BOO! It’s that time of year again, the annual Halloween Spooktacular!!

Nick shares some haunted venues…

Song: Angela Alexander & J.D. Saddler - “Don’t Make Me Kill You”

Greg shares a new chapter of Tourror Stories…

Song: Leviathan - “Vi-Xi-Vi”

Jay shares some scary good performances…

Songs:

Billy Strings - “Freeborn Man”

black midi - “The Race Is About To Begin”

Alan Holdsworth - “Devil Take the Hindmost”

Jay takes us back to the fateful Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash of Oct 20, 1977. 

Song: Lynyrd Skynyrd - “(I Got The) Same Old Blues”

Kevin Parker has released a new Tame Impala album, Deadbeat, and it’s quite different than previous releases. The guys have thoughts, but so does Pitchfork. It’s time for another Review the Review.

Song: Tame Impala - “Afterthought”

Greg brings up to speed on the latest news with a Heard It Through the GREGvine.

Songs:

Johnny Greenwood - “One Battle After Another (Score)”

Limb Bizkit - “Rearranged”

Kiss - “She”

Sam Rivers - “Beatrice”

Greg remembers the great D’Angelo, who passed this week at the age of 51.

Songs:

D’Angelo - “Brown Sugar”

D’Angelo - “Spanish Joint”

D’Angelo - “Prayer”

Jay has a stew of stories to share on another Jay’s Jambalaya. JBL Road Show, Ryan Adams falls off the wagon, and Benn Jordan talks about spooky frequencies.

Song: Nicki Bluhm - “Falling Out Of Dreams”

Nick wants to talk about Rush and their new drummer, Anika Nilles. It’s Viral or Eyeroll!

Rush - “La Villa Strangiato”

Wayan Zoey is back! It’s been too long but we’re honored to have him back for another Weigh-In With Wayan. We discuss the current job market for drummers, including the news that Rush is going back on tour. Nine Inch Nails & Foo Fighters have swapped drummers, and Wayan’s buddy Scotty Zwang has joined Umphrey’s McGee.

Songs:

Anika Nilles - “Cloak”

McGuire Zwang Duo - “Drop”

Shore Pines - “American English”

Next up, it’s News with Nick. Artists keep dropping from Spotify, Zach Bryan gets a response from the Department of Homeland Security, and Chris Dreja from the Yardbirds passes at 79.

Song: Jeff Berlin - “Joe Frazier Round 3”

Prior to last week’s episode, Greg hadn’t given the music of Geese much of a chance. One week and he’s intrigued by what he’s hearing.

Songs:

Geese - “2122”

Geese - “Cobra”

Nick returns, a little sleep deprived, following the arrival of Christopher Guy Kline. Katie & the baby are doing great. He’s back with a News with Nick! Daniel Ek is out(ish), the FTC sues Ticketmaster, and Kneecap beats terrorism charges in England.

Song: Umphrey’s McGee - “Divisions”

Greg has four songs across three artists that he would like to share. First, by way of Alan Holdsworth, we learn the rule “every fusion band’s best album is live in Japan in the 80s.” Next we dabble with country/djent artist Bilmuri. Then we land on the latest two Tame Impala singles.

Songs:

Alan Holdsworth - “Letters of Marque (Live in Japan 1984)”

Bilmuri - “Better Hell (Thicc Boi)”

Tame Impala - “ Dracula”

Tame Impala - “Loser”

Jay intended to have a bird themed “Three For Thursday,” but couldn’t score a third. Instead we get some new Geese, a Goose track, and a handful of clips from Fred Armisen’s new foley album of sound effects.

Songs:

Geese - “Bow Down”

Goose - “Madalena”

Fred Armisen - “Band Soundcheck (Sound Guy and Band Agreeing Too Long)”

Fred Armisen - “Trying out Electronic Drums with Headphones on”

Fred Armisen - “Trying out a Distortion Pedal”

Allow me (Jay) to be one of the first to welcome Christopher Guy Kline to the world! As we were recording this episode, Nick and his fiancee Katie brought a beautiful human into the world. And Nick had the gall to call in sick for this episode…. :-)

Guest Host Erik Lenhart joins us as we talk about the etymological history of bell-ringing, the studio magic of the “News With Nick” theme song, and talk BASS.

Greg has been itching to talk about the new Deftones album, but two artists passed this week so we’re getting a thoughtful Three for Thursday. He kicks off with a track from the new Deftones album, Private Music, a great listen if you like anything they’ve ever done. Tomas Lindberg, singer for the Swedish metal band At the Gates, died of cancer at the age of 52. We also lost prolific Brazilian multi-instrumentalist and composer Hermeto Pascoal at the age of 89. Miles Davis once called him “one of the most important musicians on the planet.”

Songs: 

Deftones - “Milk of the Madonna”

At the Gates - “Cold”

Hermeto Pascoal - “Mixing Pot (Tacho)”

Jay has a new game! Using RadioGarden, Jay selects a random station from any part of the world and contestants must guess the city and country that they’re hearing. The closest guess gets a point, a correct guess gets two points. Let’s play Radio Guesser!

Song: J.D. Crowe & The New South - “Old Home Place”

Nick fills us in on some news for the week. Miles Davis’s estate sells his catalog ahead of what would have been his 100th birthday. Morrissey would very much like someone to buy The Smiths catalog so he doesn’t have to talk to his former band members ever again. Neil Young is getting sued, and D4vd is in some very hot water.

Song: Spilly Cave - “Ice Klone”

While we usually don’t cover the pre-show in the podcast description, here’s a link to the Sleepers show at the Takoma Park Folk Festival this past weekend. https://youtu.be/mshuwyTpHEc?si=3qasvm-B9sfM9YKv

We kick things off with a News with Nick. Mark Volman, of the Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and a tenure with Frank Zappa and the Mothers in the early 70s, passed last week. Apple now lets you import playlists from other services, Radiohead announces a European tour, and Tay-Tay’s engaged.

Song: Frank Zappa & The Mothers - “Call Any Vegetable (Live)”

Greg caught the last show of Oasis’s reunion tour in L.A. and he is pumped to deliver a Tales from the Concert. The Rose Bowl was sold out, with approximately 90,000 in attendance, and the crowd was electric. Oasis never had a Number 1 hit in the U.S. and never played venues like this, but they were received as rock n’ roll royalty and Greg thinks they’ve earned it.

Song: Oasis - “Wonderwall (Live in Dublin)”

Jay shares an article by Kelefa Sanneh of the New Yorker called “How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge” which explores the rise of poptimism and the decline of the snarky critic. The guys revisit a conversation they’ve explored in past episodes, what do we lose when music criticism loses its edge?

Song: The Cure - “Cold”

Jay has some stories to share from the past week...Apple is getting into radio & there's a 1001 greatest albums of all time daily newsletter available here https://1001albumsgenerator.com...

Song: Molly Tuttle - "Everything Burns"

Nick has three new songs to share...

Songs:

Nate Smith, Keifer & CARRTOONS - "Cough Drop"

Dijon - "Many Times"

DOOM GONG - "The Perilous Rise"

Greg dives into his process for learning new songs by transcribing them to midi...

Jackson Loman is back and he’s helping his Dad with a Three for Thursday. Jackson is loving a Deadmau5 track featured on Fortnite. Meanwhile, Greg still loves Deftones and offers a remembrance for Brent Hinds of Mastodon.

Songs:

Songs:

Deadmau5 - “Strobe”

Deftones - “Infinite Source”

Mastodon - “Pendulous Skin”

For the remainder of the show, we’re pleased to welcome back Mike Wagner. For the past six months, Mike has been texting Jay anytime the guys besmirch Spotify in an episode. Mike thinks Spotify gets a bad wrap and that this is the best it’s ever been for musicians. He wants to have a proper debate to sort this all out. Hope you enjoy! (Mike’s Case for Spotify)