IGH! It's The Big Day today, Stoppies, the Season 3 Premiere of Make It Stop! And to celebrate our Big Day, we're reviewing... The Big Day! Chance The Rapper's "first album" and massive fall from grace. After dropping his all time classic mixtape Acid Rap and following it up with the massively successful gospel rap fusion of Coloring Book, Chance finally released an official album -- a concept album about loving his wife, loving god, and really really REALLY loving his wife. Devoid of replay val...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr 48 min•Season 3Ep. 1
We're back, Stoppies! It's time for round 3 of the most vile, self-indulgent, moronic, insipid, and downright delusional musical monstrosities the world has to offer. Summer break's over, and it's time for Heather and Mike to strap back in to eviscerate another batch of bad albums--slaughtering sacred cows like The Doors and Tool and even their own favorites like Chance the Rapper and Radiohead. As always they'll bring you an incredible roster of hilarious guests--from drag queens to stand up co...
Aug 22, 2019•13 min•Season 3Ep. 1
This week on Make It Stop we close out season 2 with a bang, bringing back four beloved guests to take on the newest album by the worst of the worst -- Brokencyde. Brandon Vallee, Angela Sawyer, Emily Ruskowki and Nick Ortolani join Heather and Mike to talk about the scenesters turnt hipsters as they transition from crunkcore, discover weed and Juuls, and continue pretending they know how sex works. All of this in front of a live audience at Somerville's VOX POP studio in Assembly Row. It gets w...
Aug 19, 2019•1 hr 18 min
This week on Make It Stop we close out season 2 with a bang, bringing back four beloved guests to take on the newest album by the worst of the worst -- Brokencyde. Brandon Vallee, Angela Sawyer, Emily Ruskowki and Nick Ortolani join Heather and Mike to talk about the scenesters turnt hipsters as they transition from crunkcore, discover weed and Juuls, and continue pretending they know how sex works. All of this in front of a live audience at Somerville's VOX POP studio in Assembly Row. It gets w...
Jun 25, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 45
Creed's Human Clay. An album of contradictions. It's the best-selling album we've ever covered yet it's universally reviled. It's chock full of praise songs yet the band claims to not be Christian rock. It's packed with lyrical moralizing yet Scott Stapp is a mess of a human being, the human embodiment of Florida Man. 20 years after Human Clay's release, lapsed Christians Shay "Sherman" and Lucifer Christmas join Heather and Mike to try to make sense of it all. You'll hear all the stories, from ...
Jun 04, 2019•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 44
Cowabunga! Today we're taking a trip down memory lane to 1990, when the US was deep in the grip of Turtlemania. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were everywhere, an inescapable vortex of inexplicable SoCal vernacular, mountains of action figures, and cartoon pizzas with really delicious looking drippy cheese. So strong was their hold on pop culture that not even the music world was safe. Coming Out of Their Shells was not just an album but an entire tour with an accompanying concert VHS. The Tur...
May 21, 2019•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 43
What happens when one of the biggest country stars of all time decides to slap on a wispy wig and a soul patch and reinvent himself as a hard partying sex addict rock star with extensive reconstructive surgery? And this new persona has been meticulously crafted to serve as a background character in a movie that never even went into pre-production? And this hard partying rock star's music is all tepid acoustic soft rock? The project is buried, obscured, and forgotten for all eternity, that's what...
May 07, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 42
Ziggy Stardust. The Thin White Duke. Jareth The Goblin King. David Bowie went by many names and adopted many personas during his 50+ year career, and in that time he quickly became a rock legend, selling over 100 million records and taking his place at the top of the pop culture pantheon. All accolades aside, we here at Make It Stop take great pleasure in tearing down the infallible, and David Bowie is no exception. On this episode we dig through his catalogue of over 25 studio albums to bring y...
Apr 23, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 41
This week on Make It Stop we're talking about The Big Baryshnikov himself, Shaquille O'Neal. The world belonged to Shaq in 1996. He had just jumped from the Orlando Magic to Kobe Bryant's LA Lakers, with whom he would go on to win three of his four NBA Championships. He had shocked the world with his ostentatious Reebok Shaqnosis sneakers, which featured a psychedelic black and white vortex design, and which remain coveted by hardcore sneaker heads today. And he was in the midst of a flourishing...
Apr 09, 2019•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 40
Strap on a decorative banjo and get out yer picklin' jars, cuz we're prepping for a musical apocalypse on this episode of Make it Stop! The target of our most recent ire is platinum selling, Superbowl ruining, troll-serenading superstar Justin Timberlake's latest gasp at relevancy, his 2018 mountaineering misfire, Man of the Woods. Featuring a cacaphony of ill-placed musical references and clumsy metaphors, this bloated 16 track mistake finds the uncooked ramen-headed heartthrob of yesteryear re...
Mar 26, 2019•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 39
Oh Danny Boy, the Peas the Peas are calling. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we've decided to bless our dear #Stoppies and curse ourselves with a shitshow of epic proportions. Heather and Mike are joined by stalwart friend of the pod Brian Melanson (The Cobcast) as well as our dear friends Jewelz Sherratt (Solo Sexx) and Dave Klotz (cool and nice guy) to dive into the back catalog of the Black Eyed Peas one drink at a time. That's right, we listen to not one, not two, not three, but FOUR BEP and ...
Mar 15, 2019•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 38
Open up the fucking pit and pick up some fucking quarters, it's hardcore week on Make It Stop. Or rather, it's rap metal by way of hardcore, as we sit down with local comedian and hardcore lifer Ryan Shea to talk about straight edge vegan stalwarts Earth Crisis and their painful 2000 crossover attempt Slither. Ryan walks us through the finer points of the hardcore lifestyle, Mike tries to pretend he was anything more than a cowardly poser during the genre's peak, and we all get deep into the lor...
Mar 05, 2019•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 37
We're justifiably in a position that we'd rather not be in listening to this album. But the cream will rise to the top, ooh yeeeah. Macho Madness, yeeah, has got more to offer than Mike and Heather think that Macho Man's got, yeeeeah, and let him tell you somethin' right now, cards stacked against Macho Man Randy Savage's album Be A Man, let him say it yeeeah, let him say it out loud and let him point to this week's guest Jenelle Valencia of the Boston League of Wicked Wrestlers, The Macho Man R...
Feb 20, 2019•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 36
Strap on in #stoppies, because it's time for another hefty dose of White Nonsense(TM) and for this one we're bringing in the big guns. Local rapper and professional fuck abandoner Brandie Blaze joins us this week to take aim at Lil Dicky, perhaps one of the most overhyped and underhanded rapper we've ever discussed on this show. Lil Dicky's brand of aw-shucks faux-self-deprecation is the hallmark of this bloated 19-song flaccid handie of an album, whose culminating message seems to be white peop...
Feb 05, 2019•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 35
Fire up the engine of your old pickup, grab a cold beer and head on down to the cornfields. Throw the radio on and watch as an endless parade of blue jean clad farmhand girls dance modestly in the headlights. Stay away from those downtown boys because they are the devil incarnate and we'd like nothing more than to steal their women, take them out to the cornfields in our old pickup, grab a cold beer, throw the headlights on and watch them dance the night away in their blue jeans to our favorite ...
Jan 22, 2019•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 34
As we ring in the new year, we can't forget to pay the proper (dis)respect to the worst music that 2018 had to offer. From the requisite washed up 90s rockers, to the alt-right anthems, to the shallowest of rappers, we've got ourselves a smorgasbord of shit on this episode of Make It Stop. We didn't think it could get worse than 2017, but we should know by now that we're in a never ending race to the bottom, and just when we think we've reached it, the bottom drops out. So pour yourself a celebr...
Jan 08, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 33
Ho ho ho #stoppies, we're hoooome for the holidays! We've all been very bad boys this year and have been rightfully cursed with another lump of musical coal in our collective stockings, Smash Mouth's desperate 2005 Christma$ ca$h grab, 'The Gift of Rock'. Joining us to unwrap this precious 'gift' is our very own family, including the youngest Dunn brother Alex, "Dad for the People" Paul Dunn, and in lieu of Heather's actual blood relative we bribed our friend Brian to perform the role of her dad...
Dec 28, 2018•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 32
Part 2 of 2. Check out part 1 here! Alright #stoppies, I know we say this a lot, but it's true--this episode is our funniest one yet. Seriously, when else have we been able to snag 2 professional comedians (Emily Ruskowski & Jenny Chalikian) and one hysterical burlesque producer/professional babe/future youtube star (Sake Toomey) together in the same room, talking about boy bands? Since TODAY, that's when! We brought our grown ass friends that are also unashamed teenyboppers together for a v...
Dec 18, 2018•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 31
Alright #stoppies, I know we say this a lot, but it's true--this episode is our funniest one yet. Seriously, when else have we been able to snag 2 professional comedians (Emily Ruskowski & Jenny Chalikian) and one hysterical burlesque producer/professional babe/future youtube star (Sake Toomey) together in the same room, talking about boy bands? Since TODAY, that's when! We brought our grown ass friends that are also unashamed teenyboppers together for a very special 2 PART THUNDERDOME where...
Dec 11, 2018•55 min•Ep. 30
It's a trip down memory lane this week as Mike and Heather are joined by their old friend Russell Chisholm. They reminisce about their shared love of The Best Rapper Alive Weezy Baby before diving into the worst thing he ever did -- the massively maligned 2008 rap-rock turd known as Rebirth. Lil Wayne runs the gamut on this album, churning out a wide variety of garbage -- bad punk, bad butt rock, bad ballads, and even bad ska (aka ska). It's all tremendously difficult to listen to and we're sorr...
Dec 04, 2018•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 29
Pick it up pick it up pick it up... no, please put it down. Today our guest is Andrew Lowery from DIWHY The Show and we're talking ska. Not just ska, but a 33 track novelty opus from CHRISTIAN ska stalwarts Five Iron Frenzy. It's called Cheeses of Nazareth, and it's bad in so many ways. It's irritating, it's racist, it's sanctimonious, and perhaps most eggregiously, it has the weakest "hardcore" screams ever cut to wax. It just might be bad enough for Heather to disown ska for good. Give it a li...
Nov 20, 2018•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 28
Our lifestyle determines our deathstyle, Stoppies, so we're destined to be killed by trash music. For the first time ever on Make It Stop we return to a previously reviewed artist, in this case a now Lou Reed-less Metallica, and their infamous 2003 disasterpiece St. Anger. Maggie and Ashleigh from Rock Candy Podcast join us as we discuss Lars Ulrich's shit sandwiches, Bob Rock's flowing mane, and James Hetfield's fruitless search for self-actualization. We also talk at length about how St. Anger...
Nov 06, 2018•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 27
It's Halloween, and that can only mean one thing: It's time for a Danzig review! Comedian Rich Karski joins us to discuss the latest effort from the diminutive, geriatric king of ghoulish tunage, 2017's Black Laden Crown. We go in depth on Danzig's bad politics, his Napoleon syndrome, and his latent homoeroticism. We discuss Danzig's drag name and why the hell he's so goshdarn looooooonely. And we try to get to the bottom of how exactly a crown can be laden with black. It's a spooktacularly shit...
Oct 30, 2018•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 26
This week on Make It Stop we’re smoking pot, loving peace, and doing sex stuff. We’re licking your teeth. We’re shoving your head into our armpits. And they weirdly smell good. In 2015, the recently liberated pop superstar Miley Cyrus collaborated with The Flaming Lips and Mike Will Made It to produce Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz, a 23 track, 92 minute slog through her drug addled psyche. Released independently and free from the confines of her record contract, Dead Petz was meant to be Miley’s...
Oct 23, 2018•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 25
On this week's episode of Make It Stop, comedian and dear friend of the pod Katie McCarthy joins us to discuss Montreal's favorite crackhead Chuggo! Arguably the most obscure album we've covered, Chuggo's Act Like You Might Know is a hidden gem rife with gross sex talk, tampon-related punchlines, and constant yelling. Katie, Heather and Mike try to figure out why Chuggo feels it is such a necessity to lie about his sex life, and ponder his criminal record, his current whereabouts, and his propen...
Oct 09, 2018•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 24
Make It Stop is back and worse than ever, Stoppies! The inaugural episode of Season 2 finds Heather and Mike enduring the musical stylings of Tommy Lee for the first time since Mötley Crüe’s Theatre Of Pain. This time around it’s his nearly forgotten early 00s experimental rap rock side project Methods Of Mayhem. It’s got all the hallmarks of the genre, from gross sex lyrics about jizzy jism, to sound bytes of hitting meth pipes, to obligatory Kid Rock and Fred Durst features. Joining our hosts ...
Sep 25, 2018•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 23
Part 2 of 2. This week Heather and Mike go head to head in the Make It Stop Thunderdome to defend their favorite bad album. Heather's weapon of choice is the eponymous debut of Waldorf, Maryland's favorite sons Good Charlotte. Mike meanwhile goes hard in the paint for another debut, this one from the infamous rap rock goofs of Limp Bizkit -- the terribly titled 3 Dollar Bill Y'all$. Whose trash will reign supreme? Will Mike be swayed by the wholesome rap-tinged pop "punk" of the Madden Brothers?...
Jul 03, 2018•54 min•Ep. 22
This week Heather and Mike go head to head in the Make It Stop Thunderdome to defend their favorite bad album. Heather's weapon of choice is the eponymous debut of Waldorf, Maryland's favorite sons Good Charlotte. Mike meanwhile goes hard in the paint for another debut, this one from the infamous rap rock goofs of Limp Bizkit -- the terribly titled 3 Dollar Bill Y'all$. Whose trash will reign supreme? Will Mike be swayed by the wholesome rap-tinged pop "punk" of the Madden Brothers? Will Heather...
Jun 28, 2018•54 min•Ep. 21
Ready to get faaaaar out, #stoppies? This week's adventure has us whoodly-doodling away with some reheated jams courtesy of everyone's* favorite psychedelic Dads, Phish! Originally recorded in 1986 and inexplicably re-released twice in 1998 and 2006, "The White Tape" is a dizzying and deeply misdirected spectacle of unnecessary fuzz pedals, non-sequiters about hamburgers, synthetic keyboards and songs about stepping in literal dog shit. Unsurprisingly, the 16 song collection of disconnected wank...
Jun 12, 2018•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 20
Our latest exploration of mid-life crisis inspired genre experimentation leads us to Dee Dee Ramone aka Dee Dee King's 1989 punk-rap flop Standing In The Spotlight. Replete with climaxless tales of surfing and wrestling, as well as cringeworthy chronicles of his failing marriage, all delivered in a cartoonish tenor recalling hip-hop classics like "The Monster Mash", Standing In The Spotlight is undoubtedly one of the most head-scratching entries into the Make It Stop ouvre. Joining Mike and Heat...
May 22, 2018•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 19
