The legendary front man and singer of US Maple FINALLY comes on Protonic. Long Hair in Three Stages has an incredible reissue available for purchase. We talk about all that, as well as the Vietnam theater of Sang Phat Editor, Talker, Acre Thrills, and lots more. Shorty talk (including which 7 inch records are embarrassing or not), Skin Graft and Drag City. Being compared to Beefheart constantly while not being familiar, changing vocal styles completely and lots, lots more.

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The enigmatic David J is back with a poetry/spoken word record called the Mother Tree and an accompanying poetry book called Rhapsody, Threnody & Prayer. The origin of that record is discussed, as well as many other things. Writing the lyrics for Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus on labels, meeting David Bowie on the set of the Hunger. The stories behind No New Tale To Tell and So Alive. Working with and knowing Jane's Addiction, including being on THAT tour. Poetry writing vs Lyric writing and when you know something is truly special. David J Haskins is an iconic musician and this is a great talk!

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Fresh off of opening for the Jesus Lizard (no, really, the night before!), Jason comes on to talk all things The Mustache Stays. Their sixth (!) full length, that Conan thinks may be their best so far. Split/Collab with Rabbits, Split with Baby Gurl, the surprising legs of the Live from the Banana Stand release, Nick moving away AND coming back, and being in High on Fire for a bit. Jason's unique sense of fashion and style in a very uniform world as well as a Song by song breakdown of the new record.

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Nina Nastasia is back! And so is Jolie Laide, with a new lush and sprawling record Creatures. the second collaboration between Nina, Jeff MacLeod, Clinton St. John and Morgan Greenwood. This one is a great deep dive into working collaboratively after being a solo artist for many years. John Peel, Steve Albini, being present, and the complicated legacy of her former partner, manager and producer Kennan Gudjonsson. Jim White and actually rocking in a band.

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Bible Songs 2 is out! The iconic paragons of uncompromising heavy and intense noisy music are back. With a second album of the darkest most vengeful and just plain messed up stories from that one book. Still guitar, bass, vocals and drum machine. It has been over 5 years, and nearly 300 episodes since Justin was on last, consider this is a broader examination of the band itself, and the mindset behind the creation and expression of it, as well as an exploration into the diy ethics of Controlled Burn records. The art of making very intense music that happens in a place and the minimalism and maximalism of the music. Meticulous, yet dependable the Austerity Program is unique creative entity with a lot of thought behind almost everything to do.

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Rob is back! And his Star Trek: The Next Generation themed band the Beverly Crushers has a brand new record called Enterprise. It is a deep dive into writing prompt vs. concept record, the vitality and importance of ST: tNG as monoculture influence to hourly procedurals, mainstreaming of sci-fi, and a precursor to serialized prestige television. All this and the origin of The Chop (and the Chop collective). Of course we also talk about the delightful 1001 Album Complaints podcast as well, where Rob and compatriots speak about albums on Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die list weekly.

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The mighty men of Big'n! At last. End Comes Too Soon is the new record and it rips. A song by song with all of that, as well as brief forays unto Ground Rule Double, Discipline, Knife of Sin, Oxes split and so much more. It is a rare glimpse into the Chicago legends history, including the path of Fred Popolo from fan to bass player. What XMSN means, recording the new stuff... All that and so much more.

Mike Baggetta is back! His band mssv with Mike Watt and Stephen Hodges have a brand new record called On and On. It is very good and they road tested the song in a unique way, playing them out on the tour for the previous record. We hear all about that, as well as how Mike keeps track of demos and a rundown of the record song by song by Mr. Baggetta, the nature of creativity and collaboration, why Duane Denison is so awesome and so much more!

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As Above So Below is the latest God Bullies record, recorded in honor of departed God Bullies guitarist David Livingstone and Johnnie Johnston at Electrical Audio. The reformed God Bullies are playing shows everywhere. Mike Hard clears the air about who owes the name, the intent with the band being called what it is and gives an in-depth song by song breakdown of the new record.

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