Next week the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, will be released into theaters. Along with the rest of the world, we are super excited. Tristan even experienced Star Wars in the darkest jungles of Peru last week (on Peruvian TV). We breakdown the original Star Wars steals that set the tone for the legendary series.

 

 

Here’s a throwback Thanksgiving – another of our video parodies featuring our Internet Icon compadre, LA filmmaker extraordinaire, Joule Thief.  We were spoofing on Britney Spears’ Work B**ch.

Wishing you a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving! While you are driving to your holiday feasts, take a listen to one of our most downloaded episodes – Music Clustering. For whatever reason, clustering of good music happens rarely. We decided to look at what years really produced consistently awesome music. We made up our own metric for “awesome.” Every year has flagship songs so what we really looked at was the second tier, the songs that surrounded the flagship songs. Listen to hear our crazy theory about music clustering. You will be surprised what years make the cut.

A.V.Club Podmass review of our Music Clustering episode:

How does one characterize a great year for music? Can it be quantified by dollars earned, records sold? Does it have more to do with the number of great artists who were working at the top of their game? Does it correspond with a previously under-appreciated genre going mainstream? On their podcast, Who Stole What?, brothers Tristan and Rory Shields offer an elegantly simple explication: the ratio of decent songs to not-so-decent songs on the radio. To illustrate their thought process, the two musicians chose four years from the past half-century—two of them great for music, two of them much less so—and took a look at the top 100 songs from that year, which they then broke down into three categories: classic songs, memorable songs, and songs that you might not even know exist. Great years, according to their theory, might only have a few true seminal hits, but are loaded with songs that are unoffensive and pleasant, if not amazing. Bad years are deserts of the forgettable, speckled with oases of quality. The year that featured the most consistently enjoyable radio-listening experience turns out to be very unexpected.

We met Christina Aguilera on The Voice Season 2. Her single, Your Body, came out about the same time. It was a bomb. So we decided to do a parody with the song and make it about something we all love – MONOPOLY. This was our first parody video. Enjoy and get ready to play Monopoly on your Thanksgiving holiday next week!

The Eagles of Death Metal is one of our favorite bands. We were honored when Dave Catching, EODM’s guitarist, wished us the best before our performances on The Voice. The events in Paris have really hit home. So this week we are rebroadcasting our podcast about the music of ISIS.

In this week’s podcast, 137. Da Ya Think I’m Sexy? Steals from South America, we talked about Gotye and his song, Somebody I Used To Know. So this week’s video bonus is our cover from a few years back of Gotye’s hit song.

We’re in the mood for South American music. Tristan is headed to Peru for a couple of weeks in search of great South American steals. This week, Rod Stewart, Gotye and Shakira are all involved in serious steals from South America.

Somebody That I Used to Know (Gotye cover)

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This popped up in the news so we’re doing a bonus episode this week. Taylor Swift is being sued for stealing lyrics on her Shake It Off song. Haters gonna hate …

We started rehearsing on Periscope. Go follow us on Periscope or Twitter to get notices to watch us perform live.

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Lots of news this past week about the infamous Blurred Lines stealing case. Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams depositions were leaked and we got insight into what the jury actually heard. More witch hunt, less musical trial is our take … listen now!

Watch for our bonus Taylor Swift stealing podcast tomorrow!

Also, we started rehearsing on Periscope. Go follow us on Periscope or Twitter to get notices to watch us perform live.

Blurred Lines Parody — Shields Brothers

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To get your Halloween party weekend started, here’s the video of our original song, Saucy Jack. Enjoy and be safe out there!

If you want the song, get it at iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and other stores.