When the Charles is away, the cats will play. If by "play" you mean "talk about fake bands from newspaper comic strips whose names start with N-Z." You meant that, right?

Join us on our deep dive into Grace of My Heart to celebrate its 30th anniversary.  This Alison Anders film is a heavily fictionalized version of Carole King's life, starring Illeana Douglas, John Turturro, Eric Stoltz and Matt Dillon.  We look at the music of the 1960s, the men and women of the Brill Building, and why we need to give every last bit of minutia and trivia about our subjects.

We lost two beloved icons on the same day: Dolly Parton and Tim Curry.  We look at Dolly's legacy, her fake band roles in 9 to 5 and Rhinestone, and how she lived her life the way our heroes should live.  Then we discuss Tim Curry, the gifted actor who wowed us with charisma and fake band flair.  Oh, and T. Mike talks about the TV show Wiseguy for hours and hours and...

The Autopian's Jason Torchinsky joins us as we delve deep into the comics page, looking for fake bands and artists (and finding quite a few).

Sometimes you have to run your experiments in the lab, and sometimes you have to rock!  We look at real scientists from real bands like Queen and The Offspring, we look at real scientists who were in fake bands like Bridgit Mendler, and then a lot of fake scientists with their fictional tunes.  Then, after all the laughs, we get serious.  Yahoo Serious, that is.  It's a full show.

So there's a group of people who share a house.  Okay, not a group of people, but a milkshake and an order or fries and a meat wad.  You heard me. A wad of meat.  It only gets weirder from there on Aqua Teen Hunger Force.  Luckily for us, they make a lot of fictional music so we can talk about them!

We tackle the early days of Adult Swim, that crazy channel for adult animation.  If you like Space Ghost, Harvey Birdman, Brak, Zorak, and SeabLab 2021, or you think the names are funny and you want to hear more, well this show is for you!  Next week, we'll finish Adult Swim with a look at Aqua Teen Hunger Force so stay tuned!

Guest hosts Kelli and Michal join Charles once again to talk about fictional music in recent Korean dramas.  After the longest five minutes ever to discuss Yumi's Cells, they tackle Hometown Cha Cha Cha, Twinkling Watermelon, and Idol I.  

On this episode of The Rocklopedia Fakebandica, we celebrate the birthday of Gary Gygax, the brains behind Dungeons & Dragons, the role playing game that brought RPGs to the mainstream.  We talk about his life, his game, his novels, and the novels of others inspired by his work.   

We celebrate one of our own by wishing happy birthday to T. Mike!  We try to find a band to play his birthday party, and we look for the bands all over pop culture, including The Simpsons, Parks and Rec, Metalocaypse, Z Rock and even greeting cards.