The Best Midwestern Podcast with hosts Greg Simpson and Scott Heisel returns this week for a tech-cursed talk with Tim Kasher of Cursive and The Good Life (Omaha via LA) who just released a solo album / movie soundtrack. They also play clips from all his bands and are huge nerds with him.
The Best Midwestern Podcast with hosts Greg Simpson and Scott Heisel returns this week to chat with Mike Felumlee of The Bigger Empty and Smoking Popes. Mike tells us all about the brand-spanking-new EP by The Bigger Empty (out this week!) and we play tracks, and he also tells us about rejoining the Popes and the fun he's having with his video channel Live From the Rock Room. Also, drummer talk.
The Best Midwestern Podcast with hosts Greg Simpson and Scott Heisel bring you a belated episode that is well worth the wait: We sit down with all four members of the current incarnation of Squirtgun (Lafayette, IN based). Bassist and founding member of the band, Mass Giorgini (also of Screeching Weasel, Common Rider, also Greg's boss at Sonic Iguana), joins Greg in his studio. We also talk with Dan Panic (also of Screeching Weasel, The Queers, The Riverdales, Beulah and more), Zac Damon (Screeching Weasel, Big in Japan, Common Rider), and Kevin Sierzega (PT's Revenge). The entire band tells stories of the recent Lookouting Festival and what it was like visiting Gilman Street, a venue most of them hadn't been to in many years. They also pick each other's favorite non-Squirtgun projects and we play tracks. It's a fun one and a total melee!
Catching up on recent episodes of the Punknews Podcast, we find Greg Simpson joining Adam White, and John Gentile for #335 and Tom Trauma in the mix for #336. The shows touch on recent stories like the end of Cheap Girls, Slightly Stoopid's hash record, Jack White's vinyl plant, the arrival of Open City, Greg Graffin on tour and the return of Teenage Bottlerocket to Fat. All that and we get a ton of listener feedback on the Nazi punching debate.
We continue to get caught up on our January podcast posts with episodes 333 and 334. These episodes feature Adam White, John Gentile, and Ricky Frankel chatting about recent music from the Dropkick Murphys, Antisect, The Menzingers, Crusades, Pissed Jeans and many more. We also chat about all the music related drama that lead up to Trump's inauguration. More importantly, we also talk about peaches.
On this episode of the Best Midwestern Podcast hosts Greg Simpson and Scott Heisel review new records by Cloud Nothings (Cleveland), Joan of Arc (Chicago), and Fred Thomas (of Saturday Looks Good to Me, Detroit). The hosts add "We also give mad props to our wives (and Greg's mom) for marching on Washington. Related: fuck Donald Trump, fuck Mike Pence, fuck Steve Bannon, and fuck all those guys."
The Punknews Podcast is starting off the new year strong by forgetting to post stories about the episodes we've recorded for nearly a month. Professionalism abounds in the classic Punknews style. Episodes 331 & 332 feature Adam White, John Gentile, Ricky Frankel, and Tom Trauma taking one last look at the music of 2016 and discussing recent news like the closure of Burnt Ramen, the Rock'n'Roll hall of fame and more.
On this episode of the Best Midwestern Podcast hosts Greg Simpson and Scott Heisel review three Midwest albums we spaced on in 2016, Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper (Chicago), My Woman by Angel Olsen (St. Louis/Chicago) and Lives We Tell Ourselves by Sleeping Cranes (St. Louis). This was recorded immediately after watching Trump’s first press conference, so let’s just say the intro is… heated.
To finish off 2016 the Punknews Podcast roped in everyone we could find, including Adam White, John Gentile, Ricky Frankel, Tom Trauma, Samantha Barrett, Greg Simpson, and Scott Heisel to play some of the songs we loved from this year. Tune in for a good two and a quarter hours of choice cuts from the records you need to hear.
On this episode of the Best Midwestern Podcast hosts Greg Simpson and Scott Heisel tell us their favorite Midwest albums of the year, favorite new Midwest bands of the year, and the best shows they went to in the Midwest this year. No clues about the winners, you gotta listen to find out! On the edge of your seat yet?
Last week on the Punknews Podcast, hosts John Gentile and Ricky Frankel try and fail to get Adam White to show his cards on his future with Punknews. We also chat about the study on the negative qualities of MP3 compression, the looting of Prince Buster's shop, and new songs from Bloodclot, Dave Hause, and the Dropkick Murphys.