No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Take Another Sip Edition

Episode Date: September 26, 2022

We flipped on the mics for an early morning recording of this month's Whatcha Heard. Tracklist Milly - Marcy David Byrne - Strange Overtones No Vacation - Days Little Big League - Dark Matter Helium - Vibrations Karate - Bass Sounds Dy Cleaning - Gary Ashby Shipping News - Axons and Dendrites Magic Shoppe - Hatchling Been Stellar - Kids 1995 Floatie - The Envoy This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Order Uber Eats now. For alcohol, you must be legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Welcome to No Filler. I'm Quentin. And I'm Travis. And for this month's what you heard, we're kicking things off with a brand new song from Millie.

This song is called Marcy. This group I love, dude. You brought something to theirs. a couple months back from one of our Watcher Heard's. Yeah, it was the July Whatchard, and I brought, it was a self-titled track from them. Yeah. So it was called Millie. But yeah, I mean, this is, you know, this is what we've been talking about, how the, that 90s aesthetic, the 90s sound.

It's just like, that's what indie rock is kind of like leaning toward it now. It's like embracing everything about the 90s. Because, like, even with their album art and, like, their logo, it just looks like it came out of the 90s, you know? Like, everything is just, like, leaning into that decade, which is, hey, man, I'm all about it. Yeah, and what's interesting, like, I didn't even pick up on this when I was listening to this song, but after reading this little write-up on the record label that they're a part of, so this is Brendan Dyer, mostly. It's just kind of a solo project, but he's starting to bring in more people to work with.

but it kind of goes into this you know a little backstory about it says your Dyer was one of the only young people in his rural man that's the hardest word in the world to say it in his rural Connecticut town interested in anything other than sports and other stereotypical markers of American life Hey man

that's us right I feel you did yeah yeah and it says naturally Dyer began to gravitate towards emo the closest thing many teens have to outsider art. And it goes on. But anyways, emo, right? So that's a big influence

that he draws from. Yeah, you can hear it. Yeah, big time. And, you know, maybe even more so with, with early 90s emo. Yeah, yeah. No, good call.

Yeah, because, I mean, 90s emo is like, you know, Jimmy World and stuff. But, you know, Sunday Day real estate, bands like that. Well, it mentions Hawthone Heights. Yeah. Period.

There's a bunch of bands Purity ring. I think it's purity ring. No, the purity ring is like an electronic. All right. Here am I thinking of that. Yeah, you're right.

It's not purity ring. It's something ring. Not a decoder ring. We talked about it on our Jimmy World episode. Promise ring? Promise ring. That's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Promise ring. Yep, yep. But yeah. And that's the, you know, that's the thing about 90s rock, right? There's just so many different styles that fall underneath that umbrella, you know. Oh, yeah. Yep.

And we're learning, continuing to learn more and more about that decade through this podcast. So they're working up to drop a full-length album. It's going to be, it's called Eternal Ring. It's going to be coming out. Ring. That's so funny. It'll be dropping September 30th. So they've drawn.

dropped, I think, four songs from the record so far. Marcy was one of them. So I can't wait to hear more. Yeah, well, by the time this episode drops, that'll be like a couple days. Yeah. Yeah. So if not, yeah, I think that'll be perhaps it'll already have come out, actually, depending on when this drops.

But anyway, so, hey, this is our what you heard for September. and Q, you're here. Here I am. You're back. This is, like we said, we're going to try to get you on for the What You Heard's. How, what's, I'm going to ask you every time, Q, how many hours of sleep are you working on right now? Oh, dude, I'm, I'm good, man.

It's normal. I haven't, I have yet to feel, well, I'd say the first few days, the first week of Roaning, of Ronan being home, we felt it for sure. Yeah. I mean, I'm getting six hours, dude. Wow. Yeah.

Okay. You know, that's not a full night's sleep, but. But that's, dude, I used to get only six hours. You know, for the longest time when I was younger, that,

I mean, six hours was the norm for me when I was like early 20s. From what you always hear about newborn parents, that seems like an anomaly. I know. That's what they always say.

I better get your sleep now. Yeah, yeah. What's the, all the, all the cliches, you know, but no. that's good man well we usually record in the evenings so sometimes when we record in the morning

like right now you know we're our vibe is not hasn't you know what i mean so we'll see if if if uh if this feels a little off although we both are actively consuming coffee so maybe that'll help a little bit all right well here we are cute we're gonna do we're gonna try to rapid fire this you know i got to see my got to see my wife off here about an hour and a half she's going she's going up to Seattle, actually, for the next few days, Q. Yeah, she just happens to be coming up here for totally unrelated.

Unrelated reasons. Didn't come into C.S. But she's going to pop in and say, she gets to see Ronan before you do, man. How do you feel about that? Kew, she'll be the first one on this side of the family to see Ronan. That's pretty awesome, man. All right, Q, well, as tradition has it,

and proper manners, you know, goes with twins, right? We switch, right? We trade. So that means you get go first. And you know what? If this is your first time listening and you're like, what are they even talking about, we're not going to explain our watcher hurt anymore, you know? Not today. If you want to know what the what your herds are all about, just go through each of the last almost two years now. Once a month we do these episodes and it's just nothing but tunes.

Yeah, it's pretty obvious. You'll figure it out. Yeah. What the point of this, what the point of this episode is. But anyway, yeah, so you're going to go first, Q. So tell me, what have you heard lately? All right, dude. What you heard lately. I've been gushing over the, I think it's, I don't know if it's on NBC or just Peacock, but the resort.

Told you to watch it, man. I watched three episodes we bailed. Oh, dude. All right. That's it. I'm never going to ask you to watch a show ever again. No, I just the show. You guys give up on shows so quickly.

No, no, I think three episodes is enough. Dude, it should be enough. Episode four is probably the best one. All right. Well, all I could say is this show couldn't figure out what it was trying to be. That's what I didn't like about it. It couldn't figure out because I think the first episode we were like, oh, this is intriguing. You know what I mean?

It's got a little bit of a sci-fi element to it. There's maybe some mystery going on. And then they're like trying to be. be a comedy show and it's like, I don't know, I couldn't get the dialogue lost me. The freaking, whatever. Wow. It's a whole separate episode, Q. Yeah, sure it is, dude.

But anyways, so you're going to be familiar with this song then because it is the first song you hear opening credits episode one. It's possible I shazam did, Q. You probably did because I did. Because I've always got Shazam on the ready, you know? Let me tell you, dude. immediately, I, throughout the whole first episode, I mean, I started Shazam in left and right, man. There's great music throughout this entire series.

And anyways, first scene, opening credits, I thought, man, that sure does sound like David Byrne. And it is. And I'd never really dove into his solo stuff. I don't know about you. Talking heads, of course, I'm familiar with, but have you listened to any of David Byrne's solo stuff? No, I never really, never really gave it a shot. All right. So this is a song from David Burns' album from 2008 called Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

And my guess is that any David Byrne fan that's listening right now probably heard this song. Most people that have done any kind of search on David Byrne through Spotify has probably heard this song because this is his number one played track. And I fucking love it, dude. Here we go. This is a song. called Strange Overtones by David Byrne. It's an American treasure. It sure is.

You know, I've recognized the album art for that. I think we may have featured a song from this record on the music blog that we did back in the day. New Desk. Yeah, 2008, dude. That we were doing it then. Yeah. It's cool. It's like a house, like a line art.

Some kind of vector rendering. Yeah, minimal kind of looking thing. Well, it's actually not very minimal. But anyway, it looks like a cool illustration of like a pretty sweet looking house, actually. It almost looks like something an architect would work up, you know, just to show clients or something. Right. Anyway, yeah, I don't know. I picked up on a lot of the kind of talking heads, kind of like calling cards if you want to

if you want to refer to it that way. But like the thing in the background, there was like a keyboard sound in the background that kind of reminded me of some talking head stuff. Well, I thought one line that popped out at me that I thought was great. And I don't know if he's referencing himself, kind of, or referencing talking heads.

But he says, this groove is out of fashion. These beats are 20 years old. So backtrack, let's see. You know, was there a big, Talking his album that came out in 88. In 88. Yeah, because maybe he just pulled, you know, reused an old beat or something. Or 87.

I mean. Yeah. Or, you know, that's just me, like. Yeah, trying to, trying to. Speculating. I mean, they were, I guess they were. 88 was somehow naked. Naked.

True. Stories was 86. Anyways. Yeah, it could be that. David Byrne has also been doing solo stuff since the 80s, which is all. He's still doing it. Yeah. He's still doing it.

Yeah. Yeah. I saw him on either Colbert or one of the late-night shows, like within the last year. He had his whole, it's kind of like a, almost like a Broadway production type. I don't know, like a little. Oh, yeah, dude. He had a Broadway show. You knew that, right?

American Utopia. Okay, well, that's what it was. Yeah, I saw him do some American Utopia stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's never stopped, you know. Yeah, but I, yeah, I guess I just didn't realize that alongside talking hits, he was at, doing a lot of solo stuff.

Yeah, I think we actually talked about that on our, on, he, he partners with, um, the Brian Nino. Brian Nino, yeah. Yeah, he did a record with him in between. Yeah, that first one, there it is my life and the, uh, what's it called? My life in the bush of ghosts. Yeah, so this came out before, um, remain in life. The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, yeah.

Or at least, I think he was recording his first solo record, like, as they were also like recording remaining light or before it and it came out after or something like that. But anyway, yeah. Well, yeah, dude. Good track. Yeah, I thought that would be a good one to kick us off. That is a good one to kick us off. So yeah, dude, I'll pass it over to you, man.

What you've been heard? All right, Q, this song is an earworm and I'm about to infect you with it. This song, this was a Shazam as well, Q. You know, I'm like, it's like quick draw, you know. When are we going to start getting paid from Shazam, dude? Um, and this was, I, I want to say, this could have been a Target Shazam. So sometimes Target's got some good little indie tunes. Are we getting paid by Target?

We're getting paid by neither Target nor Shazam. But, um, this is a little dream pop band. Uh, I don't know if I've ever heard of them before, but, um, I can safely say, this bass line, the chorus baseline, might be my favorite bass line that I've heard in a while, dude. And that's just because it's so catchy and really effective with the song. Anyway, this is just one of those feel-good songs. So, you know, maybe we could call this like a floater. You're about to start floating.

All right, dude. Can't wait. And that's all you need to know. So this song is called Days by a band called No Vacation. Those vibes all day, man. Yeah, just a classic, like, dream pop song. Yeah, this vocals too, very, like, dreamy, breathy. It reminds me of, like, I don't know, J-Som or Man I Trust.

Yeah, totally. Or, like, hatchy, all those really good artists. I mean, this is, this was kind of the, the shoe gaze sound of, like, the 2010s or whatever. And that's why we always, you know, we've had this discussion a lot. but Dream Pop and Shoegays fall under the same umbrella, but they're two very distinct sounds, I think. And that's why this is definitely Dream Pop and not Shugays. But like this is what I associate of like that 2010's dream pop sound

that was all over the place in indie music, you know? Yeah. This is a classic example of that, of that kind of, that era of Dream Pop. And this song came out in 2019, so it's, you know, new-ish. Did they have any full-length? records? Yeah, yeah. I mean, they've been around since 2015.

Okay. So, you know, they came out around that time, actually, you know, the mid-2010s. Actually, shit, they only have one full-length queue, so. Their first record was a full-length. And the rest are singles, which is interesting. That's a long... EPs, I should say, yeah. They put out EPs.

I mean, they've actually put out quite a bit of stuff, but, yeah, it's mostly a little EPs. But anyway, so that band was called No Vacation, and that song was called Days. All right, I'm going to throw it back to you. What you got? All right, dude, I think this one's going to pair pretty nicely with that. So, have you heard of a group called Little Big League? No, I'm not. All right, well, I'm really only familiar with this one song. I just heard it, you know, through, I think it was a Discover Weekly playlist. I'm just going to, I'm just going to jump right into it, man, and I'll talk about it.

afterwards. This album from 2013, again, the group is called Little Big League. The album is These Are Good People. This song is called Dark Matter. The last part to you, man. I'm glad that you kept that part in. Yeah, it gets really intense, man. Yeah. Guess what I found out, dude. What did you find out, Kim? That's Japanese breakfast, Michelle's honor. All right. Dude, I recognized her, man. Yeah. Okay, that's great. Yeah, so apparently, they were active until about 2014. Her mom was diagnosed with cancer, so she moved back to her hometown of Eugene, Oregon.

And that's when she started just kind of doing her own solo stuff under Japanese breakfast. Wow, that's awesome. Because she's, I mean, she's a, she's like kind of a breakout. She's huge, man. Indie, indie, yeah, indie artist lately, right? I mean, over the last couple of years, like she's really kind of exploded. Oh, yeah. that's cool man i love i love seeing the origin you know yeah and what a great great song man

really good dude another catchy one yeah and it made me totally wax nostalgic over the freaking movie little big league that i totally forgot about when i when i just typed in little big league of course that's what popped up right man dude this was one of our favorites growing up i'm gonna have to rewatch it that and hold up angels and the outfield angels and dude those are the two big and sandlock come on course right maybe that maybe that's the trifect of baseball movies

you know from the 90s baseball movies involved for kids kids yeah because obviously there's major league yeah major league whatever anyway anyways man yeah so that was awesome tune yeah really and of course it's it's all like that yeah that's awesome so yeah so again that was from a record from 2013 called these are good people that was

again, Michelle Zonder, aka Japanese Breakfast, and that was her previous group, Little Big League. And pass it back to you, brother. From what I heard, you know, from you, man, dude, I got to take another sip of coffee. You're bringing nothing but female lead singers today, right? All but one song, yeah. Okay, cool.

Yep. Well, what do you got, dude? Are we going to keep the flow going, or we're going to switch it up a bit? I just rearranged the order that I planned on doing this end so that we could keep the flow going, okay? Because I'm going to pull a 180, I feel like. I don't have any 180s.

My stuff's pretty consistent, so that's good. We always have to have at least 180 on our watcher hurts. At least one, 180. Yeah, right. Okay, well, I'm not sure how I stumbled upon this group. Probably just kind of hopping around on Spotify kind of thing. but this is a 90s group called Helium that I had never heard of. Oh, I think I'm familiar with them.

Maybe not. Those album covers don't look. But this little one-liner here is a good way to describe it. So helium, one of the finest and most unpredictable bands of the 90s, helium was defined by leader Mary Timmany's. That's a weird name. Mary Timonies, experimental guitar playing and alternately tough and vulnerable vocals. Nice. And this record was fun to listen to.

This came out in 1997. It's called The Magic City. I'm going to play the first track off the record. This song is called Vibrations. A little curveball they threw at the end is probably a nice teaser for the kind of stuff they do throughout the record. Yeah, they do kind of, yeah. And that's the experimental. part of that that little uh one sentence bio that i read there yeah right but yeah that's one of

the you know you're saying about the last track i played like oh i could stay in that groove all day like i love that guitar riff man catchy yeah yeah like it it kind of reminds me of um this is gonna sound weird presidents of the united states of america i don't know man it sounded like that might as well have been a bass tar. I can maybe see that. There's definitely bands that have a similar tone to the guitar

obviously. That's kind of a dumb steven. Take another sip, dude. Anytime we're struggling to get through a sentence, just take another sip of coffee, man. All right, let me see. Let's see if I can make a better sentence here. Yeah, I mean, it sounds like the classic sound for the 90s. anyway you know as we've talked about

a bottomless well of amazing 90s rock it's just out there waiting for you to find it and this was another example of a band never heard of him pleasantly surprised

by this record and they've got they've got three records one actually it looks like they got a had a comeback in 2017 but anyway so again that band

was called Helium and I'm going to throw it back to you Q what do you got for us? Is this our 180 or what? I'm going to say no man okay actually it's

kind of a similar vein as far as like a more like a like a speaking kind of tone for for the singing voice and speaking in the 90s man

this is a group called karate you ever heard of them no This is a record from 1998 called The Bed is in the Ocean. And man, dude, this, I was blown away, man, by this record. It's really just the way that he sings. It's very in like his, the timing of his lyrics on top of the music.

Very different, really, really good. they are characterized by a fusion of indie rock emo post-hardcore post-rock and jazz which is yeah and apparently the jazz influence becomes more dominant in their later releases that's really more in like the i think like the time signatures and they kind of you know change up the tempo throughout the songs is very like complex kind of jazz stuff like that I'm going to play this song all the way through because I think it kind of gives a good taste of what you're going to hear. So again, this is a group called karate.

The album is The Bed is in the Ocean from 98. This song is called bass sounds. That was it? That's it. Nice, man. That's great. Well, they definitely delivered on their promise of some bass sounds. Because right out the gate,

you heard that bass, you know. You did, man. Yeah, cool song, structure, like he said. Lyrics were interesting. I like how the drums kind of picking up their tempo a little bit, the symbol play a little bit there at the end, which is kind of cool. The drums are very quiet at the beginning.

Yeah, I like that. Well, this whole album's like this, man. Interesting, yeah. Yeah, really, really good stuff. Yeah, cool. And they've got quite a few full links, dude, And their last record was in 2007. So they kept it going for, you know, a little over 10 years since their first, since their debut, which was in 96.

And apparently it's just going to get jazier and jazier as you progress in their catalog. I'm intrigued by the jazz part of that. Because, I mean, I think his vocal styles and delivery paired with, like, jazz type of music. could be really interesting. So that's... Yeah, I'm definitely going to dive in. Yeah, I did. Cool.

So again, that was karate. The song was called bass sounds. Pass it back to you, Travis. What'd you get? All right, Q. This is a band that we have talked about and mentioned a few times, I think over the past year,

they were featured on my best of 2021. I think they may have been one of my top five from 2021. Dry cleaning cue. We talked about them before. Any time that basically any time that a singer has any sort of like a spoken word

quality to their vocal delivery, I talk about dry cleaning. Yeah, let me tell you something about dry cleaning, Jeff. Tell me about it. And I'm hoping that this song will prove my worries wrong. That I feel like it's a one and done thing for me.

like, all right, I get it. That's fair. Could it be much different than their debut? Well, here's the thing, Q. I hear your concerns. Let me alleviate them. Okay, good. You're not wrong.

But here's the thing about dry cleaning. The music? Yes. That is why I come back every time, Q, because her vocal delivery is her vocal delivery. And you know what, dude? And that's her thing. She's just poetry.

It's, yes, this is her outlet for that. Exactly. And I get it. And here's another thing. When the band originally formed, it was the three musicians who formed to start making music together.

And they brought her in later. Okay. But anyway, what I am so compelled by with this group is what's happening, you know, behind her vocals. I actually like her vocals. You're right. It is, it is, her cadence and her delivery is pretty similar almost on every song.

Yeah, yeah. She kind of throws in some, like, you know, melodies and stuff. It's not all this dry delivery. But yeah, she's telling stories in her music. But the three piece behind her, I mean, let me name them, Lewis Maynard, Tom Douse, and Nick Buxton. They're so tight, like what their, their, their, their, melody is. and their music because they have to be because of how dry and like monotone her vocals are like

they provide the music right she's not providing any of that right right and i feel like they they like almost you know are extremely expressive with their instruments because of how monotone she is right and i'm always like like amazed by by the music behind the song so they are gearing up to release a new record on October 21st, their second full-length record. So, you know, they've been dropping singles this year. This is the latest single, so I think it came out, yeah, it came out September 7th, so earlier this month. So here we go. This song is called Gary Ashby.

Without me, dogs running free. We gave you our family and you escaped. Be Ashby, it was a bad surprise. Have you seen Gary with his tin for a ball? He used to love to kick it with his stumpy legs. Do you. I love the guitar, man. I told you.

I'm all about the music. That's what I come to the table for. Was that your stomach growing? No, dude, somebody outside with a... No, that was not my stomach, although I am kind of hungry. But look, I knew the risks when I brought this track to the table, because I think it is. I've showed this group to a couple of people,

and most cannot get past her voice, you know what I mean? And that's okay. I'm here for the tunes, you know what I mean? And I think her vocals are different enough to make it like, Oh, that's kind of, you know, it's kind of interesting. But like you said, once you hear it, you know, it, you know what I mean? There's not much she's doing that's different. She must have like a really compelling, like, presence and aura around her.

I'm curious how the, how the live performance goes, right? Well, because, yeah, because they, I mean, they pulled her into the group and they're a really tight-knit, really great-sounding group of musicians. Exactly. You know, like she's got something going on, dude. It's different. I mean, it is different. You can't deny that, right? It's different.

And they're, you know, they're making waves. They're getting attention. Yeah. Yeah, it really has, does nothing like dry cleaner right now. That's for sure. Exactly. Well, that's great, dude. Despite, no.

I won't get her again. But, yeah, that was good. I enjoyed it. Yeah. Well, you know, take it for what it is. right it's a band doing something different as far as vocals are concerned but again like the the the three piece behind the vocals to me they they do it incredible they're they're like a yeah they they never cease to amazing anyway so if you like that their new record is coming out

october 21st so it's called stump work all right cue what you got i think we're round in round of the corner here here here around on the corner and wouldn't you know it dude I've got another group with a singer that just kind of speaks more than anything it's kind of a monotone delivery

okay this is a group called shipping news they were active from 96 to 2012 so they had a pretty lengthy career the labels that are put on them post rock math rock post hardcore

and this is actually an album from 2005, so this was almost a decade into their career as a group. This album is called Flies the Fields, and I'm going to play track one off the record. This song is called axons and dendrites. Recognize that singer. You remember the band Juno 44? I brought as of what you heard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One time. Before we were doing what you heard once a month. Did you bring that to the episode that we did

oh Ethan Dorell with Joel yeah with Jill okay I knew we had a guest on when you brought that group yeah that's the same guy same singer nice yeah his name is Jeff

Mueller awesome yeah dude great and you know as we both agree you know I love a nice a nice runway you know what I mean

before takeoff especially for track one yeah I should should have mentioned that dude this is a nice lengthy runway to kind of ease you into the album. That's a great one. Yeah.

Well, yeah, that's great, man. Yeah, you know, that kind of reminded me of Parquet Quartz, his voice. I wonder if there's any influence there. I can see that. You know, just kind of that monotone. I mean, dude, that was very much like how dry cleaner sings, or if you want to call it singing, but just kind of crams in words to fit into, you know, a measure just to kind of to get it in there. Well, if you like his vocals, definitely check out June of 44.

Yeah, I need to check out more of their stuff for sure. Yeah, the record that I brought a tune from is called Four Great Points. The song I play it as amazing. It's called Cut Your Face. It's more aggressive. So if you like his vocals, June of 44 is more like, you know, post-punkky, post-hardcore. I guess is the term. Well, and you know that was eight years prior to this album that I brought from shipping news.

So that was what he was doing eight years beforehand. And I guess he was doing these two groups alongside each other. Because shipping news has been around since 96. So he was playing in both these groups. Awesome. Yeah, that's cool, man. Really great. Shipping news.

shipping news that song was called axons and dendrites and pass it back to you brother so we've had you know we've been we've been blessed as people say down here in the south um with Nathan Forster's presence right yes as as co-host a couple of times over the last month yeah I mean without his presence dude we would They'd just been dropping nothing but rewind episodes. I mean, I may have recorded a solo episode here or there. I could do that. But much better to have Nathan on because he's been great. And credit goes to him for turning me out of this band.

We were just texting and he asked me if I'd ever heard of this band called Magic Shop, which I had not. and this song is kind of along that vein of 90s sounding comeback bands, right? But yeah, dude, this is a great track. I'm just going to let it speak for itself. It's a brand new song, or at least it came out this year, March of this year, this record. The record is called Mono Lake, and again, this band is called Magic Shop. I'm going to play the first track off the record. This song is called Hatchling.

A lot of the artists that we've brought have really had that more like spoken word monotone delivery. Yeah, you're right. And my last pick is also, I think, a little bit in that vein. But they're all different. Like the sounds are all different. The style, yeah, yeah. And this is a brand new album, right? This group?

It is, yep. Brand new record. Newish, at least. It's all coming back. I don't think we need to really continue to mention this. that every episode but like no we're continuing to to be surprised by that dude and you know what's funny like maybe i'm just making this up but i feel like when we first started this podcast i mean i didn't have any hope for rock now that was in what 2018 when we started like i just in the last

couple years we're seeing a huge like reemergence of of the 90s rock which which was really the last decade. Yeah. That we've, you know, it's been 20 years, 30 years, really, since we've heard, since we've heard legitimate rock and roll. Yeah, indie rock bands are turning more toward guitar driven, guitar driven rock, right? Yeah. Because I feel like the 2000s, 2010s even, it was more, I mean. It was the DIY quote, you know, bedroom pop.

I mean, we can't ignore garage rock, right? Because garage rock was very guitar driven. And that was the 2000s. They're really 2000s. But maybe more of the last decade. Maybe more the last decade, right? The 2010s, it was more about that like dream pop, like bedroom pop. Yeah, the fuzzy kind of stuff.

It was one person making music out of their bedroom. All they had was a laptop and a keyboard. very like lo-fi kind of stuff but yeah it's like the proper rock band sound is coming back and like it's it's barring from the 90s more so than anything like here's the description of this of the group on their own band camp page magic shop are known for delighting in distortion and reverb i like that perfect just taking notes from my bloody valentine the jesus and mary chain spaceman three sonic youth and loop. They have a European psych shoegaze sound which flirts with noise rock. So I agree with that. Warm and fuzzy tonality can wash out into soundscapes or crash into a maelstrom.

But yeah, I mean, yeah, definitely that opening riff on that song was very classic shoe gazing, right? Yeah. But it's like the fuzzier kind of sound, not proper shoegaze, but barring from it. And that's also what we've talked about is what's great about the indie rock bands right now that are doing this sound is that they're able to borrow from a bunch of different 90 sounds. We've talked about narrowhead, a bunch, and they borrow from, they borrow from emo, grunge, shoegaze, and it's all just, you know, this perfect sound, right? And that's what these guys are doing, too, I think. So anyway, this band, again, was called Magic Shop. That song was called Hatchling.

All right, cute. What's your last piece? pick for us here. This is one of those groups, dude. The one that comes to mind, and I know there's quite a few more like this, but ComTruse, you know, it's kind of a play on, on like an actor's name. Well, this is a group called Ben Stellar, and Ben is B-E-E-N. Like, I've been listening to Ben Stellar. Gotcha. And this is a group that, I mean, in the two write-ups I've read on them. They really emphasize the fact that they're from New York. I think that's like a big thing for them. They moved to the Big Apple and, you know, tried to try to make it big as a rock band. They mentioned growing up listening to the strokes and television, you know, just kind of acknowledging that,

you know, they're, they're in this city that have produced so many great rock groups. And they're kind of in this, like, shoegazy, kind of garage rock vein, but it's a little lighter than that. It's not so heavy on the distortion. I've only really heard a few songs from this group, so I kind of just want to let the music speak for itself and see what you think, Trave. So this is going to be their first single. They've only been dropping stuff since 2020, and I think they must be working up towards dropping a full length. But they've got an EP out that they just dropped five days ago on the 12th.

And this is the first of those songs that they dropped earlier this year. So again, this is a group called Ben Stellar. This song is called Kids 1995. I watched the movie kids and then had a dream about you and me, but things are different. You're holding a camera and you're yonika and that feels snow there's no way to know.

That's awesome, man. I love the story and that he's telling there. So this song is literally about the movie kids that came out in 1995. Yeah. It's called Kids 95. And the funny thing is I actually just watched this really cool documentary that I would recommend called All the Streets Are Silent.

And it was about the convergence. Here's the subtitle. The convergence of hip-hop and skateboarding in the 80s and 90s. And the movie Kids was shot featuring a lot of teenagers and stuff. young people from like New York, this scene that was kind of, that this documentary was kind of talking about. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, because this Ben Stellar's from New York, so that's cool.

There you go, dude, yeah. And right there, that lyric right there is spoiled comma Cebedoa. Yeah. Sebedo. That's a track featured on that movie. Nice. Sebedo is a band and spoiled his tracks. So, yeah, that's cool.

He's literally just talking about watching this movie. The credits roll. spoiled sevedo yeah yeah exactly it's awesome yeah it's cool because i mean you know that was kind of a snapshot of life in new york and then in the 90s and like how like those two sort of like cultures kind of like kind of merged and like sort of you know like they say the convergence of like the style of hip-hop merging with skateboarders and like that kind of whole the dichotomy of those two scenes, I guess, and how they meshed and like a bunch of creativity came out of that. Like, and a lot of like well-known actors and directors and stuff like Spike Jones and like

Yeah. What's her name? Rosario Dawson, like she was in that movie. And you know, Sonic Youth is kind of tied to to that scene as well. I was going to say David Brown talked about this a little bit on that episode that we did. with him. Go back and check that out. That was a Sonic Youth episode that we did where we interviewed David Brown, who wrote,

he wrote a biography on Sonic Youth, Rolling Stone, writer. Anyway, cool, man. That was really, that was really cool. Yeah. Really love the sound. And, yeah, you can definitely see that influence, you know, saying he grew up listening to Sonic Youth and Television, just kind of in the way that he sings kind of, kind of has a little bit of a casa quality to it.

Oh, maybe a little bit, yeah. A little bit. A little bit. A little bit. A little bit. Yeah. Yeah, really good stuff. If you grew up in New York nowadays, like anywhere, you know, maybe in the 2000s or

whatever, you probably do look back on like the 80s and 90s youth movements or youth culture and stuff like in New York with like, man, what would it have been like to be around back then with all that happening? And like that movie is literally like watching a documentary snapshot home video type thing of like what it was like in New York in the 80s and 90s. Dude, that's cool. Yeah, I mean, just CBGB alone and the groups that came out of that venue. Yeah, dude. New York City was where it's at.

Yeah, exactly. And that's cool. You know, I have mentioned like the two write-ups on this group that I found they spent a lot of time talking about them, you know, coming to New York to. start this group. And yeah, you can tell they definitely romanticize it a lot, especially finding out what you told me about this kid's 1995 is just literally just singing about that documentary or that movie. That movie, yeah.

Yeah. That song just had like a melancholic, like nostalgic sound to it. You can tell he's kind of like longing for that or whatever. Yeah. So Ben Stellar, right now they've got a five-track. EP of just their tracks they've been dropping throughout this year.

It's just a self-titled. So check it out if you liked that track. And this is the last one, dude. Pass it to you. How are you going to wrap this up for us? All right, man. I've got a doozy for us here at the end. To close us out, this record

blew me away, man, when I listen to it. Really captivating stuff. Yeah, man, you're going to love this. So I would described this best as kind of like it's indie rock with like a touch of math rock. They actually describe themselves, and this is kind of funny. Apparently this is not a real thing. It's not like an actual genre.

But they call themselves frog rock. I think it's a play on progressive rock. Because they also have, you know, here's their genres that they have applied to this record on band camp rock which is like the obvious one amphibious friendship music frog rock progressive like progressive

and Chicago so they're from Chicago but um all I can say is it's it's awesome and the math rock like the tempo changes and stuff is what kind of compel me to it a little bit I like her vocals too Anyway, so this band is called Floody And I'm going to let this song play out entirely because it's pretty short But this song is called The Envoy

Yeah, that was an instant Vinyl purchase for me I immediately went out and grabbed it The whole record is like that It's great, man I just love it Again, dude, it's just one of those It's just one of those bands, man

That I was like, damn, that's something right there I mean, I like how like her vocals were just like buried behind almost the exact same I don't know if it was the same tone and everything but like like you could almost not hear it because it was just hiding behind the guitar strumming and that verse is really really cool the way they did that yeah well um this this album came out last year called voyage out dude you know it's weird what's that i have this album liked Really? Yeah, I must have heard a song from it. Who knows when? And I liked it. I, you know, I hearted it or whatever on Spotify and I never jumped back and listened to it again.

Well, I don't recognize this. I mean, I don't think we featured this. No, we definitely have it. Because a lot of times, yeah, I'll throw a bunch of songs on. Dude, I bet if I bet if I scroll through, because I have, I save all the playlists for each month. I just kind of throw songs together for watcha. I bet you if I go back and look at my old ones, I bet I could find. to track from there. That's awesome, dude. Good stuff. So again, that band is called Floody. This record is called Voyage Out. That song was called The Invoy. And that's it, man. That's what you heard for September. That might be my favorite group of songs that we've brought together for what you in a while. This was decent, yeah. Sometimes it all works out, Q. You know, I didn't sneak in any metal or sometimes I have like a vapor wave song that I put in there. Which, you know, usually works out.

Some kind of weird electronic. Yeah. You know what's funny, Q? I took off. I had a vapor wave song planned for this, and I swapped it out for dry cleaning. So there you go. Well, that's nice. I knew.

Maybe I instinctually knew, like, you know what? This song will go better with Q's picks. How'd you know, man? Twins, you know. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, that's that. and yeah who knows q maybe maybe we won't see you again for another month you know we'll we'll do

this same same time same place next month but you know what dude october we've got to do our bonus halloween episode oh my god maybe i can at least count on you for that because those are short and sweet and i've had a record picked out for us to talk about i can always count on you dude to to bring those yeah i've got something planned dude well last last year we did uh on Uncle Acid in the Dead Beats. Uncle Acid in the Dead Beats, yeah. Now, what was it the year before? Oh, it was John Carpenter.

We talked about John Carpenter. Yeah, we did some, like, some stuff from like, I think Halloween 3 season of the witch, I think. Or maybe it was, I think it was just like a hodgepodge of some of his stuff. So, like, it was like the fog theme song and like, yeah, something off of Halloween 3. Yeah. Anyways. You know, his synthesizer stuff is sort of. you know iconic obviously and very sort of influential on influential on synth wave stuff right

oh big time yeah big time anyway well i guess we can just fade out with a little bit more of that david burn track unless you've got an outro picked out for us all right well in the meantime check us out on instagram follow us there send us your music recommendations uh what what bands do you want us to talk about what songs have you been listening to lately you know if you send us a recommendation and we dig it, then it might be our outro for next month, what you're, you know, you could be so lucky. You never know. But yeah, follow us on Instagram.

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And until next time, Q, thanks for popping in. I'm sure you've got a diaper to change or something like that. Oh, for sure, man. Yeah, you think he's, has he been busy while we're recording? You think he's working toward a nice movement for you? Well, he He already dropped one on me At like 6.30.

No, it wasn't on me. All right. Yeah, I think he's, him and Sarah have just been napping. They've probably been to sleep this whole time. Oh, that's good. But yeah, go go stir them up, get some breakfast going. All right, okay. You go do that.

All right, well, thank you, as always, for listening. Until next time, my name's Travis. And I'm Quentin. I'll talk to you guys. next week.