LIVE from the 2016 NAMM show in Anaheim, CA.

Exciting new products and awkward industry shows.

RAMS NAMM Metal Metal Jam Jam feat. Michael Angelo Batio

Yngwie Malmsteen @ The Observatory

Our Pantera tribute band, Cowboys in Hell, that only plays "Power Metal" and earlier Pantera. (see, they're still IN hell, they haven't left yet to take over your town)

w/Special guest Rich's brother Bob.

R.I.P. David Bowie

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Assessing Music Based on Variable Criteria

Dragonforce still sucks

Why Everyone Loves Adele

King Diamond / Exodus show at the BestBuyNokiaPlaystation Theater.

Star Wars / John Williams

Braindance @ Santos Party House

Social media drama.

Weird public attitudes about music criticism.

No Music Everyone Likes and How to Ruin Parties

Periphery, Animals as Leaders, Tesseract, Djent or Djent adjacent.

New Foo Fighters EP

Acknowledging Personal Nostalgia Bias

We get it, you like The Beatles and/or Led Zeppelin.

Scott Storch is a producer (of beats) who was a pretty big deal in the early to mid '00s. His biggest hit was Fat Joe's "Lean Back" in '06. Then he decided to work with Brooke Hogan and Paris Hilton and do all of the cocaine. Its hard to say whether these were directly connected, but we'll speculate wildly about it for a solid hour before we simply don't want to hear the same Korg Triton presets anymore.

Rich went to another awful New Music Concert. This leads to a discussion of what "New Music" is and why when its bad when people refuse to admit it sounds bad.

Why majoring in Music Theory is dumb. What Music Theory actually IS if you're not painfully familiar already.

Rich and Matt discuss some of their more avant garde compositions from music school. Including "I Throw Rocks at You" and "You Win (Money)"

PLUS: The SECRET TRICK to escaping a Nu Music Concert or Performance Art piece that you are not enjoying.

You read it correctly. At the risk of exposing more people to it than it deserves, we present: Tha Gatherin' - A Rap Group Exclusively based on Magic: The Gathering, the Collectible Card Game from the 90s, and unfortunately, today.

We explore theories as to why King Diamond sold out 3 nights in NYC, one of which we will be "covering".

Braindance is at Santos Party House, Saturday 11/21, and we will be there as well. Also Sebastian (lead singer of Braindance) accepts my friend request LIVE on the podcast!

We explore (unpleasantly) the other projects from the producer of Tha Gatherin, Spruke. This results in another tangent about YouTubers and finally why the movie/show Catfish are so terrible. Whatever, its a podcast, we can talk about stuff.

We saw Fates Warning with Next to None and Imminent Sonic Destruction, as well as SymphonyX (now with ACTUAL masks), Overkill with special opener Sanctuary. Warrel Dane INSISTs you start a pit.

Then we talk about our new country song "Drink to Forget" as well as my Yacht Rock Opera based on SEA ORG, the Scientology cult-yacht.

And a shoutout to NYC band Shinobi Ninja.

We watched CNBC's "Pitbull: Fame and Fortune" and learned the Music Business is 90% Business, 10% Talent, and 30% Beverage ads.

We actually gained a surprising amount of respect for Pitbull's business acumen, though not necessarily any for his music. We didn't lose any respect for his music, 'cause, well, we didn't have much to begin with. But when it comes to business! Can't Stop - Won't stop - Never will - ... Don't stop the party. Dale!

Matt and Jamie discuss the origins of the style and most well known Djent bands (and/or bands related in any way to Djent). Meshuggah, Periphery, Animals as Leaders, Monuments, Tesseract, etc. 

Do you know way more about Djent than us? Please feel free to tell us how wrong we are: [email protected]