What do you get when you go on a quest for high-fidelity portable audio, but forget to bring the design […]
Episode 42: The Laki Eruption
In the late 18th century, the Netherlands really had it out for Iceland. Maybe it was all the red-hot magma, […]
Episode 41.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Third Wave Experiment
Why teach a class about 1930s German’s descent into fascism when you can just show the whole school how it’s […]
Episode 41: [Album Autopsy] Lulu
Leaning into “… and the music they make us listen to” from our tagline, Leigh and Peter discuss where universally […]
Episode 40.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Station Nightclub Fire
In a time after hair metal was king, Great White were still carrying the flame… unfortunately, it was right into […]
Episode 40: [Ruinous Rewind] Plague of Athens
A new feature is born! With our shift to one major disaster a month (in addition to regularly scheduled Tragedy […]
Episode 39.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Norwegian Black Metal
For a music scene that generated such awesome bands, the Norwegian black metal community sure were a bunch of miscreants. […]
Episode 39: The Peshtigo Firestorm
The Great Chicago Fire wasn’t the worst fire ever to hit the United States. It wasn’t the worst fire in […]
Episode 38.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Witchcraft Trial of Sarah Good
Things got a bit hairy in Salem in 1692… let’s just say it wasn’t a good time to be feeding […]
Episode 38: Darby Crash
In the late 1970s, two friends got straight-As in fruit-eating and crystal meth. Luckily for the trajectory of punk rock, […]