Musician Keith Michaud (The Lightworkers) brings us the fifth album by indie rock titans Sebadoh, 'Bakesale'. With this release, Lou Barlow and co. managed to bridge their lo-fi beginnings with pure pop power chords, producing a collection of songs that hit both hard AND deep! Songs featured in this episode: On Fire (Acoustic version) - Sebadoh; Hemispheres - Keith Michaud; Coming Down Heavy - The Lightworkers; Soulmate - Sebadoh; Gold Soundz - Pavement; Too Young To Fall In Love - Motley Crue; Waiting Room - Fugazi; Primary - The Cure; Bewitched - Beat Happening; License To Confuse - Sebadoh; No Bones - Dinosaur Jr; Rock Of Ages - Def Leppard; Careful, Magnet's Coil - Sebadoh; Smothered In Hugs - Guided By Voices; Magnet's Coil (Acoustic version) - Sebadoh; Song Of The Minerals - Shellac; Not A Friend, Not Too Amused, Dreams - Sebadoh; Einstein's Day - Mission Of Burma; Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr; Skull, Got It, Shit Soup - Sebadoh; Sorry Entertainer - Daniel Johnson; Give Up, Rebound, Mystery Man, Temptation Tide, Drama Mine - Sebadoh; Marquee Moon - Television; Together Or Alone - Sebadoh; The Wagon - The Lightworkers (off of 'Play em! The Woody EP')

For this BONUS Patreon episode we asked our Patrons to submit songs that make them happy and tell us why they do. It's a pretty joyful collection of songs guaranteed to make you feel good.
Come on, get happy!

Songs featured in this episode: Happy Days - Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox; Happy - Pharrell Williams - Happy - The Rolling Stones;  Happy House - Siouxsie and the Banshees; Happy Together - The Turtles; Cherry Cherry - Neil Diamond; Our House - Madness; A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays" - De La Soul; I Get Off On It - Tony Joe White; My Best Friend (Is a Nihilist) - Iron Chic; Awake - Devon Townsend; And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles; Make Your Own Kind Of Music - Cass Elliot; Glory Hallelujah - Frank Turner; Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder; Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield/The Inspector Cluzo; High - Choo Choo Train; Spirit Ditties of No Tone - Deerhoof; Help You Ann - The Lyres; Making Our Dreams Come True - Cyndi Grecco; Mint Car - The Cure; Baby It's You - Phil Seymour; Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Ramones; Else - Built To Spill; It's A Good Thing - That Petrol Emotion; Letter From An Occupant - The New Pornographers; In Spite Of Ourselves - John Prine and Iris DeMent; Perfect Day - Hoku; Going For The One - Yes

For this Patreon episode, we asked our Patrons once again to send in songs that break their hearts every time they hear them. They did NOT disappoint. Make sure you have a box of tissues within reach... Songs featured in this episode: Don't Look Back In Anger - Manchester crowd; Words - Low; Fire and Rain - James Taylor; Changes - Charles Bradley; Don't Need A Reason - Beth Orton; Expert In A Dying Field - The Beths; Dear God - XTC; Mami - Melody; Them Changes - Thundercat; Ivy - Frank Ocean; Come A Little Closer - Cage The Elephant; Glimpse Of Us - Joji; Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye) - Gladys Knight and the Pips; I've Been A Mess - American Music Club; Foolish Games - Jewel; Party Fears Two - The Associates; Love In Vain - Robert Johnson; I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free - Nina Simone; Black Love - Greg Dulli; It Makes No Difference - The Band; Angie - Rolling Stones; I'd Rather Go Blind - Rod Stewart; Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks; Mile Rock Man - Dawn Oberg; Photograph - Ringo Starr; Lazarus - David Bowie; Lippy Kids - Elbow; Moonlight Motel - Bruce Springsteen; Come Pick Me Up - Ryan Adams; Come Together - Spiritualized; Hold On Hope - Glen Campbell

Returning guest  Steve Michener (Big Dipper, Volcano Suns, Dumptruck) brings in Ground Zero for British punk, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols, the one and only studio album by the notorious Sex Pistols. 
"We mean it, man!"   Songs featured in this episode:Roadrunner (demo)  - Sex Pistols; Roadrunner - Sex Pistols (Live Brixton Academy, 2007); Meet The Witch - Big Dipper; I'll Be Back - The Beatles; Welcome To The Working Week - Elvis Costello; Street Life - Roxy Music; Beat On The Brat - Ramones; Holidays In The Sun - Sex Pistols; Welcome To Paradise - Green Day;  In The City - The Jam; Bodies - Sex Pistols; More Than A Feeling - Boston; No Feelings - Sex Pistols; I'm So Bored With The U.S.A. - The Clash; No Feelings, Liar, Problems - Sex Pistols; I Don't Want To Talk About It - Rod Stewart; God Save The Queen, Seventeen, Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols; Come As You Are - Nirvana; Anarchy In The UK - Motley Crue; Submission - Sex Pistols; S.O.S.- ABBA; Pretty Vacant, New York - Sex Pistols; London Boys - The Heartbreakers; EMI - Sex Pistols; Careering - Public Image Ltd; Anarchy In The UK - Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain; God Save The Queen - Motorhead

Wilco's fourth studio album, the quirky-yet-beloved 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot', is widely considered to be the band's masterpiece. So of course Rob dismissed it as overhyped alt-rock critic-bait for 20 years. Returning guest Steve Carroll patiently unwraps the storied tropes and mythical symbols of Jeff Tweedy and co., revealing a pretty fantastic rock record underneath. Songs featured in this episode: Jesus, etc. (Live at Sydney Opera House, 2013), Via Chicago - Wilco; After The Gold Rush - Neil Young; Drown - Son Volt; Forget The Flowers - Wilco; Black Horse - Gastr Del Sol; I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Kamera - Wilco; Isi - NEU!; Radio Cure, War On War, Jesus, etc., Ashes Of American Flags, Heavy Metal Drummer - Wilco; American Girl - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers; Strutter - Kiss; I'm The Man Who Loves You - Wilco; Apeman - The Kinks; Pot Kettle Black - Wilco; In Between Days - The Cure; Poor Places, Reservations - Wilco; Phonetic Alphabet NATO - The Conet Archive; I Am Trying To Break Your Heart - JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound

It's hard to discuss British rock band Badfinger and NOT focus on the tragic details of their too-short career. This week's guest, legendary Miami music maven Rich Ulloa (Yesterday & Today Records, Y&T Music), doesn't shy away from the dark parts, but much prefers to focus on the wonderful music these four lads from Swansea gifted the world. Their 1971 release 'Straight Up' is as fine an example of lush, meticulously recorded and thrillingly played power-pop as you're ever likely to find.  Songs featured in this episode: Take It All (Live) - Badfinger; We Can Work It Out - The Beatles; Clowntime Is Over - Elvis Costello; This Broken Heart - The Mavericks; Flagboy - For Squirrels; Thirsty Boots - Bob Dylan; Perfection - Sweet Lizzy Project; Come And Get It, No Matter What, Apple Of My Eye, Take It All - Badfinger; Golden Slumbers - The Beatles; Maybe I'm Amazed (Live) - Paul McCartney and Wings; Baby Blue - Badfinger; Money - The Flying Lizards; Money, Flying, I'd Die Babe - Badfinger; No Matter What - Jellyfish; Name Of The Game - Badfinger; Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers; Suitcase, Sweet Tuesday Morning, Day After Day - Badfinger; No More - Pete Ham; Sometimes - Badfinger; It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference - Todd Rundgren; Perfection, It's Over - Badfinger; Piano Red - Albert Castiglia Band (Featuring Mandy Marylane); No Matter What (World Version) - Stan Lynch; Eyesight To The Blind - Mose Allison; Name Of The Game - Amanda Green

With their third full-length album, 2011's 'The English Riviera', British band Metronomy transitioned from garish electro-pop to a sleek, sophisticated sound that's as much Steely Dan as Daft Punk. Our guest, Scottish singer/songwriter and producer Joshua Mackenzie (The Joshua Hotel, Lional), found inspiration for his own music in leader Joseph Mount's lush-yet-quirky songs about - among other things - his hometown of Torbay in Devon that make up this beguiling record.
"You're up, but you'll get down
You're never running from this town...
This town's the oldest friend of mine" Songs featured in this episode: Corinne (Instrumental) - Metronomy; Repetition Town - The Joshua Hotel; I'm Aquarius, Night Owl - Metronomy; Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan; Indie Rokkers - MGMT; Missing U - Robyn; The English Riviera, We Broke Free - Metronomy; Untitled - Interpol; Everything Goes My Way - Metronomy; She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina - The Kinks; The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret - Queens Of The Stone Age; The Look - Metronomy; F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E - Pulp; She Wants - Metronomy; Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy) - Ween; Trouble - Metronomy; Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie; Honesty Is No Excuse - Thin Lizzy; Don't Believe A Word - Marco Mendoza w/Josh Mackenzie; The Bay - Metronomy; Atlantis To Interzone - Klaxons; Loving Arm, Corinne - Metronomy; Blockhead - DEVO; Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus; Some Written - Metronomy; Lot 105 - Blur; Love Underlined - Metronomy; Daft Punk Is Playing At My House - LCD Soundsystem; Somebody New - The Joshua Hotel

Listening back to it now, it's hard to believe that Bad Religion's seventh studio album - 1993s 'Recipe For Hate' - was at the time considered a polarizing record that many hardcore fans felt was a sell-out. 30 years later, it's clear this was a band at the top of their game - maturing and expanding musically while still delivering ferociously intelligent songs about class, religion and navigating a treacherous path towards the 21st century. Our guest, personal trainer and Taekwon-Do Studio owner Aaron Fruitstone, makes the case that their brand of cerebral punk is as presciently valid now as it was when he was an angry teen.
"Well madness reigned and paradise drowned
When Babel's walls came crashing down
Now the echoes roar for a story writ
That was hardly understood
And never any good." Songs featured in this episode: Recipe For Hate (Live Hollywood Palladium, 2004) - Bad Religion; Strike First - Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson; No Control, Only Entertainment - Bad Religion; White Riot - The Clash; Commando - Ramones; Recipe For Hate, Kerosene - Bad Religion; Vigil Smile - Claw Hammer; American Jesus - Bad Religion; Porch - Pearl Jam; Portrait Of Authority - Bad Religion; House Of Wolves - My Chemical Romance; Wichita - Karen Landau and Greg Leisz; Man With A Mission, All Good Soldiers, Watch It Die - Bad Religion; Still In Hollywood - Concrete Blonde; Struck A Nerve - Bad Religion; Harder Than You Think - Public Enemy; My Poor Friend Me - Bad Religion; Growing Up - Fall Out Boy; Lookin' In - Bad Religion; Kids Of The Black Hole - Adolescents; Don't Pray On Me - Bad Religion; Sorrow - Greg Graffin (Live acoustic); Modern Day Catastrophists, Skyscraper, Stealth, Skyscraper (Piano version) - Bad Religion

Buckle-up listeners! This week's guest, Jeff Kaiser (Florida Sound Archive Podcast), brings us a record - and genre - that got his teenage self extremely high: It's the 1995 debut album by Tampa Death Metal supergroup Six Feet Under (featuring members of Cannibal Corpse and Obituary), 'Haunted'. With a slightly groovier, more riff-heavy sound than your standard Death Metal fare, its horror-themed songs about zombies, werewolves and the darker side of existence just might get under your skin. Added bonus: your parents will HATE it! Songs featured in this episode: Suffering In Ecstasy - Six Feet Under; If This Is Love - Charlie Pickett & The Eggs; Buzzard Dance - Billie Stewart (Songs of the Seminole Indians of Florida 1931-1933); A Skull Full Of Maggots - Cannibal Corpse; Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment - Ramones; The Enemy Inside - Six Feet Under; Children Of The Grave - Black Sabbath; Silent Violence, Lycanthropy, Still Alive, Beneath The Black, Human Target, Remains Of You, Suffering In Ecstasy - Six Feet Under; Better You, Better Than Me - Judas Priest; Suck My Kiss - Red Hot Chili Peppers; Tomorrow's Victim - Six Feet Under; A New Hope - Amboog-A-Lard; Torn To The Bone, Haunted - Six Feet Under; Veil Of Maya - Cynic; Stepping Stone - Six Feet Under

Record store owner and self-professed 'music geek' David Lewis (Elizabeth's Records - Columbus, OH) thinks we should never stop discovering new (to us) music. He's right. Around 10 years ago he came upon the 1972 debut album by German experimental rock group Agitation Free, 'Malesch'. A mysterious fusion of psychedelia, experimental krautrock and world music, it's a fascinating snapshot of a band working together to create a trippy, ethereal and unique wall of sound. Songs featured in this episode: Laila III - Agitation Free (Live in Paris ORTF Studio, 1973); Future Games - Fleetwood Mac; Hallogallo - Neu!; Phaedra - Tangerine Dream; Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath; Winning - The Sound; You Play For Us Today, Sahara City - Agitation Free; New Dawn Fades - New Order; Ala Tul - Agitation Free; Supernaut - Black Sabbath; Outside Tokyo - The Stranglers; Pulse - Agitation Free; Departure From The Northern Wasteland - Michael Hoenig; Pruit Igoe - Philip Glass; Khan El Khalili - Agitation Free; Jessica - The Allman Brothers; No One Is There - Nico; V-2 Schneider - David Bowie; Malesch - Agitation Free; Utopia III (excerpt) - Thomas Kessler; Malesch, Rücksturz - Agitation Free; Emka - My Education; Music Factory - Agitation Free (Live Mainz Germany, 1972)