Matt is picking the album again with guest host Dan O'Dell aka Heartwork to talk about blink-182's Untitled album. They discuss their history with blink-182, their role in the culture of the late 90s/early 00s, the direction the album goes in and...
Dipping into the 1970s Detroit music scene, Matt and guest Bill Van Veghel talk about Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band's live album "Live Bullet". They talk about the atmosphere of live music, the Detroit scene, the twenty-year nostalgia cycle...
Speaking about arguably one of the biggest pop albums from one of the biggest pop icons of the last couple of years, Kiara (from the Kiara Gets Drunk and Talks About Music podcast) muses on the growing talent of a new generation of artists. Kiara...
A very successful album, and one that Raymond Luu, from the Reel Asian Podcast, believes redefined the R'n'B genre. From the stories behind the songs and the discussion of the massive hit that was "Yeah", Ray and Matt deep dive on the first R'n'B...
With an over-arching story that can get quite complex alongside a demonic bicycle, Steve from the Play Your Pods Right podcast appears on the podcast to talk about Coheed and Cambria's Science Fiction epic "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume...
Craig Mckenzie from the Kneel Before Blog and Podcast 616 on We Made This is the guest this fortnight as he talks about how he's rediscovered and found new things in The Goo Goo Dolls' "Let Love In". Matt chats to Craig about the process of finding...
Babs from the Over/Underrated podcast is the guest this fortnight to talk about the shoegaze/indie band Autolux and their album "Future Perfect". They talk about the nature of shoegaze, the structure of the album and just what kind of mood you might...
Long time friend and sometimes influencer of Matt's music taste: James Addis is the guest this episode to talk about a band that he loves, Dexys and the album "Too-Rye-Ay" which has "Come on Eileen" on it. They're the band behind that song. They...
Back in 2015 Pick A Disc was a backdoor pilot episode on the movie podcast Pick A Flick. the guest was Lee Chrimes and the album talked about was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Murder Ballads". So Lee is OG from back in the day, and he's here to talk...
For their third album, @hindsband expanded their sound to cover more instruments and started to write in Spanish. The result is a varied and fuller sounding album than it's predecessors. Settling into a garage-pop like sound, "The Prettiest Curse"...