In the late 1970s, after a long dearth of commercial success in the US, Leonard Cohen hooked up with pop legend and current convict Phil Spector, expecting great things from the famously reclusive and eccentric producer. What Leonard didn't expect was to be completely shut out of the production, mixing, and arranging of the ensuing record as soon as a rough vocal track was recorded, amidst a haze of alcohol, drugs, an overabundance of guns, and Spector's own obsessively dictatorial production st...
Feb 25, 2019•1 hr 41 min
Operatic, spectacle-heavy rockers Queen & 70s blues-rockers Bad Company are a match that goes together like cookies and Elmer's glue, yet that's exactly what remaining Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor put together in 2006, when they invited Paul Rodgers of Bad Company to front the long dormant classic rock group, (Replacing the legendary and long deceased Freddie Mercury) and go on a world tour to mixed reaction under the banner of Queen + Paul Rodgers. Still energized from this ques...
Feb 12, 2019•1 hr 38 min
The Christmas Music Roundup rides again! Last year we picked out a grab-bag of random Christmas music oddities and gave them some well-deserved piss-taking-out-of. We had so much fun last time, why not do it again with a brand new array of holiday ditties (and sugar cookies)? And since this season is the time for friends and family, Patrick & Lee's significant others, Gina Monafo & Susan Kim, have come to partake in the lunacy as well! Join us for good tidings and bad music, as well as a...
Dec 21, 2018•1 hr 34 min
Anyone who's ever been in a band can relate to performing in an empty venue. It's part of the experience. Maybe you've even fudged the numbers of your draw to get onto a bill. Maybe you've lied about ticket sales in the hundreds. Maybe you put together fake promotional materials and social media liked by fake people to bolster your appearance. Maybe those venues are in Europe, where people expect to see an internationally touring act, but instead get local dive bar randos. If that's not you, it ...
Dec 12, 2018•1 hr 50 min
Oh god. There's two of them. The goodboix now find themselves with Scott Kurland (Writer's Bagel Basket / Kurland On Film) trapped in an auditory prison of their own making. Their jailer is former heartthrob/charity case Corey Feldman, star of iconic 80s films like The Goonies, Gremlins, and Lost Boys, and their cell is his abominable 2016 album Angelic 2 The Core. Our intrepid trio made their way through the first disc of this crime against audio, a long and arduous journey filled with the most...
Nov 30, 2018•1 hr 25 min
Corey Feldman may have starred in some of the most iconic films of the 1980s, (The Goonies, Stand By Me, The Lost Boys, and many others) but the former child actor has had a pretty rough go of things as the years have gone by. Since the 1980s ended, Feldman has been the victim of embezzlement, endured a rough and public drug addiction for many years of his life, and perhaps worst and most degrading of all: begun a music career. After years of releasing records with little to no critical acclaim ...
Nov 26, 2018•1 hr 33 min
FUH-BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWH! The intersection between sports and music is tenuous and razor-thin at best, and yet somehow the two vastly different cultural mediums find ways to join hands. Athletes continue to have songs in their hearts when we frequently wish they wouldn't. And yet with football season at the doorstep once again, the goodboix Lee & Patrick find themselves drawn to make sense of some of the greatest oddities that the unholy marriage of music and sports has produced. Featur...
Nov 10, 2018•1 hr 56 min
In 1996, all that remained of 80s pop-rock behemoth Genesis was founding members Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford. The multi-platinum powerhouse that was frontman Phil Collins had left the band to pursue other projects, leaving the band in the same position it was left in when previous frontman Peter Gabriel jumped ship in the 1970s. Rather than take this as an opportunity to finally lay Genesis to rest, Banks and Rutherford regrouped with Stiltskin vocalist Ray Wilson and a crew of session musici...
Oct 25, 2018•1 hr 52 min
Pop innovator and legend Prince has a long and storied history of not playing nice with his record label. Especially Warner Brothers, who sought to contain and sanitize the famously raunchy singer/songwriter, while preventing him engaging in more complex, far-reaching projects. This frustration and contentiousness came to a head in the 1990s, when in an effort to escape from his contract, Prince began releasing new material under the banner of an unpronounceable "Love Symbol", while releasing ba...
Oct 12, 2018•1 hr 52 min
By the year 2001, Razor & Tie had already found widespread success as a producer of reissues and compilation albums, but in the latter half of the year the independent music publisher struck pre-teen gold. The first ever Kidz Bop album saw release, which featured hyper-sanitized, family-friendly versions of pop songs, as sung by a chorus of children just barely into double-digits. The brand has since gone on to be one of the highest selling series of kids albums of all time, spawned innumera...
Sep 27, 2018•1 hr 24 min
SEASON TWO!!! An prophecy of palmistry. An overbearing father. An obsessed cult following. Dr. Demento. This may sound like the plot for a lost, low-to-no-budget sci-fi/fantasy film, but they are but a few of the elements behind the enigma that is Philosophy Of The World by The Shaggs. One of the most infamous privately pressed records of all time, a holy grail for vinyl collectors, and a uniquely polarizing mess of inept performance. To ring in Season Two of Jukebox Zeroes, our goodboix Lee &am...
Sep 13, 2018•1 hr 17 min
Fascinated by the burgeoning cyberculture movement of the 90s, as well as newly available technology for producing and recording music, 80s icon Billy Idol decided to go a slightly different direction than his typical punk-inspired new wave sound. Powered by a combination of William Gibson novels and electronic instruments, he would foist the 1993 album Cyberpunk upon the masses, who neither responded with praise or their hard-earned cash.To round out Season One of Jukebox Zeroes, Lee & Patr...
Aug 24, 2018•1 hr 49 min
When hard rock legends Led Zeppelin went to record 1979's In Through The Out Door, the band had just sat through a prolonged hiatus following a clumsy world tour, and the death of Robert Plant's son. Already uneasy going into the studio, the recording sessions were fraught with turbulence as key members Jimmy Page and John Bonham were largely absent due to heroin abuse and alcoholism respectively. This left Plant and John Paul Jones to take the helm in the songwriting and production, which empha...
Jul 21, 2018•1 hr 18 min
Alt. rock supergroup Zwan was formed after the collapse of frontman Billy Corgan's other great success: the legendary 90s band Smashing Pumpkins. With members of Chavez, A Perfect Circle, and Slint backing him up, and an intense love for Jesus in his core, Corgan and Zwan released 2003's Mary Star Of The Sea to great critical review, (But commercial disdain from fans) only to break up the same year, and Corgan to regularly slander and dismiss his Zwan bandmates in later interviews.This month on ...
Jun 24, 2018•1 hr 45 min
In 1983, with no Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio to their name, the remaining members of metal pioneers Black Sabbath got together with veteran hard rock singer Ian Gillan of Deep Purple to record an album together. Born Again was the end result, which rendered mixed-to-negative critical reactions, a calamitous mess of an album tour, and would be considered one of the more embarassing entries to their catalogue.Our goodboix Lee (Who is REALLY sorry for their throat infection making them sound ...
May 14, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Even the greatest performers of all time can drop a washout of an album. Just look at rock legend David Bowie, who followed up his greatest commercial success with one of his biggest critical disappointments. 1984's Tonight is considered one of the worst (If not THE worst) Bowie albums released, denounced widely by critics, and later the man himself as an uncreative cash-grab to maintain a newfound fan base, which later led to a period of intense creative languish for the Thin White Duke.This mo...
Apr 23, 2018•1 hr 42 min
What began as an attempt at recording an episode of Nickelbackin' turned into chaotic mess of cross-promotional proportions. In this one-off(?) bonus episode: the cross-over of a lifetime, we assume! Old Nickel Zeroes brings together hosts Christopher Brown (Nickelbackin' / Old Men Yell At Cloud), Abram Taber (Nickelbackin'), and Lee Martin (Jukebox Zeroes) to take on what for the longest time was the musical equivalent of vaporware: Guns N' Roses' 2008 comeback-ish album Chinese Democracy. Join...
Apr 20, 2018•40 min
Like an Aquanet kick to the balls! The Goodboix™ are back in the house, ready to try and make sense of chamber pop virtuoso Tori Amos's humble and ultra-80s debut, Y Kant Tori Read (also the name of her band). Super glossy production? Check. Overwrought Pat Benatar/Kate Bush affectations? Check. Funky slap bass? Check. An overly reverbed sax solo?? Che-fucking-eck. Phil Fleming (Dweezil Show, On The Town With Mikey Dee, Ease Into The Noise) joins us and graciously offers several nuggets of pop c...
Mar 21, 2018•1 hr 39 min
Goodboix and Stoppies come together this month on Jukebox Zeroes! In which Lee and Patrick, joined by Heather Mack & Mike Dunn of fellow bad music podcast Make It Stop, dig deep into the psychological thriller that is The WWE's Hulk Hogan & The Wrestling Boot Band's singular release: 1995's Hulk Rules. Join them as they uncover the dark secrets the album holds, including a slow descent into Hulkamania, a conspiracy to sell buffalo meat, the restless ghost of "Macho Man" Randy Savage, and...
Feb 19, 2018•1 hr 37 min
Your good pals at Jukebox Zeroes decided to kick off 2018 by thoroughly depressing Pat with a genuine stinker care of his childhood hero: Chris Cornell's dance-pop Timbaland-produced hellscape "Scream". We've got AdapterAdapter/Desk/Ease Into The Noise drummer/engineer/producer Jim Schultz (also of the podcast Old Men Yell At Cloud along with Patrick) along for the ride as we chug brews through this slop. Also if you like John Popper and/or beans, this is the episode for you. This weeks Boston m...
Jan 22, 2018•2 hr 2 min
Christmas music? On our podcast? It's more likely than you'd think. Your good pals in Jukebox Zeroes get festive and also drunk on white wine riffing on their favorite, and of course least favorite, holiday music. We are joined by friends and family this week, Aimee Hauthaway and Glenn Martin, as they help shed light on a genre of music that many seem to be ambivalent towards. Whatever, we had fun.
Dec 22, 2017•1 hr 35 min
While we're still reeling from the loss of our precious few brain cells in the wake of reviewing Limp Bizkit we are back in full force to cover Ministry's synthpop debut "With Sympathy", a record whose biggest detractor is the man who made it himself: Uncle Al Jourgenson. We are joined this week by the great Adam Schnieder of Boston industrial outfit Big Time Kill to help make sense of what is essentially a very well-crafted piece of fluff. Other topics of discussion include the joys of living i...
Nov 22, 2017•1 hr 40 min
Jesus Christ this record sucks. But we sure did have fun taping this episode anyhow. Join Lee, Patrick, and fellow Boston musician (Vary Lumar, Difference Engine) and podcaster (Nickelbackin') Christopher Brown as we drudge through the dismal beef-rap musings of Fred Durst on his respective band's 2003 release "Results May Vary". Results certainly did not vary on our end. But at least we had a few Miller Longbois™ on hand to help murder any lingering brain cells left after the trauma that was li...
Oct 31, 2017•2 hr
We made it to episode 2! Come join Lee, Patrick, and New England journalist and musician Al Gentile (the Analogs) as we discuss the merits and shortcomings of Neil Young's 1982 new wave-inflected (and controversial) experiment "Trans". Ooh baby.
Sep 21, 2017•2 hr
In this maiden voyage of Jukebox Zeroes, your hosts Lee Martin and Patrick S. Barry take on ATILLA's self-titled (and sole) release. Was Billy Joel on the vanguard of revolutionizing rock organ? Or was it indeed just "psychedelic bullshit"? And why is Jon Small so tall? Find the answers to these (and probably be left with even more questions) on this pilot launch of Jukebox Zeroes!
Aug 28, 2017•1 hr 28 min
