AND introducing...our first ever miniseries! WELCOME TO WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene. And today we start that journey with the legendary...BLACK FLAG. We’re joined by artist/comedian/podcaster Branson Reese to explore Black Flag’s heavy history and the life of legendary intense guy Henry Rollins.

Check out Branson’s book of comics, Hell Was Full: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Hell-Was-Full/Branson-Reese/Hell-Was-Full/9781620107430
And I implore you, listen to Branson’s amazing DnD podcast Rude Tales of Magic: https://www.rudetalesofmagic.com/

Songs in Order:
Television - Little Johnny Jewel
Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown
Black Flag - Rise Above
Black Flag - TV Party
Black Flag - My War
Black Flag - Three Nights

And Introducing

#86 BLACK FLAG! (ft. Branson Reese)

And introducing, WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Two: The Minutemen! We’re joined by Max & Doug of the Chicago-based indie label Hausu Mountain to talk mersh, gigs, fliers, corndogs from Pedro and all things jamming econo.

Follow @HausuMountain on twitter. 
Hausu Mountain on bandcamp: https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/
Hausu Mountain website: https://hausumountain.com/
That Prolaps release Doug mentions is indeed sick, check it out: https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/ultra-cycle-pt-1-vernal-birth

Songs In Order:
Minutemen - Sickles and Hammers
Minutemen - Fascist
Minutemen - Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
Minutemen - The Anchor
Minutemen - Jesus and Tequila
Minutemen - Corona
Minutemen - The Glory of Man
Minutemen - King of the Hill
Unknown Instructros - Out in the Cold
Minutemen - History Lesson - Part II

#87 MINUTEMEN! (ft. Hausu Mountain)

Journalist and author Ross Barkan comes on the show to talk about the Prince of Darkness himself, Andrew Cuomo

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Cuomosexual Conversion Therapy w/ Ross Barkan

And introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Four: Minor Threat! We’re joined by Street Fight Radio’s Bryan Quinby to talk hardcore, straightedge, punk houses, DIY and all things Minor Threat:

Check out Street Fight Radio: https://www.streetfightradio.com/
And of course, the P.O.D.Kast: https://thepodkast.libsyn.com/

SONGS:
Teen Idles - Get Up and Go
Monkees - Stepping Stone
Minor Threat - Straight Edge
Minor Threat - Out of Step
Minor Threat - Salad Days

#89 MINOR THREAT! (ft. Bryan Quinby)

Wherein Anders explains the Iran Contra affair in erotic detail

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TEASER -- Hardcore AndersLee: The Andersnistas w/ Bryn Niebor

Almost just in time for 4/20, the guys take a break from the billionaires grind for a low-key episode about some sketchy businesses. Steven's audio is messed up in this one because Andy forgot to press a button on the recorder and Andy is very sorry.

Grubstakers Podcast

Episode 230: A Very Special 420 Episode

And introducing, from Iceland, our NATO ally to the north, it’s BJORK. The most famous musician from the isolated northern island, Bjork has built an incredible career and international  fame from her unique voice and genre-exploring, endlessly idiosyncratic music. And today we’ll be exploring all things Bjork from her coffee table book BJORK and a 2004 Bjork New Yorker story called “Bjork’s Saga”.

Songs in Order:

CarlosAndres90 - Army of Me (YouTube FL Studio cover)
Bjork - Ruby Baby
Recordings of Bjork at age 11:  https://www.openculture.com/2014/09/the-album-bjork-recorded-as-an-11-year-old.html
KUKL - Dismembered
The Sugarcubes - Birthday
Bjork - Human Behavior
Bjork - Army of Me
Bjork - Alarm Call

#82 BJÖRK!

We interview legendary leftist science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson on his new book Ministry For The Future, the shape of a modern revolution, and the popular American sitcom Family Guy.

Read Robinson on the value of utopia here:  https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/

Get his new book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998056-the-ministry-for-the-future

Ministry For The Damned w/ Kim Stanley Robinson

And introducing...singer, song-writer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and all around legend, it’s Mr. Frank Zappa! One of the S-tier weirdos of rock n’ roll, Zappa mixed genres from classical modernism to doo-wop with an acerbic sense of humor to create a vast discography of Rock weirdness. All the while, becoming one of the most outspoken musicians for free-speech and against censorship.  And today we’ll be talking all about his life, his works, and whether or not that’s a real poncho, I mean is that a mexican poncho or a sears poncho, through his autobiography “The Real Frank Zappa Book.”

But first let’s introduce our own guest, she’s a Tornoto-based pianist and composer, it’s Robin Hatch!

Songs In Order:

Captain Beefheart: Pachuco Cadaver
Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Wowie Zowie
Frank Zappa - Titties & Beer
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Frank Zappa - Camarillo Brillo
Frank Zappa - St. Alphonso’s Pancake Breakfast
Frank Zappa - The Black Page #1
Frank Zappa - Dancin’ Fool
Frank Zappa - Titties & Beer (Baby Snakes DVD version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzzWEeiUf3Y&ab_channel=bolimozak)

#84 FRANK ZAPPA! (ft. Robin Hatch)

This month we take a stab at covering the business of animals. To kick off this extravaganza of corruption we speak with animal rights activist and founder of SHARK (Showing Animals Respect and Kindness) about the corruption/thievery within animal charities such as PETA, the threat that factory farming poses against climate change and the effect the media has to dumb down the individual, which leads us to admiring animal abusers such as Joe Exotic. 

Support Shark by donating to them, watching their videos on YouTube or even just telling a friend about the reality of the dystopian present we live in.

P.S This is the book about the meat industry mentioned by Steve Hindi during the interview. Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry by Gail A. Eisnitz 

https://sharkonline.org/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC7K5BrapNSnk6XcXbpqXNg
https://twitter.com/sharkonline

Episode 217: The business of Animals feat. Steve Hindi president of SHARK

Matt Christman (@cushbomb) joins Charles and Dan to enjoy some politically charged country tunes delivered candidly from the back of a pickup truck.

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