GARY CLARK This week is our SECOND ANNIVERSARY! And we’re celebrating by inviting back one of our favorite guests from last year — musician and songwriter GARY CLARK. Mr. Clark is the composer of music for the new AppleTV Original Film, FLORA AND SON. He takes us behind the scenes to talk about the
Flopcast episode 603! Our game show-themed FlopFight concludes next week, but first, let’s take a quick intermission! Go hit the lobby and grab some unreasonably priced Junior Mints! And for your entertainment while we’re waiting for the carnage to resume, this week we have: Cider Monday (a holiday for bizarre
Jim looks at a 1932 Bela Lugosi Horror Classic from Halperin Productions – “White Zombie,” Starring Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorne, Robert W. Frazier, John Harron, Brandon Hurst, George Burr Macannan and Clarence Muse. A Haitian plantation owner sets hi sights on a young woman and has her turned into
250 Guitarists Rolling Stone Magazine is at it again! Another list specifically crafted to make music fans’ heads spin! This time they count down their ranking of the 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time! And, this being Rolling Stone, there are both some very odd inclusions and exclusions. Anthony and Alan dive into this controversial list
Flopcast episode 602! Kornflake is back! And Ed, the other half of the Sponge Awareness Foundation, is back too! Because Ed thought we should have a game show-themed FlopFight, and it’s not like we had anything better to do! So here we go with another ridiculous tournament, and this time
Mark Maddox joins Jim for a rousing discussion of the 1959 Inoshiro Honda Sci-Fi Classic “Battle In Outer Space,” starring Ryo Ikebe, Kyoko Kenzai, Minoru Takada, Koreva Senda, Len Stanford, Harold Conway, and Hisaya Ito. Aliens establish a base on the Moon and attack the Earth. All he countries band
The Beatles RED & BLUE Collections With the release of “Now and Then”, the new single from The Beatles, comes reissues of the iconic two-volume collection, 1962 – 1966 (The Red Album) and 1967 – 1970 (The Blue Album). This week we are joined by Alan J. Porter, author of Before They Were Beatles: The Early Years 1956
Flopcast episode 601! It’s the quick fill-in episode to end all quick fill-in episodes! With Kornflake still unavailable (busy at a lobster-and-British-comedy convention, we assume), there’s nobody left in the studio except Kevin and a few stray rubber chickens. So we just have a bunch of podcast recommendations for you,
Jim reflects on a Roger Corman classic from 1958 – “Teenage Caveman,” starring Robert Vaughn, Darah Marshall, Leslie Bradley, Frank De Kova,June Jocelyn, Jonathan Haze,Beach Dickerson, Ed Nelson and Robert Shayne. In a land of dinosaurs, a young primitive man questions his clan’s laws and seeks to explore the “forbidden
Great Producers No matter how good a band or artist is, a producer can make or break them. A good producer can elevate mediocre material, and a bad producer can turn great songs into sludge. This week we’re talking about some of the GREAT producers, those geniuses who work magic
Flopcast episode 600! For our big milestone 600th episode, we’re doing… well, not much of anything. It’s just Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown goofing around while we await the triumphant return of Kornflake. Topics include: A correction from last week’s show about mall sticker girls! (Oh yes, we heard
Jim and Clay wrap up MA’s Halloween season with a look at John Landis’ 1981 classic – “An American Werewolf In London,” starring David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter, Brian Glover, John Woodvine, Frank Oz and Don McKillup. Two young men run afoul of a legendary creature while hiking through
