Imagine if you can.

It's June.

It's about a bazillion degrees.

It's hot.

But you've been in a car for eight hours, 15 hours.

Now you're in a field in Manchester and you're happy and you're zen and the vibes are immaculate.

Which bands are you going to go see?

Which bands do you want to go tell your friends to go see?

That's what we're going to talk about this week on The What Podcast.

Here we go.

We're always trying to do your best.

To worry about what happens next.

Hey guys.

Hi.

How are you?

Hello.

Hey, good.

Happy to be here.

I'm Barry.

That's Brian.

That's Lord Taco.

Russ.

As we call him.

Lord Taco.

It's The What Podcast.

We're here to talk about the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.

We're here to talk about, ah man, bands that we've never heard of.

Right?

That's the focus.

Yeah.

And this is a thing with Bonnaroo every year.

This isn't new to us.

This, you know, as the year has gone by, we know less and less.

And I've, for the last week, done more discovery than I've done in a long time.

Thank you.

Me too.

It's been pretty cool.

It's been pretty cool.

And I'm just scratching the surface of this discovery.

So I'm excited as I can be.

Real quick.

Your first number one band that you discovered this week because of our show last week.

Russ, quick, go.

I didn't listen to last week's show.

Oh, you're killing it.

Well, you were on it.

I knew he'd do it.

That's why I did it that way.

I knew it.

I didn't know there'd be homework.

From last week.

Oh, I've been listening to so much from this week.

My head's clouded with stuff from this week.

I realized how much I love cigarettes after sex.

Thank you.

That was mine.

Thank you.

I thought I already knew that.

So that's not really a major discovery.

I was pretty sure I already knew that.

I just hadn't.

I hadn't fact checked it yet, if you will.

But I've also found because of, you know, we'll get into here shortly.

So many not just the callers, but also comments and all the social media activity.

I've stumbled on so much in the last week.

I can't remember what the hell we did last week.

I know.

You're starting to run together on me.

We started to make a Spotify playlist, which we'll link and I updated mine today.

It's unbelievable, right?

I updated mine.

I had to go in and take some junk out that I just added to be like, Hey, look at me.

I know this band like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Get out of here.

Make room for others.

One quick thing though, guys, that I did see as I was going through some stuff today.

And so we're we record a few days in advance, obviously.

So the math will be 97 days from today is when the Tuesday crazy people show up.

That's right.

When I show up.

Yeah.

It's officially under a hundred days.

Yeah.

When he cuts the ribbon, when he cuts the ribbon with the mayor of coffee County, that's

97 days from right now.

So three months away, when the, when the other guy walks into the farm and says, Hey man,

how long you been here?

Are you the groundskeeper man?

It's a hell of a bus you got there.

Yeah.

I got the keys.

How'd you get in?

Don't ask.

Don't ask.

I've been here since last year.

There are ways.

Don't tell either.

There are ways.

Trust me.

No, no, I'm with you, man.

Cigarettes after sex.

What an interesting band.

That was mine this morning.

I kept, you know, started my Spotify and I was like, that's the one I keep going back

to.

Um, that's just an interesting sound.

One that I've already been, I know I might've mentioned it.

And I can't remember.

I've been on so many different podcasts.

I'm not trying to sound like, Hey, you're the in the know guy, but, uh, beaches.

Yeah.

Now this is one of Brad's.

Now this is his discovery band that he's going to say he launched them.

Uh, former regular host and co-founder of the show.

Uh, but he, he did get them pretty early on.

I'm in love.

Yeah, they're great.

I'm in love.

I'm in love.

I'm in love with the beaches.

It's, it's the biggest show on Sunday for me.

Uh, and Jason Isbell's playing on Sunday.

So like if I had to pick one and I've seen Jason countless times in the last 20 years,

so that's an easy choice, but I'm in love with this band from Canada.

And they are boy, they are fun, fun, fun stuff.

I agree.

Have you found Josiah in the Bonnevilles?

I guess not.

Uh, okay.

Well, that's one of mine is today.

I got a long way to go, man.

And it's just getting going.

It's getting better and better every time.

Very isble.

That's why I ask.

Okay.

I know you're a huge isble.

You, you, you know, you guys used to hang out at the pickle barrel, right?

We got drunk a few times at rhythm and bruise.

I know you have stories.

I know you just ask him.

He'll tell you all about it.

Yeah.

All right.

Russ, you've had a minute now.

The one I've been listening to the most is half moon run.

And I know you guys like to poo poo on half moon run, but I think they're pretty good.

And we had some, some comments about that.

Like we did last week that, oh yeah.

Preciousness.

A little too precious.

It's good stuff though.

Right?

It is.

Come on.

I came back around.

I'm not sure how far I got with a half moon run yet, but they're, they're certainly on

the list.

So you are you not halfway there yet?

I'm not even a quarter of the way there.

Quarter moon run.

Oh, I see what you did.

Quarter moon run.

All right.

Eighth of a moon run.

So we got, and here's what we're going to do in this episode.

We played Bonnaroo led a couple of weeks ago where we spun the wheel and just landed on

bands that we'd never heard of, and then we asked you guys to, to give us your picks and

you guys have continued to do that.

And I'm looking at the spreadsheet now.

It's we've put together a list.

We're going to go through some of them.

I don't know how many we'll get through, but it's interesting.

Some of the names show up from different people, right?

Say she, she, I love that one.

Chapel rone.

I actually, I, there's only been maybe one or two that I just didn't quite dig.

Every, everybody that has been recommended, I thought was great.

Is it, is it, is chapel rone?

Chappelle?

I couldn't, I wasn't sure on that one.

There wasn't a phonetic spelling anywhere, but I've been listening to her a lot today,

which we'll get more into.

Pretty cool, right?

It's, it's cool.

It is.

And there's, I'm finding more and more on this list.

There's a lot of women.

There's a lot of women, head, uh, uh, uh, front women of, and just headline art or not

headline, I mean, top of the, uh, the, the bill, but, uh, that I wasn't aware of.

I didn't know who Chappelle rone was.

You know, I didn't know if that was a band or if that was, uh, you know, uh, whatever.

So, so yeah, I've noticed that and I've, I've, as I was rebuilding my Spotify playlist, I

was like, there's a lot of, of women on there and that's great.

I mean, I don't, I'm not trying to go one way or the other, uh, but it's, it, it certainly

is a pretty cool.

So looking for trends and we'll go ahead and start there.

Um, she, uh, one thing I noticed, what, what's up with all the masks?

When did that become a thing?

Is this a say she's a say she, she's that what we're talking about with the mask and

stuff?

Yeah.

Well, not just them, but I think Teske, uh, there's a couple of different bands that are

the mask things, costumes and that kind of thing is so, so part of it all now and not

just music festivals.

I guess it's just a trend of that, right?

Isn't it that where that's come from?

It probably Marty growl was where you'd find the origins of a lot of this stuff.

And it's just kind of trickled its way into pop culture, maybe daft punk and some of these

other bands that wear these, these crazy masks and helmets.

And I was going to give you credit.

You and, uh, you and Kai were you and Kai were into this way before anybody else.

Oh yeah.

We started this trend.

Yes.

Uh, our lovely intern.

Um, and, and yeah, the, the facials, I guess, as you would call them mass in the morning.

Y'all were into it before you even knew it was a thing.

Yeah.

You had a whole spa day together.

How many times have I exaggerated that I started into this trend before anybody else knew about

it?

Just about everything.

I, if, if, if I'm the worst, then I'm tied with Brad as the worst of that guy.

But yes, we'll have Kai and, and, uh,

Yeah.

Fine mother, regular, uh, contributor and, uh, and, and camp nut butter member.

Yeah.

On, uh, in the next few weeks anyway.

Yeah.

That's a whole nother thing, but I just thought it was so funny.

I was literally putting together my Spotify list and I thought, man, there's what's a

mask thing.

And I thought, oh, Brian and Kai were into that way before anybody.

I have to give her credit.

It was her idea.

And then, but you were so viral.

It went viral after that.

You were so great to do that.

And so it's fun.

Did it more than once too, by the way.

So I've, I've been, I've been a team player on this stuff and then we'll get to that karaoke

thing, uh, that I got swung into in the last few weeks.

We'll do that sometime in the future too, that I will play nice.

Yeah.

You're not, you're not the asshole that everybody thinks.

No.

And not, and when I say there's not a chance I'll do this, it means it probably will.

You're not quite the asshole that you play on TV.

Not quite.

Not quite.

I thought that was great.

So, all right.

So, uh, I also want to say, and I mean this with all, with all sincerity, um, man, I can't

believe how many voicemails we got and from all over the country, Seattle, Houston, Missouri,

Oklahoma.

Uh, and from people who are like, you know, Hey guys, been listening for a long time.

I don't, that means a lot.

I mean, I don't mean that, you know, I mean that it's unbelievable how many people listen

to this show and, and get it and, um, and all that.

And this just kind of proved it.

So I just want to say thanks.

I guess.

Yeah.

And we've offered to win tickets too, so that's still going.

We've talked about, we're not exactly sure when that exact giveaway day is going to be,

but we're thinking at least another, you know, four weeks of qualifying.

And it's as simple as leaving a voicemail.

Greg, I mean that's what we're doing.

Yeah.

As many as we've gotten, there's, there's no signs of it slowing down.

So keep calling.

423-667-7877, right?

You got it.

Yeah.

Get that right.

Um, yeah.

Call and tell us who we should check out.

And, um, I, I literally did.

I spent several hours this morning listening to all the music that you guys said to listen

to and it's really great.

Yeah.

And, and it's also serious talk, complete sincerity.

Like, yeah, it's great to try to win some tickets.

Not every call we even had any interest in winning tickets.

Some of them were just, Hey, you know, I want to tell you, it's an invaluable resource.

It really is.

There's only so much time in a day.

We've all got day jobs.

We've all got real lives.

We got to go to, we try to live in fantasy land and do fun things, you know, more than

maybe the average person does or maybe not.

I don't know, but that's what we, that's what we try.

And it's difficult to carve out time to listen to music you never heard of before.

I mean, how many times you guys, everybody listening to this, everybody in a comment

section, Hey, check this out.

Have you seen this?

Hey, look at this.

Have you seen this?

No, I haven't.

No, I haven't.

I don't have time right now either.

See it, you know, it's just, it's difficult to stop what you're doing and digest something,

whether it's TV show, a movie, music, a festival, whatever it is.

And so to have, you know, a quick, concise, um, suggestion from somebody that we, I trust

if you're going to be involved in what we're doing here, I trust you.

I trust that you're not just making something up just for the fun of it.

And if I, if I think that that'll be pretty obvious, pretty quickly.

So that is a very invaluable resource and thank you for that.

Yeah.

I a hundred percent.

And, and I, this morning, so I'm, I'm listening and somebody said white thing and I'm Russ,

you've been in my basement.

I Brian, I think you've been here.

I have not been, I have not.

No, no.

So, so, I mean, I have, you know, computer speakers and that's what I was listening.

And I started playing white thing and I was like, I think I need to do this a little bit

better.

And so I put it through the big stereo, which I have two subwoofers and that's the way you're

supposed to.

Okay.

All right.

Is that the Alice in wonderland?

Yes.

Alice in wonderland.

Wonderland.

All of a sudden the house started bumping and moving.

And I was like, that's the way you're supposed to listen to this.

And it was great.

I haven't got to that one yet.

I've, I've, it's been on the list and I know we've talked about it, but I, I haven't.

Digested more than a few seconds.

Yeah.

The point being there's a right way and a wrong way to listen to certain music.

Sometimes, I mean, literally putting some headphones on will go a long ways.

It started thumping.

I was like, okay.

Yep.

That's me.

I'm all about it.

Whatever, whatever works.

All right.

So how are we going to do this?

We're going to spin a wheel and we're going to pick one or what do you want to do?

Yeah, let's we'll put them on a wheel and spin them around.

All right.

Spin the wheel.

Let's go.

Hey, my name's Cecilia.

I'm a long time listener.

Love the show.

Gifts to be pumped for Bonnaroo this upcoming year will be my eighth.

The two artists that I would suggest diving into a little bit.

One would be Chapel Rhone.

She's like an indie pop artist, singer songwriter, and she's also an incredible performer, puts

a lot of effort into her costumes and will be like seeing shows and encourages all of

her audience to dress up as well.

And then the second would be Jake Wesley Rogers.

He's a wonderful singer songwriter has been compared to Elton John.

Also incredible costumes.

They are hometown heroes of ours as they are both from Southwest Missouri where I'm from.

Yeah, can't wait to listen to the rest of the episodes leading up to Bonnaroo this year.

Happy Roob.

And that's Cecilia.

Thanks a lot.

Yeah.

So there it goes.

The costume thing must be a thing.

So we were just talking about Chapel Rhone.

And then Chapel Rhone, my bad.

And Jake Wesley Rogers.

I gave both these listen to today.

Jake Wesley Rogers.

It grew on me after a minute.

It sounded like Christian music to me at first, like Christian rock.

And the more I listened to it, the more it would not quite that not not trying to say

that that's the worst thing ever, but that's what it sounded like to me.

And then Chapel Rhone.

Wow.

Okay.

You know, like never a million years would I have stopped and listened to this.

And it's now on my playlist.

I have two or three songs on the playlist.

Also, you know, this is the same, you know, we've had a lot of confusing artist names

this year.

Well, Jake Wesley Rogers.

There's also a Charles Wesley Godwin also on the lineup.

Not to be confused with Jake Wesley Rogers.

So just to throw that out.

Also, I saw there was also talk today that the two mics have been moved to the same day.

There was some some scheduled movements because some people change different.

So Mike period, period and Mike.

Mike, no, we are on the same day.

Good luck finding which one you're looking for.

You show up the wrong.

I was looking for Mike.

Mike.

Mike.

Mike.

Who's on first joke is somewhere around here.

Chapel Rhone was on a couple of was on several people's list.

Right.

So that's definitely one.

I'm like you.

I liked it.

I liked it.

I liked it very much.

So I'm going to try that out.

All right.

Let's do another one.

Spin the wheel.

All right.

Hey, my name is Alex.

I think you all really need to check out Renee Ratt.

I'm absolutely obsessed with her.

She is so girl power.

She has the voice of an angel.

Like when you first when I first heard of her, I was kind of like, oh, whatever.

Like I thought she was just I thought she'd rap.

So I was kind of like, hey, I'm good.

Then I checked her out.

Oh, my God.

Her music is so good.

You do not want to miss her set.

She's going to be blowing up in the next few years.

Kind of gives me like a Billie Eilish kind of vibe.

Kind of like a sad girl, but also like girl power vibes.

Her set is going to be so fun.

So excited.

You all need to check her out.

Her voice range is incredible.

Like she is just amazing and I cannot wait for her set.

Thank you, guys.

Nice.

I like it.

It's it's that's sad girl.

Girl power like mixture vibe.

Really made sense.

Alex.

Perfect way to explain this.

It also has that if you remember that artist, she went by simply Gail, the ABCDEFU song.

There's a little of that.

I want to make you suffer.

I hate you so bad.

Lyrical content.

I like that.

Sorry.

I think that's fun.

I definitely added her to the list today as well.

Renee rap.

All right.

Yeah.

Cool.

All right.

What's next?

All right.

Spin it.

Hey, boys.

It's Daniel from Huntsville, Alabama.

And I don't need your tickets.

I already got tickets.

But you need to listen to the song.

It's called I'm a man.

I'm a man.

I'm a man.

I'm a man.

I'm a man.

I'm a man.

I'm a man.

I'm a man.

I'm a man.

I'm a man.

I'm a man.

All right.

Now, I'm going to listen to one of the bands that I am most excited for for this year.

M-DU Mock Tar.

They have an awesome story.

Read up on their Wikipedia and a couple of the articles about them.

They have brought some world music to Bon Roos this year.

I love their really hard guitar driven sound.

It sounds psychedelic.

It definitely sounds like it's not from around here.

I am going to be the biggest hype man for them ever.

And I am going to get Barry in this pit I didn't get to last year.

but he is going to be an M-Dude mock tar pit rocking out with me.

Thank you guys.

You sure about that?

Obviously that's our guy, Daniel.

You guys recognize that voice from the real Roo Bus.

That's Daniel and M-Dude mock tar is legend, right?

For Bonnaroo people.

For a few reasons.

Yes.

For help me out.

Why am I, why do I not know this?

He's the one that released the...

Yeah.

They accidentally released the lineup.

What, a day early, a few hours early?

I don't know.

For whatever reason.

They, you know, so they got notoriety for that just for dropping the lineup early,

but it turns out, you know, he's a really good...

Yeah, he turned out to be really good.

Really good act.

It was the, it was the, one of the ones that never happened, right?

So probably 2020 maybe.

I don't remember which year.

It never happened.

It was a year away.

Yeah.

You're going to the pit, Barry, is what I'm...

I'm going with Daniel.

Apparently he, you know, he made me promise that with my morning jacket last year.

And then he never made it because he, he got, he got lit up apparently.

Because of reasons.

Midnight showing, it's a little difficult sometimes for even the most disciplined out there.

But M-Dude, by the way, we're hoping to have on the show as a guest pretty soon.

Yeah.

If not M-Dude himself, then Mike, the bass player, Mikey.

A different Mike.

To have them on as a guest.

But that's a good pick.

And while we're talking about Daniel, go ahead and give a shout out to Totem,

the Totem Foundation that he and Sharla have created.

Y'all know, y'all know who Daniel is and the real robust, but he and

Sharla have come up with the Totem Foundation as a way to give young, a couple of people

tickets as we are to the event, but also to hook up mentors and mentees.

So like if you're, if you're into it and you want to go, they're trying to create a,

the next generation basically, right?

Passing the torch.

We all love this festival and as do they, and they want to pay it forward, so to speak.

So go check out the real rew bus and the Totem Foundation.

Yeah.

And their podcast story time at the rew bus story time at the real, real, real rew bus.

Yeah.

Story time at the rew bus.

Anyway.

Yeah.

Always glad to hear from Daniel.

All right.

What's next.

Hey, what's up fellas?

My name's Mike.

I'm from Houston.

There's a kind of a folksy singer on Thursday named medium build.

I've really started liking listening to medium build is the name.

Talk to you later.

Hey, I love y'all show.

Thank you.

Short and right to the point.

Yep.

Medium build.

Medium build.

I'm on my, my notes list.

I just wrote an arrow to it says love it.

Okay.

That's all I put.

I don't even remember what it was, but I wrote love it.

Yeah.

That's all I got for you.

I got nothing other than the name.

I mean, I don't, I don't know.

You know, had to come up with something wild.

You gotta come up with something.

Exactly.

What, what are you going to call yourself?

Medium build.

All right.

Could have been, you know, careful.

Careful.

One of these super fans are going to be like, damn it, Barry.

Oh, I know.

I know.

I, I, yes.

All right.

Let's do another one.

All right.

Spinning the room.

Hey, how's it going?

What podcast team?

This is Ian field calling out of Cleveland, Ohio.

I've been to Bonnaroo once in my life, went back in 2019, really hoping to get back to

the farm this year.

Uh, Bonnaroo truly changed my life and it's made me obsessed with music festivals and

the farm is definitely a special place.

And if I had to give any recommendation this year, uh, it would be Fred again.

And this is an artist that I wasn't even familiar with as a 23 year old who just

graduated college.

Um, and it really took me by surprise because I love the music that he produces

and even the space that he's in.

But ultimately I think that his performance with the lights, the effects,

and the energy that he'll create will be a fantastic Sunday headliner.

Um, and while it may have been a polarizing choice, uh, it's got complete faith in

this decision from the Bonnaroo team.

Uh, the live performance is going to make the music translate in a whole different

way.

Um, and if you're interested, check out the Zane low interview with him.

Uh, there's short clips that showcase his talents and what a live performance looks

like and what it means to him.

I hope to hear from y'all soon.

Love your work and happy room.

All right, Ian, thank you.

Pretty much unpacks everything.

Doesn't it?

Uh, yeah, I don't know who it's Zane with a Z Zane low.

I did do a quick, uh, Google search and I, he, there's a long YouTube channel of,

of this Zane low character.

So if you're interested in that, but yeah, Fred again, you know, right.

Said Fred, I mean, Fred again, you know, uh, everything he said is this festival.

Right.

Yeah.

Uh, went one time fell in love, fell in love with what fell in love with.

Fell in love with what festivals are changed my life, changed my life, found

music that he didn't know he liked.

Uh, and he's 23 years old.

Didn't know who this dude was until the other day, you know?

So it's not just us like this, this Fred again, as a headliner, yeah.

Caught a lot of people off guard, not just, you know, old dudes or, or out of

touch people or people who are not interested in anything outside of pop music.

And, and he found them, listened, and now it can't wait.

So that's the kind of stuff that makes this cool.

I, I, you know, we, we say it all the time, but this festival is,

there's something about it.

Uh, it's like, it literally is life-changing and it's not just the music.

It's the people you meet and it's the discovery.

And that's why I think this whole thing is so much fun and that's why we're doing it.

So he nailed it.

A hundred percent.

He nailed it, man.

I mean, that's what it is.

All right, let's do another one.

Hey guys, my name is Christie.

I'm super excited to enter to win tickets to Bonnaroo.

I'm recommending that you all discover disco lines.

Their songs give off that summer yacht party vibe.

Uh, okay, now I'm thinking about AP on sunsets already.

Anyways, definitely check them out.

Um, they have great music, a couple of songs you've probably heard.

Um, but a lot of new ones to discover as well.

Thanks.

Bye.

All right.

It's a summer vibe.

It's summer vibe.

We know, right?

Uh, this is disco lines.

This is EDM all day, every day, twice on Sunday.

What are all the cliches?

Once, once summertime, I like it.

I mean, I like the way it's described.

I don't, I didn't like what I heard because not me, but, uh, I get it.

It's good for a minute.

This dude's a very, very young guy.

Um, and makes a lot of different sounds and it's going to be, it's

going to be a big time, I'm sure.

Yeah.

It was summertime disco lines.

Yeah.

All right.

Uh, we got a few more.

I keep rolling them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I, I want to, um, make sure, uh, and I think we alluded to it a little bit, but,

uh, we definitely have a EDM show planned.

Oh yeah, definitely.

Uh, we're trying to line that up.

We want to do it right.

Um, we had, uh, several people reach out and say, I'd love to be on and

be a guest and talk about it.

And, uh, yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that.

Cause like I said, we had that one guy that almost every episode, he

posted a comment that says, please have me on and talk about EDM.

I called him out last week.

No, I haven't heard from him.

No comment, no email, no voicemail, nothing.

So, you know, we're going to do it and we want to do it.

We may even do it a couple of times.

I mean, cause it's, it's worthy.

Um, I agree.

I agree.

I'd like to know more about it too.

Like, yeah, that's one that I could certainly learn a lot and I'm down for it.

But we don't, we didn't want to hurry into it and we don't want to, um,

uh, we want to do it right.

So we are planning, got several lines.

Uh, if you want to be part of it, maybe reach out.

Yeah.

When gone Reddit, come on.

Yeah.

That's what I'm saying.

We heard nothing last week.

So, yeah, so don't, don't think we're not, uh, aware and, um, yeah, we

definitely want to do it and I don't know how yet, but that's, we're trying

to figure that out because I really want it to be great.

Um, so anyway, all right.

So pick another one.

My name is, uh, Jacob Mcmahan.

Uh, so band of the artists I recommend that you check out is David Christianer.

I feel like in the past couple of years, uh, he's proven that he has utilized

TikTok as a platform to get his music more popular, but whereas, uh, some

artists will fall off to be just kind of that one hit wonder, and it

was just the catchy sound bite.

He's proven, um, that he's very consistent and his work is putting out

more and more work, not only that, but he's featured on, um, this one YouTube

channel where they take away the auto tune and his voice is still phenomenal

without the auto tune added to it.

So yeah, uh, like I said, David Kushner.

Appreciate it, Jacob.

Not David Kushner.

Yeah.

Not David Kushner.

The idiot from all those old movies and shows.

David Kushner.

Nice.

Uh, young guy.

This kid loves Hozier.

That's all I can tell you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He loves Hozier.

There's no chance he doesn't cause he is that vibe all day.

So if, if, if you're into the way Hozier sounds, I'm not trying to

act like it's a ripoff or calling names.

I'm just saying it's, it's in the same, under that same umbrella.

And everybody loves Hozier.

A lot of people love that stuff.

Um, yeah, I mean, we're finding a lot of that with some of these artists.

There there's similarities to other people, which is fine.

And you know, yeah, absolutely.

If it hits with you, then it hits.

So all good.

All right, let's do another one.

Let's do another one.

Hey there, it's Liesl Condor here in Seattle, Washington.

I am not going to Bonnaroo this year.

I'm going to be heading over to the UK again.

Um, so, but just wanted to let you know, some of the standouts for me

from the Bonnaroo lineup this year.

Say She She, fantastic.

I saw them at Pickup On.

And again, just saw their show here in Seattle.

So that's on Thursday.

I would not miss Say She She.

Um, so I don't know if that's Stone's Jam, Barry, you would like it.

Uh, and then for Friday, uh, I have on my list, the Bonnie Light Horseman,

uh, the lead singer from the Fruit Fats, uh, put together this band a number of

years ago and again, saw them at Pickup On along with Madhu, Mokhtar.

Of course, you know about them.

Lark & Poe Group Love, Mars Volta.

Um, Prang Ben, Shocker.

Uh, and then for Saturday for me, I have Do Not Miss John Batiste.

That is the consonant performer.

His musicality is infectious.

His positivity is fantastic.

I would not miss John Batiste for anything.

Um, other than maybe Idols, because Idols hits my pure rock god, um, vibe.

So I wouldn't, those two are my top tops for Saturday, John Batiste and Idols.

And then of course, Cigarettes, Dr. Sex, Brittany Howard, Bad Bed, Not Good.

And then Sunday, I missed Fred again at Glastonbury last year.

So I'd want to see Fred again, Jason Isbell.

Uh, let's see here.

S.G.

Goodman.

That is an undercard from Pickathon, uh, again, that I thought was really great.

So Barry, you may want to check them out.

Anyways, I'm going to miss you all.

I will be at Bourbon and Beyond and look forward to the next podcast.

Bye.

All right.

There you go.

Yeah.

Friend of the show, Liesl.

We've had her on before.

Friend of the show, Liesl.

Yeah.

If she says, go check this out, then go check this out.

Yup.

Nothing but love and respect for Liesl.

Boy, what a globetrotter.

My goodness.

Glastonbury.

How was that busy at Glastonbury?

Couldn't make it to that one day.

And I can't go to Bonnaroo this year.

I'm on my way back to the UK, but hey, I'll see you in Kentucky.

She had to outdo herself.

Cause you know, when we had her on the show, she was coming from Seattle to Tennessee

for Bonnaroo and you know, we thought that was huge.

That's I can't believe we traveled that far.

Well now she's going across the world.

She nailed it on the head.

That's say she, she is not something I'm going to be interested in.

I listened to it today specifically because of that recommendation.

And it sounds like it would come from the soundtrack of Jackie Brown, the

Quentin Tarantino movie from the set from the nineties.

So it's got that seventies kind of funk sound to it.

So that's why Barry, I'm guessing she would say this would be closer to your

warehouse.

My God.

Thank you.

You're, you nailed it.

Yeah.

A hundred percent.

It's very seventies.

Very seventies.

Uh, and I dig it.

I, I, I'm all in, Liesl knows, uh, Liesl knows her stuff.

So yeah, that's awesome.

Um, and yeah, she's going to Glastonbury again.

She went last year again.

Yeah.

All my life.

I have had a bit of a, of a daydream of, of, of Glastonbury.

Cause it kind of, you know, for people who, who, who've spent a lot of time on

the history of the, of the music festival, you know, since the sixties,

Glastonbury was kind of that one that came first, uh, after the disastrous,

you know, Woodstock and Monterey pops and the Atlanta internet, all these ones

that happened here in the sixties, it just didn't work.

Forget what everybody tells you about Woodstock being this amazing thing.

It was a disaster.

The first one, the second one.

Yeah, that wasn't mud.

That's what I keep telling everybody.

That's not mud, but I mean, the whole thing, the whole Woodstock legend is a

lore or it's nothing but folklore.

But so in my world, my, in my dream, Van Morrison and Lemmy at Glastonbury

Wow.

Would be my ultimate, would be my ultimate.

One of those is going to have to be a dream for forever.

I know a good Van Morrison show at Glastonbury and Lemmy.

That would be it.

That would, I could, yeah, that's, that would be it.

So I bet there's a lot of English folklore to Glastonbury as well.

I bet, I bet if you get in a bad way there, that place sucks pretty bad.

For sure.

They don't have a lot of options over there.

They only have really it.

I mean, they don't have a big festival circuit like we do.

Let's find out.

Let's get Lisa on the show and she can tell us she's been there.

You know, we'll be twice now.

She's, she's great.

Yeah.

Big, big, big fan of Liesl.

All right.

So what do we want to do?

One or two more of these and then we got, we got at least two more we could roll with

two more and then we'll, we'll wrap this up.

Hello boys at the What Podcast.

This is Keven gone from Nashville.

Big fan of the show.

Great work as always.

And yeah, thanks for the opportunity to try to win some tickets here.

It's a perfect chance for me and my wife to get to go.

I mean, we've been going religiously here since 2015, but had a baby boy last fall.

So decided just to sit this one out for financial reasons.

But of course, even though we're not going, I still have to go through all

the bands on the lineup as is tradition.

So the first band that really caught my ear was the heavy, heavy plane on Thursday.

Their bio says that they're a UK based five piece retro inspired rock band.

So I'm not familiar with this band at all, but listening to their songs on Spotify,

I became a fan right away from their top song.

I think they got the perfect sound and vibes for bottom room.

I can just imagine walking up to this or that 10 around 5 P.M.

with a spicy pie in hand, just live into their music.

I think it'll be a great discovery seeing them live.

So yeah, check them out and yeah, thanks again, boys.

Great work as always.

I know Brad's a big city boy now, but tell them that we miss them and happy real.

Don't tell Brad.

Don't tell him.

Tell him Brad.

Don't tell him.

Thanks.

Even.

Even in Nashville.

Thank you.

Yeah, nice.

Maybe.

Congratulations on the champion.

Congratulations on the child.

Yes, that's awesome.

Yeah.

Your your whole world just changed.

From what I hear it did.

And and good on you for keeping the tradition alive.

We're still going through line by line and day by day, even if you don't

make it down this year from Nashville.

The heavy, heavy.

Just the way he described it as I know, speaking of Glastonbury, the UK,

I love English rock music.

I really do, even though I hate the Beatles, right?

That's not true.

But the long time stupid bad joke, but I love English rock.

So when I first heard that, I thought that that's cool.

I listened to it for a few minutes earlier and it hit exactly the way he he spoke to

it.

Really it did.

So that's a that's another Thursday boy Thursday.

All of a sudden looking pretty good for me.

All right, Stone.

So you're you're the curmudgeon.

You hate everything.

You know, that's the persona.

Everything.

This has been a fun exercise, right?

You this discovery.

Have there been who have you found?

Have you found any that you just didn't like?

That I just truly didn't like.

Yeah, the disco lines thing doesn't do a thing for me.

OK, but something that would be closer to and then I'm really just kind of went

over the the say she she didn't hit me.

Just not you.

Yeah, that's fine.

It's just not me.

But more has hit than not.

Yeah.

And and that's any time you can find yourself in that setting and you're going

through anything and you find more they hit the don't you're you're coming out

ahead.

That's why I ask Russ, have you have you had a chance to go through a lot of

these yet?

I haven't really dove in much, but that that seems to be the case with everyone

that it seems like more people are excited now several months in than when

the lineup first hit.

And I think it's because it just takes a lot of unpacking and, you know, peeling

away to get to really what's here.

And there's a lot that's there's a lot that you can't miss.

A lot of the thread chatter is that it's a really solid undercard, like under and

below, that's my point, which which is where I don't live even in the best years,

what I would consider, you know, quote unquote best years, it's and that appears

to be the case, even though Barry will love this or roll your eyes at it.

Post Malone was there several Tic Tocs and Instagram reels that have hit the

last few weeks where Eddie Vedder and Post Malone are playing acoustics together,

some Tom Petty covers.

And guess who I'm now all of a sudden interested in?

Oh, hey, oh, Post Malone, maybe he's not so bad after all.

I was going to go around Beach House.

I mean, you've been obsessed.

I mean, I've heard you talk about that a bunch and it's

or the, the, the beaches, the beaches, the beach is not.

I knew I would do that.

There were so many different bands on this line, the beach colony or something.

Right.

Aren't there, this is, this is one I would say, you sure about the name?

Yeah.

Beaches.

No, they're great.

They're great.

But the music is, is blowing my mind the more and more I listen to it, even

though it's not designed for me.

And that's the best part about it is that it's not designed for me.

And I, and I still love it when you find that that really, that really works.

All right.

Let's do one more and then we'll wrap this up.

Okay.

We'll do one more.

Here we go.

Hi guys.

I would say the top two bands that I would recommend for bottom

root 2021, I'll say top three.

I will definitely love to see cage, the elephant there, like an older indie band.

They were really big in like 2012, 2013, 2014, big Tumblr era band.

And I hear they put on a really good show.

So I feel like they would be a really good band to see at Bonnaroo.

I would also say thundercat would be amazing to see live.

He's got some really like funky baselines.

And then I would also say Maggie Rogers is a really amazing and

creative and talented producer.

And she would be fun to see too, I think.

Anyway, my name is Madeline.

I hope you guys have a good rest of your day and hope to see you at Bonnaroo.

Bye.

All right.

Thank you, Madeline.

Maggie Roger, my daughter, Grace, who I think is a great band.

I think has impeccable music taste is obsessed with Maggie.

Oh, really?

Oh my God.

I shouldn't be surprised by that.

I'm not at all.

I love her some Maggie Rogers.

The most thing I know about Maggie is I've listened to her a little bit

because she's, she's had some music that's hit the alt rock radio in the

last, you know, five, six, seven years.

And she was doing a, um, at one of the presser tent things we were at of just

every now and again, there's somebody playing and like, Hey, there's Maggie

Rogers.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

You, you guys both know Grace.

So, you know what I'm saying?

She, she has great taste and she's obsessed with Maggie.

Yeah.

Oh, I highlighted Maggie Rogers on my list as soon as I saw her.

Um, cage is obviously, well, maybe it's not obvious to everybody, but that's

right in the stuff I love.

I love cagey elephant.

First time I saw them was 2017 at Bonnaroo on the witch stage at dusk.

And so it was dark by the time the show was, it was over and the laser show that

we saw here locally, um, in the last couple of years at our now defunct local

festival, it's, it's awesome.

Yeah.

It's, it's one of those rock shows that if you like rock and roll, you're, you're

going to love it.

But I did find it interesting the way Madeline put it, the Tumblr era of the,

the, the former blog ish social media.

That's kind of, I don't know if it's still there, but no one uses it anymore.

But it was like, Oh, back in 2012, I'm like, 2012, what's just the, oh my God.

It was 14 years ago.

Well, welcome to it.

2012 was 14 years ago or no, excuse me, 12 years ago.

I can't even do math.

Yeah.

Um, and then thundercat was one, I put an arrow to make a note and I must not have

got to thundercat, so I'll do that.

You got to get to thundercat.

Thundercat played, what was it?

2018, 2019, one of those.

Um, really, really good.

Okay.

Really, really good.

Well, I'm assuming from Madeline's discussion on the phone call from cage to

Maggie Rogers, then thundercat must be right there for me as well.

So I just, I haven't made it there yet.

All right.

So, uh, we thank you guys for all these suggestions.

Four two three, six, six, seven, seven, eight, seven, seven.

We're going to win two tickets with the GA plus we're going to give those away.

Probably in a month, uh, we're going to do this again, right?

I don't know if we're going to do it next week.

Um, but definitely want to keep getting these voicemails.

These are awesome.

I, I, yeah, guys, it's so humbling.

It's amazing to hear from everybody and, uh, for the show and, and we all, I keep

saying it, I sound like a broken record.

It's just amazing how everybody from our all around the country, we all have

the same vibe, right?

We have the same story, right?

This festival means so much to us and for the same reasons.

Um, and I just, I don't, it is, it is pretty remarkable the way you put it,

Barry, that's, that's a good way to put it.

That it's it, it's they're all different stories, but the origins all come from

the same place and that is just remarkable.

And there's, there's very few things that I get all emotionally

gushy about and I'm usually just.

Enough.

Boy, this is a different thing in my life for all these 20 plus years.

It really is.

I'm the same.

It's heartwarming for crying out loud.

I'm saying weird words, like heartwarming.

I don't do this about anything else.

I know.

And I, there's other things I'm passionate about too, by the

well, you hate everything.

No, there's plenty of things I like, and I don't get all emotionally,

uh, drug into them like this.

So this is, this is fun and it's cool and a lot of long time to get, well,

it'll go by quick, but plenty of time to go and plenty of stuff still to get to.

And I'm, I'm a long ways from being there.

We're going to do EDM.

We've got a couple other special episodes that I don't, I don't want to talk about yet.

Yeah.

I don't know if you want to tease anything.

Um, yeah, we're working on it.

Yeah.

That I think are important about this festival and Brian, you'll be a big, big

part of, and you know what I'm talking about and looking forward to that.

So, all right guys, uh, thanks.

Consequence, like share and love and do all that other and radiate positivity.

Yeah.