Stream Tonight at 9:30 ET: Tommy Lee Goes to College
Just a quick reminder that we're streaming all 6 episodes of Tommy Lee Goes to College tonight at 9:30 Eastern with our friend CJ. See you at twitch.tv/fortunekit
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58 - SEX
Charles, Alex, and Dan reckon with their musical idol's horniness and delve into Trapt's social media world.
2020-11-03 19:32:09 +0000 UTC View PostStream This Friday: Tommy Lee Goes to College
This Friday at 9:30 PM Eastern we're going to watch the full series "Tommy Lee Goes to College" with our friend CJ (@ultra_victim). The whole series is nearly 2 hours long, so buckle up. As always ...
2020-11-02 21:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostBonus 6 - No One Knows What Works (ft. Hot Dad)
Hot Dad (@hotterdad) talks with Charles, Dan, and Alex about his brief career writing erotica and how nobody really knows how to succeed in digital media.
2020-10-30 16:45:08 +0000 UTC View PostThings Behind the Sun (Nick Drake Cover)
I probably recorded this a year ago and never got around to finishing the mix until this afternoon. I think this is one of the best Nick Drake songs, and a fun one to arrange and make a lot denser ...
2020-10-23 22:02:42 +0000 UTC View Post55 - We Are the World
Alex and Charles watch 9 minutes of Bob Dylan rehearsing vocals for We Are the World, revisit Akon City, and imagine an Iraqi city populated by expat Trump supporters who stocked up on dinar.
2020-10-02 18:23:19 +0000 UTC View PostOnce or Twice
This song wasn't really written for any specific purpose so I figured I'd throw it on here. I started with the riff and it sounded like The Strokes so I just leaned hard into ripping them off. I th...
2020-09-30 21:12:11 +0000 UTC View Post51 - Canadian Road and Bridge Trivia (ft. Raina Douris)
Host of NPR's World Cafe Raina Douris (@RahRahRaina) joins Dan, Alex, and Charles to talk about NPR voice, the monster mash, and bleak Canadian drives.
2020-09-04 20:18:29 +0000 UTC View PostAutoCritic 17: New Order - Substance [0.8]
Dan and Charles face the facts when New Order's Substance receives a 0.8 score.
Here's the audio of the BBC session Dan mentions in the episode, couldn't find the full version with video:
Download: This American Country
Here's MP3 and WAV versions of the patriotic song we made on Saturday's stream with Will. It'll be on streaming services at some point too, probably within a week. Thanks to anyone who wasted preci...
2020-08-18 22:03:08 +0000 UTC View PostReminder: Streaming with Will Menaker in 1 Hour
We'll be live at twitch.tv/fortunekit in an hour to write a patriotic song with Will from Chapo. See you there
2020-08-15 23:00:33 +0000 UTC View PostStream on Saturday ft. Will Menaker
This Saturday at 8 PM Eastern we'll be live on twitch.tv/fortunekit writing a patriotic song with Will Menaker from Chapo Trap House. For anybody who watched the Chapo FYM stream where we wrote the...
2020-08-13 18:11:55 +0000 UTC View PostAutoCritic 16: Luke Bryan - One Margarita [7.4]
Charles and Dan discuss simple pop-country hooks based on counting and how Dan's dad wants him to make a country solo album.
2020-08-10 19:29:04 +0000 UTC View Post47 - 50 Cent & the Caper of the Diamond Skull
Alex and Charles wonder if Sonic Youth is a jam band, read up on the plot of 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, and take Metalhead Zone's '80s metal quizzes.
2020-08-04 21:01:50 +0000 UTC View Post44 - Woodstock ’99 Revisited
Charles, Alex, and Dan revisit Woodstock ’99 through the lens of its still-online message board.
2020-07-10 13:50:03 +0000 UTC View PostTwitch Stream Tomorrow @ 8 PM ET (For Real This Time)
Ok, this time we're actually going to stream some youtube videos—tomorrow at 8 p.m. eastern at twitch.tv/fortunekit Attendance is mandatory
2020-07-03 17:27:02 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: Rescheduling Twitch Stream, Date TBD
Well. You might remember us announcing a Twitch stream yesterday. It turns out, now we're unannouncing it and moving it to a better date that's actually going to work for everyone. It should still ...
2020-06-27 20:43:04 +0000 UTC View PostTwitch Stream Tomorrow @ 8 PM Eastern
We're going to do a Twitch stream tomorrow night at 8 PM east where we just watch dumb YouTubes. It's technically a music festival where every band will be playing a pre-recorded 3 or 4 minute set ...
2020-06-26 21:08:27 +0000 UTC View Post41 - The History of Butt Rock
Joel (@thevillainjoel) joins Alex and Charles to break down the history of butt rock, from proto-cockrock to third-wave butt.
2020-06-15 22:04:05 +0000 UTC View PostAutoCritic 15: The Doors - Light My Fire [0.3]
Kurt (@theicechoir) joins Dan, Alex, and Charles to score The Doors. “Light My Fire” gets a lower score than the Budweiser frogs commercial and the Coors twins commercial, like it should.
2020-06-12 18:50:02 +0000 UTC View PostAutoCritic 14: Pixies - Doolittle [7.4]
Charles, Dan, Alex, and Kurt love Doolittle but the A.I. says it's merely good.
2020-05-19 18:12:05 +0000 UTC View PostAutoCritic 13: Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain [8.5]
Kurt Feldman (Ice Choir, Pains of Being Pure at Heart) joins Alex, Dan, and Charles to consult the A.I. for its objective score of Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. Everyone's a little harsh b...
2020-05-12 20:58:34 +0000 UTC View Post36 - Knights of Galvania
Alex and Charles imagine lore in the Puddle of Mudd extended universe, examine Billy Joel’s history of not getting DUIs, and wonder whether Joe Biden enjoys music. Charles shares the instrumental...
2020-05-03 21:44:24 +0000 UTC View PostNew Album: Glassed Planet
Charles and Dan put together this album of instrumentals over the last month or so. The original idea was to rip off Brian Eno, but it's definitely something else... Not sure what though! Some kind...
2020-05-01 16:32:00 +0000 UTC View PostAutoCritic 12: MGMT - In the Afternoon [2.4]
Charles makes the case to Alex and Dan that MGMT is good—but the all-knowing AI disagrees.
2020-04-30 21:49:54 +0000 UTC View PostDownload: Leather Steel - Sunset Strippers (On the Sunset Strip)
Here's Alex's hair-metal song inspired by the E1 charity stream this past weekend. For anyone who missed that, it'll be released on the E1 feed sometime in the next week. Here's the song download i...
2020-04-22 19:11:46 +0000 UTC View PostAutoCritic 11: Television - Marquee Moon [9.6]
Alex, Dan, and Charles discuss Television's Marquee Moon and—against all odds—it gets the score they all feel it deserves.
2020-04-14 18:22:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis Land! (Jibjab Cover)
In their viral parody of Woody Allen’s “This Land,” dot-com funnymen JibJab skewer the 2004 presidential election between George W. Bush, who is an ape, and John W. Kerry, who had botox and i...
2020-04-07 16:19:52 +0000 UTC View PostAutoCritic 10: Weezer - The Blue Album [4.3]
Alex, Charles, and Dan praise Weezer's Blue Album until learning that it deserves a 4.3 out of 10.
2020-03-31 17:04:03 +0000 UTC View PostFortune Kit Discord is Live
We've got a new Discord server, which anybody can access with this link. Anyone who's part of the normal $5 tier on here also gets ...
2020-03-16 19:42:47 +0000 UTC View Post