Rising out of the dark ages of nu-metal, The SIDESHOW led the charge for the New Wave of heavy music at 98.1 WQAQ, initiating a loud rock revival at the prestigious, student-run radio station. What Brian began in 2002 would grow into something bigger than he ever imagined. Garnering critical acclaim with the addition of Nick in 2003, The SIDESHOW would evolve and continue even after its creators g...raduated. Brian and Nick passed the torch to the ROCK(jock), who further revolutionized the p ...
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SWM & TTFN As we announce at the top of this annual Shit We Missed episode, this will be the last show for a while. Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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We Did a Top 15 List This Year Because We Make Up Our Own Rules That’s right. We changed our Best Of list this yer. Not only did we Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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How Are We at the End of the Year Already?! Somehow, this year flew by and dragged on at the same time. Was 2021 an Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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A Grande Finale… …for our 2021 album reviews! That’s right! This is the last regular show for this year. We go out with a (head)bang Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Gobble Gobble Motherf%&ker! Here in the US it, it is almost Thanksgiving, and though, generally speaking, the world may continue to be a dumpster fire, Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Bringing the Heat We have some bangers for your this week, including two that will definitely be in our top three albums for the year. Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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What Could Be Construed as a Melody We got a couple of big ones again this week, and – as we note in the show Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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An Episode that Ties Itself Together The title will make sense as you listen. Oh, and what you get by listening are not only reviews Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Ten. FREAKing. Years. That’s right. 10 years of bringing you the best – and worst – in music to make your ears bleed. 450 episodes Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Kaiju Metal is a Thing? We have one band that seems to think so, even if we don’t agree with some of their sonic interpretation. Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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It Can’t Rain All the Time… …but it has been raining a lot as hurricane season is underway in the US. Your hosts recently got Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Late for the Kill… Yeah, this is coming out really late. We know. Once again, life got in the way. Actually, it’s still in the Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Let the Jaws Hit the Floor It has been while but we finally have an album that made our jaws dropped. Knocked our socks off. Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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How about maybe we don’t? With some big names in this week’s episode, you’d think – or at least hope – there’s some good Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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The Dynamics Taking inspiration from the episode number, we checked out four new albums this time! Though all these releases are different styles of Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Getting Back to “Normal” Concerts are starting to come back!! Some of them are going to be earth-shattering!! Exciting times! Exclamation points! Wanna know what else is Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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You Can’t Say We Didn’t Show Up Sorry for the long wait!! Sometimes life gets in the way. We’re here now, though, and we have Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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45 Seconds from Awesome We have a good dose of heavy for you this episode, including the highly anticipated new album from Gojira. Unlike most Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Chill Pill We calm it down this week, reviewing some albums much less intense than last week’s choices. In that, we have a new band, Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Vast Forest of Impaled Cadavers We have some dark stuff for you this week, including the the fifteenth album from the titans of Death Metal, Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Trip Like I Do In addition tor reviewing three new releases, we also kick off the show discussing some show and tour announcements! Yeah, you Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Dabbling in Body Horror We tried really hard to do an episode themed around bands with body horror names. However, despite our efforts, we only Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Rip Off, Rage, and Ruin I’m drawing a blank on some clever copy to put here. So, just start listening to the show and we Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Technical, Groovy, and Grimy We went extra heavy this week. Why the extra br00tal? No particular reason – these are just the albums that fit Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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The Complexity of Simplicity Sorry this is late, but here is our first full episode on 2021 releases! As you can see, we have our Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 433: Frozen Soul, Harakiri for the Sky 2021 Album Reviews + Black Royal and Dool Sh!t We Missed
Off to a Groovy Start As we work our way deeper into 2021, we transition with a hybrid episode of sorts. We have two brand Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Our 20 Favorite Albums of One of Our Least Favorite Years This is it! It is finally the end of 2020, and at the 11th hour, Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Beginning the End of this Clusterf#%k of a Year We’re almost there, folks! We know the world is not going to magically change come January Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 429: Dark Tranquillity, Killer Be Killed, Within the Ruins 2020 Album Reviews + Crew Nation Donor Pick
Well, This Is A First There’s nothing particularly special about this episode aside from it being the last regular episode for this shitty year…and a Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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What Do You Call a Man with No Arms and No Legs in the Ocean? There’s a couple of big releases this show, and we Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Third Time’s a Charm? We inadvertently chose to review three albums this week that would be our third time reviewing the three bands. It’s safe Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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We Have Company In addition to our Crew Nation donor, we have another very special guest join us this week. Long-time listeners haven’t heard this Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 425: Napalm Death, Skeletal Remains, Fires in the Distance, Madrost 2020 Album Reviews + Crew Nation Donor Pick
Animal-like Behavior This time around, we have a variety of heavy. Grindcore, Industrial, Death Metal, Melodic Death, Doom, Thrash, Progressive…and that is across just four Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Creamy Center Death appears to be the name of the game this episode. We have it in a few forms, namely Progressive, Old School, and Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Opethian Transitions: Part Deux Unlike the last episode, this one doesn’t actually have anything to do with Opeth. However, our transitions of styles from review-to-review Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 422: Misery Signals, Orbit Culture, Terminal Nation 2020 Album Reviews + Crew Nation Donor Pick
Opethian Transitions In this episode we come up with ideas on how to be better at social media, review some rad music, and have a Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 421: Bury Tomorrow, Black Crown Initiate, Night In Gales 2020 Album Reviews + Crew Nation Donor Pick
High Fidelity We have some quality releases this week. Like, at least two of these releases will likely be in our end of the year Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em So, in case you haven’t noticed, we themed this episode! Enjoy it, because it probably isn’t gonna happen again Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 419: Protest the Hero, Vampire, Let Us Prey 2020 Album Reviews + Inside Out Music Showcase
In Which We Try to Make Things a Little Less Shitty If you think about it, we help in our own way by entertaining and Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Notes! Actually, yes we do. Well, at least Brian needs notes. Regardless, we have some good recommendations this week, some Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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There Be Quibbles Ahead We have a solid set of releases for you this episode! They aren’t perfect – which is obviously what we discuss Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 416: Paradise Lost, Antichrist Demoncore, Aether Realm 2020 Album Reviews + Southern Lord Showcase
Meow We have starkly diverse line-up of reviews this episode. I mean, we usually have a mix of styles, but there were some sharp transitions Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 415: Katatonia, Barishi, Werewolves, Umbrae Vitae 2020 Album Reviews + The Artisan Era Showcase
Choose a Side We have some really good discussions this week, and a bunch of differing opinions. To the latter, Nick and Brian only completely Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 414: The Black Dahlia Murder, Benighted, Wvrm, Abysmal Dawn 2020 Album Reviews + The Artisan Era Showcase
Nick Doesn’t Care The title sums up one host’s feelings for 3/4 of these albums. Can you guess which is the one he really likes? Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Stages of Evolution The only constant is change. We have seen bands change from almost unnoticeable amounts to seismic sonic shifts. As the catalogs for Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 412: Code Orange, Earth Rot, Neck of the Woods, Zan 2020 Album Reviews + 20 Buck Spin Showcase
We’re Now “The InSideshow Podcast” Since we’re all essentially quarantined, we thought we’d unofficially name the show for the foreseeable future. Aren’t we hilarious? Anyway, when Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 411: Tombs, Xenobiotic, Beneath the Massacre, Svengahli, Hot Graves 2020 Album Reviews + Holy Roar Records Showcase
Sick Music for (Hopefully Not) Sick People I usually put something funny here, but this time i am going to reiterate something from the top Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Episode 410: Intronaut, Kvelertak, Great American Ghost 2020 Album Reviews + Holy Roar Records Showcase
They’re Being Followed As you may realize, we try to keep up with a LOT of bands. Many we come across fade away, or we Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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Change My Mind If you have been listening for, well, any amount of time, you know that Nick and Brian have a lot of similar Continue readingΑπό τον The Sideshow Podcast
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