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No Filler Music Podcast

No Filler is a music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gems that fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. In each episode we’ll dive into a little history of the artist and the album of choice, with snippets from interviews & concerts, as well as music from the album itself. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.

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68:01

Pearl Jam - Ten

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/04/13

Thirty years later and rock fans are still at odds about what qualifies as "grunge" music. But despite Cobain's commentary on the band's underground cred (and their lack of sincerity with the flannel), few would argue Pearl Jam's grunge status and impact on the Seattle scene at the birth of the movement. In 1991, the year that grunge broke, Pearl Jam released their debut Ten just a month before Nevermind. With Mother Love Bone and Green River alumni Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, Eddie Vedder's

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36:46

Sidetrack: Army of Anyone

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/04/06

Three years after the dissolution of Stone Temple Pilots, Dean and Robert DeLeo joined forces with Filter frontman Richard Patrick in 2005 to form the short-lived supergroup Army of Anyone. The band's debut single "Goodbye" peaked at number three on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart, but ultimately the veterans of 90s era grunge and alt rock didn't have the staying power against the nu-metal groups that then dominated the charts. Tracklist Army of Anyone - "Goodbye" Army of Anyone - "Stop

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73:15

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/03/30

Stone Temple Pilots saw huge success with their testosterone-filled debut album Core, but struggled to gain any love from the Cobain acolytes who insisted they weren't truly grunge (they were from San Diego after all). After a stint of touring and loads of in-fighting, the band returned to the studio to record their second record. Less than one month later, the band emerged with a sound that was uniquely theirs, incorporating elements of psychedelic, country, and blues-rock with the grunge flavor

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44:45

Sidetrack: Lazer Guided Melodies - Spiritualized's...

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/03/23

On this week's Sidetrack we're listening to one of Billy Corgan's favorite bands, Spiritualized, with a couple non-singles from their '92 debut Lazer Guided Melodies. Another example of just how varied the landscape of nineties rock was shaping up to be, LGM is at times quite minimalist and cinematic, and other times much more progressive and heavy, with a solid shoegaze backbone. The album's twelve songs are segued together into four color-coded, cross-faded suites, each one providing their own

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71:00

Psychedelic, Shimmering, Heavy: Smashing Pumpkin's Gish

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/03/16

Just a few months before grunge took over the 90s, Smashing Pumpkins were carving out their own space in rock music with an album that perfectly bridged the alt-rock and post-punk sounds of the 80s with the heavy shift that was just around the corner. On this episode we talk Pumpkins' debut album Gish, and discuss the album's perfect blend of psychedelic, shoegaze, and hard rock fuzz, with Billy Corgan's sweet and sour vocal delivery tying it all together. Meticulously crafted in the studio by an

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42:56

Thomas Bangalter - Irreversible Soundtrack

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/03/08

What do the boys of Daft Punk do when they're not dawning helmets and winning Grammys? For Thomas Bangalter, he likes to create unsettling movie scores and dark dance beats for psychological horror dramas. At least that's what he was doing in 2002 when he scored Gaspar Noé's controversial film Irréversible. We listen to a couple of the more synth-heavy tracks from the film as we wrap up our batch of episodes devoted to electronic music. Tracklist Thomas Bangalter - Irreversible Thomas Bangalter -

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64:37

Daft Punk: Homework

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/03/02

Arguably the greatest electronic act of all time, we talk about the origins of the men underneath the helmets - before they wore the helmets! The electronic french duo Daft Punk put out their debut record, Homework, in 1997 after a couple of successful singles, including Da Funk, started a bidding war between record labels to sign the young DJs. The album has gone on to achieve iconic status for how the duo expertly tied the past to the future by revitalizing house music and paving the way for the

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83:43

No Filler Rewind: The Hypnagogic Bliss of Tycho's Dive

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/02/24

On this week's episode, we open up the No Filler vault with a playback of our 3rd episode, a look at Tycho's second studio album Dive. The perfect blend of IDM, chillwave, and downtempo, Scott Hansen creates a lush and sun-dappled soundscape on this record that perfectly matches the imagery he creates under his graphic design moniker ISO50. Also featured on this episode is our very first discussion of the hypnagogic pop, and how Tycho, better than most artists who attempt it, explores cultural

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65:05

Lush Heaviness: The Immersive Sound Textures of KILN

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/02/17

Next up on our batch of episodes devoted to the wide world of electronic music, we take a left turn and listen to a couple of tracks from the ambient-electronic trio KILN. By manipulating live instrumentation (treated guitars, sampled drums) with field recordings and other found sounds, KILN create lush and immersive soundscapes that borderline on hallucinogenic, and masterfully walk the line between organic, acoustic and electronic music. Grab a nice set of headphones for this

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49:29

Sidetrack: Architeq - Gold + Green

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/02/10

Before we rolled into the 2010s, Sam Annand (aka Architeq) had a lot of buzz generating online around his 2008 Birds of Prey EP. After months in the studio, his debut album Gold + Green proved the buzz was warranted. On this sidetrack episode, we listen to the dubby "Into the Cosmos" and the downtempo-synthesized "Odyssey". Tracklist Architeq - Twilight Architeq - Into The Cosmos Architeq - Odyssey Holy Fawn - Dark Stone Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun Shinobi III Return of the Ninja

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65:16

Riding the Synthwave with Com Truise

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/02/03

Nearly a decade ago, the synthwave genre saw a new wave popularity after the release of the action-drama Drive, with Kavinsky's "Nightcall" being prominently featured in the film. But Seth Haley (who goes by the Com Truise) had been making analog electronic music for years prior to that, and released his debut EP Cyanide Sisters just one year before. Com Truise's brand of synthwave expertly blends IDM and chillwave elements with the nostalgia of 80's synth film-scores. Tracklist Com Truise - Slow

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50:42

Sidetrack: Frampton Comes Alive!

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/01/27

Hot on the heels of our McCartney Unplugged episode, we're listening to one of the most beloved and best selling live records of all time, "Frampton Comes Alive!". Recorded in 1975 and released the following year, this album took Peter Frampton from opening act to household name, and made him synonymous with the Talk Box vocal effect after singles "Do You Feel Like We Do" and "Show Me The Way" flirted with the top of the charts. Tracklist Something's Happening All I Want To Be (Is By Your

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53:52

Paul McCartney Unplugged in '91:

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/01/20

Fresh off his 106-show Paul McCartney World Tour that featured dozens of staple Beatles and Wings songs, it's no wonder McCartney saw MTV's Unplugged as the perfect opportunity to take his live show format and do the exact opposite. Relatively unheard of up to that point, McCartney's performance and subsequent album release gave Unplugged jumpstarted the show's popularity and helped it gain the cult status that it went onto receive. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more

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77:54

Our Top 10 Tracks from the 2010s

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/01/14

To wrap up our batch of recap episodes, we look back at the last decade to bring you our Top 10 from the 2010s. This list was way more difficult to put together than we initially thought it would be. Turns out trying to distill an entire decade of music into just 10 tracks is no small feat. Although No Filler is all about celebrating the hidden gems between the singles on our favorite records, we decided to allow singles onto this Top 10 list (give us a break will ya?). From Courtney Barnett to

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74:26

2019 Recap: Our Top 10 Tracks

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2020/01/06

Part 2 of our year-end recap: this week we look at our favorite tracks from 2019, from shoegaze to Star Wars. Steve Lacy - Only If Lusine - Turn Back Hatchie - Her Own Heart Oh Sees - Poisoned Stones Kainalu - How Do I Let Go Of You DIIV - Between Tides SAULT - Why Why Why Why Why Wilco - White Wooden Crosses Juniore - Ah Bah d'Accord Ludwig Goransson - The Mudhorn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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83:46

2019 Recap: Our Top 10 Discoveries

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2019/12/30

We begin our batch of year-end recaps with our top 10 discoveries of 2019. While there was certainly a ton of great new releases this year (and we'll review those next week), sometimes it's the album put out decades ago that ended up being your heaviest rotation of the year. If you're hearing it for the first time - it's just as new to your ears as the latest single from your favorite artist. So this episode is all about those amazing discoveries that we stumbled upon this year, some of these songs

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65:10

Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2019/12/23

Hot on the trails of our deep dive into Larry Carlton's Steely Dan guitar solos, we thought we'd pay some homage to another guitar god from the same era: the one and only Jeff Beck. On this episode, we take a listen to his 1975 debut solo record Blow By Blow. Having tried a few times to put together a successful rock group after his departure from The Yardbirds, Beck gravitated more toward the jazz-rock fusion from his sessions with the band Upp, whom he produced and played on their first record

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65:26

100th Episode - Steely Dan's Hired Gun: The Guitar...

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2019/12/16

For this very special episode of No Filler, we welcome our father Stan to the pod to help us commemorate our 100th episode. He ignited our passion for music at a young age, introducing us to bands like Steely Dan early and often. And he was once the Music Director and morning drive DJ at a small town Texas radio station back in the 70s. Together we take a look at Larry Carlton's many contributions to the sound of Steely Dan, with a listen back at some of his greatest guitar solos in their catalog

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64:02

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2019/12/09

This week we're digging up an old episode that we recorded over 2 years ago that we never ended up posting. We tackle our favorite Steely Dan album Pretzel Logic, from 1974. This was the band's final release as a proper five-piece before Walter Becker and Donald Fagen posted up shop in the studio, recording all future albums with a constantly revolving cast of studio musicians. Pretzel Logic varies widely in style from track to track, and showcases what each of the five members brought to the table,

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50:49

Bamnan and Slivercork: Midlake's Perfect Blend of...

No Filler Music Podcast ·

2019/12/02

On this episode we listen to Texas natives Midlake, and their 2004 debut album Bamnan and Slivercork. One of the more successful bands to emerge from the Denton music scene, Midlake's meticulous blending of acoustic guitars and lo-fi electronica create the perfect blend of psychedelic and folk. Vocalist and lead songwriter Tim Smith's whimsical lyricism and Thom Yorke-like falsetto truly sets this album apart from other indie groups of the early aughts, and reminded music lovers everywhere that

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