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#810 Buried Treasures, Opinions on Olivia Rodrigo & Monster Magnet

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

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🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share some buried treasures: new, under-the-radar music you need to hear. Plus, they'll review new albums from Olivia Rodrigo and Monster Magnet.

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Featured Songs:

Olivia Rodrigo, "driver's license," SOUR, Geffen, 2021

Monster Magnet, "Born To Go," A Better Dystopia, Napalm, 2021

Monster Magnet, "Motorcycle (Straight to Hell)," A Better Dystopia, Napalm, 2021

Monster Magnet, "Welcome to the Void," A Better Dystopia, Napalm, 2021

Olivia Rodrigo, "brutal," SOUR, Geffen, 2021

Olivia Rodrigo, "1 step forward, 3 steps back," SOUR, Geffen, 2021

Olivia Rodrigo, "good 4 u," SOUR, Geffen, 2021

Olivia Rodrigo, "deja vu," SOUR, Geffen, 2021

The Linda Lindas, "Rebel Girl," Moxie (Music from the Netflix Film), Maisie Music Publishing, 2021

Jelani Aryeh, "Marigold," Marigold (Single), No Matter, 2021

Ting Tang Tina, "Kill Courtney," Honeybee, Dreamy Life, 2020

Seaside Witch Coven, "King Fried," King Fried (Single), Self-Released, 2021

Jungle Green, "Ritchie," Ritchie (Single), Self-Released, 2021

topographies, "See You as You Fall," Ideal Form, Funeral Party, 2020

Yellow Pills, "Come over and Eat Some Food," Space Age Inferno, Mint 400/Raining, 2021

Omar Apollo, "Useless," Apolonio, Warner, 2020

FACS, "Strawberry Cough," Present Tense, Trouble In Mind, 2021

DARKSIDE, "The Limit," The Limit (Single), Matador, 2021

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, "Just Wrong," Notes With Attachments, Verve, 2021

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0:00.0

He took the bomb. You're listening to sound opinions and this week we'll be sharing some buried

0:24.8

treasures under the radar sounds you need to hear. I'm Jim Deregadis and I'm

0:29.7

Greg Kot first some new album reviews. We were born to go. We were born to go.

0:45.0

And we were born to go.

0:48.0

And leave no star on time.

0:51.0

We were born to grow. That is a Hawkwind classic, as a Hawk Wind classic,

0:59.0

that is a Hawkwind classic,

1:01.0

Born to Go, as covered by Monster Magnet.

1:04.0

Monster Magnet itself, progenitors of the Stoner Rock Movement, the last three decades,

1:10.0

Dave Windorf, a larger-than-life character to say the least, out of New Jersey he is the one constant in the band over those decades.

1:19.0

Their new 11th studio album since 1991. A better dystopia is out now.

1:27.0

Windorf is a road dog. He loves going out on tour. He's into that album tour cycle.

1:33.0

When that couldn't happen because of COVID,

1:36.0

he and the band bunker down and recorded an album

1:40.0

of some of their favorite psych rock stoner rock proto metal favorites over the years.

1:48.8

A batch of cover songs from their favorites.

1:53.4

Here's a band that has been around, as I said,

1:56.4

since 1991, their breakthrough album, Power Trip,

1:58.6

in 1998, defined this movement in many ways. And the movement that I'm talking about the

2:03.9

stoner rock movement the key bands in that movement along with monster

2:08.1

maggot or sleep trouble kias they define this sound that has become, you know, kind of the template for what

2:17.2

new metal could sound like. You know, taking that example set by say Black Sabbath from the early 70s, late 60s, and bringing it forward for a new generation of listeners.

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