This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about the festival, the ultimate festival. That’s right, we’re talking Ozzfest on this week’s episode, diving into the tour compilation Ozzfest 2001 - The Second Millennium. Helping Matt and Lorin on this journey is MTV VJ, KROQ DJ, and the man behind nu-metal sensation Big Trash, Kevan Kenney! Kevan is a self described Roach Ryder 4 Lyfe, and it was pleasure to have him on the show. Topics discussed this week include:

-Kevan’s broadcasting journey

-Kevan at Sick New World

-Advice from 50 Cent

-The Ozzy Stage show

-The Mount Rushmore of Cussing

-Zakk Wylde vs Limp Bizkit

-Asking for a sea of pits

-The empathy of the live performer

-“If you got time to lean, you got time to clean”

-TRL secrets revealed

-Del Taco and Diddy

-American Head Charge and unreasonable demands

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Kevan decide if Ozzfest 2001 deserves a place in the Nu-Metal Canon. 

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This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s the return of the comeback kids. That’s right, Lorin and Matt are talking about Mudvayne and their fourth album, The New Game. Special Guest Kevvy of the band Fake Shark joins the guys to discuss the arc of Mudvayne’s career and also Quiznos. Other topics this episode include:

-Roach Koach in the tour van

-Hard rock = scary?

-Lorin vs jewel cases

-The Nu-Metal Myst

-Spelling and Song Meanings Dot Com

-The Oldboy remake

-Nathanial Hawthorne

-Arbys

-Thin Lizzy

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Kevvy decide if Mudvayne deserve another slot in the Nu-Metal Canon

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Check out Fake Shark and their new song, “Save Me”!

This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s time to roll up those sleeves and show off your ink as Lorin, Jenny, and Matt dive into Tattoo The Earth: The First Crusade! 

Topics discussed this episode include:

-Scott Alderman’s book, Caravan of Pain

-concerts at the Phoenix Plaza in Pontiac MI

-Jenny’s tattoo history

-A new national anthem

-Tera Talk

-The Roach Koach Bookshelf

-Are Matt and Lorin going to get tattoos?

-Canon Talk: Does Tattoo The Earth belong in the Nu-Metal Canon? Listen and find out!

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting as we go over your feedback, recommendations, and questions. We discuss the recent Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs list, discuss Who’s To Blame and the Carcass connection to Nu-Metal, get contentious with the winners of the Heavy Music Awards, talk new songs from DED and Motionless in White, give our thoughts on the return of Mudvayne, go over listener recs in Who’s Recommending, solve the mysteries of Folder in Who’s Emailing, read feedback on our Slipknot All Hope is Gone episode, announce exciting new Patreon perks, and close out with the final Vandals Can’t Handles. Take a listen! 

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we check back in with two time Nu-Metal Canon Inductees Mudvayne and their third album, Lost and Found. Does a mix of “rage clusters” and Mudvayne’s trademark wacky time signatures prove to be enough to get them a threepeat into the Canon? Do any of these songs work if you put them in JERRY MAGUIRE? Or are they more suited for SAW II? Listen and find out!

Also in this episode:

-The 13 Most Nu-Metal Moments in History

-Soundtrack Month?

-“Oozing Nu-Metal”

-The Worst Music Video of All Time

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast we find out what Mudvayne song represents us as the team listens to their second album, The End of All Things to Come. Topics discussed: Papa Naas, Who’s Tweeting, the return of DJ Lethal, Mushroomhead defections, “Hey baby, that’s the world”, additions to the Genius List, big thrifts, liner note talk, new names for Mudvayne, Songmeanings.com is back!; songs with/without choruses, remember Ghost Ship?; a harsh take on Capricorns, what sign of the Zodiac is this song?; Chino69, #noshirtnoshoesnosully, “Yeah, but ‘Dig’ rules”, reuniting Mudvayne, boys are gonna bop, the Christgau Challenge, the Juggalo Hundo, and Canon Talk, where Jenny, Lorin, and Matt decide of Mudvayne deserve another place inside the Nu-Metal Canon. 

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Things get downright proggy this week on the Roach Koach Podcast as Jenny, Lorin and Matt take a long listen to Mudvayne’s major label debut album, L.D. 50. Topics discussed: Matt Naas and his Mudvayne grudge, the Christgau Challenge, “Musical ebola”, going full milk fart, Socrates on Songmeanings.com, the funky bass, What is it like to work with Clown?; Jenny and Lorin go on a nu-metal excursion, sexual crowds, Grammys update, sympathy for a serial killer, and of course the decision of whether Mudvayne deserve a place in the Nu-Metal Canon. 

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