No Filler Music Podcast

No Filler

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No Filler is a music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gems that fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. In each episode we’ll dive into a little history of the artist and the album of choice, with snippets from interviews & concerts, as well as music from the album itself. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.

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433 episodes

Whatcha Heard: The Four On The Floor Edition

We pay attention to an often ignored genre on this beloved podcast of ours: electronic music. Sure we sneak it in from time to time, but it rarely get the love it deserves. For this month's mixtape, we've got 3 tracks that fall under the IDM / house umbrella of electronic music, as well as some 80s new wave and even a Down With The Sickness cover played in the style of Nirvana! Tracklist Kings of Leon - Mustang Mac Glocky - Down With The Sickness (Disturbed Cover in the style of Nirvana) Wray - Limelight The 1981 - Mona Lisa Talk Talk - Tomorrow Started Microlot - Watercolour Nabihah Iqbal - Gentle Heart Bella Boo - Orange Soft Crystals - Afterthought Stay Inside - My Fault Strumbrush - TV This episode is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 15m
Apr 01
The Radiohead of Metal: Deftone's Around The Fur

Eager to ditch the nu-metal label, Deftones headed into the studio with a goal to separate themselves from the pack on their second album Around the Fur. This ambition saw the group embrace their non-metal influences, leaning on the cerebral and ethereal qualities of bands like Depeche Mode. This combined with Chino Moreno's unusual vocals gave Around the Fur it's signature loud-soft dynamic, perhaps earning the band it's reputation as "the metal band it's okay for non-metal fans to like." Tracklist Deftones - My Own Summer (Shove It) Deftones - Lhabia Deftones - Mascara Deftones - Dai the Flu Deftones - Damone Deftones - Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

43m
Mar 21
Whatcha Heard: The Almost No Shoegaze Edition

It's our monthly mixtape for February, join us for some nu-metal, 60s psychedelic jazz, industrial house, and lots more. Oh and of course: some dream pop because we can't go an episode without it. Tracklist Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops Siilk - Inside My Head Norma Tanega - You're Dead Heaven - Down By The Ocean Cowboy Sadness - Ten Paces Legowelt - Sark Island Acid Washed Out - I've Been Daydreaming My Entire Life Washed Out - Olivia Stereolab - Nihilist Assault Group The Cure - Other Voices People Get Ready - Windy Cindy Winter - Strange Emotions This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 22m
Feb 29
Ethereal Wave: Cocteau Twins "Head Over Heels"

We listen to the ethereal, surreal, and unmistakable proto shoegaze that only Robin Guthrie and Elizabeth Fraser could create together with a deep dive into Cocteau Twins' 1983 record Head Over Heels. Tracklist Cocteau Twins - Glass Candle Grenades Cocteau Twins - Five Ten Fiftyfold Cocteau Twins - In Our Angelhood Cocteau Twins - In The Gold Dust Rush Cocteau Twins - Musette And Drums Cocteau Twins - Sugar Hiccup This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Newtork. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

46m
Feb 22
Whatcha Heard: The Heaven and Hell Edition

Look, we'll be the first ones to admit it: we listen to a lot of shoegaze and dream pop on this podcast. And you'll get plenty of that on this episode. But you'll also get children's songs written by a beloved 90s alt-rocker, an aggressive blue-harmonica, and some epic 70s jazz-fusion from a group of musicians that used to pal around with Miles Davis. Only on No Filler will you experience that level of musical whiplash! Tune in for our monthly mixtape episode for January. Tracklist Sleater-Kinney - Hell Caspar Babypants - First Star Caspar Babypants - Caterpillar Jazz Deary - Heaven Pity Sex - A Satisfactory World For Reasonable People Return To Forever - Medieval Overture Carlos del Junco - Blues With A Feeling The Meeting Places - Now I Know You Could Never Be The One David Bowie - Modern Love Harp - I Am The Seed The Soundcarriers - Out Of Place No Joy - Slug Night T-Pain - War Pigs (Black Sabbath Cover) This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 23m
Jan 30
The Trailblazing, Ear-Bleeding Fuzz of Dinosaur Jr.

To kick off the year, we return to our deep-dive episode format with a look at Dinosaur Jr.'s second record, the massively influential fuzz of You're Living All Over Me. The signature ear-bleeding guitar sound and slacker vocal delivery J Mascis perfected on this record went on to influential countless grunge acts and indie bands in the 90s and 2000s. This record was way ahead of its time and a truly seminal record that hinted at was right around the corner just years before grunge would take the underground mainstream. Tracklist Kracked Little Fury Things Sludgefeast The Lung Raisins Just Like Heaven This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

57m
Jan 15
Best of 2023: Part Four

Our final 10 tracks in our best of 2023. Thanks for joining us this year, we'll see you in 2024! Tracklist The Hives - Bogus Operandi Palehound - The Clutch Alan Palomo - Nobody's Woman Real Estate - Water Underground Orions Belte - Masacote Superbloom - Velvet Hippo Leon Vynehall - Duofade Flyying Colours - Bright Lights Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X bar italia - guard bar italia - f.o.b. bar italia - nocd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 18m
Dec 31, 2023
Best of 2023: Part Three

Join us as we continue our countdown of favorite tracks from 2023. Tracklist Drop Nineteens - "Gal" JW Francis - Swooning Meerna - I Believe In You Leo Takami - As If Listening Chris Christodoulou - Tropic of Cancer Catherine Wheel - Salt (Norfolk Mix) Wilco - A Bowl and A Pudding Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If You Insist Yves Tumor - Heaven Surrounds Us Like A Hood Jesse Kivel - Beech Hill Meditation Drop Nineteens - The Price Was High Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 15m
Dec 19, 2023
Best of 2023: Part Two

Join us as we continue our countdown of favorite tracks from 2023. Tracklist Beach Fossils - Numb bdrmm - Be Careful André 3000 - Dreams Once Buried Beneath the Dungeon Floor Slowly Sprout into Undying Gardens LAANDS - Fortune Manatee Commune - Cast Windows96 - 240p Flickerstick - Whatever Gets You Off Day Aches - New June Erlend Øye - Two Chord Samba Skalpel - Konfusion Skalpel - Jan Tajemnik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 25m
Dec 04, 2023
Best of 2023: Part One

Join us over the next few weeks as we count down our top tracks of 2023. Tracklist Narrow Head - Flesh & Solitude Death & Vanilla - Out For Magic Pia Fraus - Confidential Information Fiddlehead - Loserman Spotlights - Ballad in the Mirror Hotline TNT - Beauty Filter The Clientele - Fables of the Silverlink The Paper Kites - Black & Thunder Slowdive - skin in the game A. Savage - Hutton’ or Healed Narrow Head - Medicine (Momma Cover)) This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 22m
Nov 18, 2023
Italian Horror Icons: Dario Argento and the Music of Goblin (with Guest Adrian Sebastian Haynes)

It's Halloween night, which means it's time to get spooked. On tonight's bonus episode, I'm joined by horror fanatic and Austin-based musician Adrian Sebastian Haynes to chat all things Italian horror. We're diving into the films of iconic director Dario Argento, and if you're a horror nerd like us you know that means one thing: tonight we're listening to Goblin. This legendary prog-rock group partnered with Argento on many of his iconic films dating back to the 1977 classic Suspiria. Grab a flashlight and a good pair of headphones as we dive into some classic Italian horror. Tracklist (all songs by Goblin unless noted) Suspiria Theme (Suspiria 1977) Mad Puppet (Profondo Rosso 1975) Black Forest (Suspiria 1977) Danza (Wampyr 1976) Crows - Claudio Simonetti (Opera 1987) Threat (The Devil and the Universe Remix, Demons 1985) This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 27m
Oct 31, 2023
Spooktober Rewind: Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats

This episode originally aired October 31st, 2021. We get it: if you have to hear Monster Mash one more time, your boombox will be the only thing getting graveyard smashed. If you're in need for some new tunes for your costume party tonight, we've got you covered. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats takes psychedelic rock and doom metal and mashes it with The Manson Family, Universal Monsters, and all the other horror film essentials on your October watch list. And of course, singer K.R. Starrs is an absolute vocal doppelgänger for John Lennon. What more could you ask for? Turn the lights down low, light some candles, and tune in for our bonus Halloween episode. Tracklist Witches Garden Withered Hand of Evil Murder Nights I See Through You Vampire Circus This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

31m
Oct 24, 2023
Spooktober Rewind: Slashers and Synthwaves

This episode originally aired October 31st, 2020. John Carpenter is often referred to as the master of horror. His iconic Halloween franchise defined the slasher film formula for decades to come. But for fans of synthwave music (and the use of synth in cinema), we have Carpenter to thank for that as well. His extremely effective use of synths to build atmosphere and heighten tension in his films went on to influence countless synthwave artists and film composers. On this Halloween bonus episode of No Filler, we listen to a couple tracks from his 1982 score for Halloween III, and talk about his legacy in both film and music. Tracklist: "The Fog Theme" "Chariots of Pumpkins" (Halloween III) "Local Boy, No Way" (Halloween III) "The Upside Down" (Stranger Things) "Halloween Theme" This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24m
Oct 19, 2023
Spooktober Rewind: The Undoing of David Wright

This episode originally aired October 31st, 2019. On this, the Eve of Hallow's, we're heading to the graveyard with shovels in hand. We bring along a Walkman and Quentin's CD copy of "We Dig With Finger's Crossed" to help set the ambiance for the evening. One of The Undoing of David Wright's only full-length albums, this little known gem from 2005 tells the story of William Burke & William Hare, the infamous 19th century grave robbers of Edinburgh, Scotland. The UoDW was an extremely short-lived post-modern electro-punk band hailing from Denton, Texas circa early 2000s. While attending college at The University of North Texas, these guys made a name for themselves for their Rocky Horror Picture Show-esque vibes, often donning makeup and wearing clothes fashioned out of trash bags. Episode Tracklist: We Dig With Fingers Crossed Cold Meals & Warm Whiskeys Slap Dash Street Trash By The Sign Of The Disceaux This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

27m
Oct 17, 2023
The You Can Find It All On Your Radio Edition

Quentin rediscovers his love of radio in this October edition of your favorite monthly mixtape. Tracklist Pencey Sloe - Us Blazing Cut Copy - Future KennyHoopla - how will i rest in peace if i'm buried by a highway? // Paul Oakenfold - Amnesia Koett - A Walk In The Spring Rain Ms. Lauryn Hill - Lost Ones Eric Clapton - Hello Old Friend A.R. Kane - What's All This Then? Resplandor - Blue Priori, RED - From The Swallow Banchee - Evolmia Bloc Party, KennyHoopla - Keep It Rolling This show is part of the Pantheon Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 21m
Oct 16, 2023
The Duct Tape Edition

Held together by duct tape and super glue, this month's episode just barely made its way into your feed. But we're glad to be here with this month's batch of tasty jams from earworm K-Pop to 70s prog, from a song you've probably heard on TikTok to 60s sunshine pop, tune in to hear our monthly mixtape. Tracklist Drop Nineteens - Scapa Flow Crayon Pop - Bar Bar Bar Yuragi - sleeptight Air and Alessandro Baricco - Pat Cobhan Ride Pinegrove - Need 2 Beach Fossils - Tough Love Blur - St. Charles Square Wishbone Ash - Leaf And Stream Gui.tar - Feel Flows Free The Paper Kites - I Don't Want To Go That Way Margo Guryan This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 21m
Sep 05, 2023
The Mostly Dream Pop Edition

We hit the snooze button a couple of times on this one, but our monthly mixtape is back with a batch of laid-back, ethereal dream pop gems (with some punk, emo, IDM, and psychedelic tossed in for good measure). Beck, Phoenix - Odyssey Slowdive - Kisses Pia Fraus - Fog on the Hills Polaris - Slow Motion Brandtson - Days End Happy Diving - Mikey's Rules Tiger Trap - Supreme Nothing Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If You Insist RAMZi - foggi (ft. Priori) Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin - Tongo Barra The Durutti Column - Future Perfect Aaron Taos, Jordana - Under Control (Strokes Cover) This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 16m
Aug 17, 2023
The Sockgaze Edition

Tracklist Queens of the Stone Age - Carnavouyer High Vis - Walking Wires Jurassic Shark - Tell 'Em The Gaslamp Killer, The Heliocentrics - Punks Brandee Younger - You're A Girls For One Man Only DRAIN - Evil Finds Light Puddle Noir - Lucky Lucy Wombo - Dreamsickle Valerie June - Slip Slide On By The Sound - The Fire Catherine Wheel - Spin (Norfolk Mix) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 6m
Jul 04, 2023
The Thom Yorke Has A Son? Edition

Another month, another episode, another mixtape from your favorite twin podcasters! On this episode, Thom Yorke shows up not once, but twice! Well, sort of. Turns out Thom Yorke has a son who sings just like him. We were as shocked to learn this as you no doubt are in this very moment. Tune in to hear it, along with some amazing new post punk from bar italia, some classic jazz from Gene Ammons, a brand new track from Thundercat and Tame Impala, and many more great tunes on this month's episode of No Filler. Tracklist Thundercat & Tame Impala - No More Lies Blink 182 - Man Overboard Botch - Transitions From Persona To Object Guilty Ghosts - Everlasting Evening (feat. Sea Oleena) Lucky Black Cat - Noah Yorke Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - Beautiful People Bar Italia - Punkt Hittin' The Jug - Gene Ammons Temples - Exotico Molchat Doma - sudno (Boris Ryzhy) This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 17m
Jun 05, 2023
The 1981 Edition

We're all over the map with our genres and decades on this month's episode, jumping from Turkish psychedelic folk to Japanese jazz fusion to New York no-wave all without blinking. Tracklist Altın Gün - Su Sızıyor Ninth Paradise - Picture M83 - * Pylon - Crazy Elisa Waut - Four Times More Masayoshi Takanaka - Thunder Storm Yellow Magic Orchestra - Seoul Music Bush Tetras - Boom in the Night Tycho - For How Long (ft. Saint Sinner) Crosby, Stills & Nash - Just A Song Before I Go Dillard & Clark - Git It On Brother R.E.M. - Crazy This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 14m
May 02, 2023
The Globetrotting Edition

On this month's episode of No Filler, we bounce around the globe from German emo, to a Russian electro pop artist, to some UK hauntology. Tune in for one of our most wide-ranging collection of tracks from bossa nova to horror rap. Tracklist Beach Fossils - Don't Fade Away Twin Peaks - Casey's Groove 125, Rue Montmartre - Disco Hijack Kate NV - Inn Belbury Poly - The Willows Getz & Gilberto - Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Start) De La Soul - Eye Know Steely Dan - Peg Beck - End Of The Day Geto Boys - Time Taker Sohm - Bloodflows Gamma Intel - Trust This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 25m
Apr 03, 2023
The Knob Fiddlin' Edition

Tracklist Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Halfway Crooks Paul Simon - The Rhythm of the Saints Ulrika Spacek - No. 1 Hum Southpacific - E10 @182 Tortoise - Seneca Tenacious D - Don't Blow It Kage Meernaa - Another Dimension peachgf - cherry blossom rRoxymore - Drunken Clouds Puerta Negra - El Gran Final No Swoon - Faces Ulrika Spacek - The Sheer Drop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 10m
Mar 06, 2023
Whatcha Heard - The Extra Long Chili Cheese Coney Edition

Tracklist Narrow Head - Caroline Beak> - Brean Down Beak> - King of the Castle Tokyo Shoegaze - Just Alright Liquid Liquid - Scraper Madeline Goldstein - One More Day Windows96 - U Know Actress - Leaves Against The Sky Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Room Mate Galaxie 500 - Tugboat Pia Fraus - No Need For Sanity Kings of Convenience - Homesick Boris - Sometimes (My Bloody Valentine Cover) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 11m
Jan 31, 2023
Rewind: Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow

To honor the late, great, irreplaceable Jeff Beck, here's an episode from the No Filler archives on his 1975 debut solo record, Blow By Blow. Hot on the trails of our deep dive into Larry Carlton's Steely Dan guitar solos, we thought we'd pay some homage to another guitar god from the same era: the one and only Jeff Beck. On this episode, we take a listen to his 1975 debut solo record Blow By Blow. Having tried a few times to put together a successful rock group after his departure from The Yardbirds, Beck gravitated more toward the jazz-rock fusion from his sessions with the band Upp, whom he produced and played on their first record. Out of those sessions came the groundwork for Blow By Blow, an incredible showcase of Beck's prowess behind the fretboard. Produced by George Martin (the fifth Beatle himself), and with help from Stevie Wonder (who lended 2 of his tracks to the record and even plays clavinet on one of them), join us as we Blow By Blow geek out over how truly amazing this record is and how it helped put Beck on the path to becoming one of the greatest guitar players of all time. Tracklist Jeff Beck - Rock My Plimsoul Jeff Beck - Constipated Duck Jeff Beck - Air Blower Jeff Beck - Scatterbrain Little Simz - Selfish Matthew Halsall, The Gondwana Orchestra - As I Walk Stanley Clarke - Silly Putty This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network.

1h 7m
Jan 12, 2023
Show Announcement

We have some updates to share about the future of No Filler. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Outro track: Death and Vanilla - "Looking Glass"

12m
Jan 11, 2023
Best of 2022 - Part Four

In our final episode of 2022, we wrap up our best of countdown with our top 10 tracks of the year. Thank you as always for listening, we'll talk at ya next year! TRACKLIST __ __ This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network.

1h 24m
Dec 31, 2022
Best of 2022 - Part Three

Join us all December as we count down our favorite tracks from 2022. __ __ This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network.

1h 9m
Dec 25, 2022
Best of 2022 - Part Two

Join us all December as we count down our favorite tracks from 2022. __ __ This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network.

1h 18m
Dec 16, 2022
Best of 2022 - Part One

Join us all December as we count down our favorite tracks from 2022. __ __ This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network.

1h 27m
Dec 12, 2022
Rewind: Beyond Zombie - The Overlooked Gems From The Cranberries First Three Records

You've heard "Dreams" and "Linger". You've probably heard "Zombie" close to a gazillion times by now. But as we like to say around here, it's often the tracks between the singles that need another listen (or for some - a first listen). We dive into The Cranberries' first three records and marvel over how unmatched Dolores O'Riordan's powerful and unique vocals were in the 90s rock landscape, and how refusing to shed their Irish origins made her voice that much more powerful by giving western audiences a perspective we may never have heard. TRACKLIST: __ __ This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman.

49m
Dec 06, 2022