Pint Notes

It’s time for Rebecca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz to dive deep into the tastes that created their musical and beerical palette. Yes, it’s another canon show. They take a close look at the 2013 album We the Common by Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, and talk about it’s funky groove, and simple, but effective poetry.

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is a long standing classic American Pale Ale, one that even set the scene for craft brews to come later. The beer is also simple, but effective, and brings a smile to the cohosts.

Show notes and links:

* Interview Magazine: Thao and the Get Down Stay Down (interviewmag.com)

* Portlandia Tour – San Francisco – ‘Push It’ by Salt-n-Pepa (youtube.com)

Hosts Rebecca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz return again to record in a seedy basement bar and bring you reviews of new music and drink some new beer.

This week’s albums include:

* Amy Shark – Night Thinker

* Christian Sands – REACH

* Jessie Reyez – Kiddo

* Warm Soda – I Don’t Wanna Grow Up

* Charly Bliss – Guppy

* Aye Nako – Silver Haze

Featured Beers:

* Bald Man Brewing – Misty Mountain Hops

* TIghthead Brewing Company – Chilly Water Pale Ale

Hosts Rebecca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz return again to record in a seedy basement bar and bring you reviews of new music and drink some new beer.

This week’s albums include:

* The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions

* Alexandra Savior – Belladonna of Sadness

* K. Flay – Every Where is Some Where

* Diet Cig – Swear I’m Good at This

* El Michels Affair – Return to the 37th Chamber

Featured Beers:

* O’Dell Brewing’s Runoff Red Ale

* New Holland Brewing Company’s Mischievous II Sour Brown Ale

Hosts Rebecca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz return again to record in a seedy basement bar and bring you reviews of new music and drink some new beer.This week’s albums include:

* Boss Hog – Brood X

* Samantha Crain – You Had Me at Goodbye

* Hiccup – Imaginary Enemies

* Craig Finn – We All Want the Same Things

* Spiral Stairs – Doris and the Dagers

* CupcakKe – Queen Elizabitch

Featured Beers:

* Summit Brewing’s Unchained Series: Spring Saison

* Sierra Nevada’s Sidecar Pale Ale

Hosts Rebecca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz return again to record in a seedy basement bar and bring you reviews of new music and drink some new beer.

This week’s albums include:

* Spoon – Hot Thoughts

* Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Navigator

* The New Respects – Here Comes Trouble

* Operator Music Band – Puzzlephonics I & II

* Kingdom – Tears in the Club

* Snowblink – Returning Current

Featured Beers:

* Modist Brewing’s Dreamyard Ale

* Indeed Brewery’s B-Side Pils

 

As part of Burger Revolution V, Josh Wodarz and Rebecca Ruiz will talk about new Burger Records releases by Sarah Bethe Nelson and Tobin Sprout, as well as Burger alum Mr. Elevator plus older Burger Releases we really like. Look for it on Saturday.

Rebecca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz serve up another episode of the internet’s only podcast about beer and music. This week, new releases from Jessica Hoop, Novella, Molly Burch, The Deep Throat Choir, and The Courtneys. Plus beers from Deschuttes Brewery and Ballast Point.

Hey, everyone, it’s the 47th episode of Pint Notes. That’s right. Pint Notes. After two years, we’re changing the official name to match our social media handles. It’s kind of like when Josh was 8 and decided he didn’t want people to call him Joshua anymore, only Josh. It’s the same seedy basement bar, the same Joshua Wodarz and Rebecca Ruiz. As always different music – this week they look at The xx, Allison Crutchfield, and Ron Gallo.

Oh, and a new logo by the talented Zoe Wodarz.

Welcome to the second canon show from Half-Pints, Whole Notes, where Rebecca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz go over one beer and one album that helped shape their palates for both beer and music.

This one centers on the excellent Bell’s Two Hearted Ale out of Michigan, and the debut album by Montreal indie rock band Arcade Fire; Funeral.

Yep, its that time of year again. Everybody’s got their best of-lists for 2016, and we’ve got ours. But it’s not really a best of list. Here at Half-Pints, Whole-Notes, we realize that everyone else is writing about the same albums and declaring what is the “best” from a critical, artistic, and sometimes commercial viewpoint.

That’s not what we do, we talk about the albums that we loved. That we sort of couldn’t live without. Sure, Radiohead’s album was masterfully done and another artistic work of wonder from them, but guess what? One of our hosts rated it well, said it was really, really well done, and then never listened to it again, because it just didn’t grab him. Not like the albums in this show did.

So, what was supposed to be 12 albums from each host, sort of becomes 13 albums from each host, and there you go. Don’t forget to listen to our playlist, where we try and distill the essence of each album into one track.