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#198 - David Bowie - Low
In the lead up to our 200th episode, we thought it’d be fun to do three episodes based on the original premise for the show. We’ll each present an album over…
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#197 - Thrust by Herbie Hancock
In the lead up to our 200th episode, we thought it’d be fun to do three episodes based on the original premise for the show. We’ll each present an album over…
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#196 - Connie Converse | Green Jellÿ | 2023 Rock HoF
Before we begin, we’re going to celebrating the lead up to our 200th episode by bringing back the original concept for the show. For the next three episodes…
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#195 - Gordon Lightfoot / Music for Business Events / Sheeran vs Gaye, in Theory
Jay kicks us off with a remembrance of another lost legend. Considered one of Canada’s greatest songwriter, Gordon Lightfoot passed away at the age of 84. He…
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#194 - We Want Chilly Willy | Newcastle | Heart on My Sleeve
Greg has been quite busy since we last left him, all of it related to the shows with Red Not Chili Peppers. So much so that there’s too much to tell as an…
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#193 - “Viral or Eyeroll” Coachella ‘23 | Back to NAMM | Ahmad Jamal
Nick’s excited that Coachella is back but only so we can play your favorite game, “Viral or Eyeroll.” For any new listeners, in this game contestants hear a…
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#192 The Atlantis | News with Nick | Heard It Through The GregVine: 80’s Guitarists
The owner of the 930 club is opening a new venue at it’s original location & they’re calling it The Atlantis, after the club that originally preceded them…
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#191 - Ryuichi Sakamoto + TFTC: Hank Dietle's | Three for Thursday - | Apple’s Classical Music
Greg kicks things off with a remembrance of the Japanese composer, record producer and actor, Ryuichi Sakamoto, who passed this week at the age of 71. A…
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#190 - Streaming in the Dark | “Bangers & Mashups” Part VI | Collabs We Love
Last week Nick ditched his planned topic to discuss a new band, so this week he’s circling back. “Streaming in the Dark: Where Music Listeners’ Money Goes—and…
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#189 - “Viral or Eyeroll” IX \ Zonkey / Heard It Through the GREGvine
“Viral or Eyeroll” is clearly our most beloved game so you should know the drill by now! This week Jay takes on hosting duties while Greg & Nick occupy…
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#188 - Rare Groove | The Worst of the Best | Billy Cobham
Greg brings us an obscure micro-genre from the 70’s, one that combines jazz, funk, and R&B, called Rare Groove. While the artists and their albums may not ring…
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#187 - Fixing Broken Tickets | Wayne Shorter | David Lindley
Pitchfork has six ideas on how to solve the broken ticketing system and Nick is eager to discuss them. Central to the question though is the premise that…
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#186 - Live’s Demise | Epic’s Bandcamp | 1955
Jay opens things with a crazy Rolling Stone article about the demise of the 90’s alt rock band Live. The band’s 1995 performance on MTV’s Unplugged sparked Jay…
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#185 - Lisa Simpson is Ornette Coleman | Rudy Van Gelder | “News w/ Nick”
Greg had a spark of inspiration last week while listening to an early Ornette Coleman album. Now regarded as a pioneer of was jazz for founding free jazz…
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#184 - Tales from the Concert: Wynton Marsalis | Albini Hates The Dan | Jay’s Dilla Time
Nick & Jay tell us about their journey to Chambersburg, PA to see Wynton Marsalis in our latest Tales From the Concert. A traditionalist, Mr. Marsalis and the…
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#183 - Biggest Sellouts | 2023 Grammy’s | Heavy Flirtation: Sleep Token
Elton John’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” Tour has become the most profitable tour in history, as reported by Pollstar. Pollstar has been tracking concert…
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#182 - BienVenue: Cain's Ballroom | Music LM | Ticketmaster Congressional Hearing
Greg is back from playing at one of his favorite venues and decided the time was right for BienVenue. Cain’s Ballroom, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was built in 1924…
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#181 - A.I. or Real Guy? | Ginny Redington Dawes | Weigh-In with Wayan
Nick kicks things off this week with a brand new game! With the arrival of technologies like Chatbot GPT, a predictive language engine that’s scaring as many…
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#180 - YSCIO Special: Jeff Beck Tribute
This week we converge to listen and remember the music and life of legendary guitarist, Jeff Beck, who died last week at the age of 78. He was such an…
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#179 - Heavy Flirtation | More Ryan Adams Cover Albums | vs. UMG vs.
Greg brings three metal adjacent bands to the show this week, more of a heavy flirtation than a heavy rotation. English rock band Porcupine Tree, led by the…
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#178 - 2022 Albums of the Year
Hey everybody, Happy New Year! We return unrested from the holidays with our favorite album picks from 2022. We hope everyone had a great holiday and thank you…
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#177 - YSCIO 2022 End-of-the-Year Wrap
It seems as though the 2022 Holiday Season was particularly hectic this year and we’ve decided to take the week off. However, instead of just skipping, we…
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#176 - YSCIO 3rd Annual Holiday Extravaganza
It’s that time of the year and we’ve spared no expense, it’s the Annual YSCIO Holiday Extravaganza!! This year we spend the first 20min of the show revisiting…
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#175 - Special Guest: Gabe Noel
Welcome to "You Should Check It Out," a podcast where friends come together to share their passion for music. Today's episode is a special one, as we are…
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#174 - Musicians Strike of 1942 | Who is Randy Paserntes? | Heavy Rotation: Pantera edition
Jay has some history for us this week. In 1942, musicians, led by James C. Petrillo, went on strike. For the two years and three months there was no new…
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#173 - Saweetie’s Sales | News with Jay | TayTay Broke Ticketmaster
Greg presents the sales data for the debut studio album of American Rapper Saweetie, as her success in acquiring 13 million Instagram stands in stark contrast…
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#172 - 4th Annual YSCIO Thanksgiving Special
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Thank you for listening! This year we’re sharing the artists that we’re most thankful for: Nick’s Artists Arie Hoenig Arie Hoenig…
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#171 - Weird Al’s Movie & Bob Dylan’s Book | Thank you Mimi Parker | “Locate The Lyric”
Jay brings us three things worth checking out this week. “Blockhead” by Ghost Funk Orchestra “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” began as a spoof trailer on Funny…
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#170 - The Resilient in Florida | Get Back Redux, NERD ALERT: Sonic Pi | Jay’s Thoughts
Relieved to make it in time for the show, Greg joins us from Florida where he’s been playing some live shows and recording in the studio with The Resilient. We…
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#169 - Jerry Lee Lewis | Tales From The Concert - King Gizzard @ The Anthem | TayTay Today: Metal Edition
Jay runs us through the short-lived rock & long-lived country career of Jerry Lee Lewis, who passed last week at the age of 87. He was a true pioneer of rock…
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#168 - The Scary Songs Spooktacular
**Warning** Some of these songs are legit disturbing, we’re not playing anything inappropriate…but we’re not talking about Thriller either. Also, Jay has a…
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#167 - SCOTUS on Creativity | Viral Jazz | “Tag The Track” Drum Intros
Nick kicks things off with a case from the current docket of the Supreme Court. “Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith” is the case of…
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#166 Loretta Lynn | 7 Modes of Music by KG | Mike Patton Revisited
First up, Jay presents a lovely retrospective of Loretta Lynn’s impressive career. She was 30 and had six kids before directing her time and energy into her…
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#165 - Keith Jarrett in Bordeaux | Guess the Guest: Reggae ed. | A Dulling Pitchfork
Greg has some fun updates from the past week and brings us an amazing new album. Keith Jarrett has released his 2016 live improvised concert in Bordeaux and it…
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#164 - King Gizzard / The Resilient & G. E. Smith / Ryan Adams
Nick is back on the King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard train, this time he’s bringing Polygondwanaland, the fourth album they released in 2017 called. With a…
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#163 - Rocktoberfest LP Returns (with Keith Grasso)
Keith Grasso, owner of Island Music Company in La Plata, MD, is back to talk about the return of Rocktoberfest LP! Back in 2013, Keith was frustrated by the…
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#162 - Tales From The Concert: Black Midi | Tales From The Road: Greg’s Weekend
Black Midi came to Rams Head Live! last week in Baltimore, Maryland. Nick & Jay caught the show and bring us another Tales From The Concert! Jay’s Song: Norah…
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#161 - Fake Musicians & Instagram | Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert | Singing to Babies
Nick found a wild piece in ProPublica about an Instagram verification scheme that relied on Google’s criteria for identifying trending musicians as a short cut…
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#160 - Three for Thursday | Lyrics As Evidence | Joey DeFrancesco
Jay brings us a new bit…. Let’s say it’s a slow music news week and/or you went away for a golf weekend in the sun with your brother. You do a casual music…
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#159 - 8Bit with Jackson Loman | Jim Ford | Touring Trends
We are delighted to introduce this week’s very special guest, Greg’s 7-year old son Jackson! Before jumping into our topic, Jackson tells us about his summer…
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#158 - Cam Kline on AJR | Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra | Well I Should Have…
First up this week is our very special guest Camillo (Cam) Kline, Nick’s second son. Since turning 9 (which is the same age Ciri was when he was on the podcast…
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#157 - TinselTunes | WinAmp Update | The Artist Bio (feat. Delicate Steve)
Welcome back, we’re now on Year 4! Thanks so much for listening :-) We recap the second leg of Greg’s trip to Europe, with week two spent with his family in…
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#156 - Viral or Eyeroll: Beyoncé | Newport Folk Festival | Chat Pile
This week we celebrate our first Beyoncé album since starting the show. Nick felt like the only proper way to celebrate this was to quiz Jay & Greg on their…
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#155 - $5000 Springsteen Tickets | Show Must Go On: Sun Ra Arkestra | The Resilient in Philly
Jay kicks us off with the story behind “I Am The Moon”, a four album exploration of Layla’s perspective from the old Arab story “Layla & Majnun”. Then we move…
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#154 - Heard It Through The GregVINE | Dawes | black midi “Hellfire”
Greg’s coming in strong with three stories on his latest edition of “Heard It Through The GregVINE”. We hear a song and talk about the life of Zeebo Steele…
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#153 - Welcome Back, Mr. Weddington | Tales From The Concert: Roger Waters | Crumpets
With Jay’s second child here just over a year now, it’s time to rejoin the family beach trip and that means we get to hear how, friend of the show, Michael…
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#152 - Independence PAYS | Streaming Margins | Will Radiohead Come Back?
Jay’s got a new segment up his sleeve! “Independence PAYS” explores artists whose success on their own eclipses that of their previously successful band. Song…
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#151 - Jonathan Wilson | YSCIO Jam | Family Reunions
Greg introduces us to the very talented producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Wilson. He’s worked with Father John Misty on all of his…
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#150 - San Antonio Symphony Dissolved | “Ample Samples” | “Guess the Guest”
The San Antonio Symphony, nine months into a labor dispute with the orchestra musicians, decided to dissolve as an organization last week. First opened in…
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#149 - Bakersfield’s World Records | Code in Music | Music Snobbery
Jay brings us a genuine feel good story this week. World Records, in Bakersfield California, is celebrating its 40th year in business and it is quite a success…
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#148 - NAMM 2022 / 8Bit: Tony Hawk / 40 Years, All Around
Greg spent the weekend at NAMM. This year’s conference was significantly smaller than years past, with some major manufacturer’s opting out of buying a pricey…
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#147 (Side A) Love Always by Wild Wild Wets w/ Taejon Romanik
We are pleased to bring you the first side of a two-part episode. This week we’re talking with Taejon Romanik of Wild Wild Wets about their new album, ‘Love…
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#147 (Side B) Love Always by Wild Wild Wets w/ Taejon Romanik
We are pleased to bring you the first side of a two-part episode. This week we’re talking with Taejon Romanik of Wild Wild Wets about their new album, ‘Love…
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#146 - How Is TikTok Changing Music? | How About NFTs? | “Guess the Guest”
Halsey is not happy that her label is holding back her new single because it wants to come up with a viral TikTok video to release alongside. This disgusts…
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#145 - Orion Opens/Birdland: The Bird Is Back | Bienvenue: El Mocambo | Sound.xyz
Greg has a two parter for us this week. First up, we were excited to hear Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit playing “Cover Me Up” at The First Waltz at The Orion…
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#144 - RtR: Omnium Gatherum | Vinyl Fantasy | Should Bands Tour in 2022?
By way of “Review the Review” (and with Greg's consent), Nick would like to discuss “Omnium Gatherum” by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. It is an adventure…
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#143 - Naomi Judd | StandArt by Tigran Hamasyan | BienVenue: The Bluebird
Jay remembers the great Naomi Judd, who passed last week at the age of 76. The matriarch of the mother-daughter country group “The Judds”, Naomi was a driven…
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#142 - I Heard It Through the GREGvine | Tales From The Concert: The Darkness | “Viral or Eyeroll”: Coachella
Greg follows up on stories from the year past. First up, blowback from Eric Church’s decision to cancel his concert so he could attend the Tarheels Final Four…
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#141 - News with Nick | The Legacy of Art Rupe | Tape Stash: Michael’s CDs
Wherein Nick is juggling too many things and decides a handful of stories would be fun to share in snippets, it’s News with Nick! Coachella begins, theremins…
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#140 - Jack White’s Big Week | Germany’s Wagner Exhibit | RHCP’s Unlimited Love
Jack White had a big week last week! Last Friday saw the release of his second solo album “Fear of the Dawn”, followed by a performance of the national anthem…