Baked and fried in the Sonoran Desert and New York City, WASTOIDS is a throwback to the halcyon days when stoned teenagers could stay up all night watching music videos, loopy comedy, skate vids, and arty strangeness on the TV set. Featuring Supercrush, Astrologer, Smirk, Portrayal of Guilt, Wednesday, Denial of Life, Reptaliens, Dante Elephante, Salvador Cresta, a goth coffee shop and more.
Baked and fried in the Sonoran Desert and New York …
WASTOIDS is coming to the Rough Trade and Rockefeller Center’s Indieplaza September 17 & 18, hanging in the Merch Friend’s Artist Merch Market in honor of Band Shirt Day.
Today on WASTOIDS With, we’re talking with country singer and raconteur Dale Hollow. “Yours truly” might possess signature yellow lens glasses and a Manu Ginobili-like frame—with a wit and tongue ‘n cheek bravado to match—but behind all that is a distinct voice, delivered with the ease of a natural songsmith. For this WASTOIDS chat, Hollow sits down with Duwaun Johnson of The Country Brothers to talk about how he hooked up with masked singer Orville Peck, his love of basketball, his cover of the 2010 dance sensation “Dancing on My Own” by Robyn, and his favorite Coen Brothers movies.
Crack open the new vinyl edition of The Special Goodness’ Land Air Sea, and what you’ll find in the gatefold liner notes isn’t an essay on the recording process, an invocation of the band’s songwriting influences, or anything related to the actual tunes. Instead, you’ll find a statement from Pat about his and Atom’s shared obsession: vintage cars.
The Special Podness returns with another episode devoted to The Special Goodness, with Pat Wilson of Weezer, Atom Willard (Rocket From the Crypt, Against Me!) and Weezer historian Karl Koch. This episode focuses on the MTV Music Awards, Atom Willard meeting the Weezer/Special Goodness crew, and that time Jay Leno ended up knocking on Pat’s door—and by the way, Elvis is involved.
Willi Carlisle speaks with Duwaun Johnson of the Country Brothers podcast about homogeneity in country music, the punk music that shaped him, and the worst meal he ate while touring Europe
Legendary DIY painter Steve Keene and photographer and producer Dan Ephram join us on WASTOIDS to discuss The Steve Keene Art Book, out now from Hat & Beard Press.
This is WASTOIDS With and we’re hanging with a voice that should be familiar to listeners, Marc Masters, co-host of The Spindle podcast. Every two weeks, he and his partner John Howard discuss a single 7” record here on WASTOIDS. So far, they’ve covered 45s by Flipper, Pavement, Superchunk, and Hüsker Dü. Marc’s also a musician—he and John played in a group called The Plums—as well as one of our favorite music writers, whose work can be read Pitchfork, Bandcamp, NPR, The Washington Post, and The Wire. His 2007 book No Waveis sadly out of print, but commands high dollar prices on the secondary market, and he’s hard at work on a book about the history of cassettes, which we discuss here today on WASTOIDS With…Marc Masters.
