for me they're a real emotion-and-feeling band, so notice how you feel listening to it. I always feel this swell of emotion with Fleet Foxes, I was walking down the road listening to Shore and I was like, my God. So lean back and feel into the emotions they're bringing you. And listen to the lyrics if you can make them out, because they're so out of time, all about pack horses and this amazing imagery. Robin Pecknold said he didn't write about a lot of personal stuff because he didn't have enough life experience yet, so instead he wrote these beautifully poetic narratives about pastoral and rural life. So I'd say the lyrics and the feelings are the two things. Niall: Track two, 'White Winter Hymnal', is probably the biggest one, watch out for that. And a few other people thanked and cited as influences, for some extra context: Brian Wilson, Joanna Newsom, Bob Dylan, Noah Lennox and all the lads from Animal Collective, Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson of The Band, Blitzen Trapper, who they toured with at the time and who were bigger than them then. For some reason Joni Mitchell and Neil Young are listed together, which is fair enough. Marvin Gaye, Damien Jurado, Paul Simon and John Lennon listed together. Townes Van Zandt, a legend. Vashti Bunyan, and Van Morrison. There's a nice quote from Robin Pecknold I'll read afterwards. Let's just open it up and listen. I'll play it at full volume, it's about thirty-nine minutes, two sides. Close your eyes, whatever you want to do, vibe away in your own way. [The album plays: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes, 39 minutes.] After the album Niall: It's quite an economical album, isn't it? It doesn't stick around long, thirty-nine minutes. Aoife: I like an economical album. It's also one of the first fairly short records we've done here. Niall: That's part of why I was thinking about Sun Giant in that context too. I'm going to read a bit from the liner notes, because for an album that's very much about feelings, with only a few direct songs, some of what's written here is interesting: "My first memory has always been of me and my mom on a cold grey day down at some beach in Washington, along the Puget Sound somewhere near Seattle. I would be around two or three years old, and we were with a friend of mine from the neighbourhood and his mom, walking among the driftwood looking for crabs. Even now I can remember the smell and temperature of the air, the feeling of the sand and the swaying tall grass. I can even remember looking over at my friend and how his face looked when he smiled back at me. Another memory I'll sometimes recall as my first is dressing up in the dead of summer as Jack London, with tennis rackets on my feet and wearing my dad's hiking pack, after seeing Disney's terrible version of White Fang. Or the memory of stealing my neighbour's Big Wheel and riding it halfway down the block before getting caught and having to turn around defeated. Or wearing a fireman's outfit while washing my parents' car, or eating an orange popsicle from the ice cream truck. These have always been some of my most distinct and persistent memories of childhood. So it came as a disappointment when, one day as a teenager, I opened up a photo album and found pictures of each and every one of these memories. I didn't have a single memory that didn't belong to, or somehow grow from, those pictures my parents had. I guess I've seen all these photographs at some point, forgotten they were just photographs, and over time made them into my most tangible memories. That's scary to me in a way. This leads me to something weird about the power music has: its transportability. Any time I hear a song or record that meant a lot to me at a certain moment, I'm instantly taken back to that place in full detail. Whenever I hear 'Feel Flows' by the Beach Boys, I'm taken straight to the back of my parents' car on the way to my grandparents' place, with Surf's Up in my Walkman and the Cascade Mountains going by in the window. Any song off Radiohead's Kid A brings back the airport near Seattle, from when we were on the way to Colorado for a wedding and Kid A was the only record I brought or wanted to bring. 'Crayon Angels' by Judee Sill is the whole winter of last year. And Brian Wilson's solo version of 'Surf's Up' takes me back to driving my parents' car around town alone at sixteen, windows down at night. I can't ascribe exact memories to songs by The Microphones, Joni Mitchell, Built to Spill, Dungen, Harry Nilsson and so many others, and it's a form of recall I can actually trust, there's no visual element to complicate things, no chance of a planted memory that wasn't actually supposed to be there. Maybe I should be concerned that I'm alone in almost all of these memories, but I guess I was just a private kid, and music was a private experience for me. Music activates a certain mental freedom in a way nothing else can, and that is so empowering. You can call it escapism if you like, but I see it as connecting to a deeper human feeling than the one found in the day-to-day world." Aoife: That's lovely. It's a nice addendum. And he was only twenty-one. Niall: For some reason it's signed "Warren Gamaliel Bancroft Winnipeg Harding," Warren G. Harding being the 29th president of the United States. I don't know why, he thought it was funny. Dated April 6th, 2008, Chicago, Illinois. So, any particular highlights, anything that stood out? Aoife: I was reminded how much I love 'Blue Ridge Mountains', the second-to-last song. I just love those four- and five-part harmonies so much. There's something that really gets me about beautiful harmonies stacked on each other that sound so natural. My dad was really into Neil Young and all of that era, my mum's really into Simon & Garfunkel, so I feel like I came out of the womb going, this is the music I love. Niall: There was another one I meant to mention. Aoife: I'm really bad at remembering song names, which isn't great for an arts journalist. They go in one ear and out the other. Niall: 'He Doesn't Know Why'. Aoife: That was it. I always forget the name of that one, and it's an absolute banger. It's quite a direct song, the last one on the first side. Niall: He mentions his brother Sean in 'Blue Ridge Mountains', which is interesting. And Oliver James is his younger brother, that's the last song. Aoife: His sister is Aja, after the Steely Dan album. The parents were really into them. Niall: It holds up so well. The harmonies and vocals sound incredible, there are those beautiful little flourishes, a flute on one of the tracks, the guitar is stunning, lovely little bass lines. I love the way Robin Pecknold and the band hear music. There's a really good Song Exploder episode with him talking about a song from Crack-Up, and the way he thinks about translating his thoughts and emotions into music is so illuminating. He has a beautiful melodic flow that's really similar to the flow of water and nature. There are so many nature references, it's almost parody there are so many. Aoife: You could do a Portlandia sketch about it. "Power of nature, man." "Come down from the mountain, you've been gone too long." Niall: In terms of the line-up: alongside Robin Pecknold on vocals there was Skyler Skjelset on lead guitar, his best friend from Nathan Hale High School, later joined by Casey Wescott, Christian Wargo on bass, and Nicholas Peterson on drums, who left after this album. Aoife: And who came in as the drummer? Niall: A man who's been a main character in one of these listening parties himself: Josh Tillman, Father John Misty, played drums with them. Aoife: For how long? Niall: Only a year or two, pretty short. As I said, main character, he was making his own record. Any Father John Misty fans? He writes really good songs and he's handsome, so we all love him, but he's also a bit of a pain, and he didn't get on very well with Robin Pecknold, which isn't surprising. When I was looking back at the Pitchfork interview they did in 2008, a few months after the album came out, it was a big joint interview with Robin and Josh Tillman, and Tillman is answering the questions at the start. That's confidence. Do you want to hear a quote from what Robin Pecknold said? I've written it in my little notebook, so old-school, that's the only way I remember these things. In a 2020 Reddit AMA, Pecknold said that on that tour, the Helplessness Blues tour, Tillman was supposed to bring out his own record, but his label said he could only release it after the tour. So he was on tour thinking, "I want to bring out my own record, I'm tired of Fleet Foxes." Pecknold said he "had to endure being around a lot of substance abuse, sabotaged shows, general ill treatment and shit-talking, all while paying him for songs he didn't have anything to do with. It sucked." And then Tillman left the band. Whereas in that Pitchfork interview he'd said, "I love playing in this band, these are all my friends, I'm having the best time, I'm sorry if that's a corny quote, but that's the best thing about this experience right now." Aoife: So he was lying through his teeth. I think he's the kind of person who really has to be a solo artist, too iconic a personality. You wouldn't want to wrangle him out of bed to get to the next show. Niall: Too big a price. You mentioned Pitchfork, the album was number one on their end-of-year list in 2008, and they listed Sun Giant alongside it, breaking the traditional conventions of end-of-year lists. What they said was: listing Fleet Foxes' debut album and EP together may be awkward, but it just feels right, they're two sides of a coin that equally express the band's mastery, "a catch-all Americana that takes a wide slice of our popular music spectrum and pulls it through a reverse prism to create a gorgeous and focused sound of the band's own. The threads of Brian Wilson's coastal pop, Appalachian folk, modern indie rock, Grateful Dead jams and other influences are masterfully synthesised in the band's harmonies." Robin Pecknold's sense of dynamics, they said, flows like a river, wild and free but logical, filling what needs to be filled and moving on. I swear I didn't rip that off Pitchfork, I came up with something similar on my own. Aoife: Very good. Niall: It was Uncut's album of the year too. But more than anything, and this is a strange accolade, the album was ranked number 36 on Rolling Stone's list of the greatest stoner albums. Aoife: I don't think Robin Pecknold was a stoner. It doesn't really fit. He's a reader. Niall: So what came after? Helplessness Blues, which is really difficult to say, in 2011, then Crack-Up in 2017, then Shore in 2020. Big long gaps, some personnel changes. And Robin Pecknold, as we've established, is a very literary guy, he went to Columbia to do an undergrad in English literature, because he'd left high school early and gone to a community college, and he really wanted that college experience. So that was part of the break. He's also had difficult times, he's spoken about mental health issues and suicidal ideation, many tough experiences that contributed to the gaps too. They haven't released anything since 2020, and he does a lot of cover events. There are two live records. He's actually playing a gig tonight, I think, where he covers Judee Sill. Any Judee Sill fans? Aoife: Oh my gosh, she's amazing. Nobody ever knows Judee Sill. If you listen to anything, listen to Heart Food, it's iconic. He loves her, mentions her on this record. She's the one who does 'The Kiss', people might have seen her perform it on the Old Grey Whistle Test, it's on YouTube. She had a really tragic life. Niall: One of those I've been meaning to listen to properly for years. She only has two records, so it's easy to get into. There's a documentary about her as well, which I haven't seen. Aoife: She's one of those ill-fated seventies musicians, really religious imagery, did a lot of drugs, really interesting. Niall: Did you get to see them again after your first foray in Berlin? Aoife: I saw them when they toured, though it's really bad when you can't remember what you were doing in the 2010s. Niall: Did anybody see them at that Dublin gig, the outdoor one in 2022? Wasn't it amazing. They've played here a fair bit: Vicar Street in 2008, Electric Picnic 2009, The Marquee in Cork 2011, the Iveagh Gardens in 2017. I don't know if I've missed any, maybe you can tell me. So if you were to pick, is there any further listening or reading you'd suggest to somebody, not necessarily Fleet Foxes? Aoife: Some of it is obvious. As I said, I'd definitely check out Judee Sill, because if you really like Fleet Foxes you'd really vibe with her. And he mentions Harry Nilsson, also unbelievable, more well known than Judee Sill, did the cover of 'Everybody's Talkin''. I'd also mention a guy people would have known at one point but isn't very well known now: Richard Swift. He sadly passed away a couple of years ago. He was friends with Robin Pecknold, a hugely talented musician who struggled with addiction. He has an amazing double album from around 2005 or 2006 that's brilliant, and a record called The Hex, which is referenced on 'Sunblind' on Shore, that's the song where Robin name-checks a lot of musicians he loves, like Elliott Smith, David Berman and Richard Swift. It's such a beautiful record for finding new people to listen to, and it's lovely to hear a musician pay tribute to musicians he loves. The imagery is him talking about this beautiful day where he'll go for a swim and listen to all these beautiful bands, an ecstatic kind of song. So check out all of those records, but Richard Swift deserves more fans, and The Hex is really, really good. Niall: Good shout. What we'll do now is play a tune, and then maybe give Sun Giant another go if you want to stick around. Our next listening party is on the 27th of May, and it's an indie-rock album very close to my heart: Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It in People. I've been wanting to do this one on record for a long time. They're playing here later in the year, but I want to give this record its flowers, it's incredible. My niece has just turned seventeen and I bought her a copy, because it's an anthemic record for a seventeen-year-old. I can't believe that band are still going, which is kind of mad, but it's hard to underline what Broken Social Scene meant to a certain segment of indie. Aoife: And there's four hundred of them on stage. They're from Canada, and we were all like, my God, these people are the best. Niall: For me it's the MP3 times again, we'll talk about this next month. I heard about them through the music blogs, and then I got to see them in the Button Factory, which was the Temple Bar Music Centre at the time. It was one of the first things I ever wrote about, back in 2005. A transcendental experience. Aoife: They're so good live. Niall: I once DJ'd in Galway after one of their gigs, and one of the members of the band, I'll leave him nameless, came over and turned off the decks while I was DJing. Aoife: On purpose? Niall: He was that drunk. I can't remember what I was playing, but I was like, great, DJing after Broken Social Scene and then a band member ruins it. I don't think he liked it. No, I think he was just really drunk and thought it was funny. Thumbs down to him. In a way it's surprising a man like that has managed to persist in a band with so many members. Anyway, I digress. We'll talk about it next month, May 27th. Aoife: I cannot wait. I've been listening to it a lot lately again, it's fantastic. Niall: Thank you for being here. Let's play a bit of this and see what happens. Thanks for being here, appreciate it.
Mixtape is a cinematic narrative adventure developed by Beethoven and Dinosaur and published by Annapurna. In the few months between its release and the time of this recording, it earned itself many accolades and also much discussion among the gaming community, for better or worse. Players join three friends on their last night together after senior year of high school. Knowing they have just a few hours together before their lives change forever, they set out to have the most epic night ever, including an iconic soundtrack. The game features tracks from DEVO, The Smashing Pumpkins, Iggy Pop, The Cure, and many more artists who created the vibe for a generation. It's Episode 69, so of course we had to make it extra... nice! This is the first time we're welcoming two guests from different shows on for one episode, and we're delighted that Brendon and AJ picked out Mixtape to discuss with us. We've all been chomping at the bit to throw our hat into the ring of the Mixtape discourse that briefly set the internet on fire. You'll hear our experiences with the game, plus a lot of talk about music! We hope you enjoy the shenanigans and if your name is Christopher Nolan... you're welcome ;) Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:08:55 - Weekly Boss Battles 00:16:45 - Meet our Guests - Brendon Bigley & AJ Fillari 00:58:50 - Mixtape Discussion 02:09:08 - Game Ratings 02:15:52 - One Small Thing Meet our Guests Brendon Bigley @bb.wavelengths.online Brendon hosts Into the Aether: A Lowkey Video Game Podcast, along with Stephen Hilger. He also writes and produces video content on his website Wavelengths, and recently launched Overworld, a site that offers a macro view at the current video game press and discourse. Check out Brendon's content on: Into the Aether Bluesky Wavelengths Overworld AJ Fillari @ajfillari.bsky.social AJ Fillari is a podcast producer, editor, and host. They're also a TTRPG and Video Game Enjoyer! AJ edits and produces too many podcasts to name, but among them are Into the Aether, Formative Media with Christian Spicer, and Frog of the Week. AJ also both hosts and produces and dotzip! Check out AJ's content on: Bluesky dotzip Keep in touch with us on social media: Kate's Bluesky ✦ https://bsky.app/profile/katerblossom.bsky.social Emily's Bluesky ✦ https://bsky.app/profile/aspecificegg.bsky.social No Small Games Bluesky ✦ https://bsky.app/profile/nosmallgames.bsky.social No Small Games Instagram ✦ https://www.instagram.com/nosmallgames Want to learn more and weigh in on what games we should play in future episodes? Check us out and leave a game suggestion at nosmallgames.com
A brand new mix of fun 90s favorites! Artists include The Offspring, Sheryl Crow, Lauryn Hill, Aqua, Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Idol, Backstreet Boys and more!
Jim Ryan, music journalist from Forbes, joins John Landecker to recap a packed weekend of Lollapalooza, headlined by acts including Olivia Dean, Smashing Pumpkins, Charli XCX and Tate McRae. They explore what goes into putting an event at a scale like this and get into the mindset of young people who stick out the festival […]
French Rizz has officially landed in Paris... and immediately started taking the worst tourist photos in recorded history. While Rizz enjoys croissants, wine, and accidentally inventing "half-photo tourism," the rest of the crew takes over the studio and proves that absolutely nothing can stay on the rails for very long.Moon discovers that having an empty house sounds a lot more relaxing than it actually is, because apparently sitting still for more than six minutes causes immediate guilt. King Scott earns legitimate homeowner points by repairing his own dryer, immediately becoming every Midwest dad's favorite person. Lern shares the highs and lows of Copper Fire's latest show, where technical problems forced the band to improvise through feedback, monitor speakers, and pure determination. Sometimes rock and roll isn't glamorous... sometimes it's just hoping the audience sticks around anyway.Then Rafe returns from San Antonio with what may become one of the show's all-time travel stories. Between Southwest Airlines delays, airport complaints, Pee-wee Herman's bike inside the Alamo museum, and a confession involving the Alamo that definitely deserves its own historical plaque, the crew spends way too much time debating what actually counts as "peeing at the Alamo." It's exactly the kind of discussion you'd expect from your favorite daily comedy show.As if that wasn't enough, Taco Bell's lettuce lawsuit continues to grow, the crew debates whether $200 is enough compensation for catastrophic fast-food regret, someone steals thousands of dollars worth of Little Debbie snacks, Martha Stewart accidentally provides some unforgettable sound bites during National Grab Some Nuts Day, and everyone shares the snacks they secretly keep stocked around the studio.Throw in conversations about French vacations, delayed flights, NBA jerseys, the St. Louis Riverfront, fashion rankings, summer heat making everyone older, and the usual nonstop roasting between friends, and you've got another completely normal episode of The Rizzuto Show—which, of course, means absolutely nothing about it is normal.One hundred episodes in and somehow we've reached peak Rizz Show chaos. One mysterious coffee cake delivery instantly derails the entire morning as the crew debates legendary Missouri bakeries, family traditions, suspiciously delicious pastries, and whether one slice is enough motivation to break a Guinness World Record for push-ups. (Spoiler: probably not.)The gang dives into Ariana Grande taking a well-earned break after an exhausting run of performances while discussing the line between public concern and respecting someone's privacy. Then it's onto the latest mystery surrounding Slipknot's Sid Wilson, Smashing Pumpkins celebrating a massive hometown moment at Lollapalooza, William Shatner somehow becoming a heavy metal performer at 95, and a look back at one of television's most unforgettable characters.Movie lovers get plenty to chew on too. Spider-Man continues dominating theaters, Barbie 2 hits development roadblocks, and the crew wonders why Hollywood keeps rebooting everything instead of taking chances on original stories. Along the way they revisit cult classics, argue about the greatest television series ever made, celebrate indie filmmaking, and somehow end up ranking the most scientifically accurate disaster movies ever filmed. Because naturally that's where breakfast conversations lead.The laughs don't stop there. There's an ongoing push-up debate, questionable workout motivation involving coffee cake crumbs, "Back in the Day" history lessons, celebrity birthdays, bizarre Hollywood stories, ridiculous hypotheticals, and the kind of sarcastic banter that somehow turns every topic into comedy.With Rizz celebrating his birthday overseas, the gang decides that "Happy Birthday" is officially retired and immediately begins brainstorming the next long-term psychological prank. The mission? Convince him that everyone has always celebrated Happy Bastille Day, Rizz. The debate spirals into Mandela Effects, alternate realities, and enough gaslighting to make even the French question reality.Meanwhile, breakfast becomes an Olympic event as four boxes of donuts disappear at alarming speed while pre-workout somehow enters the equation. The crew debates whether they're fueling up for the gym or an emergency nap, and honestly nobody ever figures it out.Then comes one of the most unpredictable rounds of "3 in 5" in recent memory. Listeners battle through categories ranging from beans and famous vampires to Pixar movies, breakfast cereals, state capitals, and Tom Hanks films. Some contestants dominate. Others completely forget movies exist. Rules are forgotten. Rules are invented. Tickets are awarded anyway because apparently Charity Monday is alive and well.The conversation also dives into birthday bash planning, exclusive birthday beer names, concert giveaways, and plenty of classic Rizz Show side quests that somehow become funnier than the original topic. It is exactly the kind of organized chaos fans expect from a funny morning show that refuses to stay on script.Whether you're here for ridiculous games, sarcastic humor, listener interactions, or simply watching adults argue about whether "Happy Bastille Day" is a perfectly normal greeting, this episode delivers another unforgettable daily comedy podcast.If you're new here, welcome to the weird corner of the internet where logic takes the day off and everyone somehow leaves happier than they arrived. 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One hundred episodes in and somehow we've reached peak Rizz Show chaos. One mysterious coffee cake delivery instantly derails the entire morning as the crew debates legendary Missouri bakeries, family traditions, suspiciously delicious pastries, and whether one slice is enough motivation to break a Guinness World Record for push-ups. (Spoiler: probably not.)This daily comedy podcast quickly spirals—as it always does—from breakfast food into celebrity headlines, hilarious detours, and conversations absolutely nobody planned to have. The gang dives into Ariana Grande taking a well-earned break after an exhausting run of performances while discussing the line between public concern and respecting someone's privacy. Then it's onto the latest mystery surrounding Slipknot's Sid Wilson, Smashing Pumpkins celebrating a massive hometown moment at Lollapalooza, William Shatner somehow becoming a heavy metal performer at 95, and a look back at one of television's most unforgettable characters.Movie lovers get plenty to chew on too. Spider-Man continues dominating theaters, Barbie 2 hits development roadblocks, and the crew wonders why Hollywood keeps rebooting everything instead of taking chances on original stories. Along the way they revisit cult classics, argue about the greatest television series ever made, celebrate indie filmmaking, and somehow end up ranking the most scientifically accurate disaster movies ever filmed. Because naturally that's where breakfast conversations lead.The laughs don't stop there. There's an ongoing push-up debate, questionable workout motivation involving coffee cake crumbs, "Back in the Day" history lessons, celebrity birthdays, bizarre Hollywood stories, ridiculous hypotheticals, and the kind of sarcastic banter that somehow turns every topic into comedy.Whether you're here for celebrity gossip, weird news, movie talk, or simply to hear grown adults get emotionally invested in baked goods, Episode 100 delivers exactly the kind of unpredictable fun you've come to expect from The Rizzuto Show.If you're looking for a daily comedy podcast packed with funny celebrity gossip, entertainment news, pop culture commentary, St. Louis humor, and conversations that go completely off the rails, you've found today's episode.So grab some coffee (and maybe a coffee cake if you're lucky), hit play, and enjoy another completely unhinged morning with The Rizzuto Show—the daily comedy podcast that somehow makes every random conversation even weirder than it started.Follow The Rizzuto Show → https://linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → https://1057thepoint.com/RizzShowHear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Olivia Rodrigo surprised Lolla fans by performing during Smashing Pumpkins set! Plus, a fan caught someone pooping during John Summit's set at Lolla!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The conversation delves into the influence of the Pixies on music, explores the album 'Doolittle,' and discusses the complexity of the Pixies' music. Initial impressions of the album and favorite songs are also analyzed in detail. The conversation methodically explores the unique sound of the Pixies, their impact on listeners, and their influence on other bands. It delves into the concept of verse-chorus-verse, the phenomenon of goosebumps while listening to music, and the comparison between Pixies and Nirvana. Additionally, it discusses the domestication of punk rock, the 'Ozzy Osbourne Bat Head Award,' and the underrated impact of Pixies' music. The conversation also highlights the influence of Pixies' music on other bands and the significant contribution of Kim Deal to the Pixies' sound. The conversation delves into the influence of Smashing Pumpkins on the Pixies, the impact of Doolittle on the music industry, and the importance of Kim Deal's bass playing and harmonies. These themes are explored in-depth, providing valuable insights into the significance of the album and its lasting legacy.TakeawaysInfluence of the Pixies on musicExploring the album 'Doolittle'Complexity of the Pixies' music Pixies' influence on musicThe impact of Pixies' music on listeners Influence of Smashing Pumpkins on the PixiesImportance of Kim Deal's bass playing and harmoniesThe impact of Doolittle on the music industryChapters00:00 Favorite Songs and Album Analysis55:23 Kim Deal's Contribution to Pixies' Sound
Shania Twain says she'll always keep "Brad Pitt" line in her song, plus Smashing Pumpkins bring out Greg Brady for Lollapalooza. Are you okay with this? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Brian & Kenzie weren't ready to grasp the convoluted ordering system at 900 S Wabash yesterday. Chicago’s best morning radio show now has a podcast! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and remember that the conversation always lives on the Q101 Facebook page. Brian & Kenzie are live every morning from 6a-10a on Q101. Subscribe to our channel HERE: https://www.youtube.com/@Q101 Like Q101 on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/q101chicago Follow Q101 on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/Q101Chicago Follow Q101 on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/q101chicago/?hl=en Follow Q101 on TikTok HERE: https://www.tiktok.com/@q101chicago?lang=enSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's Friday. It's Megadeth day. Let's f'ing GOOOOOOOO!!!! Yes, Megadeth & Obituary are at the La Crosse Center tonight and you can still get tickets at the door. Gates open at 5pm and music should start around 7pm. Don't miss Megadeth before they retire from touring FOREVER!!! On this show this morning, we played a bunch of Megadeth tunes to get pumped for the show tonight…and we gazed into the future at some things to look forward to in the month of August. Including movies, TV shows, sporting events, & holidays. Doc joined me just after 8am for this week's racing report thanks to County Materials in Holmen & Eau Claire. In the news this morning, a recall on rechargeable hand warmers, Mandela Barnes drops out of the WI Governor's race, a man gets 15 years in prison for supplying his son the gun used to kill two students & two teachers, the Army has been testing a new weapon with a badass name, In sports, the Brewers are in LA to take on the Angels tonight, more info on the Tony Romo DUI arrest, Deebo Samuel gets a contract extension, Lebron is going to be filming his entire season with the 76ers for an upcoming documentary, and UEFA is going to boycott all FIFA competitions. Let you know what's on TV & streaming this weekend along with what's new in theaters. Plus, Greg Brady joins the Smashing Pumpkins on-stage for a Brady Bunch classic. And a "Clueless" sequel is in the works with Alicia Silverstone on-board. Fantastic story about a postal worker who helped save a baby's life thanks to her years of medical training, and a young Leukemia patient is going viral for her unique decorations while in the hospital. Elsewhere in sports, Paige Bueckers & Angel Reese won't face any discipline from the WNBA over a friend wager made on video, one of the co-owners of the Seattle Storm gets in trouble with the league, the PGA is going to air an announcer-free stream of it's upcoming tournament, and a TOPPS Shohei Ohtani card just sold for a LOT of money. And in today's edition of "Bad News with Happy Music", we had stories about a three year-old kid who snuck out of his house & walked a half mile to grandma's, a naked man hiding in the ceiling of a plasma donation center, a kid who got suspended from school because he bit his sandwich into the shape of a gun, a #FloridaMan who admits it's him on video committing a crime, Aldi was trying to sell four ice cubes for $5, and a woman gets mad about her drive-thru wait at a KFC.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rock News: Avenged Sevenfold surprise fans with set played from backstage before show, Bret Michaels had to have kidney stone surgery, Smashing Pumpkins to hold 'Pumpkinpalooza' to coincide with their headliner status at Lolapalooza this weekend in their hometown of Chicago, more in this week's 'Rock News'
Rock News: Avenged Sevenfold surprise fans with set played from backstage before show, Bret Michaels had to have kidney stone surgery, Smashing Pumpkins to hold 'Pumpkinpalooza' to coincide with their headliner status at Lolapalooza this weekend in their hometown of Chicago, more in this week's 'Rock News'See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Andrew Fairclough grew up skateboarding on the northeast coast of Australia, copying boards out of Rad Magazine, and winning a drawing contest in a skate publication at 12 years old. He went on to build a career designing for Nike, Billabong, and Rolling Stone before founding True Grit Texture Supply, whose brushes and textures are now used daily by some of the best illustrators in the world. In this episode we cover Andrew's winding path from a beach town in New South Wales through the snowboard industry in Canada, commercial design agencies in Sydney, and eventually into the illustration career and business he runs today. He breaks down how his signature pulp sci-fi and skateboard-influenced style developed, how a Skillshare class with 30 million Facebook views launched True Grit, and why delusion is the most underrated skill a young creative can have. We also get into what it means to build tools that empower artists without replacing them, the balance between running a business and staying creative, and where he sees the hand-drawn arts heading. Plus a Smashing Pumpkins deep cut that perfectly sums up why craftsmanship still matters. This episode is sponsored by Musgrave Pencil Company- use code PENCILPUSHERS at MusgravePencil.com for 10% off!
Scott Penfold breaks down Monday's biggest stories in rock and metal: Faith No More ends a decade of silence to support System Of A Down on four stadium shows across Australia and New Zealand in early 2027 — SOAD's first shows down under since 2012; Andy LaRocque speaks out on his friendly split from King Diamond after 40 years and his new focus on Lex Legion as Gus G. officially joins the King; and Linkin Park, the Ramones and The Smashing Pumpkins land 2027 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. All the details at loadedradio.com. Monday's headlines [00:05] System Of A Down + Faith No More announce 2027 Australia/NZ stadium tour [00:29] Andy LaRocque breaks his silence on leaving King Diamond; Gus G. era begins [01:54] Linkin Park gets a 2027 Hollywood Walk of Fame star [03:01] Follow Loaded Radio on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, YouTube and TikTok. All your rock and metal news at loadedradio.com — download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple iOS and Google Play.
This BEST of ALL WORLDS Band heavy-hitter is an iconic American drummer & session musician is one of the "most recorded drummer in music history", was voted "Top 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time” by Rolling Stone Magazine, and has played on records totalling over 300 million sales! Of course we're talking about the legendary drummer, best-selling author and speaker: Kenny AronoffKenny was inspired by The Beatles' 1964 Ed Sullivan performance and pivoted from classical percussion to a lifelong career in rock n roll. He is best known for his 17-year tenure with John Mellencamp and his long stint with John Fogerty, but Kenny has played/recorded or toured with practically EVERYONE. Check out this list :Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings. Loretta Lynn, Tony Iommi, Alice Cooper, Smashing Pumpkins, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Steven Tyler, Celine Dion, Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morrisette, Avril Lavigne, BB King, Buddy Guy, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Skynyrd, Mellencamp, the Beatles, Buddy Rich tribute ,Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Triumph, Lady Gaga, Chickenfoot ....and now Kenny is in Sammy's Best of All Worlds band!Come hear what it was like for an overly energetic young boy growing up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts nicking Norman Rockwell's cigarettes, (almost ) shagging Norman Mailer's daughter, crashing backyard parties with Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks, and touring the world with the RedRocker himself!Join the Bo-Hosts for an episode almost as BIG as Kenny's pipes!More on Kenny here:https://kennyaronoff.com/https://www.instagram.com/kennyaronoff/https://www.facebook.com/KennyAronoffOfficial"What is understood...NEED be discussed"Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085582159917Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebogusotisshow/?hl=enX:https://x.com/BogusOtisShowYouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TheBogusOtisShowTik Tok:https://www.tiktok.com/@thebogusotisshowConnect with the Bo-Hosts:bogusotisshow@gmail.com
Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir presents an intimate look behind the scenes of an iconic era through the ever-reflective lens of musician Melissa Auf der Maur. In this debut memoir, Auf der Maur chronicles her journey through alternative music — from staffing ticket windows at local venues to navigating era-defining triumphs and turmoil under global spotlights. A bohemian upbringing in Montreal and an early connection to music led her to put down roots in the local scene, working as a cassette DJ and showing up for bands like Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, Pavement, and Sonic Youth. A serendipitous sequence sets the stage for the next big step — a thrown beer bottle at a show, a long-shot fan letter to a PO Box, and before you know it Auf der Maur's band Tinker is opening for The Smashing Pumpkins and Billy Corgan is passing along a personal recommendation to Courtney Love. In a whirlwind of life-changing moments, Auf der Maur joins Hole for their 1994 Live Through This world tour just after the deaths of Kurt Cobain and Hole's previous bassist Kristen Pfaff. Auf der Maur is swiftly flung into the eye of a hurricane, becoming part of a band plowing through grief by way of art on a brutally global stage. Auf der Maur offers a backstage view to the raw reality of this tour, her relationship with Courtney Love in the wake of tragedy, and what kept Hole from spinning out of control. And the show goes on from there – messy and unwieldy, but bringing compassionate nuance to the nostalgia of the '90s alternative era and Auf der Maur's personal journey to the other side of it. Part rock memoir, part travel diary, part psychedelic scrapbook – Even the Good Girls Will Cry stacks rockstar stories of the last analog decade alongside the intensely intimate musings of an artist who lived through the chaos. Melissa Auf der Maur is an artist, producer, and musician known for her time as the bassist of the bands Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins. She is the co-founder and director of Basilica Hudson, a nonprofit multidisciplinary art center known for music festivals, film screenings, artist-in-residence programs, and community involvement. Her other projects include the solo albums Auf der Maur and Out of Our Minds, as well as photography collections shown by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and featured in publications including Spin, Elle, and Nylon. Gillian G. Gaar is an award-winning journalist and author of over 20 books. She was a senior editor at the legendary Northwest music publication The Rocket for fourteen years. She served as project consultant on Nirvana's 4 box set With the Lights Out and as editorial assistant on Krist Novoselic's memoir Of Grunge and Government: Let's Fix This Broken Democracy! Her books include She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll, Entertain Us: The Rise of Nirvana, Return of the King: Elvis Presley's Great Comeback, and World Domination: The Sub Pop Records Story. Buy the Book Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir Third Place Books
Movie of the Year: 2006Little Miss Sunshine (feat. Don Shanahan from Every Movie Has a Lesson!)Little Miss Sunshine Podcast: The Hoovers Hit the BracketThe Little Miss Sunshine podcast episode has arrived, and the Taste Buds are packing into the VW bus. This week, Movie of the Year puts one of 2006's biggest indie success stories through the tournament. Ryan, Mike, and Greg welcome film critic Don Shanahan to help judge the Hoover family's run at the crown. Together, the panel digs into the family dynamics, the unforgettable ending, the film's surprising philosophical streak, and the husband-and-wife directing team behind it all. Additionally, the crew squares off in a round of Trivia and builds a fashion-themed Rushmore. Can a sunny yellow bus carry this movie deep into the 2006 bracket? Push, hop in, and find out.About the FilmLittle Miss Sunshine follows the Hoover family on an 800-mile road trip from Albuquerque to Redondo Beach. Seven-year-old Olive has qualified for the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant, and the whole dysfunctional clan piles into a failing Volkswagen bus to get her there. The passenger list includes a failed motivational speaker, a suicidal Proust scholar, a Nietzsche-obsessed teen who refuses to speak, a heroin-snorting grandpa, and one very determined mom. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris from Michael Arndt's screenplay, the film premiered at Sundance in January 2006. It became a box office sensation, grossing over $101 million on an $8 million budget. Moreover, it earned four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Alan Arkin won Best Supporting Actor, and Arndt took home Best Original Screenplay. RogerEbert.com called it a gentle family satire in the tradition of the countercultural comedies of the 1970s. Now the film faces its toughest challenge yet: the Movie of the Year 2006 bracket.Guest Panelist: Don ShanahanThe Taste Buds welcome film critic Don Shanahan to the panel. Don is a Chicago-based, Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic and the founder of the long-running review site Every Movie Has a Lesson. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief and Content Supervisor of the film department at Film Obsessive. Furthermore, Don co-hosts the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast on the Ruminations Radio Network. A school teacher by day, he writes his reviews with life lessons in mind, from the serious to the farcical. Don is a director and co-founder of the Chicago Indie Critics and a voting member of the Critics Choice Association and the Online Film Critics Society. Consequently, few guests arrive better equipped to grade a movie about winners, losers, and everything in between.The Hoover Family at the Heart of the Little Miss Sunshine PodcastEvery great road movie needs great passengers, and this one has six. The panel starts with the family itself. Richard preaches his nine-step winning program while his own career collapses. Sheryl holds everyone together with fried chicken and sheer will. Frank arrives fresh from a suicide attempt, and Dwayne has taken a vow of silence until he becomes a fighter pilot. Meanwhile, Grandpa coaches Olive's pageant routine with methods no pageant has ever approved. The Little Miss Sunshine podcast crew debates what makes this dysfunction feel so real. Notably, the film establishes the entire family in one legendary twenty-minute dinner scene. The Taste Buds and Don break down how each Hoover carries a private definition of failure. Ultimately, the group asks the big question: is this the best movie family of 2006?Breaking Down the Ending on the Little Miss Sunshine 2006 PodcastYou know the scene. Olive takes the stage at the pageant, "Super Freak" drops, and the movie explodes. The panel dedicates a full segment to one of the most famous endings of the decade. By contrast with the polished pageant contestants, Olive's routine is pure chaos, and the family's response is pure love. The Hoovers stop trying to win and start dancing. Don and the Taste Buds debate whether the finale earns its catharsis or leans on shock value. In addition, the crew discusses how the ending flips the film's winners-and-losers thesis on its head. Does the dance number seal the film's bracket run, or does it divide the panel? The episode holds nothing back.Nietzsche, Proust, and the Philosophy of LosingFew crowd-pleasers smuggle in this much philosophy. Dwayne worships Nietzsche and wears his contempt for conformity on his sleeve, or at least on his t-shirt. Frank, meanwhile, claims the title of preeminent Proust scholar in America. The panel unpacks why Michael Arndt built his comedy on these two thinkers. Frank's hospital-parking-lot speech about suffering becomes the film's secret thesis: the years of struggle are the years that make us. However, the movie never turns into a lecture. Instead, it hides its ideas inside gas station stops and highway breakdowns. The crew debates whether the philosophy holds up or simply decorates the road trip. Specifically, they ask what Nietzsche would think of a nine-step program for winning.The Directors: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie FarisHusband-and-wife team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris spent decades directing music videos before this debut feature. Their work with bands like The Smashing Pumpkins and R.E.M. sharpened an eye for visual storytelling on tight budgets. As a result, Little Miss Sunshine looks sun-bleached, precise, and effortlessly funny. The panel examines how the duo directs comedy through reaction shots rather than punchlines. The famous bus-pushing sequence becomes a masterclass in physical comedy and ensemble blocking. Additionally, the group traces the pair's later career through Ruby Sparks and Battle of the Sexes. Why did two music video veterans wait so long for a second film? The panel has theories, and some of them are even kind.TriviaNo Movie of the Year episode is complete without Trivia. The Taste Buds and Don test each other on all things Little Miss Sunshine. Production history, casting near-misses, pageant facts, and VW bus mechanics are all fair game. The film's six-year development saga and its record-setting Sundance sale provide plenty of ammunition. Who takes the crown this week? Listen and find out.Rushmore: FashionThis week's Rushmore segment tackles fashion. Each panelist carves their personal Mount Rushmore of movie fashion into the mountainside. Little Miss Sunshine gives the category a strong starting point. Olive's oversized glasses and red cowboy boots, Dwayne's brutal statement tees, and Richard's aggressively beige wardrobe all deserve consideration. Nevertheless, the panel ranges across all of film history for their picks. Expect passionate defenses, questionable taste, and at least one choice that starts an argument.Why Little Miss Sunshine Still MattersTwenty years later, Little Miss Sunshine remains the gold standard for the crowd-pleasing indie. It proved a tiny comedy could outgross blockbusters and crash the Best Picture race. Furthermore, its skepticism about hustle culture and toxic winning has only grown more relevant. Richard's nine steps sound like half the internet in 2026. The film also launched Abigail Breslin, revived Alan Arkin, and showed the world Steve Carell could break hearts. Above all, it argues that losing together beats winning alone. That message keeps the Little Miss Sunshine podcast conversation alive two decades after the bus first rolled. For more from the season, check out the Movie of the Year 2006 intro episode and the 2006 Mixtape.Related Episodes from Movie of the Year: 2006Movie of the Year 2006: Intro Part 1Movies of 2006: Bracket Reveal and Sweet 16Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story2006 Mixtape Part IAll Movie of the Year EpisodesFAQ: Little Miss Sunshine Podcast and FilmWhat is the Little Miss Sunshine podcast episode about?The Taste Buds and guest critic Don Shanahan judge Little Miss Sunshine in the Movie of the Year 2006 bracket. Topics include the Hoover family, the ending, the film's philosophy, and directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.What is Little Miss Sunshine about?A dysfunctional family drives a broken-down VW bus from New Mexico to California so young Olive can compete in a beauty pageant. Along the way, every member confronts their own definition of failure.Who directed Little Miss Sunshine?Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris directed the film. The married duo made their feature debut after a celebrated career in music videos.Who wrote Little Miss...
The biggest party of the year is going to happen without Brian. Chicago’s best morning radio show now has a podcast! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and remember that the conversation always lives on the Q101 Facebook page. Brian & Kenzie are live every morning from 6a-10a on Q101. Subscribe to our channel HERE: https://www.youtube.com/@Q101 Like Q101 on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/q101chicago Follow Q101 on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/Q101Chicago Follow Q101 on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/q101chicago/?hl=en Follow Q101 on TikTok HERE: https://www.tiktok.com/@q101chicago?lang=enSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, we dive into the second half of "Weird Al" Yankovic's tribute to the alternative rock format, featuring angsty anthems from Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden, the return of America's brother-in-law Anthony Kiedis, and a song that Rivers Cuomo stole from this medley, so we're stealin' it back. Co-hosts: Rich Bunnell, Phil Maddox, Ben Marlin Tracklist: Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings Weezer - Buddy Holly Red Hot Chili Peppers - My Friends Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun Green Day - Basket Case Other clips: Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 "Weird Al" Yankovic - Skipper Dan Weezer - My Name Is Jonas (The Kitchen Tape demo) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane "Weird Al" Yankovic - Bedrock Anthem Foo Fighters - Big Me Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly "Weird Al" Yankovic - My Own Eyes Soundgarden - Rusty Cage "Weird Al" Yankovic - Canadian Idiot Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea
Send us Fan MailVictor, Evelyn, and Mark hang out this week to talk about seeing a show with The Smashing Pumpkins, Nature Valley bars, settlers thoughts, pillow reviews, and the gang hits The Critter Corner.
Some conversations feel like catching up with an old friend. And that's exactly what it was like welcoming Katie Cole back to Speaking of Travel. Katie is not only a remarkable singer-songwriter, she's one of the kindest, most genuine people you'll ever meet. From her years touring with the Smashing Pumpkins to performing the iconic music of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit before audiences around the world, she's inspired countless people through both her extraordinary talent and her generous spirit.In this episode, Katie shares the deeply personal journey behind her upcoming album, FOREST, a collection of songs shaped by love, loss, healing, and discovering who we become after life changes us. Her honesty is inspiring and her music stays with you long after the last note. Katie's story is a beautiful reminder that even through life's hardest seasons, hope is never far away."Healing isn't about finding your way back to who you were. It's about learning to love the person you've become." A must listen!
The Tim Conway Jr. Show Hour 1 (7.1) Timmy set the patriotic cruise-ship vibe on KFI years ago after the Costa Concordia disaster — atta boy, you ain’t no jinx! Now the whole crew is following suit as we cheer on Team USA vs. Bosnia in the FIFA World Cup. Timmy’s all about flying that American flag for the country’s massive 250th birthday — and fun fact: thieves know if there’s an American flag out front, there’s probably a gun inside, so steer clear, burglars! Chair of America250 and former US Treasurer Rosie Rios joins the show — she signed trillions in US currency, rose from one of nine kids raised by a single mom to Harvard grad and one of the highest positions in government. Atta girl! She’ll be in New York for the July 3 ball drop, then heading to LA for the huge America’s Block Party Benefit Show at the LA Coliseum on the 4th with Maren Morris, Chris Stapleton, Smashing Pumpkins, Chaka Khan, Anthony Ramos and host Queen Latifah. Tickets are a steal at just $17.76 on Ticketmaster! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Tim Conway Jr. Show Hour 4 (7.1) Everyone’s catching serious patriotic FIFA fever! Local bars are serving up special tournament drinks while parents bring the kids to the watering holes so they don’t miss the action. Rosie Rios, Chair of America250 and former US Treasurer joins Timmy! She’s helping lead the nation’s 250th birthday celebrations and will be in LA for the massive America’s Block Party Benefit Show at the LA Coliseum on the 4th with Maren Morris, Chris Stapleton, Smashing Pumpkins, Chaka Khan, Anthony Ramos and host Queen Latifah. Tickets are a steal at just $17.76 on Ticketmaster. Aaron Klein, Chief Product Officer of Petco Love, also stops by to highlight their amazing nonprofit using free AI tech that’s already reunited over 250,000 lost pets with their families — a happy reunion every four minutes! And in other news, sad to report that Village People’s iconic “policeman” Victor Willis, co-writer of “Y.M.C.A.” and “Macho Man,” has passed at 74. Meanwhile, two daredevils scaled nearly 1,500 feet up the Empire State Building in masks and black for a very public marriage proposal — she said yes to bucketloads of attention!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Work of Wrestling host Tim Kail explains how and why Sami Zayn's Championship victory has so thoroughly inspired and uplifted him. He waxes philosophic on the signficance of being alive at this particular point in history, and how it's incumbent upon us to cherish being alive here and now. Listen to The Smashing Pumpkins 1979. Visit Mith Gifs Substack: https://mithgifs.substack.com Visit WOW's Substack: https://workofwrestling.substack.com Get a tee shirt: https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/workofwrestling Thanks for listening!
Rock Talk Studio: Reviewing Rock 'n' Roll Books and Documentaries
Looking for your next great rock n' roll read? In this episode I rank the Top 5 best rock books of 2026 so far. From the definitive history of The Clash and The Rolling Stones to a fresh look at the grunge movement and the glory days of AOR radio, we're breaking down the books that every rock fan needs on their shelf.Support the showemail Big Rick at:info@rocktalkstudio.com
Another Summer Day is an alternative rock music podcast. Most music is from the 1990s and early 2000s. Please check this out and enjoy. Artist names and song titles are in the order they were played... LINKIN PARK-SOMEWHERE (2003), PARAMORE-DECODE (2008), MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE-I DON'T LOVE YOU (2006), SIMPLE PLAN-WELCOME TO MY LIFE (2004), T.A.T.U.-ALL THE THINGS SHE SAID (2002), JOAN OSBORNE-ONE OF US (1995), NIRVANA-YOU KNOW YOU'RE RIGHT (2002), RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS-DANI CALIFORNIA (2006), GREEN DAY-WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS (2004), THE RASMUS-IN THE SHADOWS (2003), NIRVANA-RAPE ME (1993), NIRVANA-SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT (1991), BON JOVI-IT'S MY LIFE (2000), THE STROKES-YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (2005), R.E.M.-LOSING MY RELIGION (2007), THE SMASHING PUMPKINS-1979 (1995), FOSTER THE PEOPLE-PUMPED UP KICKS (2010), BLUR-SONG 2 (1997), LINKIN PARK-BLEED IT OUT (2007), THE STROKES-JUICEBOX (2005), BLINK 182-WHAT'S MY AGE AGAIN (1999), BLONDIE-MARIA (1999), THE CURE-BOY'S DON'T CRY (1979), GREEN DAY-BASKET CASE (1994), GREEN DAY-AMERICAN IDIOT (2004), BLINK 182-FIRST DATE (2001), MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE-WELCOME TO MY BLACK PARADE (2006), LINKIN PARK-GIVEN UP (2007). End. Thanks for listening to Ken Steele Music.
In 1993, the Smashing Pumpkins released Siamese Dream—an album packed with massive guitar tones, vulnerable lyrics, and some of alternative rock's most enduring songs. This week we revisit the 1993 classic and discuss what makes tracks like “Cherub Rock,” “Today,” “Disarm,” and “Mayonaise” continue to resonate decades later. We also complete our rankings of the 90s albums we've been discussing all month.Then it's time for another draft as we select the most unique voices in rock history. From instantly recognizable frontmen to singers whose sound could never be mistaken for anyone else, we debate the artists whose voices became their signature. Whether it's raw power, unusual tone, emotional delivery, or pure originality, every pick had to pass one test: you'd know who it is within seconds.Support our show and join our Patreon!If you enjoy the show, please rate and review us on the iTunes/Apple Podcasts app or wherever you listen. Or better yet, tell a friend to listen!Follow us on your preferred social media:TwitterFacebookInstagram
Here's your chance to see Buddy Guy! Tame Impala is covering Smashing Pumpkins on a new tribute album. Jelly Roll called out a fan at one of his shows, and it was a little confusing. Sesame Street is releasing a parody album of re-worked pop songs. Would the founding fathers be proud of America at its 250th birthday? There were two massive earthquakes in Venezuela. A crazy Waffle House accident, and a quick reminder about the definition of a store. The overhead bin conversation rears its ugly head again. Plus, How Old Is That Guy??
Hour 1: Bob's Movie Club Presents: Get Shorty (1995). John Travolta is Chili Palmer, a chill loan shark who gets a chance to chase his Hollywood dreams. Between Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Gene Wilder, and Rene Russo, this was a fun watch! Soccer continues, and the Aussies are in town. Sarah's giving them a warm welcome. Vinnie is telling us the craziest foods you can get at the World Cup. These “health trends” are straight up scary. Hour 2: CMA Fest sounds like it was a blast. The 5th season of ‘The Bear' is here. Permits were filed for street closures around Madison Square Garden from July 2-4. For Taylor Swift's wedding? Explain THAT, Bob! It turns out Taylor Swift won't be the first person married at The Garden. A 77-year old man bought too many blue pills. Screen time has its positives and is even a way parents and kids bond. Plus, parents are addicted to their screens too. Hour 3: ABC is reportedly considering airing Taylor Frankie Paul's season of The Bachelorette. The moment you've been waiting for: The Amputation Story. Joe Manganiello, Sofia Vergara's ex-husband and the werewolf from Tru Blood, wrote a memoir with a confusing hook. Vinnie's telling us about the best road trip destinations. DO NOT use a massage gun in these places. Dairy Queen and Krispy Kreme are celebrating America's birthday. Is saving your spot at the pool with a towel wrong? Let's ask Matty. Hour 4: Here's your chance to see Buddy Guy! Tame Impala is covering Smashing Pumpkins on a new tribute album. Jelly Roll called out a fan at one of his shows, and it was a little confusing. Sesame Street is releasing a parody album of re-worked pop songs. Would the founding fathers be proud of America at its 250th birthday? There were two massive earthquakes in Venezuela. A crazy Waffle House accident, and a quick reminder about the definition of a store. The overhead bin conversation rears its ugly head again. Plus, How Old Is That Guy??
WGN Radio’s Dave Plier talks with Chicago’s own Billy Corgan about an exciting year ahead for The Smashing Pumpkins, including the band’s summer and fall tour, kicking things off with the America 250 celebration in Los Angeles, headlining Lollapalooza, and returning home for a major show at Chicago’s United Center this October. Billy also discusses […]
Billy Corgan joins Scott Lipps on SPIN Magazine's Lipps Service for a deep chronological conversation covering his upbringing in Chicago, discovering guitar, the formation of the Smashing Pumpkins, Gish, Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Courtney Love, Melissa Auf der Maur, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Lollapalooza, modern rock, Yungblud, SOMBR, and much more. Billy also shares his favorite Smashing Pumpkins songs, reflects on the competitive nature of the grunge era, discusses hearing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" for the first time, and explains the stories behind classics including "1979," "Tonight, Tonight," and "Bullet With Butterfly Wings." Hosted by Scott Lipps. Subscribe for more interviews with the biggest names in music. #BillyCorgan #SmashingPumpkins #LippsService #SPINMagazine #Nirvana #KurtCobain #CourtneyLove #PearlJam #OzzyOsbourne #BlackSabbath #podcast #alternative 00:53 — Billy Corgan on KISS 03:10 — Why Rush Was So Important 07:14 — Dealing With Critics 09:30 — Critics, Success & The Beach Boys 11:55 — His Podcast, Ratt & Mötley Crüe's Importance 14:29 — Lollapalooza, Hole & The Alternative Explosion 16:12 — Growing Up in Chicago 17:10 — "It Wasn't Uncommon..." (Early Chicago Stories) 18:25 — His Father & Learning Guitar 22:23 — The Marked, Guitar Shredding & Yngwie Malmsteen 24:35 — Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne & Heavy Metal Legacy 30:13 — Why Cheap Trick Matters 35:40 — The First Smashing Pumpkins Gig & Jimmy Chamberlin 40:47 — Gish & Finding His Voice 46:04 — Steve Albini 48:20 — Siamese Dream, Darkness & Creative Pressure 53:36 — The Competitive Nature of Nirvana & Pearl Jam 54:34 — The Story Behind "Today" 56:29 — Hearing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" For The First Time 58:06 — Kurt Cobain 1:03:11 — Mellon Collie and the Grunge Movement 1:05:14 — The Story Behind "1979" 1:07:49 — "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" 1:11:31 — "Tonight, Tonight" 1:12:36 — The Death of Zero 1:16:37 — Melissa Auf der Maur 1:18:09 — Courtney Love, Celebrity Skin & The Press 1:26:12 — SOMBR, Yungblud & Modern Rock 1:32:58 — Billy Corgan's Favorite Smashing Pumpkins Songs 1:35:00 — Top 5 Smashing Pumpkins Songs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rock News: Evanescence would prefer not to be called 'goth', Rod Stewart is called out after cancelling a show 40 minutes before it was supposed to start, and more in this week's Rock News...
Rock News: Evanescence would prefer not to be called 'goth', Rod Stewart is called out after cancelling a show 40 minutes before it was supposed to start, and more in this week's Rock News...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Billy Corgan looks back on the early days of The Smashing Pumpkins and how one of the most influential alternative rock bands of all time came together. Watch the full interview on SPIN Magazine's Lipps Service with Scott Lipps. #BillyCorgan #SmashingPumpkins #AlternativeRock #LippsService #ScottLipps #SPINMagazine #RockMusic #90sRock #MusicHistory #rocklegends #BillyCorgan #SmashingPumpkins #LippsService #ScottLipps #SPINMagazine #AlternativeRock #RockMusic #90sRock #MusicPodcast #RockLegend Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the final episode of Season Six, Aaron tells a story in three parts. First, he remembers a boy from elementary school who seemed effortlessly ahead of the curve. The kind of kid who wore the right shoes before anyone knew they were cool, introduced him to Smashing Pumpkins, and left an impression that somehow lasted for decades. Then, Aaron tells another story of a young man searching for purpose who walked into a Byzantine Catholic church in Cleveland and eventually found himself pulled toward a monastic life at the Abbey of Gethsemani. The question is: how are these two stories connected? What follows is a reflection on memory, vocation, friendship, and the mystery of who we are in the eyes of others, who we become, and who we may have been called to be all along. *This episodes includes an adaptation and retelling of Brother Joseph's true story. You can read his original written story HERE. *Learn more about the Abbey of Gethsemani at monks.org
Send us Fan MailWelcome to Guess the Year! This is an interactive, competitive podcast series where you will be able to play along and compete against your fellow listeners. Here is how the scoring works:10 points: Get the year dead on!7 points: 1-2 years off4 points: 3-5 years off1 point: 6-10 years offGuesses can be emailed to drandrewmay@gmail.com or texted using the link at the top of the show notes (please leave your name).I will read your scores out before the next episode, along with the scores of your fellow listeners! Please email your guesses to Andrew no later than 12pm EST on the day the next episode posts if you want them read out on the episode (e.g., if an episode releases on Monday, then I need your guesses by 12pm EST on Wednesday; if an episode releases on Friday, then I need your guesses by 12 pm EST on Monday). Note: If you don't get your scores in on time, they will still be added to the overall scores I am keeping. So they will count for the final scores - in other words, you can catch up if you get behind, you just won't have your scores read out on the released episode. All I need is your guesses (e.g., Song 1 - 19xx, Song 2 - 20xx, Song 3 - 19xx, etc.). Please be honest with your guesses! Best of luck!!.....The answers to today's ten songs can be found below. If you are playing along, don't scroll down until you have made your guesses. .....Have you made your guesses yet? If so, you can scroll down and look at the answers......Okay, answers coming. Don't peek if you haven't made your guesses yet!.....Intro song: Dream Sweet in Sea Major by Miracle Musical (2012)Song 1: 7 Years by Lukas Graham (2015)Song 2: Without You by Avicii (feat. Sandro Cavazza) (2017)Song 3: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins (1995)Song 4: What's Your Fantasy by Ludacris (1999)Song 5: Don't Speak by No Doubt (1995)Song 6: Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne (2002)Song 7: Burning Heart by Survivor (1985)Song 8: Ain't No Sunshine by Buddy Guy (feat. Tracy Chapman) (2005)Song 9: I Got You (I Feel Good) by James Brown (1965)Song 10: A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton (2002)
Summer officially arrived the second a teenager accepted cash to shave off his broccoli haircut in somebody's garage like it was a shady underground stock trade. This episode of The Rizzuto Show starts with a parenting moment every adult secretly fears: your kid walks into the house saying, “Dad… I think I messed up.” Naturally, everyone assumes the car exploded or someone got arrested. Nope. Just a fresh buzzcut and instant regret.Apparently the new trend among teenage dudes is sacrificing their curls for gas money, construction jobs, or whatever weird social experiment Gen Z is running this week. The gang debates whether the broccoli boys are evolving, devolving, or accidentally forming a 1998 nu-metal tribute band. There's also concern over sunscreen, dating prospects, and whether moms are legally allowed to roast their sons immediately after a haircut disaster.Then things somehow get even more chaotic with the return of the “Three Song Challenge,” where listeners have exactly seconds to identify legendary bands based on three song titles. Sounds easy, right? Apparently not. Friday's contestants embarrassed the entire listening audience, so this episode becomes a redemption tour for humanity itself.The daily comedy show spirals through rounds featuring Pearl Jam, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Soundgarden, Blink-182, Black Sabbath, Stone Temple Pilots, Journey, Weezer, Rage Against The Machine, CCR, Smashing Pumpkins, Mötley Crüe, No Doubt, Iron Maiden, Incubus, ZZ Top, and Beastie Boys. Some callers absolutely dominate. Others sound like they've never heard music before despite living on Earth their entire lives.There are screaming kids in the background, accidental team-ups between callers, confusion, panic, and enough rock nostalgia to make your uncle punch drywall in excitement. It's basically what happens when a funny podcast combines classic rock radio, family dysfunction, and game show pressure into one beautiful trainwreck.The gang also teases discussions about dating costs, modern beauty standards, and whether the legendary “dad bod” was ever truly appreciated or if society just gaslit average men for several years. Tough questions get asked. Few answers arrive.If you love a comedy podcast loaded with sarcastic humor, music references, weird trends, parenting fails, St. Louis chaos, and daily nonsense that somehow feels therapeutic, this episode delivers all of it. This daily comedy show continues proving that absolutely nobody has things figured out — especially not the people hosting it.And honestly? If somebody offers you $50 to shave your head this summer… negotiate harder.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShowHear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Parents everywhere know there's a level of frustration where you stop talking… and start blasting Huey Lewis in the garage like your life depends on it. This episode starts with Rizz admitting one of his kids pushed him so far over the edge that he had to activate the emergency happy playlist — and honestly, that may be the most relatable thing ever said on a daily comedy show.The gang dives deep into the songs guaranteed to rescue your mood, including Bermuda by John Linnell, “Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher,” “Power of Love,” “Stayin' Alive,” Wilson Phillips, Grateful Dead deep cuts, and enough Motown to heal emotional damage from modern life. Somehow the conversation turns into Michael Jackson hiding under your bed, CPR training from The Office, and whether Poison's “Nothing But a Good Time” should legally qualify as antidepressants.Then things escalate exactly the way they always do around here.There's major concert news with the Smashing Pumpkins launching a massive anniversary tour for Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness, plus Sonic Temple highlights featuring Shinedown, Daughtry, and Lzzy Hale absolutely crushing live performances. The crew also debates legendary tours after a “greatest concerts of all time” list sparks chaos because apparently U2 and Garth Brooks got disrespected so hard that Moon nearly launched himself through a wall.Speaking of questionable life decisions, Moon opens up about tattoo regret and realizing some of his old ink now resembles “a Walmart quarter-machine mistake.” The gang breaks down famous rock stars with zero tattoos, including Lars Ulrich, Alice Cooper, Trent Reznor, and Dave Mustaine. Meanwhile, Moon's tattoos are slowly evolving into what the show describes as “touched-up church Jesus art.” Honestly, no notes.Celebrity nonsense also reaches elite levels in this episode. Tom Brady apparently debuted a new look that made listeners compare him to Patrick Bateman, an animatronic billionaire, and a rejected Zoolander villain. The crew debates whether Brady's “perfect guy” magic is finally wearing off after another bizarre fashion appearance. There's also fake celebrity dating rumors involving Pamela Anderson and Tom Cruise, SNL madness with Chad Smith impersonating Will Ferrell, Paul McCartney showing up with new music nobody expected, and Casey Musgraves performing breakup songs on top of a washing machine because country music symbolism has fully left Earth.As always, this daily comedy show somehow mixes music nerdery, parenting meltdowns, celebrity gossip, nostalgic chaos, weird news, and absolutely unnecessary side conversations into one giant sarcastic fever dream. It's basically group therapy for people who laugh at inappropriate moments and still think “Stayin' Alive” is a medically useful song.If you love comedy podcasts, funny celebrity gossip, weird stories, sarcastic humor, music debates, and total morning show chaos straight out of St. Louis, this episode has everything except emotional maturity.And yes… somebody absolutely ends the show talking about porno birthdays. Because professionalism is dead.This daily comedy show is proudly brought to you by the beautiful dysfunction known as The Rizzuto Show.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShowHear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.