The Epic Horn Section Podcast

BJ Wanlund

This podcast feed is the NEW and most up-to-date version of the Epic Horn Section podcast (formerly known as Horns Up: A Rock Music Podcast) where two very different music lovers come together to talk the world of rock music. The show will consist of some of the latest music news, latest reviews, and classic reviews.

  1. 09/08/2020

    Epic Horn Section Episode 26 - The Final

    Lots of news items, bonus picks, and we reviewed albums by Deftones, Avenged Sevenfold, U2, Modest Mouse, Linkin Park, The Killers, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. NOTE: THIS WILL BE THE LAST EPISODE OF THIS PODCAST. I will update via Twitter when I am ready to upload my new podcast, and all episodes will be on Archive.org for your enjoyment later.

    44 min

  2. 08/12/2020

    Epic Horn Section Episode 25

    This time, we discuss the deaths of Charlie Daniels, Naya Rivera & Benjamin Keough, Rick Astley's Foo Fighters cover, Live Nation's new hurtful policies to the indie artists we love, Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time, the virtual Strat-o-Matic All Star Game with Drew Carey and the Stray Cats' Slim Jim Phantom, Taylor Swift stealth-shadow dropping her newest album Folklore, Dave Grohl's op-ed on teachers, Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory potentially getting a 20th anniversary reissue, the 25 worst albums from legendary bands, & Tool's no longer being on a major record label. Our bonus picks are Gaslighter, Call My Life, IDENTITY, Living with War, Prairie Wind, Folklore, Lamb of God, Sex, Death & The Infinite Void, & Hunter Gatherer. Our album reviews are: Toxicity, Hybrid Theory, Good News For People Who Love Bad News, American Idiot, Lateralus,' Funplex, Take The Weather With You, & Jupiter's Darling. Next time, we will review White Pony, City of Evil, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, Meteora, Hot Fuss, & Stadium Arcadium. Twitter: @DJDKooks @bjwanlund

    50 min

  3. 06/21/2020

    Epic Horn Section Podcast Episode 24

    On this episode: We pay tribute to Phil May & Bob Kulick We also pay tribute to the late, lamented "Live from Here with Chris Thile" (formerly known as A Prairie Home Companion) We talk about a talented group of kids covering Pantera Prince's long-lost Blue Angel Cloud guitar being found and going up for auction 50 Country Albums Every Rock Fan should Own Best Songs of 2020 So Far The Killers covering Jimmy Buffett's "A Pirate Looks at Forty" on their recent iHeart set BONUS PICKS: BJ: Jimmy Buffett – Life on the Flip Side BJ: The Beach Boys – Smiley Smile (point of comparison to our album review of Brian Wilson’s Smile) BJ: Lady Gaga – Chromatica BJ: James Taylor – American Standard BJ: Metal Church – This Present Wasteland BJ: Indigo Girls – Look Long BJ: Palette Swap Ninja – Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans Danny: RTJ4- Run the Jewels Danny: Grey Daze- Amends Danny: I Prevail- DOA (Feat Joyner Lucas) Danny: Des Rocs- Wayne Danny: The 1975- Notes on a Conditional Form ALBUM REVIEWS: Shinedown – The Sound of Madness Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf Crossfade – Crossfade Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism Brian Wilson – Smile Dragonforce – Inhuman Rampage My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade NEXT TIME: Tool – Lateralus Green Day – American Idiot System of a Down – Toxicity Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory Modest Mouse – Good News for People who Love Bad News The B-52s – Funplex Jimmy Buffett – Take the Weather With You Heart – Jupiter’s Darling Follow us on Twitter! @DJDKooks @bjwanlund

    38 min

  4. 05/14/2020

    Epic Horn Section Episode 23

    IN THIS EPISODE: We pay tribute to Little Richard, Melissa Etheridge's son, Derek Jones, Brian Howe, Florian Schneider, and more Socially distanced duet with Lizzy Hale and Amy Lee Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 & 2 this September with all the memorable music from the first two games! Axl Rose vs. Steven Mnuchin Poppy wants to be the very best, like no one ever was Rockin' Recipes for Autism BONUS PICKS: Danny: From Maynard James Keenan's other other side project, Puscifer's Apocalyptical BJ: Jimmy Buffett's Who Gets To Live Like This ALBUM REVIEWS: Gojira – L’enfant Souvage Frank Ocean – Channel Orange Anderson Paak – Malibu Foo Fighters – Sonic Highways Badflower – OK, I’m Sick Myles Kennedy – Year of the Tiger A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant AND our top 10s of the decade! Danny:  10) Wasting Light (Foo Fighters) 9) Koi no Yokan (Deftones) 8) Stranger Fruit (Zeal & Ardor) 7) Blackstar (David Bowie) 6) We are Not Your Kind (Slipknot) 5) Like Clockwork (Queens of the Stone Age) 4) To Pimp A Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar) 3) When We All Fall Asleep... (Billie Eilish) 2) Fear Inoculum (Tool) 1) Meliora (Ghost) BJ: 10) The Union (Elton John & Leon Russell) 9) To Pimp a Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar) 8) 21 (Adele) 7) Blackstar (Bowie) 6) Helplessness Blues (Fleet Foxes) 5) When We All Fall Asleep (Billie Eilish) 4) The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (AIC) 3) Firepower (Judas Priest) 2) Body Talk (Robyn) 1) Fear Inoculum (Tool) NEXT TIME: Shinedown – Sound of Madness Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Dead Crossfade – Crossfade Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism Brian Wilson – Smile Dragonforce – Inhuman Rampage My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade Follow us on Twitter! @DJDKooks @bjwanlund

    31 min

  5. 05/14/2020

    Epic Horn Section Episode 22

    ON THIS EPISODE: TOPICS: Tributes to Bill Withers, Joe Diffie, Adam Schlesinger and John Prine, among others Socially distanced duet between Lizzy Hale of Halestorm & Amy Lee of Evanescence New Jimmy Buffett album alert!! Life on the Flip Side comes out May 29th! Preorders are now live and bundle sale proceeds on Mailboat Records benefits Playing For Change for COVID-19 relief Billie Joe Armstrong & Susanna Hoffs do a socially distanced duet on a cover of Manic Monday "Shut it Down" video by Neil Young Ticketmaster has been a very bad boy BONUS PICKS: Danny: Ice Nine Kills's horror parody of Stacy's Mom called "Jason's Mom" BJ: Jimmy Buffett - Down At The Lah De Dah BJ: The Bonnie Raitt Collection featuring her duet with the late John Prine on "Angel from Montgomery" from a tribute concert to Steve Goodman BJ: Jackson Browne: Downhill from Everywhere ALBUM REVIEWS: Highly Suspect – The Boy Who Died Wolf Alice in Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here Stone Sour – House of Gold and Bones Pt 1 Twenty One Pilots – Blurryface Robyn – Body Talk The Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues St Vincent – Strange Mercy NEXT TIME: Gojira – L’enfant Souvage Frank Ocean – Channel Orange Anderson Paak – Malibu Foo Fighters – Sonic Highways Badflower – OK I’m Sick Myles Kennedy – Year of the Tiger A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant Follow us on Twitter: @DJDKooks @bjwanlund

    29 min

  6. 03/28/2020

    Epic Horn Section 21 - March 2020

    TOPICS: Grim Reaper (aka deaths in the music world since last we recorded): o  Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle at 70 o  Reba McEntire’s mother at 93 after a cancer battle o  Singer songwriter Eric Taylor dead at 70 o  Sacred Reich guitarist Jason Rainey dead at 53 o  Kenny Rogers dead at 81 o  The guy behind “Dueling Banjos” from the movie Deliverance, Eric Weissberg, has died at 80 o  Bill Reiflin, the drummer for Ministry and REM, dead at 59 Dimebag Darrell’s longtime girlfriend supports Pantera tribute tour (Yep. –BJ) NEW GAGA ALBUM DROPS SOON!! (NOW POSTPONED) (This is NOT a drill! –BJ) Tool shirts, among others, are available via fan designs in the new Animal Crossing game on Switch New Library of Congress National Recording Registry inductees including Cheap Trick’s Live at Budokan! BONUS PICKS: BJ: The Dixie Chicks’ new single, Gaslighter (AND new album out soon!) BJ: Indigo Girls’ new single, Sh*t Kickin’ (AND new album out soon!) BJ: Jackson Browne’s new single, “A Little Too Soon To Say” ALBUM REVIEWS: Judas Priest – Firepower (I LOVED THIS!! –BJ) D’Angelo and the Vangard – Black Messiah Royal Blood – Royal Blood (meh, sounded the same as most of the alternative stuff I listened to in high school –BJ) Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (I like it, it’s kinda like a techno/dubstep Enya, very relaxing) Deftones – Koi no Yokan Taylor Swift – Red (boy she has some bops, as the kids these days would say –BJ) NEXT TIME: Highly Suspect – The Boy Who Died Wolf Alice in Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here Stone Sour – House of Gold and Bones Pt 1 Twenty One Pilots – Blurryface Robyn – Body Talk The Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues St Vincent – Strange Mercy Follow us on Twitter! @DJDKooks @bjwanlund

    50 min

  7. 03/28/2020

    Epic Horn Podcast Episode 20A - Coronavirus/COVID-19 Very Special Episode

    TOPICS: ·  COVID-19 ·  Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson both have COVID-19 ·  Tom Hanks thanking the helpers ·  How it is affecting entertainment ·  Hit a Universal Music chief as well ·  So too does Rudy Gobert (and he didn’t have a working brain about it either) as well as many athletes ·  And many politicians, mostly of the conservative stripe since some numbskull went to CPAC not knowing he had it and potentially infected a ton of people, including our president AND vice president! ·  Ken Burns Baseball streaming for FREE on PBS.org as a result of COVID-19 delaying the start of the MLB season as well as making almost every professional sports league go on indefinite hiatuses ·  Apple’s COVID-19 response ·  Apple’s WWDC conference will be fully digital for the first time ever ·  Washington Post – “Flattening the curve” ·  Washington Post – How epidemics like this end ·  Rolling Stone’s COVID-19 Coverage ·  Some coverage from Loudwire as well ·  No link but pretty much every music tour is cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19 NEXT TIME: ·  We will return to regularly scheduled programming, probably as early as the end of this month! Follow us on Twitter! @DJDKooks @bjwanlund

    29 min

  8. 02/25/2020

    Epic Horn Section Episode 20 - February 2020

    This month, BJ and Danny talk about ticket scalping, deaths in the music world, new tours, new albums, the TOOL Lego Ideas set, gush over the new Billie Eilish Bond theme tune, talk about the new Green Day record (briefly) and then they review the following albums:  Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit Taylor Swift - 1989 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs David Bowie - Blackstar Adele - 21 Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City NEXT MONTH, BJ and Danny cover: Judas Priest - Firepower D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah Royal Blood - Royal BLood Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Taylor Swift - Red Deftones - Koi No Yokan See our rather insanely full show notes and links at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c5bof9zApTjPQNuQ-b1ADW8D8q5tEH6FkuUbaCpOvR0/ Follow us on Twitter! @DJDKooks @BJWanlund

    47 min
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This podcast feed is the NEW and most up-to-date version of the Epic Horn Section podcast (formerly known as Horns Up: A Rock Music Podcast) where two very different music lovers come together to talk the world of rock music. The show will consist of some of the latest music news, latest reviews, and classic reviews.

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