Kids Don't Follow
33 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFrom our Washington DC studio we pick a music-based topic and discuss the hell out of it. We also play related tunes. Every week a new topic and new tunes. Come and join us for the conversation. Follow us at @KDFPodcast.
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Episodes
Episode 33 RPM | The Phone Memo Show
December 06, 2018 16:55 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBWe're phoning it in. Literally. Taylor, Elliott and Bill all record their new, new-to-them, and rediscovered music picks on the voice memo apps for this first ever mobile phone KDF production. Featured Artists (songs played, more were discussed): Bill: Eliza Shaddad Lucy Dacus Amanda Shires Taylor: Mike Krol Young Sscum Royal Headache Elliott: Kurt Vile Rata Negra The Beths The Glands If you have any questions, comments, concerns, hit us up at [email protected]. ...
Episode 32 | Flagpole Sittas
June 21, 2018 14:42 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBTaylor, Elliott and Bill take a trip back in time through the Billboard Alternative charts before talking about everything else under the sun. Where else are you going to turn for the latest Harvey Danger news? Spotify playlist for stuff we talked about is here: https://open.spotify.com/user/schiek/playlist/0ACy96YXYWQS8OQFt3gLgZ?si=W0pSX8mrS7yM4yG7-pPCng White Reaper - Make Me Wanna Die Oso Oso - reindeer games Warm Thoughts - Sunbleached and Yellowed The Beths - Future Me Hate...
Episode 31 | More Talk, Less Rock
February 27, 2018 04:07 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBTaylor, Elliott and Bill reconvene to talk music and politics and so much more. We discuss new tunes, seeing Superchunk in Baltimore, the history of R.E.M, if artists are legitimate political voices, and James van der Beek as Diplo. The conversation was so much fun we decided not to play any tunes during the show. But we talked about a lot of music. Here's the Spotify playlist for the ep: (https://open.spotify.com/user/schiek/playlist/0585L7iCBTiRFsXCNTpS9W?si=VkKW0z9JTdOdHoqBBpY1JQ) Tu...
Episode 30 | What's on Bill's Turntable (vol. 1)?
February 14, 2018 22:25 - 42 minutes - 58.1 MBFor episode 30 of KDF, Bill shuts off his DAP for a bit and starts spinning vinyl on his new turntable. After a few tracks a bit of a dark, electronic, female vocal-driven vibe starts to emerge, so we just stick with that and drive it home. Recommendations for new music: Bandcamp Daily. Playlist: Exhumed~Chromatics Teenage Witch~Suzi Wu Toehead~Fishdoll Raingurl~Yaeji All About Me~Syd Baby's Got The Blues~H.C. McEntire Music Bed: Tracks from Digital Rain by Johnny Jewel I...
Episode 29 | The Best Of 2017
December 31, 2017 17:27 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBWe're back! Just in time to kick 2017 out of the house with our year end review. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, hit us up at [email protected]. Please subscribe to the show, tell your friends, and consider becoming a member of the Wide Angle Podium Network. On Twitter: Taylor: @jtaylorjones Elliott: @ef_caldwell Bill: @cxhairs KDF Podcast: @kdfpodcast Thanks for listening.
Episode 28: What's On Bill's DAP? No. 3
September 30, 2017 05:54 - 54 minutes - 75 MBFor this third installment of What's on Bill's DAP? We concentrate on more new music. More hip hop with a few old non-rap tunes thrown in for good measure. I also give you some recommendations, including Vox's earworm series, The Dissect Podcast and Celebration Rock. Listen up for details. SPOILER ALERT ... here's the playlist: Baggy Trousers~MADNESS See You Sweat~Injury Reserve Dry Rain~The Meatpuppets Live From Iron Curtain~Apathy and OC Call Ticketron~Run The Jewels Malcolm~...
Episode 27: What's on Bill's DAP 2?
September 06, 2017 16:47 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBAnother album's worth of tunes from Bill's Digital Audio Player. Track Listing: Dreams Tonite~Alvvays People Say~Wu-Tang Clan Windmill~Filthy Friends First Choice~Oddisee An Intimate Close Up of a Street Punk~Rancid Bangarang~Doomtree Crosstown Happenin'~Wu Tang v Jimi Hendrix Musical Bed: The Epic~Kamasi Washington If you have any questions, comments, concerns, hit us up at [email protected]. Please subscribe to the show, tell your friends, and consider becoming a membe...
Episode 26: What's On Bill's DAP?
August 18, 2017 16:12 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MBFor episode 26 of Kids Don't Follow, it's a solo effort as Bill takes the mic on a late night whim and goes through his digital audio player for an LP's worth of hip hop and rap tracks. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, hit us up at [email protected]. Please subscribe to the show, tell your friends, and consider becoming a member of the Wide Angle Podium Network. The Wide Angle Podium is in the middle of its donor drive and we really want you to be a part of the family...
Episode 25: Cynthia Connolly and Amanda MacKaye
May 15, 2017 14:58 - 1 hour - 72.3 MBFor episode 25 of Kids Don't Follow we have two amazing special guests. Cynthia Connolly, who is an artist, photographer and curator and the person behind the book Banned in DC joins us along with the musician, concert promoter, teenage record company executive known as Amanda MacKaye. We ask some questions, pretend to have some sort of structure, but in the end, it's just a great conversation about DC, music and growing up. Thanks so much to Sol Schott of Acme Pie Co. for organizing an...
Episode 24: Which Pop Punk Song Are You?
May 08, 2017 12:31 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBTaylor, Elliott and Bill get back to together for a tight hour and five discussion on the world of music. We talk Jawbreaker, euro pants and take a quiz to figure out which nostalgic pop punk band our personality represents. Thanks for tuning in. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, hit us up at [email protected]. Please subscribe to the show, tell your friends, and consider becoming a member of the Wide Angle Podium Network. On Twitter: Taylor: @jtaylorjones Elliott...
Episode 23: Back In The Basement
March 08, 2017 03:57 - 1 hour - 78.9 MBWith Elliott back in town for the National Bike Summit, we couldn't pass up an opportunity to get together and record in the basement, just like old times. With no plan and Taylor losing his voice, we may have recorded our best episode, yet. Bill catalogs every rock biography he's listened to on audible, we debate Japandroids second album and then go completely off the rails by reading the lineups for every HFStival between 1999 and 2004. Thanks for tuning in. If you have any questions, ...
Episode 22: Protest Music?
February 01, 2017 17:45 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBTodd McDonald (Routineers, Jury Rig, unnamed new band) returns to the show to join Taylor, Elliott and Bill for a wide ranging conversation on what protest music will look like in the coming years ... as if we know. We also chat about new music and recent shows before looking back at the top albums of 2007 because there was a list. And we love lists. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, hit us up at [email protected]. Please subscribe to the show, tell your friends, and con...
Episode 21: Making The Best Of 2016
December 22, 2016 04:16 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBTaylor, Elliott and Bill reconvene for episode 21 of the Kids Don't Follow Podcast to talk about their favorite albums of the year. Their favorite shows of the year, and their favorite music that may not have been recorded in 2016 but it was new to them this year. We had a whole lot more planned, but with all of the pent up conversation spewing forth, we decided to hold off on other topics for the next episode, which we promise will be coming soon. Playlist for this episode at open.spotif...
Episode 20: Minnesota Punk With Spencer Haugh
August 26, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBOn episode 20 we are joined by Spencer Haugh from The Slow Ride Podcast to talk about growing up punk in the Twin Cities. Although Spencer now resides in Boston he was born and bred in the Minnesota crusty punk scene. Spencer and Elliott give the lowdown on the lost generation of punk in the late nineties with a special emphasis on the Minnesota scene. Taylor joins Bill in the basement too ask questions, derail the conversation, and drink sparkling water. Set List: Monolith/Time Bomb~A...
Episode 19: Finding Our Stride
August 10, 2016 16:16 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBIt's been too long since we podcast. But we're back! Taylor, Elliott and Bill discuss Pitchfork's The Story of Feminist Punk in 33 songs, Descendents new album, bands they would like to see reunite (if any), recent shows, new music, and so much more. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, hit us up at [email protected]. You can find playlists for all of the KDF shows here: open.spotify.com/user/schiek. Please subscribe to the show, tell your friends, and consider becoming ...
Episode 18: Talking With Todd
May 11, 2016 19:34 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBFor episode 18 Todd McDonald (Routineers, Jury Rig) joins us in the basement for a wide-ranging conversation. We breakdown the list of 100 top venues in the U.S., relive some cool shows we've recently seen and go off on many tangents. It's a fun free-wheeling conversation. Great to have Todd on the mic and hope to have him back soon. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, hit us up at [email protected]. Please subscribe to the show, tell your friends, and consider becoming a ...
Episode 17: Skacast
May 04, 2016 15:03 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBOn Episode 17 of Kids Don't Follow Podcast we are joined by Kevin Hays, the one person in our circle of friends brave enough to admit he's a ska fan. Kevin came into the episode armed with a notebook full of notes and we ended up with a thorough and quite enjoyable trip through the history of ska. From Jamaica to ska core, it's all in here. Thanks for listening. Spotify playlist for this episode is available here: https://open.spotify.com/user/schiek/playlist/6ZsiZMJIvpovH8ZPXvvBPb Questi...
Episode 16: Trouble Boys
April 13, 2016 15:23 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBOn episode 16 of the Kids Don't Follow Podcast we have our first KDF Book Club and chat about the newly published The Replacements book, Trouble Boys. After that discussion, we do a deep dive into Rolling Stone's Top 40 Emo Bands in the first installment of what we like to call "dumb lists." After a quick detour into Led Zeppelin and plagiarism, everyone offers up some new (and really old) tracks for you to check out. Spotify playlist for this episode is available here: https://open.spotify...
Episode 15: Pylon to Polyon
April 01, 2016 19:24 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBWe're back! And trying out our new digs on the Wide Angle Podium Network. For episode 15, Bill, Taylor and Elliott take a look back at recent live shows they've seen and the bands you should check out. We also chat about the new releases we are into. It's a good hour of music and banter. If you like what you hear, check out WideAnglePodium.com. Subscribe to the other shows and please consider becoming a member and making a donation. Let us know your questions, thoughts, comments and concer...
Episode 14: Cover Songs
December 31, 2015 04:42 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBElliott, Taylor and Bill play and discuss their favorite cover songs. And then play some tracks that got left off of Episode 13, best of the year. Thanks for listening. Follow us at www.kidsdontfollow.com and www.twitter.com/kdfpodcast.
Episode 13: Year End Review
December 19, 2015 01:38 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBElliott, Taylor and Bill take a look at their favorite album, song, show and surprise from 2015. Lots of sweet, sweet tunage in this episode. Put it in your ears.
Episode 12: Back To School
September 09, 2015 04:06 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBTaylor, Elliott and Bill get back in the studio after a long summer break to discuss their favorite song, album and show of the summer. Let us know your favorites by tweeting us @kdfpodcast or by sending us email at [email protected]. Spotify playlist for this episode available at: https://open.spotify.com/user/schiek/playlist/1UPIrg1Izor7518n9dRxN6 Thanks for listening.
Kids Don't Follow Episode 11: Still Feel Gone to Columbus
June 23, 2015 23:16 - 1 hour - 91.8 MBFor episode 11 we dive deep into the Uncle Tupelo world and come up for air after a whole lot of Wilco. We planned on covering Son Volt, too, but decided to take up that discussion on another episode so we had time for a special guest. Spencer Hackett joins us from Columbus, Ohio, to discuss the C-Bus music scene. Thanks for listening. Give a follow at @kdfpodcast, review us on itunes and send us mail at [email protected].
Kids Don't Follow Episode 10: Two From Here, One From There
June 17, 2015 04:36 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBOn episode 10 of Kids Don't Follow we stay local for the first half, picking our favorite DC-region recent releases. We then leave the Mid-Atlantic and discuss releases from anywhere. Throw in some wildcard picks and an Adventures of Ford Fairlane tangent and you've got something for everyone. Music from Cigarette, Makeshift Shelters, Sorority Noise, Paint Branch, Give, Desaparecidos, Titus Andronicus, FFS, Dot Dash, Tideland, Big Hush, Fucked Up, Seaweed, Canyon, Billy Idol and Neko Case. ...
Kids Don't Follow Episode 9: Three Shows, One Podcast
June 09, 2015 18:27 - 1 hour - 56 MBWe all went our separate ways for Episode 9. Taylor saw Hutch and Kathy, Elliott saw a WOAR show in Philadelphia with four bands on the bill, and Bill took in Refused and others at the Rock and Roll Hotel. We talk about the bands and the shows, tell some stories and listen to some tunes. Join us, won't you? Photos from Refused and Puff Pieces are at http://cxhairs.smugmug.com/Music/Refused/ Playlists for all episodes are at https://open.spotify.com/user/schiek. Please follow us on Twitter...
Kids Don't Follow Episode 8: My So Called Music
June 03, 2015 04:01 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBTaylor, Bill and Elliott discuss and listen to new music and favorite tunes including the Loud Boyz, Red Dons, Sturgill Simpson, Screaming Females, Radiator Hospital, All Dogs, Radioactivity, Softeyes, Nana Grizol, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Cancers and more. Please check it out and tell a friend. Let us know what you think at [email protected] and @kdfpodcast. Thanks for listening.
Kids Don't Follow Episode 7: What's on your Zune?
May 26, 2015 04:02 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBFor episode #7 we share our new (or new to us) music picks. It's a loose format with a lot of outstanding tunes and some good conversation. Listen along and then let us know what you're listening to at @KDFPodcast or [email protected]. Thanks for listening.
Kids Don't Follow Episode 6: Detroit
May 19, 2015 05:04 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBFor episode six we take a look at the history of music in Detroit. From Motown to J Dilla with stops at the Stooges, MC5, The Dirtbombs, The Nuge, and many many more. Soul, R&B, Funk, Rock, Hardcore, Rap, Techno ... it's amazing we covered as much as we did in 90 minutes. Thanks for listening. Please subscribe and rate. Also, follow us on Twitter at @kdfpodcast, on Instagram at @kdfpodcast, and on FaceBook at Kids Don't Follow Podcast. We can be contacted at [email protected].
Kids Don't Follow Episode 5: Salad Days, Mac McCaughan, The Replacements
May 12, 2015 04:27 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBIt's a KDFPodcast field trip! For this week we discuss an amazing week of live events. We started the week going to see the DC punk documentary Salad Days at NPR, which included a panel discussion with the filmmakers and Brian Baker. Next we saw Mac McCaughan of Superchunk and Merge Records fame play a solo show at Black Cat DC with Merge labelmates, Flesh Wounds. And, finally, we ended the week with the show of shows, The Replacements!!! After discussing those events, we take our first swip...
Kids Don't Follow Episode 4: North Carolina Music
May 05, 2015 04:39 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBFor episode four of the Kid's Don't Follow podcast, Taylor, Elliott and Bill dive into the music of North Carolina. From bluegrass to old school hardcore, we try to cover as much as possible from this musically rich state. Let us know what you think at [email protected] and on Twitter @KDFPodcast. We are also on Facebook. Thanks for listening and subscribing.
Kids Don't Follow Episode 3: The Britpop Show
April 28, 2015 05:10 - 1 hour - 113 MBTaylor and Bill look back at Britpop's heyday, 1992-1997. It's an Oasis and Blur heavy episode, but we cover a lot of other ground as well, including influences, predecessor bands and the acts that rode the Britpop wave. We do it all in a non-linear fashion. Let us know what you think at @KDFpodcast and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/KidsDontFollowPodcast. Thanks for listening.
Kids Don't Follow Episode 2: The Sophomore Slump
April 21, 2015 02:57 - 1 hour - 97 MBIn episode 2 of the KDF Podcast, we discuss Record Store Day (or Record Shop Day): its history, exclusive releases for this year, and a brewing controversy over the impact of the event. We then take a look back at our favorite live shows and the stories surrounding those memories. Please follow us on twitter at @kdfpodcast. You can contact the show at [email protected] If you like what you hear, take a second and review us on iTunes. It costs no extra to give five stars. Thanks for li...
Kids Don't Follow Podcast: No. 1 Episode
April 14, 2015 20:55 - 1 hour - 121 MBTaylor Jones, Elliott Caldwell and Bill Schieken get together to talk music on the first episode of the Kids Don't Follow Podcast. Topics include favorite third track/side one songs, favorite albums from 1995, and notable new releases. Everything from The Replacements to Riot Girrrl and many disparate points between are discussed. Thanks for listening. Spotify playlist for #1 Episode is here: https://open.spotify.com/user/schiek/playlist/1YQr4cLyXoMYRICFd7Y7fg …