What is WASTOIDS?

WASTOIDS is an audio/visual feed, created by Sam Means (Lightning Store/Wavlake) and Jason Woodbury (Aquarium Drunkard) that shares original music and pop culture-related videos, podcast episodes, and playlists on WASTOIDS.COM and other apps of your choice. If that sounds rad, read on..

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CURRENT PROGRAMMING

Click Vortex

Sam (@ltngstore/@wavlake) and Jason (Aquarium Drunkard) stumble down a rabbit hole of hyperlinks, following trails of interconnection between music and wildly varied topics. Live every other week on YouTube and in your podcast feed.

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The Spindle

The 7-inch record isn’t just a format–it’s an art form. On each episode of The Spindle podcast, Marc and John dive into a great 7-inch every other week, dissecting its background, impact, and the reasons why it stands out as a small plastic piece of music history.

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HOTLINE

This bi-weekly video series features your favorite artists answering questions from the 1-877-WASTOIDS answering machine, sharing their fantasy world, records they can't live with out and anything else that comes in.

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Midnight Music Review in the Attic

Monthly video series spotlighting experimental songwriters, garage rockers, avant-pop acts and more from the mind (and attic) of Argentinian artist Salvador Cresta.

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WASTOIDS Music News

Decoy Deloy brings you the latest in music news, each Friday from the WASTOIDS loft.

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HIGHLIGHTER

Jenny Nobody brings a weekly video roundup of what you may have missed last week on WASTOIDS.

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WASTOIDS DIGS

Handpicked new releases from the WASTOIDS staff every week on WASTOIDS DOT COM

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SPECIALS

Nilsson Talks Nilsson

Olivia and Kiefo share interesting tidbits, unknown stories, and personal experiences related to their father, legendary singer, producer, interpreter, and composer, Harry Nilsson.

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Special Podness

Four-part mini-series dedicated to the history of The Special Goodness by the three dudes who (probably) know it best: Pat Wilson of Weezer, drummer Atom Willard (Rocket From the Crypt, Plosivs, Against Me!) and Karl Koch, Weezer historian.

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In The Crates

In the early ’80s, skate punk roared out of Phoenix, led by a group of teenagers called Jodie Foster’s Army. On JFA’s 1983 full-length debut, Valley of the Yakes, vocalist Brian Brannon rails against preps, gossipers, cops, and Reagan. But he saves some of his gnarliest lyrics for a local radio deejay, a guy named Johnny D.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

Clairaudience

A late night weekly mood music/paranormal radio show featuring kitschy and soothing music, far out stories from guests like John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats, plus calls from the WASTOIDS hotline.

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WASTOIDS With

Interviews featuring Van Dyke Park, Keith Morris, Steve Keene, Roger manning Jr., Paul Leary, Laura Jane Grace, East Bay Ray from Dead Kennedys, CREEM Magazine, The Source Family, and more.

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Strange Gear

An exploration of unusual musical equipment and the stories behind it featuring artists like, A Place to Bury Strangers and Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos, and more.

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WASTOIDS, Season 1

Initially created for Night Flight, this 4 episode series is baked and fried in the Sonoran Desert and NYC, throwing back to the halcyon days when stoned teenagers could stay up all night watching music videos, loopy comedy, and arty strangeness on the TV set.

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Out of Site

Recurring live music video series, featuring Mute Swan, Supercrush, Dante Elephant, Beach Bums, Sydney Sprague, and more.

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MIXTAPE

Curated playlists from WASTOIDS friends

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WHAT ELSE?

WASTOIDS is a hotline: 1-877-WASTOIDS. We want to know: What’s the weirdest thing that’s ever happened to you? Has a stranger ever relayed a cryptic message? Have you witnessed something confounding in the sky? Found yourself stranded in a frightening location? Call WASTOIDS and tell us your strange tale.

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