Suburban Kings

By Vince Marotte, Jon Evans

Jon Evans and Vince Marotte are cultural mavens who love to sample the latest cultural goodness in music, film, literature, art and more. Tune in as we guide you through what we think are the things t... more

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How many episodes does Suburban Kings have?

The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.

Suburban Kings episodes:

March 31, 2025X&Z - Pilot | Netflix's Adolescence plus BossMan Dlow, Drake, Sabrina Carpenter, and Leon Thomas
The Algorithm
March Madness
Current ear worms
Vince: GZA - Liquid Swords - https://open.spotify.com/album/3k8xoyOXkGgZxUKgpmxz4P?si=hUYl0M8CR52-Ys9HOjvfVA
AJ: Salsa music - Using Spotify Radio from a song
Adolescence https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31806037
Episode break down
1 The arrest
2 The school
3 The psych evaluation
4 The family
Final thoughts
The New and The Old
What The Kids Are Listening To - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/28T8aLVugGlsVKqDGFzDca?si=b3ffc681370c487d
Drake - Nokia
Sabrina Carpenter - Taste
Leon Thomas - MUTT
BossMan Dlow - Mo Chicken
...more
1h 3min
March 28, 2025Streaming Music Payouts and The Cover Song Draft
Cover Song Draft
Jon's Picks
Wonderwall - Ryan Adams
Mad World - Gary Jules, Michael Andrews
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
Devil Town - Bright Eyes
The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana
When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
I Will Survive - Cake
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Killing Me Softly - Fugees
Such Great Height - Iron and Wine

Vince's Picks
Billie Jean - Cornell
Don’t Think Twice - Mike Ness
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door - Guns N’ Roses
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon - Urge Overkill
Shankill Butchers - Sarah Jarosz
We’re Only Gonna Dies For Our Own Arrogance - Sublime
Always On My Mind - Pet Shop Boys
Boyz-n-the-Hood - Dynamite Hack
Crazy Mary - Pearl Jam
Vince
...more
1h 16min
March 04, 2025What's Your Drink Order
The Algorithm
Pink Floyd remaster: https://consequence.net/2025/02/pink-floyd-live-at-pompeii-4k-theaters-imax/
Tooth fairy shrinkflation: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/25/tooth-fairy-going-rate-2025-value-baby-teeth
SAG Awards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31st_Screen_Actors_Guild_Awards
Bar Basics
What’s the read when you walk in?
Getting the bar tender’s attention.
Your standard drink
Dive Bar
Basic Bar
Nice Bar
...more
1h 12min
February 05, 2025 2025 Grammy Reactions, NBA Trades, Movie Start Time, Book Club - 1984
The Algorithm
When Do Movies Actually Start
Link: https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/connecticut/article/ct-movie-theater-start-times-previews-film-looney-20048796.php?sid=65af2096abc88637c80639b4&ss=P&st_rid=a299dcf3-2aad-4a42-a601-7703575f99f1
Grammy Recap
Nominees and Winners: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/02/nx-s1-5280335/2025-grammy-awards-full-list-nominees-and-winners
Do awards mean anything anymore?
Genres
Rock - Does it require guitar?
Does genre matter any more?
Book Club - 1984

...more
1h 28min
January 31, 2025Road Trip Album Draft, Conclave Movie Review
Algorithm
Movie Review - Conclave - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20215234
Language and origin of actors in movies/shows
Jon’s Homework - Classic Novel

The Road Trip Album Draft
Jon's Draft Board:
August And Everything After - Counting Crows

In Rainbows - Radiohead

Crash - Dave Matthews Band

For Emma Forever Ago - Bon Iver

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay

Mission Bell - Amos Lee

Gold Chain Cowboy - Parker McCollum

Dangerous - Morgan Wallen
Vince's Draft Board
OK Computer - Radiohead

Continuum - John Mayer

Cease To Begin - Band Of Horses

Singles - Future Islands

Plastic Beach - Gorillaz

Deltron 3030

So - Peter Gabriel

I And Love And You - Avett Brothers

Self Titled - Fleet Foxes

The Wall - Pink Floyd
...more
1h 58min
January 17, 2025The Guitar Album Draft, Lost Music, and Parenting Frameworks
The Algorithm
Lost Music: Hughes & Wagner - Lady Of Cicero - https://open.spotify.com/album/15EqUvdgF6fsxZYOwum0qj?si=Wd_mDXeVSieYcp-ij3b8QQ

Listener question for new parents. Vince’s parenting elevator pitch.
The Guitar Album Draft
Jon’s Picks
Nevermind - Nirvana

Master of Puppets - Metallica

Lateralus - Tool

Dookie - Green Day

Appetite For Destruction - Guns And Roses

Pretty Hate Machine - NIN

Dirt - Alice In Chains

Rubberneck - Toadies

Audioslave - Audioslave

Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Vince’s Picks
RATM - Rage Against The Machine

Continuum - John Mayer

Blue Album - Weezer

Blood Sugar Sex Magic - RHCP

OK Computer - Radiohead

Black Album - Metallica

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pick

Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straights
Honorable Mentions
Kid A

Back In Black

White Stripes

Use Your Illusion I & II

Joshua Tree

The Final Cut

Jon's Homework
Find a book for us to read
...more
1h 43min
December 20, 202416 | Predictions for 2025. Movies, Music, Culture
S1E16 - 2025 Predictions
RTJ + Rick Rubin

A guitar banger band/album/song will drop

Female rappers will continue to rise up
Baby Tate - https://open.spotify.com/artist/3IJ21966TwNZI24MwZHMu4?si=PyWRnaeBQdqzC6jda8mXqg

Doechii - https://open.spotify.com/artist/4E2rKHVDssGJm2SCDOMMJB?si=S5zKFZ5zQTKnsFmgiH7QCA
2025 Film releases - https://www.imdb.com/list/ls567125544/

Rendezvous with Rama (June 2025) - Book by Arthur C. Clarke | Director - Denis Villenueve
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134933

Death of the comedy

Sequels and Remakes
Heat 2 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27351074

Superman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhUht6vAsMY

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (May 2025) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9603208

Money Grabs:
F1 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16311594
2025 National Food Days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_days#United_States

Craft Beer and Cigars will make a comeback.
Sports Betting will explode even more

Blue Sky replacing Twitter

Quantum Computing

MusicMoviesFood
Culture
...more
1h 30min
December 16, 202415 | 2024 Year In Review. Movies, Music, Culture
S1E15 - Year In Review
Study: Music through the ages: Trends in musical engagement and preferences from adolescence through middle adulthood. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-musical-ages-of-modern-man-how-our-taste-in-music-changes-over-a-lifetime

Homework: What I have to offer
Dune: Part Two - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15239678

The Bear - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452776

My Old Ass - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18559464

The Fall Guy - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1684562

Furiosa - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12037194

Bad Monkey - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15203646

Wolfs - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14257582

Knox Goes Away - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20115766

Shrinking - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15677150
Twisters - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12584954

Despicable Me 4 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7510222

Will & Harper - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30321133

Alone - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4803766

Love is Blind -

Outdoor Boys

Faze Rug / Mr Beast
Spotify Unwrapped

F-1 Trillion - Post Malone - https://open.spotify.com/album/4BbsHmXEghoPPevQjPnHXx?si=hAg6IfmwRcm1_y5jLAR04A

Songs Of A Lost World - Cure - https://open.spotify.com/album/4wjxmqXnSQvBZWL3IbYngX?si=qxGuhtaMRsimQTuIiXHCmA

GNX - Kendrick Lamar - https://open.spotify.com/album/0hvT3yIEysuuvkK73vgdcW?si=duE0nRTMSx65q7sJZYDZDA

Panchiko - DEATHMETAL - https://open.spotify.com/album/2MASm01cgG0a0CgioQpe6Q?si=-H86DWlWTTOk3y-4qFXqlQ

Bon Iver - SABLE - https://open.spotify.com/album/2Cwxsws0uZcu61gliYLOEm?si=NZujurIPTH6y3K9ri20VMw
Women’s Basketball had a moment in 2024

AI

Olympics

Apps & Tech?

The Algorithm
2024 Year In ReviewMovies & Shows
Music
Other
...more
1h 46min
December 09, 2024 Charlie Kaufman - What I Have To Offer
Charlie Kaufman gives a powerful speech at the 2011 BAFTA Screenwriters Lecture Series.

He talks about offering your best creativity in the work you do.

...more
37min
November 21, 2024 14 | Ron Callan, Sports Broadcaster Plus Baraka and Chappell Roan Reviews
The Algorithm
* Baraka Review
* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103767/
* Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSfFHxyYJJA
* Chappell Roan
* The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess - https://open.spotify.com/album/0EiI8ylL0FmWWpgHVTsZjZ?si=CNwtnj3_Qi6jnw3L9yEi5w

Interview: Ron Callan - Sports Announcer

* Ron’s new stuff
* Audioslave
* Imagine Dragons
* James Blount - You’re beautiful
* The Watchman’s Gone: Gordon Lightfoot
* San Francisco - Scot Mckensie

Jon’s Weekly Homework

* Incendies: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/
* Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ69WnwvZhE
...more
1h 32min

FAQs about Suburban Kings:

How many episodes does Suburban Kings have?

The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.