It's the "meeting the mentor" part of the hero's journey in Kyle and Alan's life. Metalcore, the best? the worst? the mediocre? yes! Breakdowns are dumb. Crowd killing is wack. It's a musical genera equivalent of the Incel subreddit and we are talking about it!

Surprise! It's the angsty white bois from the burbs getting ready to break stuff. It's a Nu metal playlist review. Kyle and Alan were young enough to be all about that life in the late 90's and decided to dive in and find out what it was that they loved about the genera.

Like a David Foster Wallace Novel. Or maybe just that bio pic with Marshall and Lex Luther driving around trying to sell books maybe? They eat junk food and pontificate about what makes up the quintessential American experience. Much like the authors very specific writing style, many songwriters have identifiable qualities to their work. Mister "Red House Painter" himself, with his voice as smooth as silk and his songwriting like a midwest lullaby drenched in Americana fits the bill. Kyle and Alan find out what makes Sun Kil Moon one of the best bands of all time. so SHUT UP! and listen up! 

All these feelings! What are Alan and Kyle to do with all the things they feel? When your teenage romance ends and the world is falling apart around you what is one to do? Run to the arms of their father, or father analogue (Mike Kinsella). Maybe not the Founding Father of emo, but the Abe Lincoln for sure. He's not a household name, but his music has shaped the sound and defined the content since the ancient times of the 1990's. Let's talk about American Football.

NIN? Ever since Kyle and Alan saw Brie Larson wearing that shirt in Captain Marvel they have been hard at working finding out what the hell a "Nine Inch Nails" is. Turns out the famous film composer Trent Reznor, has a side project, and while it never really took off in the main stream in any meaningful way, Kyle and Alan were able to track down an actient piece of industrial-rock history and listen to it. Get out your acid wash jeans and put your terminator shades on and let's talk about NIN. We're Back!    

what's this? a perfect album? Could it be? find out, in the weeks episode. We talk about Control by Pedro The Lion. We also start what will be our laundry list of complaints against the Christian Church. It's super fun and not at all divisive.
 

James Taylor's son went in a different direction with the music they created. We talk about it. It's season 2 and we are off to a sleepy start. Kyle's a dad. Alan's perpetually... Alan. Why do the 90's nu metal? I don't know. It was a a time where the biggest rock band wore masks and only referred to each other as numbers, and none of it was ironic. Like, not even a little bit. I cant even remember the last time I didn't hide my venerability and art under a mass of irony the size of Jaba The Hut. Anyways. let's talk Slipknot.  

see ya later 2018. This is our finale episode of the year and we finish not with an album review, but a review of our favorite things of 2018. It's gonna be hard to do since we are surely descending deeper into the inferno of our hellish reality. Let's forget all that and talk about movies and shit instead. K. Bye.  

OMG! when was the 80's? Why was Cusack the guy sad boys wanted to be? and why did we think women would want a sad boy? It's a trope that has continued up to this day. One of our favorite movies is Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and the hero of that movie basically acts like the villain of any other film, but for what ever reason Max Bemis named his band after the movie that told a bunch of nerds they should be mean to girls and trash them in songs so that they can fuck more in the future. We review Say Anything's Self titled album this week and even though we love this band and this album and emo music, we feel it's worth pointing out that most of these guys are jerks and there lyrics are just selfish and sad. WE FUCKING LOVE THIS ALBUM THOUGH!!!!!!

We've got another confession to make! Oh how Ever I Long to Learn To Fly. The Shape of your face and The Color of your hair are the Best parts Of You. We're not The Pretender, you're the real deal. It's time to see the family and give thanks. Kyle and Alan are here to celebrate and give thanks for all that is the Foo Fighters album, The Color and The Shape.