This month we're being quiet and driving far away under the northern sky where we'll be talking about reclusive Warwickshire folk legend Nick Drake and Sacramento's pioneering alt metal titans Deftones. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll also be talking about music festival Bigfoot sightings, A mild disagreement about the best member of Duran Duran & Tracey tries to retrospectively project her own pretentious literary allusions onto 51 year old albums. Find all available s...
Mar 29, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 56
This month let's get out of this country and visit the palaces of Montezuma where we'll be talking about Scottish indie pop Spector enthusiasts Camera Obscura & Antipodean dark prince of gothic rock Nick Cave. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll also be talking about dangerous Bristolian landmarks, seafaring indie festivals seemingly designed for one percenters, and Tracey devises some kind of colour coding system to be used on an audio podcast... Find all available songs o...
Feb 23, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 55
It's 2020! and it's bloody cold in the UK so lets warm everyone up with a particularly californian episode. This Month we'll be talking about the indie rock supergroup Boygenius and it's component members Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker & Lucy Dacus (plus various other projects they've been involved in such as Better Oblivion Community Centre, and then we'll be talking about California's greatest ever close part harmony mostly non surfing surk legends The Beach Boys! As usual we can never stay...
Jan 26, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 54
It's the end of 2019 which has been an utterly fantastic year for music (possibly at the expense of everything else...) so as is traditional, here's our annual best of the year extravaganza! We count down our favourite 30 songs of the year, plus we discuss songs that didn't quite make it, our favourite gigs of the year and also music we've discovered this year that didn't come out in 2019. It's basically like Top Of The Pops but with way more music from the former USSR... To explain how the voti...
Dec 23, 2019•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Series 3 is here! and we're starting it with a particularly European flavour! This month we'll be talking about the surprisingly melodic German Funeral Doom whale botherers Ahab and Scandinavian 80s pop legends A-Ha! As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll also be jabbering about overuse of Fairlight Synthesizers ruining original versions of amazing songs, Hasselhoff/Ocean confusion, and wondering why indie bands don't usually tend to write many elaborate epic concept albums. Find ...
Nov 25, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 52
We've reached the end of the alphabet and therefore it's the final episode of series 2! It's also our 50th episode! This month we'll be talking about New Jersey's indie rock music nerd favourites Yo La Tengo & Texas's noisiest beardiest bluesiest boogie merchants ZZ Top! As usual we can never staymon topic for long so you also get to hear what may be Colin's worst dad joke yet, stories about ridiculous tour menageries and Tracey explains baseball. Find all available songs here - https://open...
Oct 27, 2019•53 min•Season 1Ep. 51
This month we travel to the 1980's bedsits of Leeds and the mean violence drenched streets of Shaolin where we'll be talking about perennial Peel favourites and indie legends The Wedding Present & Staton Island's biggest chess obsessed hip hop titans Wu-Tang Clan. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll also be talking about dan dan diggy de dan de dan, shocking plot twists abd "non violent hip hop like Cypress Hill"... Find all available songs here - https://open.spotify.com/p...
Sep 29, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Surprise! this isn't a We Dig Music episode, this is Colin & Ian's other podcast "Free With This Month's Issue"! a podcast where Colin & Ian plus a different guest each month listen to a free covermount cd from an old music magazine such as Melody Maker, NME, Mojo, Kerrang, Q, Metal Hammer, Uncut etc and uncover it's various horrors and delights. This particular month our guest is some indie loving woman called Tracey, who may sound familiar to you lot, so we thought some of you might wa...
Sep 15, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 49
After a short break (cos Colin's laptop broke) we're back! This month we spiral out & keep going to the letter T where we'll be talking about Texan post rockers This Will Destroy You & Californian prog metal alchemist mathematicians Tool. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll also be talking abut making post rock acceptable for 3 year olds, wanton destruction of pub floorboards, and musicians on hallucinogenics... Find all available songs here - https://open.spotify.com/p...
Aug 25, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 48
We're 2 years old (not literally, please don't close our Twitter account...) so in a break from our usual programming this month we have a VERY SPECIAL EPISODE for you all. It's a bit like our christmas/end of year episodes, but rather than being our favourite songs of the last year, this time we're going back in time for two full decades to the year 1999! To explain how the voting works, we each picked our 10 favourite songs of the year, then for each list we each ranked them 1-10 giving 10 poi...
Jul 01, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 47
This month we travel where boys fear to tread, all the way to the letter S where we'll be talking about Seattle's noisiest experimental drone sluts Sunn O))) and Billy Corgan's shiny headed alt rock guitar heroes Smashing Pumpkins. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so you can also hear Colin's ridiculous Black Metal vocals, Tracey not recognising multiple vocalists, infinite guitar overdubs and innapropriate stage divers. Find all available songs here - https://open.spotify.com/user/n...
May 26, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 46
This episode it's the end of the world as we know it, but we feel fine cos it's the letter R and we're talking about California based sadcore miserabalists Red House Painters (and the other works of Mark Kozelek such as Sun Kil Moon) and Atlanta's finest college rock megstars R.E.M.. As usual we never stay on topic for long so we'll also be discussing techniques for avoidig Red Hot Chili Peppers, Concept albums about Lichfield, More "Yeah's" than Lithium & the world premier of the new hit ga...
Apr 28, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 45
This episode we're either driving a truck, train, tractor or taking a walk to the letter P where we'll be rambling on about Scottish Indie (we don't care what you say Stephen) DIY pioneers The Pastels & Texas's finest cowboys from hell Pantera. As usual we never stay on topic for long so we'll also be discussing the disturbing parallels between Norwiegan Black Metal & C86 Scottish Indiepop, Genre Dysphoria & Terribly unconvincing convoluted and highly implausible excuses for bad beha...
Mar 31, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Surprise! you get this episode a whole week early as Colin & Ian are off to Poland to see Laibach next week! It's February and we're at the letter O so this time we'll be discussing (and in one bands case, arguing slightly) about Swedish Prog metal behemoths Opeth and Mancunian everyone plagiarists Oasis. There's a LOT of very rude words in this episode so possibly best not to listen to when you're with your granny, local vicar or any sensitive members of Oasis. Obviously as usual we never s...
Feb 17, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 43
2019 is in bloom so this time our our alphabetical musical jabberings sit down with a nice plate of Mexican seafood and the letter N to talk about short-lived Brazilian/Wolverhamptonian industrial metal super-group Nailbomb and Aberdeen Washington's finest generation X defining grunge power trio Nirvana. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be talking about broken promises of the Manic Street Preachers, Jukebox terrorism & The unorthodox, tasteless but ultimatel...
Jan 27, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 42
It's Christmas! so, this time, we're irking the Daily Mail readers by actually not doing much to do with Christmas at all (Let's call it a Winterval special just to annoy them even more!). It's our end of the year best of 2018 spectacular! We'll be counting down our favourite 30 songs of the year, plus discussing our favourite gigs of the year and also music we've discovered this year which didn't come out in 2018. To explain how the voting works, we each picked our 10 favourite songs of the yea...
Dec 23, 2018•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Our alphabetical podcast wanderings take us somewhere nice to the letter M so this time we're discussing Scottish post rock legends Mogwai & Bay Area thrash titans Metallica. As usual we can never stay on topic for long so we'll be also be talking about somnambulistic documentaries, the pinnacle of all human achievement and more Husker Du comparisons than you'd expect. Listen to all available songs in full here - https://open.spotify.com/user/newpathstohelicon/playlist/47Dy5gakzJXlB99BuzLT5i...
Dec 09, 2018•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 40
This time our our alphabetical musical shenanigans decide it's time to get away to the letter L so we're talking about Slovenia's stompiest avant-garde industrial statesmen Laibach and New York's indie dance legends LCD Soundsystem. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be talking about soundtrack albums to movies with no music, missing Maiden for Mylo and Tracey finds the most tenuous link in the history of the podcast (so far)... Listen all available songs in full ...
Nov 25, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 39
This fortnight our alphabetical music journey wastes a moment with the letter K so this time we're talking about Afrobeat pioneer, political revolutionary and parallel husband Fela Kuti and Nashville indie rock megastars Kings Of Leon. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be talking about the legend of the bulletproof goat coat, a thorough and conclusive debunking of astrology, and jazz memes. Listen to all available songs in full here - https://open.spotify.com/use...
Nov 11, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 38
This time our alphabetical musical adventures get closer to the letter J, so we're talking about Birmingham extreme metal legend Justin K Broadrick's pop/shoegaze/post rock project Jesu and massively influential Mancuniuan misery merchants Joy Division. As is the tradition we never stay on topic for long so we also jabber on about hypothetical methods of eradicating Simply Red from time and space, sleeping behind the mixing desk at Reading Festival and the extreme metal Fleetwood Mac. Listen to ...
Oct 28, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 37
So our alphabetical musical adventures travel across the sea of regrets in order to redefine the letter I so this time we're talking about massively underrated Leeds based post rock historians I Like Trains and chilled Cali beach vibes merchants Incubus. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be talking about our top 3 Charles Mingus album titles, Morse code through a stick and there's another exciting game of Name That Effect Pedal! Listen to all available songs in f...
Oct 14, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 36
So our alphabetical musical shenanigans head up from the skies to to the letter H so this time we're talking about massively influential post hardcore producer ignorers Hüsker Dü and the universe's greatest ever guitar hero Jimi Hendrix. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be talking about fictional terrible easter themed horror movies, songs inspired by lumpy mashed potatoes and the BBC test card & pop singer Pantera covers. Listen to all available songs in fu...
Oct 01, 2018•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 35
So our alphabetical musical adventures hitches a ride to the letter G so this time we're talking about elusive Virginian post-rock invertebrates Gregor Samsa and Californian pop punk stadium fillers Green Day. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be talking about the pop punk Euronymous, Ian's realisation that he's got away with plagiarism and big respect for Charlie Eyebrows. Listen to the songs in full here - https://open.spotify.com/user/newpathstohelicon/playlis...
Sep 16, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 34
It's it! What is it? Why, it's our alphabetical musical expedition ricocheting into the letter F so this time we're talking about excellent but eyebrowless hipster troubadour Father John Misty and California's finest funk metal (yeah, you heard us Kiedis) genre hopping lunatics Faith No More. Of course, we can never stay fully on topic for long so we'll also be discussing horrific hotel hairdryer hijinks, fake Mexican drug lord metal and utterly fantastic macaroni & cheese... Listen to the s...
Sep 02, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Today is the day that our alphabetical musical odyssey reaches the letter E so we'll be discussing strangely uplifting indie rock harbingers of death Eels and Birmingham based post punk (European) stadium fillers Editors. As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us discussing inter-dimensional doppelganger murder, badly timed supermarket visits and massively overrated fantasy literature (and Frank Ferdinand)... Listen to the songs in full here - https://open.spotify.com/user/...
Aug 19, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Our alphabetical musical wanderings continue like a rolling stone towards the letter D so we'll be discussing ridiculously loud proto-grunge slacker legends Dinosaur Jr and Iconic cantankerous folk rock purist-irker Bob Dylan. As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us jabbering on about Winwood & Zimmerman's spooky ghost adventures, Wooden Robot Songs and Ian offends a man in a gimp suit in a Derbyshire Goth club... Listen to (all available) songs in full here - https:/...
Aug 05, 2018•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Our alphabetical musical adventures travel from the edge of the deep green sea to arrive at the letter C, which means we're talking about legendary cult American singer songwriter(and friend of Michael Stipe, Shirley Manson and Kristin Hersh) Vic Chessnutt and Crawley's (no, the universe's) finest stadium goth titans and official greatest band in the world ever, The Cure (Colin in particular is VERY excitable in this episode...). As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us pr...
Jul 22, 2018•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Our alphabetical musical adventures go intergalactic to arrive at the letter B, which means we're talking about Wisconsin's favourite enigmatic indie-folk collective (and Kanye West's favourite musician) Bon Iver and New York's brattiest (but later socially conscious) Punk Rap legends Beastie Boys . As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us jabbering on about Roland Rat's impact on UK Hip Hop, dance floor karate brawls and Howard Jones vs Nik Kershaw... Listen to (all avail...
Jul 09, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Series 2! Our alphabetical musical escapades have wakes up again at the letter A, which means we're talking about San Francisco's self sabotaging, heavy drinking alternative songsmiths American Music Club and Montreal based multi-instrumentalist, anthemic indie stadium fillers Arcade Fire . As usual we never stay on topic for long so you'll also hear us talking about paleolithic extreme hurdy-gurdy metal, covert Justin Timberlake dolphins, not Aerosmith and Tracey infuriates her heroes... Listen...
Jun 23, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Its the final episode of series 1, and as you will have heard across all media sources, the alphabet has been lost! As a result your intrepid musical adventurers are abandoning the usual format for a full episode discussing the work of Mr Steven Copernicus Albini and his astounding contributions to the music we know and love, from his own musical ventures such as Big Black & Shellac and his studio work (better not call it producing, he'll get angry) on countless classic albums including Nirv...
Jun 08, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 27
