What's this? A dusty episode from before we released the Pilot episode? You bet! take a time travel back to a the end of January and a peep into some new local Pittsburgh music that Ian got the scoop on before anyone else! Presenting "Original Citrus." Our finest curated playlist. As always, thanks for the continuous support and contact us at thefourcorneredroom@gmail.com Season one is almost come to a close, please share with your friends!
Thank you everyone for tuning in to The Four Cornered Room. This is our season 3 finale. We would like to thank all of our guests and fans for interacting with our medium. If you want to contact us, make sure to email us at thefourcorneredroom@gmail.com As always, thank you to our musical guests for giving us permission to play your songs. If you enjoyed what we played today, here are their song links. Internal Bleeding Minority Threat Intonate Amenra
On the last History Episode of Season Three, we pivot to discuss a topic we've seen quite a lot in the News lately, Residential Schools. We've seen much coverage of the Canadian Residential School System, so Moxy will be breaking down the history of the United States' Residential School program. Mox will also be joined by friend and activist Alex Reid to discuss the Canadian Residential School tragedy, the LandBack Manifesto, and the often overlooked issues of today's Native People. Thank you all so much for tuning in every Monday this season, it has been a pleasure and an honor. Here are our sources for today's topics https://boardingschoolhealing.org/education/us-indian-boarding-school-history/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/native-americans-decry-unmarked-graves-untold-history-boarding-schools-2021-06-22/ https://landback.org/manifesto/
Content Warning: Misogyny, Sexual Coercion, and Assault are mentioned. As well as Violence, Murder and Drug Abuse. Today's episode we have some discussions about Punk Rock, The Disaster that is Woodstock '99 and have some musical birthdays to sweeten the conversation, except for Dimebag. As always, if you like what you hear share it with our show with a friend, or if you would like to contact us please email us at thefourcorneredroom@gmail.com Thank you to the Bands that gave us permission to enjoy and share their music! Make sure to follow them and give them your support! The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die Zulu Blindfolded and Led to the Woods
On today's episode, Moxy gives the gang the run down on how the continuation of racist policy undoes the little progress made for the enslaved populations shortly after the Civil War of America and how without addressing the shortcomings that were manifested by the Government of that era and societal opinion, the oppressive nature simply changed to more cryptic ideology and their silent agreements that lead to curation of Sundown Towns. If a slave were to become a freed man, the tyranny they faced was that of bureaucratic exclusion, and negligence from a system and a people that purely relied on their exploitable existence up to this point. Our Sources for today are as follows; Sundown Towns Emancipation https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/special-field-orders-no-15/ https://newrepublic.com/article/161496/slavery-reparations-joe-biden-bruce-bartlett https://thecounter.org/usda-black-farmers-discrimination-tom-vilsack-reparations-civil-rights/ Independent- How the U.S. Gov. Destroyed Black Neighborhoods Slavery by Another Name is Sharecropping Sanford Food History- Sharecropping The Atlantic Article on The Freedman's Bureau Freedman's Bureau USDA Reports
Today, we discuss how housing associations and redlining contribute to the modern racial wealth disparity in the US, and how these actions taken throughout history prove that America is not a country where "hard work" means success. Thank you for Listening to The Four Cornered Room, stay Hydrated and stay Hep. Today's Sources: A Republic of Equals - Jonathan Rothwell The Case for Reparations - Ta-Nehisi Coates Examining The Black-white wealth gap Systematic Inequality - Center for American Progress Disparities in Wealth by Race and Ethnicity in the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances
Content Warning: Today's episode includes racial violence and historical quotes with highly racist content & mentions of sexual assault and hate crimes We discuss the historical evidence that people do not advance or gain power in America by influence, but by force and the use of White Supremacy. We also discuss how White supremacy shifted focus after the Civil War to a more insidious method of oppression. Today's Sources are: The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy - Vanessa Williamson The Sum of Us- Heather McGhee The Meritocracy Trap - Daniel Markovits As always, thank you for listening and if you learned something today, share it with a friend, or let them about this podcast. Stay Hep out there.
On today's episode we welcome back our friend Ian to further dive into his question from last week and discuss unreleased albums that left us with an crystal case sized hole in our hearts. Are CD's still relevant? Or am I slowly losing my cool. We also look that losses that the music community had over the last few weeks and talk about how Slipknot and Joey Jordison paved a way for Metal in the mainstream. Thanks to all the artists that gave us the go ahead for today's music, we have some rad musical contributions to today's episode of the pod. fallfifftyfeet (wheeling, wv usa) Days N Daze (Houston, TX) Septage (Copenhagen, Denmark) Frontierer (Scotland, UK) SLUGSS (PGH, PA USA) MouthBreather (Boston, MA USA) Ether Coven (New Orleans, LA USA) Thank you again for supporting this podcast, and if you liked it share it with a friend!
Trigger Warning, This episode's discussion includes anti-semetic ideologies. Today Moxy leads us through the deep propaganda of The Protocols of the Elder of Zion, an anti-Semitic document that has a long history of being recycle to be used as a tool of influence against whichever group that Colonizers of the time sought fit to exploit. I hate Nazi's. Oh, and why is ol' Henry Ford involved with the Protocols of E.o.Z? He printed and distributed it just about everywhere his cars could reach. We also talk Fordism..which is a clever term for Fascism. As always, thanks for listening and if you like what you heard, share it with a friend and maybe they'll share it with their friend. That would be great. Lets unlearn together! Here's an Article from the Washington Post that we refer to within the show. Thanks again!
Welcome to the Four Cornered Room! Todays music episode we talk about the ULTIMATE TOUR PACKAGES (or at least the ones of our wildest dreams). We also talk Classical music? Who are these hep cats? Listening to Classical and Metal? Outrageous. Thank you to all the amazing Artists that gave us permission to use their amazing works! Make sure to go support them. Rivers of Nihil Racetraitor Marbin & Marbin (Fernweh) World Peace No Face, No Case Scattershot
On today's episode, the goons talk about the fears of touring, our favorite song covers and the WHY to our musical appreciation. We also defend T-Pain's right to auto-tune. Ian also, shoots his shot. Thank you to all the artists that give us permission to use your art. You're all wonderful and if you enjoyed their music, go support them! Z.A.C.H.- One Piece A Great Big Pile of Leaves - Beat Up Shoes Dangers- Opposable Full of Hell - Aria of Jeweled Tears Evergreen Terrace- Never Good Enough If you enjoyed Us, remember you can support us with the link below. We only promote by word of mouth, so please! Share this show with a friend who you think would enjoy. As always, Stay Hep.
Today is a supremely special Episode, we have one of our favorite podcasters with us on the show today. Dan Friesen has been featured on many podcast's and had spent years unraveling the ball of yarn Alex Jones has been tying knots in his propaganda network. We're so glad we had this opportunity that we filmed it! Check out our Youtube, and watch Dan and Us chat, laugh and poke fun at the bear that is the Christian identity movement. https://youtu.be/MDyYUCOfQxA Any questions? Comments? Email us at thefourcorneredroom@gmail.com You can find Knowledge Fight on all streaming platforms or directly from https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/ As always thanks again for listening and if your enjoyed this interview, maybe try supporting us directly with the link below!
We have a fun filled episode full of debating what children’s show has the best into and some of the best one liners we can think of. Thanks to all the people who answered Ian’s questions on Instagram. Today’s Music include Metal’s alumni Waking the Cadaver with their song “Threaten Physical Force” Next we have hometown hero's Care Package with their first release “Pinch” and Lastly we are graced with the galactic giants that are Blood Incantation with their song “The Giza Power Plant" As always thank you for listening and email us with your questions and comments at thefourcorneredroom@gmail.com
On today’s episode, Hep Young Jedi, Abe Zito joins us to bring some levity to a topic we all love to talk about, Nazis. You can’t go talking about Nazi America without talking about Henry Ford…here's some links to photos for todays topic. As always, thanks for listening and if you can support us with the link below! “Pro American Rally Flyer” “Pro-Nazi Summer Camp in Yaphank, New York” “Hailing George Washington as First Fascist” “America First Rally at Madison Square Gardens” Sources for this Episode Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States Book by Bradley W. Hart & A NIght at the Garden
On today’s episode the fellas explore all kinds of great heavy genres and even some bedroom pop bangers. Our special musical shout out goes to the always heavy FLUIDS with their song "Empathy Shed" Next, we are graced by the awesome production of Dora Jar with their song “Polly” THEN, we have our PA natives Soul Glo to drown out the annoying “Patriotic display” that happened to interrupt our scheduled programming with their song “B.O.M.B.S.” and lastly we have Cerebral Rot to close out the show with their song “Spewing Purulence” Thanks again and if you want to show us your music, please send us an email at thefourcorneredroom@gmail.com.
It’s the season premiere and we’re diving right in with Critical Race Theory and how the Ruling class crafted Whiteness firstly as an act of voter suppression and how it still effects us today. Today’s Sources include Nell Painter’s The History of White People
Today's episode is the season finale and we're going out with a great big bang with two great heavy metal tracks! First we have our friends at ps.you'redead; showing us that power-violence can be danced too. Today's episode has a special detour to experience some new (old?) Drill Artists from across the pond. Pete & Bas! With special requests from a very special fan of ours! Lastly, another great act, Party Cannon! Don't let the name fool you, these Scots are here to bring heavy breakdowns and inhuman vocals. Thank you to everyone who has listened to the past two seasons. Your continued support is greatly appreciated!
On today's episode, we take Memorial Day to reflect on a day that lives in infamy as a stain on American Civility. This heavy episode is covering The Tulsa Race Massacre, who's 100th year anniversary is capped (on Memorial Day no less) with living survivors sharing their stories with congress and your friends at The Four Cornered Room are left with a sobering reminder that the American dream can always be violently stolen from those who rightfully fought for their piece of the pie.
Today, our local music historian Ian Compton takes us on a tour of the 70's and one of Marvin Gaye's finest works, What's Going On. Here's a link to the Anniversary Album! Contact us @ thefourcorneredroom@gmail.com with all your questions and suggestions.
Today's episode, Moxy leads Ian and Cody into a world of unseen evils and shady money makings by the Christian Identity Movement and their dangerous and violent history. Join us while we mock these Nazi wanna-bes. Just check out these chuds, what losers!