The Antiquiet Podcast

Music stories, industry insights and passion-driven culture vulturing from 25+ year music journalist + photographer Johnny Firecloud. Mostly music related, sometimes not. Always aggressively honest, often naming names. Safety last. AQ Podcast theme song written & recorded by Alain Johannes.

068: Queens of The Stone Age 'In Times New Roman' Review

Rock's most dangerous gang returns after 6 years with In Times New Roman, a brutally beautiful and highly complex 10-track collection packed with devastatingly delicious trap doors, richly lush production and musical blades sharpened in the friction of opposing forces. Mithridatism is the practice of ingesting small amounts of poison with consistent frequency over a long period of time, with the eventual goal of building immunity. After the tribulations of the last several years in the world ...

06-02
41:46

067: Foo Fighters Return, But Something is Missing

Foo Fighters have returned with "Rescued," the first single from their new album But Here We Are, out June 2 on Roswell Records/RCA Records. The only problem? The song is not very good, and there's something significant missing.We also dive into the Sonic Temple festival happening May 25-28 in Ohio, as well as the return of Queens of the Stone Age and more. And while not a single publication ran with the (highly exciting) Soundgarden lawsuit + new album story for 11 days after we broke the ne...

04-19
23:12

066: Exclusive - New Soundgarden Album Cleared For Release

Antiquiet Exclusive: A long-running lawsuit between Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell over the use of her late husband Chris Cornell's unreleased vocal tracks has been settled. This means the nearly-completed new Soundgarden album can now be finished and released, an enormously exciting development for fans.Full details in the episode!The as-yet-untitled album's song titles likely include:“Road Less Traveled” (Cornell/Cameron) “Orphans” (Cornell/Cameron)“At Ophians Door” (Cornell/Cameron)&nb...

04-06
10:07

065: Rock Nazi: Phil Anselmo & the American Cowardice Problem

When two German festivals kicked the 2023 version of Pantera off their summer lineups last week, due to frontman Phil Anselmo screaming "white power" repeatedly onstage and throwing Sieg Heil nazi victory salutes, there was a deafening reactionary silence from some of the most influential rock publications in America. The drastic rise of white supremacy and nazi ideology in our country has become a severe crisis of sociopolitical danger, but a conversation has yet to take place about how to e...

01-31
52:13

064: Taylor Hawkins Tribute in L.A.

The Taylor Hawkins tribute concert on Sept 27th at the Forum in Los Angeles was a massive, jaw-droppingly star-studded event to honor the fallen Foo Fighters drummer. Taylor's seat and beats were filled by a rotating cast of drummers including Travis Barker, Stewart Copeland, Danny Carey, Chad Smith, Lars Ulrich, Jon Theodore and more, including a tearjerker Foo Fighters performance with T's 16 year old son Shane Hawkins.With performances from Josh Homme, Pink, Brian May, members of Sou...

09-29
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063: Tool’s ‘Lateralus’ on 8 Grams of Mushrooms

Here's what happens when you take an 8-gram hero dose of psilocybin mushrooms to listen to Tool's 'Lateralus' album for the first time, completely alone. Spoiler alert: things very much did not go as planned.20 years ago, on May 15, 2001, Tool's maniacally-anticipated 'Lateralus' was released. The hype for this record is hard to put into perspective in today’s terms. You’d have to pull out all our favorite blossoms of cultural stimuli by the roots to really understand the context - remov...

10-30
56:57

061: Robot Nirvana & The Decline of Rock

Kurt Cobain has been brought back to life via artificial intelligence, and the musical results are questionable at best. But a future where music is driven by AI algorithms is more possible - and scary - than you might think. Episode 61 explores what the road ahead might look like for popular music, when “the virtual likeness of an artist doesn’t get old, it doesn’t get angry, it doesn’t argue with you.”We also discuss this year's festival season (Fall is looking packed), and how nowhere in S...

10-30
30:24

060: Eric Johnson, Tour Manager to Metallica, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden & More

Eric Johnson is Metallica’s tour manager, and was the first-ever crew member and tour manager for both Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. He’s also worked with Neil Young over the last two decades as Neil's right-hand man. Eric has forgotten more stories than most people will ever be able to tell from the formative and pivotal years when Seattle's most notable bands were just scrappy kids putting together what would become some of the most classic albums and performances of our lifetimes. We dig...

10-30
01:51:20

059: The 10 Best Albums Turning 10 This Year

Zac Gelfand from Uproxx joins to talk about the best albums turning 10 this year. Highlights of 2011 include Watch The Throne, The King of Limbs, Wasting Light, Let England Shake and many more. We dig into the stories, impacts and current perspectives of the music that defined the year.

10-30
01:40:12

058: Foo Fighters ‘Medicine at Midnight’ Review, Phoebe Bridgers on SNL

A deep dive on the new Foo Fighters record ‘Medicine at Midnight’, and the evolution of Dave Grohl’s songwriting. Also: Phoebe Bridgers plays SNL and everybody loses their minds (for stupid reasons), new music from Death From Above, Genghis Tron, Bonnie Prince Billie & Bill Callahan and more.

10-30
25:19

057: Live Music Predictions for 2021

Will we be back at shows & festivals this year? Experts and industry heads place their bets on live events in 2021. We also dig into new releases from Royal Blood, Sleaford Mods, Tomahawk and Weezer - as well as the need for more insightful comedy as we find a new cultural "normal".

10-30
32:50

055: Fiona Apple, Together At Home, Corona Bug Chasers

AQP55 covers quite a bit of ground in short order, from thoughts on the 'One World: Together at Home' broadcast, to your options in Ticketmaster’s predatory ticket refund policy change. Then there's the coronavirus bug-chasers mass-protesting against that awesome band Bill Gates & the Deep State and their plans to microchip us and kill us with 5G towers or something.Also covered: the new Fiona Apple record, which couldn’t be more perfectly timed - arriving when we’re all stuck in our home...

10-30
26:06

054: Love Lockdown: Armageddon Fetish

Still alive! AQP54 digs into new music from Run The Jewels, Nine Inch Nails, Phish and Pearl Jam, with a send-off to Bill Withers and the sad discovery that Joe Exotic doesn't write or sing his own songs. Also, a review of the new Louis CK special. But first, an exploration of armageddon fetishization. People have been obsessed by the idea of civilization ending for a very, very long time - long before Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck landed on a stupid asteroid. From the end date of th...

10-30
41:28

053: Pearl Jam Fan Life Pt. 2 (2003-2020)

This is one Pearl Jam fan’s blueprint to chasing the dragon of musical passion. Falling in love. Catching tambourines. Traveling thousands of miles for shows, many times over, for 2-3 hours of heart-soaring release, catharsis and rejuvenation. Album releases. Show adventures. Riding the rail at Pj20, Temple of The Dog, countless festivals and beyond.This is the second half of a two-episode run on the journey of a lifelong Pearl Jam fan, from the ‘90s teenage obsessions through today’s seasone...

10-30
02:46:50

052: When Heroes Become Assholes

AQP is back! Anticipated albums of 2020, Josh Homme's rough road, Pearl Jam's revitalized new path and more. Also - what do you do when one of your heroes acts like a monstrous asshole?

10-30
33:53

051: Thom Yorke in the Forest, RATM Reunion

On a chilly Devil's Night in Los Angeles, the pine-framed magic of the Greek Theater was a perfect setting for a tour-closing show from Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. A trip to Pulp Fiction’s Big Kahuna Burger pop-up followed, along with rants/raves on the Rage Against The Machine reunion announcement.

10-30
28:14

050: Desert Sessions Review

The longest-running mixtape in existence returns Oct 25 with two new volumes, Desert Sessions vol. 11 & 12, after a 16 year hiatus. This new collection finds a pack of seasoned demons brewing up a delicious kaleidoscope of sound, with Josh Homme (QOTSA) as producer/cupid for a carousel of guests in the desert.

10-30
20:25

049: Dennis Lyxzén of Refused

Hardcore legends Refused have just released their explosively confrontational new album War Music, and frontman Dennis Lyxzén is as artistically potent as ever. The man who somehow fronts two of the greatest bands of the last 3 decades, the International Noise Conspiracy and Refused, gives us the full breakdown in this episode.

10-30
45:11

048: LSD with Metallica

Headed up to San Francisco to join 16,000 maniacal Metallica fans at the Chase Center for a special performance of the S&M2 show with the San Francisco Symphony, a massive 75-piece orchestra. While there I ran into a good friend (and Metallica superfan) who used to do studio engineering for the Antiquiet Sessions. Oh yeah, and he was tripping his balls off. We catch up after the show to recount our experience for today’s episode, recapping the weird & wild few hours with Metalli...

10-30
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