Pretty Good Vibrations

Just like last time with The Starting Line's "Direction," "Emotion" will have to go up against the winner of an 8-album mini-tournament of 2015's biggest pop albums: OneDirection, Mark Ronson, Justin Beiber, Adele, Ellie Goulding, Selena Gomez, and more. Joe Greenetz (Sherwood) joins me again and does the deciding! Nothing weird about two men in their early 40s talking about music kind of made for children, right?

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My old friend DJay Brawner, filmmaker, music video director, and co-owner of the Tuff creative agency, joins me to talk through 10 important music video projects from the early days of his career (No Use for a Name) to his current projects (Taking Back Sunday, All Time Low). We get a behind-the-scenes sense of DJay's job on set and stories about many of the videos.

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** This is Part 3 of 3 **

Lace up your boots, clip on your suspenders, and put on your pork pie hat because we are taking back to your roots! Remember when stomp-clapping indie folk took the entire (white) world by storm? Well, some of that stuff holds up, some doesn't, and plenty of what's been recording both before and since is haunting and beautiful. Ben Bishop (90s Punk Tournament, Dad's Cassette Case) returns for a 34-artist mega tournament of endless-wheat-fields proportions. We're talkin' Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, The Lumineers, Phoebe Bridgers, Lord Huron, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Iron & Wine, the Head and the Heart, and so many more.

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** This is Part 2 of 3 **

Lace up your boots, clip on your suspenders, and put on your pork pie hat because we are taking back to your roots! Remember when stomp-clapping indie folk took the entire (white) world by storm? Well, some of that stuff holds up, some doesn't, and plenty of what's been recording both before and since is haunting and beautiful. Ben Bishop (90s Punk Tournament, Dad's Cassette Case) returns for a 34-artist mega tournament of endless-wheat-fields proportions. We're talkin' Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, The Lumineers, Phoebe Bridgers, Lord Huron, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Iron & Wine, the Head and the Heart, and so many more.

Spotify playlist for today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3o5erORVZWI2UXakOVKmvZ?si=9608dd2c5ffe49a0

Dan's music licensing library: https://dankoch.net/library

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Lace up your boots, clip on your suspenders, and put on your pork pie hat because we are taking back to your roots! Remember when stomp-clapping indie folk took the entire (white) world by storm? Well, some of that stuff holds up, some doesn't, and plenty of what's been recording both before and since is haunting and beautiful. Ben Bishop (90s Punk Tournament, Dad's Cassette Case) returns for a 34-artist mega tournament of endless-wheat-fields proportions. We're talkin' Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, The Lumineers, Phoebe Bridgers, Lord Huron, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Iron & Wine, the Head and the Heart, and so many more.

Spotify playlist for today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3o5erORVZWI2UXakOVKmvZ?si=9608dd2c5ffe49a0

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Some songs come straight out of the gate like bats out of hell. They announce themselves with maximum energy as the band first kicks in. I love these songs! For the first installment, Captain Ryan Downs joins me as we each choose 6 of our favorite rip-roarin' classic tunes.

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California punks Rancid and NOFX have tread much of the same ground, festival lineups, a split EP where they cover each other's songs, and mental space among their large fanbases. But who is better? This is the obvious question that needs answering. You're welcome!

My good friend Joey Libolt joins me as Rancid and their family of artists, including Transplants, Operation Ivy, and Tim Armstrong's solo output, face off against NOFX's angsty skate punk.

"Like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, where three men find a pot of gold and end up killing one another in the name of greed, some people are poison."

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Part 2!

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Who is your favorite Beatle? And do you take into account what they wrote, recorded, and released after the Beatles' breakup? The Fab Four's collective solo efforts are an uneven but rich trove of pop music from the 1970s and beyond. Tyson Motsenbocker returns to help me run a death match of albums by John, Paul, George, and Ringo.

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We're trying out a new episode style, which on-air I called "Sugar, We're Throwin' Down" but in the future, I will probably refer to it as "David vs. Goliath." At any rate, it was my guest David Stuart's idea and basic structure, and I love it! He brought in a favorite and underrated album, The Starting Line's "Direction," which competed head-to-head with the winner of an 8-album mini-tournament of established emo/punk releases from that same year. Also, Kristen Tideman (of Justin Vernon episodes fame) joined us about halfway through! We listen to and discuss Anberlin, Motion City Soundtrack, Against Me!, Paramore, Relient K, and more.

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