It's been awhile since our last proper Whatcha Heard episode, and this one is as wide-ranging and decade-spanning as you'd expect from our monthly mixtape format. From the 60s to brand-spanking new and mathcore to twee, join us for a little bit of everything. Tracklist Wishy - Over and Over Rubblebucket - Go All The Way With Me Iron Butterfly - Unconscious Power George Harrison - Wah-Wah Laetitia Sadier - By the Sea O & The Mo - May Way For The Sun Car Bomb - Gratitude Kane Hodder - Too Much...
Jul 20, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Our buddy Mitch returns and we pick up where we left off in our track-by-track deep dive into Kings of Leon's second record Aha Shake Heartbreak. Caleb Followill's lyrical prowess shines brightest on the back half of the record, from not-so-veiled innuendo to in-your-face bravado. Join us as we chat about one of the most formative records of our youth from a band on the verge of mega stardom. Tracklist Kings of Leon - Soft Kings of Leon - Razz Kings of Leon - Day Old Blues Kings of Leon - Four K...
Jun 24, 2025•55 min
We sit down with our long time friend Mitchell (a name we've dropped countless times on this podcast) to chat about Kings of Leon's second record Aha Shake Heartbreak. An extremely formative band and record for the 3 of us, we reminisce about seeing the band open for The Strokes in 2003, rushing down to the local record shop to grab a copy of Aha Shake in 2005, and dive deep into every track of the record. We discuss the brilliant lyrical balance of raw vulnerability with unbridled testosterone,...
Jun 24, 2025•58 min
A quick and dirty Whatcha Heard as we catch our breath in this busy start to the summer. We'll be back with an extra special episode very soon, so stay tuned for that in the coming weeks. Thanks for listening as always! Tracklist Bad Math - Maze Stereolab - Transmuted Matter This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jun 09, 2025•16 min
We revisit Foals for the first time in over 7 years, with their debut record Antidotes being one of the very first albums we covered on this record. Picking up where we left off we cover their next 2 records, Total Life Forever and Holy Fire and explore the slow evolution from complex math rock to stadium-worthy anthems, always with a pop-forward lean tinged with a punk attitude. Tracklist Foals - Inhaler Foals - Two Steps, Twice Foals - Black Gold Foals - After Glow Foals - What Remains Foals -...
May 23, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Tracklist Hamilton Leithauser - Burn The Boats Blanket - Ceremonia The Frames - The Dancer Days of the New - Freak Beck - Thinking About You Meshuggah - Rational Gaze Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER El Coco - Let's Get It Together Tamaryn - Hands All Over Me Rollins Band - Disconnect The Magnetic Fields - The Dreaming Moon El Coco - Cocomotion This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 11 min
We say it often on this podcast: the 90s is a bottomless pit of incredible rock music as wide as it is deep. And if you grew up in the United States like we did, you may have slept on arguably the greatest Canadian rock band of all time: The Tragically Hip. From the cryptically beautiful lyricism of frontman Gord Downie to the catchy hooks and song structures of the band behind him, we deep dive into their 1994 record Day For Night and ask the question we find ourselves asking constantly on this...
Apr 18, 2025•58 min
Pia Fraus - Across The Street Spoon - Pink Up (Live on KEXP) The Starseeds - Behind The Sun Men I Trust - Organon Rival Schools - World Invitational Ted Lucas - Plain & Sane & Simple Melody ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U (DJ Set - Live from the Boiler Room) Let's Active - Room With A View Elastica - S.O.F.T. Averkiou - South Wall Marumari - The Mutated Wisdom Youth Group - Shadowland This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 20 min
We finally get around to talking about Bush and dive into their first 2 records: Sixteen Stone and Razorblade Suitcase . Released only 8 months after the death of Kurt Cobain, the music world was split between fans that wanted to move on from grunge, and those that were highly protective of it's legacy and culture. Bush got caught somewhere in the middle, seeing commercial success on one hand and scorn from devoted grunge heads on the other. But decades removed from the era, the 2 records stand ...
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Tracklist Punchlove: (sublimate) Andy Timmons: Happening '68 Letting Up Despite Great Faults: Amateurs Best Shonen Knife: When You Sleep Peace Monster: Portia Love Lomaji: Virtual Beauty DOMi & JD BECK: SPACE MOUNTAiN Damien Jurado: Magic Number Movietone: Hydra Rocket: Pipedream Foxwarren: To Be Damien Jurado: Silver Joy This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Portland's synth-pop duo Nu Shooz saw massive success with their debut single I Can't Wait off their 1986 record Poolside. The band fused soul, jazz, and dance/electronic to create a synth-pop sound all their own. We dive into their first 2 records and reminisce about the unmistakable, and undeniably contagious sound of 80s synth-pop. Tracklist Nu Shooz - Lost Your Number Nu Shooz - You Put Me in a Trance Nu Shooz - Are You Lookin' for Somebody Nu Nu Shooz - Wonder Nu Shooz - Savin' All My Time ...
Feb 14, 2025•59 min
On our first Whatcha Heard of the year, we wax poetic about the good old days of the indie music blogosphere and reminisce with some proper chillwave artists. And we bounce from Brenda Lee to to Nu Shooz to Chat Pile in possibly our widest spread of decades and genres yet. Tune in for all that and more for our first monthly mixtape of 2025. Tracklist Whirr - Collect Sadness Chad Valley - Fast Challenges Brenda Lee - Emotions King Biscuit Time - I Love You Film School - Don't You Ever Camera Obsc...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 31 min
If you're a fan of Kings of Convenience, allow us to introduce you to their groovier, disco-infused brother The Whitest Boy Alive. Fronted by 1/2 of the KOC duo, the indie pop band's short run in the late 2000s produced two solid records that blended dance, disco, and pop with Erlend Øye's signature soft vocals and playful lyrics. Tracklist 1517 Burning Inflation Figures Intentions High On The Heels Dead End Gravity This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choi...
Jan 07, 2025•52 min
In our last episode of the year, we bring our final 10 tracks in our best of 2024 picks. Thanks to everyone for sticking with us this year and tuning in as we chat about our favorite music. We'll be back in your feeds next year! Take care. Tracklist Swervedriver - Canvey Island Baby Been Stellar - All In One Windows 96 - Through The Sky T Pain - Pete & Bas Chat Pile - Tape Chat Pile - Shame Johnny Blue Skies - If The Sun Never Rises Again Peel Dream Magazine - R.I.P. (Running In Place) Merce...
Dec 25, 2024•1 hr 37 min
Join us every week in December as we count down our top tracks of 2024. Tracklist Dummy - Psychic Battery Residents' Club - Satellite Wishy - Game Cola - Pulling Quotes Jack White - Archbishop Harold Holmes Idles - Dancer The Softies - Go Back In Time The Softies - I Said What I Said Trauma Ray - Ember MJ Lenderman - Joker Lips MJ Lenderman - Wristwatch Cloakroom - Unbelonging This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Join us every week in December as we count down our top tracks of 2024. Tracklist Fontaines D.C. - Bug Honeyglaze - Hide Honeyglaze - Don't Magdalena Bay - Cry For Me Being Dead - Firefighters julie - clairbourne practice julie - thread, stitch Origami Angel - Where Blue Light Blooms Clairo - Sexy To Someone Molchat Doma - Belaya Polosa Silverbacks - Look At All You've Done This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 09, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Join us every week in December as we count down our top tracks of 2024. Tracklist Yot Club - Pixel MGMT - People In The Streets Julia-Sophie - lose my mind Chelsea Wolfe - House of Self Undoing Fake Fruit - Más O Menos Fake Fruit - Long Island Iced Tea MILLY - Past The Glow kinoue64 - Pikopiko kinoue64 - 無関係図 Skee Mask - Reminiscrmx Eden Aurelius - Want 2 World News - Hell Hole Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood - Live On Boston Harbor This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more abou...
Dec 01, 2024•1 hr 20 min
In classic No Filler format, we let our 300th episode come and go without much fanfare or even a simple acknowledgement. So while this may technically be our 302nd episode, we want to say thank you to all the listeners who've supported us over the years and who tune-in every episode and listen to music with us. Here's to the next 300. Tracklist Panda Bear.- Defense Autoclave - I'll Take You Down Omni - Granite Kiss My Wonderful Boyfriend - My New Shirt Hideki Taniuchi - Senritsu Shook - Lullaby ...
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 17 min
On this year's extra spooky edition of the No FIller Bonus Halloween Episode, we explore the unbreakable bond of synth music and horror films. We dive into some tunes and find the parallels between the 2014 modern classic It Follows , and the timeless synth of John Carpenter and Alan Howarth from the 1978 film Halloween III: Season of the Witch . Tracklist : John Carpenter, Alan Howarth - Halloween TV Commercial Disasterpeace - Heels John Carpenter - The Shape Stalks Disasterpeace - Lakeward Joh...
Oct 31, 2024•45 min
Greatly underrated and appreciated, Kitchens of Distinction were painted with a broad brush by critics at the time. Critics at the time pigeonholed the group as a "gay band" due to frontman Patrick Fitzgerald being publicly out at the time, and his lyrics that didn't shy from the subject matter. But the band was much more than that, and today we dive into the soaring, shimmering soundscapes and deep, haunting, poetic lyrics. Tracklist Kitchens of Distinction - In A Cave Kitchens of Distinction -...
Oct 28, 2024•54 min
Tracklist : The Cure - Alone Catherine Wheel - Receive Adorable - Sunshine Smile Makeup And Vanity Set - 360P Jon & Vangelis - I Hear You Now Staflyer 59 - Second Space Song Alex Albrecht pres. Melquíades - The Blacksmith Air Miami - Bubble Shield The Softies - Hello Rain Seam - Bunch The Sundays - Life Goes On Air Miami - World Cup Fever This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 20, 2024•1 hr 15 min
We hit pause on the usual No Filler fare and spend some time with our favorite flavor of electronic music: downtempo at it's finest. We listen to Peace Orchestra's debut self-titled record, featuring Austrian producer Peter Kruder's masterfully crafted cinematic, swirling, and evocative beats and melodies. Grab your favorite pair of headphones and join us as we remember why nothing beats an exceptional downtempo track. We also get stunned into silence by a surprise Nina Simone track. Tracklist P...
Sep 23, 2024•58 min
You know the drill by now: 5 tracks each, any genre, any decade! This month's mixtape features a healthy dose of jangle, a grunge idol that's still got it, some Silent Hill vibes for good measure, and much more. Join us for some tunes and camaraderie! Tracklist Jack White - It Must Be Rough On Rats Mark Mulcahy - Taking Baby Steps Luscious Jackson - Satellite 1000 Eyes - Demon Graphics Weavel - Everything Went Well Jerry Cantrell - Vilified Wishy - Sick Sweet Luna - Slash Your Tires Daniel Tashi...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 12 min
If you're a fan of guitar-driven rock music, the days of Hendrix, Page, and Halen are long gone. Nowadays, the guitar is rarely front-and-center - and if is, it's usually in the form of a reverb-drenched wall-of-sound or this week's latest grunge homage (don't get me wrong - I'm all in on the grunge revival!). But if you stumbled upon English psych rockers Wolf People and their 2016 record Ruins , you were treated to a collection of guitar riffs so beefy that I'd say guitarists Jack Sharp and Jo...
Aug 26, 2024•57 min
We've got everything from 60s baroque folk to Japanese math rock, and chillwave to vaporwave, join us for our monthly mixtape! Tracklist Washed Out - Say Goodbye Steely Dan - Razor Boy Color Green - 5:08 Pentangle - Light Flight Little Green Cars - Big Red Dragon Freelance Whales - The Nothing Nmesh - Climbing The Corporate Ladder Gui.tar - See Sea, Bee And Me Toe - 風と記憶 Big Red Machine - Phoenix (feat. Robin Pecknold, Anaïs Mitchell) Motorama - Heavy Wave This show is part of the Pantheon Podca...
Aug 12, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Nowadays you can't throw a rock without hitting an indie record that blends sludge of grunge and jangle of alt rock with the fuzz and breathy vocals of shoegaze and dreampop. As niche as that may sound - it is the sound of indie right now. And while Ringo Deathstarr certainly wasn't the first, their 2015 record Pure Mood may well be the first to get it right. Drawing heavy inspiration from 90s grunge and alt metal, the Austin trio's nearly perfect shoegaze record brings new meaning to the wall o...
Jul 25, 2024•46 min
Tracklist Been Stellar - Passing Judgement Marcy Playground - The Shadow of Seattle Half Moon Run - Call Me In The Afternoon Skee Mask - 800AB Kiln - Autumnalae (Leaf-Pile Divers) Swervedriver - Blowin' Cool Move 78 - Daisies Leftfield - Dub Gussett Moon Diagrams - Moon Diagrams Cola - Tracing Hallmarks TTSSFU - I Hope You Die Cola - Reprise This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 20 min
For peak enjoyment of The Soundcarriers, you must first acquire a lava lamp, a Warhol painting, some shag carpet (a rug will do), and put on your best 60s mod score from the thrift store down the street. Everything about this group (down to the font choice in the liner notes) is steeped in the effortlessly cool sound of 60s psychedelic folk. Today we dive into their 2010 record Celeste, where The Soundcarriers mix in 60s/70s library music and avant pop with their psychedelic sound to create an a...
Jun 21, 2024•49 min
Our monthly mixtape is back to wrap up the month of May and ease us into summer with some sweet tunes from fuzzed out dream pop to laid back experimental jazz. Tracklist Empire Of The Sun - Changes The Molochs - No More Cryin' DIIV - In Amber High Highs - White Water Faraquet - Cut Self Not Akasha System - Last Call Alison's Halo - Dozen King Princess - Dirty Work (Steely Dan Cover) Ringo Deathstarr - Big Bopper Godtet - Struck Bamboo Pipes (feat. Hannah Macklin) Necromoon - Orange Peel Necromoo...
Jun 03, 2024•1 hr 14 min
We take a break from the 90s and spend some time in this decade with a deep dive into a fantastic little indie record from 2021: Ovlov's Buds. Coming in at just under 25 minutes in length, this record is the perfect collection of short, poppy, indie rock gems that pack a punch. Soft vocals and melodies contrasted by moments of disorienting low end and cranked up fuzz a la J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. make this record stand out in the slew of bedroom pop, punk-leaning indie records. And as an added b...
May 20, 2024•50 min
