Brutal Breakdown

By Melissa Podliska

Focusing mainly on local southeast Iowa musicians, Cole, Mel, and Wenk take a look at the area’s past and present music scene by chatting with the people involved.... more

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How many episodes does Brutal Breakdown have?

The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.

Brutal Breakdown episodes:

April 30, 2020 Season 1 Songs: Episodes 6 & 7
Each episode features clips of songs made by the musicians we interview. These are the songs featured in Episodes 4 & 5.
Episode 6 - Chucko Roberts
Minstrel Cycle - Tale of the Cycle
Minstrel Cycle - Countdown to Spiff
Minstrel Cycle - Cockmaster
Minstrel Cycle - Confidence
Minstrel Cycle - Bitter
Minstrel Cycle - Blank Skeme
Episode 7 - Jeff Alexander
20 Ft. Forehead - We R The Damaged
20 Ft. Forehead - Everything I Love (Is Tryin to Kill Me)
20 Ft. Forehead - Crown N Glory
All Guts No Glory - Million Miles
All Guts No Glory - Brendan Frasier
All Guts No Glory - Crack
T.O. Militia - All Up In Ya Flonase
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53min
April 30, 2020 Season 1 Songs: Episodes 4-5
Each episode features clips of songs made by the musicians we interview. These are the songs featured in Episodes 4 & 5.

Episode 4 - Wes VanAntwerp
Wes & his Grandma - Farther Along
All After - Wasting Time
North to the Future - Crazy Dave
North the the Future - Sing to Me
She Swings, She Sways - Sing to Me
She Swings, She Sways - Rabid Abigail
North to the Future - A Pretty Girl Never Lights Her Own Cigarette
Joretta Oaks - California
North to the Future - As Good As It Gets
Joretta Oaks - Save Face
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Episode 5 - Nick & Jacob
Grand Old Lady - Pork n Beans
Meet the Squidables - Cheebagangsta
Borf Beast - Green Front
Grand Old Lady - On Black Leather Wings He Flies, In the Dead of Night, Reaping Souls of all Who Defy. Beware ye the Wrath of the Dragon
Mummifier - Satan's Fucken Hoof
Grand Old Lady - No Dinosaur Ever Did What Jesus Christ Did
Meet the Squidables - The Tale of Aarik and Lance
Jacob Mathis - Lovebomb
Borf Beast - Cancer
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1h 8min
April 12, 2020 Season 1 Songs: Episodes 1-3
Each episode features clips of songs made by the musicians we interview. These are the songs features in episodes 1-3.
Episode 1 - Meet Cole & Mel
High 5 Don't Die - Song 2

Dating Back to the 9th Bitch - Washing Machine Song

Jack Rabbit Slims - Inner You

Jack Rabbit Slims - No Jimmy no, napalm is not a toy
High 5 Don't Die - Woo!

T.O. Militia - Song 13 (unsure of title)

T.O. Militia - Fat Beets on your Wall
Episode 2 - no songs!
Episode 3 - Jason Bolinger
Rusty Metal Primer - Let Go

Dead Things Mikey - Kathy Bates

Eggnogs - Hot Caulk

The Slats - Erase U

I Can't Remember Their Name - Theme Song

Zach's Amazing Head Wound - 2:30

She Swings, She Sways - Flown the Coop

She Swings, She Sways - Even So

Perfect for Ham - Gum

The War I Survived - We Burn

The War I Survived - Who Are You

PBJs - Dreaming of Summer

X-Ray Mary - Devil in Boots

x-Ray Mary - Wanda & The Creature
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1h 10min
March 27, 2020 Elgn Arney
Elgn sat down with us on to record on his birthday, March 16, 2020. He currently plays guitar with several local acts such as X-Ray Mary, Joretta Oaks, Those Guys? and does some session work with Captain Three Leg. He takes us through his past and explains how music and worldly experiences shaped him.
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2h 28min
March 18, 2020 Dale & Allan
Dale Robinson and Allan Kempf make up 3/5 of local metal band, Casket Earth. They both have a love for shreddin’ and took the time to sit with us to talk about influences, writing songs together by texting each other audio clips of mouth guitar riffs, wrestling intro songs, and man crushes.
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2h 4min
March 09, 2020 Dakota Cairns
Dakota started booking shows and festivals in Centerville when he was 14 and has been a drummer and guitarist in several area bands since. He’s currently living in Iowa City but is still shreddin’ and singing his heart out in local pop punk group, TV Cop. Join us as he tells us about playing pancake day circuits in a metal band disguised as a jazz band, deep Nascar trivia, and how being a “C student” who had his mind blown by local band, Beno, helped shaped him into the musical ninja that he is.
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1h 42min
March 02, 2020 Jeff Alexander
Jeff Alexander, currently the frontman for area band All Guts No Glory, sits down to talk about a truck smashing into his office, his time spent in fake bands (yes, plural), hearing the voice of jesus, getting stabbed by mystery items, playing festivals, influences, and all sorts of stuff that is MOSTLY music related. Music in this episode from 20 Foot Forehead, T.O. Militia, and All Guts No Glory.
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2h 1min
February 24, 2020 Chucko
Chucko Roberts was one of two front men for the Ottumwa area band Minstrel Cycle, who played energetic drunk punk for a couple of fast years starting in 2002. Chucko tells us about his influences, stories from gigs, unsolved mysteries fueling alien abduction fears, fatherhood, and many more tales.
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1h 57min
February 17, 2020 Nick & Jacob
Nick Leedom and Jacob Mathis have been making music together in the Ottumwa area for over a decade. Their style and influences are wide ranging and it shows in their two ongoing projects, Grand Old Lady & Meet The Squidables. These guys aren’t afraid to have fun or record whatever fake commercial jingle, crazy character, or doom metal riff that comes to them.
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1h 52min
February 10, 2020 Wes VanAntwerp
Wes VanAntwerp has been playing guitar in the Ottumwa area and beyond for the past couple of decades. Sometimes he'll sneak behind a drum kit too! He has dipped his toes in many genres including grunge, rapcore, punk, and Americana. Wes opened up to us about how his religious upbringing and Nirvana greatly influenced him and touched on the struggles of smuggling Cobain-created paraphernalia into his parents home. He tells a couple of awesome tour stories, one of which involves saving a horse from certain death. We also touch on a lot of local musicians talents and how they ended up shaping him as a musician. His most recent projects include Joretta Oaks and recording several of his friends' original songs at his home.
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1h 51min

FAQs about Brutal Breakdown:

How many episodes does Brutal Breakdown have?

The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.