Disc Picks

I smell sex and... an eponymous album title. This week, we dive into Marcy Playground, everybody's favorite one-hit-wonder from the 90's. Join us this week as we discuss whether they're better than the one-hit-wonder title given to them, or if they earned it. 

Welcome back to Disc Picks. Join us this week as we talk about John's pick: The Clearing by the band Wolf Alice! If you heard John's name and an obscure indie band and immediately assumed they were from somewhere overseas, you'd be correct! Wolf Alice is a band from London, England, and is named after a short story by author Angela Carter. Wolf Alice took the indie world by storm. You can catch them in Chicago at Lollapalooza this year on August 1st!

Tune in this week as John, Joe, and Neil discuss one of the most prolific albums from the 1990s: Weezer's Blue Album. Does it still hold up all these years post release?! Is it a cover-to-cover album, or one that's only recognizable because of its singles? Tune in this week to find out!

I salute your solution of discovering this episode to get your fix of Jack White and Friends. We take it up a Level this episode as we unpack the gritty blues-rock brilliance of Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence, and Patrick Keeler- the one and only Racontuers.  Whether you're an Old Enough fan to remember their 2006 debut or just discovering their genius Now That You're Gone down a Detroit rock rabbit hole on this episode we'll be discovering the Many Shades of Black and gold sprinkled all over this album.  This episode is packed with loads of Carolina Drama as we explore the bands beginnings, explosive guitar riffs, and those signature vocal harmonies.  So grab your headphones and get your Hands on the subscribe button, and let's keep things Steady As She Goes. Help Us Stranger and spread the word to tune in every Wednesday for a new release!

Welcome to this week's episode of Disc Picks, where we discuss Joe's pick. The band, Incubus, the album, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Join Joe, John, and TJ as we debate "is it nu-metal?" and whether this band deserve to be lumped in with such a polarizing genre, all this and more, tune in!

Join us this week as we discuss John's pick: Boycott Heaven by The Format!

Join the boys this week as they discuss Olivia Rodrigo's album Sour! Who likes it, who doesn't?! Tune in to find out!

Welcome back to season 2! The boys are back and this week we are discussing TJ's first pick of the brand new season, the band: Thrice. The album: The Artist in Ambulance. Join us this week as we dive deep into the early 2000s introduction to the post-hardcore genre. 

Hey everyone welcome to the final episode of the first season of Disc Picks. Tune in to find out the winner of our bracket challenge!

Welcome to the Sweet Sixteen episode of our Finals Bracket. Listen along to see who moves on to the finals of our Disc Picks Season Ending Showdown!

Welcome back to Disc Picks, as we continue on with our bracket challenge, this week we're doing the right side of the bracket and boy oh boy, do we have some tough match-ups! Tune in to see who moves on to the next round!

Welcome to a very special episode of Disc Picks! As we wrap up season 1, we're putting our albums through a final challenge to determine our best and most favorite album of 2025. This week, we're doing the left side of our bracket, which can be found here: https://brackethq.com/b/i0q0c/. But, beware, if you look now there will be spoilers as we are a few weeks ahead in recording. This week's match-up shoes in Nirvana and Pearl Jam as a bye, Linkin Park faces off against Weird Al. Rancid goes head-to-head against Cage the Elephant, a battle which will pain TJ as he will have to put down one of his picks. From there, we have a battle in the indie arena as the Black Keys take on The Killers, followed by CCR and Fall Out Boy. Next we have The Strokes up against Childish Gambino, and to wrap it all up this week, we have Two Door Cinema Club versus Dirty Honey. Tune in to see who moves on, and mourn those we lost on this week's episode of Disc Picks.

The episode nobody asked for but that everyone wanted. Join us this week for our first panel discussion with Gaby, friend of John, Neil, and TJ. Everyone's favorite returning guest, Breanne, and Joe's wife Erin! That's right folks were two shy of a baseball team on this weeks episode of Disc Picks. 

The year was 1998. Saving Private Ryan, Armageddon, and The Truman Show were in theaters, which meant America was crying, panicking about asteroids, and questioning reality all in the same summer. Britney Spears had just hit us one more time, TRL was basically a religion, and every kid with frosted tips was trying to land a kickflip in their JNCOs before the dial-up disconnected. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time dropped and ruined every game that came after it, South Park was teaching us brand new swear words, and Nu-Metal was kicking down the door with spiked collars and DJ scratches. In the middle of all that glorious chaos, Zebrahead rolled in with Waste of Mind and said, "Hey, what if we mashed skate punk, rap vocals, SoCal energy, and suburban boredom into one big blender and cranked it to eleven?" And, it worked. This was the soundtrack for every kid who felt too punk for the mall and too mall-rat for actual danger. It was messy, clever, fast, loud, and sometimes deeply stupid in the best possible way. So join us this week as the boys deep dive into Joe's Pick: Zebrahead's Waste of Mind. (Wallet chains optional but highly encouraged.)

Join us this week on Disc Picks as we discuss Kings of Leon's: Because of the Times. John was up in the rotation this week and chose the 3rd studio album by the band. Quite a polarizing episode for a few of us on the podcast, but hey, what fun would it be if we all enjoyed the record? Be sure to listen in for all the hot takes and as always, send tunes. 

Set the radio dial back to the 70's this week as we discuss Neil's pick of CCR's Cosmo's Factory! Lots of great tunes on this record, join us for yet another riveting episode of your favorite album review podcast. 

Welcome to our 25th episode! This week we have TJ's pick, the Grateful Dead's American Beauty. Will the boys be impressed or will this be a long strange trip? Keep truckin' to find out how it was recieved by John, Joe, and Neil. 

Join us this week as the boys are joined by their friend 'Other Joe'—that's right, folks, Two Joes One Show. See how we rate Joe's pick as he chose the album Even Worse by Weird Al Yankovic this week. Be sure to stick around for a very special suprise guest at the end of the episode.

Join the boys this week as they sit down and discuss Dirty Honey's self-titlted record! It was Joe's pick this week. Will John and Neil enjoy it? Will Neil continue to mess up the music cues? Will Joe continue to be pretentious? Tune in to find out the answers to these hard hitting questions! (TJ is still out for undisclosed reasons!)

Join the boys this week as we disc-uss our first ever rap artist, the only and only Childish Gambino and his debut studio album. John is the host this week and will take you on a guided tour of the record so be sure to tune in! 

Wow, sorry about the delay on this drop, folks. We would like to chalk it up to technical difficulties, but really, it was more apathy and laziness. Anyway, the long-awaited Pool Kids episode is here. When we sat down to record this episode, the album was a mere two weeks old, and now it's basically off to college, drinking beers, and making appearances on late-night Girls Gone Wild commercials. Either way, join John, Joe, Neil, and TJ as we discuss Easier Said Than Done by Pool Kids!

Join us this week as the boys sit down to discuss Cage the Elephant's first album, of the same name. Does this album land well amongst indie fan's John and Neil, did Host TJ do his homework to bring a steller episode, does Joe even like Cage the Elephant?! Tune in to find out!

Join John, Neil, Tj, and Joe this week as we discuss "Chicago" natives: Local H! Will this midwest hard-hitting alt-rock band win over the likes of Neil, John, and TJ as Joe defends his pick?! Find out, on this week's episode, and as always, Send Tunes!

Join the boys this week as we discuss John's Pick: Fever to Tell the breakout record by 2000's indie icons The Yeah Yeah Yeahs! 

Ladies and gentlemen, sorry for the delay with this episode. We experienced some technical difficulties, which caused a delay in its release. Now, without further ado, check out this week's episode and finally learn how to pronounce Josh Homme's name, and listen to us pronounce it differently almost every time we say it! Neil's pick this week is Queens of the Stone Age's album Songs for the Deaf! This week, we are joined again by Breanne, who comes back to give her two cents on this iconic album, as well as Neil, John, TJ, and Joe.

Join us this week on Disc Picks as we dive into an album that's equal parts heartbreak, synth-pop, and early-2000s indie perfection: Give Up by The Postal Service. The one-off collab between Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and electronic maestro Jimmy Tamborello some how managed to capture lightning in a bottle, melding introspective lyrics with glitchy beats and delicate melodies. Cue the intro music.

We've got a special one for you folks, we're without Neil, so we have our very first guest on to discuss this week on Disc Picks, as we head back to 1977 to dive into Billy Joel's The Stranger, an album that took the Piano Man from scrappy Long Island barrooms to global superstardom. With iconic tracks like "Movin' Out," "Only the Good Die Young," and "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant," this record blends pop, jazz, rock, and storytelling into one tight, unforgettable package. Whether you've memorized every lyric or just know him from wedding playlists, this is the album where Billy Joel truly found his voice and made damn sure the world heard it. Let's get into it.

Our lawyer made us change the name of this episode so we wouldn't get sued! Join the boys this week as we discuss From Under the Cork Tree, Fall Out Boy's big breakout record. This came out during a very influential point in the lives of John, Neil, and TJ...as you can probably guess, Joe did not like the record.

Join John, Joe, Neil, and TJ (Begrudgingly) as the explore this week's weeks album: Sam's Town by The Killers, who will like it(3/4 people)?! Who will hate it (TJ)?! Who will get kicked off?! (No one) in this weeks exciting episode of: Disc Picks

....And out comes Neil with his hot takes on Racid. This week TJ picked the record and went with Rancid's ...And Out Come the Wolves turn up the speakers as Joe, John, Neil, and TJ dive into this week's Disc Pick!

Weeerrrrreeee baaaaack! Join Neil, Tj, and Joe after our first of two Summer breaks as we discuss the Alabama Shakes and their debut album Boys and Girls. John was out this week setting up camp in Wyoming, but fear not, he will return! 

Join John, Joe, Neil, and TJ this week as we answer the age-old question: is this it? Of course, in this regard, it's towards The Strokes' debut album "is this it?".

Join us this week as we deep-dive into the Foo Fighters' sophomore album, The Colour and the Shape, selected by Neil. The boys take us on a wonderful journey as we swoon over all things Dave Grohl. 

TJ headlines the show this week with his pick of Black Sabbath's 1972 album: Paranoid. Join us as we all give our hottakes on the most influential metal album ever.

Producer Joe is in the hot seat this week as he offers up his first album here on Disc Picks! Join us on our longest episode yet as we discuss Pearl Jam's fifth studio album, Yield. Will it be every thing Joe promised it would be, or will it be flatter than a two-day-old can of Diet Coke? Find out on Disc Picks! #SendTunes

Surprise surprise, John picks a UK indie band. Listen this week as John, Joe, Neil, and TJ discuss Two Door Cinema Club. Did the other hosts receive the album well? Did TJ insult John and his taste of music? Grab a beer and unwind with the lads as we dive deep into  Two Door Cinema Club's Tourist History

Listen to John, Neil, TJ, and Joe as they deep dive into the Black Key's sixth studio album: Brothers! This saucy episode is full of hot takes, musician feuds, and an intro song you'll hear not once, not twice, but almost four full times as TJ learns how to press a play button. Besure to catch all the action on this week's Disc Picks, and in the meantime leave a review and as always, Send Tunes!

Join John, Neil, and TJ as they dive headfirst into the angst-ridden, genre-mashing chaos of Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory. Will this nu-metal milestone be the cure for the itch, or will it just end up breaking the habit (and the skip button)? This episode is crawling with hot takes, throwback memories, and just enough emotional damage to make your inner 2000s teen weep into a Hot Topic hoodie. So crack a beer, crank the volume, and get one step closer to losing yourself in another album breakdown with the boys from Disc Picks.

Listen to our American Idiots as we walk a lonely road on this deep drive of Green Day's American Idiot. Something something novacaine, hosted by TJ, Neil, and St. Jimmy while John sleeps until September Ends

Join John, Neil, and TJ as they dive headfirst into the pop-punk time machine and land squarely in the Summer of 1999, a time when the shorts were baggy, the teens were angsty, and Enema of the State ruled the airwaves. Blink-182's breakout album wasn't just the soundtrack of our youth; it helped define it. From the snot-nosed, bratty charm of "What's My Age Again?" to the earnest emo-core of "Adam's Song," this record made immaturity sound like an art form. So grab your skateboard, crank up your Discman, and let's break this thing down track by track, fart joke by fart joke.

Join us this week as John, Neil, and TJ plunge into the grunge and discuss Nirvana's greatest live album: Unplugged in New York.