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Nick Reinhart is in a million bands. Seriously! Tera Melos, Undo K From Hot, Bygones, Swollen Brain, Death Grips...he's absolutely everywhere. And today, he's on Click Vortex, breaking Wikipedia and discussing the Angus soundtrack (Weezer, Green Day, Ash), Sha Na Na, Harmony Korine, Nuno Bettencourt, Rihanna, the videography of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, and tons more with your regular click crew, Sam and Jason. And oh yeah, there's an awesome new Disheveled Cuss album coming out called Into the Couch, which features not only a bunch of killer new songs from Nick, but also contributions from Jimmy Chamberlin of The Smashing Pumpkins, Josh Klinghoffer (Eddie Vedder, Red Hot Chili Peppers) and art by Fat Wreck Chords painter Mark Desalvo. Strap in for our most swirled Click Vortex episode to date. 

The world wide web, like the universe itself, is constantly expanding. With each episode of Click Vortex, Sam Means (The Format) and Jason Woodbury (Aquarium Drunkard) bring you a biweekly survey of their online adventures. What’s your favorite song from the Angus soundtrack? Call and tell us: 1-877-WASTOIDS.

The roots of Cleveland indie rock/post-punk institution My Dad Is Dead stretch all the way back to 1984. Led by Mark Edwards, early recordings featured little more than drum machine and guitar. By 1990, the time the Shine double 7" EP was released by Scat Records, Edwards had incorporated other players—including bassist Chris Burgess and drummer Scott Pickering—but the core of the project remains him on his own, his Ian Curtis-style deadpan vocals and slacker guitar buzzing away. Join Marc and John as they drop the needle on this damaged gem and visit Bandcamp Daily for a fantastic overview of the project's vast discography.

About The Spindle: The 7-inch record isn’t just a format—it’s an art form. On each episode of The Spindle podcast, music writer Marc Masters (Pitchfork, The Wire, Bandcamp) and music historian (and music maker) John Howard dive into a great 7-inch, dissecting its background, impact, and the reasons why it stands out as a small plastic piece of music history. 

What’s your favorite 7″? Call us at 1-877-WASTOIDS and weigh in!

Today on WASTOIDS With, we're sitting down with songwriter and painter Kenny Becker of Los Angeles dream pop quartet Goon, who joins us for a discussion of the band's latest, Hour of Green Evening, the overlap between visual art and music, and one of the enduring loves of his life: playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on his N64.  You can check out some of Kenny's beautiful paintings right now over at WASTOIDS, as well as on the cover of Hour of Green Evening, which is available on Bandcamp, where you can pre-order a limited-edition green vinyl edition, standard black vinyl, cassette, and compact disc. 

Thanks for tuning into the WASTOIDS frequency, podcasts and videos from Hello Merch. Be sure to check out our other shows, Click Vortex, about our online rabbit hole wanderings, and The Spindle, a podcast about 7” records. Got a thought to share about your favorite N64 game, your favorite Goon tune, or anything else? Ring us up at 1-877-WASTOIDS and leave us a message. 

The world wide web, like the universe itself, is constantly expanding. With each episode of Click Vortex, Sam Means (The Format) and Jason Woodbury (Aquarium Drunkard) bring you a biweekly survey of their online adventures. For the 12th episode of the show, our dynamic duo drops some knowledge about the new charity-driven holiday Band Shirt Day (September 16), and then get to clicking on the baffling and compelling Tom Jones and Van Morrison team-up "I'm Not Feeling It Anymore," Swedish technicolor pop band The Cardigans, visionary freakouts featured in Erik Davis' High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies, XTC, Counting Crows, 12-string guitars, The La's, Roger McGuinn of The Byrds, and much more. We're hoping our listeners flood our inbox with 12-string riffs, so if you wanna get in on that action, just dial 1-877-WASTOIDS and jangle for us. 

We're back with Arkansas' own Dylan Earl, sitting down for another honky tonk-themed episode with DuWaun Johnson, co-host of one of WASTOIDS' favorite podcasts, The Country Brothers. Over on his Bandcamp page, where one can sample from his collection of hard working, honest country music, Earl writes: "I’m from where I woke up this morning. I write the songs that come to mind and struggle with the ones that don’t. I find humor in misconceptions and solace in laughter, love in the street and fire in the eyes of the marginalized." 

For this WASTOIDS chat he illuminates where he's coming from artistically, dishes on the Razorbacks, delves into his pluralistic view of country music, and finally answers the question on everybody's mind: what's the craziest thing he's done wearing Crocs? 

Got a thought to share about Croc wearing country stars, your favorite country song, or anything else? Ring us up at 1-877-WASTOIDS and leave us a message. 

Yoko haters f**k off: Marc and John put the needle down on Plastic Ono Band's 1969 single, featuring "some of the best guitar [John Lennon] ever played—bone rattling, Flipper-esque" and proto-Krautrock boogies.

About The Spindle: The 7-inch record isn’t just a format—it’s an art form. On each episode of The Spindle podcast, music writer Marc Masters (Pitchfork, The Wire, Bandcamp) and music historian (and music maker) John Howarddive into a great 7-inch, dissecting its background, impact, and the reasons why it stands out as a small plastic piece of music history.

What’s your favorite 7″? Call us at 1-877-WASTOIDS and weigh in!

We're hanging out with Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray to discuss the forthcoming remastered edition of Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables. Featuring a sonic once-over from Chris Lord-Alge, whose credits include everyone from Prince to Madonna to Green Day and My Chemical Romance, as well a new 40th anniversary book featuring essays and quotes from Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and Duff McKagan (Guns 'n Roses), this new edition provides a fresh angle on this enduring classic, and the decades have done nothing to diminish its anti-establishment screeds. On his episode, Ray explains how it happened, addresses Jello Biafra's criticisms and describes the DIY approach that fueled the original recording.

Got a thought to share about classic punk, your favorite Dead Kennedy's song or anything else? Ring us up at 1-877-WASTOIDS and leave us a message. 

The world wide web, like the universe itself, is constantly expanding. With each episode of Click Vortex, Sam Means (The Format) and Jason Woodbury (Aquarium Drunkard) bring you a biweekly survey of their online adventures. For the 11th episode, Sam explores the supernatural power of Roy Orbison, drum god Jim Keltner, takes a trip through the cemetery to visit Buddy Rich (noted for his drumming prowess and profane tirades to his band) and unpacks some traumatizing memories of Jim Henson's Muppets. Meanwhile Jason shares thoughts on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers's Long After Dark, pontificates on the wild career of engineer Shelly Yakus (John Lennon, The Ramones ,Van Morrison, Madonna, Patti Smith) and winds down with the three-guitar attack of everyone's favorite esoteric sci-fi hard rock/pop band Blue Öyster Cult.

Welcome to The Special Podness, a four-part mini-series dedicated to the history of The Special Goodness by the three dudes who (probably) know it best: Pat Wilson of Weezer, drummer Atom Willard (Rocket From the Crypt, Plosivs, Against Me!) and Karl Koch, Weezer historian. 

This is our final episode of the podcast for now, and in it we’re going under the hood to discuss where Pat’s inspirations as a songwriter, discuss the band’s time on Weezer’s Enlightenment Tour, shows with Audioslave and The Foo Fighters, airplay on LA rock station KROQ, and how The Special Goodness leveled up by connecting with Epitaph Records.

Released at the dawn of the remix era, New Order’s "Temptation" b/w "Hurt" came in two formats—33 ⅓ speed 7” and 45 RPM 12”—on the same May 10, 1982. With this single, bassist Peter Hook, keyboardist/guitarist Gillian Gilbert, drummer Stephen Morris, and guitarist/vocalist Bernard Sumner stepped out from Joy Division’s shadow to establish themselves as a distinct entity. Painstakingly played alongside sequencers, Hook’s melodic bass to Sumner’s mantric vocals are unmistakable. 

About The Spindle: The 7-inch record isn’t just a format—it’s an art form. On each episode of The Spindle podcast, music writer Marc Masters and music historian (and music maker) John Howard dive into a great 7-inch, dissecting its background, impact, and the reasons why it stands out as a small plastic piece of music history. What’s your favorite 7″? Call us at 1-877-WASTOIDS and weigh in!