Your Music Saved Us

31/10/2024

23/10/2024

Source:https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-247sk-113992eIn this episode, Andrew and John deploy even more monsters! Even though Magnifright Pod is officially over...

21/10/2024

A new song from The Julies!

surprise! In collaboration with and we just snuck a new song into the world.So check out our latest heart-melter, “Delete Your Dreams,” (and all sorts of shivery shoegaze and dreampop delicacies) on today. Let us know what you think.

20/10/2024

Source:https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-6wa98-10ff706In this episode, Andrew and John turn into werewolves. But first MORE seasonal beers and candies! And what...

19/10/2024

Donavon, ex-ExComPod is starting a new podcast. See below and reach out to him if you would like to share your story.
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No One Answered - A Podcast For Survivors
Hi there, my name is Donavon, I've been wanting to do this show for a long time but it's been kind of hard for me to figure out how to do it. I myself am a survivor of mental, physical, and sexual abuse. I plan to tell my story first, and then have other survivors come on to tell theirs. This is a space for survivors to take back their lives, to take back their stories, and to take back their power. I hope that this can help others the way it's been helping me. Please share this page and please share this message. The more people who are emboldened to take back their life, the more people will speak out. And the more these monsters will be put to rest.

16/10/2024

Not good enough gor the mainstream?

15/10/2024

Piktup!

14/10/2024

Was Pspazz first with Christian ska?

14/10/2024

Bodies were something we were ashamed of.

13/10/2024

Did anyone see Pspazz live? Is that what their thing was? We're they good live?

13/10/2024

This album is a lyrical travesty 🫠

13/10/2024

It's not Pocket Change! (Poor Pocket Change)

11/10/2024

IMPORTANT: Ok, gang, let me try to open my heart to you. There's a lot of fun to be had in the coming months, but I suspect we need to clear the air first in order to have maximum joy as we all reunite. I thought I could build up to this by passing on a series of recent podcast reviews of Blaster (and an interview with myself), which reflect my evolving beliefs. The rest of these are forthcoming. I'm not sure why there was a lot less engagement with the first podcast episode I posted earlier this week - could be lots of reasons. But in case it reflects a temperature drop amongst some folks when they realised the (more or less post-christian) perspective of the podcast and my implied sympathies with it, let's just get right into it. First of all, let me assure you my tone is friendly, warm, and heartfelt and that my sincere aim is peacemaking, compassion, and understanding among us. Blaster members and Blaster fans are a very diverse set whose key common denominators are a love of music and creativity. And those are no mean things to have in common!🙂 I hope we can truly listen to one another with respect and curiosity. And, equally, express ourselves not only with honesty but with humility. And with whatever level of clarity we're each capable of. I.e. not fly off half-cocked, defensive, offensive, or strictly emotional (though emotion is absolutely key here and is a welcome part of the discourse). Lastly, as preface, I want to say that I realise that I myself and my words and actions are a HUGE part of why this conversation is complicated and prickly to begin with!😅 My 'preaching' and lyrics in the past have had various effects in peoples' lives that I need to reckon with and I am trying to do so in the above-mentioned spirit.

Now, let's rip that band-aid off: I would not currently call myself a Christian. You can't even imagine (or maybe you can) what a tough road it has been to arrive at such a place. It is not said lightly or in spite or in a reactionary attitude. It is a statement of honesty with myself and others and one that involves deep feelings of both loss and liberation. It is a story that I’m not even ready to properly tell yet as it is still unfolding. I have begun to trace it out in some of my writings and will continue to do so. Here I’ll simply say that I remain an incurably spiritual person whose spirituality is still informed and inspired by aspects of christian theology. However, I am now equally shaped by other traditions that I was taught to try to convert (such as the spectrum of spiritualities found among Native American, Asian, and African peoples, as well as atheist, non-religious, and agnostic folks). These days, by what I would still call ‘grace’, they are converting *me* with their life-giving values and beliefs. No tradition or ‘system’ is above thoughtful critique, of course, and these communities have their own lineages of self-aware evolving thought and practice. I am listening with an open heart. Life is hard and sometimes I can’t see the sacred dimension at all. But *some sense* of the divine or sacred is where my heart of hearts is at, and I fight through the doubt and bewilderment as best I can.

I’ll probably say this next bit again in a separate post, but at the moment I’m planning on singing the lyrics of whichever songs we decide to play AS IS. I find this less cringe-worthy and all round less difficult than trying to ‘update’ them. They are a piece of history at this point and they mean what they mean to various people. And they will mean new things to me. For example, where something may have been a condemnation of ‘sin’ in the past, it will now be a genuine affirmation and celebration of people (e.g. “I Like Lycanthropy”). All my kids are q***r in one way or another and I affirm them joyously as their dad - not in some compromising ‘tolerant’ sense, but completely. I realise it may be difficult to hear a person who may be in part responsible for certain beliefs you’ve held do a one-eighty on those same beliefs! I sympathize. But thoughtfully evolving in one’s views is a healthy thing. That many of us were taught it is ‘compromise’ or ‘falling away’ or even ‘heresy’ is just one of many unhealthy and frankly cultish aspects of the christianity many of us were raised in. That's a stand I feel compelled to take. Yet I am open to friendly, thoughtful discussion.

I will be sharing various writings (and perhaps videos) about this here in the future for those interested. But I sincerely hope we can all come to accept that this is where things are and that humans are humans and worthy of love and communion in our shared passions, regardless of diverse beliefs and backgrounds. I hope Blaster is a phenomenon we can rally round together in peace and joy and the co-making of a just and caring world for everyone.

Please feel completely free to discuss this openly in the comments, but, of course, with utmost respect and curiosity and with a genuine desire for mutual understanding and compassion. (And by all means gently and graciously nudge me back into this ethos if I stray from it.)

-Otto

11/10/2024

They're VAMPIRES! Jay and Clifton get sucked into Blaster the Rocket Boy's Succulent Space Food for Teething Vampires.

10/10/2024

Jay and Clifton wish profit problems amendments the their foreign committees Missile Toe by Hawaii's own, Pspazz!

03/10/2024

I feel like my joke here is worth way more than 5 laugh reacts!

03/10/2024

Post a band. Others will respond with their favorite track!

02/10/2024

As white guys, it is our right to have a lame podcast!

01/10/2024

Here is Dan Fritz's (Johnny Q Public) obituary

53, passed away on Thursday, September 26, 2024.

29/09/2024

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28/09/2024

Dan Fritz, lead singer of Johnny Q Public, has reportedly passed away. Jay and I are heartbroken to hear this. From what we got to know of him, he was a good and thoughtful man, and he will be missed. Our thoughts and love are with his wife, Tara. We hope you know the joy his music brought to those of us in this community.

Below is a conversation we got to have with Dan and Tara a few years ago. It's a great window into the man he became after we all met him as the front man of Johnny Q Public.

Jay and Clifton have a casual and chaotic conversation with Dan (Johnny Q Public) and Tara Fritz (Unsung Dreamers podcast).

27/09/2024

Do you remember the first time you heard Commonwealth or a song from it?

26/09/2024

New episode is out! Jay and Clifton reminisce about Plankeye's breakthrough third album, Commonwealth!