Holy Crap Records Podcast

Join us under the covers as John plans his Duran Duran knuckle tattoo and talks about why men like to get naked and take art photographs of themselves. Rob Miller of Vacant Stare records reveals the next big thing in music: voice memos. Also, is Post Rock the same thing as yoga music? We find out. And we have excellent music:

• Avenade with Indulge Yourself
• Ugly with Redemption, On the Road to Damascus (Acoustic version)
• Blues Lawyer with Lost in Germany
• Hot Work with Honey
• Christine Hoberg with All that Hate (Dannecdote remix)
• Woy with View from Mars

Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song, thank you to Rob Miller of Vacant Stare Records for the excellent interview, and thank you to The Asheville Rock Collective, for existing. (Hey!!!! Please take a second to like us on Facebook and friend us or whatever on Twitter.)

John reminisces about his days of being pretty, and also reveals some latent jealousy about men who can sew. Jenna and Ian Duvall of Sang Sarah talk about the creepy mannequin in their basement. Cinnamon’s EDM career takes a turn for the worse. We also have excellent music:

• Bronson Wisconsin with Goodbye Ventura
• The Styrofoam Turtles with Sunshine (album release on 10/31)
• Sang Sarah with Lantern
• SixToes with Nobody Inn
• The Ugly (the defunct one, from Temecula, CA) with Picasso
• Vienna Ditto with Dreamed Me a Riot

Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song, thank you to Jenna Duvall and Ian Duvall of Sang Sarah for the excellent interview, and thank you to The Asheville Rock Collective, for existing.

The race to sell out heats up as John thinks about investing in a white leather suit. Sean Bohrman of Burger Records talks about the unexpected virtues of cassette tapes. Cinnamon’s first beat hits the airwaves. And for the last half of the podcast, you will not look up from your shoes. (Hopefully you’re not driving.) We have excellent music:

• The Disposables with Revenge/Just Like Larry
• Half Stack with Dually
• CHAI with N.E.O.
• The Weakened Friends with Blue Again
• Helicon with The Bold Yin
• Un.Real with Blue Garden

Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song, thank you to Sean Bohrman of Burger Records for the excellent interview, and thank you to The Asheville Rock Collective, for existing.

In this episode John becomes a songwriter for the stars, gets peeping-tom’ed, uses the word ‘fuck’ a record-breaking nine times in one sentence, and is the most-fifth-excited he’s ever been in his life. Cinnamon makes a rock & roll mad-lib. Ed Madill of Wyla reveals that he chooses his band members based on how they smell. We also have excellent music:

• X-ray Vision with Beat Girl
• The Cannonball Jars with Still Time (Ben’s Demo)
• Wyla with Elevator Went
• White Denim with Magazin
• Milk Dick with Renaissance Faire
• Jenny Don’t and the Spurs with Rattlesnakes and Dogs

Thank you to our sponsor, El Rancho Morbido. Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song, thank you to Ed Madill of Wyla for the excellent interview, and thank you to The Asheville Rock Collective, for existing.

What a bag of dix looks like. Cinnamon’s list of lucky things. Theremin, as imported from Waconda. John exposes both anarchists and satanists as being “kind people.” Julie Shuchard of Tricycle Records offers a bunch of good advice that you should probably write down and hang on the fridge. We also have excellent music:

• Her Pilots with All I Can Ask
• Sandy’s with I and I
• Andrew St James with I’m Ready
• Gymshorts with Burrito
• Sleepy Poetry with Sorry I Threw Up
• Hard Rocket with Dash Dip Rock

Let’s talk about feelings! We discuss ways in which artists are crazy, and then explore Cinnamon’s catalog of very young obscure rockers, and then we listen to doom rock for a long time. Eventually we figure out what grad students are for, and discuss the national feeling of bobsledding. David Lee Macrae of Aesoterra reveals how psychedelic metal can heal you. We also have excellent music:

• Monkey Biscuit with I Just Wanna Lern
• Fisher with Amber Brown
• Forming the Void with Arrival
• Aesoterra with Smoke
• The Restoration with Constance
• The Launderettes with Marks on My Map

For our 20th episode we import Berliners Jim Kennedy and Bettina Morgenstern Kennedy to define ageism, hipness, upskirting, a bunch of German words, ethical giving, Picasso, David Lee Roth, and Hills Hoists. Pelvic Thrust has a reunion concert. Thomas Eugene and Meg An of Kitty Tsunami talk about their musical evolution from Infinite Boner to now. We also have excellent music:

• Dollar Signs with Tears/Beers/Fears
• Tonfabrik with Willst du was werden
• Kitty Tsunami with Tan Lines
• Gaffa Tape Sandy with Meat Head
• Arson Daily with Dos Muertos
• The Pretty Littles with Hills Hoist

Thank you to our public service announcement sponsor, The International Federation of the Red Cross (via Jim and Bettina). Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song, thank you to Thomas Eugene and Meg An of Kitty Tsunami for the excellent interview, and thank you to The Asheville Rock Collective, for existing.

Alabama new-age redneck Jeremy Mahon joins the Kennedys as we discuss naked ladies on album covers, football, passive income, and other forms of art. Meanwhile, John discovers what it really means to be a woman. We also have excellent music:

• Supervillain with Your Team is Hot
• Native Daughters with Sleep Lump
• The Power with Burger Bar Girl
• The Flora Ways with Fruit Punch
• Lala Lala with Destroyer
• Bundles with The State of Seattle

Thank you to our sponsor, Prihoda Fabric Duct. Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song, thank you to Elliott Kage Jones, Brandon Holcombe, and Lainey Harrison of The Power for the excellent interview, and thank you to The Asheville Rock Collective, for existing.

John is anxious about doing the Teletubbies wrong. Also, why pirates were the first punk rockers, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassaday, men in hairspray, the social significance of doing shots, and why girl rockers should wear huge sweatsuits on stage. We also have excellent music:

• The Girls with Our Generation
• Howlin Rain with In the Evening
• The Styrofoam Turtles with Liars
• Gringo Star with Watchdog
• Joey Sweeney and the Neon Grease with Baptized in Vibe
• Menace Beach with Suck it Out

Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song, and thank you to Kim Frye and Joshua Marc Levy of The Asheville Rock Collective for the excellent interview.

otally unplanned, HCR bumps into music legends, we go on a small town parade with Sang Sarah and our Seven Nation Army, and Cinnamon is finally revealed as the reincarnation of famed BBC DJ John Peel. As usual Johnny’s musical ability is called into question, but he redeems himself with a bitter-sweet conversation with Mercury Arcs (Jonathan Morgan Price and Sadie Cook-Fender) on the Grey Eagle Porch after their final show. We also have excellent music:

• Celebration with Drum and Phife
• Death Valley Girls with Disaster Is What We're After (Iggy Pop vid HERE)
• Blue Orchids with Incandescent Artillery
• Mercury Arcs with Said And Done
• Krektones with Megladon (Christmas thing HERE)
• Rich Girls with Blood Brother

Thank you to our sponsors, Mad Ones Podcast. Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song, thank you to Jonathan Morgan Price and Sadie Cook-Fender for the excellent interview, and thank you to The Asheville Rock Collective, for existing.