#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[…]

#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 8 The best laid plans… Am I referencing our inability to learn the America songs we meant to? Or am I referring to the American Experiment itself. In both cases, things didn’t go the way they were meant to. We had high hopes of wowing you all with Simon & Garfunkle’s America Read more about The Americats[…]

#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 7 Pub rock? Bar band? Absolute perfection? We’ve been called ’em all. If you play an acoustic guitar it’s basically required that you learn a drinking song or 2. We know a lot of them, and have forgotten even more. This weeks selection is a few of our favorite drinking song. It’s Read more about Drinking Songs[…]

#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 6 This weeks episode was born out of necessity. When you play as many dinner shows as we have over the years, you develop a keen eye for who is in your audience. Are we able to drop an f-bomb or 2? Or is that a 10 year old kid eating with Read more about Radio Edits[…]

#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 5 Music has the power to evoke emotions in many different ways. Songwriters spend their lives trying to make a listener feel something with just the sound of a chord or melody. The fun can then come from matching these feeling inducing chords and melodies with lyrics…or sometimes mismatching This episode takes Read more about Merry Misery[…]

#TrashCatTuesday – Episode 4 DADGAD: Fun to say, and even more fun to play! On a recent live stream by Frank Turner, he spoke a bit about the alternate tuning he’d used to write and record a couple of our favorite tracks of his. Realizing that we had a couple of extra guitars laying around Read more about DADGAD[…]