Spencer (@TGOFV_Pod) and Cole (@RaceplayShawty) join Charles and Alex to discuss Billboard oddities and songs from Spencer's "the Gauntlet" playlist.
2024-09-27 21:17:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Alex appreciates the blues the same way he appreciates Windows 95.
2024-09-24 13:25:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Josiah Hughes (@josiahhughes) joins Charles and Alex to question why the three bears' porridges were different temperatures and write a pop-punk song about the challenges of being a teen.
2024-09-17 15:08:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Charles and Alex check in on Linkin Park's scientologist singer, Weezer's community-theater-style production of the Blue Album, and T.I.'s lawsuit against the same toy company that made Poopsie Surprise dolls.
2024-09-10 16:17:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Was Oasis the last rock band to get away with a song about rocking and rolling?
2024-09-06 17:45:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Charles and Alex find out Coldplay has the highest-grossing rock tour ever, examine the DNC roll call songs, and listen to Falling in Reverse's cover of Papa Roach.
2024-08-30 16:33:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Charles, Alex, and Ohio's Very Own Dan Boeckner discuss the Tim Horton's musical and voice support for artist-run entities like Madison Square Garden and the U.S. State Department.
Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit
Listen to Charles' EP on Spotify and Bandcamp.
2024-08-16 17:44:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Yoooo I've got a 4-song EP as Solipse out today on Spotify, Bandcamp, etc. We're also playing a show at Sleeping Village in Chicago on August 20, along with the band Brass Calf, who are worth checking out.
2024-08-13 15:16:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Charles and Alex check in on Akon City, read a crypto guy's Eminem review, and argue that Bruce Springsteen should have to open for Steven Van Zandt reciting classic Sopranos lines.
2024-08-09 17:02:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hot Dad (@hotterdad) joins Charles and Alex to share his favorite '00s Japanese rock bands.
Listen to Banana Road: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/hotdad/banana-road
Playlist:
Quruli - Hana no Mizudeppou
Quruli - World's End Supernova (Live)
Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Siren
Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Kimi no Machi Made
Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Natsu no Hi, Zanzou
Cornelius - Smoke
Cornelius - Breezin'
Supercar - White Surf Style 5 (Live)
Supercar - Wonder Word
2024-08-02 17:34:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Raina (@RahRahRaina) joins Charles and Alex to discuss her time in Japan interviewing bands, shopping at Seven & I Holdings, and feeding cats outside of their designated feeding area.
Playlist:
Sakanaction - Wasurerarenaino
Cornelius - Chapter 8 Seashore and Horizon
Boris - Heavy Rain
Buffalo Daughter - Cyclic
Hitsuji Bungaku - Addiction
Atarashii Gakko! - Tokyo Calling
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs - Sugar
2024-07-26 21:51:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Will Menaker and Katherine Krueger join Charles and Alex to cover this summer's hottest music festival (the RNC) and weigh the musical merits of the car crash king Billy Joel.
Stream Charles' new song: https://open.spotify.com/track/4r6cxwLnd1eokkF8qUAvND?si=461221842bff414e
2024-07-19 14:59:33 +0000 UTC View Post
We were spotty about saving VODs (and a few were blocked by YouTube) during the last few months as we watched Making the Band, but here's to (hopefully) having fewer blocked during our Rock and Roll Jeopardy Era.
2024-07-11 14:37:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Charles and Alex discuss Joe Biden's audio engineering woes, Gerber's 1970s campaign to market baby food to adults, and Kid Rock's endorsement of an anti-American dessert: apple pie.
2024-07-10 18:12:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Charles and Alex listen to Meghan Trainor's new pet food jingle. DUI king Billy Joel weighs in on Justin Timberlake. Alex calls him RuPaul Stanley because KISS are drag queens.
2024-06-28 17:21:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Evan Laffer (@evanlaffer) and Ian Grant (@ian__grant) of Jokermen (@JokermenPodcast) join Charles and Alex to discuss the career of Barney the Dinosaur, with an eye toward his criticually and commercially overlooked later works.
2024-06-21 16:56:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Charles and Alex wonder what baby Jesus did with his gold and discuss a story about artists like Ne-Yo and the Game scamming people through their official Instagram accounts.
2024-06-14 17:40:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Charles, Alex, and Dan discuss the recent spate of arena tour cancellations and check in on the world's youngest FORMER Garfield licensee.
See Dan on tour: www.subpop.com/artists/boeckner/tours
2024-06-07 17:49:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Charles and Alex read Rolling Stone's Kid Rock profile and realize that he needs to tour with Bruce Springsteen to heal America.
2024-05-28 18:38:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Charles and Alex want to do the drugs their favorite 80-year-old psychedelic rock artists are doing. Plus a check-in on Kanye's presidential campaign.
2024-05-21 20:16:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Charles and Alex discuss Da Band's very limited discography and check in on P. Diddy's whereabouts.
2024-05-10 17:12:17 +0000 UTC View PostCharles and Alex catch up on Motley Crue, look at legislation congratulating musicians, and listen to a 1984 spoken-word album where the Transformers race in a car rally.
2024-05-03 17:52:26 +0000 UTC View PostCharles and Alex catch up with Kanye's latest blunders and listen to the 1982 Pac-Man Christmas album and some '80s McDonald's songs.
2024-04-26 18:29:32 +0000 UTC View PostHesse joins Charles and Alex to discuss oddball Sonic Youth songs, Jojo Siwa's car, and Chechnya banning music outside of a narrow tempo range.
2024-04-19 17:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostCharles, Alex, and Dan realize that Peter Thiel wants to be Caligula and that Led Zeppelin was technically the first steampunk band. See Dan on tour: https://www.subpop.com/artists/boeckner/tours
2024-04-12 17:16:14 +0000 UTC View PostI started working on a few Bob Dylan covers last year when we kept talking about him—mainly as a way to get better at tracking using only amp sims, synths, and drum machines—and then I never finished any of them. This one is pretty good so I finally finished it, but I don't think I'm gonna do anything with it besides upload it here. - Charles
2024-04-10 14:41:36 +0000 UTC View PostMatthew Perpetua (@perpetua) joins Charles and Alex to discuss Pavement live shows, legacy band lineup changes, and Oasis hiring Ringo Starr's son.
2024-04-05 16:41:11 +0000 UTC View PostLisa Vitale (@eyyitslisa) talks about meeting Dolly Parton, Charles is vindicated learning Neil Young's Pono player is a piece of shit, and Alex argues Radiohead isn't a real Britpop band cause the brothers don't fight in the press.
2024-03-29 18:04:26 +0000 UTC View PostCharles and Alex think bands should steal shampoo and shower curtains from hotel rooms and sell them as merch. Plus Meghan Trainor has yet another song about That Bass and Neil Young returns to Spotify but is still on his bullshit.
2024-03-22 17:57:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a new song from Charles, featured at the end of yesterday's Chapo ep. It's also on Spotify, Bandcamp, etc—MP3 and WAV downloads below
2024-03-20 16:05:39 +0000 UTC View Post