So it has been a month since the last episode of Tales From The Drop Box was posted. I think I’ve had a break just long enough to be enjoyable and re-charge the batteries for the upcoming year. In short, I am glad to be back! I am truly excited about the prospects for music in 2019 as there are a number of new releases that preorders have just gone up including new albums by Teenage Bottlerocket, Pup, Tame Impala, Lemonheads and finally new King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. I was truly spoiled by the 5LPs released in 2017.

What was missing from last year that I didn’t get to play for you? Well, I’m glad you asked! Before we get to this year’s new music releases, I am going back to pick up a few tracks from the end of last year that you might have missed. Tales From The Drop Box Episode 134 is filled with a pretty broad spectrum of music encompassing some folk, pop, indie rock, and the throwback is from the Kids who have been playing punk rock for 40 years. Honestly, I never thought I’d put that last sentence in writing. Continue reading →

Here is what you’ll find in Episode #133:

1. Beach Bunny – “Prom Queen” (Prom Queen EO)

2. Bearings – “Aforementioned” (Blue In The Dark)

3. Basement Revolver – “Dancing” (Heavy Eyes)

4. Fiddlehead – “Spousal Loss” (Springtime and Blind)

5. Skeggs – “Up In The Clouds” (My Own Mess)

6. BC Camplight – “Deportation Blues” (Deportation Blues)

7. Jens Friebe – “Special people Club” (Fuck Penetration)

8. City Kids Feel The Beat – “Worst Date” (Cheeky Heart)

9. Monovine – “Throw Me A Bone” (D.Y.E.)

10. Sports Bar – “Fried” (Stranger In My Head)

11. Priors – “Sunshine” (New Pleasure)

12. AFI – “Trash Bat” (The Missing Man EP)

13. JD McPherson – “Bad Kid” (Socks)

14. Dead Kennedys – “To Drunk To Fuck” (To Drunk To Fuck b/w The Prey)

15. The Fleas – “Glitter Shitter” ( A Flea In Your Ear) Continue reading →

Here is what you’ll find in Episode #130:

Watoo Watoo – “Les Regards Hostile” (Modern Express)

Can’t Swim – “My Queen” (This Too Won’t Pass)

Therapie Taxi – “Zarba” (Hit Sale Xtra Cheese)

Tomorrows Tulips – “Certain Frantic Quality” (Harnessed To Flesh)

The Littlest Viking – “Deathdrop For Jesus” (Feelings & Stuff)

Color TV – “Pale & Vicious” (Color TV)

Workin’ Man Noise Unit – “Turn It Off” (It’s Not Nothin’)

Harlan T. Bobo – “Spiders” (A History Of Violence)

Gold Star – “This Is The Year” (Uppers & Downers)

Night Shop – “I Was Alone” (In The Break)

Hippo Campus – “Anxious” (Bambi)

Middle Class Rut – “Swimmin’ outta L.A.” (Strangler Days)

We Hate You Please Die – “Minimal Function” (Kids Are Lo-Fi)

Radio Birdman – “I-94” (The Essential Radio Birdman 1974-1978)

Escondido – “Bullet” (Warning Bells) Continue reading →

The savage mutilation of the human race is set on course protest and survive . . . and how we've trembled at the way that time assembles little fires of desire in the tundra of our skin so, do yourself a little favor savor every time you waver . . . Continue reading →

A bonus episode this week of Tales From The Drop Box. Episode 128 is a driving episode filled from beginning to end with high energy rock n’ roll mostly traversing the punk rock world. For once this should be a good surprise, eh?

NB: If you listen to this podcast with impressionable and sensitive young children around you, you should probably give this episode a pass if they can make out the words, eh? There are a ton of fucks liberally sprinkled throughout the show.

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Tales From The Drop Box Episode 122 is a legitimate exercise of free expression and protected by a Constitution. That Constitution was revealed this past week to be merely a piece of paper and not the touchstone of a democratic society. One observation that is obvious from the events surrounding the Kavanaugh appointment to the supreme court: our government is in free fall. Continue reading →

As the name suggests each cast explores new interesting and sometimes some great old tunes not likely to be played on the freakin radio. A mix of indie, pop, alternative, punk, and experimental with no commercial breaks and only a little yapping. Cool?

As the name suggests each cast explores new interesting and sometimes some great old tunes not likely to be played on the freakin radio. A mix of indie, pop, alternative, punk, and experimental with no commercial breaks and only a little yapping. Cool?

As the name suggests each cast explores new interesting and sometimes some great old tunes not likely to be played on the freakin radio. A mix of indie, pop, alternative, punk, and experimental with no commercial breaks and only a little yapping. Cool?

As the name suggests each cast explores new interesting and sometimes some great old tunes not likely to be played on the freakin radio. A mix of indie, pop, alternative, punk, and experimental with no commercial breaks and only a little yapping. Cool?