Weekly Drive-By

Weekly Drive-By

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Weekly Drive-By episodes

  • WDB 64) True Detective: Cold War

    Albums reviewed this week: Sprints - Letter to Self [1/5/24] and Kala Azar - Kala Azar [1/5/24].


    We check out a couple low-key albums for our first show of the year, but before that we have to get to the Boeing plane that crashed with all survivors, do some HBO talk with reviews of their documentaries Time Bomb: Y2K and Last Stop Larrimah and a quicker review of the first season of their new show Bookie before setting expectations for True Detective: Night Country, and talk about some recent frustrations with Amazon. Stick around after the album reviews for a little bit on the upcoming Kanye West / Ty Dolla $ign collab and an answer to the most important Ye related question of the last decade.


    Intro by livingthehardlife / Scapegoats.

    1 hr 55 min
  • Nomadland: The Only Movie to Release in 2020

    We're still on holiday break here, but we've got another early show lined up. Originally recorded on 12/5/21, we watched Nomadland and decided if it lived up to its Best Picture expectations. We'll be officially back next week with our first show of 2024.

    1 hr 24 min
  • WDB 63) The 2023 Drive-By Send-Off! Top 10 Albums of 2023, Part 2!

    Jumping right back into it, in the second half of the show we give our Top 5 albums of the year. Big thanks to any and all of the listeners this year, and to all of the musicians and artists we've talked about. We talked about spots 10-6 on the last episode, but I'll drop the full Top 10 below.



    10. C.O.F.F.I.N - Australia Stops / billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps

    09. ТДК [TDK] - Nemesta / Zorn - Zorn

    08. Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE / Black Button - Rejoice

    07. McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz?! / Truculent - A Worker's Guide to Transfiguration

    06. Squid - O Monolith / Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden...

    05. Kostnatění - Úpal / John Zorn - Parrhesiastes

    04. Sneaky Jesus - For Chaching Taphed / Candelabro - Ahora o Nunca

    03. Lankum - False Lankum / Squid - O Monolith

    02. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin / EABS Meets Jaubi - In Search of a Brighter Tomorrow

    01. Le Cri du Caire - Le Cri du Caire / Le Cri du Caire - Le Cri du Caire


    1 hr 27 min
  • WDB 62) The 2023 Drive-By Send-Off! Top 10 Albums of 2023, Part 1!

    We went into this with the goal of recording our year-end top ten albums, but if you've ever listened to the show, you know how it goes...we ended up recording for about 4 hours. So instead of hitting you with the whole thing at once, we decided to break it up into two parts. First, one of us has a "Top 5 Albums I Didn't Listen to This Year," then we talk about a few EPs, and then we get to the first halves of our respective Top 10s. Lists (so far) below, because we do it for you, the people.


    10. C.O.F.F.I.N - Australia Stops / billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps

    09. ТДК [TDK] - Nemesta / Zorn - Zorn

    08. Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE / Black Button - Rejoice

    07. McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz?! / Truculent - A Worker's Guide to Transfiguration

    06. Squid - O Monolith / Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden...

    2 hr 21 min
  • WDB 61) Jesus and the Phreak
    Note: going forward, we're going to be moving to Sunday uploads. This one was supposed to come out yesterday but I was dead.Albums reviewed this week: Snooper - Super Snõõper [7/14/23], The Shits - You're a Mess [4/14/23], Illegal Crowns - Unclosing [6/2/23], Yoyo - A Beacon School [10/13/23], Zoh Amba, Chris Corsano, & Bill Orcutt - The Flower School [7/21/23], Candelabro - Ahora o Nunca [11/11/23]*, Full Body 2 -Infinity Signature [11/20/23], C.O.F.F.I.N - Australia Stops [9/15/23], and John Zorn - Parrhesiastes [12/8/23].Some of the usuals in Sip Talk and BS Headlines, but we have some fresh takes in an atheist's review of a modern Christian drama TV show, and a Dutch man who was doing some phreaking so crazy he got it named after himself. Top 10 albums of the year coming next Sunday!
    2 hr 38 min
  • WDB 60) Chile and Australia Have Decided to Make Good Music
    Albums reviewed this week: Memorrhage - Memorrhage [6/16/23], Civic - Taken by Force [2/10/23], Candelabro - Ahora o Nunca [11/11/23], and Panopticon - The Rime of Memory [11/29/23].One of these is one of our favorite albums of the year, and another one is one of our least favorites.Second to last show of the year next week, so we're a little light on our feet here, but hit some of the classic bits between Sip Talk, BS Headlines, and Drive-By Alumni.
    2 hr 28 min
  • WDB 59) Vince Vaughn Jamming at Your Local Festival
    Albums reviewed this week: Danny Brown - Quaranta [11/17/23], Gezebelle Gaburgably - Gaburger [7/4/23]*, death's dynamic shroud - Midnight Tangerine [11/10/23], Kostnatění - Úpal [5/26/23]*, Yellow Swans - Left Behind [11/17/23], Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arcadia [10/6/23], and Sneaky Jesus - For Chaching Taphed [10/5/23]*.Things start off with some anti-shoutouts, one of which is about a famous musician with a big recent controversial decision, but we're a little more generous with True Detective Season 2, where we discover a core element that most fans likely missed, and there's even a festival lineup that we don't completely dislike.
    2 hr 41 min
  • WDB 58) The Everpresent Horned Instrument Fart Noise
    Albums reviewed this week: Hotline TNT - Cartwheel [11/3/23], ALEPH - Sepulchre [7/21/23], Marina Herlop - Nekkuju [10/7/23], Trhä - Av◊ëlajnt◊ë£ hinnem nihre [11/1/23], Ned Rothenburg - Crossings Four [10/23/23], Sneaky Jesus - For Chaching Taphed [10/5/23].This episode was recorded last week, but I knew we weren't gonna record over Thanksgiving week so I saved it. Yeah, that's what happened.We got some heavily redacted chat about an upcoming wedding we're going to, incredibly classic bullshit headlines, how Canada accidentally gave India nuclear weapons, why actually everyone should have nuclear weapons, and some wild North Korea lore.
    2 hr 41 min
  • WBD 57) Do You Even Harvest Neon?!
    Albums reviewed this week: Joey Valence & Brae - Punk Tactics [9/8/23], Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis [6/2/23], Afterbirth - In but Not Of [10/20/23], Telos - Delude [3/18/23], Jute Gyte - Unus mundus patet [9/5/23], Earth - Earth 2.23: Special Lower Frequency Mix [11/3/23], Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar [10/27/23].There's also some light talk around the UK's recent ban on recreational nitrous oxide, some light fun made at the line-ups for a couple of mid-tier festivals, a quick review of Punch'd Energy gummies, and a note on the overall state of of energy drinks. After the mid-show break, we do also talk about a potentially amazing TV miniseries or full series that on one has made yet, but before the break, we have some pretty interesting headlines for articles we didn't and won't read.Relevant links below, because I'm trying to do that now too.UK nitrous ban: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nitrous-oxide-ban/nitrous-oxide-ban-guidanceRockville 2024: https://www.stereogum.com/2242010/welcome-to-rockville-lineup-2024/news/Hang Out Fest 2023: https://gulfcoastmedia.com/stories/hangout-music-festival-announces-lineup-for-spring-2023-in-gulf-shores,141917Energy toast: https://old.reddit.com/r/energydrinks/comments/17pxij4/anyone_else_make_energy_toast_when_in_a_rush/Corrupt bargains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt_bargainRed Caesar: https://www.salon.com/2023/10/09/the-rights-red-caesar-plan-a-new-order-keeps-marching-forward/
    2 hr 51 min
  • WDB 56) Chocolates and Redheads: A Holiday Episode
    Albums reviewed this week: Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED! [10/20/23], Wayfarer - American Gothic [10/27/23], Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask [10/6/23], Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals [10/13/23], Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle [9/29/23]*, and Shabazz Palaces - Robed in Rareness [10/27/23].A lot of shoutouts to start the show, then we get into Sundance and rank some of the films based only on the description, somehow end up back on The Dark Knight Rises, and mention something the Conheads aren't gonna love.
    2 hr 27 min

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The Weekly Drive-By is a music review podcast hosted by two friends who've known each other for about a decade now. The first half of the show is usually free discussion with nothing out of bounds, and the second half is built around reviews of new(ish) LPs and EPs that are either trending in the online music community or unknown picks we'd like to let people know about. We don't take ourselves too seriously, and you probably shouldn't either.