Some Crazy Garbage

I always shunned podcasts because, if I was gonna listen to anything, it was gonna be music. Frankly I don't really care to listen to people talk for an hour or two. But whether it was a sign of the apocalypse or I was just really bored, it took a pandemic for me to start. Since I don't really watch TV anymore I suppose it's a suitable replacement that doesn't require me to look at anything. Now in 2021 I'm into houseplants. I'm not even sure who I am anymore! Anyways, here are a few music-related podcasts that helped get me through 2020. Barely Human Host Max Easton is a writer and musician from Sydney who plays or played in cool bands BB and the Blips , The Baby , Basic Human , Romance, Dry Finish , and Point Being . He also has a smooth, soothing Aussie accent with which, on Barely Human, he gives "underground music anti-history" lessons on counterculture legends such as Randy Newman, The Fugs, The Shaggs, Roky Erickson, Death, GG Allin, X-Ray Spe...

New music will keep coming out, so much so that a lot of older stuff can get buried and left behind. But thanks to some keen record labels and sometimes the musicians and producers themselves, that music can resurface and captivate a new audience. Here are 5 blasts from the past that helped me get through the wreckage that was 2020. Grotesque Circular Dance - Incompetence This Australian duo, who don't sound very grotesque at all, wrote minimal yet dark and noisy experimental synth pop. Your classic band "ahead of its time," these tracks have one foot in the future a la Kraftwerk while the other is deeply rooted in classic '80s electro pop sounds and John Carpenter soundtracks. The band recorded them in 1986 but for whatever reason chose not to release 'em. Thanks to Altered States Tapes, they have been unearthed for the benefit of you and me and everyone we know TM . Incompetence by Grotesque Circular Dance The Prissteens - The Hound The Prissteens were a ...