Pint Notes

Rebecca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz are back with more music and more beer. Because what else do they have to do. Seriously, if you know tell them. They seem to need some other hobbies.

This week they drink Bell’s Oarsman’s Ale and talk about Lianne La Havas, adult mom, Haiku Salut, Langhorne Slim & The Law, Pearl Charles, and La Luz. Plus quick takes on Golden Rules, Tenement, and Jack + Eliza.

Oh Wait. They also drink Summit’s Unchained #19: Make It So. The English Special Bitter brewed with Earl Grey Tea.

Show notes and links:

* Lianne La Havas | Get the new album ‘Blood’ (liannelahavas.com).

* adult mom (adultmomband.tumblr.com).

* HAIKU SALUT (haikusalut.com).

* Langhorne Slim (langhorneslim.com).

* Pearl Charles | Facebook (facebook.com).

* Merch | La Luz (laluz.bandcamp.com).

* Golden Rules | Facebook (facebook.com).

* JACK + ELIZA (jackandeliza.com).

* Tenement | Facebook (facebook.com).

* Bell’s Beer :: Brands :: Oarsman Ale (bellsbeer.com).

* Summit Brewing Company | Blog (summitbrewing.com).

Join Rebecca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz as they wade through a bunch of meh to find anything good this week. Trust us, it’s fun. Plus, Toppling Goliath’s Light Speed and Left Hand Brewing’s Sawtooth Ale.

They’ll bicker over The Domestics, they’ll war over Wilco’s surprise album, do it again with White Reaper, sing into the mouth of Iron & Wine & Ben Bridwell, hangout with The Daniel Franck Quartet, ummm, wave at the day with Day Wave, and go tete a tete over Ratatat. Sorry. We fired our copy editor so all we have are lame phrases based on the album titles. We’ll hire some more staff, we promise.

Show notes and links:

* Risky Lengths (riskylengths.com).

* Toppling Goliath Brewing Co. (tgbrews.com).

* Left Hand Brewing (lefthandbrewing.com).

* Wilco (en.wikipedia.org).

* Iron & Wine & Ben Bridwell: Sing into My Mouth (en.wikipedia.org).

* Ratatat (en.wikipedia.org).

* Day Wave (en.wikipedia.org).

* White Reaper Does It Again (en.wikipedia.org).

* Daniel Franck Quartet (sundance.dk).

* The Domestics | Facebook (facebook.com).

Becca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz are back from their summer hiatus, and they happen to have collected a bunch of albums to talk about that easily sit into a summer mood. It must’ve been on Josh’s mind, because he picked up two summer beers to try, New Belgium’s Long Table and Bell’s Oberon. Along the way they argue over Bully, Miguel, and Pega Monstro. Not really, they just argue over Miguel. Someone on the podcast really doesn’t like Wildheart. Find out who! Also, they do quick takes on Heartless Bastards, Motopony, The Deslondes, T Hardy Morris, Zomes, and Leon Bridges. Join them for their review of Inadvertent Summer Albums.

Show notes and links:

* BULLY (bullythemusic.com).

* Miguel (wildheart.officialmiguel.com).

* We Put Miguel’s Sexiest Lyrics on Top of Photos of Minions | NOISEY (noisey.vice.com).

* Pega Monstro | Facebook (facebook.com).

Rebecca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz talk bout their four favorite albums from the past half year! It’s a check in on whether they still love what they said they did months ago. A bonus, they think things sound weirder in the headphones than actually came out on tape. This episode is fine and they have nothing to worry about. More bonus, they talk about a recent article that talks about the death of purchasing media, especially digital.

As always, there is the beer, things from the last half year (well in one case more than half a year) not featured on the podcast, but they can’t get out of their head – Boom Island Saison Farmhouse Ale, and Tyranena Painted Ladies Pumpkin Spice Ale. Plus, the albums they liked that they realized they haven’t been listening to as much.

Show notes and links:

* Saison (boomislandbrewing.com).

* Painted Ladies Pumpkin Spice Ale | Tyranena Brewing Company | Lake Mills, WI | BeerAdvocate (beeradvocate.com).

* Apple is finally accepting that buying music is obsolete (vox.com).

It’s another episode of Half-Pints, Whole notes and Rebecca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz have apparently gone country. Yup. Indeed. This episode they talk about The HillBenders “Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry”, Willie Nelson & Merle Haggards “Django & Jimmie,” Pale Honey – who are not country at all, and Eilen Jewell. Plus, listen to Josh talk bad about EDM, while Rebecca defends it. And we’ve got some summer songs that are sticking in our head. For beers, Rebecca hit the clearance aisle and we have Rogue’s Mom Hefeweisen, and Alaskan Brewery’s Imperial Red Ale.

Show notes and links:

* The HillBenders (hillbenders.com).

* Django & Jimmie (en.wikipedia.org).

* Pale Honey (palehoney.com).

* Home (eilenjewell.com).

* Simpsons Songs (youtube.com).

* Salt / Auscultate (youtube.com).

Becca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz are back to discuss some of their favorite albums of the past three weeks – but there’s a hitch! At least one album turns out to be aesthetically unpleasing to one of the hosts while it is loved by the other one. This unpleasantness might even boil down to an album being loathed or hated by one of them. Full reviews of Best Coast, Lyrics Born, Larceny, and My Morning Jacket plus impressions of Snoop Dogg, And So I Watch You From Afar, Django Django, Miranda Holly, Froth, and Du Blonde.

Oh; and it’s not just the music either, the hosts struggle with the beers this week.

Show notes and links:

* Best Coast (bestcoast.net).

* LYRICS BORN (lyricsborn.com).

* Larceny.METAL (larceny.de).

* Home : My Morning Jacket (mymorningjacket.com).

* Summit Brewing Company | A more meaningful brew since 1986. (summitbrewing.com).

* Blog | Indeed Brewing Company (indeedbrewing.com).

 

This week we find out that Josh Wodarz is a hypocrite, and he doesn’t want artists to grow. Not really, but he’s just having a hard time with the evolution of sound of Alabama Shakes. Rebecca Ruiz keeps him on track and surprises him with a beer he would not normally have tried. Will either of them survive this surprise beer?

… Probably not, but listen anyway. Also, they review Mavis Staples, The Muscadettes, and Peach Kelli Pop, plus they give quick takes on Speedy Ortiz, Blur, holychild, and Turbo Fruits.

Show notes and links:

* Alabama Shakes (en.wikipedia.org).

* The Muscadettes (themuscadettes.bandcamp.com).

* Music | peach kelli pop (peachkellipop.bandcamp.com).

* Mavis Staples (en.wikipedia.org).

This week it’s the invasion of the singer-songwriters! Laura Marling! Waxahatchee! DTCV! Lord Huron! Matt and Kim! Wait. That last one isn’t a singer songwriter. It’s just two very happy people making happy music to dance to. And really, when you think about it, all the rest kind of bend the concept of singer songwriter.

Plus a bunch of quicktakes and some rants courtesy of Indeed Brewing’s Mexican Honey Imperial Lager. So, join Becca Ruiz and Josh Wodarz on another episode of Half-Pints, Whole-Notes.

Show notes and links:

* Laura Marling | The official Laura Marling website. Visit for the latest updates. (lauramarling.com).

* DTCV (dtcvband.com).

* WAXAHATCHEE (waxahatcheemusic.com).

* This post has no title. (strangetrails.com).

* Matt And Kim | New Glow – April 7th (mattandkimmusic.com).

It’s 2015 and the Blues are back! The Blues are Number One! On Half-Pints, Whole-Notes, we discuss the latest from the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, podcast fave I’m From Barcelona, Mini Mansions, and Courtney Barnett. We loved it all.

We even like Rogue Brewery’s Sriracha Hot Stout, made with Huy Fong’s Sriracha and packaged in an imitation of their bottle. We cooled ourselves down with some Negra Modello.

Then we got a little bit feisty with some quick takes on Sufjan Stevens, Death Cab for Cutie, The Lower Dens, The Sonics, Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, and Eliane Ellias.

We had fun. We hope you do too.

Show notes and links:

* Rogue Ales & Spirits (rogue.com).

* Crown Imports LLC (crownimportsllc.com).

* Request Rejected (thejonspencerbluesexplosion.com).

* I’m from Barcelona (imfrombarcelona.com).

* Mini Mansions (minimansionsmusic.com).

* Courtney Barnett (courtneybarnett.com.au).

Hey, during this episode, we manage to fix the buzzing! Yay! Like, really; during the middle of it! Anyways, it’s two beers and five new releases this week: Lift Bridge Farm Girl, Aero Flynn, Sarah Bethe Nelson, Sasha Siem, Deschutes Chainbreaker White IPA, Kendrick Lamar, and Houndmouth.

Becca and Josh don’t agree on everything this week (but then again, do they ever agree on everything?). We’ve got some folk infected electronica, a 60’s Europop/garage rock hybrid, some complicated orchestral Tom Waitsish stuff, what is so far considered the best album of the year by many critics, and a band that takes after The Band. Yeah, a band that harkens back to The Band. A band that is The Band, how many times do I have to say that?

As always, check out our Spotify playlist.

Show notes and links:

* Lift Bridge Brewing Co. (liftbridgebrewery.com).

* Aero Flynn – “Dk/Pi” (stereogum.com).

* Sarah Bethe Nelson | Facebook (facebook.com).

* Sarah Bethe Nelson’s Pace-Setting “Fast-Moving Clouds” (therevue.ca).

* Sasha Siem (en.wikipedia.org).

* Deschutes Brewert (deschutesbrewery.com).

* Kendrick Lamar (en.wikipedia.org).

* Houndmouth (en.wikipedia.org).