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Two Mail Bags in a row?! It's an embarrassment of riches as we begin our impromptu month-long exploration of the world of Black Metal with this very special installment of TRAPPO's Mail Bag! This episode addresses a whole bunch (like a lot) of listener comments relating to Black Metal and... other things that will not be mentioned here. It's a real journey, folks. Let's just leave it at that.

This is just the beginning, as TRAPPO is dedicating the entire month of August to Black Metal in a feature we've cleverly dubbed BLACK SUMMER!

You're welcome.

There's also a conversation going on right now, this very moment, at the official TRAPPO blog, and we want you to be a part of it. Just click right here and leave a comment on the post of your choosing. You can tell us what you think about this whole Black Metal thing, share some of your musical recommendations, or just berate us for not taking any of this seriously enough. Either way, your feedback is always welcome. We also have an email address that nobody ever uses, but you could always surprise us with a fresh missive. It's [email protected], by the way. That's our email address. Send us some electronic mail, if you so wish. We always appreciate those.

That's it for now, but be sure to join us all this month as BLACK SUMMER continues!

This time around on the show that talks about you on purpose, we're picking up the holiday slack by reading a bunch of listener feedback from our Christmas-themed episodes. Think of it as a Christmas in July kind of thing. That's festive and timely, after all. We discuss the classic film It's A Wonderful Life, our favorite adaptations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, stuff that didn't make the final cut of our KTRP Christmas special, the music of an obscure nu-metal outfit called September Mourning, the films of late director Stuart Gordon, a brief interlude with the iconic Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and for some inexplicable reason, the hit pop country song "Islands In The Stream" from Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. There's a bunch of other stuff in there, too. The episode's over an hour long, after all. But we'll leave a few surprises in there for you to discover on your own. You're welcome.

Join the conversation! Click here to visit the official TRAPPO blog and leave some comments! Leave seventeen comments on any post that catches your fancy. Just tell us some stuff. Leave a name when you comment, however. Please. Don't just stay anonymous. You don't have to use your real name. Just type a string of random letters and numbers if you'd like. We don't care. Just please, for the love of all things sacred, don't assault us with another deluge of "anonymous" comments. You're better than that, dear listener. So just click here and share your feedback, and we may address it on a future episode. We'll probably address it on a future episode of the show. You could also send us an email, because we have a dedicated email address. It's [email protected], and it's waiting for you to use and abuse. Fill our inbox with delicious emails. If we depended on consuming emails to survive, we'd have starved to death a long time ago. Luckily we don't live in a topsy-turvy world like that, but we'd still love to read your long-form thoughts in a much appreciated email. Either way, we'll be okay. But we'd be a little more okay if you sent us an email. Tell us whatever you feel like, even if it's not pop culture-related. Share some precious family recipes. We love that stuff.

Thanks for listening!

It's time for a brand-new episode of TRAPPO's New Music Showcase! We're taking a closer look at Onyx, the latest full-length release from the enigmatic Jackie Extreme. Who is Jackie Extreme? What is Jackie Extreme? If you want to find out, just tune in!

And if you want to listen to Onyx for yourself, just CLICK HERE!

We've also got a poll set up over on the official TRAPPO blog that we'd love you to check out. Just CLICK HERE and make a momentous choice. As is customary with the New Music Showcase, you get to decide whether the music we showcase is inducted into the TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on. This is a big deal, folks! So CLICK HERE and let your voice be heard!

Join the conversation! Leave a comment on the official TRAPPO blog! Tell us what's on your mind. What do you think about Jackie Extreme? What's your take on the Barbie/Oppenheimer debate? Share your thoughts! Just CLICK HERE to visit the blog and do your thing. You could also send us an email if you're feeling more verbose. Our email address is [email protected].

Listen. Vote. Comment. TRAPPO.

We're back with a brand-new edition of TRAPPO's Mail Bag, the show that talks about you on purpose! This time around, we're discussing feedback regarding the 2022 TRAPPO Music Awards, responses to responses about a Batman-related episode, the dubious merits of Vincent Gallo and his side hustle as a gigolo, candy (because somebody wanted to share their thoughts on candy), Bruce Springsteen and the insane ticket prices for his most recent tour, a bunch of people complain about TRAPPO's "worthless" shoegaze episode, and we're haunted by the morbidly obese ghost of baseball legend Babe Ruth. It's a whole lot of fun, I guess.

Would you like to join this scintillating conversation, dear listener? Probably not, but the option is there. We sure would appreciate it if you did. All you have to do is visit the official TRAPPO blog and leave a comment. Any comment. We don't care. Tell us whatever's on your mind. As long as you're not a bigoted asshole, we'll probably read your comment on a future episode. You could also send us an email, which absolutely nobody does anymore, but we feel compelled to keep sharing our email address, because we just love that specific thrill of disappointment whenever we check to see if we've received any new emails only to see an empty, lonely inbox. It's [email protected], if you're interested. You're not, but we suppose you could be. Send us an email. Remind us that we're still alive. Or maybe we're just ghosts invisibly haunting the worldwide web.

Either way, thanks for listening. If you listen. Which you don't. But if you do, thanks for that. We love you, dear imaginary listener.

Welcome back to the latest New Music Showcase here on TRAPPO! Now we may not be able to call our nascent ongoing series "a success" as of yet, but we're gonna keep plugging along, because we're just a pair of stubborn fools who want to share some neat new-ish music with our rapidly dwindling audience! Our latest offering to the new music gods is Oh Me Oh My from legendary outsider artist Lonnie Holley! Who is Lonnie Holley, you may well ask? You can learn a little more about this fascinating figure by clicking right here, and we really think you should. Suffice to say, the man has led a truly intriguing life, and his late-period forays into the musical realm have proven thus far to be incredibly moving and heartfelt, and Oh Me Oh My is no exception. So just listen to the episode, okay? And if you want to listen to Lonnie Holley's Oh Me Oh My, just click this string of words right here and listen away!

We've got a poll over on the official TRAPPO blog that we'd sure love you to participate in, if you would be so kind. Just click this thick link to decide whether or not Oh Me Oh My is inducted into the TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on. It's up to you, dear listener! The poll will remain open until the next episode of TRAPPO goes live, which will probably be next week, but considering our recent track record, who honestly knows? Either way, we desperately want you to vote in this poll. Lonnie Holley needs your votes.

There's also a conversation going on right now, and we'd love you to become a part of that. Just visit the official TRAPPO blog and leave a comment on the post of your choosing. Tell us what you think about the New Music Showcase so far, share your thoughts on Lonnie Holley's music, or just type whatever's on your mind. We don't care. As long as you're not spilling any bigoted tea, it's all good. You could also send us an email if you were so inclined. You probably won't, but that door is always open. Just direct those theoretical emails to [email protected] and we may read your rambling thoughts on a future episode of the show.

Thanks for listening, and thanks for voting!

Hey! Have you heard of TELLY? Not the English slang term for television, dummy! The brand-new "free" ad-supported television called TELLY that's supposedly coming later this summer! If you haven't heard of TELLY, then let your good friends here at TRAPPO tell you all about it! Or you can just read this reasonable article from WIRED that discusses TELLY in some detail. That would be quicker. But not as entertaining! Is the dystopian future we've all long-feared finally arrived?! Is TELLY the new vanguard for the surveillance state? Is TELLY our new friend? Or is TELLY our greatest enemy? Let's stoke each other's fears and paranoia this week on the show that talks about stuff on purpose!

There's a conversation going on right now, and we want you to be a part of it! Just go to the official TRAPPO blog <---by clicking here, then find the post of your choosing and sound off! Tell us what you think about the upcoming technological terror that is TELLY, or just tell us anything else. As long as you're not some kind of bigoted asshat, I'm sure you'll have nothing to worry about. You could also share a whole bunch of rambling nonsense via email, if that's your thing. Nobody sends us emails anymore, and it's making us really sad, so maybe you could just send us an email. Be a pal and click this link--->EMAIL! and give us some love! We might be getting a little desperate over here, so send us some emails!

Thanks for listening, and welcome, TELLY, our new televisual overlord!

It's time for a good old-fashioned album exchange! This time around, we're talking about WAR from I Speak Machine and something called ECHT from La Colonie de Vacances, which roughly translates to "summer camp". What does that mean? Listen to the episode to find out, I guess. Have you ever heard any of this music? If not, you can listen to WAR RIGHT HERE and you can listen to ECHT RIGHT HERE. Click them links and listen to some groovy tunes. And after you've listened to the episode and the groovy tunes, click THIS LINK to vote in our latest poll! WAR's fate is in peril! Are you an intelligent human being who thinks it belongs in the TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on? Are you a big dummy who doesn't appreciate good music and thinks it's just a musical succubus that drains you of your very life essence? Click HERE to voice your opinion!

And while you're there, why don't you go ahead and join the conversation? Leave us a comment telling us what you think about the music featured in this episode, or really whatever else catches your fancy. We really just love feedback. Speaking of feedback, we also have an email address. It's [email protected], if you're interested. Send us an email if you feel up to it. We do so enjoy reading your delightful emails, dear listeners. That's pretty much it. Thanks for listening, and thanks for voting. Oh, did you not vote? Then click THIS LINK to vote. Did you click the link? You really should. Bye!

(Sincere apologies to both I Speak Machine and La Colonie de Vacances for this low-energy and scatter-brained episode. You deserve better.)

Hello again, dear listener. TRAPPO, the show that talks about stuff on purpose, has returned with a brand-new episode of our beloved New Music Showcase! We know you're very excited for this. You've been looking forward to it. And we here at TRAPPO are more than happy to oblige. So what new music are we showcasing this week? Thank you for asking. It's a recent release from an artist named Pauline Bedarida, A.K.A. PÖ, called Cociage, and we are here to tell you all about it, because that's what the New Music Showcase is all about. Is this new music worth your time? Maybe. Maybe not. You have to listen to find out. That's the whole point of the podcast. Why would we just tell you what we think about Cociage right here? We went through all the trouble of making this whole podcast all about Cociage, and the least you can do, dear listener, is actually listen to the damned thing. So do that.

Discover the disturbing majesty of Fuck Jungle for yourself by clicking here to listen to Cociage!

And now it's time for a poll! That's right, dear listener! Every episode of TRAPPO's New Music Showcase is accompanied by a poll. That's just part of the format. We don't get to decide whether or not these new releases make the cut and get inducted into the TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on. You do. With a poll. You'll find it right here, at this link. Click this link to find the poll. There are two options: YES and NO. This isn't difficult. Do you think Cociage belongs in the Can(n)on? Then vote YES. If you don't want Cociage in the Can(n)on, then vote NO. We shouldn't have to explain polls to you. So vote. Listen to the episode, then listen to Cociage, then vote. Vote with your heart, dear listener. The results of the poll will be announced when our next episode goes live, whenever that is.

There's a conversation happening right now, dear listener. It's not a particularly active conversation at the moment, but it's still a conversation, and we want you to be a part of it. All you have to do is follow this link to the official TRAPPO blog and leave a comment. Tell us what you think about Cociage. Do you think it's awesome? Do you think it's beneath contempt? We want to hear your opinions. You could also tell us just about anything else that might be on your mind, should you be willing to share. Just tell us things. All the things. We want to know what's going on out in the world right now, because we don't get out much. If you're so inclined, you could also send us an email. You probably won't, but we need you to know that you always have the option. The address is [email protected], by the way. If you've got a lot of stuff to say, just send us an email. We'd love to hear from you. Unless you're just going to be a bigot or an asshole. Then we'd rather you just keep all that to yourself.

Thanks for voting, and thanks for listening!

Welcome back to the show that talks about stuff on purpose! In this delightful episode, we're gonna be blabbing about a "movie" that has taken the hipster horror world by storm! It's 2022's Skinamarink, which is a very awkward title to say out loud! Just go ahead and say it out loud a few times right now. Marvel at how the word utterly fails to roll off the tongue! And no, we're not talking about Skinnamarink, the song from Sharon, Lois & Bram. Actually, that's not true. We do, in fact, discuss the Sharon, Lois & Bram song a little bit in this episode, because we were left with precious little choice. What does that have to do with 2022's experimental horror flick Skinamarink? Something, dear listener. Something. Have you seen 2022's Skinamarink? If not, you probably should. You should at least try. Maybe you'll like it. Maybe you'll love it. Maybe you'll curse the day it was released. Either way, TRAPPO wins. Bottom line: if you've got a fetish for movies filled (to the brim) with dimly-lit shots of carpets and beige walls, we have the movie for you! It's streaming on SHUDDER right now. It's also coming to blu-ray on June 20th, and you can pre-order it today, if that floats your boat. I guess you could pirate the movie if you want to be a complete asshole. But don't do that. Support independent artists. That's super important, kids.

Join the conversation! Which conversation? The conversation that's going on right now on the official TRAPPO blog! Just go there and leave a comment on the post of your choosing. You can tell us what you think about 2022's Skinamarink if you feel up to it. You could also tell us literally anything else. Just don't be a bigot or an asshole and you're always welcome. We also have an email address. It's [email protected], if you're interested. Send us an email. Tell us things. Tell us ALL the things. Type some stuff for us to read. Words on the internet. That's what we love here at TRAPPO.

Thanks for listening!

The show that talks about stuff on purpose is back! And we've returned with a brand-new album exchange for your listening pleasure! This time around, we're discussing Art d'Ecco's 2022 release After The Head Rush and Sonic Youth alum Kim Gordon's 2019 solo debut, No Home Record. Have you heard of either of these albums? If not, then we're gonna tell you all about them, dear listener, because they're great!

There's a conversation going on right now, and we want you to be a part of it! All you have to do is leave a comment on the official TRAPPO blog telling us what you think of After The Head Rush and No Home Record. Do you agree with our opinions? Do you think we're a pair of dumbass idiots who couldn't find good music on the internet if our lives depended on it? Maybe you don't care either way about this music and just want to talk about current events in pop culture? Big thoughts about the upcoming HBO MAX/Discovery+ app? Excited about Evil Dead Rise? Tell us about all about it. As long as you don't act like a bigoted asshole, we don't mind. We also have an email address, if you're interested in sending us a long-winded screed about whatever is festering in your diseased mind. Send your rambling manifestos to [email protected] if you are so inclined. We always appreciate your feedback, and it may be featured in a future episode of the show.

Thanks for listening!