The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast focuses in on American Football's long-awaited return, titled by the label as LP2. We talk if the Owen comparisons are warranted, if we actually connected with that first record, and some of our favorite songs.

Timeline

2:24, MV Big Question

13:45, Side A: American Football Roundtable

Overall Thoughts

17:12, “Another Owen Record”

24:10, Mike “Chinchilla”

Writing In Character

26:07, Did we connect with the first record?

39:30, Favorite Tracks

47:26, James compares American Football to "Connor4Real"

1:01:10, Rank ‘Em

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The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast is our interview with Kevin Devine. His new album, "Instigator," is now available through Procrastinate! Music Traitors. For vinyl fans, there's a special die-cut just for the first pressing, so grab it now. We go deep on the record, its tone, the "issue songs," and do some quickfire at the end (favorite Manchester Orchestra record?).

Timeline

2:21, Beginning of conversation with Kevin

Managing Tone

6:06, “It’s all happening at the same time”

9:42, Freddie Gray Blues

15:57, “Why would anyone want to throw a rock in my dad’s face?”

26:05, “No History” and the “9/11 Song”

43:30, “Getting ready to have a kid” record

56:30, Quickfire

Bad Books/Great Young Bands/Green Day/Manchester

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The newest episode of The MV Podcast is another entry in our MV Goes To The Movies series. This time, we're talking the 2014 film, Frank, including the musical inspirations at play, Jon's nuanced villain and Michael Fassbender's performance as the title character.
 
Timeline
4:03, “Frank” introduction
5:56, Musical inspirations
Frank Sidebottom/Captain Beefheart
13:06, “Secure The Galactic Perimeter” and score
“Secure” is what plays during this time period
17:46, Opening of movie/Character of Jon
21:40, Plot breakdown/Fassbender’s performance
29:31, Pop vs. Art
“He’s the reverse Yoko Ono”
37:21, The ending/mental illness
“I Love You All” is what plays here
49:31, Final thoughts/music movies top 5
Note: I cough a lot here. I’m losing my voice. I’m sorry.
54:36, Vinyl notes
55:24, Recommendations

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MV Goes To The Movies in episode 122 to discuss Purple Rain. The Prince epic, released in 1984, is melodramatic at times, electric on stage, and still fully entrancing. For iTunes listeners, we have an exclusive Side B topic of our favorite music performances in film.
Timeline2:50, Side A: MV Goes To The Movies
Purple Rain
6:02, Our Purple Rain Experiences
14:26, Musical Performances
22:05, Treatment of Women In The Film
29:55, Taking Narrative Leaps/Prince Understanding Narrative
42:12, Oral History/Interview with Director
53:26, Recasting Purple Rain
56:30, Top Musical Performances in Film

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The newest episode of The MV Podcast is all about how me memorialize musicians upon death. Sparked by Prince, but wide-ranging in topics, the discussion covers a writer's role in this process, the battle between grief and self-promotion, along with what artists we think will be a Prince-level event when passing.

And exclusive to iTunes listeners, we get into some Quickfire to discuss Radiohead, a classic Taking Back Sunday jam and the new Tegan & Sara track (an album Chris is officially worried about).
Timeline3:00, Music and Loss
7:45, Prince vs. Bowie/Writers and the Grieving Process
21:30, Prince and "eyetunes"
24:00, Grief or Self Promotion?
38:40, Death and Us
42:40, The Coming Years
57:35, Quickfire
Radiohead (Video)/Taking Back Sunday (Classic)/Tegan & Sara
1:28:40, Completely Original Life Secrets
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The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast is all about the new Weezer white album. We talk the transition from Everything Will Be Alright In The End, writing an album full of only love songs and much more. And stick around for a round of 6 Degrees Of Mark Hoppus.

And this was our premiere on idobi! You can listen live to the episodes, Thursday at 5 p.m. EST.

Timeline3:24, The MV Big Question
15:23, Side A: Weezer Roundtable
16:28, Pinkerton to Green/EWBAITE to White
23:24, Rank 'Em
36:20, Do You Wanna Get High?
46:25, King Of The World
50:20, Endless Bummer
53:50, Overall Thoughts
56:12, Side B: 6 Degrees of Mark Hoppus

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Episode 111 of The Modern Vinyl Podcast introduces a new feature: 2nd Chance Spin. Here, we give another shot to overlooked, underappreciated or simply misunderstood records. Motion City Soundtrack's (in honor of their culmination) Even If It Kills Me is on the docket today, a record that's sandwiched between their best LP and their "return to form" effort (My Dinosaur).

We also answer the episode's "Big Question," which may involve a certain lawless day.

Timeline1:10, The Big Question
8:10, Side A: 2nd Chance Spin
8:30, Lack of Fan Connection
16:20, The Singles
26:40, Ric Ocasek
41:38, Rank Em'
Motion City Artwork
50:54, Highlights
The great Jonah Bayer article

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This one's special. For the first time, we let listeners of The MV Podcast on the show, in order to talk favorite holiday records, holiday traditions and so much more. We'll be doing this again around Valentine's Day so you'll have more chances to get involved and get on the air.Coming up we have our last podcast of 2015, a classic Feelings episode.

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Timeline/Show Notes1:50, Alison tells us about Charlie Brown and buying her kid a turntable
10:00, Adam tells us about his family traditions and Johnny Cash
18:45, John digs deep into Charlie Brown's place at Christmas
28:40, Mike talks Frozen and his own podcasts
36:00, Ed talks Psychostick's holiday hate

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The newest episode of The MV Podcast features our interview with Josh Coll, lyricist and bassist for Foxing. Coll opens up on the process behind writing new record, Dealer, while taking some time to answer Twitter questions.

Coming up we have our year-end shows and the first all-listener podcast!

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Timeline/Show Notes3:50, Beginning of our conversation with Josh
9:55, Beginnings in music
15:00, Writing Dealer
28:00, "Weave"
35:50, Religion in the record
44:30, Working with a big canvas
49:30, Signing with Triple Crown
53:10, Twitter questions

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The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast has us talking our favorite love songs and the self-titled record from The Smiths. The back half is especially noteworthy as The Smiths are the newest subject of our Revisiting series.

Coming up we have our Black Friday 2015 podcasts, including a chat with Bull Moose's Chris Brown and the Black Friday Award Show.

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Timeline/Show Notes2:02, Rank Em' — Pokemon Edition
4:44, Side A: Songs About Love
19:30, Chris impersonates James, it's epic
25:25, Revealing the #1 songs
32:47, B-Side: Revisiting The Smiths — ST
33:44, History with The Smiths
40:35, Sexuality within the record
49:14, "Suffer Little Children"
57:53, "Miserable Lie"
1:01:00, Shoutouts
1:05:45, Monster Rally — Moonlight Ballroom

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