Conan Neutron’s Protonic Reversal

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Ep326: John Darnielle (the Mountain Goats) Mar 20, 2023

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John was good enough to talk to Conan before their next big tour. What about? Pokerface! Stylistic changeups,the evolution of Mountain Goats from one guy to a large band and what the various members bring. Setlists and when a song works live or doesn't. Songs that reveal themselves. Shania Twain? GOTHS, The Sunset Tree. Ego and sublimation of ego. The deep connection with THIS YEAR. Allegory, emotional resonance. Prairie Sun. Heretic Pride, Sequencing. D&D on film. The Getting into Knives cover. Bleed Out, Italian cop movies and uptempo songs.

Ep325: Donna Diane (Djunah) Mar 13, 2023

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It has been 184 episodes since Donna Diane has been on Protonic. A few things have happened since then. Including Djunah's new record Femina Furens. The absolutely nuts video for Seven Winds of Sekhmet. Legs for bassist, doing everything ones self (no, really!) complex post-traumatic stress disorder, poetry and deadbeat dad Gods. It is also a VERY detailed song by song breakdown of this incredible and dense record. Including multiple suggestive Santas. Furious woman! Let's go.

Ep324: Lori Joseph (Acid King) Mar 06, 2023

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Beyond Vision! An all new Acid King record for 2023. This one is a bit more psychedelic then previous records but still has the essential monolithic AK riffs you would expect. Yet, there are keyboards too. (*gasp*). It is a winding, thundering song cycle of space exploration. There's a song by song of the new one. Also, let's take a walk back to the days of Man's Ruin and Sympathy for the Record Industry where Lori get her start with Acid King. Walkthroughs of the whole discography. Live at Roadburn, Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere, III, Free (and Clearlight), Busse Woods, Down With the Crown, Zoroaster.

Ep323: Russell Simins (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, SERVICE) Feb 27, 2023

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DANG! it's the drum man for the BLUUUUUUES EXPLOOOOOSSSION. Who also happens to be half of the creative braintrust of the mighty SERVICE (Whose: DRAG ME was named best record of 2022 by this show!). A detailed history of JSBX, album by album... starting from the very beginning. R.L. Burnside! Playing with Tom Waits. Butter 08, production, JUST FRED, Pranking Weird Al with Yoko Ono. And of course the origin story of S-E-R-V-I-C-E one of the best rock bands on the planet. You want in-depth? You got it... punk!

Ep322: Rose Marshack (Poster Children, Salaryman, Author) Feb 21, 2023

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The incredible Rose Marshack of Poster Children has written a book called: Play Like a Girl: My Life In Poster Children. Join us as we discuss music as community, the nuts, bolts and dollars and cents of making music. Surviving the 90s gold rush on a major label. Creative ventures. Origin stories, tour reports, computers, the indie code of ethics, the complicated expectations of rocking while a woman, teaching, zen, martial arts, Mercy Rule, Ian Mackaye and so much more. It is a great conversation and a great book.

Ep321: Ivan Julian (Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Shriekback, Matthew Sweet) Feb 15, 2023

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Ivan has a new record called Swing Your Lanterns. Starting in live performance with the Foundations (Build Me Up Buttercup) with touring 101, starting in with Richard Hell and the Voidoids in 70s New York. Rehearsing 3 or 4 songs for months for the first ep, Black Generation. Liars Beware! The different sounds and bands of that NY scene and whoever sells more records gets written about more. The story of the Outsets, Giorgio Gomelsky and Bob Clearmountain. Working without a net. Working with Matthew Sweet, touring with Shriekback. All that and so much more, a lifetime of incredible music.

Ep320: Kevin Rutmanis (Hepa.Titus, Cows, Melvins, Tomahawk) Feb 06, 2023

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Kevin is back and he has TWO new records! Uneat, the latest from Hepa.Titus. And Crackpot Whorehead a collaboration with Trevor Dunn. The Bass V - I. A brief history of hepa.tits, and remote collaborations. Selected Melvins memories. The joy of grabbing weird gear and doing cool things with it. All that and a living history of Cows records (or whatever Kevin remembers of them!). Also, don't miss episode Ep144 when Kevin was last on THREE YEARS AGO!

Ep319: Martin Bisi (Producer, Engineer, Martin Bisi Band) Jan 20, 2023

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The pride of Gowanus comes on Protonic Reversal. Martin documented all the no waves bands, ran a studio with Bill Laswell before running it himself. Recorded Herbie Hancock's ROCKIT (!), as well as Ex-Models, Lydia Lunch... Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising and EVOL. J.G. Thirlwell. All of that, an incredible career and incredible ongoing presence in the New York community and beyond. Who else randomly stumbles upon Brian Eno outtakes? That's right... Martin Bisi. Ohh yeah, he also has a great new record of his own called FERAL MYTHS.

Ep318: Mario Lalli (Fatso Jetson, Mario Lalli and the Rubber Snake Charmers, Yawning Man, Across The River, Queens of the Stone Age) Jan 10, 2023

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Boomer, The godfather of desert rock! Early days with Black Flag, Redd Kross and Saccharine Trust. Restaurants and riffs. The incredible Tony Tornay. Introducing: The free and unique night to night music of the Rubber Snake Charmers. The origins of the incredible Fatso Jetso. Dropping into the desert sessions to do "millionaire" (later to become a Queens of the Stone Age song). Generators and the responsibility of running a restaurant. Live from Total Annihilation. Legends of the Desert split with Dali's Llama! It is the legend, Mario Lalli.

Ep317: Top Records of 2022 Dec 28, 2022

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It is time for the yearly countdown of some of my favorite records of 2022. I can't include all of them and taste is subjective, but hopefully you can find some gems here that you either were not aware of or have been meaning to check out. And for those that don't care about the episode and just want lists, here's that too. (also in playlist form) Bandname - Song - Album, and deep links to their respective episode (where appropriate) 1. SERVICE - Hey - Drag Me 2. Lung - Sick - Let it Be Gone 3. Helms Alee - Mouth Thinker - Keep This Be The Way (ep268) 4. Chat Pile - Pamela - God's Country (ep305) 5. Kal Marks - Ovation - My Name is Hell (ep302) 6. Hammered Hulls - Rights and Reproduction - Careening (ep316) 7. Sloan - Keep Your Name Alive - Steady 8. Paul Roessler - Maker - The Turning of the Bright World (ep312) 9. Plosivs - Hit the Breaks - Plosivs 10. Melvins - My Discomfort is Radiant - Bad Mood Rising 11. Dälek - A Heretic's Inheritence - Precipice (ep293) 12. Savak - Empathy - Human Error / Human Delight (ep292) 13. Toshi Kasai - Perpetual Manufactory - Based on True Stories (ep306) 14. Mr Phylzzz - Pretend Friends - Cancel Culture Club 15. Mike Baggetta / Mike Watt / Jim Keltner - Fake Break - Everywhen We Go (ep314, ep315) 16. The Art Gray Noizz Quintent - Here's Johnny - The Art Gray Noizz Quintent (ep294) 17. A Deer A Horse - Bitter - Grind (ep290) 18. Microwaves - Your Dumb Guts - Discomfiture Atlas (ep308) 19. Coordinated Suicides - Mickey Disney Lover - This Could Be Heaven 20. DEVO's Gerald V. Casale - The Invisible Man - The Invisible Man ep (ep313)

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