"Loud Bands Playing Terrible Music" - The Bass-Forward Bands of Caterwaul

Normally this show features a famous (at least, famous in our world) bassist we've been listening to for decades. But for today's episode, I went in a different direction.

Back in June of this year, I took my second pilgrimage to the Caterwaul Music Gathering, an underground-noise-punk-whatever weekend-long fest that's taken place in Minneapolis, MN for the last five years. In addition to capturing this episode's snazzy cover photo, I came away extremely amped about a slew of new-to-me bands who were putting the bass front and center and squeezing new sounds out of it.

So in true "FSATT" fashion, I bit off more than I can chew and conducted four interviews…starting with one of the festival's co-founders and curators, musician/podcaster/style maven Conan Neutron.

So here goes a longer-than-usual episode which provides the added benefit of hipping you to some new(ish) bass-forward bands that deserve your attention. Just be glad I didn't try to feature all of them, huh.

Caterwaul on Instagram

"Loud Bands Playing Terrible Music" Stickers and Other Caterwaul Merch

Conan Neutron on Instagram

Conan Neutron & The Secret Friends on Bandcamp

Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal Podcast

BirdHands on Instagram

BirdHands on Bandcamp

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