Sharing Needles with Friends

In this episode we talk a bit about a fan(?) email encounter to our old band's Facebook page asking us to write a song for her ex boyfriend, Gene's aspirations to being a hip-hop artist, the Italian band "Soviet Soviet" being banned and sent home when attempting to enter the U.S. for SXSW and a few other shows when being told their visa didn't meet the immigration standards, and more!

We also play new music from our good friend Elijah Newman. We play the track "Come Back Home" from his new record "All I Found (Was A Ghost)" out on Wiretap Records March, 31st.

In this episode we discuss Rod Stewart reenacting a beheading video in the desert, claims he was playing Game of Thrones, Tom Hanks and his rapper son Chet Haze, the Florida man that tried to steal microphones using the identity of Nickleback's drummer, Spotify's new Hi-Fi service maybe coming soon? Tom Delonge wins UFO Researcher of the Year and the new movie "Get Out."

And listener questions such as worst places we've traveled, adding a sub to your set up, how to transport your record collection cross country , negative things about our favorite bands, record store day, the new film "Logan," Metallica's "Some Kind of Monster," and Emo and Screamo music.

This week we talk about Lady Gaga causing the Atlanta Falcons to lose the Super Bowl, Lana Del Rey calling all witches to cast a spell on Donald Trump, a Radiohead algorithm that was invented by a superfan to determine the most depressing Radiohead song through his "Gloom Index," David Bowie's upcoming HBO Documentary and the Aladdin Sane Lightening Bolt Tribute in London, Ringo Starr's new album with Paul McCartney, Ryan Adams' new Beats Radio 1 show, Linkin Park and Incubus' new records, Kid Rock running for Senate, Donald Trump moving forward to end funding for the National Endowment of the Arts.

We also answer questions from listeners ranging from best angry music, best music for children, our top jukebox singles picks, what band or artist we would want playing at our wedding, movies that defined our adolescence, best albums to test a new vinyl set up with, Richard Spencer and Depeche Mode, Mudhoney, Nirvana, and Tool.

In this episode we are joined by Nathan Gray (boysetsfire, I Am Heresy) and Daniel Smith of Nathan Gray Collective. We discuss their new album and Nathan's new autobiography titled "Until the Darkness Takes Us."

In this episode we had the pleasure of speaking with Ryan Shelkett of Liars Academy, Cross My Heart, and Dead Red Sea. We talk about his time in all of his bands, his early demo tapes with his first band Blank, the Baltimore, Maryland music scene, working with labels such as Deep Elm, Equal Vision, and Steve Aoki's Dim Mak records. We talk about Knoxville's own Superdrag, the "business" side of the music industry and the dynamics of the music industry over the years, songwriting, David Bowie and Leonard Cohen, new music discovery, Star Wars, comic books, toys, Donald Trump (of course) and SNL.

In this episode we discuss Lady Gaga's performance at Super Bowl 51, Black Sabbath's final show, Frank Ocean is being sued by his own father over a Tumblr post, Waaves frontman Nathan Williams and his Nazi-Punching game featuring Richard Spencer, Michelle Branch's new music produced by Patrick Carney, Grandaddy, Travis, Band of Horses, Midlake and Franz Ferdinand supergroup BNQT.

We also had many questions from our listeners ranging from The Santa Clarita Diet show on Netflix, how we prefer our wings (boneless vs. boned), Thoughts on the Super Bowl Halftime Show with Lady GaGa, Would Kurt Cobain have like Radiohead, Thoughts on Justin Timberlake, call of duty or battlefield, our ideas on doing a Needle Bed episode on mixcloud with all listener submissions, favorite super bowl party food, over-rated events we still take part in, The new Future Islands track, Hamilton and Rostam, who we would book to do the halftime show at the super bowl, best albums for shitty days, where would our dream sporting event take place, and we were asked our top ten "essential" albums to own on vinyl.

In this episode we discuss Sprint buying a stake in Tidal, Seattle's pirate radio station playing "Fuck Donald Trump" on repeat, the passing of Butch Trucks from the Allman Brothers Band, an update on Car Seat Headrest and his cover album of Smash Mouth hits such as "All-Star," Tom Araya of Slayer supporting Trump on the official Slayer Instagram, Snowflakes, Paris Jackson on the conspiracy theory regarding Michael Jackson's death, and the new vinyl pressing plant with new technology.

We also answer questions from listeners ranging from top 5 soundtracks on vinyl, if beef really is for dinner, essential records, super bowl bets, santa clarita diet, drunk podcasting, vinyl being sold at bed bath and beyond, conor oberst, red hot chili peppers and elvis costello, books or ebooks, favorite spoken word albums, favorite national record, loudest bands we've seen live, bad or boujee, favorite super hero movies and sountracks, love or hate deathgrips, elliott smith, songwriters that would best describe this political climate, least favorite musical trends, what we are nerdy about, ice cream toppings, and basketball players losing eyes.

In this episode we discuss Madonna's comments at the Women's March on Washington, the possibility of Trump defunding the NEA and NEH and the horrors of Net Neutrality, the crowd (or lack there of) at the Bret Michaels show for the Inaugural Heroes Ball, why Kanye West wasn't invited to play the Inauguration, Shia LaBeouf's 4 year art installation, James Hetfield narrating a porn addiction documentary, Third Eye Blind touring with a Self Titled album show, the possibility of a Smash Mouth / Car Seat Headrest collaboration EP, the upcoming Tupac biopic All Eyes On Me, Slightly Stoopid's vinyl record made of hash, and Jack White opening a Third Man Records pressing plant in Detroit.

We answer questions from listeners ranging from our dream city/time period we would love to be a part of, Jonah Mantranga and his bands, favorite duet albums, favorite shoegaze bands, favorite board games, Monty Python, favorite hot sauce, Westworld, favorite instrumental bands, concerts we have missed, political exhaustion, "tune out" music, favorite comedy movies, best quiet song album openers, emotional attachment to songs, and our favorite artists we never talk about.

We close the show with a new project Gene has started called Skeleton Beach.

In this episode we discuss the bands and artists playing the Donald Trump Inauguration, Billy Corgan's thoughts on fake news, how social media is destroying us all, Trent Reznor's thoughts that social media is negatively affecting music, the new Weird Al career spanning boxset that come inside an actual accordion, how vinyl could become a billion dollar industry, Homestarrunner.com, and the lackluster Bonnaroo lineup.

We also answer some listener questions ranging from our thoughts on The Ramones, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, photography/film, our SNWF label, our top 5 best shows we have attended, early 2017 albums that are noteworthy, and our thoughts on vinyl etchings.

In this weeks episode we discuss the new David Bowie EP that was released today on his birthday, being annoyed with cell phone usage in shows and movie theaters, vinyl sales in 2016 going up 26%, the top 25 vinyl albums sold last year, the new Oasis documentary Supersonic, Julien Baker signing to Matador Records, President Obama's recent White House party, the cancellation of the new Martin Scorsese biopic about Frank Sinatra, the upcoming Flaming Lips album Oczy Mlody, and the recent Craigslist ad of a 56 yr old man named Gordie that is looking for a young female to attend Coachella with him.

We also answer listener question ranging from our favorite cities in America, who we would like to roadie for, the records we want to steal from each others collections, favorite fictional bands, porn?, favorite hamburger and fry condiments, movie soundtracks, bands that need to call it quits, foods that repulse us, artists that need vinyl boxsets, favorite Beatles songs, best sounding vinyl, genres that make us anxious, Avril Lavigne, favorite Deep Elm releases, favorite books, preorder nightmares, The Mountain Goats, and much more.

We close the episode with a new track from MEOB called New Nouns.