Velocities In Music

Metallica has always been one of the most celebrated and yet divisive bands in hard rock and metal music. In this episode, we dig into the four LPs they released in the 1980s, starting with their debut, Kill Em All, and ending with ...And Justice For All.

In this podcast, we cover albums that were released in October 2016. Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/30QacVauM8vnCqy5vxCzMu Albums covered in this wrap-up include: Phantogram - Three Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like A Levee Conor Oberst - Ruminations D.D. Dumbo - Utopia Defeated Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos Goat - Requiem Shovels & Rope - Little Seeds Julia Jacklin - Don't Let the Kids Win Phish - Big Boat Norah Jones - Day Breaks Green Day - Revolution Radio Kings of Leon - WALLS The Orb - COW / Chill Out, World! Swet Shop Boys - Cashmere Two Door Cinema Club - Gameshow The Early Years - II The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation C Duncan - The Midnight Sun Jagwar Ma - Every Now & Then The Dean Ween Group - The Deaner Album Katie Gately - Color Trophy Eyes - Chemical Miracle Moby & the Void Pacific Choir - These Systems Are Failing Syd Arthur - Apricity NxWorries - Yes Lawd! Pretenders - Alone Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass Weyes Blood - Fron

Humans are creatures of habit. We create our own rituals and traditions to look forward to, and music can play a big part of that. Aside from specific holiday music that society has pushed on us for generations, we all have music that we associate with specific seasons or times of the year that is much more personal. In this podcast, Jake and Tom share the music they come back to every spring, summer, fall, and winter, and give their stories on why. What music do you come back to around the same time each year?

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/5KVhzgoqiJG07O8hy9j5kF Helms Alee - Stillicide James Vincent McMorrow - We Move Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree Angel Olsen - MY WOMAN Eluvium - False Readings On Local Natives - Sunlit Youth Jack White - Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 Drugdealer - The End of Comedy Teenage Fanclub - Here Okkervil River - Away Wilco - Schmilco MIA - AIM Clipping - Splendor & Misery Preoccupations - Preoccupations Touche Amore - Stage Four Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years The Handsome Family - Unseen Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me Pixies - Head Carrier Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch Kishi Bashi - Sonderlust July Talk - Touch How to Dress Well - Care Warpaint - Heads Up Beach Slang - A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings Devendra Banhart - Ape In Pink Marble Merchandise - A Corpse Wired for Sound Flock of Dimes - If You See Me, Say Yes Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine Grouplove - Big Mess Banks - The Altar Opeth - S

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/7abxk7nBZ77Hza79o3XlT4 Jake and Tom have been touched by the Boognish to create the brownest episode of Velocities In Music yet. Join them as they explore Ween's nine studio albums, from the inane absurdity to the struggling heartbreak that their music represents. It'll be a real good time, mang.

Listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/2kpFNDXxf4nniaBDxUqqW2 Albums covered in this podcast: Wye Oak - Tween Haley Bonar - Impossible Dream Russian Circles - Guidance 65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe (Soundtrack) Wild Beasts - Boy King Dinosaur Jr. - Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not Nonkeen - Oddments of the Gamble Hieroglyphic Being - The Disco's of Imhotep Blossoms - Blossoms Factory Floor - 25 25 Ed Harcourt - Furnaces Thee Oh Sees - A Weird Exits Lydia Loveless - Real Horseback - Dead Ringers The Moles - Tonight's Music Young the Giant - Home of the Strange Of Montreal - Innocence Reaches Black Foxxes - I'm Not Well Bayside - Vacancy Lisa Hannigan - At Swim Gonjasufi - Callus Cass McCombs - Mangy Love De La Soul - And the Anonymous Nobody Crystal Castles - Amnesty (I) Britney Spears - Glory The Album Leaf - Between Waves Glass Animals - How to Be a Human Being  

Today, Sunny Day Real Estate may be considered a staple in the emo genre, but what they accomplished during their relatively short time as a band spans far beyond the confines of that genre. In this deep-dive, we discuss the band's successes and shortcomings, and what makes them one of today's most influential yet underappreciated bands. Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/04FgMPfmA7VGpJtHobDRj0

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/3hVnxbxLt8DwSjoVxkaTdB Albums covered in this wrap-up: Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night Metronomy - Summer 08 Blink-182 - California Bat for Lashes - The Bride GOGGS - GOGGS The Avalanches - Wildflower Junius Meyvant - Floating Harmonies Aphex Twin - Cheetah (EP) Ian William Craig - Centres BadBadNotGood - IV Shura - Nothing's Real The Julie Ruin - Hit Reset Snoop Dogg - Coolaid Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate Schoolboy Q - Blank Face LP Omni - Deluxe Big Business - Command Your Weather Clams Casino - 32 Levels Amanda Palmer - You Got Me Singing Chevelle - The North Corridor Rhyton - Redshift Elysia Crampton - Demon City Viola Beach - Viola Beach Billy Talent - Afraid of Heights Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate Owen - The King of Whys Nao - For All We Know  

We're joined this episode by Joe Vickers, drummer and founding member of Caspian. Joe takes us through Caspian's songwriting and album-crafting process, along with his thoughts on the post-rock genre, touring, and Pokémon Go. Be sure to check Caspian's touring schedule to see if they're coming to a city near you this summer or fall: https://www.facebook.com/CaspianTheBand/events  

Today in 2016, for all practical purposes, music is free. But should it be? As technology has evolved and music has become more easily accessible to the masses, it has drastically changed the way people listen to music, as well as the way artists write and release music. In this episode, we explore the pros and cons of these changes and how the cost associated with music has gotten to where it is now.

Spotify playlist of all included song clips: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/269DlAU2eCH5SuSSrtesEM Albums covered in this podcast: Melvins - Basses Loaded The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Monolith of Phobos William Tyler - Modern Country Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger Moonface - My Best Human Face Amber Arcades - Fading Lines Cat's Eyes - Treasure House The Kills - Ash & Ice Tegan and Sara - Love You To Death The Strokes - Future Present Past (EP) Sumac - What One Becomes Dan Lissvik - Midnight Band of Horses - Why Are You OK? Brandy Clark - Big Day In a Small Town Diarrhea Planet - Turn to Gold Peter Bjorn and John - Breakin' Point Garbage - Strange Little Birds Swans - The Glowing Man The Low Anthem - Eyeland Mitski - Puberty 2 The Invisible - Patience Gemma Ray - The Exodus Suite case/lang/veirs - case/lang/veirs Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room Lone - Levitate Gojira - Magma YG - Still Brazy NAILS - You Will Never Be One of Us Hot Hot Heat - Hot

While post-rock has become a better-known genre over the last decade, it's actually been building since the late 80s and has its roots in a wide variety of older musical styles. Post-rock tends to be emotionally potent, captivating, and experimental-- all things that we at Velocities in Music love to hear. In this podcast, we go through the history of post-rock and highlight some bands that have shaped the genre into what it is today. If you'd like to hear all the songs featured in this podcast in their entirety, listen to our Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1213031281/playlist/3qeeG0OxoPorW9DmEEJkzW

In this podcast, we cover the following albums that came out in May 2016: James Blake - The Colour In Anything Death Grips - Bottomless Pit Anohni - Hopelessness White Lung - Paradise Kaytranada - 99.9% Twin Peaks - Down in Heaven Julianna Barwick - Will LUH - Spiritual Songs for Lovers To Sing Dan Michaelson & the Coastguards - Memory Mark Pritchard - Under the Sun Yoni & Geti - Testarossa David Bazan - Blanco Fruit Bats - Absolute Loser Kikagaku Moyo - House in the Tall Grass Adia Victoria - Beyond the Bloodhounds Hard Working Americans - Rest in Chaos Kvelertak - Nattesferd Islands - Should I Remain Here At Sea? Islands - Taste Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost Karl Blau - Introducing Karl Blau Jessy Lanza - Oh No Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book Wolf Parade - EP 4 (EP) Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman Mutual Beneift - Skip a Sinking Stone Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial Marissa Nadler - Strangers Andy Shauf - The Party Mudcrutch - 2 Saosin - Along the Shadow Real Friends - The Home Inside My Head T

In the final installment of this artist deep-dive, we go track by track through Radiohead's newest LP, A Moon Shaped Pool, including our thoughts on the album overall and our individual experiences with it.

In the second installment of this three-part series on Radiohead, we cover the years 2000 - 2011, including the albums: - Kid A - Amnesiac - Hail to the Thief - In Rainbows - The King of Limbs

In this episode of Velocities in Music, we dive into the astounding career of one of our favorite bands, Radiohead. The first part of this three-part series covers their formation and early years through the creation of their 1997 classic, OK Computer.

Another month has come to an end! Here are the albums we cover on this wrap-up: Yeasayer - Amen & Goodbye Andrew Bird - Are You Serious Charles Bradley - Changes Bibio - A Mineral Love Black Mountain - IV Weezer - Weezer (White Album) Mogwai - Atomic Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project Tacocat - Lost Time Pet Shop Boys - Super Bombino - Azel Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness Kanye West - The Life of Pablo (for real this time) Deftones - Gore M83 - Junk Tim Hecker - Love Streams Hammock - Everything and Nothing Future of the Left - The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left Woods - City Sun Eater in the River of Light The Lumineers - Cleopatra Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop - Love Letter for Fire Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth Suuns - Hold/Still The Jayhawks - Paging Mr. Proust King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity Greys - Outer Heaven Nicolas Godin - Contrepoint Wire - Nocturnal Koreans A$AP Ferg - Always Strive and Pr

We often discuss what attributes make a song or an album great, but how do you go about actually writing a great song or a great album? In this podcast, Velocities In Music’s very own Tom Hummer is put on the spot to tell his story of how he started writing music and the process he goes through when writing and recording material. From there, Tom gives us his personal take on how and why he writes music as he walks us through his personal discography.

March saw a lot of great new album releases as 2016 is starting to pick up. Here are the albums we cover in this podcast: Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered Robert Pollard - Of Course You Are Ray LaMontagne - Ouroboros Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution Lapsley - Long Way Home M. Ward - More Rain The Coral - Distance Inbetween Miike Snow - III Loretta Lynn - Full Circle Violent Femmes - We Can Do Anything Polica - United Crushers Wussy - Forever Sounds Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As a Friend Flatbush Zombies - 3001: A Laced Odyssey Into It. Over It. - Standards Emmy the Great - Second Love Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression Glenn Jones - Fleeting Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future Damien Jurado - Visions of Us on the Land Primal Scream - Chaosmosis Lucy Dacus - No Burden The Range - Potential Anna Meredith - Varmints Thug Entrancer - Arcology Thao & the Get Down Stay Down - A Man Alive RJD2 - Dame Fortune The Thermals - We Disappear Bob Mould

In the early 1990s, grunge music found an unlikely place in mainstream radio and started selling albums in a way that "alternative" music had never seen in previous decades. In this podcast, we trace grunge's history and musical evolution, diving into its major influencers and key albums, and exploring how it has impacted music today.