Indieheads Podcast

This episode is exclusive to our Real Ones Patreon supporters. Listen to the full episode by supporting us for $5 a month or more on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IndieheadsPodcast

On this bonus episode of Best New Pod, Matty takes Rose & Jackie on a journey as he unveils the songs he thinks should have been named Best New Track by Pitchfork in the 2010s, one year at a time.

Songs discussed:

Thank you to all of our Patreon supporters for helping to keep this podcast alive, but especially our Real Ones supporters Bekah Etienne, Georgia Makowski, James Boss, Marcy Anime, Chance Holdup, Delaney Mothman, Josiah Duncan, Jenna L, Matt Cameron, Grant in the Back of my Dragula, John Hayes, Teague Chrystie, Charles, Nicole Rifkin, timsdiscountprices, Parker Gross, Andrew Grieve, Jay, Rena K, Ian, Matthew Taylor, I like books, Sarah Moore, Griff, Max Kapczynski, Mark Barry, cal50, Thanos snapped away half my donger, Chris Wade, midwest maxwell, Jake Wald, Grant, Keep Autism Weird, Rob Maiorino, Max, Dylan, Zach, Gavin 490freak and Maizefarms! To become a “Real One” consider supporting us for $5/month on Patreon where you’ll receive a bonus episode every month and be the first to receive a shoutout at the top of the pod.

Plus we want to thank the rest of our Patreon supporters including Cheddahz, Jason Dafnis, Kevin Cookman, Robin Parlow, Eric Chou, Josh, Holiday Kirk, Tyrone Chouhan, Jaden Amjadi, Alexis Davin, Cody Gagen, Barely March, Vinca LaFleur, Will Griffin, Corbin Cammidge, Gavlan, Matthew, Ethan Sapir, Kevin Bergauer, Matthew McPherson, randy donaldson, Eleanor Grams, Elizabeth King, willforthrill, gay_horse420, Lily, Jacqueline Codiga, Alec Feldherr, Talkstotrees, Molly O’Brien, AJ Moser, eraserheadBB, Matthew Herring, Jack Tiggleman, Sara L, Jeremy Bohl, Alex Grichmanoff and Derrick Pemberton!

You could have heard this episode 48 hours early by supporting us on Patreon for as low as $1/month, where you’ll also gain access to our Discord server & get yourself an Indieheads Podcast sticker: https://www.patreon.com/IndieheadsPodcast.

On this episode, Matty and Grant are joined by special guest Jay Papandreas as we were originally going to dive into the Cousin Mindset with a playlist by Grant, but then we just had too much fun talking about Dirt’s ‘Worst song ever’ article and discussing other writers’ picks that it just became the whole episode. We’ll get into the Cousin Mindset in full sometime next year, sorry!

Read ‘Worst song ever’ from Dirt: https://dirt.fyi/article/2024/08/worst-song-ever

Subscribe to Listen Up, Nerds: https://www.listenupnerds.com/

Thank you to all of our Patreon supporters for helping to keep this podcast alive, but especially our Real Ones supporters Bekah Etienne, Georgia Makowski, James Boss, Marcy Anime, Chance Holdup, Delaney Mothman, Josiah Duncan, Jenna L, Matt Cameron, Grant in the Back of my Dragula, John Hayes, Teague Chrystie, Charles, Nicole Rifkin, timsdiscountprices, Parker Gross, Andrew Grieve, Jay, Rena K, Ian, Matthew Taylor, I like books, Sarah Moore, Griff, Max Kapczynski, Mark Barry, cal50, Thanos snapped away half my donger, Chris Wade, midwest maxwell, Jake Wald, Grant, Keep Autism Weird, Rob Maiorino, Max, Dylan, Zach, Gavin 490freak and Maizefarms! To become a “Real One” consider supporting us for $5/month on Patreon where you’ll receive a bonus episode every month and be the first to receive a shoutout at the top of the pod.

Plus we want to thank the rest of our Patreon supporters including Cheddahz, Jason Dafnis, Kevin Cookman, Robin Parlow, Eric Chou, Josh, Holiday Kirk, Tyrone Chouhan, Jaden Amjadi, Alexis Davin, Cody Gagen, Barely March, Vinca LaFleur, Will Griffin, Corbin Cammidge, Gavlan, Matthew, Ethan Sapir, Kevin Bergauer, Matthew McPherson, randy donaldson, Eleanor Grams, Elizabeth King, willforthrill, gay_horse420, Lily, Jacqueline Codiga, Alec Feldherr, Talkstotrees, Molly O’Brien, AJ Moser, eraserheadBB, Matthew Herring, Jack Tiggleman, Sara L, Jeremy Bohl, Alex Grichmanoff and Derrick Pemberton!

You could have heard this episode 48 hours early by supporting us on Patreon for as low as $1/month, where you’ll also gain access to our Discord server & get yourself an Indieheads Podcast sticker: https://www.patreon.com/IndieheadsPodcast.

On this episode, Matty and Grant are joined by special guest Jay Papandreas as we were originally going to dive into the Cousin Mindset with a playlist by Grant, but then we just had too much fun talking about Dirt’s ‘Worst song ever’ article and discussing other writers’ picks that it just became the whole episode. We’ll get into the Cousin Mindset in full sometime next year, sorry!

Thank you to all of our Patreon supporters for helping to keep this podcast alive, but especially our Real Ones supporters Bekah Etienne, Georgia Makowski, James Boss, Marcy Anime, Chance Holdup, Delaney Mothman, Josiah Duncan, Jenna L, Matt Cameron, Grant in the Back of my Dragula, John Hayes, Teague Chrystie, Charles, Nicole Rifkin, timsdiscountprices, Parker Gross, Andrew Grieve, Jay, Rena K, Ian, Matthew Taylor, I like books, Sarah Moore, Griff, Max Kapczynski, Mark Barry, cal50, Thanos snapped away half my donger, Chris Wade, midwest maxwell, Jake Wald, Grant, Keep Autism Weird, Rob Maiorino, Max, Dylan, Zach, Gavin 490freak and Maizefarms! To become a “Real One” consider supporting us for $5/month on Patreon where you’ll receive a bonus episode every month and be the first to receive a shoutout at the top of the pod.

Plus we want to thank the rest of our Patreon supporters including Cheddahz, Jason Dafnis, Kevin Cookman, Robin Parlow, Eric Chou, Josh, Holiday Kirk, Tyrone Chouhan, Jaden Amjadi, Alexis Davin, Cody Gagen, Barely March, Vinca LaFleur, Will Griffin, Corbin Cammidge, Gavlan, Matthew, Ethan Sapir, Kevin Bergauer, Matthew McPherson, randy donaldson, Eleanor Grams, Elizabeth King, willforthrill, gay_horse420, Lily, Jacqueline Codiga, Alec Feldherr, Talkstotrees, Molly O’Brien, AJ Moser, eraserheadBB, Matthew Herring, Jack Tiggleman, Sara L, Jeremy Bohl, Alex Grichmanoff and Derrick Pemberton!

You could have heard this episode 48 hours early by supporting us on Patreon for as low as $1/month, where you’ll also gain access to our Discord server & get yourself an Indieheads Podcast sticker: https://www.patreon.com/IndieheadsPodcast.

On this long-awaited bonus episode of Best New Pod, Rose, Jackie and Matty look at some songs from 2012 that we cut from the series that were awarded Best New Track by Pitchfork, but voted on by you, the fans, for us to talk about anyways.

Songs discussed:

Thank you to all of our Patreon supporters for helping to keep this podcast alive, but especially our Real Ones supporters Bekah Etienne, Georgia Makowski, James Boss, Marcy Anime, Chance Holdup, Delaney Mothman, Josiah Duncan, Jenna L, Matt Cameron, Grant in the Back of my Dragula, John Hayes, Teague Chrystie, Charles, Nicole Rifkin, timsdiscountprices, Parker Gross, Andrew Grieve, Jay, Rena K, Ian, Matthew Taylor, I like books, Sarah Moore, Griff, Max Kapczynski, Mark Barry, cal50, Thanos snapped away half my donger, Chris Wade, midwest maxwell, Jake Wald, Grant, Keep Autism Weird, Rob Maiorino, Max, Dylan, Zach, Gavin 490freak and Maizefarms! To become a “Real One” consider supporting us for $5/month on Patreon where you’ll receive a bonus episode every month and be the first to receive a shoutout at the top of the pod.

Plus we want to thank the rest of our Patreon supporters including Cheddahz, Jason Dafnis, Kevin Cookman, Robin Parlow, Eric Chou, Josh, Holiday Kirk, Tyrone Chouhan, Jaden Amjadi, Alexis Davin, Cody Gagen, Barely March, Vinca LaFleur, Will Griffin, Corbin Cammidge, Gavlan, Matthew, Ethan Sapir, Kevin Bergauer, Matthew McPherson, randy donaldson, Eleanor Grams, Elizabeth King, willforthrill, gay_horse420, Lily, Jacqueline Codiga, Alec Feldherr, Talkstotrees, Molly O’Brien, AJ Moser, eraserheadBB, Matthew Herring, Jack Tiggleman, Sara L, Jeremy Bohl, Alex Grichmanoff and Derrick Pemberton!

You could have heard this episode 48 hours early by supporting us on Patreon for as low as $1/month, where you’ll also gain access to our Discord server & get yourself an Indieheads Podcast sticker: https://www.patreon.com/IndieheadsPodcast.

On this episode, Matty and Grant are joined by special guest Jay Papandreas as we were originally going to dive into the Cousin Mindset with a playlist by Grant, but then we just had too much fun talking about Dirt’s ‘Worst song ever’ article and discussing other writers’ picks that it just became the whole episode. We’ll get into the Cousin Mindset in full sometime next year, sorry!

Read ‘Worst song ever’ from Dirt: https://dirt.fyi/article/2024/08/worst-song-ever

Subscribe to Listen Up, Nerds: https://www.listenupnerds.com/

Thank you to all of our Patreon supporters for helping to keep this podcast alive, but especially our Real Ones supporters Bekah Etienne, Georgia Makowski, James Boss, Marcy Anime, Chance Holdup, Delaney Mothman, Josiah Duncan, Jenna L, Matt Cameron, Grant in the Back of my Dragula, John Hayes, Teague Chrystie, Charles, Nicole Rifkin, timsdiscountprices, Parker Gross, Andrew Grieve, Jay, Rena K, Ian, Matthew Taylor, I like books, Sarah Moore, Griff, Max Kapczynski, Mark Barry, cal50, Thanos snapped away half my donger, Chris Wade, midwest maxwell, Jake Wald, Grant, Keep Autism Weird, Rob Maiorino, Max, Dylan, Zach, Gavin 490freak and Maizefarms! To become a “Real One” consider supporting us for $5/month on Patreon where you’ll receive a bonus episode every month and be the first to receive a shoutout at the top of the pod.

Plus we want to thank the rest of our Patreon supporters including Cheddahz, Jason Dafnis, Kevin Cookman, Robin Parlow, Eric Chou, Josh, Holiday Kirk, Tyrone Chouhan, Jaden Amjadi, Alexis Davin, Cody Gagen, Barely March, Vinca LaFleur, Will Griffin, Corbin Cammidge, Gavlan, Matthew, Ethan Sapir, Kevin Bergauer, Matthew McPherson, randy donaldson, Eleanor Grams, Elizabeth King, willforthrill, gay_horse420, Lily, Jacqueline Codiga, Alec Feldherr, Talkstotrees, Molly O’Brien, AJ Moser, eraserheadBB, Matthew Herring, Jack Tiggleman, Sara L, Jeremy Bohl, Alex Grichmanoff and Derrick Pemberton!

You could have heard this episode 48 hours early by supporting us on Patreon for as low as $1/month, where you’ll also gain access to our Discord server & get yourself an Indieheads Podcast sticker: https://www.patreon.com/IndieheadsPodcast.

On this episode, Matty and Grant are joined by special guest Jay Papandreas as we were originally going to dive into the Cousin Mindset with a playlist by Grant, but then we just had too much fun talking about Dirt’s ‘Worst song ever’ article and discussing other writers’ picks that it just became the whole episode. We’ll get into the Cousin Mindset in full sometime next year, sorry!

Read ‘Worst song ever’ from Dirt: https://dirt.fyi/article/2024/08/worst-song-ever

Subscribe to Listen Up, Nerds: https://www.listenupnerds.com/

Thank you to all of our Patreon supporters for helping to keep this podcast alive, but especially our Real Ones supporters Bekah Etienne, Georgia Makowski, James Boss, Marcy Anime, Chance Holdup, Delaney Mothman, Josiah Duncan, Jenna L, Matt Cameron, Grant in the Back of my Dragula, John Hayes, Teague Chrystie, Charles, Nicole Rifkin, timsdiscountprices, Parker Gross, Andrew Grieve, Jay, Rena K, Ian, Matthew Taylor, I like books, Sarah Moore, Griff, Max Kapczynski, Mark Barry, cal50, Thanos snapped away half my donger, Chris Wade, midwest maxwell, Jake Wald, Grant, Keep Autism Weird, Rob Maiorino, Max, Dylan, Zach, Gavin 490freak and Maizefarms! To become a “Real One” consider supporting us for $5/month on Patreon where you’ll receive a bonus episode every month and be the first to receive a shoutout at the top of the pod.

Plus we want to thank the rest of our Patreon supporters including Cheddahz, Jason Dafnis, Kevin Cookman, Robin Parlow, Eric Chou, Josh, Holiday Kirk, Tyrone Chouhan, Jaden Amjadi, Alexis Davin, Cody Gagen, Barely March, Vinca LaFleur, Will Griffin, Corbin Cammidge, Gavlan, Matthew, Ethan Sapir, Kevin Bergauer, Matthew McPherson, randy donaldson, Eleanor Grams, Elizabeth King, willforthrill, gay_horse420, Lily, Jacqueline Codiga, Alec Feldherr, Talkstotrees, Molly O’Brien, AJ Moser, eraserheadBB, Matthew Herring, Jack Tiggleman, Sara L, Jeremy Bohl, Alex Grichmanoff and Derrick Pemberton!

You could have heard this episode 48 hours early by supporting us on Patreon for as low as $1/month, where you’ll also gain access to our Discord server & get yourself an Indieheads Podcast sticker: https://www.patreon.com/IndieheadsPodcast.

On this episode, Matty and Grant are joined by special guest Jay/Cheddahz to talk some break-up songs.

Follow Jay on Twitter: https://x.com/cheddahz

Songs discussed:

Thank you to all of our Patreon supporters for helping to keep this podcast, including our Real Ones supporters Bekah Etienne, Georgia Makowski, James Boss, Marcy Anime, Chance Holdup, Delaney Mothman, Josiah Duncan, Jenna L, Matt Cameron, Grant in the Back of my Dragula, John Hayes, Teague Chrystie, Charles, Nicole Rifkin, timsdiscountprices, Parker Gross, Andrew Grieve, Jay, Rena K, Ian, Matthew Taylor, I like books, Sarah Moore, Griff, Max Kapczynski, Mark Barry, cal50, Thanos snapped away half my donger, Chris Wade, midwest maxwell, Jake Wald, Grant, Keep Autism Weird, Rob Maiorino, Max, Dylan, Zach, Gavin 490freak and Maizefarms! To become a “Real One” consider supporting us for $5/month on Patreon where you’ll receive a bonus episode every month and be the first to receive a shoutout at the top of the pod.

Plus we want to thank the rest of our Patreon supporters including Cheddahz, Jason Dafnis, Kevin Cookman, Robin Parlow, Eric Chou, Josh, Holiday Kirk, Tyrone Chouhan, Jaden Amjadi, Alexis Davin, Cody Gagen, Barely March, Vinca LaFleur, Will Griffin, Corbin Cammidge, Gavlan, Matthew, Ethan Sapir, Kevin Bergauer, Matthew McPherson, randy donaldson, Eleanor Grams, Elizabeth King, willforthrill, gay_horse420, Lily, Jacqueline Codiga, Alec Feldherr, Talkstotrees, Molly O’Brien, AJ Moser, eraserheadBB, Matthew Herring, Jack Tiggleman, Sara L, Jeremy Bohl, Alex Grichmanoff and Derrick Pemberton!

You could have heard this episode 48 hours early by supporting us on Patreon for as low as $1/month, where you’ll also gain access to our Discord server & get yourself an Indieheads Podcast sticker: https://www.patreon.com/IndieheadsPodcast.

On this season finale of Pod Hero, Natalie & Gavin (along with DJ Hero Matty) are joined by special guests Thomas Seraydarian (founder of Merry Go Round Magazine) & Luke Phillips to talk the many bewildering highs and lows throughout Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (2007), the last Guitar Hero game developed by Harmonix.

Visit Merry Go Round Magazine: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/

Songs discussed:

Thank you to all of our Patreon supporters for helping to keep this podcast, including our Real Ones supporters Bekah Etienne, Georgia Makowski, James Boss, Marcy Anime, Chance Holdup, Delaney Mothman, Josiah Duncan, Jenna L, Matt Cameron, Grant in the Back of my Dragula, John Hayes, Teague Chrystie, Charles, Nicole Rifkin, timsdiscountprices, Parker Gross, Andrew Grieve, Jay, Rena K, Ian, Matthew Taylor, I like books, Sarah Moore, Griff, Max Kapczynski, Mark Barry, cal50, Thanos snapped away half my donger, Chris Wade, midwest maxwell, Jake Wald, Grant, Keep Autism Weird, Rob Maiorino, Max, Dylan, Zach, Gavin 490freak and Maizefarms! To become a “Real One” consider supporting us for $5/month on Patreon where you’ll receive a bonus episode every month and be the first to receive a shoutout at the top of the pod.

Plus we want to thank the rest of our Patreon supporters including Jason Dafnis, Kevin Cookman, Robin Parlow, Eric Chou, Josh, Holiday Kirk, Tyrone Chouhan, Jaden Amjadi, Alexis Davin, Cody Gagen, Barely March, Vinca LaFleur, Will Griffin, Corbin Cammidge, Gavlan, Matthew, Ethan Sapir, Kevin Bergauer, Matthew McPherson, randy donaldson, Eleanor Grams, Elizabeth King, willforthrill, gay_horse420, Lily, Jacqueline Codiga, Alec Feldherr, Talkstotrees, Molly O’Brien, AJ Moser, eraserheadBB, Matthew Herring, Jack Tiggleman, Sara L, Jeremy Bohl, Alex Grichmanoff and Derrick Pemberton!

You could have heard this episode 48 hours early by supporting us on Patreon for as low as $1/month, where you’ll also gain access to our Discord server & get yourself an Indieheads Podcast sticker: https://www.patreon.com/IndieheadsPodcast.

On this episode, Natalie and Gavin (along with DJ Hero Matty) are joined by Grant and special guests Abbie, Natalie’s wife, and KZ Staska of the band Dreamwell to discuss the various bonus songs of Guitar Hero 2.

Listen to Dreamwell: https://dreamwell.bandcamp.com/music

Theme song by Barely March: https://barelymarch.bandcamp.com/

Songs discussed:

Thank you to all of our Patreon supporters for helping to keep this podcast going, but we especially want to thank our Real Ones including Bekah Etienne, Georgia Makowski, James Boss, Marcy Anime, Chance Holdup, Delaney Mothman, Josiah Duncan, Jenna, Matt Cameron, Grant in the Back of my Dragula, Teague Chrystie, Charles, Tuck Clarry, Nicole Rifkin, timsdiscountprices, Parker Gross, Lishoon, Andrew Grieve, Jay, Rena, Ian, Matthew Taylor, I like books, Sarah Moore, Griff, Max Kapczynski, Mark Barry, cal50, Chewing on the labia for six hours like a steak from Cracker Barrell, Chris Wade, midwest maxwell, Jake Wald, Grant, Keep Autism Weird, Rob Maiorino, Max, Dylan, Zach, Gavin 490freak and Maizefarms. To become a “Real One” consider supporting us for $5/month on Patreon where you’ll receive a bonus episode every month and get a shoutout at the top of the pod.

You could have heard this episode 48 hours early by supporting us on Patreon for as low as $1/month, where you’ll also gain access to our Discord server & get yourself an Indieheads Podcast sticker: https://www.patreon.com/IndieheadsPodcast.

On this episode, Natalie and Gavin (along with producer Matty) are joined by Max and Boo & Alexis from the Hot Singles podcast to continue our coverage of the songs of Guitar Hero 2 (2006).

Listen to Hot Singles: https://hot-singles.pinecast.co/

Theme song by Barely March: https://barelymarch.bandcamp.com/

Songs discussed:

Thank you to all of our Patreon supporters for helping to keep this podcast going, but we especially want to thank our Real Ones including Bekah Etienne, Georgia Makowski, James Boss, Marcy Anime, Chance Holdup, Delaney Mothman, Josiah Duncan, Jenna, Matt Cameron, Grant in the Back of my Dragula, Teague Chrystie, Charles, Tuck Clarry, Nicole Rifkin, timsdiscountprices, Parker Gross, Lishoon, Andrew Grieve, Jay, Rena, Ian, Matthew Taylor, I like books, Sarah Moore, Griff, Max Kapczynski, Mark Barry, cal50, Chewing on the labia for six hours like a steak from Cracker Barrell, Chris Wade, midwest maxwell, Jake Wald, Grant, Keep Autism Weird, Rob Maiorino, Max, Dylan, Zach, Gavin 490freak and Maizefarms. To become a “Real One” consider supporting us for $5/month on Patreon where you’ll receive a bonus episode every month and get a shoutout at the top of the pod.