Season 4 Episode 12 (SEASON FINALE PT. 2) !!

Hey!

Last show of season! And I don't even know if this is the last show ever! I love WOOL FM so much and love doing Fanatic! I love the curation and sharing my favorite music. I am so many happy and sappy feelings towards my whole experience at WOOL FM and how much it has all really affected my life in the most positive of ways. I encourage anyone to get a show here or to get involved.

Anyways, def played a lot of repeat stuff, because I like to recap the Summer at the end. I just saw Green Day, so I have post-concert obsession. I also accidentally played a weird old version of "Kids" but whatever. But dang, I love music and I love doing this show so much. Long live Fanatic and Long live WOOL FM.

Green Day: "The choice is: get bigger or quit. And quitting is never an option." - Mike Dirnt

If the real definition of punk is doing whatever you want, then punk should not be able to be defined by a sound. Green Day has maintained their punkness, because they've done what they wanted and not stuck to the same music format since Dookie. They've reacted to what is going on in the world.

I recently watched this unauthorized Green Day doc where most of the people in it thought they sold out and said that they told Billie what a bad idea it was to sign to a major. And it really annoyed me! Not just the fact that I feel like the punks, journalist, and DJ's in the doc where mostly saying that to prove they knew Green Day way back when, and to show that they are true DIY or die, but to anyone that attacks Green Day for selling out, I want know if they want their favorite bands to be struggling forever? Do they not want them to be able to dedicate their whole life to their art and live comfortably? Do they not want their band to have the opportunity to spread their message and music to the masses? Do they selfishly want to keep bands as their little secret? I guess there is the issue of having to sacrifice artist integrity or control to become successful or when signing with a major label, but many bands, and especially a band like Green Day kept all of their artistic control. I really feel like they would not of had it any other way. If a band really has "It", and a label is pushing them in a way they don't want, they can probably not sign to that label. Another thing in the doc I though was crazy was when Billie Joe got ostracized, or "86'd" from 924 Gilman, a Bay Area DIY space, for signing to a label. If they really loved Green Day and supported punk, did the people in that community really want them to just play their for the rest of their lives? When it comes to the lives of the bands, I feel like punk communities can have little foresight.

Green Day uses their position of being one of the biggest bands in the world for good. We need people like Billie Joe Armstrong in positions of power to scream things like "NO RACISM, NO SEXISM, NO HOMOPHOBIA, NO NAZIS, and FUCK DONALD TRUMP". It is so important for Green Day to create a space that rejects the shitty government and pledges allegiance to the underworld.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell

How can one band be so cool? What aligned in the world to make these specific people meet to create something so cool? Their individual looks combine to make one cohesive movement. They have a nerd, a emo punk, and the wild front woman with insane fashion and aggressive presence. Karen's on stage dresses were handmade just for her by her and her friend. They were messy, she later became a fashion icon. Their artwork is amazing. I don't know how they get it to evoke so much feeling. I feel the music in the art, and I see the art in the music. The title Fever To Tell makes it sound urgent. It's hot and it's sick. The lyric "They don't love you like I love you" is taken straight out of an email Karen O wrote to a boy she was obsessed with. "Maps" is the only song I like to listen to singularly. I only want to listen to this album as a whole. I don't really like it otherwise, again messy. The songs feel too cluttered on their own, but calming together. The pieces fit better together. All the hard stopping and starting needs to be experienced in succession.

You probably won't see Nick Zimmer smile, or any of them really. And that's okay. It's their look.. He's in all black. Black hair spiked up, he's so little. They were probably like "We're a rock band. We're here for the art and we're not going to smile." And it feels true. Not like the other bands you see with a stone face, just trying to be a band. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs feel more like an artist collective. A band like Yeah Yeah Yeahs did so many things first. I want to know how they knew to do those things. Who influences the influencers?

Fanatic Season 4 Episode 11 (SEASON FINALE PT. 1!!!!)

Hey!!! It's been a good Summer at WOOL. I truly love Wool FM and the community it has created and the creativity it has foster in the Bellows Fall community and beyond. I want to say thank you to everyone at Wool for making it real and making everything happen here. I feel lucky to be apart of it and to contribute to it.

As always, I'm using the last few shows to recap the music of the summer, and my time at Wool as a whole, and chance for me to get nostalgic. This was definitely a Summer of me listening mainly to the music I loved and discovered in high school. So a lot of Strokes, and J Cas, Vampire Weekend, Arctic  Monkeys, Arcade Fire, We Are Scientist, Peter, Bjorn, and John, .. I love it all.

Thank for listening or caring.

Julian Casablancas

Alex Turner, This picture has been in my room for years. 

Fanatic Season 4 Episode 10

TEN ALREADY!!!! Sorry for last week's absence, but this week is rocking. Today I saw a David Lynch medal ceremony honoring him. He was not in attendance, but it was still cool. Happy week everyone. Bad Moves is on of my favorite bands. I feel like Rooney should get more radio play. I'm happy to play them.

Fanatic Season 4 Episode 8

Hey!!!

This week's playlist is pretty cool. I just power-read the new book Meet Me In The Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman. It's an oral history of rock n' roll in NYC from 2001-2011. It was so good! It mostly covered The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and LCD Soundsystem. The last part of the book covers bands like Vampire Weekend and Grizzly Bear. This book was like Our Band Could Be Your Life, but in the 2000's. Which is cool for someone like me, because while I love the bands in Our Band Could be Your Life, my true loves are the Strokes and Vampire Weekend. So I found Meet In The Bathroom more relatable and relevant to my own life. I remember things that happen in that book from being a fan at the time, like when the Strokes played MSG or Vampire Weekend played SNL. And the internet was a huge part of this book, which is the biggest difference. This book made me so excited about the Strokes again I haven't stop listening to Is This It. An excerpt from the book about the Strokes came out before the book. It was about Albert's heavy drug use. Which made people think it was a book mostly about drugs, because the casually about drugs in that small part is vast and kinda shocking. And this book does have a lot of drugs use in it, a lot, but in the grand scheme of this 500+ page book, this one except is sadly nothing. The Strokes are a band I definitely idolize. I think they are the epitome of cool, like many people do and did. But I don't want to idolize their drugs use when I think that literally everything they did was cool, when doing things like heroine are absolutely not cool. You just need to be careful, in all aspects of putting people on pedestal, and remember that a group of boys is just a group of boys, even if they are the Strokes.

The Strokes, cool up to a certain point. 

Anyways, I played a lot of songs I loved. Like the song by Swearin', a lot of stuff mentioned in that book, and some old favs like the Wolf Gang song and the Chrvches song. See you all next week. Also, it funny that Niall Horan now has a song called "Slow Hands". I mean to look up how to renew my license during the show, but instead I wrote about the Strokes. I spend too much time on the Strokes.

Fanatic Season 4 Ep. 7

Hello,

The pass two week's shows have pre-recorded, but I was able to stuff some of my favs into them. Now, I am back in the area for the next few weeks. I was doing some cool stuff while I was away. The first week I was in mexico and all down there, and the second week I was volunteering for Girls Rock Camp Boston, which is truly the greatest thing in the universe.

here's this week's playlist and a few bonus pics of my dumb face from the past few weeks:

At Girls Rock Camp:

With Thurston Moore: 

With a parrot in Honduras: