Viral comedian Kyle Gordon stops by The Vinyl Pad to talk about how to make a funny song, social media as a platform, meeting Weird Al and much more.

CHAPTERS

(00:00) Intro

(00:36) How Do you Make a Funny Song

(03:42) Nu Metal resurgence

(07:46) Weird Al polka

(08:52) Early Recorded Comedy

(10:58) Writing for visual gags

(12:01) What songs get a music video

(13:03) How much has social media changed the game

(14:15) What made him viral

(16:16) What took so long

(18:56) Musician or comedian first?

(20:26) Music Production

(23:53) We Will Never Die

(26:19) Loss of the Monoculture

(27:52) What won't he do

(29:58) Using genre to make fun of itself

(31:06) Instrumental funny music?

(32:25) Future genre parodies

(35:09) Comedy movie vehicle

(37:22) Milli Vanilli

(38:52) Meeting Weird Al

(43:25) Use of swears in his music

(44:44) Early influences

(45:31) Who was funny in his family?

(46:47) Pressure to get a normal job?

(47:24) New Order

(49:25) His vinyl collection

(50:08) Favorite Beatles Album

(51:32) Elvis impersonator

(52:23) Dream Collaborations

(54:09) Outro

The Velveteers stop by The Vinyl Pad to talk about their 2nd album, working with The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, opening for Guns & Roses, plus much more!

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:39 Why two drummers?

00:01:32 How they recreate their sound live

00:03:21 Production and engineering of the album

00:05:15 Honing their sound

00:06:53 Why was recording so difficult

00:08:39 Go Fly Away single

00:10:13 Working with Dan Auerbach

00:13:24 How many songs didn't make the album?

00:14:32 History of the band

00:18:43 How they met Dan

00:22:11 Opening for Guns & Roses

00:24:49 Smashing Pumpkins

00:26:36 Touring non-stop

00:29:49 Thrift Stores

00:31:24 Do they collect vinyl?

00:32:48 How to describe their sound

00:34:13 Do the Heart shaped drums work?

00:36:09 Their music videos

00:38:11 Spotify video loops

00:38:54 outro

The Chop Tops stop by The Vinyl Pad to chat about their latest release and their reunion tour after a 10 plus year hiatus

Chapters

(00:00) Intro

(01:18) Brief History of the Band

(03:50) Flying Saucer Rock n Roll

(05:20) Why Rockabilly?

(06:54) Why did they retire?

(09:03) Making a living on the road

(12:14) A.I. changing the landscape

(15:04) Why they came back

(16:16) Recording the album

(20:30) Track list breakdown

(21:50) How did the tour happen

(23:33) How was Viva Las Vegas

(26:18) Touring their way

(27:39) Music projects during retirement

(29:02) Paul McCartney

(31:57) John Lee Hooker

(33:38) Wrapping up

The phenomenal singing trio Say She She stop by The Vinyl Pad to talk about their 3rd album, Cut & Rewind, out now

(00:00) Introduction

(00:39) Their Recording Process

(02:35) Brief History of the Group

(07:25) New Album

(12:06) Recording with Neal Francis

(13:20) Singing Together

(16:29) Going Broad in Production

(17:31) Dance Moves

(18:29) Hopes for the new LP

(21:33) The Beatles

(25:15) Outro

Marty Wilson-Piper, the former guitarist for The Church, talks about his collection of over 65,000 LPs, a collection so large it's called the In Deep Music Archive.

(00:00) Intro

(01:04) How the collection started

(02:07) How is it organized

(05:33) actually listening to the collection

(07:42) Challenges of transporting

(08:23) Highlights of the Archive

(10:07) Visiting the Archive

(11:51) Exiting The Church

(14:22) Beatles Get Back

(16:21 Artists losing their edge

(20:56) Marty's future plans

(23:30) outro

Tim McIlrath of Rise Against stops by the Vinyl Pad to talk about their 10th album, Ricochet, how things have changed for the band and the industry, how he got into music and becoming straight edge and not eating meat.

Chapters

(00:00) Intro - Hero of War video

(04:17) How music promotion has changed

(09:43) Has Rise Against changed?

(10:54) How does it feel to make 10 records in 25 years?

(12:20) Gold Long Gone

(15:05) Did it being the 10th LP affect the recording?

(18:55) How they shook things up for the 10th album

(21:21) Did anything not work in the studio?

(23:01) How Tim takes care of his voice

(26:03) How Tim got into music

(28:47) Being straight edge

(32:05) Did anyone in your family drink?

(34:55) not eating meat

(36:57) What about fake meat products

(39:34) Chicago pizza

(41:15) Nostalgic for food

(42:36) Outro

Chip tune extraordinaires Anamanaguchi stop by the Vinyl Pad to chat about their new sound on their 2025 album, Anyway, out now on PolyVinyl Records.

(00:00) Introduction

(00:46) Making of new album

(04:02) coming up with the album title

(07:11) Their new sound

(10:28) Did they listen to American Football in the house?

(11:05) Album cover

(13:12) story of the album

(16:47) Wild Hogs revisited

(18:43) Lyrics for every song

(20:29) What will the fans think?

(24:03) challenges of playing live

(26:14) Their Ethos

(27:26) What the geek thinks of their new sound

(30:23) the most fun for the band

(31:37) heliocentric approach to music

(33:31) what was exciting about the recording

(35:22) Outro

Who Was Bob Neuwirth? Eric Carlson of Sunset Blvd. Records stops by The Vinyl Pad to talk about Bob, his life and the recent remix of his 1974 debut album.

Finn Bell of  Love Ghost  stops by The Vinyl Pad to chat about his debut album with Tim Skold, his inspirations and why he likes The Who over The Beatles.

(00:00) Intro

(00:44) Quick Band History

(03:25) Who are Love Ghost

(05:21) His release schedule

(07:08) Influential albums

(08:15) debut album

(09:42) How Tim Skold got involved

(12:09) The album art

(13:33) What inspires his music

(14:52) What He hopes people gets from his music

(15:23) The recording process

(19:04) Why Mexico

(21:36) Separating art from the artist

(23:26) Tommy by The Who

(25:42) Pink Floyd

(26:24) Bio pic woes

(28:46) Fav Beatles album

(29:27) Kendrick Lamar

(30:51) Bill & Ted

(32:16) Princess Bride

(33:08) Pink Moon

(34:04) Jeff Buckley

(35:32) Why he started writing music

(36:05) Outro

The Heavy Heavy chat about their debut album, One of A kind, playing The Troubadour, their influences, fav artists and albums.

(00:00) Intro

(01:10) Playing The Troubadour

(04:35) Developing their sound

(06:29) Tame Impala

(08:36) Fleetwood Mac

(11:37) Regarding Cover Songs

(14:51) Problems with pop songs

(17:05) Making a retro sound

(17:52) How they got started

(24:26) Band name origin

(26:00) Album title origin

(27:25) The album art

(28:41) Fav Floyd Albums

(29:42) Fav Classic Albums

(31:40) Goats Head Soup

(32:37) Least Fave Beatles LP

(33:49) More Fav Bands

(39:09) Fav New Bands

(45:45) John C. Reilly

(47:06) outro