No Singles

We love both of the albums we have for you today. White Reaper and Dire Straits are two bands with a lot more in common than you might think. We kick off today's episode with the blasting melodies of White Reaper that go through extreme adolescent heartbreak, horror, and doubt before settling into the soft melodies Dire Straits that take us through memories of adolescent love, six blade knives, and a gentle walk in the West En...

So this week we've got another album featuring songs that JR loved listening to on his drive over Lake Pontchartrain. It's Life Of Leisure by none other than that Georgia peach we call Washed Out. Coming up from Nate's past we have one of his all time favorite albums by his favorite band, The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails. To really dive into his past we've invited his brother to be a guest on this episode ...

A dysfunctional music collective and an incredibly well put together jazz legend. Sometimes we really don't have all that many commonalities on the show and this is one of those kind of episodes. Ah Hell. Join us anyway! This week Nate and JR sit down to discuss Canada's favorite black sheep, Broken Social Scene and their sometimes sideways take on the insular world around them. After that we're going to throw on som...

Today we cover a couple of albums that were written and recorded by New York artists. First we have Is The Is Are by DIIV, a 17 track album constructed by Zachary Cole Smith and his orchestra and recorded right in Brooklyn... or Queens... it's over there on the border of the two. After that we have the piano rock classic, The Stranger by none other than Billy Joel and his orchestra recorded in none other than Manhattan. That&a...

Two albums signed to small indie labels 30 years apart from one another that dared to tread new ground and break new sound. Mudhoney is often referred to as the band that kicked off the Pacific North West's grunge boom and we're going to dive into Superfuzz Bigmuff, the album that started it all. Right after that we're going to jump to the other side of the country and listen to Dr. Dog with their fifth studio album,...

Today we explore a legendary rock albums by one of CBGB's most successful bands to start out in the NY punk scene of the 70's. It's Parallel Lines by Blondie and of course accompanying that is Allah-Las by Allah-Las straight out of the LA surfer scene of the 2010's. Today we have Vivian Hale joining us to discuss these albums. Not only did she grow up in LA but she now contributes to the NY music scene herself, ...

We're a day late on this episode but it's here and it rocks! Two seminal figures in their own eras who changed the landscape of music in more obscure ways than other figures in rocks subgenres. For the indie rock heads who love to watch coming of age films from the early 2000's we've got a band you would love to blast into your vintage walkman headphones, that's right it's none other than Arcade Fire. ...

What do three indie artists create when they meet in LA on break from their regular projects one summer? What songs get put on a compilation album when an artist leaves his record label after one of the best eight year runs in rock n' roll history? Well we've got the answers this episode where we listen to short lived super group Little Joy and long time legend James Taylor on a new installment of No Singles.

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We're taking a couple trips back into recent history this episode. First we're making a stop in the year 2013 for She & Him's album Volume 3 and we discuss the changing landscape of the rock and pop landscape around that time. After that we're going a bit further back to 2001 to discuss Amnesiac by Radiohead and how the world was facing a changing world where technology began to take off faster than anybody ...

We're going back in time this week to discuss two albums by Tom Waits and Les Paul. That's right, we're talking smoke filled dingey dive bar piano ballads, and tight, twangy guitar that you may hear comin from the back of a mattress truck. Do these albums pair together? Maybe in one direction. Are there covers on both albums? You bet there are! We've got musician's musicians this week on No Singles as we di...

Another week, another new episode of No Singles. That's right folks, today Nate and JR will tackle the multi Grammy winning album, the record by boygenius as well as We Share A Similar Joy by local New York hero JW Francis. Both albums discuss relationships and heartbreak and while their writing styles are very different these are two indie artists who truly do share a similar feeling between them. Please join us in our discus...

This week we're discussing two albums that were only released four years apart! Navigating the rich history of the bands Broken Bells and King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard proved to be so tough that Nate and JR have enlisted the help of Mia Soza, the bassist of Mandy's Dreaming (of which the others all also members) to help break down the bands legacies, writing styles, and much more. Come join us as we talk about, among...

We're going for a first in all of history on this episode of No Singles. Never before has anybody mentioned music artists Bob Dylan and Stevie Dinner in the same sentence until now. Nate and JR take you on a journey from 1966 to 2013 with no stops in between as they discuss the making of, track list, and legacy of two albums with very different sounds shaped by two artists who followed their  instincts and came out on the othe...

Nate and JR discuss the rising cost of t-shirts, and Hot Topic memberships before diving into this weeks albums.

JR's pick for the week is Dark Arc by Saintseneca. An Appalachian indie rock album layered with so many instruments you'll twist your tongue trying to pronounce them all.

Nate's pick for the week is i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it by The 1975. Moody and poppy this albu...

In the very first episode of No Singles both Nate and JR lay out an introduction to the podcast and discuss their "bona fides" in music. They talk about the goal of the podcast; to promote comprehensive album listening and the dying art of building an albums flow as well as the growing trend of putting singles performance before the performance of a whole albums worth of songs. All while sipping on beer and having a free ...