Groupies

We've talked about doing it, and now it's finally here. It's the Kanye episode. The episode where the group talks about Ye's career from start to present.

The masterpiece debut in Kanye West's vocal career is our topic this week on Groupies. The College Dropout is Emir's classic this week and is often considered a general classic in music. We get into the context of the album, the songs, the lyrical content, and so much more. Tune in!

In the A-Side episode this week, we discussed a classic debut album from 2011, Foster the People's Torches. That led us to think about other artists that started off their careers with stellar first albums, and slowly drifted off later in their career. How do you maintain success after smashing records with debut albums?

A new A-Side for a new week! This time, Tom brings in the personal classic, Foster the People's Torches. Packed with singles "Pumped Up Kicks", "Houdini", and "Helena Beat", the indie-electronic-mashup-combo was a hit back in 2011 that led to a new a growth of indie and pop music combining together.

In this B-Side of groupies, we dig into how musicians evolve their sound. After we produced our A-Side on Weezer's Blue Album, we started to take a look at the way they've changed their sound over the years. With that, we dug into how exactly artists change things up (for the worse or the better).

In the brand new format switchup of our A-Sides and B-sides, we dig into our first classic album on the podcast.

That album? None other than the 1994 debut for nerd/pop/punk rock legends, Weezer. The Blue Album, rated as 10/10 on Pitchfork and other music reviewers, is a legendary 10 track album debuted by Rivers Cuomo and his group of rockers. We dig into what makes the album so good, talk about the history of the album, and tons more.

In this episode, we ask the penultimate question, is rock dead? With recent releases from Greta Van Fleet, 21 Pilots, and The 1975, the group gets into the state of rock music as it stands in 2018.

Paul McCartney just released his 17th solo studio album. That's a lot of music. This spurred a question that we ended up talking about on this B-Side episode of Groupies: when should musicians stop making music? Should they ever stop?

In this episode of Groupies, we dive into the latest full studio album from Twenty One Pilots, Trench. Special guest Austin from the Pinned Podcast joins Grant and Hannah to get into their history with TOP and their thoughts on their latest works.

Welcome back to Groupies! Grant, Emir, Tom, and Hannah are BACK to give you our thoughts on the latest happenings in music.

On our first B-Side, we get into live music. We talk about our best live experiences, our worst, and the plain weird things that happen in live settings. We also give you some of our tried and true tips for concerts and festivals!

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