Welcome to the New York Times Popcaster volume knob of music criticism.

I'm your host Ben Ratliff. The glass is all the sand from the sunflower.

And I'm running the flower and the ball of us.

Now, I tell the bird bully to a shark cow.

And you're like a lot, son and it's a quiet mess.

And I'll make a man out from the white collar,

and then I'm not even here in the full life that.

And you're hearing dined out from the most lamentable tragedy, the new album by Titus Andronicus.

Speaking about that today, my guest is Joe Kaskarelli.

Our music report from The Times, how are you?

I'm doing all right.

Joe, you met with Patrick Stickles from Titus Andronicus recently,

before the band did, was it four nights five nights

five nights at Chase Stadium the best remaining DIY venue in in Brooklyn

right little room in Brooklyn where Stickels has worked yeah for a while.

Yeah, works quite often I think and the guitarist from Titus and

And the guitarist from Titus and Jaunicus is a founding member I think.

Right.

Well so first get our listeners on the page with us.

Explain something about Titus Andronicus.

So this is a New Jersey punk band that's celebrating its 10-year anniversary

with the release of this double album, which is almost an hour and a half long and almost 30 songs.

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