No Filler Music Podcast

It's our monthly mixtape for August, with everything from Pink Floyd's heavier side to a folky, softer Slowdive side project, from some dark-synth dance pop to some new wave post-punk and everything in between. Stereolab, Nurse With Wound - Simple Headphone Mind True Widow - Theurgist Charade - One More Roll Hotline TNT - Nightlighter Autolux - Robots In The Garden Pink Floyd - The Nile Song Mojave 3 - Trying To Reach You Ought - Disaffectation Rexy - Alien Exploded View - Dark Stains Airiel - Think Tank Darkher - Sirens Nocturne This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Industrial synth-pop? Noise gaze? What exactly is electronic body music? All of these words have been used to describe the musical stylings of HEALTH, a band that refuses to stop screaming at you in every song title. Travis is joined by long-time friend of the pod Nathan Forster to dive into a handful of HEALTH tunes to get to the bottom of the band's unique blend of noise rock and synth-pop. Tracklist DIE SLOW GOTH STAR TEARS COURTSHIP II This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ambient drone metal, dream sludge, bliss metal: it goes by many names, but one has finally stuck. The term is "doomgaze", and it's exactly what it sounds like: the reverb-drenched guitars and soft dreamy vocals of shoegaze played at the heavy, sludge-like pace of doom metal. That sound goes back much further than you might think, but didn't catch on until the mid 2010s with a steady rise in popularity ever since. Join us as we explore the dichotomy of doomgaze with a look back at it's history and gaze into its promising future. Tracklist: The Angelic Process - The Sun In Braids Jesu - Friends Are Evil Nadja - Long Dark Twenties Cloakroom - Seedless Star Spotlights - Under The Earth Pencey Sloe - Sins Pencey Sloe - Salvage Holy Fawn - Candy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're a fan of shoegaze, you know that wall-of-sound when you hear it. Brooklyn-based Spotlights takes that wall-of-sound and cranks up the distortion, infusing the hazy, quiet vocals of dreampop with the heavy sludge of doom metal. Some would call them a doomgaze band, but they prefer the term dreamsludge. We chat about tracks spanning from their first EP to their 2nd full-length, Love & Decay. Tracklist Learn to Breathe To the End Ghost of a Glowing Forest The Particle Noise Far from Falling This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doomgaze is exactly what it sounds like: a blend of the slow and sludgy pace of doom metal with the wall-of-sound and ethereal vocals we've come to associate with shoegaze. Pencey Sloe is a French band that appear to have unintentionally stumbled into this label, or as lead singer Diane Pellotieri often puts it, their style is "completely uncontrolled, free, and blind." While the "doom" part of the label certainly applies during the heavier and sludgier moments of their music, what stands out most about Pencey Sloe is the melancholic, darkly luminous beauty of the vocals and lyrical themes. We chat about their debut LP Don't Believe, Watch Out and look ahead to the upcoming record Neglect that drops this fall. Tracklist Don't Believe Watch Out Buried Them All All Ok Gold and Souls Sins What They need This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this month's Whatcha Heard, we dive into a variety of different folk from pop to freak, gazers from shoe to doom; and rock from psychedelic to grunge. Tracklist: Honeyglaze - Creative Jealousy Loop - Afterglow Built To Spill - Understood Sunbeam Sound Machine - Seems Like You Made Holy Wave - Schmetterling Rocketship - Your New Boyfriend Minaxi - Manchala Grouper - Come Softly - For Daniel D. Grouper - Alien Observer Kuroi Ame - Burning Plastic Vetiver - Last Hurrah MILLY - Milly Felt - Song For William S. Harvey This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a shoegaze band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, Pinkshinyultrablast describe that isolation from the global music scene as a feature not a bug. That freedom from the judgements and structures of the global scene led them to create a whole new subgenre under the shoegaze umbrella called "thunder pop". Join us as we chat about their debut record Everything Else Matters and their perfectly calibrated fusion of pop-forward melodies with an explosive wall-of-sound. Tracklist: Holy Forest Blaster Wish We Were Metamorphosis Land's End Ravestar Supreme This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the past decade, there's been a definitive shift happening in the indie-rock scene that leans very heavily toward that iconic 90s rock sound that we all know and love. Whether it be grunge, shoegaze, or any flavor on the wide spectrum of the alt-rock sound, modern bands are taking all of those waypoints in rock and breathing new life into them. And we argue on this episode that no band does it better (or comes anywhere close) than Houston-based alt-rock group Narrow Head. We listen to a few tracks from their 2016 record Satisfaction and talk about the nostalgia that oozes from every track. Tracklist Cool In Motion Feels Like Sand Ashtray Nancy France Paranoid Hands Uncover See You Around Bulma This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emerging from New York's noise rock scene, Band Of Susans broke away from the rock clichés that were all but set in stone by the late eighties, liberating the genre alongside their grungy shoegaze counterparts. On this week's episode, we dive into a handful of non-singles from "The Word And The Flesh" and "Veil". Tracklist: Mood Swing Trouble Follows Silver Lining Not In This Life Trouble Spot Big Hush - Soft Eyes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this month's Whatcha Heard, we kick off our monthly mixtape with a brand new single from Texas native alt-rockers, Narrow Head. From there we listen to everything from lo-fi indie pop to 90s shoegaze (no surprises there), psychedelic dream pop to 70s post punk and much more. Tracklist bar italia - skylinny bar italia - Mariana Trenchrock Pet Shimmers - Super Natural Teeth Arp - Flourescences Rick Cuevas - The Birds Sinead O Brien - There Are Good Times Coming Swallow - Cherry Stars Collide Mint Field - Natural Medicine - The Pink Pencey Sloe - Smile to Zero The Stranglers - Walk On By This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Throughout the mid-nineties as proto-grunge, radio-friendly Nirvana knockoffs were signing record deals like they were going out of style, Sloan took the road less traveled after signing with Geffen Records, even in the face of mounting pressure from the label to stay on that grungy, noise rock course. A second full-length album found the group heading in a more refined pop sound, a world away from the washed-out fuzz of their previous releases. Despite having been swept under the rug by Geffen, Sloan refused to bow down to the major label's demands, and have continued to remain steadfast and true to their unique brand of indie pop even after all these years. Tracklist: I Am the Cancer Underwhelmed Median Strip 500 Up Penpals I Hate My Generation Snowsuit Sound Left of Centre A Pantheon Podcasts show and a proud partner of AKG by HARMAN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Considered by many to be one of America's best entries into the shoegaze genre during its 90s heyday, we talk about Swirlies' 1996 record They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons. The band spent a long time in the studio with this record, going on to refer to it as their "longest labor of love". The result is a collection of wide-ranging styles that blend lo-fi, noise pop, grunge, and even electronica with their shoegaze sound. And with lead singer Damon Tutunjian's affinity for creating mixtapes from his youth, the band also incorporates tape loops, white noise, and sampled music into the mix, creating seamless transitions from track to track. Swirlies keep you guessing and constantly subvert expectations throughout the record. Join us as we gush over this incredible record. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For our very first listener-suggested episode, we talk about the amazing Swervedriver and focus on their first 2 records: Raise and Mezcal Head. Similar to bands like Hum and Catherine Wheel, Swervedriver mixes elements of grunge, alt-rock, and shoegaze to create their sound. Tracklist: Son of Mustang Ford Sci-Flyer Sandblasted Never Lose That Feeling MM Abduction A Change Is Gonna Come Deep Wound Part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back from our 2 week hiatus with May's Whatcha Heard, our monthly mixtape featuring 10 tracks that we can't get enough of. This month features everything from psychedelic folk to dystopian synthwave, the genre-defying Bjork to 90s post-hardcore, and plenty more to keep you interested. Tracklist: Toro y Moi - Days In Love Bjork - I Miss You Kikagaku Moyo - Cardboard Pile Yura Yura Teikoku - Otoko Wa Fuantei Quicksand - Supergenius New Order - Chosen Time Umberto - Hamster City Motherfucker Lightning Bug - The Return Sebadoh - Dreams sundiver ca - Live in Las Vegas bdrmm - Gush Candy Afterlife - Beechild This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back from vacation with a short and sweet episode on the post-hardcore noise rock stylings of Unwound, a band that created, as Fred Thomas of AllMusic once said, "some of the more influential and lasting work of their era, with their cloudy moods and explosively tense group dynamics culminating in some truly transcendent albums." On this episode, we're diving into our favorite album from the group, 1996's Repetition. Tracklist: Message Received Corpse Pose Unauthorized Autobiography Devoid This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another rewind episode? What are you guys on vacation or something? Yes. Yes we are. Now considered a touchstone record of the emo genre, we take a look at Jimmy Eat World's 1999 classic Clarity, and how the sound they were perfecting ushered us into the third wave of emo music. Before that we go all the way back to the spring of 1985 in Washington D.C. to explore the origins of emo, and discuss how difficult the genre is to define. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this rewind episode pulled from the No Filler vaults we bask in the shimmering, deafening, lush haze of our favorite subgenre: shoegaze. We pick a few random branches on the shoegaze tree and admire all that makes grunge's less popular sibling so goddamn amazing. Tracklist: Oeil - Strawberry Cream Letting Up Despite Great Faults - The Colors Aren't You Or Me The December Sound - Never The December Sound - Painkiller Whirr - Blue Nothing - Bent Nail This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We turn up the gain and aggression just a tad as we take one step closer to metal with tracks from Helmet's Meantime and Betty. Helmet carved out their own space in the 90s rock spectrum with a unique blend of metal-leaning riffs, melodic grooves, and alt-rock vocals. Tracklist: Unsung Iron Head You Borrowed Wilma's Rainbow Speechless Beautiful Love This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracklist: Jack White - The White Raven Phife Dawg - Residual Curiosities (feat. Lyric Jones) Rain Parade - Kaleidoscope Pinch - Returnity Nothing - Bernie Sanders trauma ray - Nühevan Momma - Medicine Ataraxia - Deja Vu Should - Memdrive Elephant Tree - Wither Iron Curtain - Love Can Never Die Seam - Berlitz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For those just getting into the shoegaze genre, there are a handful of albums that are must-listens. Of course at the top sits My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless", Slowdive's "Souvlaki", and Ride's "Nowhere". But while there are must-listen albums, perhaps more important are the must-listen songs. And for many, Drop Nineteen's Delaware features one of shoegaze's greatest moments: the ethereal, slow-build simmer of "Kick The Tragedy", a near 9 minute drone with an unexpected sucker punch two-thirds of the way through that left a lasting impression on new and old fans of the genre and cemented the band as one of shoegaze's greatest acts. Tracklist: Winona Mayfield Delaware Ease It Halen Kick The Tragedy Angel (Madonna cover) Skull This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracklist: Thoughtforms Baby Talk Scarlet Leaves Me Cold Downer Sweetness And Light Breeze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After 90s alt-rockers Hum gained a small amount of fame with their 1995 single "Stars", the band headed back to the studio to make their next record. By the time the Downward Is Heavenward was released in 1998, perhaps rock was ready for something else. The record garnered little attention, and the band dissolved, not putting out another record for another 22 years! But the record lived on, and it's masterful blend of space rock, grunge, post-hardcore, and a touch of emo sensibilities has lead many to consider it one of the best alt rock records of the 90s. Join us as we play a few tracks from this true hidden classic from rock's last great decade. Tracklist Comin' Home If You Are To Bloom Ms. Lazarus The Scientists Space Fuck This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our monthly mixtape is back and surely you know the drill by now? 10 tracks from 10 different artists, no rules just great tunes. We kick things off with a brand new single from Guerilla Toss from their brand new record Famously Alive. Tracklist: Guerilla Toss - Cannibal Capital Common Saints - Fastlane Vitesse X - Repress Reprise Strongboi -Fool Around Saunimon - JAVELIN Letting Up Despite Great Faults - New Ground Baxter - Going Soon Widowspeak - While You Wait Auragraph - 210907 Honeyglaze - Female Lead George Clanton - Tie Me Down The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we continue exploring the not-so-grungy, somewhat shoegazey side of 90s alt-rock, we're diving into Pale Saints' second studio album from 1992, "In Ribbons", a record that "bristles with quirk, strangeness and charm". Tracklist: Hunted Ordeal Hair Shoes Babymaker Featherframe Porpoise No Filler is a proud member of The Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode, we chat about Catherine Wheel, the band that mixed new wave, grunge, and shoegaze to craft a sound truly their own. We're diving into their second studio album from 1993, "Chrome". Tracklist: Crank Flower To Hide Bill And Ben Broken Head Strange Fruit Ursa Major Space Station The Nude Texture This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We chat about R.E.M's debut record, Murmur and try to imagine what it was like to hear this style of rock for the first time in 1983. Hearing it now, R.E.M's mix of jangly 60s pop and folk rock with garage rock attitude sounds so normal and common after the band's influence shaping the sound of countless rockers for nearly four decades. But at the time, critics knew it was special. So much so that Rolling Stone put it at its best album of the year, beating out Michael Jackson's Thriller, Police's Synchronicity, and U2's War, to name a few. The next iteration of rock was here, and R.E.M. was the flagbearer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On our second Whatcha Heard of 2022, we bring a varied mix of new alternative, doomgaze, pioneering synth pop, and much more! Join us as we jam to our monthly mixtape and conclude that more tambourine is ultimately what we need. Tracklist Khruangbin, Leon Bridges - B Side The Smile - The Smoke Green House - Find Home The 6ths - Falling Out Of Love (With You) Cryogeyser - Nature Spotlights - Xerox Yellow Magic Orchestra - Gradated Grey The Glands - Two Dollar Wine Land of Talk - Moment Feed Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas Smashing Pumpkins - Appels + Oranjes Jupiter & Okwess - Telejayi This podcast is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Thanks to AKG for sponsoring the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Miracle Legion's future in limbo after legal troubles with their label at the time, Mark Mulcahy came up with a new name for the group (and alter egos for each band member) when they were approached by Will McRobb to write songs and appear in his upcoming Nickelodeon project. The show was of course The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Not only did they appear in the opening credits and write the theme song for the show, Polaris also played a heavy role in an episode all about discovering your favorite song at a young age. We talk about what an amazing television network Nickelodeon was and how fortunate we feel to have grow up in the 90s, and how Polaris and the music of Pete and Pete played such a big role in shaping our taste in music. Tracklist: Hey Sandy Saturnine Everywhere (as featured in S1E1 "King of the Road") Summerbaby (as featured in S1E13 "Hard Day's Pete") Recently This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you were in college in the early 80s and tuned in to your campus radio station, you probably heard a fair amount of R.E.M., maybe some Pixies, or The Smiths even. But you may have heard a lesser known group: Miracle Legion. With similar jangle pop melodies and vocal stylings as Peter Buck and Michael Stipe, the band was often compared to their R.E.M. counterparts. But what made Miracle Legion different is perhaps what kept them from reaching superstardom: the lyrical themes of singer Mark Mulcahy were less cryptic and poetic and more nostalgic and direct. They dealt with childhood memories we could all relate to. Which is why it's no surprise that the creator of the Nickelodeon cult classic TV show The Adventures of Pete and Pete approached Mark to write songs for his show about growing up in Suburbia (more on that next week). Join us as we listen to several tracks spanning Miracle Legion's short but impactful career leading up to the early 90s when they transformed into the band we knew and loved as kids: the one and only Polaris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travis is out of town this week, so we're dropping a Rewind episode on you from our first year podcasting back in 2018, where we covered REM's 4th studio album "Life's Rich Pageant". If you were to plot R.E.M's path from underground buzz to household name, their fourth studio album Life's Rich Pageant was the turning point. Coming out of a miserable recording experience in London with Fables of the Reconstruction in 1985, the band heads back to the states and are determined to inject some energy and creativity back into their music. The result is the loud, invigorating, and often spontaneous fourth album. Tracklist: What If We Give It Away? Massive Attack - Group Four Al Di Meola - Flight Over Rio Begin The Begin Cuyahoga Just A Touch The Clique - Superman This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're taking a break from the dream pop resurgence of the 2010s to reminisce over one of Quentin's favorite indie rock records from our high school years: Ambulance LTD's "LP" from 2004. With a frontman in constant struggle to keep his band together, and a bankrupt record label preventing him from releasing new material, Marcus Congleton's Ambulance LTD was rather short-lived. Though they may not have had enough time to evolve their sound and bring it to maturity, a band that once said "their niche is not sticking to any particular niche" somehow managed to release one of the better guitar pop records from 2004; a true gem in the era of cookie cutter indie pop. Tracklist: Primitive (The Way I Treat You) Ophelia Sugar Pill Sugar Pill (demo version) Stay Tuned Drug Cabin - Steely Dad Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our first Whatcha Heard episode of the year, we bring everything from 90s emo to some fresh doomgaze, bedroom pop to 90s avant-pop, and a bunch of other great tunes in between. It's our monthly mixtape - join us as we jam out to everything we've been listening to lately. Tracklist: Spoon - Wild Working Men's Club - Bad Blood Cloakroom - A Force At Play Lungfish - Jonah Alex G - Forever Jurassic Shark - Carver Airiel feat. Stella Tran - Firefly Cuffed Up - Canaries Hether - Sticky Thumb The Gun Club - Preaching The Blues Stereolab - Op Hop Detonation All Them Witches - Alabaster Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Continuing our streak devoted to dreamy indie pop from the 2010s, we listen to an album steeped in suburbia: Real Estate's Days. Everything from the album art to the lyrical themes harken back to that youthful innocence of growing up in the suburbs. The songs are simple but the song structures are anything but, with jangly guitar melodies and gorgeous harmonies lie somewhere between 60s pop and 90s alternative. So hop on your bicycle and let the phone lines and street lights lead the way as we bask in the warmth of one of indie's greatest nostalgia trips. Tracklist Easy Green Aisles Municipality Wonder Years Younger Than Yesterday Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We learned about a new subgenre while researching this record: "twee pop". The term is used to describe music that is simple and innocent, with boy-girl harmonies, lyrical themes about love, and catchy melodies. It's the perfect way to describe Beach Fossil's debut 2010 record. Written, recorded, and produced by frontman and Beach Fossil's founder Dustin Payseur while longing to escape his new home in New York, the album is the perfect antidote to anyone longing for summer, the innocence of youth, and a desire to escape the day-to-day grind of life. Tracklist: Vacation Twelve Roses The Horse Wide Awake Youth (The Other Side Of Life Piano Version) Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. A bold tea for a bold you. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After signing to Sub Pop, Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand decided it was time to take Beach House's lo-fi signature sound and make everything "bigger". They kept the core ingredients (jangly guitars, organ drones, and Victoria's distinct low, Nico-esque vocals), but added more approachable, hooks and more pop-leaning choruses. You could say they put the "pop" in dream pop more so than any of their predecessors, garnering mainstream success. The band is now synonymous with the genre, and helped to define and shape it for the next generation. Tracklist: Silver Soul Used To Be (single version 2008) Used To Be (Teen Dream version) 10 Mile Stereo Take Care Grizzly Bear feat. Victoria Legrand - Slow Life Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. A bold tea for a bold you. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our final episode of the year means it's our final 10 tracks in our best of 2021 countdown. Join us as we listen to everything from progressive metal to psychedelic folk. Thanks as always for listening! Tracklist: Shame - This Side Of The Sun Paul Jacobs - Christopher Robbins Mr. Twin Sister - Despoil Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Corners Pressed Beach House - Once Twice Melody Alice Phoebe Lou - Only When I Mastadon - The Beast Courtney Barnett - I'll Be Your Mirror ( The Velvet Underground cover) Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg The Soundcarriers - Waves Bo Burnham - Welcome To The Internet Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. A bold tea for a bold you. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perhaps our most diverse collection of tracks so far in our Top 40 Tracks of 2021 countdown, week 3 brings everything from progressive metal to a 70s disco throwback. Tune in next week for our final picks of the year. Tracklist JW Francis - Maybe Bay Ledges - Not Now Maybe Never 79.5 - Club Level Ben Prunty - Kelp Caves Fiddlehead - Joyboy Gojira - New Found Kings of Leon - 100,000 People Bad Math - Tunnel NewDad - Blue The Lazy Eyes - Where's My Brain??? --- Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. A bold tea for a bold you. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The countdown continues with our next 10 top tracks from 2021. This batch of tunes ranges from Turkish-folk infused psychedelic rock to an indie video game score composed by one of this decade's greatest indie artists. Tune in each week of December as we countdown our Top 40 Tracks of 2021. Tracklist: Magdalena Bay - Hysterical Us Magdalena Bay - Secrets (Your Fire) Mini Trees - Doomsday Dauwd - La Nota Little Simz - Protect My Energy Little Simz - Miss Understood Ovlov - Cheer up, Chihiro! Working Men's Club - X Japanese Breakfast - The Ewer (Day) Altın Gün - Maçka Yolları Jordana & TV Girl - Lo on the Hi-Way Empath - Born 100 Times --- Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. A bold tea for a bold you. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We kick off our countdown of favorite tracks from the year with 10 tracks ranging from deep jungle techno to psychedelic pop. Tune in each week of December as we countdown our Top 40 Tracks of 2021. Tracklist: Yot Club - Hole Bloodslide - Trap Door GHENGIS TRON - Pyrocene Forrest Drive West - Dualism Peggy Gou - I Go Hush Forte - FRUSTRATION (feat. Saint Lyor) Psymon Spine - Modmed Kings of Convenience - Love Is A Lonely Thing (feat. Feist) Cass McCombs - I Followed The River South To What Sweet Trip - Chapters AJ Lambert - I Summon You (Spoon cover) --- Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. A bold tea for a bold you. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

​On this week's rewind episode, we take a look at the emergence of chillwave and the role of those dime-a-dozen music blogs of the early 2000s in helping launch this short-lived & blissed-out, shoe-gaze dance genre. Our main dig is on the DIY home recordings of Ernest Greene Hemingway Jr., aka Washed Out, who, along with Toro Y Moi and Neon Indian, were the three main influencers of the chillwave sound. We give a listen to songs from his first three releases spanning from 2009 to 2011. --- Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. A bold tea for a bold you. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the success of Person Pitch, Noah Lennox took those lessons learned with him back into the studio with the rest of Animal Collective to create another touchstone record of the 2000s. This time, the melodic electronica that felt more man than machine was refined and amplified to an infectious, hypnotic, and deeply human electronic record. The record improves even more on their trademark harmonies with Noah and Avey Tare sounding better together than ever, and the lyrical themes very much a continuation of Noah's lean toward introspection in Person Pitch. One of the greatest records from the 2010s that could only have spawned from the hive mind of Animal Collective, join us as we fawn and gush over the many reasons we love this record. Tracklist: Summertime Clothes Also Frightened Daily Routine Guys Eyes No More Runnin' Brother Sport Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. A bold tea for a bold you. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With our buddy Josh joining us once again, we gush over Panda Bear's 2007 touchstone indie record Person Pitch. Trading in the usual guitar for a Roland sampler, Noah Lennox created a record made up almost entirely of samples ranging from Cat Stevens to a hooting owl. His reverb-drenched vocals, often densely layered to create harmonies on par with Beach Boys, paired perfectly with his introspective lyrical themes focused on his marriage, his newfound fatherhood, and even deeply personal stories like his reliance on anti-depressants. Person Pitch laid the foundation for countless indie bedroom poppers in the decade to come, and a sound that became the stepping stone for the chillwave movement. Tracklist: Comfy In Nautica Take Pills Bros I'm Not Gothic Voices - Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure Ponytail Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. A bold tea for a bold you. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For our 200th episode, we chat with our old pal Josh Stewart about our short-lived indie music blog, Newdust. We reminisce about the glory days of the 2010s blog era, putting on house shows in Denton TX, and the rise of chillwave and modern dream pop. Tracklist: Balkans - Edita V Toro Y Moi - You Hid Small Black - Camouflage Beach Fossils - Youth Tennis - Marathon Long Walks On The Beach - metaPhysical This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this month's Whatcha Heard, Travis breaks our lengthy metal dry spell with some Norwegian thrash metal, Quentin gets reacquainted with one half of Air, and Adriano Celentano leaves us scratching our heads with his classic 70s hit full of English gibberish. We also dive into some dark and moody synth-pop from the 70s and 80s, and a sprinkling of post-punk and emo for good measure. Tracklist: Animal Collective - Prester John Calm - Demons Reloading Such A Beautiful Disease Trigger Pull This Trigger Thomas Leer - Looks That Kill Parquet Courts - Plant Life Pixx - Small Mercies Alien Weaponry - Hatupatu Nicolas Godin - Turn Right, Turn Left Nicolas Godin - What Makes Me Think of You The Breeders - Doe Krisma - Black Silk Stocking Supersport! - Uppi Sofa Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol Dijon - Many Times This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We get it: if you have to hear Monster Mash one more time, your boombox will be the only thing getting graveyard smashed. If you're in need for some new tunes for your costume party tonight, we've got you covered. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats takes psychedelic rock and doom metal and mashes it with The Manson Family, Universal Monsters, and all the other horror film essentials on your October watch list. And of course, singer K.R. Starrs is an absolute vocal doppelgänger for John Lennon. What more could you ask for? Turn the lights down low, light some candles, and tune in for our bonus Halloween episode. Tracklist Witches Garden Withered Hand of Evil Murder Nights I See Through You Vampire Circus This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this early No Filler episode, we kicked off our deep dive into indie rock gods Spoon. We started with A Series of Sneaks, where Spoon still had their feet firmly planted in the alt rock post punk that came before them (think Pixies and Sonic Youth). We chat about how the label's lackluster support for the record jaded the band and how it ultimately helped set the tone for the album that followed, and the band we now know and love. Tracklist Car Radio Don't You Eva Don't Buy The Realistic The Minor Tough 30 Gallon Tank Quincy Punk Episode This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We chat about Modest Mouse before Float On put them on the map. From the very first track on their debut album, Isaac Brock and his bandmates blended any and every genre with their alt rock roots to create a sound all their own. And Brock carried on the loud-quiet-loud dynamic that the Pixies created just a few years prior to weave in sporadic outbursts into each track. By the time we get to Float On, Modest Mouse had laid a solid foundation for indie rock that so many bands would build on in the years to come. Tracklist: Gravity Rides Everything Dramamine Lounge Talking Heads - Making Flippy Floppy Doin' The Cockroach Cowboy Dan Perfect Disguise Tiny Cities Made of Ashes This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Piggy-backing off our Talking Heads and Sonic Youth episodes, we explore another trailblazer of the alt-rock post-punk variety. When Pixies released Doolittle in 1989, they carried a confidence into the studio that was missing from their first record. With melodic, simple song structures and Black Francis' sporadic, neurotic outbursts sprinkled throughout the record, they created a new dynamic known as "loud-quiet-loud" that helped paved the way for grunge, and countless other indie alt rock bands that followed in their footsteps. Tracklist Pixies - Debaser Pixies - I Bleed Pixies - No 13 Baby Pixies - There Goes My Gun Pixies - Gouge Away This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With every Whatcha Heard episode there's always a few left turns, and at least a 180 that takes us from, for example, vaporwave to doom metal. On this episode however, we managed to bring 10 tracks that work so perfectly together, you'd think we must have planned it. Maybe it's the changing season, or maybe our twin connection was especially deep these past few weeks. Either way, tune in for a collection of 10 dreamy, laid back, lo-key jams that fall mostly under the dreampop umbrella. No left turns here, just a solid playlist suitable for weekend drive. Tracklist: Radiohead - If You Say The Word Insides - Darling Effect Men I Trust - 5am Waltz Fellini Félin, Camel Power Club - Kiss Me Dismemberment Plan - The Face Of The Earth Beauty Queen - This Time Around Bachelor - Back Of My Hand Death And Vanilla - A Flaw In The Iris Bad Math - Walls Sensations Fix - Cold Nose Story Sweet Trip - Surviving A Smile St Germain - Sure Thing This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us as we chat with Rolling Stone Senior Writer David Browne, author of the definitive Sonic Youth biography, Goodbye 20th Century. We talk about how the band's "cool kids" persona carried them from the no-wave movement of the 70s and 80s into the 90s where they finally signed to a major label. We play tracks from Goo, Dirty, and Experimental Jet Set (the Geffen Years), and dissect their evolving sound between the 3 records as the band came as close as they ever would to mainstream success. And although they never quite reached the heights of label mates Nirvana (or any of the countless grunge bands that rode Cobain's coattails), we chat about the band's real legacy: bringing the art and culture of New York into the mainstream, and writing a playbook for so many indie bands to follow in the decades ahead. Tracklist: Kotton Krown Tunic (Song For Karen) Theresa's Sound-world Screaming Skull Dave Van Ronk - Sunday Street This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices