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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-B9s…
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Song: Mol…
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 Br…
Jay is excited to be back and even more excited by our guest this week. Taejon Romanik, guitarist and backup vocalist for the Wild Wild Wets, is back to announce a brand new album. We catch up with T…
Jay is at a conference, so it’s just Nick & Greg this week.
Nick isn’t thrilled at the direction that Tame Impala is going, Greg encourages him to withhold judgement until the album comes out. Meanwhi…
Greg kicks things off with a Three for Thursday! Alex G is an indie artist that just released his tenth studio album Headlights. Greg thinks his unique voice and sound would be difficult to reproduce…
It’s News with Nick! CDP funding rescinded, Gizzard exits Spotify, a Nicks & Buckingham reissue, and Spinal Tap II.
Song: Tom Lehrer - “The Elements Song”
Greg offers a tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourn…
We kick off with a bowl of Jay’s Jambalaya. HBO has released a five hour Billy Joel documentary produced by Tom Hanks. Next, why is Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumours back on the charts? Finally, we …
Greg recently produced a song for the band Velzy. Singer Nate Turner (also of the Red Nots) joins the show to talk about the process of recording their latest single, “Flicker.”
Song: Velzy - “Flicker…
Jay is back at the beach, which means we get our annual check in with Michael Weddington! At this year’s Jazz Fest in New Orleans, Michael had transcendental experiences at two separate performances …
Jay brings a few picks from The Alt’s mid-year list, “Albums You May Have Missed in 2025.” Most of the records are new to the crew, which makes for a fun first-listen kind of chat. They get into what…
Greg is back to catch us up on his run of shows the last two weeks. The Red Not Chili Peppers had a great show at House of Blues Orlando with Pearl Jam tribute band Given to Fly. Then Greg traveled o…
Greg is busy dow in Florida pulling together another Resilient show, so Nick & Jay go it alone this episode…
Brian Wilson was a gifted songwriter, musician, singer and producer. His influence is immea…
Nick picks up where he left off last week with another “News with Nick.” Have a few thousand dollars sitting around and always wanted to own something that belonged to David Lynch? Here’s an auction …
As Jay mentions at the top of this episode, we had some significant technical issues this episode and only managed to get the first 30min of the conversation… we’ll be back next week with a full epis…
Greg brings a unique situation to the show this week. Pitchfork recently reviewed the album “Face Down in the Garden” by Tennis. Tennis, in turn, released a review of the review (sound familiar?) tha…
Nick catches us up on the news of the week. Zak Starkey is re-fired by The Who, BandCamp adjusts their terms and conditions, and Trump orders Springsteen investigated after The Boss criticized his ad…
Jay is bringing back his favorite YSCIO game show, “Tag the Track.” Nick & Greg choose from three categories and wager how many seconds it will take for them to “tag the track.”
Song: Phish - “Reba”
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To celebrate our 300th episode, we thought it’d be fun to ask each other questions in a round-robin interview style. This might be our favorite episode, we hope you enjoy it. Thanks so much for liste…
Joining us for the show this week is Nick’s oldest son, Ciri. He’s reached that formative age (14) where, for music lovers, his appetite for new music is insatiable. He wants to play some songs he’s …