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The Drop Zone is a football (or soccer) podcast featuring analysis and commentary from Zach Osterman and Galen Clavio. We talk mostly about English football, with a healthy smattering of international soccer thrown in for good measure.
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We check in on the Premier League during the 2018/19 holiday break. First up is revisiting our predictions from the preseason for the top 6 and bottom 3. We get into some debates over the ultimate destiny of this vintage of Manchester United, whether City is motivated by a repeat title, whether Spurs can maintain […]
Back for the start of the Premier League season, The Drop Zone gives the full rundown on what was a pretty tightly packed offseason. We chat about the effects of the World Cup on players and teams, the oddity of the new, shorter transfer window, and the lack of planning that seemed to dominate the […]
We’ve reached the end of our Doors odyssey — we’re not doing the non-Morrison albums that followed this one, and we’re also not doing American Prayer for reasons that should be obvious if you listen to any of those titles. But that’s okay, because this is a tremendous high point upon which to leave. LA […]
We’ve entered 1970, and The Doors are back in the critical spotlight with their penultimate album, Morrison Hotel. Both a critical and fan favorite, this album saw The Doors moving (mostly) away from the pop and psychedelic sounds that dominated their last couple of albums, in favor of a rawer blues-influenced rock and roll sound. We take […]
Back we are, tackling the fourth (and easily most controversial) album in The Doors’ canon. The Soft Parade, released in mid-1969, represented a pretty big departure from the band, and…well, the critics didn’t dig it. Like, at all. They hated the horns and strings on some of the songs, they hated the lyrics in places, and […]
On our 34th episode, we reach the midway point of The Doors discography, reviewing 1968’s “Waiting For The Sun”. Significantly different in character from the previous two albums, this piece of work is a bit less coherent, a bit more muddled, yet still shines through with several excellent tracks and an intriguing departure from the […]
Back for round 2 of The Doors’ discography, Galen and Alex tackle their sophomore effort, Strange Days. An interesting mix of late 60s psychedelia, guitar/organ pop sensibility, and another grand epic of a song, this album unfortunately has gotten a bit lost in the historical shuffle. But not here! We walk you through each track song-by-song, and […]
Cosmic America’s raison d’etre is reviewing interesting music by interesting artists — and doing it in a completist fashion, by reviewing all of their studio albums in chronological order. It’s what separates Cosmic America from other music review podcasts that only tackle individual albums. For this episode, we launch into the music of The Doors, […]
We’re at the end of The War on Drugs —- at least, until they release another album! (Which, god help us, should absolutely happen, but probably won’t until like 2021 or so) Anyway, here’s their (for the moment) last album, A Deeper Understanding. The production’s a bit thicker, the melodies are catchier but less desperate-sounding, […]
We’re back with more music talk. Cosmic America rolls on through the discography of The War on Drugs, tackling their breakthrough hit, Lost in the Dream for this episode. We take a look at the increasingly mature and almost gauzy production values, the increasingly isolated lyrical content, and the exciting yet somewhat uneven pacing of […]
Back for more Cosmic America, as we continue our deep-dive into The War on Drugs. This LP, entitled Slave Ambient, broke The War on Drugs more fully into the national consciousness, featuring many of the key characteristics that made their music so interesting and attractive to so many people. We cover it track-by-track, giving anecdotes […]
Cosmic America’s 28th episode is the second official release by The War on Drugs. This one’s called Future Weather, and we go through it song by song. There are a couple of songs missing from the release, because we decided to do them on the Slave Ambient review (which is coming next!). Subscribe to Cosmic […]
Alex and Galen are back, and this time we’re reviewing the entire discography of The War on Drugs. This musical collective animates the lyrics and tunes of Adam Granduciel, and we start with our reviews at (almost) the beginning, with a look at 2008’s Wagonwheel Blues. Kurt Vile is still in the band, and the […]
This episode of World Cup Analysis finds Galen talking about the exciting final Group Stage games from Group D, featuring Argentina’s comeback victory against Nigeria. We spend a lot of time talking about that game, about Argentina’s chances moving forward, and about the implications of their knockout stage matchup vs France. We also take a […]
Today’s World Cup analysis focuses on the shock capitulation of Argentina to Croatia, France coasting to victory against Peru, Australia keeping themselves in the mix, and the implications of tomorrow’s Nigeria-Iceland game. Plus, we take viewer questions and preview tomorrow’s other two games.
Galen is joined by longtime friend of the podcast Lee Delvecchio for this special edition of SportsPolitik and The Drop Zone. We talk about our reflections from the first week of the World Cup, delve a bit into the Messi-Ronaldo debate, talk about the teams that have looked the best through the first ten days, […]
Zach Osterman joins the World Cup Analysis podcast series, as we break down the first set of group stage games, talk about the Group A and B action from the second set of games, and talk about some of the emerging storylines from the tournament so far. Should France be panicked? Should Germany be panicked? […]
We finish off the first round of Group Stage games and start on the second round, and lots of things happen in between. Galen Clavio takes you through the primary storylines from the day — Colombia’s red card and subsequent loss to Japan, Senegal’s superiority over Poland, and Russia’s surprising emergence as the alpha dog […]
Galen flies solo on this episode. Topics discussed include England’s important win over Tunisia, Belgium’s proper thrashing of Panama, the problems that the Koreans find themselves in, and whether or not we should be concerned about the pre-tournament favorites. You can catch these podcasts live on Periscope by tuning in to @doctorgc on Twitter, roughly 15-30 […]
Our White Stripes odyssey comes to an end with this episode, as we hit the (surprise) ending note to the band’s career with Icky Thump. Fuller sound, slightly more uneven, but still featuring four or five classic tunes, this was a fine way for the band to swan song. We go track-by-track through the album, […]
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