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Only Three Lads - Classic Alternative Music Podcast

Only Three Lads is a lively podcast celebrating the Golden Age of Alternative Music from the "70s, "80s & "90s. Join Uncle Gregg, Brett Vargo, and a variety of ”Third Lads” as we share our Top Fives, stories, and news about the music we love, and have a lot of fun along the way! Whether you‘re into indie, punk, new wave, Britpop, power pop, synth pop, shoegaze, grunge...or whatever...there is going to be something for you to discover and love. Part of Pantheon Podcasts.

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E244 - Alex Boucher (Author, Three and a Half Minutes...

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2024/11/12

This week, we focus on the bands who were at the precipice of becoming huge...rave reviews, prominent live gigs, radio support...yet, fame and fortune somehow eluded them. Our Third Lad is someone who knows all about this - in Alex Boucher's new memoir, Three and a Half Minutes of Fame, the seasoned writer draws from his firsthand experiences in "almost famous" indie/punk bands Three and a Half Minutes, Travis Cut, and Jaff, and boy band NV. "Three and a Half Minutes of Fame" takes readers on a

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97:57

E243 - Ira Robbins (Trouser Press) - Top 5 Eccentrics

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2024/11/05

Out of all of the Third Lads that we've ever had, there is probably no one who has had a more profound impact on shaping our taste as alternative music fans and collectors than Ira Robbins. In 1974, young writer Robbins and two friends launched the fanzine Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press, later shortened to simply Trouser Press. Over the course of 10 years and nearly 100 issues, Trouser Press championed the eccentric outsiders, the punk pioneers, the new wave nerds, and the indie icons. The magazine

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39:49

Rerun: The O3L Halloween Special (2022)

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2024/10/31

**This is an O3L "rerun" - our Halloween Special from 2022!Happy Halloween! If you didn't get your fill of O3L this week (which strangely tastes similar to circus peanuts), here's a fun-size O3L Halloween Special. Uncle Gregg and Brett bring you their Top 5 songs to add to your spooky playlist. It's spoooook-tacular! OK, no more Halloween puns... There are two crucial rules at this time of year: 1) Don't feed Gremlins after midnight; and 2) Don't let the Lads record at night. If you've heard past

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E242 - Jim Berkenstadt - The Beatle Who Vanished &...

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2024/10/29

Jimmie Nicol was a well respected London session drummer living in relative anonymity until he got his lucky break. When Ringo Starr fell ill with tonsilitis in June 1964, The Beatles carried on with the first leg of their world tour, using Nicol as a temporary substitute. For 13 nights, Jimmie became the only person outside of John, Paul, George, and Ringo to really live as an honest-to-goodness Beatle during the height of Beatlemania - appearing in photos, at press conferences and as one of the

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29:51

O3L Presents: Weekend Six Pack, Vol. 17 - Phantom's Brew

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2024/10/26

Get ghoulish this last weekend of October with a six pack of new tunes! 1) Twin Ritual - 'Allie' (from the Allie LP - https://twinritual.bandcamp.com) 2) Shake Some - 'Every Little Noise' (single, Mondays Off Records - https://shakesome.bandcamp.com) 3) HotKid - 'Downtown' (from the Downtown EP, Fortune Stellar Records - https://hotkid.ca) 4) Dancer - 'You Saint' (from the Split LP, HHBTM Records - https://hhbtm.bandcamp.com) 5) Whisper Hiss - 'Movable Objects' (from the Split LP, HHBTM Records -

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115:58

E241 - Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate) - Top 5 Rock...

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2024/10/22

Because we're readers and whatnot, this week we get literate on y'all and discuss some of our favorite rock n' roll memoirs. Our Third Lad knows a thing or two about great rock memoirs, because he just published one...singer, songwriter, guitar hero, baseball aficionado, and now author...Steve Wynn from The Dream Syndicate!His memoir, I Wouldn't Say It If It Wasn't True, is out now from Jawbone Press, covering his earliest days as a kid in LA falling in love with music, and down the road that took

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E240 - Rex Broome & Christina Bulbenko (The Armoires,...

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2024/10/16

Big Stir Records co-founders and Armoires' singers/songwriters Rex Broome and Christina Bulbenko are back for part two of our adventures in Octoberland! Hot on the heels of their newly released fall classic, Octoberland, we partake in a lively discussion on some of the best October releases of the O3L era. A cocaine-addled, anal-leakin', Das Scorpiones-lovin', elephant-squawkin', National Merit Scholar-winnin' time is guaranteed for all!** **Our lawyers tell us we can't actually guarantee this.

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62:16

E239 - Rex Broome & Christina Bulbenko (The Armoires...

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2024/10/15

Travel with us down the snakehole into the magical world of Octoberland. In the first part of our two part autumnal extravaganza, Rex Broome and Christina Bulbenko, co-founders of Big Stir Records and singers/songwriters in pop powerhouse The Armoires, join us to discuss their brand new fall classic Octoberland. Octoberland is an invigorating eleven-track collection of amped-up, richly detailed pop gems, accessible but still retaining the quirky, slightly eerie mystique of their unique sonic

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E238 - Top 5 '90s Singer-Songwriter Albums

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2024/10/08

When you hear the term "singer-songwriter", what the first thing that comes to mind? Sensitive '70s long-haired hippies strolling through Laurel Canyon with an acoustic guitar? Us too. But, amidst the explosion of alternative rock, grunge, Britpop, electronic music, and hip-hop, the '90s were a fruitful decade for the singer-songwriter. This crop of artists drew from a stylistically varied palette, but played music with passion, heart, honesty, vulnerability, and a knack for poetic storytelling. One

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E237 - Jackson Reed - Top 5 Songs of 1982, Vol. 2

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2024/10/01

This week, we head back to '82 (when we could throw a pigskin a quarter mile) with special guest Jackson Reed. With his band Jackson Reed and the Silverbirds, the 26-year old Calgary rocker is mixing an irresistible blend of earnest '80s classic rock with modern pop smarts. Following the success of tracks like 2021's "Dangerous Lover" (featuring legendary drummer Kenny Aronoff) and 2023's "In My Head," their latest single is a cover of Prince's iconic 1982 hit "Little Red Corvette", offering up a

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40:01

O3L Presents: Weekend Six Pack, Vol. 16 - September...

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2024/09/28

Unwind with a new six pack of tunes on this final weekend of September. This month's theme is "September Gurls" (what, too obvious?), as we spotlight recent tracks from a few of indie music's finest female-fronted or female-prominent bands. This week, you'll hear: Scary Pierre - 'Piece of Mind' (from Boys Club) Lightheaded - 'Bright Happy Girls' (from Combustible Gems, Slumberland Records) Shapes Like People - 'When The Radio Plays' (single, Jangleshop Records) Whitney's Playland - 'Corridor

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116:34

E236 - New Wave-to-Spiritual Singer Debra Cohen - Top...

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2024/09/24

Holy O3L! No, that's not some sort of Batman-style exclamatory remark...it really is a Holy O3L. Or at least as close as we get. This week, we discuss spirituality in music, as we count down some of our favorite spiritual songs...which happens to run the gamut from Mahalia Jackson to Beastie Boys to the Grateful Dead, and many stops in between. Along the way, we talk about catfish Robert Plant, real Peter Frampton, Greeks in short shorts, F.A.'s, relationship advice, gators, and so, so much more

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124:00

E235 - Carl & Dana from 'This Is Rock n' Roll Radio'...

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2024/09/17

Hey ho, let's go! This week, we're all about one of the most influential, important, and let's not forget, fun , bands of the era - Ramones. Joining us for our discussion is Dana Bonn and Carl Cafarelli from This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio, airing Sunday nights from 9:00 pm - midnight ET on Syracuse’s SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, featuring the "best three hours of radio on the whole friggin' planet". Carl is also an incredibly gifted music scribe, writing the must-read daily music blog Boppin' (Like

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118:06

E234 - Author Dave Dawson ('Pop Idle') - Top 5...

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2024/09/10

Which male singers do you feel deserve more love and respect? That, dear friends, is the question we ponder this week with someone who knows - veteran circuit singer Dave Dawson.Dave's new book, Pop Idle: 30 Years on the Road as a Professional Singer, is an honest, humourous, insightful look at life on the bottom rung of the showbiz ladder. Like hordes of others, best-selling author Dave Dawson has spent decades crisscrossing the UK as a solo full-time professional musician. During his 30 years

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80:17

E233 - The BellRays - Top 5 Albums of 1973, Part 2

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2024/09/05

**Part 2! Hear our Top 3 Albums of 1973. More music! More fun! More infectious Lisa laughs!We're havin' a party this week! Joining us for a lively, laugh-filled exploration of 1973 albums is the heart and soul of The BellRays, singer Lisa Kekaula and guitarist Bob Vennum, who have been gloriously blending high octane punk, powerful soul music, deep blues, gritty garage rock, and whatever else they want to throw into the stew, since 1990. This is a band that defies expectations or pre-conceived

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E232 - The Bell Rays - Top 5 Albums of 1973, Part 1

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2024/09/03

**Part 1 of 2! The second half of our conversation comes out on September 5, 2024.**We're havin' a party this week! Joining us for a lively, laugh-filled exploration of 1973 albums is the heart and soul of The BellRays, singer Lisa Kekaula and guitarist Bob Vennum, who have been gloriously blending high octane punk, powerful soul music, deep blues, gritty garage rock, and whatever else they want to throw into the stew, since 1990. This is a band that defies expectations or pre-conceived notions and

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32:37

O3L Presents: Weekend Six Pack, Vol. 15 - Labor of L-U-V

Only Three Lads - Classic Alternative Music Podcast ·

2024/08/30

Head into your long weekend with six recent tracks that we think you will L-U-V!The Ekphrastics - ‘A Good Day For Sailing’ (Harriet Records) Wut - ‘Mingling with the Thorns’ (HHBTM Records) Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death - ‘Old Painful’ (Resident Recordings) Greaser Phase - ‘Lonely Hearts Killers’ (Shambotic) Eljin Marbles - ‘Art Is Love Is God’ (Intellectual House of Pancakes) Sunset Rubdown - ‘Cliche Town’ (Pronounced Kroog) Thank you for helping us support new music! Show your

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E231 - The Apartments' Peter Milton Walsh - Top 5...

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2024/08/27

"Top 5 Winter Songs? A winter themed episode, lads? In August?!? Good timing, doofuses!" We hear you, imaginary (and, frankly, rather rude) podcast critic. And our retort is that our friends in the southern hemisphere are still firmly in the grips of winter. For example, our Third Lad this week, one of the greatest songwriters that Australia has ever produced (and an artist who is on the short list of Brett's musical heroes), Peter Milton Walsh from The Apartments! PMW has led the Apartments in

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E230 - Peter Jesperson (Twin/Tone Records,...

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2024/08/20

If you will dare, we will dare. "Children by the millions" have been waiting for the episode where we cover the music of one of the most influential and pioneering bands of the alternative era - heck, one of the greatest rock n' roll bands ever, period - The Replacements. And what better Third Lad could we hope for this week than the man who discovered, signed, managed, and co-produced the Mats, Twin/Tone Records co-founder Peter Jesperson?!Peter stops by to recount the early days of the Twin

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29:22

O3L Presents: Weekend Six Pack, Vol. 14 - The Heat...

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2024/08/16

For those of us in the Northern Hempishere, we are deep into the "Dog Days of Summer." Is anyone else sick of the heat?!? Well, before the dog days are over (to quote Florence & The Machine), cool off with a six pack of new tunes from: The Meringues - 'Shambles' Sissyhiya - 'Kristen Stewart' (Skep Wax Records) Gregorov - 'Gasterbeiter ide za Beč' LMS8 - 'Love Connection' (The Beautiful Music) Giant Day - 'Ignore The Flood' (The Elephant 6 Recording Company) Greg Williams - 'This

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