Your Music Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad

Quick Review of recent Djent show (The Contortionist, Monuments, Painted in Exile) Prince - Some less well known songs we enjoy and why we enjoy some more well known ones less Matt recaps Prince's "Visual Album" Purple Rain co-hosts Rich and Eric

These Are Songs About Butts. w/Jamie Ignao, James Chen, Matt Soares, Ashleigh Walsh

Avantasia's first time in NYC, April 15th @ The Playstation Theater http://www.infinityconcerts.net/uncategorized/infinity-concerts-presents-avantasia-in-new-york-city/ We listen to Ghostlights for the first time.  

Power Metal fans are wracked with guilt and deeply ashamed. Find out why! w/Jamie Ignao, James Chen, Matt Soares

Die Fledermaus @ The Met Mozart in the Jungle wins some Golden Globes Times Square Jazz & iCadenza JAZZ WOLF VICE Article: http://www.vice.com/read/an-earnest-exploration-into-the-musical-merit-of-jazz-wolf (http://www.vice.com/read/an-earnest-exploration-into-the-musical-merit-of-jazz-wolf)  Brooklyn Metal Show w/ Pyrrhon, Vomit Fist, Cadaveric Spasm, Replicant MORE JAZZ WOLF co-hosts Rich and Eric

Its Kanye season again, just in time for the Grammys. Co-host Jamie Ignao and special guests Ashleigh Walsh and James Chen

Semblant - (video: https://youtu.be/QIedr_9_9hA (https://youtu.be/QIedr_9_9hA)) Floor Jansen / Nightwish Epica / Mark Jansen Meshuggah Tangent Seven Spires Arch Enemy / The Agonist Unleash the Archers Kamelot, Therion co-hosts Rod & Kelley

Mega-Mall-Core Sacrificing Coolness to Metal Matt recaps Mozart in the Jungle (Season 1 Spoilers) Neurological Study on Music Listening Habits Related to Mental Health  co-hosts Rod and Kelley

Lyric Intelligence in Popular Music Study Rap Vocabulary Study Psychology Study on Personalities of Fans of Various Genres Metal / Classical correlation Co-Hosts Rod and Kelley

LIVE from the 2016 NAMM show in Anaheim, CA. Exciting new products and awkward industry shows. RAMS NAMM Metal Metal Jam Jam feat. Michael Angelo Batio Yngwie Malmsteen @ The Observatory Our Pantera tribute band, Cowboys in Hell, that only plays "Power Metal" and earlier Pantera. (see, they're still IN hell, they haven't left yet to take over your town) w/Special guest Rich's brother Bob.

R.I.P. David Bowie ---- Assessing Music Based on Variable Criteria Dragonforce still sucks Why Everyone Loves Adele co-host Jamie Ignao

King Diamond / Exodus show at the BestBuyNokiaPlaystation Theater. Star Wars / John Williams Braindance @ Santos Party House co-hosts Rich and Eric

Social media drama. Weird public attitudes about music criticism. No Music Everyone Likes and How to Ruin Parties Periphery, Animals as Leaders, Tesseract, Djent or Djent adjacent. New Foo Fighters EP Acknowledging Personal Nostalgia Bias We get it, you like The Beatles and/or Led Zeppelin. co-host Jamie Ignao

Scott Storch is a producer (of beats) who was a pretty big deal in the early to mid '00s. His biggest hit was Fat Joe's "Lean Back" in '06. Then he decided to work with Brooke Hogan and Paris Hilton and do all of the cocaine. Its hard to say whether these were directly connected, but we'll speculate wildly about it for a solid hour before we simply don't want to hear the same Korg Triton presets anymore. w/Rich, Eric and Deb

Rich went to another awful New Music Concert. This leads to a discussion of what "New Music" is and why when its bad when people refuse to admit it sounds bad. Why majoring in Music Theory is dumb. What Music Theory actually IS if you're not painfully familiar already. Rich and Matt discuss some of their more avant garde compositions from music school. Including "I Throw Rocks at You" and "You Win (Money)" PLUS: The SECRET TRICK to escaping a Nu Music Concert or Performance Art piece that you are not enjoying.

You read it correctly. At the risk of exposing more people to it than it deserves, we present: Tha Gatherin' - A Rap Group Exclusively based on Magic: The Gathering, the Collectible Card Game from the 90s, and unfortunately, today. We explore theories as to why King Diamond sold out 3 nights in NYC, one of which we will be "covering". Braindance is at Santos Party House, Saturday 11/21, and we will be there as well. Also Sebastian (lead singer of Braindance) accepts my friend request LIVE on the podcast! We explore (unpleasantly) the other projects from the producer of Tha Gatherin, Spruke. This results in another tangent about YouTubers and finally why the movie/show Catfish are so terrible. Whatever, its a podcast, we can talk about stuff. co-host Rich and Eric

We saw Fates Warning with Next to None and Imminent Sonic Destruction, as well as SymphonyX (now with ACTUAL masks), Overkill with special opener Sanctuary. Warrel Dane INSISTs you start a pit. Then we talk about our new country song "Drink to Forget" as well as my Yacht Rock Opera based on SEA ORG, the Scientology cult-yacht. And a shoutout to NYC band Shinobi Ninja. co-host Rich

We watched CNBC's "Pitbull: Fame and Fortune" and learned the Music Business is 90% Business, 10% Talent, and 30% Beverage ads. We actually gained a surprising amount of respect for Pitbull's business acumen, though not necessarily any for his music. We didn't lose any respect for his music, 'cause, well, we didn't have much to begin with. But when it comes to business! Can't Stop - Won't stop - Never will - ... Don't stop the party. Dale! DALE! co-host Rich

Matt and Jamie discuss the origins of the style and most well known Djent bands (and/or bands related in any way to Djent). Meshuggah, Periphery, Animals as Leaders, Monuments, Tesseract, etc.   co-host Jamie Ignao

Matt and Rich discuss 7 string, 8 string, and 9 string guitars, as well as various excessively stringed basses, why this is happening, and is it too late to stop it?!?  Probably. We also discuss YouTubers like Miranda Sings and a bunch of teenagers whose names I can't remember. #toomanystrings co-host Rich