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In lieu of our latest episode on Phantom Planet's "The Guest" from 2002, we're dropping a Rewind on an episode that was released way back in July of 2020, where we cover their self-titled album that came just two years later. Phantom Planet was once most notably known as the group that sings that song from The O.C. (you know, the one that goes "California, here we come!"). But on their 2004 self-titled record, they traded in those melodic, poppy song structures for a more frenetic, fuzz-driven garage sound. We argue in this episode that this is perhaps one of the greatest garage rock records to come out of the early 2000s (certainly one of the most overlooked and under-appreciated), with its impassioned vocal performances, pummeling drums and bass, and guitar riffs that could punch through a wall. Tracklist: Big Brat Nobody's Fault Jabberjaw After Hours You're Not Welcome Here The Meantime The Spirit of the Beehive - hypnic jerks Arms of Tripoli - Edwards Edward This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back with another ten of our favorites from 2025. There's no shortage of chillwave and shoegaze on this episode (no surprise), but the boys from Animal Collective also make an extensive appearance, alongside some choice emo tunes and, as promised, absolutely no K-Pop Demon Hunters this time. Tracklist: Sunbeam Sound Machine - Mercy Greet Death - Same But Different Now No Joy - Bugland The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die - Dimmed Sun Algernon Cadwallader - Shameless Faces (even the guy who made the thing was a piece of shit) Panda Bear - Left in the Cold Animal Collective - Buddies on the Backboard Legowelt - Med Liquidium 1995 The Belair Lip Bombs - Again and Again Slow Crush - Haven Slow Crush - Cherry This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're rounding out the month of November with a brand new episode digging into Fleet Foxes' self-titled breakout full-length record. We discuss their musical DNA rooted in older folk traditions, hymnals, and lush harmonies, unlike the emerging corporate-hipster, crowd-coded "stomp clap hey" movement the band was often grouped with, which was budding up in the folk pop genre around that same time. Tracklist: Sun It Rises Drops In The River White Winter Hymnal / Ragged Wood Quiet Houses Blue Ridge Mountains This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We continue our rewind episodes for the month of November as we conjure up fall vibes with music that pairs best with a warm blanket and a nice cup of cider. This week we listen back on our chat about the dream pop group The Sundays and their 1992 record Blind. The Sundays - Goodbye The Sundays - I Feel The Sundays - Life & Sand The Sundays - On Earth The Sundays - Wild Horses This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Halloween night, and we're reaching into our bucket of treats and sharing Queens of the Stone Age's creepiest tracks. We dig into why their music's embrace of dark imagery and macabre storytelling makes them a natural fit for the spookiest night of the year. Join us as we dive into some of QOTSA's heaviest, most ominous grooves that are as intelligently crafted as they are genuinely unsettling. Tracklist Queens of the Stone Age - Mexicola Queens of the Stone Age - Monsters In The Parasol Queens of the Stone Age - I Think I Lost My Headache Queens of the Stone Age - Burn The Witch Queens of the Stone Age - Someone's In The Wolf Queens of the Stone Age - Turnin On The Screw Queens of the Stone Age - Mosquito Song This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We blast off into the stratosphere with Hum's 1995 masterpiece You'd Prefer An Astronaut, the Champaign, Illinois band's sonic collision of shoegaze shimmer and bone-crushing sludge metal. While MTV latched onto "Stars," the album's real treasures lie in the deep space between those radio moments—massive, swirling guitar walls courtesy of Matt Talbott and Tim Lash that feel like entire galaxies collapsing in slow motion. This is the record that proved heavy music could be beautiful, and shoegaze could absolutely crush. Strap in for lift-off. Tracklist Stars The Pod Suicide Machine Why I Like The Robins I Hate It Too I’d Like Your Hair Long This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some country, some synth. Some trip hop, some one-man garage rock. And a whole lot of Deftones. It's our monthly Whatcha Heard! Tracklist Deftones - my mind is a mountain Roaring Sun - Plans For Me Pavement - Folk Jam Steel Beans - Molotov Cocktail Lounge Gina X Performance - Nice Mover POiSON GiRL FRiEND - QUOI Nudge - Tito True Widow - The Trapper and the Trapped Adult Books - I Don't Think I Can Stay Rubble Bucket - Morning Glory Blanket terraplana - todo dia Deftones - milk of the madonna This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been awhile since our last proper Whatcha Heard episode, and this one is as wide-ranging and decade-spanning as you'd expect from our monthly mixtape format. From the 60s to brand-spanking new and mathcore to twee, join us for a little bit of everything. Tracklist Wishy - Over and Over Rubblebucket - Go All The Way With Me Iron Butterfly - Unconscious Power George Harrison - Wah-Wah Laetitia Sadier - By the Sea O & The Mo - May Way For The Sun Car Bomb - Gratitude Kane Hodder - Too Much Eddie Kendricks, Not Enough David Ruffin The Verve - Life's An Ocean Emma Anderson - Bend The Round Good Sad Happy Bad - Honey Wendy & Bonnie - By the Sea This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices