Pavement Wowee Zowee 30th Anniversary - Jackson Main, Jon Waller, Miles Baker
It's the 30th anniversary of Pavement's historic album Wowee Zowee and we deep dive all things Wowee and even do a mini Pavements movie review.

It's the 30th anniversary of Pavement's historic album Wowee Zowee and we deep dive all things Wowee and even do a mini Pavements movie review.
It's the 30th Anniversary of the historic Pavement album Wowee Zowee and we are massive Pavement fans here at the podcast. So, we're deep diving into Wowee Zowee with help from Jon Waller and Miles Baker, two massive Pavement nerds. We also do a mini review of the new Pavements movie and it's basically us trying to define what this movie is...
Do you remember the first time you heard Ween? Jess and I do. We both heard Chocolate and Cheese about a week apart from each other. We're such massive fans of this album we decided to do a LIVE LISTEN and talk about discovering Ween, Ween culture and break downs of the songs. Join us as we chat about Chocolate and Cheese 30 years after hearing it for the first time....
It's been 30 years since Oasis' debut album Definitely Maybe. Now Oasis have reunited and since 1994 was my favourite year in music we talk 1994 era Oasis. We deep dive on the Definitely Maybe album, the Brit Pop culture around it and ask the question, do the Gallagher brothers actually hate each other?
It's the 30th anniversary of Green Day Dookie and we're celebrating by taking deep look at it's 1994 release and the death of grunge.
This episode we get opinionated as we break down the RS Top 50 Canadian Artists rankings. We're Canadian the people who wrote this list were not. There's obvious choices on this list but a lot of surprises as well. We shake our heads a lot.
Riot Grrl and Bikini Kill are one of the most important touchstones in music of the past 30 years. So when Bikini Kill came to town on their reunion tour Jess and I went to see the revolution girl style. After the show we concluded we had to do a pod and talk about all things Bikini Kill so here it is. No magazine reference, just Bikini Kill, women in music, reunions and whether or not Bikini Kill needed a guitar player.
It's the 25th anniversary of Sloan's 1998 album Navy Blues and to celebrate we're talking with Sloan guitarist Jay Ferguson. Jay shares tons of fun stories about the era surrounding Navy Blues but before that we go back to Sloan's signing to DGC and through their albums Twice Removed and One Chord to Another. Jackson, Noyan Hilmi and Alex Hryshko begin the episode talking about their history of loving Sloan from the beginning of their career right up to today.
What do you think of the movie Empire Records? For a movie that got sort of lost in the shuffle and bombed at the box office we have thought about it way too much apparently. Is this a music movie? Is this movie good? For the first time ever we not looking at a music mag, we're just talking about Empire Records. We dive deep into themes, casting, record stores, and why Lucas didn't just tell Joe why he took the money!
This episode is special for a few reasons. The first is that we have an interview with Joe Lally from Fugazi specifically about this time in career in music 1991. This issue features an article on Fugazi and is one of the most unique interviews ever because Fugazi don't want to be interviewed by Spin. This was also the month that Nirvana Nevermind was released which launched the 90's into a whole new era and identity of its own. Join Jackson, Noyan, and Alex as they discuss this specific and imp...
It's the all Canadian episode! We've been very excited for this one and it's a list episode! That's right we're going through Chart Magazine's top 50 Canadian Albums of all time. But don't worry international listeners you'll recognize most of them as Canada has produced some of the greatest artists of all time. Join us as we go deep into Canadian pop and indie some of which we agree with putting on this list and some we don't...
It's the end of the year...in 1996 and in the present too so we look at Spin's artist of the year Beck and his landmark album Odelay. And what would be a year end without lists? We go through Spin's top 20 albums of the year in 1996 and trust me there are some gems that have stood the test of time, it was a great year for music.
Has there been a more cool and original artist in the past 20 years than M.I.A.? It's debatable but, we don't think so. We go deep on an M.I.A. cover story and the biggest year of her career. PLUS! Cassie Ramone lead singer and guitarist of Vivian Girls joins Jackson in conversation about their feature in this issue and the explosive year in her career that was 2008. We also dissect a "Is Sampling Dead?" feature, as we discover this article was a major prediction for the future. And the future i...
We couldn't fit all our thoughts into one episode so we split it into 2 parts. In this episode we only talk about one thing: The 15 Most Influential Albums not made by the Beatles, Stones or Dylan, and every one of these albums is undeniably awesome punk, electronic, metal, its all here.
Can Rick Rubin save the music industry? That's the title of the cover story. Did his idea of creating a subscription service platform ever actually become a reality? Or was it ignored until streaming platforms like Spotify appeared and proved him right? Well sort of right, artists still aren't getting paid for streams...
What an interesting time for music 2008 was, downloading was still popular, CD's were dead, and companies were just starting to figure out that streaming music online was the future. We go through a feature on music platforms that were perhaps just before their time or were just bad ideas. Also REM was making a sort of comeback with their album Accelerate just 3 years before they decided to call it quits. Join as we have a huge REM discussion about their career, their albums that stood the test ...
Its been a long time coming but I finally Sheila Roberts and Vince Mcgrath on the pod, two friends who can talk about music forever. In this episode we deep dive into Rolling Stones list of the best summer songs of all time, in their opinion and in ours. Also look out for a frank and serious discussion about Gerry Halliwell's departure from the Spice Girls.
This is all in the intro but this is the first episode we've done social distancing style. We used this issue as a jumping off point to talk about music festivals and the Rage Against the Machine reunion that was supposed to happen this year.
1994 was the dawn of Green Day, Offspring and Oasis, or at least their careers. We talk rock egos and Oasis, Green Day and Offspring's land mark year and Gilby Clarke's great life on the periphery of GNR. ALSO the dad of indie rock Thurston Moore has a feature interview and we chat about Sonic Youth and he and Kim's new baby girl.
It's been 25 years since the Blue Album and I've put off doing a big chunk of an episode on Weezer so it's happening now. 1994 was my favourite year for music and this issue is full of gold: features on Blur, Daniel Johnston, Weezer, 1994 era Rolling Stones and a review section full of absolute classics.
Things to expect in this episode - no one knows what Ryan Adams looks like, sub-genres, The White Stripes, objectively not caring about Coldplay, Queens Of The Stone Age, Nelly and the fact that no one can name one song or distinguishable fact about Disturbed.
We dive into Spin Magazine's September 1997 issue and Prodigy's cover story following the recent death of Prodigy front man Keith Flint, only to find that not much was going on in September 1997. Still we managed to find a lot to talk about when it comes to 90's summer music festivals and...Hanson.
In this episode we go on and on about MP3's in the 90's and early 2000's and somehow talk about The Beatles and rapper Cupcake even though they have nothing to do with this issue. We question Trent Reznor's style choice and analyze a Lenny Kravitz and Smash Mouth tour.