No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? Redacted Edition

Episode Date: April 26, 2021

Our monthly mixtape is back kicking things off with Josh Homme's cover of Paul McCartney's "Lavatory Lil" from the newly released "McCartney III Imagined". We then spend quite a bit of time with a bunch of new tracks from a slew of art-rock / punkish bands from the last few years. And for good measure, we throw in a doom metal, an IDM, and a math rock track just to keep things interesting. Tracklist: Paul McCartney & Josh Homme - Lavatory Lil Good Boy - CRF Yot Club - Water Fall Yot Club - Naive Mel (Talking Heads cover) Kryptograf - Seven King's X - The Difference (Into The Garden of St. Anne's On-The-Hill) King's X - Pleiades Infinite Scale - Ghost Strongboi - Tuff Girl Mod-Comm 81 - Ryzup Fake Fruit - Swing and a Miss TTNG - Cat Fantastic Naked Roommate - Repeat Slomosa - There is Nothing New Under the Sun This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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think that she's a winner when she's cooking you you dinner but she's really moving in for the kill love atry little. Watch out for lavatory little. Watch up for lavatory little. She says it's hunky-dory when she's telling you her story but she really thinks you're the other way. Oh. Love it, dude.

All about it. I mean. It was fucking perfect, man. Yeah. So as we mentioned, that was Josh. Josh HOM doing... Homi. Shit.

One of these days. Josh Homi doing Labitri Lill by Paul McCartney on the McCartney 3 imagined. Man, when you look at the list of artists that contribute to this, Beck, Kronbend, Blood Orange, St. Vincent, Anderson Pack. I mean, what of. I mean, of course. He can get any artist to do a... I mean, everybody. in line for that, right? Like, sign me up for that.

Personally curated by McCartney, so he's a big fan of all these artists. Yeah, that means he said, give me Josh homie. Give me a crong band. Hell yeah, dude. Yeah, it's awesome. And like you said, that is, it's straight up Queens of the Stone Age. Yeah, I was going to say, it's a perfect song for them. Yeah, that sounds more, like I want to know if he, if he had any of his usual crew collaborate with him on this song, if it's just him. So I don't, I don't know if McCartney actually is anywhere near these recordings. I doubt is. I'm sure that they're just recorded by the other artists and sent his way. Yeah. But that solo sounded like McCartney on the

guitar. And I love that. And my guess is that Hami was paying tribute to McCartney's style of guitar playing. Yeah. So you remember when we did our Queen of the Stone Age episode and we played some of those clips of of of of of himmy talking about his approach to guitar playing and how he just takes things and just does them slightly different than like the normal and it makes it that unique Josh homie like like you said that's a that sounded like McCartney is what you're saying mm-hmm but it was also like distinctly homie so yeah he's probably doing McCartney like in in in the style of obviously because that's Tommy he he can't play guitar without sounding like Hami.

You know what I mean? His guitar sound and style is so unique, you know, but that's what's cool about that. But that was a McCartney solo, and that was right when I heard that, I was just like, floored. Yeah, he's probably just paying homage to, obviously homage to McCartney, but he's still doing it in a Josh Hommey way. Love it. But yeah, I was going to say, I feel like that sounds more like a Queen to the Stone Age song than some of the latest Queen to the Stone Age releases. Well, that tells you something, dude, because that was just Homi by himself.

allegedly. I haven't looked into it. He may have collaborated with some of his usual people, but anyway, so yeah, go check out McCartney 3 and then listen to McCartney 3 imagined. Yeah, Lavertree Lil, I mean, this isn't too far off from how the actual song sounds. I don't know if you've heard it yet, Treve. That's cool. All right, so let's just jump right in here and kick it off. This is how we typically do it. If you don't know, what you heard is our monthly mixtape is what we'd like to call it. So I bring five tracks to the table. Quentin brings five tracks to the table and we just go back and forth. We don't know what the other one is bringing. So we usually like to play off each other if we can. So yeah, try to make it flow. If I got something that that'll

flow well with what he just played, I'm going to drop it for you. Because I got a long list here. I've got five in mind, but I've got a really long list of what you hurts that I could drop any moment here, dude. I've got five and that's it. So this is what I'm stuck with. I have a what heard playlist that's forever evolving. And that's a private one, not the public one that anyone who's listening can find, which is our official What You Heard playlist on Spotify, but I've got my own secret one that I'm just dropping tunes in left and right. Anyways, Traff, what you've been heard lately, brother? All right. So this first track is an artist that was brought to my intention, brought to both of our attention, it turns out, by our good buddy Mitchell.

Who, um... Sweet, sweet, Mitchell. We have mentioned this guy's name quite a bit, uh, throughout the, uh, the history of no filler. So, um, yeah, you know, just like Quentin and I have always shared music with each other. Like, we do the same with Mitchell. Um, sometimes we'll just say, hey, check out this tune, man. I was listening to it.

Thought you'd like it. In case you don't know who Mitchell is, uh, he's our lifelong friend. We've known him, I've known him longer than any other person besides family members. Yeah. Yeah, so he's a big music buff like we are. One day we will have him on the show, one day. But today is not that day. But we do have an artist that was brought to our attention by Mr. Mitchell himself.

And, man, so he recommended a tune. I dug into the artist and stumbled upon. Actually, this is the one that you told me to listen to, Q. The song is great, man. It is great. So these guys are called Good Boy. They are from Brisbane, Australia. Australia.

They just know how to turn out the good music these days, you know. There's something in the water, man, for sure. Yeah. So, yeah, we're going to listen to a song off of their record that came out. And last year, almost a year ago to the day from April 20th of last year. This album is called It Takes a Lot of Skill to Milk a Milder. mirror and the song here is called CRF. Just good vibes, man.

Yeah, it just brings a smile. It's like a party song. Smile to my face, man. But yeah, so as they are, as a self-describe cue on their band camp page, it's just four mates coming out of Brisbane looking for a nice time. And they do. That's perfect. They know how to make, they know how to make me have a nice time when I listen to this

music. It's just great, man. But yeah, it's good stuff. It is in the vein of the indie rock sound that you and I are super familiar with, intimate with, right, from our days of coming into manhood. Blossoming youth. The music that we, that we, you know, are bread and butter from the 2000s, right? Early 2000s, yeah, man. Yeah.

So, like, I thought this was funny because, you know, in band camp, the artists can tag whatever tag they want on a song, right? right and I saw this pop out of me for this song, Pony Pop. Oh, no. And I was like, is that a real thing? I googled it. It's not. They just came up with it. Okay.

So when you click, if you click on the tag Pony Pop on Band Camp, it's just three of their releases. So this is a term that they've come up with. But this is Pony Pop. You heard it here first. Pony Pop. I don't know what that means. Obviously, if you search Pony Pop, you're going to see some Pop final figures for My Little Pony, is what I just found out. That makes sense.

So as far as the rest of the world is concerned, pony pop is referring to my little pony, pop final figures. Well, listen, man, you know pony pop when you hear it, you know, and this is pony pop. You know, now that there's no other, there's no other term I'd use. This is pony pop. Plain and simple. But now, here's the, here's their description of the song. I think it's hilarious. And I can, you know, they're from Australia, so you can almost hear their accent.

CRF stands for nothing. Not unlike all-round dislikable bloke and pig in a wig. The dishonorable Joe Hockey. I've known what the fuck. This absolute scumbag spends taxpayer money on fancy food and plonk. He is a bit of a shit political figure and has little backbone. Enjoy the song. Wow.

So they're either made up someone named Joe Hockey or that's a person in Australia that they just not big fan. of and they want to go public about it. Yeah, they just came up with a term CRF, and they're just saying that, man, this guy's a total CRF, you know. He's a scumbag. Whoever this person is they're talking about. Let's pony pop this asshole.

Yeah, classic pony pop. All right, well, that's, yeah. Great song, man. Check out these guys. CRF. This album's great, man. Yeah, it is. Yeah, so.

Thank you, Mitchell for sharing us, sharing this band with us, dude. Thank you. Always bringing good vibes, brother. Speaking of Queen's of the Stone Age, there is a track on this record. that I thought was funny. It's called teens of the stoned age.

Oh, it has a D at the end of their stoned. Yeah, teens of the stoned age. Nice. So there you go. Good boy has good taste of music because that likely means they are fans of Josh Hami and the Queen of the Stone Age. All right, Qia, I want to throw it over to you

for your first pick. What did you got for us? All right, man. Well, I've been living in that classic early 2000s, garage dream pop stuff for a couple weeks now dude actually from that era or no this is all really new stuff okay so this is going to be kind of a long-winded explanation but I want to give proper cred to how I found out about this artist so there is a person who is pretty active on Reddit I'm subscribed to the cocktails

subreddit, because I used to bartend back in the day. And there's a user on Reddit called Mixed Drink Mix Tape. And this person, I don't know if it's a guy or a girl, or they or them. They make cocktails, throw up the recipe, and then they curates a playlist to fit the style of the cocktail. Pretty cool idea, I think. So this person has, let's see, on Spotify, we have... Oh, man.

I mean, look at this, dude. I'm scrolling down dozens of playlists, and they're all curated perfectly to go along with a cocktail. And he gives you the recipe for the cocktail, too. So one that I was jamming out to pretty hard a few weeks back is called Old Pal millennial dad rock. That's kind of sad to think about the dad rock is referring to the top. 2000s now. Yeah, there's some great stuff on here, dude. And here's the funny thing. I'm not playing an artist that I heard from this playlist. But I found an artist on here called Jude Schuma, just classic garage rock, good stuff. And he has a playlist on Spotify. Now this is something

that I'm learning about Spotify that I love. And I'm finding tons of awesome music directly from the artists that I love. A lot of artists make playlists on Spotify. fire. A lot of indie artists will do that. Like whenever it's a big, like a massive band, I'm always skeptical. It's like, is that really the band or is that like, you know, their label that did that some, some intern at the label? Right. Exactly. I am skeptic of that too. But so Jude Schumer has a playlist of his called Today's Top Hits, says in parentheses here, a bona fide compilation of inspiration. Lots of brand new stuff on here. I found an artist on here that I am, quickly falling in love with dude he goes by yacht club y o t so uh this is a an ep of his called

nature machine came out last year uh and this whole it's a little five piece ep dude you're gonna fall in love with this guy sound a five piece what five did i say five piece oh five piece ep five track EP is what I meant, I guess. All right. So here is track four off the EP. This song is called Waterfall. And I'm trying to place my finger on... I got you, dude.

Okay. Tell me. Reminds me of, and I can't think of the name of the guy off the top of my head. Singer of Balkans. Okay. I wasn't going to go in that direction, but I can see that, too. Very Julian Casablancus. Definitely out of that era.

Yeah, like you were saying. Now, this came out in 2020, and that's what's interesting to me. is that just came out last year yeah and we've i think we've talked about i can't remember you know when i started to see the garage rock sound come back or if it's just always been there and i'm just making that up in my head but it feels like it's sort of making a comeback right oh it is for sure dude now i got a few more tracks to to prove that to you tonight man for sure okay well yeah so uh you you know how else i thought of this is i'm pulling this way out of left field here you remember darwin d's Yes, holy shit.

I hadn't thought about that guy in forever, man. Now, his stuff was a little bit popier than this. It's a little bit more kind of sleepy bedroom kind of stuff. Yes. But like, same kind of vibe, vocally, at least. Yeah. But yeah, it's good stuff. Good stuff, dude.

So who are these, the nice guys? Okay, yeah, I was about to bring that up. So I was trying to figure that out. I'm like, all right. So on this EP, there's two artists mentioned. Yacht Club, nice guys. I think they're the scouting agent, dude. They put their name behind these up-and-coming indie artists,

and they just slapped their name on it. See that little Kool-Aid man face at the corner of the album? That's the nice guy's logo. And I think they just produce and scout talent. Honestly, I think that's what it is. They have discography that is all just compilation records. And I think this is all people that are under there. I think it's just a record label, honestly.

But yeah, so if you liked Yacht Club, search for nice guys on Spotify, SoundCloud, whatever. And they're finding, so I dove deep, dude, I found a lot of great artists from nice guys in this vein. Now, Travis, I have to play one quick little snippet of another Yacht Club song because when I found this out, I thought Travis is going to fucking love this, dude. Okay. So under his Spotify page, if you just go to... his bio, I think all it says is more tracks on bandcamp and SoundCloud. So I said, oh, I'm going to on to SoundCloud and Van Camp. And he's got a bunch of just unfinished, you know, unreleased stuff on SoundCloud at the very bottom, or towards the bottom, there's a talking heads cover, dude.

This must be the place. Nive Melty. Yeah. So here's Yacht Club's version of it. He calls it naive Mel. Yeah, it's amazing how well that song translates. You know, I don't you love when that happens, dude. Yeah. So, like, that reminded me of washed out, the way that washed out guy sings. Big time. I don't remember his name, unfortunately, but... This guy's great, dude.

I love how the cover art was Buckley... Buckley and Luan. Yeah, jumping on the trampoline. That's a great scene in that episode. That's not a talking head song that plays during that, is it? No, they're jumping up and down to a Dream Academy. Yeah, what a great scene. Talking King of the Hill for people who don't...

don't know. Yeah, if you're not in the know. Anyways, man. Yeah, I'm glad that I'm glad that I kept scrolling, dude. I listened to a lot, bunch of stuff on this soundclad before I got to that. Yeah, that's cool. But yeah, so that's Yacht Club. I love what this guy's doing. I really hope to hear more from him soon. All right, man, pass it back to you what you've been heard. All right. So I found a, so what are they called? Kimis. So I've talked about Kimmel's before. We did an episode on them. They're a Doom Metal Band, although they don't like that term, but they're a

doom metal band out of Colorado. Anyway, they posted on their Facebook account. They were included in this award thing called the Doomies. So there's a publication called Revolver, and they had a poll where they were kind of asking their readers like, hey, vote. on, you know, what was the best new artist, new Doom artist of 2020, the best, you know, debut album from a Doom artist in 2020, stuff like that, right? And one of them was like, well, you know, what's the best cover? And Kimis was on there for their, um, their cover of, uh,

a song by, um, and I'm, I'm blank. This is not the song I'm bringing. So I'm just, you know, providing unnecessary information here. I don't even remember what it was. But, okay, here it is. It was Rainbow in the Dark, which is a song by Dio, I think. Anyway, so they were on, they were on this doomies poll for their cover song. But I started poking around because like, hey, this is the Doomies 2021. This is arguably the best new Doom artists, right?

They've since closed to these polls. but if I remember correctly, this band called Cryptograph was on the poll for Best New Album, Best Debuttebris. Let me correct that. So, Best debut album of 2020. So anyway, I'm going to play a song here from this band called Cryptograph, and I would put them in the camp of more of a, like a psychedelic doom band, Q. So I think you're going to. I'm all about it. I think you're going to like it.

So this song is called Seven. That's my kind of heavy, dude. Yeah. And that's, you know, that falls straight in line with the heavier sound of the 60s, right? Love it. The Sabbath, you know, those types of bands, right? You know, the reason I say psychedelic, I guess, is because there's a little bit of that. I'm actually going to play, I'm going to play a second clip here. This song is nine minutes and 20 seconds long, so it gets into like progressive rock territory, right? But like, I'm going to play a solo here in a second. But I just wanted to get your take on that. So like, yeah. Like you said, man, this is the kind of heavy that is a little bit more accessible to maybe people that aren't metalheads. You know, Q, we've talked about you in the kiddie pool of metal with your floaties on. I still got the floaties. But you and Mitchell are quickly turning me.

And Ronnie, too. Ronnie, I still haven't listened to those suggestions you gave me. But next time I got to mow that lawn, I'm all over it. I need to look at those. She gave us quite a few. chime in anyway but yeah because you know what this is uh it's it's it's a little bit of that harder blues rock infused type uh stuff like like what was happening with sabbath right um i like reading comments on um band camp sometimes because you're you're hearing other perspectives from listeners

one person said bill geyser Ozzie and tony are here referencing black Sabbath eric and buck are here. I got to be honest, I don't know who he's referring to. Jimmy and John Paul are here. That's obviously Zeppelin. The result is this just sounds like a great, this is kind of a chopped up sentence. Let me say this good. The result is this great and timeless hard rock album, not a doom record or a desert rock or a retro psych record or anything else. Just a fine record. Indeed. They're right. And that's kind of one of those things we've talked about where it's like, yeah, we could

throw the Doom label on them, but we could just also say it's a great hard rock album, you know? It's got a bunch of different sounds that are going into it. It just falls most neatly into the Doom camp of Metal's landscape right now, right? But if you just look at it as a great hard rock record, absolutely. And for a debut record, this record is amazing. So it's a self-titled record. check it out. It's called Cryptograph, and that's the name of the band and the record.

But let me bring this back in here so we can hear this first solo that happens. Hey, man, that's good stuff. I was just reminded of who, of who in the same vein. Was that a sentence? Yeah, I followed it. If you like that sound, one of my all-time favorite psych rock on the heavy side albums from the 20-tins is the album Ruins by Wolf People came out in 2016. Travis, I know you're all about that album too. Yeah.

Very similar vibes. Yeah, I did. Heavy, solid, psych rock. Good stuff all around, dude. How do you say their name? Cryptograph. Cryptograph. Okay, dude.

But yeah, it's hard to fade during that solo. I kept going, right? Yeah. But, yeah, like I said, that, you know, that song is nine minutes and 20 seconds long. It's the longest song on the record. But anyway, check them out. Cryptograph. That song was called Seven.

All right, Q, I'm going to throw it back at you. What's you got for us next? All right, man. Well, I got a fun one for you. It's another one from Reddit. So this is from, was posted on Thrift Store Halls. I like to see what people find from Thrift Stores. It's a really fun subreddit.

This guy, the username is, I know the Alphabets. What are my favorite thing about Reddit, dude? everyone is always on like top of their game when they're picking their usernames so I know the alphabits it clarifies that this wasn't found at a thrift store but in a dumpster now look at this Travis this person found a rather large box of cassette tapes that that's now that's look this this is an entire collection that's something else man in a dumpster yeah wow so I'm going to zoom in and see see what we got here okay so here's what I did I zoomed in

and it's almost an alphabetical order I started thinking no they did put it in alphabet a quarter okay he did that and I started thinking okay any any artists that I don't recognize I'm gonna listen to their stuff if I can find stuff on them and I did I went through a good chunk of these artists so anyways people you know we got Alice Cooper we got Aerosmith ACDC we got a ton here's what I found out all the bands that I didn't recognize the name of it's cookie cutter hair bands like the

The first Black Sabbath on cassette. That's dope. But the stuff that you don't recognize is the glam rock bands. Like Blue Murder. Yeah. You guys just tell by the. Yep. What else we got?

Dude, now, you want to talk about, you could turn an entire podcast on this guy's find and do every single record. That'd be interesting. We won't do it. But that could be interesting. I'm going to reach out to this person and see if they're cool with me posting a picture of this on our subreddit. I mean, on our Twitter page because it's really cool. Anyways, so one of the top comments on this, they say, nice 80s collection, someone must have kicked the bucket. That's kind of sad.

Isn't that something to, like, think about that. Your record collection is going to end up in a dumpster or at a thrift store when you die. Yeah, dude. But there you go. It's lived on. This guy's music collection, this person's music collection lives on. And that's cool. Yeah, so this person says, give that King's X tape a listen.

And Quinn, you said, I sure will. And I said, oh, yeah, that's what I'm going to do. So I was able to actually read what the album name was on the little cassette. And out of the cookie cutter, just, I'm talking like probably 10 of the artists that I checked out, it all sounded like the same band. These guys stood out. Okay. So this is a band again called Kings X. This is an album of theirs from 1989 called Gretchen Goes to Nebraska.

This one is called The Difference, parentheses, in the Garden of St. Anne's on the Hill. So obviously some Crosby Stills and Nash is what jumps out at me. They don't sound like this at all. They harmonize a lot, but they are a lot more. I got to play another song, dude. I'm sorry. But I have to. I have to.

This is going to be a long episode, my friend. I know, dude. But this is just one of those moments, dude. One of those magical musical moments. Yeah. Never. In a million years would I have found out about this band. If it wasn't for this guy sharing this box of cassettes that he found in the dumpster, dude.

And the funny thing is that guy on the Reddit went through and looked and scanned and said, make sure you listen to Kings X. Exactly. That's the only one he said to listen to. Yep. And I know I can see why, too. All right. So here's another one. You're going to like this, dude. So this one's called Pleiades. Yeah, that's amazing because, like, you know, when you said it came on in 89, I was wondering,

are we going to hear just a smidge of what was to come around the corner, you know, in 90s rock, right? And that did sound a little bit grungy, a little bit. But that's what was right. That was what was happening in the late 80s, bleeding in the into the 90s, right, right before the grunge moment happened. But what's funny is, like, his voice almost sounded like the Dream Academy guy a little bit, which is funny because you just, I mean, that's random. I'm just connecting because we talked about them earlier. You just mentioned it.

But seriously, it had that leftover, like the hangover stuff from the 80s. From the, like, new age stuff. Yeah, still in there, you know, making its voice heard. So what I gathered from that person taking the time to type out that comment and say, hey, check out King's X. Yeah. That's the one that matters. Out of like, out of the more obscure stuff, this is one of the ones that guy.

Well, but dude, I took the time to listen to a lot of these bands. Okay. So you poked around. Yeah. I poked around. These guys stood out for sure. Yeah. I mean, that's really great.

I'm going to have to listen to that later. Because of the two songs you played, a very wide range there. Because like I said, I was like, hey, Crosby Stales, Nash. But that second song, nothing like that whatsoever. Right. Yeah. Yeah, right, exactly. So anyway, very cool. So, holy shit, dude. This is going to be a lengthy sewed. I just realized. Told you, man. All right, back to you, brother. Let's rapid fire these puppies. All right, we'll try to rapid fire here. Okay, I've got a song. So this is an artist I've been listening to for a very long time. He's sort of in the same vein as a Tyco. Okay, so this is instrumental, and it's electronic, and it's, here we go cue hypnotogic there it is uh just wanted to bring that word into the episode so um his name is infinite scale i think that's what he goes by his actual name is harmi palda and uh he

has been making music since the late 90s uh his his bio that he uses on several different places he actually talks about it's written by him which is interesting he's like most of the early equipment I purchased, such as the Novation Supernova, Technox quasi-Midi, Lsses MIDI verb, and the MacG4 still exist. I found it difficult to part with these tools as they were such an important part in developing my sound, which is exactly what Scott Hanson talked about. You remember? Yes, and that is the first artist where we brought up the word hypnagogic pop was when we were

talking about Tyco. So that's perfect. On this podcast. Yeah, on this podcast. Yeah. And can I just say real quick, dude, quasi-Mittie? Come on, what an awesome name. I know, right.

Fucking brilliant. Anyway, so that's kind of, I love the idea of that. Like, if you started in the late 90s making music and you cultivated your sound using what now is like old school outdated equipment where you could just try to find some sort of patch or something like that or some sort of like thing to make that sound, like you don't want to. It's exactly what Scott Hanson said, dude. Yeah, exactly, because like this is, these are your instruments, right? Right, this is your sound. This is your, yeah, your setup.

So anyway, I'm just going to play a record or a song off of his first record. It's not his first record. Well, maybe it is. It came out in 2005. It must have been re-released in 2017. But it came out in 2005. It's called Sound Censor. And I'm going to play a song called Ghost.

Some coding music, huh, dude? I can see you just typing away. Getting into the zone. Absolutely. But yeah, I just, I love this kind of music, obviously. I think I've talked about that, you know, this is what I gravitate toward for good, depending on what I'm doing, this is good background music for me. But yeah, if you like this kind of music, I've got a playlist for you that I've been working on since 2013.

Which is crazy to think that Spotify has been around that long. I know that's silly to think about, but that's nutty. you know, to think about. Yeah. For some reason in my mind, Spotify is not that old, but it's almost a decade old. But I've got a playlist of stuff like that that's like almost 20 hours long, the playlist. Hit me up on Twitter and I will send you a link to that Spotify playlist.

Anyway, it's called hypnagogic IDM, Q, if you're wondering. So I wanted to. Oh, I'm already subscribed to that, dude. Oh, you're one of my seven followers, huh? Yeah, dude, of course. I wonder who else is following. I wish I could see. You can't see followers on Spotify, which is kind of weird.

Yeah, that's kind of dumb. Anyway, they're called Infinite Scale, or he, I should say, is called Infinite Scale. Check out his music on Spotify or Band Camp or SoundCloud. He's all over the place. Apparently, he's also composed music for BBC, both radio and TV. So you may have heard his music on the BBC, and you didn't even realize it. All right, cute. I'm going to throw it back to you.

What's you got for us? All right, man. I got to give another shout out to What was the name of that guy, dude? Oh, shout out to Jude Schuma, who is the artist that has a playlist called Today's Top Hits. It's funny, I'm not playing any of his music,

but he's got great music too. Like I said, it's more garage rock, indie pop kind of stuff. It's good. But he has a killer playlist. And another one of the artists I found on there goes by Strong Boy, all in word, B-O-I.

I is how you spell boy. And she released a little EP. Actually, this is just a single. Came out last year. This song is called Tough Girl. There's so much going on right there. There's something happening, dude. And this, like right now between last year and right now,

between this stuff and Yacht Club and nice guys. I mean, but would you say Strongboy is like garage rock that? Not at all. No. Okay. I cannot tell you how many songs I heard. not cookie cutter, but in this kind of style. I'm just telling you right now, that sounded very unique to me.

I haven't heard anything. Like, that was almost like a, like a Strewd-Gilberto kind of vibe to it, like Possa Nova. A little bit. You know, there's a lot of things going on in that. But I was reminded of like Chade a little bit, the vocals. Yes. And Astrid Gilberto. Yeah, I think so.

I've got some Gilberto. I think the point I'm trying to make, if I could, you know, clarify. I think that's. You need to do some clarifying. We're talking about. There's a shift. There's a shift in music happening right now. I hear you.

With younger artists. Yeah. I think I can hear it. Because these are all brand new artists, dude. Most of them don't have more than just a handful of singles out. This is all brand new stuff. I hear what you're saying. There is a shift toward...

Why did that take so long to get out of my brain, bro? Sorry, man. You know what? I've had a rough day. You guys don't know how rough it was. But Travis knows. Because I was raging pretty hard earlier. I'll share the story at the end of the episode.

I'll try to make it quick. Yeah. Okay. So, all right. So I guess I'll pass it on to you, brother. So that was, again, strong boy. That was a great track, really good. All right, Q.

As you know, I've been hanging out in the Dream Punk vapor wave, whatever you want to call it, that pocket for a while. Like, I fell under the rabbit hole. I'm still in it. I'm still falling. So I'm just going to bring another track. There's not much. The thing about these guys, these artists, there's not. much out there about them unless they maybe have a description on their SoundCloud page or something

like that. So I really don't know much about this person. They go by the name ModCom 81, and I'm just going to play a track off of their album that came out last year called Pagan 2 Plus 1. And this song is called Rise Up. In it in 43 seconds. That's the song. I was getting some old school like Detroit techno. Mm-hmm. Very much so.

You know what's funny about that. A little more industrial though. Is it? Yeah. And like some drum and bass kind of stuff. Or at least with the, you know, the speed of the drums, right? Yeah. But like it's funny that you said Detroit Techno because like, you know, that part in the middle that kind of sounded almost video game-ish almost.

Kind of reminded me of the Streets of Rage to soundtrack, which was inspired by Detroit Techno. So there you go. Wasn't that a game inspired by Street Fighters? Yeah, it was actually. It was, it was Sega's or it was this company's this publisher's, you know, answer to Street Fighter, right? Like this is what they, you can actually listen to the soundtrack on Spotify. They re-released it last year. We played the shit out of this game.

Yeah, it's a great game. Actually, I think we had this as our outro music to our Com Trues. Oh, you might be right. Maybe. There's either that or Shinobi. But anyway, when you listen to the music from Streets of Rage 2, it's a great electronic, you know, Detroit techno type soundtrack. Like, if you really think about it. Yeah, cool.

So anyway. All right, Q, Q. what else you got for us here. All right, dude. I'm going to take us back to some more kind of punk garage rock stuff. This is the debut self-titled from a band called Fake Fruit. They are a punk rock kind of garage rock outfit out of Oakland, California. Big fan of this album, dude.

Really great, like, freshman release. Getting some Courtney Barnett vibes from the singer. And you know I'm all about Quarman. Courtney Barnett. I do know this about it. Fake fruit is like if Courtney Barnett was in like a pop punk band. I'm just going to read this quick little snippet of them on their band camp page. It says, fake fruit distill pink flag era wire, pylon, and Mazzie Star to expound on the absurdity of modern life.

Frontwoman Hannah Diamato leads the group through three minutes. clapbacks of minimal moody post-punk. All right, dude, this is probably my favorite on the record. It's not a duet, but this is one of the only times you hear one of the other guys in the band sing along. This song is called Swing and a Miss. So, yeah, there's definitely a sound that's starting to be very prominent in like the indie scene, like you're saying, Q. And I'm diving deep, dude. I'm all about it, yeah.

I'm here for it. So, like, it's a three piece, which that's the... What have we been saying about three pieces, dude? That's my favorite kind of fucking band right now, dude. Three pieces. I'm all about them. Yeah. And I will say that her lyrics in a lot of the other songs are very quick and witty, like Courtney

Barnett. She sings very much like Barnett. She must have been a pretty big influence on her. but I will say that there's a lot more lyricism in the majority of the songs. This one I just liked because it was a little bit different and it's kind of a back and forth between the two. Good stuff. Self-titled Fake Fruit. The album just came out, I think, like, early last month.

So, brand new stuff. All right, dude. Rapid Fire, Brother. Last, we're coming around the band. Okay. I'm just going to get right into it here. So I'm going to play a song by a band. called T T TNG. They used to go by This Town Needs Guns, but they changed their name after the release of

this record that I'm going to play a song from. So they were still, the album art for this record still says this town needs guns on it. But anyway, this is a math rock emo band, Q, from Oxford, England. And I'm going to play the first song off their second record. The album is called 13.0. The record, or I'm sorry, the song is called Cat Fantastic. Here we go. I'm all about the more upbeat, happy-sounding math rock, dude. Most of it's more in like the Foles, more like post-hardcore vein. Dude, I got to tell you, in my experience, I find Math-Rog usually sounds more like this and less like Foles.

So you should point me in the direction of more Math-Rock stuff that sounds like post-hardcore stuff. because that's not my experience. I guess you're, you know what, dude, you've been listening to like L10, 11 and bands like that for years now, right? And they're definitely more in that happy vein.

Yeah, I guess so. I never really thought about them as Mathrock, but I guess they sometimes fall into that vein. But like, these guys, they actually, they cite their influences as Al's American football

and make believe, certainly American football. And that's kind of what I like about them. It's that lighter. It's, you know, it's emo. It's in the, it's in the emo vein, but it's got some of those, like, more complex guitar

work and stuff like that. I love that guitar riff that just kept happening, that little, that little ditty that they did there. Yeah. I love it. That's good stuff. Anyway, that was a band called T-T-N-G. That song was called Cat Fantastic, which is my screen name on Snapchat.

Just kidding. It's not Cat Fantastic. But I'm not even on Snapchat, so yeah, whatever. All right, Que, what you got for us? Last track of the night. All right, dude. I've got another doozy. Now, here's the beauty of the age in which we live in is music lovers, dude.

Like I said, I'm finding more and more great artists through artists on Spotify. The members of fake fruit, I don't know which one. Let me see if I can find out. They've got a playlist on here. Okay, Alex. So Alex is the... Okay, Alex plays guitar in Fake Fruit. He has a playlist on Spotify.

Guess what the playlist is called? What's it called? It's called, hey, listen to this. I mean, that's how you get somebody's attention right there. And I listened to it, dude. And I'm glad it did. There is a great group on here called Naked. roommate.

The album is called Do the Duvei. I don't know why, Travis, but I love this red album cover is just popping, dude. I love that color of red. That is, it's popping. Everything about this album cover is cool. It's got like an old, like punk rock concert flyer vibe to it. This almost looks like one of those like flimsy like 45 sleeves, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.

And the music is fitting, I'd say. Very minimalist punk stuff. You're going to love this dude. All right. So again, the artist is Naked Rommate. This is an album called Do the Duvei, came out last year. This song is called Repeat. Yeah, there's definitely a, like a theme.

I'm telling you, man, this is what I'm saying. So I heard like some, almost like an 80s new wave punk. Talking heads kind of came to mind to me. Maybe, yeah, yeah, I can hear that. But yeah, this is interesting. Hey, I'm all about this, man. If the 80s are coming back, but with a new spin on it, like I'm all about it, you know. Well, like I said, man, I've been hanging in this vein, as you can see from the music I brought tonight.

Yeah, it's good, man, I like it. I really liked the simplicity of the song. And the song's called repeat. It's perfect. She just said, look good, smell good, show up on time, repeat. That's the entire song. Words to live by right there. You could, that's a mantra, you know.

Yeah. I gotta do, smell good, show up. What was the first part? Look good, smell good, show up on time, repeat. You know, sometimes it's better to show up early, Q. But as long as you're on time. Not according to naked roommate. And that's true.

Okay. All right, dude. That's all we got today. This one is fucking like, this is going to be like an hour and a half long, dude. Mike Ward. That's because we each had, we had multiple clips, you know. I had to do it. I had to do it.

Sometimes you got to do it. Well, I've got an awesome outro picked out by ours truly, Mr. Mitchell. He's been sharing with me a bunch of really good, like what he thinks might tickle me just right in the metal vein. And Mitchell, you've got me pegged, dude. I'm more into the desert rock, I guess, I don't know, stoner rock, stoner metal. I'm all about it, dude. It's a good gateway, dude.

Yeah. Gateway drug into metal. Well, this album was. was perfect for, it's just the right amount of rage because I was feeling it, dude, after what happened to me earlier today. I'm going to share a quick story with you all. So I'm in college right now.

I'm taking online courses to get a bachelor's in cloud computing. I took an online exam today. A few IT nerds out there, you know that the ComTIA exams, you got to take them to get your foot in the door in the world of IT. So I was all ready to go. Took my Net Plus exam today.

Online proctored exam. Literally, completely done with the exam. Had like three minutes left on the timer. I was going through my answers. Just, you know, double-checking everything. And then the entire system crashed. We tried to relaunch it like four times. Long story short.

They were like, we have to revoke your exam now. Here's a case number to follow up with customer support. I'm like, what? But I'm finished. Like, I'm done with the test. It's tragic, man. It's tragic. I told you to listen to heavy metal right when that happened because I was like, this is it, dude.

This is when you listen to metal. And I did, man. So to keep the story short, I got on the phone with customer support and they said, well, it looks like your exam is all finished on our end. But we have to double check the records and they're going to have to re-examine the recorded webcam because it's all like recorded. Like they have my screen recorded. They have me on a webcam recorded so they know I'm not cheating. And then we'll get back to you. I'm like, so I'm not going to know if I passed this test for like two days.

Needless to say, I was livid. Well, how are you going to get your anger out here? Let's hear it. Well, okay, so this isn't like your stereotypical like a mushugga level, you know, rage metal. Yeah. As we've talked about Q, there's many, many branches on the metal tree and there's a branch for everyone. Well, this tickled me just right, dude. And I just, with all this built up like adrenaline and shit after I got off the phone,

I'm just glad that there might be a chance that I don't have to retake that test. But I was just like, dude, I called you like right after dude. And I was just, I remember. I'm sure you could hear it, my anger. So I pulled up an album, it's a self-titled. This is actually brand new, dude, came out last year by an artist or by a band named Slomosa. I think that's how you say that. Have you ever heard of them?

I've heard of them, yeah. Well, they're like right in the like Eagles of Death Metal, more Queens of the Stone Age, but a little more heavier like stone or rock kind of stuff. And I'm going to play a song from that album to fade us out here. So that's it for today. That's our What You Heard episode. Do we want to tee up what we're doing next week, dude? Because it's going to be a blast.

I'm pretty excited about it. Yeah, let's do it. So, you know, if you're a regular listener, you may have remembered We had four episodes last year devoted to the music of John Hughes films. And so we did Fares Bueh's Day Off, we did Pretty in Pink, a couple of other ones. So we're going to do something similar, but it's going to be, of all movies, Q, the music of Dumb and Dumber. Now, you might be thinking, that's kind of goofy. Especially people who didn't grow up at the, we were the perfect age for Dumb and Dumber.

Let's just put that out there. Yeah. But like, forget about that. the movie, right, put the movie aside. The music is like a 90s kind of alt-rock mix tape, if you will, right? Really similar to, in my mind, to what you're going to hear in a John Hughes film. Yeah. You know, possibly artists that you may not have heard of. It's the Farley brothers. And I feel like there are a lot of their albums. A lot of their movies have great, you know, underground kind of music similar to John Hughes film. So we thought it'd be fun to just dive

into the soundtrack. Pick some songs on there. We'll play the song that was featured in the film, but then we'll try to find a non-single from that band and play it alongside it. Yeah, so we'll pick a few bands from the soundtrack and yeah, play the, well, you just said it at a cue, so I'm not going to repeat it.

But yeah, it's going to be fun. There's some good stuff on here. We love this soundtrack, just put it out there. We played, I mean, this is one of the soundtracks. I know for sure that I pirated this. CD, you know. You're not supposed to admit that. Well, we were all doing that in the early

early O's too. That's true. That's true. Yeah, so that's next week. And then we'll see what happens after that. You know, we might, I mean, we'll probably stay in the 90s, but you never know what's going to happen. So, all right, man. Well, that's that. I'm fucking starving, you know, because it's dinner time in my neck that woods.

All right. So again, we're going to fade us out with a track by an artist called Slow Mosa. Mitch thanks again for the tunes. Good stuff. He brought us two songs today, man. He did. All right. So I could not pick a favorite, but this one was the first one that had me going. Oh, fuck in. So this one is track three. It is called There is Nothing New Under the Sun. That's going to do it for us today. Thank you so much, as always, for listening. My name is Quentin. By the way, you can find us on Twitter at No Filler Podcast. And you can find us on the Pantheon podcast website that's our network, pantheonpodcast.com. I'm Travis.

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