No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard: The Hoppin' and Squirmin' Edition

Episode Date: August 1, 2026

From jazz rock fusion to funky disco, midwestern emo to post hardcore we've got all the bases covered on this month's Whatcha Hear. Join us for our monthly mixrtape! Tracklist Wishy - All The Rage Fantamorgana - La Atlántida on4word - Subterranean Homesick Alien (Super Mario 64) Lonesome Shack - The Dance Hopesfall - Dead In Magazines Heatwave - Ain't No Half Steppin' Casiopea - Swallow American Football - Never Meant Velour 100 - Bittersweet Styrofoam Winos - Pearls Skiploader - Synonym Velour 100 - Pressed Flower This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Super Troopers 3, only in theaters, August 7. Hi, I'm Mike Judge, and you're listening to the Pantheon Network. Welcome to No Filler. Welcome to No Filler. I'm Quentin. And I'm Travis. And on this month's What You Heard, we're kicking things off with a brand new song from Wishy. This one's called All the Rage. I feel like these guys have such a...

Like, I feel like they can write any type of song. Dude, that's, that's it, man. I love it all, dude. I'm just eating it up. Eating it up. And they're prolific, dude. Yeah, like every song I hear from them feels different than the last one. Like, it feels, but it's wishy.

I mean, obviously. But yeah, yeah. Yeah, they have a, they have a signature, like, sound and style. They can take that style and, like, write any type of song with it, you know. Well, and they're pulling from so. many genres in even just one song. Like, this is like Tweed-esque, you know what I mean? You know, early 2000s pop punk, right?

And that's kind of part of their like, they're bread and butts, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. What's funny is I've, I stumbled across them, I think, on the shoegays suburb. Dude, I'm just about to, they need to change the name of that subbrit because no one, I don't think anyone knows what shoegaze is anymore.

So they live for real. They're just like slapping it on anything. Yeah, dude. That's true. That's true. And that was for their album, Triple Seven. I saw it was a, yeah, one of the songs from Triple Seven was like, it was posted on those you guys I read it.

Anyways. Who cares? This is, yeah, this is a brand new song. Just came out like a few days ago. And they released another one before this called Love Sick. Man, I got to wait until October for the full length to drop. but hopefully they drop a few more singles. Man, I just fucking, I love everything they do.

I love it. Can't get enough of it. It says here that, so this is from their, a press release from Kevin, which is the, that they actually played all together while recording this one. So that's always cool when they do it live, you know? Mm-hmm. And they got some inspiration after seeing artificial go and good flying birds playing awesome show.

Major inspo. I haven't heard of either of those bands, so I'm going to check them out. Artificial Go and Good Flying Birds. Cool. So chances are they probably sound a little bit like that track. Anyway, so the upcoming album is Nature's Pill. It's not going to drop until the very beginning of October. So I fucking can't wait for that, man.

And they're going to be on my best off again, dude. That's probably going to be three years in a row that there's going to be a wishy track on my best of. Well, at least you're consistent. I guess so. So I think it's me that's kicking us off this month, dude. So this is our monthly wish tape. I was looking at the word wishing. This is our monthly mixtape for those of you don't know.

In between our deep dives, this is where we dive into a specific artist or album. We do our monthly wix tape. Oh, boy. Our monthly mixtape. Our monthly wicks tape. where we just bring five tracks each songs that we've heard in between recordings could have been from anywhere. Lots of times it ends up being from like soundtracks or, you know, a song that was playing

in Target while Travis was browsing the aisles. Blows and browsing. Tis the season to be merry. That's my name. So I'm going to kick us off dude with a fucking banger, man. And this is a fun little story behind. how I stumbled upon this track. So part of my like Google News feed will be a track and album reviews from Pitchfork. They always pop up there. And so I'll click on all of them,

dude. I don't care what the genre is. I'll click on all of them and then take a listen to to who it is. They're reviewing. And I read like the, I didn't really, I guess I glanced over. I glazed over the name of the track and the artist. And I just read like the little tagline that said like, I said like new music from Fatah Morgana. Now, when you hear that, what do you think? Oh, that must be the name of the artist. Right?

Sure. Okay. Well, apparently that was the name of the record label. I was looking for the track that they were covering, that they were reviewing when I searched for Fatah Morgana and Spotify. couldn't find it. So I'm like, what? I went back to the pitchfork article.

I'm like, oh, it's a totally different artist. Did you write to the editor? No. Next time, why don't you be a little more clear? Well, here's the beauty of it, Tram. There is an artist named Fada Morgana, and they're fucking dope. Well, this is strange. So is Fada Morgana some sort of, does it mean something?

Because, like, what are the odds? It's got to. What are the odds? It's got to. This is a group for, They got to be from like fucking Norway or some shit or like Russia maybe. No, no, no, hang on. I got to get this right, dude.

Just because they're speaking a different language doesn't make them Russian, does it? You're rushing to conclusions is what you're doing. Okay, Fadamorgana is a complex, rapidly changing optical illusion that makes distant objects appear to hover, float or stretch upward like castle walls. There you go. So, yeah, that's a mirage. makes sense then that, you know, both a record label and an artist would claim such a cool term. They are from a Barthalona. A Barthalona. You have to pronounce it like that apparently, John. They're synth-pop duo from Barthalona. Okay.

Okay. Synth-pop post-punk. That's the best way to describe it, dude. So anyways, happy accident that I even stumbled upon this band. I'm going to bring the opening track from their album, Terra Alta from 2019. Here we go. This one's called La Atlantida. Like you said, off mic, it's a great way to start an album. Yeah. Yeah, I actually like that better than Molka Delma because I feel like her voice is a little bit more melodic.

I mean, I know that's kind of part of the charm. I just love those happy accents, man, when you, you know, I was not supposed to hear this band, right? when would I have ever stumbled upon them? That is weird, man. That is definitely serendipitous, my friend. That is strange as a writer to be like new music from record label and not mention the artist. I mean, maybe they did later on, but like, it's odd, man. Oh, here it is.

Ah. Okay, this is it. Lorraine, that was the album name. It's Fatimorgana, two words. Classic me, dude. You read the article, headline, and you're like, I got all I need to know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Lorraine is the name of this project by Taja Cheek,

and she has a new album coming out called Fata Morgana. Anyways, so I'll pass it to you, brother. How are you going to kick us off? All right, I'm going to start us off with something a little lighthearted, a little fun. I listen to a lot of video game soundtracks. I listen to a lot of D&B, jungle D&B, like PlayStation 2000s era video game, German bass music. At least it sounds like it evokes that era of video games. I stumble upon this artist that goes by On Forward, and he does cover albums in the style of Nintendo 64 music.

And he's got a couple of Radiohead albums that he's done, start to fin, finish. He's got in Rainbow Roads, which is awesome, right? Nice. And OK Nintendo 64. You could have been more clever with that one. Yeah, I know. I agree. But anyway, like, what more do I need to say, right? So like, it's spot on and it's a very faithful, well-done, respectful homage cover of the radio hit tracks. And it sounds like true to the, the N64 game that he's trying to evoke. So like on this particular album, the OK Nintendo 64, he puts in parentheses the game that he's pulling from.

Like he's probably using the original, you know, sound. Okay, that's cool. Synthesizers or whatever, like, or at least found a emulator or something like that to be able to produce the same type of sounds, right? You think he got permission from radiohead? No chance. There's no way.

There's no freaking way. Well, because he's got their album art on the cover and everything. Maybe. Maybe he did. I mean, you know, when you look at the, when you look at the Rainbow Roads. Oh, there's an FX twin one, too. I mean, yeah, it is definitely. It's, yeah, you can't deny that it would be copyright.

But it's clever that he turned the, um, the radio head cat logo. He used the, uh, well, chomping like bomb. Oh, yeah. Thing or whatever. Anyway, pretty clever. All right. So, yeah. So, yeah.

So, yeah, he's also did, uh, did, did. selected Apex Works in 64, and he's done. He's got a couple of singles, too. So he also did 2 plus 2 equals 5. He's got a port his head. He's got a boards of Canada. So anyway. Cool.

So we're going to listen to my favorite track on OK Computer in the style of Super Mario 64, subterranean homesick alien. Good times, dude. Good times. Well done. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like, spot on.

Faithful. I got to know if he's sampling literally everything from the games. Like drums and everything. He might be. He might be, dude. I haven't played enough for that game to remember if there's percussion in it. It's got to be, right? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, I mean, this sounds like exactly like what you'd expect it to sound like. So, like, on the In Rainbow's, In Rainbow Roads album, The whole thing is, it sounds like Mario Kart type music, right? Because, you know, Rambo Rhodes, right? Right, right. Now, there's a golden eye on there, too, I see. On this one that you just.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he did. Is it obviously gold nine? Do you, is it? It would have been obviously goldenite if he did, if he put like that sort of like signature, sort of like drum snare hit. I mean, if you want to listen to me,

we can have that as the outro cue because it's pretty good. That's climbing up the walls and the, style of golden eye, 007, electioneering, and the style of Majora's Mask. So yeah, if you're a Nintendo fanatic from the 64 era, this is pretty sweet. So yeah, the guy's name is on forward. You can find him on band camp too. He's got all this stuff on band camp. And yeah, he's just done a bunch of a bunch of cool covers of great music and the style of Nintendo Games Q. Anyway, I know we're doing a one Haiti for that cat. Look at that cat. What's he up to? For that cat, dude. How did I just now notice your cat there? Yeah, dude. This, I mean, this is what happens. If you,

if your cat is sitting on your chair, you have to leave it there. Yeah. So what do you are you sitting on right now? Are you standing? I'm squatting. Are you serious me now? No, dude, no. But my legs should be dead right now. No, I'm just sitting on a dining chair, you just can't see the, you can't see the back of it. Oh, but you're right, though, man. You can't, you can't disturb a slumbering can, man. No, absolutely not. I mean, that's just one of the rules of life. All right, Q, what are we, what are we doing? What are we doing here? What are we doing over there and over here? Man, how 180 do we want to get? Let's do, all right, so, and this will be fun. I got one of these in store, so we got more coming.

Well, this is fun, man, because our next deep dive is going to be on this artist. Lonesome Shack is the artist. And here's what happens every time. I think about an artist that I haven't thought about in a while and start listening to their stuff again. I look into it and wouldn't you know it, he's got new music. Happens every time. New album just came and just dropped on June 26th. Haven't listened to the full album yet.

But anyways, Lonesome Shack, he is this like nitty-gritty, dirty blues artist. he's been doing it for a long time and he's fucking great at it you know i had to listen to his new stuff and just give it a peek give it a squeak because you know he's been doing this for over a decade now and anyways man it's still still it's just more the same but in like a good way that's not a dig at him at all so anyways uh the new album is called the dance and i'm going to bring what's it called when the name of the song is the name of the album title track the title track here we go Yeah, I'm excited for this episode for sure. Because, yeah, I mean, it's been a while since I heard.

Because, I mean, it was just a watcher heard that you brought a track from his, right? We haven't done like a side track or anything like that on him, right? Right. And this was back when we did Watcher Herds at the beginning of our full-length episodes. And it was for the Kings of Leon episode, Traff. And I don't think I brought any other stuff from him since then. So that was literally the very beginning of this pod. was the last time I learned some Shaq song was on this pod.

And he, so big difference really is the way he's recording. He's like right up front and center with his vocals now. He kind of hid behind some distortion back, you know, in 2013 when you first started doing this. And it was a lot darker. This is a little more uplifting, more fun. But it's just great to see. He's still doing it, man. And man, those riffs, dude, those, that could, just a little ditty, man.

He's so good with his blues riffs. He's just, I mean, he's just so great. Yeah, I mean, that was more, I mean, I know you just described him as like, you know. Nitty-gritty. Nitty-gritty. But, like, yeah, he's cleaning up his act a little bit, you know? A little bit. A little bit.

I like it. Yeah, man. Anyway, yeah, that's going to be a fucking great episode. I can't wait. So, yeah, Traff. Talking about a 180, right? from Mario 64 Radiohead to

just some good old blues, man. So where did we go from here? So, you know, I've kind of been on this kick, listening to hum, and other various side projects. So I'm still riding that high IQ from that concert, if you can't tell.

Anyway, so I just stumbled upon, I didn't stumble upon, shit actually. That's a bold-faced line. I read a our Reddit post on the on the Hum subreddit. Somebody was sharing this album called The Satellite Years came out in 2002 by a band called Hope's Fall. And it

is produced by Matt Talbot of Hum, the lead singer of Hum. And he also sings on one of the tracks. I'm not going to play that song. because I want you to hear the actual band. But yeah, so he produced, he engineered, he mixed, and then he did vocals on the ninth track. Anyway, so I think it's funny. This is very strangely relevant cue.

Matt Talbot provided vocals on the track, escape pods for intangibles due to a bet he made with bassist Chad Waldrop after Waldrop beat Talbot in the game, GoldenEye. One of the odds. One of the freaking odds, though, that that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that's a message just came out of my mouth after playing an in-64 homage to radiohead. So, anyway, uh, we're going to play. Now, here's, here's the thing about this banqueue. They are classified as post-hardcore, space rock and metalcore. So hum gets, I think, two of those, uh, labels. Space rock and probably post-hardcore occasionally.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, um, I think this. particular track. What these guys remind me of and why I think you're going to like him, they remind me of Emery a little, a little bit. Sweet, dude. So we all know how much you and I have an affinity for the week's end. And I feel like this is around the same time, right? I mean, didn't Weeks Inn come out in 2002? Oh, for sure, man. It's got to be. 2004. Okay, so yeah, it's around the same era. Wow, man. That's exciting. So here we go. This is a band again called Hope's Fall. This song is called Dead in Magazines. Awesome, dude. I'm going to save that one for the

lawn mowing next week. What's the, what's the criteria for lawn mowing music? I got to know. I don't know, man. I mean, it doesn't really have to be like a pump you up kind of thing. It's just got to be an album that I know that I'll enjoy the whole time and I'm out there doing yard work. So this is just like, I want to listen to this from start to finish. Yep. Let me cue it up for my giant backyard. And my giant front yard, dude, my front yard, too. Right, right. I don't do both front and back on the same go.

Ain't no way, dude. Ain't no way. Yeah, I feel like this is the closest, the feeling that I get when I listen to the week's end by anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This band did it first. It would turn out. They did it first.

Well, how many other bands, too? Like, you know, there was a lot of bands that had this sound back then. That's true. Yeah, man, that was exactly right in that vein. Yes, without a doubt. I feel like there's not, there's a lot of bands that do like, you know, they, the sort of trade-off between like a softer, more melodic singer and then a screaming singer. There's probably a million of them out there, dude, but I just haven't stumbled upon them, I guess, is what I'm trying to say.

There's for sure quite a few of them, yeah. But, yeah, I just, I really like the way that that sounds. I mean, and that's a thing with plenty of bands. The loud, quiet, loud dynamic. You know, I think perhaps that was coined with Frank Black and the pixies and stuff like that had had that sort of terminology that they used or somebody used to describe the pixies. Dinosaur Jr., one of those. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, anyway, it just works really well.

You know what I mean? Yeah, totally. Anyway. All right. So, turning back to you. Where are we going from here? We might have to call this one the one any episode. Dude, I think we might be able to pull it off.

We're doing a 180 for each one. Because I'm bringing a track from Heatwave, dude. Remember them? Yeah. Because I remember Ronan played a track for me. Oh, the trampoline in your backyard. Uh-huh. And that's why that's, yep, because he, I let him just pull random records for my collection and we'll just play whatever.

You actually have that on vinyl? Yeah. I have too hot to handle and central heat. their first two albums on vinyl. That's cool. Man, so this is a, this is a 70s disco funk band. Yeah. Very made famous by Buggy Nights.

I mean, that song was fucking huge, which was on this record too hot to handle that I'm going to bring a track from. Yeah, I mean, we know them more from the Freaks and Geeks episode. Yeah, the disco sucks, I think is the name of the episode. The Grove Line, where Jason, Segal. Jason Seagull's character enters into like a roller skating competition. And this is the song he picks to.

No, I can't tell because I actually pulled it up and showed it through Ronan. Okay. Is he doing a good job or does he, is he sucking it up? Oh, because to me it looks pretty cool. What are he doing? Yeah. I don't know, dude. I don't know if he was supposed to be sucking at that or not.

Or if that was even the point of the scene. Yeah. So Ronan pulled out one of their records. And anyways, so I was back on the heatwave train. So I might call it the groove line, dude. Yeah, so I'm going to bring a track from their opening, from their debut record, too hot to handle. That's the one that has buggy nights on it. This is another single from it.

Man, this song is fucking, I mean, it's just a freaking scream and scream, man. So here we go. This is Ain't No Half Stepping. It doesn't get cooler than that kid. Right. It doesn't. they're not half stepping, that's for sure. What a dope song, man.

I know, dude. What I'm realizing is that I've been half stepping through my life, did. Part of people are keeping it tied, dude. They are keeping it tight. Can you imagine, I don't even know what a disco concert even is. You know what I mean? Is it just like, are they playing at, you know what I mean? Like imagine seeing them live.

Right. Back then. Did they play like little small little clubs? Or are they doing arenas and shit? I don't fucking, I don't know. Because I really don't. I mean, honestly, I don't know if disco, I mean, the Bee Gees certainly did bigger venues, right? But I mean, huge venues.

Massive. Yeah. But where were these guys? I mean, this is, you know. Dude, boogie nights was massive. That song was massive. And I was on this album. Fantastic.

I'm going to have to look for that record for sure. sure and that's not something. I don't buy that on CD. I buy that on vinyl. That's a vinyl record. Look at how dope the album covers, man. Yeah, man. That's great. Fucking finis. So you have, you found both of these on the wild. Yep, on the wild. Like, I don't buy records online, dude. I wonder how rare they are. Not very. I've already, I've already got it cataloged in discogs. I don't think these are. Okay. Well, I'm going to look, I want to keep my eyes peeled for those. Yeah, dude. That's awesome, man. What a great. Great, great song.

Ain't no half-sepping. And I know this is supposed to be on the 180 episode, but I actually have a great follow-up to that, dude. A fantastic follow-up to that. Fuck, yeah. So, this is another record that was brought to me by Doom scrolling on Reddit. So I think, and I was really surprised that we hadn't covered these guys. It's a group called Cassiopeia.

Okay. And now you might recognize this album art. They've got a million albums, but you may recognize, because I certainly recognize this. Yes. Yep. I've dove into this before. And we've brought some very, like, adjacent bands to this before. Yeah.

I can't think of the name of the band at the moment. But yeah, go ahead. So this record, this is, I guess their self-titled record, came out in 1970. and listen to this, cute. Are you listening? I'm listening. This group was sort of formed, aiming to make music like Jeff Bex blow by blow. Hey.

Spot on, dude. Description of this, of this album. And it's fucking phenomenal, dude. And it's got amazing artwork. Look at this artwork, dude. It's just like these two race cars with the Cassiopea logo written on the front of one of the cars. Talk about some Photoshopin, and dude. back in the day?

This is 1979, bro. How'd they do that? I don't know, dude. Paint? It's fucking paint, probably. Literally paint? Literally. Yeah, I'm not talking Microsoft paint.

Yeah, so the band was, here we go. The band was formed attempting to emulate Beck, Bogart, and a piece, which I've never heard of that, but that's one of Jeff Beck's groups, Power Trio. So anyway, I'm not going to be able to pronounce the names of these tracks, Q. Not going to do it. gonna try. Yeah, don't even. Um, because it's just Japanese characters. So here we go. I'm just gonna play track number six on the record. You're not ready for this, dude. All right, here we go. Dude, there's like no stopping point for you to like fade out. It was just nonstop.

Yeah, yeah, it's just an onslaught. Yeah. In a good way. In a good way. Nothing but stank. Dude, my, my face, the muscles are hurting. from the stanky. Stank face, yeah, stank face, yeah, stank face, yeah, of the, uh, of the chas fusion variety. Which, you know, it's not a face that, that I make very often. I'm being honest. Yeah, same. Yeah, dude. I mean, fuck, dude, that drummer. The bass player. Right. How? And that's, that, that, that to me is the, uh, is, is, is the, is the Jeff Beck. So, like, you know, I feel like we should. Yeah. Was the drummer on blow by blow? Was it that famous?

drummer? The really well-known... Dennis Chambers? It's not Dennis Chambers. It's a guy named Richard Bailey. Okay. Dennis Chambers, I guess, I think he contributed to some Steely Dan stuff, right? I think so.

He's everywhere, dude. Is it Chambers? I mean, what's the guy that had... Purr-Pert shuffle? Neil Purdy Shuffle? No, no, no, not the Purdy shuffle. I think that's... Yeah, Bernard Purdy.

That's the guy who was on Steely Dan. Okay. He was known for his Purdy Shuffle Which I think he did on some of Asia stuff Yeah Babylon's sister Rebellon sisters Anyway

I thought that we were doing nothing about one 80s But I did I mean you could see how that's At least in the same like Zipcode as heatwave Right Same era for sure Yeah yeah

But yeah same zip code Yeah All right what do you get I'm blessed Hashtack Yep hashtag With the With the thrift stores up here dude

and I'm a thrift guy, okay? 90% of my wardrobe's thrifted. Anyways, I was lucky enough to stumble upon a dope-ass American football shirt. And I'm not talking about the sport, okay? I saw it. I know, did it? You saw it in the flesh? American football.

I saw it on your person. What are we talking? Second wave or third wave email of this group? Third. Third wave? Well, when did it come out? When did that record come out? 1999, the self-titled, 1999.

Okay, so second wave then. Yeah, yeah. So it's, the T-shirt is the album cover, right? Which is iconic. And I had to revisit the album after I was sporting the T, you know? Of course you did. Come on. What are you?

And this was my soundtrack to the last time I mowed my front lawn, okay? And fucking hell this album's amazing, dude. God. You and your lawnmowers did. So I'd never listen to this album from start to finish until about a month ago when I found that T-shirt at Goodwill. Okay. So anyways. That's crazy, man.

Yeah, I know. I know. And I don't know if I had ever heard track one until just a month ago. So I didn't play it on the episode? I don't know, dude. We didn't list tracks in our descriptions, our episode descriptions. So we're going to just, yeah, we're going to play the opening track because this to me was just like, I mean, it was just like, holy shit. dude. What a fucking album.

Yes. I mean, what, uh, all right. So here we go. This is the opening track off of American football self-title from 99. This one's called Never Mint. Something special about it, dude. And that's why, I mean, that is why it has stand the test of time and has had a resurgence. It's probably had like two or three resurgence at this point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like there's so many people that, that find this record and like, yeah, connect with the lyrics. Dude, I hear Watashiwa. I hear Hey Mercedes. I mean, I hear May, all of them. All of them. Definitely. And yeah, there's just, the musicianship is fantastic. So the songwriting is great.

The musicianship is great. The lyrics, man. I mean, it's classic emo stuff. It is. But it's just like we've all been there, man. For people that, you know, are softies like you and me. You know what I mean? I've been there. I know with that kind of crap. You know, with those, you know, the, the infatuation, the puppy love type feelings that you have. And I feel like that repetitiveness of those lines, you know, is supposed to be kind of like, just going over and over and over and over in your head. You just can't stop thinking about these things that were said that you clearly didn't mean. So let's just forget everything that's said, you know, and everything we did.

I mean, just phenomenal, dude. And then track two hits you with like a fucking trumpet or some shit, just out of nowhere. There's a couple of instrumental tracks on the record. Yes. Yeah. And that's what makes it so unique. Like, I can't think of another emo band that threw in some trumpets, man. Yeah. I can't think of it.

I think they are gearing up to put out another record very, very soon. Yeah. Of course. So, yeah. They're all. In fact, I think I've already listened to one of the singles. So, yeah, they are sort of in that writing the wave of bands that are having their sort of comeback moment. I mean, I keep talking about hum.

I mean, hum is a huge example of that. Yeah. How shoe wave bands are. Shoe wave. Shoe wave. My bad, my bad. Shoe gaze bands are having a moment. You know what I mean?

Shoe wave is a thing, right? It has to be a thing. Shoe wave has to be a thing. Probably. Probably. If not, I called it. It's mine. I'll coin it.

But yeah, man. Phenomenal record. Phenomenal, dude. Tots Phenoms, man. Dude, I fucking said that just now. I just said that. It's okay, man. I'm not going to judge you for it.

I don't think it's okay. I don't think it's okay. All right, dude, I'll pass it back to you. What are you got? Okay. So I had planned on playing the Cassio Pia track as like my last or second to last track. So now my order is all screwed up here. So let me see what I can do.

What are we doing? What are we doing? Let's see what we got here. Okay. All right. Let's play Velaur 100. Again, another band that I would have put money on us featuring them at some point in a sidetrack or that random shoe gaze episode that we did. But apparently not.

So here we go. Speaking of shoe wave, and by that I mean shoe gaze. This is a band that's more of the dream. pop side of the coin. My favorite side of the coin, dude. But here we go. This album came out in 1997. And I believe I came across these guys. Damn, these, they, they dropped four albums, five within the span of like five years. Oh, that's weird, man. I swear, I was looking at this on my phone and the years all said 1996. Yeah, so they were, anyway, they were very prolific. Yeah. I like the album covers. In the mid to late 90s. I'm excited about this, man. But yeah, this,

This album in particular of Color Bright is the only one that really kind of touched on the more shoegazy guitar sounds and stuff like that. Sort of the loudness. A lot of the other stuff is a little bit softer. Kind of Sundays-esque, but more like if Sundays was, I mean, Sundays is like quintessential dream pop type stuff. Like if Sundays were more like had a toe in like more shoegays.

See. How to toe and some cocktoe? How? Hey. Oh, yeah. I like that. All right, here we go. So this is, again, this band is called Velour 100.

This is the opening track to their 1997 record of color bright. The song is called Bitter Sweet. I like how soft her vocals were, dude. I mean, like, dream pop, rather? Super delicate. They had to crank her up in the studio probably to hear her. but that was very, it works. I liked it a lot.

I'm intrigued. I'll put it that way. So, yeah, the record, the record's great, man. It was hard for me to pick a track to play. Yeah, sometimes, you know, it actually goes some interesting places. I think there's a male vocalist, too, that appears on this record. So anyway, again, that was Valor 100. The song was called Bitter Sweet, author 97 record of Color Bright.

And I'm going to pass back to you. Is this your last pick? It is, sir. It is. And we are going to, I just heard this today, not that long ago. This is a band that just dropped an album back in June, and it doesn't look like they've been around for too long. Or at least they haven't released, you know, anything official for very long. That makes sense.

Hello? They're called Styrofoam Wino's. Great name. Great name. Just dropped this full length called Any River. back on June 19th. So I kind of went in blind, dude, and I'm just going to play the first track because I feel like we do it a lot here, Traff.

And it makes sense, you know, like, because we're listening to this music for the first time and basically just sharing it with our listeners. And a lot of times, you know, I think it makes sense to just play the first track, you know? Like, here it is. I mean, yeah, a lot of times that, yeah, that's how you kind of get introduced to an artist, right? It's obviously, it's the band's like opening message, right, in a record. It's like, this is how we're going to set the tone, you know what I mean?

And I don't want to give anything away. You know, if there's like a banger on track seven, you've got to discover that yourself. That's true. That's part of the journey. That's not for us to do, except that banger might show up on my best of, but not for this, not for this little July watcher heard, you know. So anyways, dude, I have not listened to the full album, but if this, first track is any indicator of like what's in store for the rest of it they're for sure going to

make it on my best of um i'm getting very strong Courtney barnett vibes from the lead singer um anyways here we go so this is styro from winos the album is called any river this is track one off the record it's called pearls Oh, you got to do this to make you. Why, you got to make me follow that? That might be my new favorite track, my new favorite track of the year so far, dude. Yeah, man. It's phenomenal, dude.

Get right on fucked. In a good way. With how good it is. Get fucked in a good way. Yeah, in a great way. I know. That's phenomenal, dude. I know, man.

I have not. Dude, this is the only thing I've listened to. I've only listened to this track, okay? Oh, my God. So I'm pumped beyond belief to listen to the rest of this. Dude. This is going to be my soundtrack to the yard work of this weekend. Okay.

Let's talk about yard work. Let's talk about, because you said, off mic, you said that there's some great music out there, which is true. I think there is a backlash happening finally to. to... Yes. Technology. Yeah. I'm hearing that Gen Z is helping bring cinemas back.

And I think they're very anti-AI, and so am I, dude. I'm already done with it. I'm over it. Yes. I unfortunately have no choice but to work with it. Due to my profession. Yeah. Me too.

And I was working at Amazon, dude. I had no goddamn choice. Yeah. No, I don't know. I don't know what that means in terms of, like, the type of music they're making. I don't know if there's any sort of correlation there, but like I feel like maybe there is.

Maybe there's a swing, but like, hey, man, let's pick up some instruments and just and make some tunes together. You know what I mean? Yeah. Let's get in a room, you know, and do something, right? Totally. Because that, their generation especially, like, felt the impact of COVID

in a different way than we did, because they were still in school, a lot of them. I still feel so bad, man, for the high school kids who were seniors in 2020, they got robbed of that experience. You know what I mean? The right of passage that is being a senior in high school, like they, it was completely taken away from them, dude. Totally. And so, I don't know. I feel like I'm hearing that that's kind of why board games are on the rise again because people are just like they want to get in a room with people and experience.

something, you know what I mean, have an experience together. Maybe there's something to be said about like live music, you know what I mean? And like instruments, like a band, a proper band, you know. Yeah, I mean, lots of great music coming out from real bands, real groups of people getting together playing instruments. Fantastic music, man. Fantastic music. Great track.

That's definitely going to make the list. We're going to have to fight over it, dude. All right, Trif, how are we going to wrap this one up? All right, Q, this is actually, I think American football is a great companion to this band here that I had planned to play. Okay. Yeah, this is not a true 180 episode where every track was a 180. Not at all, Q. Our music taste are too similar for that.

From Portland, Oregon, this group is called Skiploader. I'm going to play a track off of their 1995 record from Kansas. record from can through string, which is a cool name for an album. All right. So this song is called synonym. The well is bottomless, my friend. You're talking about 90s? Well, yeah.

What the fuck? I mean, yeah. That's great. Yeah, dude. This music has always, this flavor of emo will always hold a place, dude. In my heart. I didn't feel like I needed to finish that thought. I mean.

Damn, dude. There's just something special about it, man. The harmonizing. I mean, very much in line with American football. Yes. You know, around the same time. But that was almost like a little punkish. Yes.

But that's emo, dude. Emo is an offshoot, man. 1995. I mean, okay, hang on now. I always like to do this. I always like to do this because I forget. And I don't know why I'm bringing up Green Day right now, but I am. Dude, yeah, 90s.

They were doing it. Duky was like 93, I think. Yeah. Or not Duky. What was the other one? Dukes McGee. Karpunk was 92. Yeah, Dukey was 94.

So yeah. Yeah. I mean, but yeah, if you want to like talk about like emo, like early Midwestern email that people talk about, like Sunny Day real estate diary came out in 1994. Promise ring or purity ring. I think it was purity ring. No, no, promise ring. Purity Ring is another band

Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good Came on 97 Jimmy E World Clarity Came out Not clarity Let's go back to Static Prevails

Static Prevails Came out in 1996 So this is it man This is when Second Waveima was in full swing And yeah Dude they were only active

From 93 to 96 Short-lived They put out I think just a couple of records. And they came and went, dude. But they put out some great stuff. This album's great. I mean, are you surprised?

No, I'm not. Okay, then. Bottomless well. Yeah. Skip loader. So again, came out in 1996. Anyway, so that was, that's it.

That'll do it for us today. So Q, I mean, yeah, we could play another track off of that radio head N64 thing or... Nah. I think we're beyond that.

Or we could play the other track from Valor 100 that I wanted to play. Okay. We could play the other track from skip loader that I wanted to play. So your choice. I basically had two tracks

from most of the bands that I wanted to feature. So I was between both. So what do you... I got to finish. I got to round aside with the outro last year with another Well, and you got the intro. You got the intro this time.

So what do you want to hear? Do you want to hear another Velour 100? Do you want to hear another skip loader or do you want to hear another Hobbes Fall? Oh, God, dude. I know. It's a tough choice. Let's do Valor. Okay.

I've got a great track from Valor 100 to close us out. So I believe our next deep dive is going to be what you teased earlier. Lonesome Shack. That's going to be a good time. and then I have been wanting to do this band for a while. So we're going to do it after Lonesome Shack for our next deep dive. Days of the New Cue. I talked about how I wanted to do a deep dive.

I don't know, maybe last year on this record. Oh, right. We didn't do it. And so I just played one of the tracks from there. but dude this album kicks it slaps is what I meant to say kicks and slaps this is the yellow album so they're another band where all of their albums are self-titled yeah but they're just they're referred to as commonly referred to as as the as the color the primary it's just basically the first one is like a yellow palette with a tree on it the second one days of the new

is green. Some people refer to it as the yellow album, the green album. And you're really spelling it out for us, John. And they haven't put a blue album, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So, depending on what I want to do, we might play some tracks from the green one as well. But anyway, so that's, I don't know, two months from now, a month from now, whatever. A month and some change from now. We'll do Days of the New. Another 90s band that the reason that I think it's going to be an interesting, follow-up from like Lonesome Shack and Rattlesnake Milk is this group kind of blends. It's like a southern grunge is the best way I can describe it. Think jar of flies from Alice and Chains, like some of those like more acoustic tracks on that record.

Now why are we talking about this now when we still have? Because I'm pumped about it. Okay, dude. But anyway, so yeah, that's on the horizon. So anyway. Cool. So that'll get us through fucking September, Travis?

Dude, the end of the year's knocking on the door. Jesus Christ, because we only released two albums, two episodes a month. Mm-hmm. Anyway, you can check us out on the Pantheon Podcast Network. It's Pantheon Podcast.com. If you want to subscribe to their feed and get our music and,

I mean, music, get our podcast and anybody else that's under that umbrella. We have a lot of, it is a music podcast. networks, all of the podcasts under that network or music related. Just don't subscribe on Spotify, as we've said before. Find us anywhere else because it is not a guarantee that our new episodes will stay on Spotify. We're still going to push to Spotify, but like I'm done like trying to chase Spotify to try to like keep episodes on that they flag as violating copyright laws.

It's just not, it's not worth it. They wiped like 200 plus episodes in a single swoop a couple months back. So, yeah, that'll do it first this week. I'm going to close us out with another track from Velour 100. And we will come at you in a couple of weeks with our Lonesome Shack episode. And until next time, thanks as always for listening. Hold on before I say that. The track that we're going to listen to here is called Prest Flower.

Again, by Vador 100. All right. Thank you, as always, for listening. My name is Travis, and I'm Gwen. Y'all take care.