Dystopia Can Be A Little Depressing

On today’s show we chat with Lisa Ronson about her new album, Emperors of Medieval Japan. Brent talks about his affection for the 90s revival sound and Vaporwave. TLR talks about creating a Choose Your Own Adventure audio drama.

Lisa Ronson‘s Emperors of Medieval Japan
The Secret History, New York-based indie pop/art rock group
Holy Holy, a supergroup which exists to perform the musical works of David Bowie
Lisa Ronson “Je Déteste“
Lisa Ronson’s label, Maniac Squat
My Favorite, indie pop band formed in Long Island, New York in the early 1990s, later of Brooklyn and Queens
Geek culture
DJ Fresh‘s album, How Love Begins
Vaporwave, a musical micro-genre characterized by a nostalgic fascination with retro (typically that of the 1980s, 1990s, and early-mid 2000s) cultural aesthetic, video games, technology and advertising, and often involves the fusion of modern popular music with lounge, smooth jazz and elevator music
Vaporwave on Reddit
Vaporwave on YouTube
Vaporwave artists, Vektroid
Nu metal
Human Traffic, nu metal inspired band
GRYPT‘s Tales from a Glass Crypt Vol. 2: The Blob Stares Back
Choose Your Own Adventure
Indie games
Twine, a tool created by Chris Klimas for making interactive fiction in the form of web pages.
Big Black‘s “The Model”