No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard - The Fashionably Late Edition

Episode Date: March 3, 2025

Tracklist Punchlove: (sublimate) Andy Timmons: Happening '68 Letting Up Despite Great Faults: Amateurs Best Shonen Knife: When You Sleep Peace Monster: Portia Love Lomaji: Virtual Beauty DOMi & JD BECK: SPACE MOUNTAiN Damien Jurado: Magic Number Movietone: Hydra Rocket: Pipedream Foxwarren: To Be Damien Jurado: Silver Joy This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Please enjoy responsibly. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Welcome to No Filler. I'm Travis. And I'm Quinn. And now this month's what you heard, we're starting things off with a brand new single from Punch Love. This song is called Sublimate. I don't think I've ever heard Punch Love before.

Yeah, I was hoping this one. was your first exposure. That was cool. So these guys came on my radar last year. They put out a record called Channels. And I had one of their songs on my best of. And for whatever reason, they got bumped for somebody else. So I was happy to say that they put out a new single, you know, relatively quickly into 2025.

So I could get them on the pod, you know. But yeah, they're just like a Brooklyn-based alt rock kind of experimental rock group. that kind of does a bunch of things. I mean, the song that I was going to bring last year was kind of a punkish shoegaze kind of sound. So, yeah, they're just really, really interesting indie group. They've got a new record coming out this year in March called O, just the letter O. So this is the first single off of that record. So yeah, man, pretty sweet song.

Yeah, I think this is so, are they a newish band? Are they, you know, young? I think they're relatively young. They've been putting stuff out. Their first release goes back to 2021. So, you know, not brand spanking new, but still relatively new. But I think they're, you know, some young guns, you know? Yeah.

It reminds me of, you know, more of the, I guess, the new freshman class of grunge and shoegaze. Yeah. I mean, this definitely falls under the. just the larger umbrella of like indie alt rock that's happening right now. And yeah, it's just a good mixture of a lot of different things from the last, you know, a couple decades of rock, you know. Yeah, that's good. There you go.

Dude, oh, this is awesome, man. Of course, oh, fuck, dude. They're coming to Dallas in April on 420 Blaze It. And dude, I got to go see this. I got to go see this. Guess who they're playing with? Tell me. Lucid Express.

You remember them? Not off the top of my dome. Just another, no, it's just another shoegaze, man, Q. But yeah, Lucy Express is solid, man. Oh, yeah. That's going to be one hell. How about show?

All right, well, I'm going to go, I'm going to check that out. Hell's, yeah, dude. Also, oh, man, it's definitely happening, dude. In fact, I got to make sure it doesn't... Hold on, hold on, hold on. You're in for treats, dude. Guess who's also coming to Dallas? Now, how am I going to be in for treats?

I live all the way up here in Washington, Trit. No, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. I think you're just going to be tickled, dude, that I'm going to see these guys finally. Keyes of Convenience? Dude, it's four days after... Or four days before this show. No, it's not case of convenience. Oh, Travis.

It's Mishiga. Oh. And I'm trying to find somebody to come with me, because I'm not missing it. And I might have to go by myself. So anyway, Punch Love. Check him out. Their record last year that came out, channels really solid.

And they're gearing up to put on a new one next month. So in a few weeks, they're going to have a brand new record coming out. So again, that song was called Sublimate. And this is our what-you-heard format cue. We're each going to bring five tracks. No, no, you know, no, no, no boundary set on genre, year. And no filler, you know. None of it's filler.

So it's actually, you know, I'm actually going for rescue, which is great. Because I got a little doozy fear for you, dude. This is memory lane time, dude. Memory lane, okay. And I'm not going to tell you. Yeah, I'm not going to, I would like you to avert your eyes so you don't see this when I play it. I'm not looking at your screen right now. Okay.

So just on a whim, I decided, let me listen to some of this stuff. It's been years. And I had forgotten about this track, and it's pretty good. So I'm not going to tell you the name of the artist until we come back from this clip. So here we go. Super blast from the past. Big nostalgia for us with that artist. I guess we haven't said who it is yet.

That's Andy Timmons. Here's what, dude, real quick, here's what I love. love about the song choice that you went with. First off, that song's freaking great. Second, if you've never listened to Andy Timmons before and you're listening to this, it's a killer song for one. And then out of nowhere, if you don't know, he's a freaking guitar virtuoso. So you just drops in that killer solo and goes back into it because Andy Timmons, for the most part, is instrumental, you know, guitar heavy track. every now and then he sprinkles in his voice and does more of a standard format song,

but he is just an insane guitar player. Right, and that's why I chose that song because I think it was a little bit more appropriate for this podcast. But yeah, he's a guitar, you know, the term guitar virtuoso is what you'd use to describe him. So like up there with Steve Vi, Josette Triani. Absolutely. Right, all of those bands. And what's cool about it, Andy, is that he's a Texas native.

Now, he wasn't born in Texas. I thought he was, but he's like from Dallas. I think he lives in McKinney. All right, like he's, for the most part, lived in Dallas. Yeah. In Dallas for the longest time. Yeah, and for, I don't know how many years we did it in a row, but when we were growing up before we, you know, moved out of the house

and became adults, we would go every year to the Dallas guitar show. And every year he would headline at the convention. And he was a sweetheart, dude. I remember he, like, we got to meet him a few times. And yeah, he was really, really generous with this time. Well, I mean, that goes back to, to dude, before we were. Because our dad used to take us back before. That's what I was saying.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, I thought you said like when we were adults. No, no, no. Before. Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, dude, here's another thing that's, I don't know if you ever heard this, Q. Now, our older brother, Spencer.

actually shared a meal with him. What? When did this happen? Do you remember this is, you know, not his wife, his current wife, but the woman that he dated before his current wife, our older brother. Okay. She was. Okay.

Well, I don't remember her name. But she was somehow like related or like knew somebody who knew him and he was at the Thanksgiving meal. that Spencer was invited to. Wow. And I told Spencer to... He knew, right? Yeah, he knew who he was.

He knew it was coming. And apparently he told him that we were... That his younger brothers used to be big fans of him. So anyway, that's pretty cool. Small world. But yeah, he's also like a very accomplished, like, touring guitar player. Like, I think he's played with...

Didn't he play with Alanis Morseh? No, never mind. I think it was... I'm thinking of Taylor Honkins. on the drums. I think it was a country star. Okay. Just know that he's a very well-known, a guitar player, guitar virtuoso.

If you want to hear like what he's best known for, I would say check out his record on Spotify called That Was Then, This Is Now. It's kind of like a best of compilation of a couple of his earlier records. And yeah, that's all you got to know. he's still going too he's got some some relatively new stuff that he's been putting out so anyway that's how we're going to kick things off cue with a little bit trip down memory lane and i'm going to pass it over to you what are you got for us well this is a band that's near and dear to my heart dude i don't think i can go six months without playing a song from them uh letting up despite great faults we we know them well trav my favorite dream pop side of the shoegaze band of the last decade for sure. They did something really cool, dude. So I'm just going to read, this is straight from Mike, who I believe is the main guy

in the group. This is just his words here from their bandcampage. They released this thing called the Forgotten EPs. Let me just read this. He says, hi, here are a bunch of songs we are organizing into different EP volumes. There will be more volumes and songs coming. Buy this forgotten EP's release at any time, and you never have to repurchase, all new songs added to this will be free and available to you in the future.

This is a catch-all space for all B-sides and songs we feel may have been overlooked and swept under the rug by the big, bad music marketing machines, or just by me accidentally. Thank you for letting us continue to do this at a capacity where it gives us a fun, creative, and cathartic space for us to be us. Hugs and Kisses, Mike. So that's awesome, dude. So right now they have 18 songs on here.

And basically he's saying, there's more to come. If you purchase this now, you don't have to pay for any of the songs that we add to this in the future. Pretty cool. Sweet. Yeah, no. I think we've played them on this pod before. Was that a joke, Trev? Have we done an episode on it?

Yeah. Yeah. One of the, when we do that Sten of Shoecase episodes back to back, yeah, I did a full episode on them. They've always been great, dude. So the thing about these, I don't know for sure what era these are all from, right? They're all just B-sides and stuff. Songs that, you know, he has just sitting around on tapes or on hard drives that was just never released. So I haven't even listened to all these songs yet, but this one from volume one, I mean,

I'm just a big fan, Jeff, no surprise. I think you're going to love it. This song is called Amateurs Best. Excellent. I'm going to say a four-letter word, cue, around here. Not a bad word. Four-letter good word. What is it, dude?

I can't think of which. It's one of our faves. My favorite describing words. Here it is, dude. Twee. Oh, you know what? I think that's three. Okay, that's four words, yeah.

Tweet, dude. Yeah, the thing about them, it. Dream pop, Tweet. Dream, you know, under the same umbrella. Yeah, I would say for sure, like, they're even more like in the, I hate bubble gum pop. I hate saying that. Did you hate the term? Yeah.

Yeah, but I think it kind of goes along with that, maybe. Like, where it's just, it's just like, they're just a warm blanket to me, always. And very, like, yeah, just. very upbeat and happy sounding. And yeah, I'm really curious when this song was actually written and recorded. It does feel like their early, early days stuff. It could even be before their self-title came out, you know? But yeah, it's letting up despite great faults, it's just like there's always, it's unmistakably

them, you know, for me at least, because I'm just such a big fan. But yeah, it's really, I think it's really cool that they're doing this. I'm excited to see what else they're going to drop in here. Yeah, man. Good stuff and I've got a perfect follow-up. Awesome. Let's do it. Okay, so this is...

Let me just see if you've ever heard of this group. They're called Shonen Knife. That sounds familiar. So they are a Japanese pop punk band formed in 1981. So they go way back. And what they, you know, what they sound like is a, you know, kind of like a 60s pop, like beach boys and stuff like that. That's kind of what they, what they sound like. But yeah, that's kind of all you need to know.

And what you also need to know is that they appeared on a record called Yellow Loveless. Can you imagine what that? Oh, no, hold on, dude. Okay, yes, I am familiar with this group. Yeah, it's like a cover of My Bloody Valentine. This album is a cover record, yeah, of Lovelace by My Blood of Valentine. So this was like a compilation, like it was a bunch of different artists, and they were one of them. So it's called, I mean, this is funny.

It's called Yellow Loveless, perhaps, because it features Japanese artists. Japanese artists, sure. I hope that that's why they called it yellow. Otherwise, that's just an extremely, you know, racist thing that I just said. But I think that's why they called it that. A little tongue in cheek there, maybe. Yeah, maybe a little bit. So anyway, here is Shonen Knife playing the song When You Sleep by Loveless.

I mean, it's incredible how well that style fits with that song because that song is nothing like that. Perfect, man. I mean, they... Amazing, dude. They translated that perfectly. Like, it's amazing. Yeah, I mean, what a great interpretation of the song, you know?

Like, spot on. Yeah, I... I mean, that's kind of... That's their sound, so that's what they do. Like, they write songs like... Yeah, that's freaking awesome, dude. Yeah, man. I don't always like it when a cover song or a cover album like,

like steers away from like the heart of what the, you know, the original song sounds like. But when it's done right, dude. Yeah, I was, I mean, just perfect. Doesn't get much better than that, yeah. But yeah, I'm really, I haven't listened to the rest of that record, but I'm really curious to see what other, what other bands did, you know, with their interpretation of the whole record. I mean, the entire record is on this cover record, the yellow loveless record. So anyway, that's awesome. Yeah, so there you go, Q.

That was Shonen Knife, and that was their interpretation of My Bloody Valentine's When You Sleep. All right, Q, I'm going to throw it back to you. I feel like we've been very dream poppy so far. So are you going to give us our first 180 of the evening? Yeah, dude, I'm going to maybe make you feel a little uneaseless. Z-Jab, which I know you're a big fan of because you're such a horror fan. I love it. This group is weird, dude.

I discovered them on YouTube. It was just like a YouTube short. And it was just like 20 seconds of one of their live concerts during like an instrumental part of this song, I believe. And let me just read what they've posted about themselves, okay? It says, so, okay, did I say the name of the band? They're called Portia Love. No, I'm sorry.

Hang on, that's the name of the song. Sorry. Their name is Peace Monsters. Okay, I'm ready for this? Peace Monsters, okay. Yeah, listen to this trap. Birthed from the concrete hellscapes of Midwest America. Peace Monsters have cultivated a sound that encapsulates manic ecstasy.

Voided melancholy, and most of all, the absolute feeling of self. separation from one's environment. With themes of both struggling against the world we live in and surrendering to its whims, the noise emanated from this fantastic duo is one of the most tantalizing and bisected imaginable. Sounds kind of email to me. Okay, well, I think you're going to like this, dude. It's different. All right. Am I sharing my screen? I'm not.

Yeah, dude. So here we go. This is a little four-piece EP from them that came out last year called The Heater. The Heater. The Heater. This song is called Portia Love. A cacophony of sound, cute. Now, if that's not noise rock, I got to get my hearing checked. You know, I was getting some can vibes a little bit with the drumming and the guitar.

and the way they bounce back and forth with each other. There was definitely some kind of like 60 psych type stuff a little bit. Interesting. I mean, just hearing this kind of stuff just makes me happy, dude, because like I just, I have no doubt that these are college kids, you know, and it just makes me happy that that young people are just, you know, that music is just, is still a thing, Traff. The music is still a thing. I don't know, I don't know what, where I'm getting at here.

but like it just makes me happy, dude. When I hear experimental stuff coming out from, from young lads, you know? Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I am curious how, you know, what else these guys do, you know? Anyways, man, that stuff just makes me happy, dude. That's cool, yeah. Just makes me happy. Yeah, I mean, that is, that is straight up.

It doesn't get more like, like, if you had to pick a song to embody noise rock, you could just play that last part of that song. Yeah. noise rock, you know what I mean. This is what we, what it, I mean, and it's what it is. It's just a lot of noise, you know. Well, yeah, and then juxtaposed against his voice too. Yeah, that's true.

And soft. So yeah, dude, that was peace monsters. I didn't think, I don't think we could do any more pulled any more of a 180 than than going from yellow loveless to this. Right. Or at least, you know, yeah, that version of loveless to this. Yeah, that's a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, uh, as though it was some whiplash there for sure.

Yeah. All right. It passed back to you, Treyf, what do you get? All right. Well, I will bring us down a little bit to, like, you know, give us a pallet cleanser from that. I'm going to play.

So I'm pretty sure I haven't mentioned this artist yet, but I stumbled upon this playlist called D&B, as in drum and bass, break core jungle gaming mix okay all right that's a lot it's a lot so i'm trying to remember i think one of the vapor wave artists that i listened to was on this playlist and that's how i came across it um but then i i really started digging this one artist that showed up a couple of times on this playlist they go by the name lo maji they just have a ton of of singles and little EPs that they put out.

And I'm just, this is just the vibe for me right now, dude. I love this, this, basically it's kind of like, think of it as like vapor wave, but with drum and bass percussion and stuff. My ears are perked brother. And I think break core is kind of the other term, jungle. I mean, all the terms that they used on the name of the playlist. Anyway, so this is a collaboration that this artist did with another artist named Numb Promises. So there you go.

This song is called Virtual Beauty. And that's what I do, man. I do it all day. And you know what? It really does fit. I forgot because it was such a mouthful, the name of that playlist. But, I mean, that ticked all the boxes, dude. I could hear that in like an indie game.

I could hear some vaporway. What all? What was the name of that play? list, Jeff. D&B, Brick Core, Jungle, Gaming Mix. Okay. Yeah, dude. Yeah.

So, like, the reason, I mean, they actually do have, on this playlist, songs from video games. There's, I don't know if you ever played the game, Ape Escape, but there's songs from Ape Escape on here. There's songs from Street Fighter 3 on here. But, yeah, cute. basically everything that she puts out sounds like that. Lomaji.

And, you know, she has, like I said, when you look at her releases, it's quite a bit, but it's a lot of singles. So, like, if you look at all of her records, it's a lot. But probably, it's probably like, you know, just a dozen or so tracks. Like when you just kind of, you know, think about. each of these releases as a single track, you know. Apparently that's a thing that the internet, that band camp and like Instagram and like TikTok has kind of done is like artists don't release albums anymore.

A lot of them don't. They just put out singles and that's it. Yeah, depending on the genre, but yeah, I've noticed that too. Yeah, I think for artists like this, artists that have like sound clouds and stuff like that, they don't worry about, oh, yeah, I got to put together. their collection of songs here and put it out as an album, you know, once a year or once every two years. They just make music and they put it out, you know, because that's how you generate hits and, like, exposure and stuff like that. So why not, right? Anyway, so yeah, again, that was

Lomaji. That song was called Virtual Beauty. And I'm going to pass it back to you, Q. I imagine we're in for another 180. I think, actually, you know what? I wasn't going to play this, but I think this will flow well with what you just played. So this duo, they're called Dami and J.D. Beck. They're a jazz duo consisting of French keyboardist Dami Luna and American drummer J.D. Beck. Yeah, they're from Dallas, dude. So they have apparently worked with Thundercat, Anderson Pack, Herbie Hancock, Eric Andre, Ariana Grande, Earl Sweat. shirt, Bruno Mars, they're huge, dude. And I've never, I didn't really know much about him.

My brother-in-law, Isaiah sent me a YouTube video of them performing and it just blew me away, dude. So, yeah, late to the party, I guess, because they're, I mean, they're everywhere, apparently. But yeah, we're going to play a song off their album Not Tight from 2022, which, I mean, Just look at the names of the people that show up on this record, dude. Well, Thundercat. Mac DeMarco. Wow. Herbie freaking Hancock, dude, that blows me away.

Buster, Buster Rhyme, Snoop Dog, lots of guest appearances. But anyways, this is one of, I guess, maybe about half the album has guest appearances. This one is not one with a feature. This is just the duo playing some of the... their jazz, dude. Here we go. This is Space Mountain. Cool.

Yeah, man. That's some, uh, that's some jazz flute, you know? It's very heavy in like the drum and bass style drumming. And the video that I saw of them is just him behind an acoustic kit doing all that, dude, which I think on the recording, it's sample, or not sample, but, you know, it's like a drum machine type programmed beats that he's done. but like he does that live behind a kit, which is bananas to me. That is cool.

Very like, it gave me some like Aymond Tobin vibes as far as like the drums. That level of drum and bass, you don't agree. Just the drums, Treff. Well, so I was just trying to, I was processing that. Okay. Okay. I could see that. Okay.

Which, you know, coming right off of a another, you know, the previous track was also German bass. That was a pretty pretty good transition. actually now that I think about it. And, you know, if we wanted to think about another jazz group that kind of mixed in some electronic drumbeat stuff, I think of Jaga Jazzist, right? Oh, yeah, dude. Yeah, big time. I just had an epiphany, dude.

We got to do an episode on them this year. That's a good call, dude. Because that's another, another, you know, remarkable group. from our, you know, our many years of hopping around to a bunch of different genres. There we go, dude. I just picked one of our 12 deep dive episodes. We're mixing things up this year, man. Mixing it up.

Dude, I used to have one of their albums on record on vinyl, dude. And then you sold. I sold a lot of records, man. I really, uh, it was not worth it, dude. I didn't make a lot of money off of them. I should have kept him. I sold a bunch of... Yeah.

Oh, God, Jeff. That was when I was just young and, you know. I just sold a bunch of my records, too. Not a bunch, but just some that I never listened to. So I'm not kind of regret getting rid of them. And I got rid of all my Bob Dylan records, dude. That's a bummerdoo. And I had quite a few.

The thing that I always, you know, you can't look at discogs and be like, and expect to get, you know, the value. you that you see on discogged like if you if you like try to no no no you just can't right sure but then sometimes you know I didn't actually look on discogs because I had a I spot checked a couple of the ones I was selling just to kind of see ballpark what I should expect you know and then I got a pretty good amount from shout out to red Zeppelin records in McKinney but then I went back I was like man if he gave me that much money he's probably thinking he can make at least twice Then, you know, but the difference is he's got that, you know, they got to sell those records one at a time, you know, unless they do some other, I don't know how records. Maybe we should get Mark back on the podcast.

We could talk about the end and out to the record, the vinyl record business. But anyway, yeah, it does suck to part ways with, with records, dude. I sold them to, I sold them to good records. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. And the guy was like, you sure about this, dude? I think I think you told me that he specifically told you if you sold them on discog. He was like, you should sell these yourself.

Yeah. And for whatever reason, I guess we just really needed the money, dude, you know? Yeah, yeah. And shout out to that guy for at least being honest with you. Yeah. He was like, you got some good records here, man. Like you should take the time to try to sell these yourself. Yeah.

He was giving me an out, man. Well, you know, yeah. Yeah, he was, dude. He tried. But anyway. You tried. Yeah, dude, let's cover some Jagged Jazzes. That sounds good, dude.

I don't think we did anything anywhere near jazz for all of 2024. We've already kind of changed it up a little bit with new shoes. Yeah, dude, let's keep it going. Well, I've got, yeah, I've got, I don't think I would have tease it just yet, but I've got a record from the 90s or a group from the 90s that's going to be pretty different from what we typically cover. And I'm really excited to share this group with you. but I think you're doing the next deep dive, and then we'll circle back around to me sometime in March, I guess.

Anyway, all right, Q, back to me. So I had this artist lined up for last months what you heard, but it got bumped for other reasons. And the song that I picked, I'm not going to play... I'm going to actually put another track off the record, but I do want to talk about the song. So, Q, have you seen the movie The Holdovers yet? Is this a new film? It's a new-ish film. It stars Paul Giamati and Divine Joy and this newcomer named Dominic Sessa.

But anyway, it's one of my new favorite films. It's kind of, it's sort of marketed like a... Christmas movie, but it's not a Christmas movie, but it just takes place over the Christmas season at this like boarding school where basically the holdovers are, yeah, that's the name that's given to kids who don't go home during the break. They have to stay at the boarding school. And Paul Giammati is the professor that's kind of like picked to stay and like, you know, basically watch the kids make sure they don't, you know, get into charge of it.

Anyway, I dude, I really, I seriously cannot remember the last movie that I saw with Paul Giamati in it. Dude. Besides, obviously, like, sideways. You got to watch it. Seriously, dude. Yeah, I can't remember a movie with him in it that I've seen in the last decade probably. Dude, it's, it's one of his best performances. He was nominated for an Oscar.

He may have won an Oscar for this, actually. No, no, he was nominated. He did not win, unfortunately. But anyway, but it's directed by, it's funny, I'm talking all about this film. It's not even relevant, but it is kind of relevant. It's directed by Alexander Payne, the same guy that did sideways and elections. He loves Paul Germani. He does, he does.

Anyway, so this song by this artist, Damien Hirato, probably to butcher that, called Silverjoy. is like featured prominently throughout the movie. And like I just, I associate that song with this film. But I went back and I listened to the record that it's off of. It came out in 2014 called Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son. And I'm going to play the opening track because it's way different from the song featured on that film. And it's pretty sweet.

So here you go. Again, this artist is named Damien Hirado. and this song is called Magic Number. Great track. Yep. Kind of psychedelic, kind of, you know, a little mystery to it, you know, a little like, you know, like I'm thinking,

I'm thinking lava lamps and smoke and shit. Smok, yeah. Very good, dude. He's been around for a while, dude. Looks like. Yeah, well, I'm, if we don't have an out. track picked. I'm going to I'm going to out outro us out with the song that

that was featured on that film because you'll see how different it is. And I was expecting him to be nothing but that. So like when I heard this opening track on the record, I was like dang, this guy's got some range to him, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And like he said, he's

kind of, you know, he's been around. He goes back to 90s, dude. The 90s, yeah. Reminds me a little bit of Jose Gonzalez. I don't know if you ever got it. I'm a big fan of his stuff. Yeah.

This sounds like the stuff that you were playing heavily when we first started this podcast because you were in this like psychedelic. Yeah, but that wasn't as I was, yeah, I was in like, I was heavy in the psych rock, but like. Yeah. Not this vibe. Well, you know, I put this under the large umbrella of psych, that track in particular. But anyway. So there you go. That was Damien Herrido.

All right, Q, I'm going to throw it back to you. What do you got? You got two more tracks. I got two more. I'm trying to figure out which one to do, man. Like, what do I want to close out with? All right, dude. So this is a group I've never heard of. Another group has been around for a long time. They've only dropped a few, maybe three or four records. on if any of these are best ofs,

but if you heard of a group called movie tone, I have not. So, yeah, very quiet, sensual, pretty songs, dude. Not what I was expecting. I don't remember where I came across this group, but just really pretty stuff. I don't know what else to say, but I really just want to play it, dude.

It's just the first track on their, I think this is their debut record, which is from 99, called The Blossom-filled Streets. This song is called Hydra. I really enjoyed that. That was great. Yeah, dude. I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff. Yeah, and talk about a runway before you hear her, before you hear her vocals come through for the first time. Yeah.

Yeah, dude, I'm all about that runway, man. You know, set the mood, get that table set, you know. And she fits the vibe perfectly. Like, there's nothing, you know, nothing like out of left field, you know. And that's, and I mean that in a good way. Like, it's, the whole album is like that, very heavy on the instrumentals, too. You know, like sparsely, uh, I mean, sparse lyrics intertwined in there every now and then. Yeah.

It's interesting that that came out in 1999 because I feel like that just tease up. The quiet is the new loud type of indie pop that was kind of right around the corner, you know. Well, it reminded me of like Portishead too, massive attack. Yeah. But on the, you know, I guess the acoustic. Minus the trip hop. Yeah, exactly. Good stuff.

Yeah, dude. Thought that went well with Damien. I think so. So now how are you going to wrap it up, Trave? It's the real question. Dude, I'm going to give us a great. Now, this is not the final track. You get to properly close us.

And I got a good one to close us out. This is my bow that I'm putting on top of this gift here to you, listeners. So, as we talked about earlier with my opening track by, Punch love. Here's another phenomenal shining example of the great indie alt rock that mixes grunge and 90s alt in a little bit of shoegaze in like that perfect way, dude. Shout out to my buddy Brian, who turned me out of this group. He actually sent me a brand new single that they just put out that. I think I'm going to sit on for the end of the year because they've got a new album coming out this year. But I went back and listened to some of their other stuff.

This band is called Rocket, simply put. Is this a new group, show? New group, yeah. All right, cool. And all I can tell you is they're only full-length record. It's called Versions of You came out in 2023. So that's how fresh these guys are. They've been around only for a couple of years,

and they may be gearing up for a new record coming out this year, but they just put out a new single called Take Your Aim. But I'm going to play a track off of this record versions of you that came out in 2023. Here you go. Again, this band is called Rocket. And this song is called Pipe Dream. I'm a sucker for that kind of music, dude.

Just straight up, solid indie, man. Yeah. And look, man, I'm not, I don't know this for certain. But it's probably a good chance that they name themselves. after the Smashing Pumpkin song off a Siamese Dream, Rocket. Because look at the way they described it. I think that's a safe band. I think so, dude, because look at the way they describe themselves on their own website.

Rocket is a high-energy punk-pop band from Los Angeles, creating music with shimmering guitars, huge drums, and singing along vocal melodies. When I think shimmering guitars, I think a Billy Corgan did. And that song had a little bit of that Smashing Pumpkins flare to it a little bit. For sure. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I'm very excited to hear what these guys do next because their single is amazing. It's a little bit heavier, which is what I'm what I'm in for.

But yeah, they're great. They're called Rocket. That song was called On Your Heels off of their 2023 record versions of you. And I'm going to throw it to you, Q to close us out. What do you got? All right, dude. Have you ever heard of a group called Fox Warren? It's all one word.

I never heard of him, Q. I mean, this, again, another band that I don't remember how I came across and probably just popped up on Spotify or something, but they only dropped one album so far back in 2018, self-titled, and apparently it was like a decade in the making. These are childhood friends from, they grew up in small towns across Canada, and they all kind of bonded over band. fans like Paul Simon and the band. And you can definitely hear it. It's just classic solid, like, I don't like just slapping the word folk on everything, you know. But like, I don't know.

It's not really Fleet Fox's folk. It's more like maybe like the clientele or Travis. You're going to have to like school me on this because I think this is slightly more your wheelhouse. But yeah, really, really good stuff. So I'm just going to play the opening track of their self-titled. This song is called To Be. Well, that was pretty much the end of the song, but I get what you're saying.

Okay, nice and short. Yeah, it was great. Yeah. Good, good song to close us out. It dawned on me, Trev. Jeff Tweedy, Wilco. Yes, dude. Particularly like Sky Blue Sky.

The guitar player, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's give him a shout out because that's exactly what I thought, too. It's Nels Klein. We talked about it recently. Yeah. Not too long ago, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Definitely same style of a guitar solo. I thought the same thing for sure.

Yeah. Sky Blue Sky Era, Hulco, or Nails Klein, I should say, because that's the guy that threw down the solo. But yeah, man. Good stuff. Good way to close us out. So that wraps up the month of February,

draft. That's quite the mix of tunes, as always, on what you're heard. Until next time. So you're going to play us out with another Damian track, Damien Gerardo? Yes, that's right, Q. So this is a song that was featured prominently on the movie Holdovers, the Holdovers. If you have not seen that, I highly recommend you do. It's a comedy.

It's one apology of these best performances. and it is definitely a film that is enhanced by the holiday season. But if you don't want to wait another, you know. We still got snow on the ground up here, dude. That's true. Then this is a good feeling time. We're supposed to get some more snow tonight. So actually, it says it's snowing right now, so we'll see about that.

If you can find a way to watch a cue, I highly recommend it. It's amazing. It's hilarious, too. Really, really funny. And just one of those heartfelt, heartfelt movies, man. It's fantastic. All right. So, yeah, we're going to close out with a song called Silver Joy by Damien Hirato. And you can follow us on Instagram or reach out to us on Instagram, I should say.

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