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Our friend and guy who knows a lot more about music than we do, Mitchell, joins us as we discuss the taxonomy of fake bands and discuss some prominent examples of bands engaging in hoaxes, pranks, tricks, and tomfoolery! Sorry the audio is kinda bad in this episode

In this EP episode we review A.G. Cook's mammoth album 7G, plus we follow up on J-Tull Dot Com. We also pit Dylan Brady and A.G. Cook against each other in an unnecessary schism (and street fight)!

After this dive is done, it will be four parts and six hours of modern country music review. I'm like the Adam Curtis of this shit. This episode we investigate the career of Taylor Swift and examine her country music bona fides. After she releases You Belong to Me, she catapults to superstardom, but it's not country, so we don't give a shit. The pop-ification of country music continues as we listen to *shudder* bro country. Florida Georgia Line and Zac Brown occupy the second half of the episode, as well as some surprise appearances from Blake Shelton and Eric Church. The gauntlet has been thrown... Only one can claim the title of Chaotic Evil...

This week we were both a little sleepy :/ We talked about Mr. Shmurda's (the guy from that Willa Cather book) release from prison, Wolfmother, Jethro Dull's dong and you get a rare peak behind the scenes where Kaleb and I discuss what we want to talk about next!

In which we sort the country hits of the 2000's into a DnD morality alignment chart and talk about a confrontation between Toby Keith and Kris Kristofferson. Two men enter, one man leaves. Also, the second half of our country song we wrote about the Capitol Riots. Yeehaw

Today we paid tribute to SOPHIE, discussed a funny youtube video and discussed why we think Andrew WK is actually a secret occultist

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I don't think you guys know what you're in for. We got with the most country guy we know (our friend Keith, a Nashville star) in order to break down what country music has looked like ever since the Grace of Garth left our world. Without Garth we were left to recover after the tragedies of 2001 with the likes of Toby Keith Covel, an opportunistic man who filled the power vacuum left behind. Part one of our deep dive reexamines the political battles of the aughts and the scorched battlefield left behind for a new set of country challengers...

Intro: Hold the Line - The Listen to This House Band

Topics: Garth Brooks, Toby Keith, The Chicks, 9/11, Bubble Boy (2001), Willie Nelson, country music, nationalism, comedy

Big changes in 2021! This is the first of our minisodes which we will be calling EPs (get it? haha). This week we talked about the two massive country stars who have been in the news this week. It's a bit of a prelude to our next full-length! Then we talked about Ariel Pink and John Maus' field trip to the Capitol insurrection.

Wow! We got Anthony Fantano to rate our albums of the year on this! Kevin and I get a little orc-ish and sit down to chat about our favorite releases of the year. We go over seven of what we would consider best of the year and then go rapid-fire through some of the other stuff we like or were excited about. ZUG ZUG!

Best of 2020:

No Thanks - Submerger

Armand Hammer - Shrines

Pharoah Overlord - 6

DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Charmed

Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald

King Krule - Man Alive!

DJ David Goblin - Ork Muzik 20K

 

Honorable Mentions:

Pat Metheny - From This Place

R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages

Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure

RMR - Drug Dealing is a Lost Art

Majestica - A Christmas Carol

food house - food house

Thundercat - It Is What It Is

Reptilian Club Boys - #ROCKOUTGANG

 

Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3SI4av7Nq0JPX30JgtUVAp

We've been to Japan... We've been to Finland... Now it's on to Spain. We interviewed one of Kevin's biggest musical influences on this episode, Marco Serrato, vocalist and bass player for the band Orthodox. Orthodox is a doom metal/jazz/experimental trio based in Seville, Spain. We talked about Marco's inspirations for Orthodox, how jazz can be heavier than metal, and the immortal love of Popeye, the Sailor Man.

Thank you to Marco Serrato for recording this fun interview with us! You can find all of Marco's work at https://orthodoxband.bandcamp.com/music and https://sentenciarecords.bandcamp.com/.

Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0nt47HeAizfAbG5MIijeBH