Season 2, Episode #37: THE LAST EPISODE OF THE SCUMBAG FILES.

Well, here it is. The last episode of Season 2, and the last episode of The Scumbag Files. In September 2023, I had the idea to start this show as a means of introducing humorous yet insightful music commentary to WART and satisfying my urge to talk about music to anyone who would listen. I kept the show going on a weekly basis for the next two years, through the hurricane, and right up until the present day. It was fun and I received a lot of great feedback. Unfortunately, it cannot continue. I will be moving to Indiana at the end of this month and need all the time I can get to set my affairs in order beforehand. I didn't do a great big send off on the show today because 1) I couldn't think of one and 2) it wouldn't really be my style, now that I think about it. Rather, it was just business as usual and I just listened to some new stuff that I wanted to check out. 

Check this blog occasionally for updates regarding the show, as I would like to restart it some time in the future in some form. That won't be for a long time, though, so in the meantime, enjoy the archives on this blog.

Thank you so much to everybody who's listened over the last two years and thank you to WART for giving me a platform to do my silly music commentary. I'll see you all further on down the road.

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Season 2, Episode #36: Sabrina Carpenter "Man's Best Friend" Album Listening Session

Being a fan of the last Sabrina Carpenter album, I just had to check out this one. Could she keep up the quality and consistency in characterization even though it's barely been a year since her last record? Well, it turns out that she can. This was a pretty good album.

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Season 2, Episode #35: New Deftones & Three Days Grace Albums

Two new albums from two very famous scumbag rock bands. Well, Deftones isn't that scumbag, but they were associated with the same bands. Today we listened to a few songs from both. Deftones ended up winning out in quality, I think.

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Season 2, Episode #34: LP Grab Bag, part 3

The final installment in the LP Grab Bag series. We listen to Father John Misty, Forth Wanderers, and another one who I can't remember. They had a really cursed album cover, though.

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Season 2, Episode #33: LP Grab Bag, part 2

More brand new LPs showed up at the station today, providing me with more material for a second LP Grab Bag show. Not from the Numero Group this time. Some quality stuff was found (the Deep Sea Diver record) but the other stuff ranged from deathly boring (Beach House) to hideously ugly (Lael Neale). 

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Season 2, Episode #32: The Numero Group LP Grab Bag

I skipped my show the week before this one aired, but it's no big deal. Today I looked at some selections from 3 LPs that were given to the station by an archival record label called The Numero Group. The quality ranged from new age garbage to mildly interesting danceable music from a Nigerian duo. 

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Season 2, Episode #31: New Stuff Coverage ft. Deftones, Halestorm, MGK

I pretty much only thought the Deftones song was good, I'm sorry to say. It makes sense, since Halestorm is one of my least favorite rock bands and MGK is a mid white rapper turned pop punker turned somewhere in between. And he's a pedophile too. One of these days I'll do New Stuff Coverage and actually like everything I hear. I promise.

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