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You are a full convert into Randy Carlisle universe and I know you've talked about watching how much you love watching those guys on stage, so you can't do it all, we're sorry you couldn't be here, but you could hear it just like everybody else can hear it. That is true and now you can actually see that entire video. The entire interview is up on our website at sounduppod.com and on our YouTube page and we're going to have more videos of our interviews going up real soon, so that's really cool. Wait, what? Yes. We have a YouTube page? Is that what you said, Roger? It's actually known as a YouTube channel, Mark. Channel. It's a channel, Mark. See? I need your help. Where would people find that? Just sound up Pod on YouTube. That's simple. Simple as that. With more full video interviews going up probably by the time you hear this. Yes, we should. The next one to go up should be our your interview with the warning. All right. All right. So let's leap into it. I was on vacation and I was able to catch a little bit here and there as the Olympics kicked off a little bit. We've been all in over here, I got to say, just having it on, just keeping it on, even with the sound off, just like, hey, see what's going on and check in. I forget how much I love it. I do. I don't think about it in the run up. I don't think like, oh, the Olympics are coming. And then they're there and I'm like, I'll watch them bounce around on the beam and fly through the air on the uneven, but like, I'll watch that. What else am I doing? Can I just interject here for a moment? Over the weekend, my wife and I were watching when we got back from vacation and we, when we tuned in on Sunday night, there was a sport with women playing that I had never seen before. Which one are there? There are some of those, which do you know? This was it like the field looked like soccer. The way they were handling the ball was kind of like rugby. The way they were setting up offense and defense was kind of like basketball. And then there was one part of it that seemed like football as one of the women would grab the ball and run it into what? The goal. That would be women's rugby, I presume. No. No. And my wife. Because they were going like, what the hell is this game? What's it called? And she's like, well, it's probably called handball. I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, handball, you know, women's handball. I don't know. Never saw it before. Didn't know it was an Olympic sport, but damn, it was fun. Sounds like a Harry Potter kind of a, right? It's like Quidditch. It was my Quidditch. You got your skateboarding. You got your surfing. You got your mountain biking. I know that skateboarding has been in for a couple of years, but the fact that skateboarding is an Olympic sport now kind of blows my mind. It's kind of cool. We're waiting for the break dancing competitions to begin. You're joking, right? I'm not joking. That's like I was saying. Okay. Yeah. That's actually happening. An actual event this year. Yes, it is. Wow. I guess Snoop has got to be in on judging on that. I don't know if she's everywhere else, but we'll get to that. But yeah, lots and lots of music in and around this Olympics for sure. What stuck out to you guys? I know I've been reading quite a bit. I just saw pieces of Celine Dion's performance, which really stoked a lot of people. We know that she had been going through this terrible, you know, this terrible diagnosis of the stiff man syndrome. So this was her return. Pretty exciting. I mean, the crazy opening ceremonies, which were, you know, a whole freak fest, which was kind of great and kind of curious and freaked a lot of people out. But there was some really great, I mean, first of all, just to see the city of Paris. Let's just start with to actually, you know, for better, for worse, it was too long. It was too long. Watching the boats come down. There was weird stuff that didn't make sense. All of that is true, but rather than having them just march into a stadium to be able to use the city of Paris and the buildings and the skyline and everything that is beautiful about that city was fantastic to watch. And look, Celine closing the opening Olympic ceremonies is going to be like Whitney singing the National Anthem. Yeah. I mean, that just felt like one of those super iconic performances, moments that people are going to refer to for a long time that we haven't heard her sing. That documentary was, you know, recently came out. We know the struggles that she's been through and the sight of her on the Eiffel Tower, you know, as much an athlete as any of the other athletes there delivering that performance, it just felt like that was, you know, this galvanizing, you know, around the world moment. And a great, like an image, a great image of someone rising up, someone triumphing, something, you know, bringing something home across the finish line. She made it to the stage. It's just going to be when it's over in a couple of weeks and they do all the wrap up videos and everything else, it's going to end on that shot of her singing that's going to stand as an emotional centerpiece for this for certain, when we talk about, you know, what the biggest music moments of this year will be when we hit the end of the year, that's going to be one of those moments. And through and through great song selections, I thought. Yeah. I mean, the only thing that's funny to me, she speaks French. Well, it's a little French. She's a French Canadian. It's another, it's another language. It's another, you know, so I get it, the global iconography of her, but it is kind of funny to end on, here's somebody French, but they're not French, like from France. So, you know, okay, look, I have people don't know probably that your dad is originally from Montreal. Yeah. Yeah. And I explained that there's a little, it's not a rivalry, but there's a little qua French is a different, you know, it's a little different dialect. It's a little different spin and not that it's competitive, but it's certainly its own thing. It's not French, French. Each group wants to make sure that they know we're this, we're not that. So, you know, that was, that's just a little side note. Yeah. But other stuff throughout that opening ceremony, Lady Gaga, yeah, as the, you know, sort of cabaret representative, right, as the, that element of French history and French contribution to culture. And you know, and she was great. She was great. She was great. And she's been around. She stuck around through the weekend. She was at the gymnastics. She was at the swimming. Yeah. And I guess I read this morning that she played some snippets from the new album, like out of her car to fans who had gathered outside of her hotel. Oh, no, I didn't see that. Just played like 30 seconds from two different songs and then said you're gonna have to wait for the rest. But it's like sort of as a thank you, gave a little, you know, nod to the new music to, to the Olympic fans. That is awesome only get as her fiance as of the weekend. Yes. Apparently. That's true. Whoa. Okay. I mean, her stunning, of course, she would expect her to be able to nail her performance and costume. And, you know, the other thing you're saying, Ellen, about having Paris as the backdrop, you know, to see where she performed. See where, you know, where Celine performed at the Eiffel Tower and to see where she was on those steps and just classic, those black gloves and, you know, her outfit. It was perfect. It was just perfect Parisian stuff, you know, it was massive. And talk about setting. We've got to bring up Gojira for a moment here as well, which was so ridiculously bad ass to put a metal band playing up the windows of a castle introduced by a headless Marie Antoinette. How great was that? And then playing a metal version of Sayura of a song from the time of the French Revolution. Yes. Was just hilarious and, you know, such a great big swing to do that. Just metal Olympic moments you could come up with, right? All the fire and the location itself, this is where Marie Antoinette was held during the French Revolution. Oh, my God, it's phenomenal. But I mean, did anything, either of you guys, it crossed my mind, I'm like, this is incredible. They sound cool and what, again, song choice, great. But was anybody calling of all of the metal bands in the world? They come up with Gojira. Did that strike anyone as a bit odd? It's they're not French. They're not even French Canadian. How did they wind up at the Olympics? Maybe they're just more globally known than a lot of the, I mean, are they? Listen, it could have been Metallica, I guess, but it was Gojira and they killed it. But it's such, it was such a, I don't know if you felt this too, it was so badass, but it also felt like this is so non Olympics for the Olympics to do this in this way. Like from the castle. But in the midst of all the other stuff, in the midst of the drag queens and the fashion show and just like, okay, let's, you know, if this is all about centuries worth of culture, you know, let's throw that in. And if you're going to throw, if we're going to throw in the French Revolution moment, let's make it the bad motherfuckers, you know, to do that. Be the rebellion. Like that's, that's okay. It was an amazing moment, it absolutely was and the staging was, was spectacular. And I don't know, did they even get a sound check for that? I do not know what the, what the rehearsal involved. Right. How could they even just throw you out there? But what it was, it was all in all, I thought a pretty impressive opening ceremony. They can be, as you said, they can be overly long and they can be, you know, just people waving, but yet, and I saw some reviews where people were saying, you know, it didn't present the kind of unity that past openings have. Part of the, the thing about the opening ceremonies is all of the, the teams are united as they walk into the stadium. I didn't miss that. I thought that those boats coming down the sand was, it was spectacular, I thought. Yeah. Look, it did, did it all work? No, it was, did not all work for sure. Was it odd to see the tip of the hat to the great French tradition of the Manage a Toa? That was weird. Yes, that was weird, but, you know, surprising, but to try to pull something off, that's a memorable, I mean, that, you know, that we're in a different world. I look, I think the London Olympics and, and, and, you know, that James Bond and the Daniel Craig and the queen jumping out of the helicopter opening and some of the big rock and roll moments from that, like, clearly that raised the stakes elevated the game for what the production of the opening ceremonies are, that it's not just a bunch of, you know, a big parade of athletes that it's about the place and about the history and about, you know, bringing in all those elements. And this was, you know, a huge, hugely ambitious swing as we found out, especially in the pouring rain. Yeah. That's, yeah. You're banking everything and then you get that. Yeah. And I think they're, you know, those, each of these things that we're talking about, those are moments that really landed and I think we'll stay with people and that's, that's the win. I think the next Gajira album is going to be bigger than any of the past ones. If they just stick with 18th century material, right? So if we're going to talk about music at the Olympics, the other thing we have to talk about is the fact that our national ambassador, Mr. Snoop Dogg, is the global mascot at this point. Like he is everywhere. They are putting him in every setting, every night, he's in every event, the culmination. This is where Snoop has been heading since Martha Stewart. Look, it is crazy. Roger and I were talking about this to think back 30 years and to think about when Snoop Dogg emerged in this cloud of controversy with one and for murder, accessory to murder allegations on the run from the police, he did those videos where he was so like shy and misty. He wouldn't even look at the camera. It was all these like side glances. It was all, you know, this sort of one step removed from the gang, you know, bringing the Crip Walk to the Olympics is not what we would have seen in 1993. Like you Ellen, I've had the Olympics on kind of nonstop, you know, volume on, volume off and the other night I woke up and Snoop is sitting there breaking down like a swim 400 meter thing. And I was like, what am I watching here? This is amazing. And he knew every detail he had, he was nailing it, but he does it with that Snoop swagger and it's just so much, it brings so much fun to this thing. It just brings joy to everyone and what they talk about the American dream, talk about, you know, right, the incredible saga and transformation and multiple chapters and everything else. Like it is unreal to see what he has become and to see him totally rise to that and you know, be great in all of these settings, be dancing around at the events and come and do the wrap ups at the end of the night and go through the streets of Paris like all of it. And he is doing a great job. As you're saying, Roger, he knows what he's talking about. He studies up. He's not just in there, you know, sort of hanging out. He's on it. I give him credit. Watched him doing, they were doing recap and he was doing play by play last night on a badminton rally. That's awesome. Listen, really, we'll just give him everything. We'll just give him anything. It's okay. He can handle it. So, meantime, just should mention, I mean, if you just keep watching the stands, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Arevo are there, Gaga was hanging out. Kelly Clarkson doing, you know, broadcast, Joe, one of the Jonas's, Nick, Joe, I don't know which, Joe, one of the Jonas's, did you see the shot of David Jill by that, you know, play who has been the, the, uh, benefactor for the women's water polo team for the last couple of years. Oh, is that so? Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's taken that on as his. He's been funding. I guess he read that, you know, the women's water, they all had to work multiple jobs to be able to afford to do their water polo training. And he was outraged and was broke them off a bunch of money to handle the expenses for the women's water polo team and is there as their champion. That's pretty awesome. Again, you know, again, looking, let's go back 30 years and imagine that guy doing this. It's really something. I mean, I don't know what that indicates in terms of where our society is going. I hope we're becoming more accepting. I don't know. But it's, it is really a cool thing to see that heroes of, I would say, like the next generation are now taking part in the Olympic ceremony. Does that seem to make sense? Yeah. It's the next generation. But, you know, what's, look, that it's that, that it's that sort of thing that in genders, all of this interest, all of this excitement, you know, that's what it's supposed to do. It's supposed to be that, you know, big, global, unifying celebration of accomplishment. And let's, if flavor flavor flavors into that as much as, you know, Tom Cruise is as much as who was who I saw last night in the stands. Mick Jagger as well. Yeah. Mick Jagger. Yeah. Popping up everywhere. Big sports guy. So, you know, it's, it's, if it's about excellence, you know, game recognizes game. And no pressure on Snoop, but, you know, part of the subtext is, well, the ratings for the last Olympics tanked in Tokyo, I guess, right? Well, which was weird, which was mid lockdown and no crowds and everything else, but yeah, but now they're going. So they're hoping the Snoop is going to bring the crowds back that the ratings are going to be us. I wouldn't bet against him. I would not bet against that man. That's true. We got a bunch of news. We got a bunch of new music picks, but I know we got a check in from one of our regulars, one of our favorite pod squad, old school volume maniacs. We got a note and we want to hear from, from Dean in Kansas before we move along here. All right. What did Dean have to say, Roger? Hi, guys. It's a god awful hot day here in the high plains, not a concert review, but certainly music related Friday, 726, an epic volume maniac meetup in Detroit with old friend Sunita, Kelly in Detroit, and Dean and Danielle on vacation from Kansas. The day started with Sunita driving us to the revitalized downtown Detroit to pick up our tickets and get our tour time for later that day. Since we had time, Sunita took us on a tour of the city checking out many music venues and stopping at Jack White's third-man records, which is an experience of its own with a self-contained pressing plant, stage, and records by a wide range of artists. We finished shopping in time for our short drive to Hitzville, USA, for our tour. Anyone who knows me from calling debatable can just imagine my excitement at walking in the doors where we were met by our knowledgeable tour guide, who, after greeting us, ushered us into a theater to watch a short film introduction on the importance of Motown records. As far as I know, this little amazing film has not been shown anywhere else, and I found myself quite emotional. After the film, the tour began with a display and presentation of the Hitzville property and the expansion through the 60s until the company moved to LA in 1972. We then moved on to a view of the unique echo chamber in the attic and a tour of Barry Gordy's actual apartment on the third floor of the building, as it was in the early 60s. All very interesting, but as I went downstairs, we were led into the fabled Studio A. I now understand what religious pilgrims feel like upon walking into Jerusalem, Mecca, or the Vatican, standing on the very floor and looking live at the equipment that many of my musical heroes made so much magic on, brought up powerful feelings of joy that still days later have me smiling. Hitzville is a rather small museum, but every corner is packed with American musical history, be it album covers, gold records, or photographs the museum should not be missed by any music fans. Thanks, I hope you're all doing well, have a terrific summer, Dean in Kansas. Wow. That sounds like a great tour. It's awesome photos, they were posting of a full meetup to check the Detroit music highlights and landmarks and looked awesome. Huge smiles all around. Thanks, Dean in Kansas. All right, keep it the dream. The Volumaniac dream alive. Much appreciated. That's a big one. We do have quite a bit more, we have actual music news to talk about, but let's take a fast break here and we will come back on the other side. This is "sound up" with Mark Goodman and Alan Light. At KeyBank, we know a small moment like, "Ooh, these sandals would go really well with a beach." Can we do an even bigger question like, "Should I splurge on a trip this year?" And that's the type of moment where we'll meet you, with financial advice on everything from budgeting for travel to building savings. So maybe that destination isn't too far off. What do you think, Cindy? I think these sunglasses would go well with a tiny umbrella drink. Where every financial need will meet you in the moment. KeyBank opens doors. KeyBank member FDIC. What are you? Selfie? Yeah. Ever since AT&T got me their best deal on the new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6, my selfie game has been on point. This deal has me shouting at a los cuatro vientos? Yeah, how'd you know? AT&T hooked me up too. Learn how to get the new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 on us with eligible trade-in. In a year, any condition. Connecting changes everything. Of course, trading of Galaxy as Notor C-Series smartphone limited time offered 256 gigabytes for $0 additional fees, terms, and restrictions apply. See att.com/samsung or visit any Tanti store for details. Welcome back to Sound Up and I hope you're having a great summer. I'm Mark Goodman. We're here with Alan Light. I'm just back from vacation. I feel like I have to reintroduce myself. Remember me to reintroduce myself. Allow me to reintroduce. So we wanted to get into just some straight up music news. Some pretty heavy stories broke over the weekend. Legendary. John Mayo, a guy who was the band leader for some of the greatest rock and blues ensembles of the mid 60s. And a guy who basically started the career of your favorite most amazing electric guitarist. The amazing John Mayo passed at 90 years old. That is a good run. And was still performing as recently as last year, right? Pretty amazing. And sounding great. And it wasn't sort of he was on his last legs. He sounded really, really good. I saw him, I want to say five or six or seven years ago. Great. But he kept going. He kept putting on music. He kept touring. I just saw a clip of and sent to a friend of his last performance, which I guess was sometime last year. But full speed. But just recap those, recap those credits. I mean, some, right, his, so between '65 and '69. Who was in that band, The Yardbirds? A guy named Eric Clapton, who left to form Cream. And later, of course, became hugely successful as a solo artist, you may recall. Peter Green left to form Fleetwood Mac. Mick Taylor was in the band as well. He was pulled by the Stones for his brief tenure in that band. The number of people who have played in this band, in John Mayo's Blues Breakers. The rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVee. Mick and John left that band to form Fleetwood Mac. Jack Bruce joined Eric Clapton in Cream. Andy Frazier, the original, and original member of Free, Ainsley Dunbar, would play with Frank Zappa, Journey, and the Jefferson Starship. I mean, just these guys, you know, people like Jack Bruce, people like Eric Clapton have talked about the tutelage of John Mayo. And what his... Back this up to that time, right? This is, again, we all came to these guys become superstars, British, blues, revital, everything that happens and it revitalizes rock and roll, everything else. This is where this happens. This isn't... That's a thing people do. This is a path that he, along with a couple of others, was really laying out and pioneering. And this sort of magnetic force who was drawing all this young talent and spotting all of this young talent and making a new musical movement out of that. I mean, it's really extraordinary what it is that he sort of galvanized. One of the stories, the time's story quotes from Clapton's autobiography, which was a pretty amazing autobiography and he talked about going over to Mayo's house and, you know, sitting and chatting with him for hours and John busting out all these old blues records and, you know, what an incredible record collection he had seen. And this is where, you know, the rock God, Eric Clapton, was schooled. And ironic or not, I don't know what we call it, but of course, it had been announced that Mayo was, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this coming fall this September. He knew that he was aware of that sadly, was not quite able to make it to the time of the ceremony. Call that a mixed blessing, I suppose, at least that he knew that that recognition was happening. I don't know if there was an awareness. I mean, I certainly hadn't heard anything recently about his health or his condition. No, no. You know, if that was a thing, but I mean, obviously he was 90 years old, you have to be hyper aware of it regardless. His last album out in 2022. Yeah. The sun is shining down. This is the last one. Several DVDs, including one of a 70th birthday concert in 2003 with a lot of his old pals. His old child. Truly, truly, truly a legend. Meantime, while we're in that lane of tragedy, Shenandoah Connor's official cause of death has been revealed and has been determined to be chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD and asthma. Cause of death was disclosed in O'Connor's death certificate, which was filed by her family earlier this week. This is according to the Irish Independent. The death certificate was filed a year after O'Connor was found dead in her London flat. One year, I guess, to the day, July 26, 2023 at the time of her passing, O'Connor was 56 years old. The death was initially ruled as a result of natural causes. The death certificate provided specific details on the reasons behind her passing, citing, quote, "an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma together with a low-grade, lower respiratory tract infection." It doesn't change anything about the life, just some more information to have, to the extent that you just, you wonder what it is at 56 that would cause this event, at least a little more clarity on that. So in the news, a moment in rock and roll history as Billy Joel closes out his 10 year residency at Madison Square Garden in New York City, 10 years, a sold out show every month for 10 years, unparalleled in rock and roll. One of the things that happened on many, many of the shows, I actually have seen four of the shows with special guests turning up out of the blue that you would not expect turning up to do a song or two with Billy, and this last night was no different, Axel Rose turned up at Madison Square Garden in New York City and showed up doing a cover of Wings, Live and Let Die, and Highway to Hell, of course, who confronted ACDC for a minute, a couple of years back. Billy, of course, performed several of his own best-known songs, including New York State of Mind, Allentown Vienna, Uptown Girl, et cetera, but the fact that Axel was the special guest on that last night. A little weird. You know, I don't know what's weird anymore when it comes to Billy. He's had so many different artists, I don't know, Jose Feliciano was a guest one time. When I saw him, one of the times I saw John Mellencamp was a guest, not so weird, but whoever was in town. I got, it talked Perlman as a guest on one of them. Right? But for the final, I mean, look, Axel certainly is, you know, star power and Newsy, I don't know. Elton couldn't make it? Yeah. Oh. Really? We're going to go there? Well, I'm just saying, if there's like, who's going to come see him off at the last at the 150th at the final one, there's something that you'd think, okay, that's, you know- Yeah, it's true. It's true. It's okay. It's all right. There, he was on stage to give Billy a banner commemorating the moment, which goes up in the rafters with, you know, the hockey banners and basketball. With all the numbers retired. Yeah. It's all right. I mean, Harry Styles is up there for the however many night run that he did that they marked with a banner and Billy's already up there. They're just going to update that. I think when he had a hundred, they put something up there. Right. So, yeah. Right. It stays forever. Pretty amazing. It takes a car in, plays a show, goes back home, sleeps in his own bed, not a bus. It puts a million dollars in the bank each month. What an incredible gig. And, I mean, it really is, stop and think about it. I mean, who could do that? Who could do that? He also, for a lot of the time, half of the band was from Long Island. Right. So, pretty much half the audience was from Long Island every month, and it was like, you know, like a rally. Well, and that's the thing, you know, to pull that off, it really does require the connection to the location. Yeah. That will continue. It just became a New York institution for such a New York-identified artist. You can't just drop in and do that wherever. You have to have a connection that is strong enough that people want to see you there, right? Yeah. For sure. To do that for year in, year out. Got to give credit to that. And it is odd, you know, being a New Yorker, it's kind of odd to think that, oh, you can't just go see Billy Joel now. Like he's just not there, you know, playing every month like he was, right. Exactly. It's for how kids and next month, but look, he's not retiring. He's not retiring from touring. He is still going to be doing live dates. In fact, he's got some dates lined up, stadium dates. He's doing some with Stevie next. He's doing some on his own. So it's not like Billy's going away, but now maybe maybe more people will get a chance to see him. I don't know. We talked about this. It's always interesting to me. He can do baseball stadiums as Billy Joel. And they can do football stadiums as Billy Joel and Stevie next right that, you know, that the co headline kicks it up to those bigger stadiums. Unbelievable and American hero. What are you going to say? So we mentioned Jack White before in their in the in the pod squad Detroit tour. They hit up the third man space in Detroit. And while they were there, actually, I don't know, they could have picked up, Hey, there's a new Jack White album, Jack put out an album has first in a couple of years and released it only on vinyl in the third man record store, on site record stores. Just that's kind of the weird stuff you'd expect from Jack White, isn't it? The things that I'm going to put out a record and in my hometown in white vinyl record, main white unmarked packaging, the title, no name, and, and I heard people could just go in and get it. Like it was. I mean, there was a big rush when it first dropped, but then like it was just there. People could just go in and pick it up. It wasn't some huge crazy. There's only a hundred of these or whatever it is. People could buy it. How do I get it? Well, it is it has been on YouTube. People have posted from the vinyl recordings, you know, to a YouTube page to listen to, not officially. I don't know if they're policing that. I don't know if they've been just letting those ride or knocking them down as they go up. But apparently that is a place you can hear it. That's it. And no announcement yet of what further plans if he is going to put it out in any other way, if this is the only way that it exists, weird, but it is the Jack White way. That is it is Jack White. And pretty, I wonder just as a side note and I wish someone would do some research on this. We talked about this. I remember Alan, you and I on our show years ago. What a smart guy opening up pressing plants opening up pressing plants, opening up the whole third man retail headquarter, you know, making taking his platform and making this into this, not multi, I mean, there are other things, but really music based sort of full service empire. Seemingly, without any care about whether he makes a profit or not, you know, but it's all driving awareness and brand and visibility and then touring and, you know, in the dialogue in the, in the conversation, really working on sort of different levels other than, hey, how do I sell the most of the next record? This record, by the way, at least for the first day, they were giving away at third, man. If you went in and bought something else, they just put it in and they just gave you one, they gave you a copy in your, in your bag. See, that's, you know, again, I'm going to put stuff out. And if you hear about it, you know, it's a story that you read about. Oh, you know, you're curious, you chase it down. How do I hear it? Yeah. Maybe you go over to YouTube and see if it's there, maybe you're asking, I mean, it's just a different level of engagement than, hey, he put out a new album and it's here it is on the streaming service, like, you know, the guys a big deal, people pay attention, but they pay attention in a different way because of the way that he does stuff. And that's always the color scheme, you know, all the code, all the history, all the rules that he sets for himself, you know, this is why he's still interesting 25 years later. And in terms of radio play, which one would think an artist would want when it comes to releasing new music, W D E T F M is the, uh, the local public radio station played the whole album that afternoon when, when Jack started doing this, uh, was it last weekend? No track list, no notes, no, nothing, just music in a white package, white vinyl, white label, go Jack. So that one's working. And one, one final note for, uh, another band roughly contemporary who's, uh, it's maybe not working quite so well. I'm feeling kind of bad for Weezer, uh, at the moment. We, uh, had heard about this big project, this seasons project that they had been working on, but it seems now, uh, they had put out all the four seasons and the discussion was that there was going to, after that happened, they were going to put out the box set. But it seems as though now they're saying that it's, the interest doesn't seem to be there. I think that's, that's one of the, uh, the ways that they're kind of swimming in, they're fearing that the sales might not be where they want it to basically, they figured they're not going to sell enough to recoup so there will be no box set sadly. The albums are all out there. You don't need the box if you want to hear the albums, but it sounds like a kind of kick in the nads for the band and they had to cancel. They had scheduled a Broadway run, I guess that's maybe two years ago now. And then they had to call that off because of lack of interest. So I don't know what people want from Weezer. I mean, on the one hand, they're still out playing arenas, they're doing a tour through the fall. Yeah. I mean, it's not, not like people are off the band. I mean, people still dig Weezer. And even the, I know the, the one that I'm thinking of was at spring, I think the spring one, which was maybe the first one that came out, that was great. And I kind of lost track. Maybe that's what happened to America. We lost track of the rest of the season. Maybe it's asking too much again. We're saying Jack White mystery, intrigue, quick hit, all of a sudden this thing is there. No hype, whatever on the Weezer saying we're going to be doing this over the next few months or years. And then there'll be another one like, do people have the attention? Yeah. To stick with it. And apparently we see the answer is no, the answer is no. We do not. All right. Fast. Look at some, some of the things going on in the world of music. We are going to take a fast break. We've still got some new music picks to run by you. So hang out and we'll run those down for you and let you know where you can listen to our new music picks that's coming up after this break on set. At egg life, we believe eating better should taste great. That's why we created the perfect wrap made with egg whites, never flour. Egg life wraps are packed with five grams of protein, less than one gram of carbs and zero compromises, transform your favorite foods with a simply smarter tortilla. Egg life wraps have the fresh taste you love and the nutrition you need. So see ya tortilla and hello egg life, the perfect wrap. Find us chillin in the fridge at Safeway King Supers sprouts and more. What are you? Selfie? Yeah. Ever since AT&T got me their best deal on the new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6, my selfie game's been on point. This deal has me shouting at a los cuatro vientos. Yeah, how'd you know? AT&T hooked me up to learn how to get the new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 on us with eligible trading in a year, any condition connecting changes everything. Request trading of Galaxy as Noter C-Series smartphone limited time offer 256 gigabytes for zero dollars additional fees, terms and restrictions apply. We are back at Sound Up with Mark Goodman and Alan Light and this our final segment for the show today. We've got our new music picks. I see them all in front of me. I know what everybody has picked Alan. Can I start off? Yeah, you've been away. So I think it's clearly it's your turn in the rotation. I picked only one today. I like to keep them a little shorter than we used to in the old days when we could actually play a little bit of it. But I picked something brand new, ish, from Carano and Danger Mouse. You may remember if you're a fan of either of those artists that they put out an album in 2019 called Lux Prima and they are re-issuing that album. It'll be out in September and they have released in advance of that a new single called Superbreath. This was not on the original, but it is Carano and Danger Mouse together and they've released Superbreath, their first new song since making that record and they also released a cover of Lou Reed's Perfect Day. That I think had been out on a record score day thing, is that right? Yeah, and something that they did at Sirius, they did a Sirius XMU session and yes it was a record store day release. But both artists who have such long histories separately, really, really cool that they got together. I don't know if you remember the Lux Prima record, I thought it was really cool and it did nothing. Yeah. It's an art piece. And they did an installation around it, I mean they treated it as an art piece. I really like this new song and what I can't figure out, they don't really say, is it from those same sessions or is it something that they got together now and did? Right, you know, it's funny, I just assumed that it was something they got together now. I'd sort of did too, but I don't, you know, it says it's new, I don't know what that exactly means. It doesn't matter, it's really good, it's very reminiscent of the Danger Mouse, the work that Danger Mouse did with the black keys, right? It's very much that kind of a groove and a feel to it, to like the Brothers album. Yeah. And I will say, Alan, thanks for giving it up and letting me have that one. I know you picked it too. I got to, I'll hit real quick. One of them that I sort of stumbled across, I think we've maybe, I don't know, but Mooney Long, an R&B singer, one Grammy last year, year before in the, you know, for an R&B performance, came to success really as a writer, wrote for Rihanna and for Ariana Grande and, you know, a bunch of big credits in the writing room, but she had an album came out a couple of years ago. Again, Grammy recognized, had sort of a viral hit last year that then came out as a remix with Mariah Carey a couple of months ago. And now setting up a new album that's coming out next month, I believe, put out a song called Ruined Me that is a very sort of old school R&B ballad, big voice, big singing string section, just a really easy song to like, you know, certainly modern enough in sort of her style. And again, as the writer that she is, but if you're a fan of that sort of classic soul thing, it definitely hits that note. So wanted to mention that one. Yeah. And maybe breaking a rule, because I've said, I think we have, I think I put a song from these guys on our sound up soundtrack playlist over on Spotify when the single came out. But the album from Red Clay strays came out on Friday moments that made me and it's just really good. I feel like I'm late to these guys who were sort of an Americana viral sensation, which is a hilarious sort of unexpected thing to say, the world of the viral Americana community. What I had heard from them before, is this sort of almost, you know, emo country, sort of a thing, very introspective, very serious, and really good and really powerful songs. The album has some kind of, you know, real meat head southern rock to some of it, very skinnered. Which is a special genre of meat heads. It is a special genre. You know what I mean when I say that. I know exactly. And it's really good. And they're playing their asses off, but I sort of wasn't aware of that side of them so much, really strong songwriters, really strong singers, and would point to a song that's not one of the big rock songs, but is more one of the sort of slow feels kind of a song called No One Else Like Me. But these guys are really good. I was a little, they opened for the Stones, I think at Fenway last month, I don't know. They got one of those dates. And I thought a little bit like, I don't know, I mean, maybe, but it seems kind of quiet for that. But now I totally get it and see how that would work. I'm really eager to, they're coming around here in the fall, I think in October. And I'm really, really interested to see them if you like, you know, if you want that. Either if you're into the sort of Zack Bryony, singer, songwriter, all Americana thing, or the throwback country rock sort of a feel there for both of you. So Red Clay Strays is the other one I'm bringing this week. Roger, what do you got? I have one this week. One of my favorite bands is coming out with a new album, I think at the end of August, Airborne Toxic Events new album, Glory, they released one song from it, the title track called Glory. And it's, if you like this band, this is exactly what they do in this. It's another great song. He's a great lyricist. This is their first new music since their 2020 album, Hollywood Park, which was kind of a soundtrack to singer Michael's autobiography, which is a great read and even a better listen because he narrates the book. And he's got a fascinating story, haven't been brought up in a cult. In a cult? You know, escaping that, becoming a music journalist, starting this band. It's a fantastic story. And he documents a lot of his life and a lot of his music and just another great song. They're on the road right now. I can't wait to see them in September. But go check out Glory. I fault their management or their label or their publish or something. This band is so great. I love them. I've seen them live a bunch of times, they kick ass live. They should be so much bigger than they are. I agree. I don't know if it's the name is misleading to the type of band they are. But I mean, that comes from a Don De Lillo book, but they're a fantastic band. And if you don't know them, consistently album for album, they are fantastic. Yeah. One more thing before we wrap things up here on sound up, a dear friend of ours and a major part of the volume family, producer and engineer Ed Robinson going through some health issues that his family made public on social media recently. And we just wanted to let Ed and his family know that all of us here on sound up, I think it about him. We're thinking about his family. We are hoping for great outcomes as Ed weather's this storm. We know all the pod squatters and volume maniacs feel the same as we do and wish Ed and his family the very, very best absolutely adds a long time friend and we work together back at VH one, we work together in between VH one and serious at the tough cookie. So he's going to beat it. All right. So that winds us up for the week head on over to sounduppod.com find out how you can be part of our live sound up sound off podcast taping. We got to get one of those scheduled we've held off through through summer and vacations and everything else. But we're going to set back up one of our audience episodes soon. And please email us. You heard the missive from Dean in Kansas earlier in the show with his report on their Detroit visit. If you've been to a show, been to a rock and roll landmark, have thoughts about the Olympic ceremonies, whatever you want to weigh in about, you can write to us, you can record a voice message and send it to us. 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