The Sound and the Story

I had an in-depth quaratine call with Max Stern of Signals Midwest about their latest album Pin. Go buy it directly from the artist here.

Songs featured in this episode (in chronological order):


Can't Help But Wonder
Pin
Your Old New Apartment


Also mentioned:


Wil Wagner - More Like Signals MidBEST

We pay our dues to the surprise record from wunderkind Phoebe Bridgers (boygenius) and former wunderkind Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes).

Full chronological playlist:
Songs by Better Oblivion Community Center unless otherwise noted.


Chesapeake
My City
Conor Oberst - College
Bright Eyes - If Winter Ends
Bright Eyes - The City Has Sex
Bright Eyes - June on the West Coast
Bright Eyes - Interview from An Attempt to Tip the Scales
Bright Eyes - False Advertising
Conor Oberst - You All Loved Him Once
Phoebe Bridgers - Steamroller
The Replacements - Here Comes a Regular
Didn't Know What I Was in For
Sleepwalkin'
Dylan Thomas
Service Road
Forest Lawn
Big Black Heart
Phoebe Bridgers - Would You Rather (feat. Conor Oberst)

In this two-part interview with Erik Garlington, the brains and brawn behind the black and queer pop-punk outfit Proper., we discuss both his records, "The Surburbs Have Ruined My Life" and "I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better," and how his background of being an outsider and a military brat lead him on a wild journey to be a pop-punk singer in New York City.

Full chronological playlist:

"Germany, 1991"

"A$AP Rocky Type Beat"

"Not Black Enough"

"Curtains Down! Throw in the Towel!"

"Bragging Rights (ft. Willow Hawks of The Sonder Bombs)"

"No Loitering"

I interview the very talented and very funny Deanna Belos of Sincere Engineer about her debut album Rhombithian. We talk about the expectations of growing up, lab mice, relationships, and the time Deanna almost died getting coffee.

Full chronilogical playlist:


Corn Dog Sonnet No. 7
Clip from the film Dirty Work
Overbite
Let You Down
Ghosts In The Graveyard

blink-182, the band every punk pretends they hate, grows up on their untitled album.

All songs by blink-182 unless otherwise noted:


Here's Your Letter
Circle Jerks - I Just Want Some Skank
Frank Turner - Dammit - Live at Salty Dog Cruise 2006
Going Away to College - Live at the Pop Disaster Tour 2002
Dammit
Touchdown Boy
Dick Lips
All Systems Go
Feeling This
Obvious
Violence
Interview with Tom DeLonge
Down
Go
Easy Target
I Miss You
Asthenia
Always
Dammit - Live in Montreal 1998

In a Sound and the Story first, I interview Dylan Slocum of Spanish Love Songs about their album schmaltz. We talk about Dylan's painful journey south and the mechanics of mediocrity.

Full chronilogical playlist (all songs by Spanish Love Songs):


Beer and Nyquil (Hold It Together)
Sequels, Remakes, and Adaptations
Nuevo
Buffalo Buffalo
The Boy Considers His Haircut
Otis / Carl
Funeral (Phoebe Bridgers cover)


And at 54:58, you can hear Dylan's mom sighing "wow" under her breath as noted in The Boy Considers His Haircut.

Today we talk about depression.

Full chronological playlist:


The Weakerthans - Virtute at Rest
Bright Eyes - Poison Oak
The Good Life - O'Rourke's, 1:20 A.M.
Laura Jane Grace - Manic Depression
Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral
Elliott Smith - 2:45 am
Frightened Rabbit - Floating in the Forth
Luke Rainsford - Frame
Titus Andronicus - No Future, Part Three: Escape from No Future
Frou Frou - Let Go
Local News Legend - i wrote this when I was super mentally bad a few months ago :^(
Jetty Bones - Bringing It Up
Van Morrison - Slim Slow Slider


Here is a Spotify playlist of this episode's songs.

The Wonder Years deliver a genre-defining album about surburbia and coming home.

Full chronilogical playlist (all songs by The Wonder Years unless otherwise noted)


Local Man Ruins Everything
Came Out Swinging
Buzz Aldrin: The Poster Boy for Second Place
My Last Semester
Allen Ginsberg and Tom Waits - America
Pool scene from Garden State
My Life As a Pigeon
Came Out Swinging
Woke Up Older
The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New
Local Man Ruins Everything
Suburbia
Okkervil River - Singer Songwriter
Summers in PA
I Won't Say the Lord's Prayer
Coffee Eyes
I've Given You All
The Get Up Kids - I'll Catch You
Don't Let Me Cave In
Hoodie Weather
And Now I'm Nothing
Aaron West and the Roaring 20's - '67 Cherry Red

The iconic grandfathers of emo and saints of the East Bay scene get the full Sound and the Story treatment.

Full playlist (all songs by Jawbreaker unless otherwise listed):


The Boat Dreams from the Hill
Lurker II: Dark Son of the Night
Shield Your Eyes
Tour Song
Donatello
In Sadding Around
Nirvana - Lithium
Million
Jet Black
Save Your Generation
Ache
Want
Chesterfield King
Boxcar
Condition Oakland
Jack Keourac and Steve Allen - October in the Railroad Earth
Jinx Removing
West Bay Invitational
Accident Prone
Kiss the Bottle
Unlisted Track


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The Menzingers and I take a good, hard look at who we’ve been and who we want to end up with after the party.

In the Sound and the Story, I tell the stories of your favorite records. In this episode, I explore the pain and faith in Julien Baker's Sprained Ankle.

Songs in order (all songs by Julien Baker unless otherwise noted)

Something

The Get Up Kids - I'll Catch You (Live)

Clip from Before Sunrise

Something

The Star Killers - Dallas

Rejoice

Blacktop

Vessels

Go Home

Sprained Ankle

Accident Prone (Jawbreaker cover)

In the Sound and the Story, I tell the stories of your favorite records. In this episode, I contemplate the end of adolescence with the Crows' debut album, August and Everything After.

Songs in order (all songs by Counting Crows unless otherwise noted)

Round Here

Anna Begins

Sordid Humor - Barbarossa

Mr. Jones (demo)

August and Everything After (live)

Round Here

Mr. Jones

Sullivan Street

Anna Begins

Rain King

Raining in Baltimore

Perfect Blue Buildings

Murder of One

Have You Seen Me Lately (live)

The 7 Inch Singles Club takes a dives as deep we can into one song. Exclusive for Patreon members, this first episode is available for everyone! In this episode, we compare Brand New's "Seventy Times Seven" and Taking Back Sunday's "There's No 'I' in Team," which was written about the same salacious incident.

Song at the end is some live version of Jeff Rosenstock's "Beers Again Alone" I found.

In the Sound and the Story, I tell the stories of your favorite records. In this record, I dive deep into Rilo Kiley's best record, More Adventurous, an indie rock record with major label ambitions.

Songs in order (all songs by Rilo Kiley unless otherwise noted):

Portions for Foxes

Kevin Devine - I Don't Care About Your Band

With Arms Outstretched (from Execution of All Things)

It's A Hit

Does He Love You

More Adventurous

Portions for Foxes

I Never

Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat

In the Sound and the Story we go behind and inside the meaning of your favorite records. In this episode we dive deep into The Gaslight Anthem's The '59 Sound, a rock trying to capture a time gone by.

Songs in order (all songs by The Gaslight Anthem unless otherwise noted):

Great Expectations

The '59 Sound

Casanova, Baby!

Snippets of Great Expectations/Old White Lincoln/High Lonesome/Miles Davis and the Cool/Casanova Baby!

Meet Me By The River's Edge

Here's Looking at You, Kid

Brian Fallon - Blue Jeans and White T-Shirts (live)

Miles Davis and the Cool

The '59 Sound

The Backseat

Clip from Mad Men - The Wheel

Old White Lincoln

Tom Waits - Cold Cold Ground

Brian Fallon - Smoke

In the Sound and the Story we go behind and inside the meaning of your favorite records. In this episode we dive deep into Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago, a minimalist masterpiece born out of a Wisconsin winter.

Songs in order (all songs by Bon Iver unless otherwise noted):

Skinny Love

DeYarmond Edison - Silent Signs

Flume

Lump Sum

Skinny Love

The Wolves (Act I and II)

Blindsided

Creature Fear

Team

For Emma

re: Stacks

Blood Bank

The Gaslight Anthem - Blood Bank (Bon Iver cover)

In the Sound and the Story we go behind and inside the meaning of your favorite records. This month, we dive in to Say Anything's ...Is a Real Boy, a manic, incessant almost rock opera.

Songs played in order:

Say Anything - Belt

Say Anything - The Futile

Clip from the film Say Anything

Say Anything - You Help Them

Say Anything - Woe

Say Anything - An Orgy of Critics

Say Anything - Belt

Say Anything - Woe

Say Anything - The Writhing South

Say Anything - Slowly, Through a Vector

Say Anything - Alive with The Glory of Love

Say Anything - Yellow Cat Slash Red Cat

Say Anything - Every Man Has a Molly

Say Anything - Belt Intro

Say Anything - Admit It!

Clip from the film Good Will Hunting

Say Anything - Chia-like, I Shall Grow

Say Anything - Jessie and My Whetstone (Saves The Day cover)

In the Sound and the Story we go behind and inside the meaning of your favorite records. This month, we dive in to Brand New's The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, a treatise on death, loss, and heartbreak.

Songs played in order:

Brand New - "Sowing Season (Yeah)"

Brand New - "Archers"

Rites of Spring - "Hain's Point"

Brand New - "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad"

Taking Back Sunday - "Cute Without The 'E' (Cut from the Team)"

Brand New - "Jaws Theme Swimming"

Brand New - "I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light"

Brand New - "1996" (Leaked Demo 2006)

Brand New - "You Won't Know"

Brand New - "Sowing Season (Yeah)"

Brand New - "Degausser"

Brand New - "Luca"

Brand New - "You Won't Know"

Brand New - "Archers"

Brand New - "Limousine"

Brand New - "Jesus Christ"

Richard Kipling - "If--" narrated by Ralph Fiennes

Brand New - "Welcome to Bangkok"

Brian Fallon - "Sowing Season (Yeah)" (Brand New cover)