This week Maggie and Ashleigh learn about Joy Division- a band they didn’t know anything about UNTIL NOW. The ultimate post-punk band, Joy Division’s story escalates quickly before coming to a bit of a screeching halt. It’s one that includes fights, great music, tears, and best of all- British slang. So swing by Rare Form […]
For our final installment of pride month, Ashleigh and Maggie discuss the life of femme fatale Beth Ditto! This southern girl moves out to the northwest to start the band Gossip and has now made her way to successful solo artist. And we’re gonna tell you how she got there. All while drinking some tasty […]
The library is open! This week we discuss the most well known Drag Queen of our time- RuPaul. Listen to his stories of growing up in a household of women and how his path eventually lead him to being not only one of the most recognized faces in pop culture, but a talented music artist […]
This week Ashleigh and Maggie continue the Pride month celebrations with the transgender lead singer of the punk band Against Me!, Laura Jane Grace. Hear the story of growing up in the 80’s-90’s as a transgendered person and the escape and therapy that she found in music. Keep the beer pairing real simple this week […]
Happy Pride month, kids! Maggie and Ashleigh are kicking off this month with the conclusion of our Judas Priest story and talking about the God of Metal himself coming out of the closet. There are also some discussions of the influence of the gay culture on heavy metal and some drunken movie tangents. So curl […]
This week Ashleigh and Maggie join Metal MAY-nia in anticipation for Gay Pride month by bridging it with one of the OGs of metal- Judas Priest! They go through the early beginnings of the band and make it into covering the 1990 trial where they faced a fan and his family after a tragic suicide […]
Keeping it brutal in Metal May-nia and today we finish up our story of one of the Big 4- Metallica! Listen up as we regale you with stories of hurt feelings, court cases, line up changes, bizarre personal stories (ours and the band members), and we still can’t get over that gorgeous hair! If you […]
As Maggie and Ashleigh continue down the road of Metal May-nia month, they make a 2 part pit stop with METALLICA! In part one we cover them from their modest beginnings in 1981 up thru the release of their live album S&M in 1999- including stories of alcohol, death, rebellion, religion, and the things they […]
This week we conclude the topic of the Norwegian Black Metal scene with more tales of arson, murder, and crop tops. Join Ashleigh and Maggie for discussions on the origins of the racism and violence these problem children are still expounding today. We decided to pair up this drinking game with Feral from Heldeberg Meadworks, […]
Welcome to the first episode of METAL MAY-NIA! This week is Part 1 of our telling of the story of 80’s-90’s Norwegian Black Metal. Tales of burning churches and committing murder in the name of Satan (or in the name of saving face), and let’s not forget about the suicides and crop tops. Would they […]
