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This week we have a special episode. We spend the entire hour talking to Nick’s oldest son, Ciri about the albums he’s been listening to. He recently decided that he would listen to three albums a day (morning, noon and night) and wanted to share what he’s heard and get some recommendations on what he should check out. It was a great chat and we hope you enjoy! Ciri’s Picks American Football - American Football (1999) Dear and the Headlights - Small Steps, Heavy Hooves (2007) Death Grips - The Money Store (2012) Jay’s Picks The Streets - A Grand Don’t Come for Free (2004) Talking Heads - Remain In Light (1980) Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (1999) Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985) Greg’s Picks Pink Floyd - Meddle (1971) Fela Cuti - Zombie (1976) Fugazi - Repeater (1990) Herbie Hancock - Thrust (1974) Nick’s Picks Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (1968) Frank Zappa - We’re Only In It For the Money (1968) Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (2007)

Jay is presenting to a panel this week on the subject of AI & audio processing. He thought he’d take a spin at it with the guys to work out any kinks. Song: Trey Anastasio & Julien Lage - Live from Crossroads Guitar Festival Next up, it’s News with Nick. MAGA music fest has been cancelled, Todd Rundgren shares his thoughts about Taylor Swift, Macklemore announces his own tour, and Morphine unveils a long lost album. Song: Haruomi Hosono - “Note of Mothership” Greg had a heck of week. Red Not Chili Peppers had three shows with an all female Rage Against the Machine tribute, Babes Against the Machine, as an opener. At their Riverside show, the Babes’ guitar player had to go to the hospital so, naturally, Greg filled in. Song: Babes Against the Machine - “Bulls on Parade”

Nigel Godrich and Dhani Harrison’s new band, Dragonflies, just released their debut album and did a a few shows in LA. Greg was fortunate enough to catch one of them. He runs through the experience on Tales from the Concert. Songs: Dragonflies - “Slower” Dragonflies - “The Weight” Dragonflies - “Setting Sun” Jay tells us about the highly influential band, Sha Na Na. The American rock and roll and doo-wop revival group formed in 1969 and came to initial fame after opening for Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. Jay goes through their history and explains how surprisingly influential the group turned out to be. Songs:  Sha Na Na - “At The Hop (Live from Woodstock)” Sha Na Na - “Get A Job (Live on The Midnight Special)” The Ramones - “Rock ’n’ Roll High School (Live on Sha Na Na)” We end on a News with Nick. Facebook changes their link policy for pages, YouTube updates it’s play count logic, and Ed Sheerran plays on. Song: Angine de Poitrine - “Zugzegk (Live on The Tonight Show)”

It’s News with Nick! Rick Springfield killed a man in Vietnam, Spotify lets parents keep kids’ music out of the algorithm, Geese responds to the Wired psyop article. The Tubs - “Stoop to Me” Greg is back with another Review the Review. This week, Fantano shares his thoughts about the new Chat Pile album, Who Loves the Sun.  Songs: Chat Pile - “Shrine” Chat Pile - “Intruder” Chat Pile - “Influence” We end with a hearty serving of Jay’s Jambalaya. Ingredients:  XTC - “Melt the Guns” Wireless mixers Ed Sheeran’s tour situation

Jay gets us a started with a Three For Thursday! Mike D goes solo, Billy Strings is an old soul, and Chat Pile drops a new visceral noise rock album that Jay & Greg are both really enjoying. Songs: Mike D - “What We Got” Billy Strings - “I Like Train Songs” Chat Pile - “PEN I S MALL” Next up, it’s News with Nick. Mary J. Blige did not okay that Suno ad, Radiohead heads to Australia in 2027, and the CBC drops a trailer for their new Neil Peart Documentary. Plus, a recap of the Furious Bongos impressive show at Live at Hub City Vinyl last Saturday. Song: Frank Zappa - “Peaches En Regalia (Deluxe Bonus Version/Live)” Greg closes us out with a composite segment of merged segments. Our north star is Smashing Pumpkins 1995 album Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. We begin with a Tourror Story, ease into a Tales from the Concert, and exit in a Review the Review. He pulls it off nicely. Songs: Smashing Pumpkins - “Tonight Tonight (strings only)” Smashing Pumpkins - “Love” Smashing Pumpkins - “Stumbleine”

Greg kicks us off with a Heavy Rotation! Songs: Meshuggah - “In Death is Death (Remastered)” Mastodon - “Barbarians Blood” Loathe - “Harder to Pretend” Jay discovered something about Super Mario World’s soundtrack that blew his mind today. 8bit is back! Check out the video that led to the discovery here: https://youtu.be/Y09c79K9IL4?si=Eyr7RbeRkQkktzUr Song: Tortoise - “The Taut and Tame” It’s News with Nick! Jason Isbell sues Suno, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Cameron Winter Concert film debuts, someone is finally convicted for the murder of Tupac Shakur, and The Who patch things up with Zak Starkey. Song: Busta Rhymes & J Dilla - “How the Boss Will Deliver”

We have a lot to catch up on this week. We kick off with News with Nick. Busta Rhymes releases Diligence 2, Dr. Dre & Jimmy Iovine give a billionaire perspective on AI, and Turnstile is releasing a Never Enough remake. Song: Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - “Difference (feat. Yebba)” There’s still more news, we jump into a Heard it through the GREGvine! Greg brings us up to speed on the beefs of the summer …Saint Levant vs Shadjdeed; Jack White vs Charlie Crockett, Diamanda Galas’s onesided thoughts on Beyonce; Reggie Watts vs the internet. Song: Marcus King, Chris Dave, MonoNeon - “Ingewood Hotel” Just hours before the show, we learned that Dolly Parton had passed at the age of 80. Jay jumped at the opportunity to celebrate the life of an amazing composer, performer, philanthropist, and conservatively tempered social justice advocate. Songs:  Dolly Parton - “Just Because I’m a Woman” Dolly Parton - “Joshua” Dolly Parton - “9 to 5”

Greg is out this week, but we’re delighted to welcome back Erik Lenhart to the show. He’s just started his summer vacation and has some concerts that he’ll be attending in the upcoming weeks. Among them, is a  Radiohead tribute band called No Surprises. Erik hasn’t gone through a Radiohead phase and needs to catch up before the show. Nick and Jay happily bring him up to speed. The Outlaws - “Green Grass & High Tides” Nick and his brother, Alex, caught Queens of the Stone Age & Foo Fighters this week at Nationals Park in Washington DC. It’s Tales from the Concert! Nick recaps the experience. Song: Foo fighters - “Big me (Live at Nationals Park)” Given the formative role it played during his high school years, Jay felt it only proper that we talk about Columbia House. The company announced this week that it’s shutting down. Founded in 1955 as The Columbia Record Club, the company landed on a business model in the 80s and 90s that no music-obsessed teenager could refuse. 12 CDs for a penny (plus 6 months where you had to buy a CD and return a monthly postcard to avoid getting billed for an additional ‘selection of the month’). Song: John R Miller - “Lookin' Over My Shoulder”

Upon exploring a random Gamelan station on Apple Music, Jay heard a song that reminded him of a song from the Nintendo Switch game, Mario Odyssey. That got him thinking about other video game music that sounds like songs we know and love, so he’s bringing it back a classic segment! This is 8-bit. Songs: Gamelan Degung - “Gara Gara Cinta” Sonic 3 Ice Cap Zone sounds like “Hard Times” by The Jetzons (there maybe a good reason for that) Nobuo Uematsu - “Dancing Mad, 4th Movement (Final Fantasy VI)” Nick had a great staycation last week and brings back some songs to share on a Three for Thursday. YHWH Nailgun released a 10-track, eleven minute album that’s somehow weirder than their last, Gong is still being explored, and 50 years ago this week, a little ditty by Herman’s Hermits took the #1 spot on the charts. Songs: YHWH Nailgun - “Magazine” Gong - “Percolations Part I & Part II” Herman’s Hermits - “I'm Henry VIII, I Am” This Heard It Through the GREGvine starts off with a detour to Where’s One Tho? Then we learn about Henry Rollins and Ian Mackaye’s mission to resurrect the music of their childhood heroes, The Cramps. Songs:  Rush - “Limelight” Black Crowes - “Sting Me” Rolling Stones - “Start Me Up” The Cramps - “Goo Goo Muck” The Cramps - “Human Fly” Charlie Puth - “Attention (Tiny Desk Concert)”

Nick’s away on vacation this week, but Greg and Jay manage to fill an hour with a show and some much needed guitar talk. Greg has a Three for Thursday featuring a song from Gong, Boards of Canada, and a clip from the Red Not Chili Peppers live at House of Blues, Orlando from July 31, 2026. You can check that whole show out over at the internet archive - https://archive.org/details/red-not-chili-peppers-2026-07-31  Songs: Gong - “Sleepy” Boards of Canada - “Peacock Twin” Red Not Chili Peppers - “Aeroplane (Live in Orlando)” Jay shares an unfolding story about a D’Addario guitar string advertisement containing, according to the internet, AI generated music. This got Jay thinking, can we really tell if a song is AI anymore? He puts Greg to the test.

We start off with News with Nick! Soundcloud acquires Nina Protocol, Old Dirty Bastard gets an NYC street named after him, Faith No More Reunites, and Madison Square Garden owner, James Dolan, has made some interesting decisions about how to run his venue. Song: Gong - “Oily Way (Remastered 2018)” Ever hear a song and think, Where’s One Tho? Greg is bringing the bit back, which means we’re one step closer to a theme song! This round we listen to various breakdowns of the Meshuggah song “Combustion,” and take then we take a stab at “Zhivago” by Kurt Rosenwinkel. Songs: Meshuggah - “Combustion” Kurt Rosenwinkel - “Zhivago” Fifty-three years ago, on July 28 (1973), a festival was hosted outside Watside Glen by the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, and The Band. Summer Jam at Watkins Glen sold 150,000 tickets for $10 each and then allowed the additional 450,000+ people that showed up to hear the show for free, setting a new Guinness Book Record. Jay would love to know why no one knows about this show. Songs:  Grateful Dead - “Me & My Uncle (Soundcheck)” Garth Hudson - “Too Wet to Work” Allman Brothers - “Mountain Jam”

Jay is back after a fantastic vacation and somehow found the time to catch Phish at Merriweather Post Pavilion last Saturday. He shares the details in another Tales from the Concert. Song; Phish - “Free (Live at Merriweather Post Pavilion, July 18, 2026)” Next up, it’s News with Nick! This week we remember Bonnie Tyler, look forward to the new King Gizzard album, and discuss whether music containing AI should be labeled as such. Song: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - “Okarena” Greg closes us out with a Three for Thursday. We hear some music from the relatively new band, Wunderhorse. Then we’re on to a relatively old band, The Pretty Things, that had a song in the 70s that sounds a little bit like a Radiohead classic (from the 90s). Finally, we celebrate the end of the World Cup with one more listen to a, now quite familiar, Shakira song. Songs: Wunderhorse - “Silver” The Pretty Things - “In the Square” Shakira - “Dai Dai”

Jay is at the beach and decided that, this year, he’s taking a true vacation from all obligations. That means it’s Nick & Greg this week! They catch up and explore music from the Internet Archive. Nick’s Picks: James Brown - “Try Me (Live at the Apollo, 1963)” Project/Object - “Outside Now (Live at BB King’s)” Little Milton - “Live at the Fort Reno Concet Series” Greg’s Picks: Funk Ark - “Hey Mammajo (Live at Pixaeau Brewery)” Dismemberment Plan - “Following Through (Live at Black Cat 2007)” Fugazi - “Do You Like Me? (Live at the Fort Reno Concert Series, 1997)”

We begin with a new bit from Greg called “Where’s One Tho?” We listen to the beginning of tracks to try and figure out what beat the song begins on. Pretty straightforward, but not as easy as you think. Songs: Little Richard - “Keep a Knockin” Led Zeppelin - ‘Rock and Roll” (Explanation video) Beethoven's Fifth Meshuggah - Combustion (Explanation video) Jay has unearthed the list of all lists. thegreatestmusic.org is a website that aggregates and weights 57 active lists of best albums and songs. Nick & Greg take turns guessing what made the ultimate list of all lists. Song: Captain Beefheart - “Pachuco Cadaver” It’s News with Nick! Wilco & Breeders break a world record, Adam Sandler has new gig as a wedding officiant, Canada considers joining Eurovision, and Alabama Shakes announces their first album in 11 years. Song: beabadoobee - “Sun Has Set”

Jackson is back to tell us about his trip with Dad to Las Vegas & the Grand Canyon! Nick kicks us off with a Three for Thursday. We hear Austrian jazz guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, jump into the latest release from Lambchop, and finish up with a track from Ari Hoenig. Songs: Wolfgang Muthspiel & Brian Blade - “Youssou” Lambchop - “Stella” Ari Hoenig - “Condemnation (feat Gadi Lehavi & Ben Tiberio)” On his journey with Jackson, Greg came across a record store. After digging through their selection, he came across an album by Michael Hedges. An incredible guitarist relegated to the ’New Age’ genre, Hedges played the guitar like no one else before him. We dig into his work. Songs: Michael Hedges - “Layover” Michael Hedges - “Sofa No.1” Michael Hedges - “Ragamuffin” Jay decided to take up the challenge and brings us a very special tribute to Clive Davis. I won’t spoil it by giving anything away, but stay tuned, it’s great. Songs: Leo Kottke - “Last Steam Engine Train” Jay Rossman - “The Life of Clive Davis”