#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 18 The Ides of March is a festival in Duluth, MN in which local bands choose a band that has influenced them and prepares a cover set of their music. I’ve done this festival for the last 7 years and Matt has been at my side for quite a few of those Read more about The Ghosts of Ides Sets Past[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 17 There are a lot of songs about places. A place can be a home. It can trigger memories of a specific time. It can even be a villain in your story (I’m talking about you Winnipeg!). This weeks selection is all about places. Whether it’s a place you don’t want to Read more about Location Location Location[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 16 When you cover Amy Winehouse, the #1 rule is to not try and sing like her. You’re going to fail. Just sing like yourself singing an Amy Winehouse song. This weeks songs don’t have a lot in common. It’s one of the first themes we came up with when we had Read more about Wonder Women[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 15 We’re all victims of nostalgia, there’s no doubt about it. Some people clutch to childhood and try to hang on to it forever, some try to replicate their past victories as much as possible, and some of us just mourn what was lost. The journey is pretty overwhelming at times, for Read more about Growing Pains[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 14 We’ve played a lot of shows. And a lot of those shows have been 2, 3 and 4 hour bar sets. In doing so many of those you really start to hone in on some crowd favorites. Never the ones to play Wonderwall or Wagon Wheel, we’ve tried to reach a Read more about Crowd Pleasers[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 13 A few weeks back we did a really heavy episode on the subject of mental health. Songs of suicide, sadness, crippling depression. There was a point in the middle I almost broke. Watching it back later to cut the sound together was rough. We received a lot of messages about that Read more about Mental Health 2[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 12 It is well documented that I was a skater in high school. My CD collection was vast and varied, but there was always a little extra skater punk and ska. Your Goldfingers, your Mad Caddies, Rancid, MXPX, NOFX. I went to Warped Tour when it was still awesome and saw EVERYONE Read more about Are We a Punk Band?[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 11 There have probably been more songs written about love than any other subject. This episode features just a few of them. I Wanna Hold Your Hand – The Beatles The Promise – When in Rome Jessica Marie – The Trash Cats West Tischer Rd. – The Trash Cats 500 Miles – Read more about All You Need is Love[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 10 10 Episodes! Feels like a landmark and we want to thank all of you for sticking with us through this journey. Now down to business. This was a tough one. We didn’t set out to play the most depressing set we’ve ever played, but it happened. There is some heavy material Read more about Mental Health 1[…]
#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 9 “This is a song about the end of the world” It’s a phrase we say kind of a lot in out live shows. If we do 3 or 4 in a row people tend to take notice. It gets a few chuckles. The truth is, we know a lot of songs Read more about Apocalypse MEOW[…]