Aaaaand I'm back! Busy, busy, busy time of year and this episode will be a quick one...which was sort of the intention in the first place. I went and saw Brutus live last week, you should not miss them if they come to your town. I also dig into Renewer , Bandhood and Oslo Tapes . Ramble on way too long about how those core memories of yours meeting your favorite bands are not core memories of theirs...sorry, they just aren't, and urge you all to go watch the KEXP session with New Age Doom . Plus...
Mar 30, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In this second episode of Future Echoes, I dig into Vancouver, BC band, New Age Doom , their newest album, There is No End, featuring Tuvaband , as well as an album they did with Lee Scratch Perry , " ...Guide to the Universe ". I then take a look back at their drummer's other band, who I fell in love with while living in Vancouver, Limblifter . You should also check out Mounties , if you dig Limblifter. Plus, we cover some news, tours, new album announcements and so much more! I also dig into u...
Mar 03, 2024•54 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Not really a "welcome back" but more of a "JD got bored and needed to ramble out loud to himself about music". The point of Future Echoes — surprisingly, not an homage to Slomatics, but I do love them — is to have fun remembering great music from the past and digging into the new what next! Showing us old folks that great music is certainly still being made, you just got too busy to search it out, and hopefully introducing you young'uns to bands that influenced who you listen to today. Will ther...
Feb 25, 2024•33 min•Season 2Ep. 1
We're back. Descriptions will be shorter. Maybe we won't have a new episode every week...maybe we will. Scott Evans from Kowloon Walled City and Antisleep Audio was a fantastic guess...kept us on track and off tangents, and has touched (teehee) so many past guests. Enjoy! Oh...and bands...please put credits on your bandcamp. Production, art, whoever should be acknowledged, even if you did it all yourself. Carry on. Kowloon Walled City https://kowloonwalledcity.bandcamp.com/ Antisleep Audio https...
Oct 25, 2022•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 85
We had a lovely sit-down this week with Andy Gibbs, guitar player for Thou. Andy is a thoughtful chap and has been in the heavy game for a long time. We talked about how/why Thou has been so prolific, what it was like to record a Tiny Desk concert, working with friends on collaborations, playing festivals, and the true nature of Louisiana sludge (hint, it's not the swamp). Enjoy! Thou https://thou.bandcamp.com/ This Week's Submissions Tropism https://tropism.bandcamp.com/releases CANDLE$ https:/...
Jun 16, 2022•1 hr 58 min
This week we chat with Andrew Bansal...man of all the hats. Record label owner, popular review blog, band manager, tour manager, merch lord, and as it turns out, harmonium player! Andrew wrapped up a coast-to-coast tour with Old Blood earlier this year, and went back out on the road selling merch for Exodus on the Bay Strikes Back! tour. This is a wonderful conversation with a person who journeyed from rural India to LA and ended up chasing a bunch of heavy metal dreams. Enjoy! Metal Assault htt...
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 83
We've talked about him. He listens to every episode. He loves Korn. Ladies and Gentlemen...Sweets himself...Justin Rogers from Disrupt the Paradigm. Justin is a delight, his band just put out a record this spring, and this episode is just straight-up hilarious. Disrupt the Paradigm https://disrupttheparadigm.bandcamp.com/ This Week's Submissions Amalia Bloom https://letamaliabloom.bandcamp.com/ Nine Layers Deep https://ninelayersdeep.bandcamp.com/track/open-secret Belushi Speed Ball https://belu...
May 31, 2022•1 hr 51 min
She baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! In November of 2020 (episode 10) we had a fantastic chat with Lord Dying bass player, tattoo artist, and general artist/video wiz Alyssa Maucere. It was a blast talking to Alyssa again...we talked about what she's been up to since last we spoke including preparing to record a new Lord Dying record in August, playing shows, making music videos, existing in this insane world, how great ISIS (the band) is...and then she discovers her new favorite band...DURING THIS EPSISOD...
May 23, 2022•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 81
Not much to say, other than this was a long time coming. Enjoy a wide-ranging conversation with DJ, eye-surgeon, music lover, and owner of Ripple Music and Rebel Wave Records, Todd Severin. Ever wonder what's the perfect music for Pupil Slicing (SEE WHAT WE DID THERE?). Todd lays it down. Ripple Music https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/ Rebel Wave Records https://rebelwavesrecords.bandcamp.com/ This Week's Submissions Vexes https://vexes732.bandcamp.com/track/low-choices SUNDOWN https://sundown3.b...
May 16, 2022•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 80
!!!WIN A JIRM RECORD...SUBSCRIPE TO OUR YOUTUBE AND LEAVE A COMMENT BY FRIDAY MAY 13th AT 6:00PM PACIFIC!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndq9a4MHJIc We really did it this time. 4 hot sauces...each more brutal than the last, including two different versions of the dreaded Da'Bomb. Hang out with Jeff and JD in the backyard...watch their torture as they scorch their mouths (and other parts eventually) and try to listen to hot sauce themed music and the Weedian 420 playlist while trying to have c...
May 09, 2022•38 min
Watch this episode on Youtube and subscribe to our channel...get a look at the KOOK practice room! Video will be up Monday 5/2! https://www.youtube.com/c/blyndsubmyshynz Two years in the making...Jeff finally talked Karl from KOOK into recording...in person (a first). Jeff has been hesitant about self-promotion from the beginning...but here we are...he's in a band with Karl and they make music together and have thoughts about it. We talked about the writing process for the next KOOK record, dipp...
May 02, 2022•1 hr 50 min
We have something different this week. We attended our first music festival in over two years, and hung out with the fine gentlemen in Moon Tooth!!! It was weird and glorious...so we decided to record on the way (and back) in the car. We listened to all the bands on the undercard and gave our two cents...most we had never listened to before. Because we recorded in the car...the quality is not quite our usual...especially for the first 30 seconds or so...but HANG IN THERE...it gets better. We did...
Apr 25, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 78
We have quite a treat today...all the way from Cardiff Wales, it's Jessica Ball, MWWB's singer and guitar player. We talked about growing up in South Africa and moving back to Wales, studying jazz guitar, how the band was formed, how they got such a cheeky name, and dealing with guitar player Paul's serious health issues. We got some dirt on her other band Eye, and listened to a spectacular set of submissions. MWWB https://mammothweedwizardbastard.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/mammothwe...
Apr 18, 2022•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 77
He's back! Another round of wild stories, a new segment we'll call "old high school photos with Andy", a Reverse Punisher(TM), a discussion about what NOT to do at soundcheck when you're opening for Sleep, and an absolute boatload of music, including music from Venezuelan band zeta who's van was robbed in San Francisco just days ago...support all the bands you like! Oh, and we're pretty sure this episode is proof that the simulation is real. The Otolith https://desertrecords.bandcamp.com/track/t...
Apr 11, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 76
He's back! Max joined us again from frosty Sweden to talk about the Northern Lights, not having to work for a few weeks, making a text-based adventure game, whether Ikea is legit, he other band (besides Cavern Deep) Karmanjaka, records, instruments, beer, and who knows what else (you will, once you listen). Plus you fine folks will be the first people to listen to a big chunk of a song of Cavern Deep's yet-to-b-released second album featuring vocals from Susie McMullen from Brume! It's so damn g...
Apr 05, 2022•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 75
Adult human stuff happened, but now it's podcast time again (we explain right at the beginning)! This week's guest was a long time coming...the final member of Brume, Drummer Jordan Perkins Lewis. Jordan is a fantastic drummer with crazy eclectic musical taste, a wild upbringing among the blue-collar workers in the movie business, and a badass job producing videos, TV content, and working the scoreboard graphics for the San Francisco Giants. He's also not shy with his opinions, as you will quick...
Mar 28, 2022•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 74
And now for something completely different. Jeff is a regular consumer of dorky music theory content and weird boomer guitar videos on YouTube. JD is not. Jeff was quite sure JD would hate all of it, and he was right...kinda. Watch JD learn what polyrhythms are in real time...it's fun. Plus we tackle boomer bends, Rick Beato, the mystery that is YouTube's obsession with the Polyphia song GOAT, and much more. Bands! Submit one song (preferably from Bandcamp) to [email protected] and we'll try to...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 73
She came up on the last episode while we were talking to Mike Scheidt, we love Eight Bells, and they have a new album releasing called Legacy of Ruin on February 25th via Prophecy Productions, so we thought what better time have on vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Melynda Jackson, and she was awesome. Melynda is one of the long list of stalwart underground heavy musicians from the bay area who relocated to Portland to escape rising cost of living and decreasing opportunity...we talk about her...
Feb 14, 2022•2 hr 27 min•Ep. 72
Nothing really needs to be said here. Mike graced us with over 3 hours of his time to tell stories, laugh, listen to music, discuss the stonerrock.com forums, and talk about the almost incomprehensible ascendance of Yob to the metal pantheon. Our main takeaway after talking with Mike? This is a great guy who simply loves music. Also, the discussion of his new classical composition is awesome. Yob's got 4 shows at Saint Vitus in February followed by a west coast tour in March...go see them if you...
Feb 07, 2022•3 hr 29 min•Ep. 71
First they submitted music, then they sent us records, then we picked them as part of our best of 2021...ladies and Gentlemen...Dumb Waiter. The most confusing thing to come out of Virginia since (insert clever history joke here). Dolly Pardon. Understanding Bungle late in life. Heavy music in Virgina. Not fitting in with other bands. Screenprinting and weird music videos. Also death to Spotify, Bandcamp FOREVER!!!! Dumb Waiter https://dumbwaiterva.bandcamp.com/album/tsk https://www.facebook.com...
Jan 28, 2022•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 70
What a delightful dive into the Long Island hardcore scene with (prog-loving) scenester Artie Shepherd. Artie has been part of the LIHC scene since the beginning, playing in Mind Over Matter (and a bunch of other bands), his band Primitive Weapons with past-guest (and co-owner of Saint Vitus, Chris Enriquez). We talked about Artie's musical past, the decision to open a bar and venue, running a live music venue during a pandemic, touring, launching Wreck-Age records, Yes, Rush, and a whole bunch ...
Jan 24, 2022•2 hr 49 min•Ep. 69
Plack Blague (aka Raws Schlesinger) joins us to talk about his particular brand of grimy electronic/industrial dance/not dance music, growing up gay in rural Nebraska, getting into music, booking and playing grindcore shows (he plays guitar, bass, drums, and sings too), and just generally about loving anything that is weird and fringe. In his own words..."if you throw up on your keyboard, I want to book you", or something like that. What a wonderful conversation with a truly great underground ar...
Jan 17, 2022•2 hr 22 min•Ep. 68
This week we have a real treat...Chaney Crabb sings for ???progressive death metal??? band Entheos, now signed to Metal Blade Records. Chaney and her fiancée Navene Koperweis are the creative duo behind the band, and are just wrapping up recording their debut record for Metal Blade. They also just moved from Santa Cruz to Nashville. We talk about a little bit of everything from life on the road, getting you Instagram hacked, relocating to the south, seeing Tom and Christina from the wildly popul...
Jan 10, 2022•3 hr 26 min•Ep. 67
We really did break the 4 hour mark with John from Moon Tooth . We shared our favorite music discovered in 2021 and listened to FULL songs. Plus John drank a tiny champagne, JD got whiskey drunk real fast, and dad had to take the wheel. We end with the promise of an airBnB in-person hang vacation, which will happen...it will! Happy 2022 folks. Support DIY musicians and artists, because shit didn't get much better this year. Moon Tooth: https://moontoothny.bandcamp.com/ Video for The Conduit: htt...
Jan 03, 2022•4 hr 10 min•Ep. 66
Happy holidays folks...we didn't forget about you. Time to sit back and enjoy this highly entertaining chat with Tom Frank from Austin Texas' Duel and Wicked Bad concerts (who runs the amazing Wicked Bad Stoner Jam in Austin during SXSW music week. Duel's awesome new record In Carne Persona came out in October on Heavy Psych Sounds! Tom is hilarious, watch the video when it goes up on Facebook for amazing virtual green screen hair shenanigans, and though we lost Tom a little early due to Zoom ea...
Dec 28, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 65
Happy Monday, Happy Holidays, and let's get down to the real question here...DOES IT DOOM???? Today's guest is Steve Reis...face of the very popular YouTube channel Does it Doom? Steve's channel helps break down stoner, sludge, and doom songs, bands, and gear...his goal is to de-mystify doom and help folks play the songs and get the tones. How does Matt Pike do it? How does Sunn 0))) make Sunn 0))) sounds? How can yo use gear aimed at the mass market to get very specific sounds? We talked to Ste...
Dec 20, 2021•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 64
Get ready to hop into the wayback machine with Jeff's high school friend (and bandmate from Purple Circus) Kevin Williams, and his son Nolan who is TEARING UP THE DRUMS for Boise Idaho brutal deal metallers Texas Ketamine. The was reminiscing, talk about the up and coming extreme metal bands in Idaho, and other stuff too! Texas Ketamine https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnjooun056FnYgn8LriSySQ/featured Infected Stench https://infectedstench.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2021 Brutalism https://www.insta...
Dec 13, 2021•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 63
Hooooo boooooy...this week we sit down with good ole' Texas boy Eric Calvert to talk about his band (Swithblade Jesus), his business (Frost Giant Electronics), Architects of Reality, and much more. Eric was a damned delight! We'll also drop a link to a fundraiser record(s) for a band we listened to in the past (Trigger Cut) who's studio burned down...give if you can, share if you can't...you get all kinds of killer music, and it's only $3 for all three records (GIVE MORE). Trigger Cut Studio Fun...
Dec 07, 2021•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 62
This episode nearly killed us. Want to hear Jeff and JD both have a stroke in one episode? Here you go! We talk to Forrest, Isaac, and Jessica, 3/4s of Oakland's ambient doomgaze choose-you-own-label band Daxma, who just released a new record called Unmarked Boxes on Blues Funeral Recordings. 15 minutes in to our first attempt to record, Jeff realized he didn't hit record on Zoom again. Yes. Twice in 5 episodes...but we caught it this time, and ended up having a lovely chat! Daxma https://daxma....
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 61
Today's guest is our good buddy John Brookhouse, singer for Teepee Records Worhsipper, and host of The Shadow Hymnal, his weekly radio show on Gimme Metal Radio. John is a super good dude, and we talked about guitars, gentrification, and some other shit. Worshipper https://worshipper.bandcamp.com/ The Irreverends https://open.spotify.com/artist/2rB7KQVQIiPzaC0sfuYE50?si=n_hf-wQLSTOUI9ZTW7_b_A Gimmie Metal https://gimmemetal.com/#/welcome This Week's Submissions Duncan Evans/Wilderness Hymnal Spl...
Nov 22, 2021•2 hr 30 min
