The Antiquiet Podcast

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 of Queens, such hard-won immunity is a fitting metaphor for the depth of potency and power of In Times New Roman.In a stark departure from QOTSA's previous two albums, In Times New Roman has absolutely nothing to do with existential dilemmas or contemplative ambivalence. Vulnerability, uncertainty and longing have been traded out for a renewal of lava-in-the-veins certainty and purpose, the discovery that all these little sips of poison over the years have led, finally, to inoculation. Rock's most deadly goliaths have created a brilliantly brutal new fire, and just may have discovered immortality in the process.Queens are back.Knives out, bitches.

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 news in ep. 66, it has now been confirmed by the band. For future would-be naysayers to prevent more embarrassment, in this episode we provide a little verifying backstory on Antiquiet - as well as a Johnny Firecloud career highlight reel.

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) “Cancer” (Cornell) “Ahead Of The Dog” (Cornell/Thayil) “Merrmas” (Cornell/Shepherd)  “Stone Age Mind” (Cornell)

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 effectively fight back. The left sees it and attempts to address it, but is so obsessed with never stepping on anyone's toes that they've paralyzed any impactful dialogue about solutions to the point of parody, while the right is gleefully stomping through the same room with anvil boots and calling it freedom and patriotism. When that genocidal hatred is screamed and supported onstage by an American hard rock icon like Anselmo, never before in modern history has there been a more urgent moment for music journalists to address this problem directly - to use their privilege and platform for responsible editorialization and kick off important conversations, rather than the usual inconsequential gladhanding shit-shining access journalism we've come to know as the standard. Instead, we're hearing a chorus of crickets - particularly from Revolver Magazine, the leading hard rock music publication in America, whose breathlessly fawning coverage of Anselmo over the years has given Anselmo's racist, genocide-promoting bully antics a new era of exposure, popularity and profit.I say fuck that noise. If now isn't the time to start a conversation about hateful ideologies poisoning the things we hold dear, then when? It is quite literally a matter of now or never.

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 Soundgarden with Taylor Momsen, half of Mötley Crüe, the return of Foo Fighters and even Dave Chappelle singing Radiohead, missing this night was not  an option. And that's before the lava-in-your-veins icing: Them Crooked Vultures taking flight after more than a decade.Here's the highlight reel from a once-in-a-lifetime night.The Antiquiet Podcast is back. Thanks for listening.

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 - remove the distractions of social media, iPhones, the proliferation of our online existences in the endless + massively distracting glut of "content" and hyperbole that it's become. Remove all of that, and you're left with the dirt-road beginnings of the internet as it was in 2001. News wasnt old 20 minutes after it broke. The "all your base are belong to us" meme, one of the first from the internet’s initial wave of weird humor, had arrived literally three months prior and was still going strong. Long-tail anticipation was still a feature of our collective culture, which hadn't yet splintered into a Plinko-game tsunami of subcultures and niches.The goal was to trip significantly while being soundtracked by a group of musicians whose entire existence within this project was dedicated to providing tools by which to dig deeper, explore the unknown, confront the discomforting. I would emerge, hopefully, with a little better of an understanding of my own life - or at least the connecting threads between my immediate circumstances and the many choices I make in life to get me there. Life doesnt just happen, and mushrooms have a distinct way of showing you the blossoms of consequence - good or bad - and fractals of expanding reaction to your choices, which fills your experience as a person and comprises what you call… life.I was completely unprepared for what I'd signed up for. I’d never heard of a “hero dose," let alone the relatively horrifying implications it carried. But it's typically understood to be about 5 grams. And my stupid, lonesome self was on my way to an 8-gram ride. Needless to say, the arrogance and ignorance required for such an adventure were exterminated with extreme prejudice during my trip. Also covered: microdosing, the Bavarian Beer Act of 1516, the Fantastic Fungi documentary, mycologist Paul Stamets, the glory days of Toolshed.down.net, Stoned Ape theory and more...

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 Spotify’s top 200 is there a single rock band. Not one. Instead, we're getting an American Idol style TV show searching for the next big rock group. Rock isn't exactly dead, but it's definitely the last kid picked for the dodgeball team these days.

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 into a few of these in this week's AQP episode...During the pandemic downtime Eric started Eberticus Comix with friend Regan Hagar - a scrappy-by-design comic/zine hybrid that would fit well on the shelf between Mad Magazine, Cracked and Pop Smear. It’s sociopolitically biting, wildly imaginative, and turns a dark-comedy flamethrower on the staggering amount of nonsense we’ve had to deal with over the last couple years (get it at goaheadmerch.com). The ads are some of the best parts of the damn thing - but I don't want to spoil the surprise. Hijinks on the road and behind-the-scenes moments in legendary times make for some fantastic stories - it's an honor to share this conversation with Eric Johnson for episode 60.

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.

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.

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".

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 homes, hair grown out and unkempt, restlessly walking in circles, wearing stained pajamas while our pets freak out wondering what the hell is happening. It’s a perfect mood-setter for ‘Fetch the Bolt Cutters,’ a magnificent album and the running leader for album of the year.

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 the Mayan calendar to the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the Genesis flood to the Book of Revelation, all the way up through silly nonsense like The Day After Tomorrow and The Walking Dead, the end of life as we know it has always been a fixture in cultures around the world. Except that's not what it really looks like at all.

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 seasoned adoration. Part two of the saga is a continuation from part one on episode 47. These are the stories, songs, observations and other weird wanderings about a band whose music has soundtracked every shifting frequency of my own life.This picks up where part one left off, in late 2003 - the halfway point (so far) on nearly three decades of adventures with Pearl Jam.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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 Metallica, on LSD.Also covered: the new Tool album 'Fear Inoculum', new music from Refused, Desert Sessions + more.