This week on Build-a-Band, a new social media video fad is born! Do you have what it takes to master the Cinnamon Ice Bucket Chopin Challenge*? Also in this episode, Chris announces her 2020 presidential run. She’s got the brains, the business savvy, access to the elusive Dino Bone Xylophone, and, if you believe conspiracy […]

Have you ever wondered why they REALLY stamp your hand at concerts? Have you ever thought maybe, just maybe, it was part of a secret blood pact that could change the course of your life forever and make YOU the new Billie Joe Armstrong? No other podcast is brave enough to ask these questions, and […]

Welcome to our Valentines Day sleepover special! Get ready to talk crushes, conspiracy theories, and capitalist jokes with Nick Goodrich, guitarist in Lindby and Raz-ul (son of Daz-ul) in Bombarded, a musical D&D podcast adventure. As our latest consultant, Goodrich helps us break love songs down to their most primitive state, manage aspiring sellouts, and develop […]

Wake up and smell the ‘nola! Welcome to Jimmy Buffett’s all new breakfast joint, with honey fresh from the bees, and fantastical fruits you’ve never even heard of. In this episode of Build-a-Band, we get back into the space-themed restaurant band scene, adapt Gremlins into a musical starring Eric Clapton, and make some very bad bass […]

Welcome aboard the good ship Build-a-Band! I hope you brought plenty of Dramamine for the voyage, because we’re at the mercy of the elements, and the music industry waters are choppier than ever. This week’s episode is guaranteed to make you vom, featuring youth ministry through noise music, a puzzling new medium that’s somehow even […]

We knew we couldn’t get away with it forever, and now it’s finally time to pay our debt to  musical society. After speaking the names of Marcus Mumford and his inscrutable Sons landed Chris in Twitter jail, we used her last phone call to bring you a new episode of Build-a-Band. This week, predictive text […]

And now for something completely different! While we take a week off to adjust our recording schedule, here’s a solo project in which Chris documents the soundtrack to her post-holiday drive back to school. Along the way, find out why we talk about Sufjan Stevens so much, how Muse inspires her to step outside her […]

New Year, New Build-A-Band! In this episode, we get down to administrative business, namely squaring up with the rowdy union of underpaid animal handlers and accountants we created in 2017. Even while we negotiate better compensation and benefits for our employees, we find the time to predict the hottest celebrity couple of 2018, use logo […]

He puts in work, and it’s all for the kids. Am I talking about Santa Claus, or DMX? Your honor, may it please the court, I’d like to leave the ladies, gentlemen, and nonbinary individuals of the jury with a final thought: have you ever seen Santa Claus and DMX in the same room? The […]

Necessity is the mother of invention, and on this episode of Build-a-Band, we NEED coffee DESPERATELY, leading us to invent some creative solutions. Like a new way to listen to music that also caffeinates you. It’s meant for your ears, but we can’t enforce where you put it. Oh, or a nostalgic coffee-themed punk band […]