A show about heavy metal, drugs, UFO's, stealing beer and touching stoves. Join us each week for music lore, debauched anecdotes, uninformed conjecture and many other Fruitless Pursuits.
This week Thoryn is calling the shots so that means lots of topics, and lots of uninformed takes from Jason. We discuss the Alec Baldwin incident, film labor strikes, Steve Gorman and the faultiness of memory. Then, new records from Brandi Carlisle, Jason Isbell and just in time for Halloween, the Mark Lanegan and Joe Cardamone collaboration: Dark Mark Vs. Skeleton Joe. Later, we discuss the ability of music to elicit memories, the irredeemability of Vince Neil, headbanger chicks, Shkreli's Wu-Tang record, DUNE and the trainwreck that is Black Widow.
Also: Thoryn professes his love for Michael Bolton. That alone make this episode worth a listen.
21 Oct 2021
Potty Language - Fruitless Pursuits #31
This week: Jason preaches the virtues of a clean ass, we discuss what Italian fashion magazines and metallic hardcore have in common and take another dump on Vince Neil. This just in: Spiritbox is still terrible but someone in the marketing department at Rise Records REALLY wants them to be famous. Finally we have another installment of "Our Favorite Producers." This week's inductee is none other than Brendan O'Brien. We discuss his early career with the Black Crowes and the Red Hot Chili Peppers under the flag of Rick Rubin all the way through his current work with Mastodon, AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen and of course in his role as the primary producer and de facto 6th member of Pearl Jam.
15 Oct 2021
Halloween Blackface: The Most Dangerous Game - Fruitless Pursuits #30
Fall is in the air and what says Autumn better than blackface Halloween costumes and hunting humans for sport. Then: we talk about the upcoming Baroness all-request tour and look into a story about a river near Glastonbury showing up with monumental traces of drugs after the event. Later: Cedric Bixler-Zavala of the Mars Volta/ATDI fame made claims that agents of Scientology killed his dogs and we discuss a cool upcoming project from Converge, Chelsea Wolfe and Steven Brodsky. I pity the fool who don't rate this podcast.
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