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Download: New Victims

Here's Derek's song from today's episode. Derek wrote it but Charles played guitar and bass and Arlen from Wolf Parade played drums.

Demo: Hell is Fine

This is another Solipse song, and I think kind of a difficult one to convey without using distortion or including drums. So at the very least this recording is an interesting experiment in reworking the idea. Someone told me this song is like the cartoon where the house is on fire and the guy's like "this is fine." I think th...

Demo: A Quiet Slow Scene

We're aiming to put some kind of new demo on Patreon each month this year, and this is the first one. This was the first song written for the album I'm working on right now with my band Solipse, so it dates to late 2018 (we performed it in a live video her...

Download: What Goes Wrong

Here's a new song Charles did with our friend Kurt. He's got a project called Ice Choir and used to play drums for The Pains of Being Pure at...

Bonus 5 - What’s Music Writing For? (Pt. 2) (ft. Lior Phillips)

Freelance journalist Lior Phillips (@LiorPhillips) joins Dan (@DanBoeckner), Charles (@charlesraustin), and Alex (@Lowenaffchen) to discuss the music scene growing up in South Africa as well as her experiences with music living in Israel and Chicago.

Download: Chardonnay and Cabernet (The Wine Song)

Here's the song we made with Andrew and Branson on episode 21.

Bonus 4 - Posers, Haters, Clout Sharks, and American Idiots (Part 2) (ft. Ramsin Canon)

Labor lawyer and writer Ramsin Canon (@ramsincanon) joins Charles (@charlesraustin), Alex (@Lowenaffchen), and Dan (@DanBoeckner) to discuss the economics of the music industry and Dan’s experience playing in Myanmar before Aung San Suu Kyi was freed.

Download: The Other Way

Here's Charles's song from episode 20, "Posers, Haters, Clout Sharks, and American Idiots (Part 1)"

AutoCritic 9: Payphone [7.5] (ft. Derek)

Derek (@eedrk) and Charles (@charlesraustin) watch the video for Maroon 5's "Payphone" and discover that Adam Levine is a sensible moderate voice in favor of cop killing, which easily earns this song a 7.5.

Download: White Diamond and Silk

Here's Alex's song (and de facto #MAGAChallenge entry) from today's episode, "White Diamond and Silk."

AutoCritic 8: Is This It [5.9] (ft. Derek)

Charles and Derek justify The Strokes getting a 5.9 and “Baa Baa Black Sheep” getting a 5.1. (Twitter: @charlesraustin @eedrk)

Download: Fortune Kit Corporate Relaxation Album

We made this 50+ minute album of SEO-optimized relaxation music to go along with today's episode. We did this episode like 2 weeks ago and made the whole album in maybe 2 or 3 days, and ever since we've been in purgatory of actually getting this shit uploaded to Spotify. It keeps getting flagged for referencing other artists ...

AutoCritic 7: Deceit [2.7] (ft. Derek)

Charles and Derek must come to terms with This Heat's Deceit getting a 2.7. (Twitter: @charlesraustin @eedrk)

Download: Big Bird and Kermit Get High 2

Here's Alex's new song from today's episode, "Big Bird and Kermit Get High 2"

AutoCritic 6: Origin of Symmetry [8.6] (ft. Andrew Hudson)

Andrew (E1) discusses Muse’s Origin of Symmetry to figure out why our perfect A.I. gives it an 8.6. (Twitter: @Lowenaffchen @charlesraustin @intellegint)

Album Artwork from Today's Episode

Here's Xeecee's artwork from today's episode, including new and improved covers for Weezer’s Blue Album, The Beatles’ White Album, and the Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

Download: Green Yoda (Chapo FYM Charity Stream)

This is the song we did for Chapo FYM's charity stream this weekend to benefit Trans Lifeline. Tom wanted to do a song about 6-foot-tall Yoda smoking weed and somehow we got suckered into another of his bad ideas.

AutoCritic 5: Songs from the Big Chair [7.2] (ft. Andrew Hudson)

Andrew (E1) discusses Tears for Fears and tries to figure out why one of his favorite albums deserves a 7.2. (Twitter: @Lowenaffchen @charlesraustin @intellegint)

AutoCritic 4: Turn On the Bright Lights [5.6] (ft. Andrew)

Andrew (E1) stops by to help Alex and Charles figure out why the A.I. gave Interpol’s first album a 5.6 (Twitter: @Lowenaffchen @charlesraustin @intellegint)

Download: Fall Town (Acoustic)

Here's an acoustic version of Alex's Brock Winthrop song "Fall Town" from the Pity on a Hill EP that's on Bandcamp here. Don't think anyone's heard this version before.

AutoCritic 3: Live at the Village Vanguard [8.2] (ft. Will Menaker)

Alex, Charles, and Will see what the A.I. thinks of Coltrane. Will decides he needs to become a jazz guy and shares a story about seeing jam band moe. for Halloween one year.

AutoCritic 2: The Geto Boys [2.7] (ft. Will Menaker)

Will Menaker (Chapo Trap House) helps Alex and Charles figure out why the perfect algorithm gave Geto Boys’ “The Geto Boys” a 2.7 out of 10. (Twitter: @Lowenaffchen @charlesraustin @WillMenaker)

Download: Lizard Song (Put Me On the Cross)

From episode 12. Here's all the lyrics that we wrote on the episode too.

you smiled and wave as you sit there on that rock

i think you’re cool even though you get mocked

i love the vertical manner that you blink your eyes

if class were over i would pick you as my prize

im ...

AutoCritic 1: Exile on Main Street [5.5] (ft. Will Menaker)

Will Menaker (Chapo Trap House) drops by to help Alex and Charles figure out why the all-knowing algorithm gave The Rolling Stones’ “Exile on Main Street” a 5.5 out of 10. (Twitter: @Lowenaffchen @charlesraustin @WillMenaker

Download: Fortune Kit

I guess this song is the "title track" of the podcast. But really I was working on this one at the time we started the podcast and lazily named the show after the song. Make of that what you will. Maybe we should have named the podcast Dog Meat Car. Too late now though.

Download: Three Second Rule (Brock Winthrop)

Alex recorded this cover a few years ago but never released a downloadable version, so here it is. It's worth watching the original viral video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH1JThlQKe4

Bonus 3 - Kidz Bop Live (Part 2) ft. Keith Buckley

Charles, Alex, and Keith talk more about Kidz Bop Live. (Twitter: @charlesraustin @Lowenaffchen @deathoftheparty)

Derek's "Friends" Theme Song Cover (Two Versions)

The fast version of this was used in today's episode (#8) but here's a bonus slow version as well.

Download: Dog Meat Car

Here's a new song from Alex about being a teen with a big '50s/'60s car. We're going to try posting songs on here before we use them in episodes, but that means we've got to finish them ahead of time... Sounds like a lot of work...

Download: Lilac and Bruised

"Lilac and Bruised" (from ep7)