This week on the Roach Koach podcast, it’s a wild one. For the first time in Roach Koach history, Lorin and Matt discuss an album with someone who actually made it! Lead singer and lyricist Blake Beckmann from the band Stepa walks us through Stepa’s debut and sole release (so far), 2002’s Stepa! 

Topics include:

-The Stepa Journey

-Becoming a rock star in your teenage years

-Producer Jay Baumgardner

-Band photos

-Being asked to leave the band

-“You’re known as Throat”

-Page Hamilton in your living room complaining about a mix

-“Knock Knock, who’s there? A ripper!”

-What is the Fuck Status of the new Stepa songs?

-Posting on Songmeanings dot com on Thanksgiving

-“Is this song about Doing It?”

-Channeling Bjork

-“The Roach Koach Bump”

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Blake decide if Stepa deserves a place in the Nu-Metal Canon. 

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Thank you Blake for coming on the show! Check out Stepa wherever you stream music, follow Stepa on Instagram and follow Blake’s art on Instagram. 

This week on the Roach Koach podcast Lorin and Matt welcome Zack and Brian from Louisville Loves Emo/Nu-Metal talk all about the origins of their emo night (25:00), predicting the return of Emo and Nu-Metal, the lessons of putting on such an elaborate show, whether or not to include a chainsaw, and more! Make sure to check out Louisville Love Emo on Instagram and check out their upcoming shows, Louisville Loves Emo December 2nd at Headliners Music Hall in Louisville, Kentucky and Louisville Loves Emo at Madison Live in Covington, Kentucky on January 13th 2024. 

Also in this episode:

-PitFest!

-The return of My Ticket Home???

-Who’s Repping the Roach?

-Vandals Can’t Handles II: Rise of the Roach

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After many years, the Roach Koach Podcast has returned to Adema. Lorin and Matt welcome back Garrett Fuller to the show to discuss this week’s album, Unstable. Topics this episode include:

-Local boy done good returns

-A hot seven minute doc

-Asylum gurney rentals

-Being “CODEPENDENT!”

-Songmeanings dot com and Top 5 Favorites

-Hot Chris Rock?

-Bops, bops, bops

-Earnest and simple lyrics

-“Being betrayed is a bitch”

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Garrett decide if Adema deserves a place in the Nu-Metal Canon. 

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Watch all of Garrett’s videos @WayneCountyLyfe on Youtube. 

This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Lorin and Matt dive into listener feedback, nu news and more. This week’s topics include:

-Slipknot fires Jay Weinberg, Lorin and Matt react!

-Matt Naas vs Mer De Noms

-The video for “Judith”

-Episode feedback for Apartment 26

-A surprising DM

-And Vandals Can’t Handles II: Rise of the Roach

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about ignoring your dad and doing what you want! Lorin and Matt invite on long time Roach Rider Ben Rice of the Barley & Me Podcast to discuss Apartment 26’s debut album, Hallucinating. Topics this week include:

-Pranks

-Geezer Butler, dad

-Uncanny valley album art

-Ulrich Wild’s resume

-Dual Income No Kids

-“I’m livid”

-Dad jokes

-Lorin is roasted by his college professor

-Buying Ulrich Wild a new button

-Having a WTF reaction

-Commencement speeches

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Ben decide if Apartment 26 deserve a spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen!

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Check out Ben on Barley & Me!

This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Matt and Lorin discuss your thoughts, suggestions, and Roachemendations. Topics this week include:

-The Roach Koach Bump is Real

-Crosses and Venera

-Lorin vs Video Game quests

-Who’s Kicking You In the Throat with FILTH

-Mader Watch

-Who’s In Those DMs

-Nottingham is real?

-Smile Empty Soul and Breaking Benjamin recs

-and Vandals Can’t Handles II: The Rise of the Roach

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This week on the Roach Koach podcast, Lorin and Matt welcome back longtime friend of the show Josh Toomey as they discuss the much requested major label debut by Zebrahead, Waste of Mind. Topics this week include:

-Yoo-hoo taste test

-Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3

-Nailing the choruses

-Bringing the boom and it stays the same

-Louie the Perv

-Fathers, then and now

-Matt’s hotel demands

-Making a pact to cut your dick off

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Josh decide if Zebrahead deserve a spot in the Nu-Metal Canon.

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Check out Josh on Nu Pod!

This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about SICK NEW WORLD 2024! Matt and Lorin tackle it all:

-The complete line up

-Fonts!

-Matt vs A Perfect Circle

-“A pile of pillows?”

-3Teeth

-“A 6 is not a b!”

-Logos that look like jizz

-AIR.CONDITIONED.BATHROOMS.

-Also Vandals Can’t Handles II: Rise of the Roach

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s back to Frank! Lorin and Matt welcome back Tucker Stone as they discuss the soundtrack to 2008’s PUNISHER WAR ZONE. Topics this episode include:

-Frank being about that life

-Bringing a kid to see a Punisher movie

-Punisher movie differences

-Bad accents

-Songmeanings dot com

-Becoming a Slipknot guy

-Fake Amy Lee

-“I know this band from t-shirts”

-Matt transports to City Club

-the Bloghouse era

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Tucker decide if this Punisher soundtrack is worthy of the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen!

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Listen to Tucker on Travis Bickle on the Riviera and Comic Books are Burning In Hell!

It is all about Who’s Tweeting on this week’s episode of the Roach Koach Podcast. Lorin and Matt go over your feedback, questions, and talk about the various goings ons in the world of nu-metal. Topics this week include:

-Boots on the ground at Louder Than Life

-Limp Bizkit letdown?

-New Staind 

-Ladies love Roach Koach

-Nonpoint/Hed PE tour

-Whos in those DMs

-Featuring the Dropout Kings

-New P.O.D.

-And Vandals Can’t Handles II

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This week on the Roach Koach podcast we’re just happy to be here, as we listen to Staind’s 2011 self-titled album. Helping out Lorin and Matt is JD from the How I Got Tinnitus podcast. JD explains his own history with Staind and helps guide Lorin and Matt through an album some have called “A timeless masterpiece.” Topics this episode include:

-Reassessing “Mudshovel”

-Bands as a business

-The Making of documentary

-Does the fanbase want rippers?

-Staind during the apocalypse

-The Chainsing of all Chainsings

-Definition of a rim job

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and JD decide if Staind deserve a place in the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen!

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Check out JD on How I Got Tinnitus! 

It’s all about Who’s Tweeting on this week’s episode of the Roach Koach podcast. Lorin and Matt go through the Nu-News of the week, read listener letters and discussion recommendations. Topics this week include:

-Who’s Guesting with Fred Durst and Wargasm (UK)

-Who’s Recommending with UnityTx

-Who’s Emailing with a Zebrahead push

-Who’s in those DMs with Yoohoo at Ozzfest

-Roach Koach is on Youtube!

-Lorin vs the Polish Nu-Metal Community

-A Puddle of Mudd push?

-And Vandals Can’t Handles Part 2 featuring Etched in Red

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NugFest 2023 arrives on the Roach Koach Podcast. The Indigo Angel herself, Jennifer Socia, returns to the podcast to discuss with Matt and Lorin the second Trust Company album, True Parallels. That means we’re talking night drives, chicken nuggets and sauces. Also, Lorin and Jenny talk about their experience at Disturbed’s Take Back Your Life Tour 2023. This episode has it all! Take a listen!

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This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Lorin and Matt go through your questions, Roachamendations, and more. Topics this week include:

-Recapping Louisville Loves Nu-Metal with Ashley Woolsey

-Matt trying to unload Sublime

-Who’s in those DMs with ska/funk recs

-Crossbreed, we’ve done them on the show?

-“A bag for your mattress”

-Who’s Emailing featuring DisKust

-The return of Trust Company?

-Korn’s first album, not in the canon?

-And Vandals Can’t Handles Part II featuring Hate Grenade

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This week on the Roach Koach Podcast it’s all about The Punisher! We’ve been talking about Frank Castle all year, so it made sense to finally sit down with the extremely long soundtrack to 2004’s The Punisher, aptly titled, The Punisher The Album. Lorin and Matt welcome noted Punisher expert Tucker Stone of the great podcasts Comic Books are Burning In Hell and Travis Bickle on the Riviera to talk all things Punisher, yarls, and more. Topics this week include:

-Who is the Punisher and why is he the way he is?

-Writing comics on cocaine

-Fights vs Hot Tub Parties

-Listening to Nickelback with your son

-Being a Stabbing Westward fan

-Getting horny for Chevelle

-A salute to Songmeanings dot com

-Wind Up Records sampler

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Tucker decide if any of these many many bands deserve a spot in the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen!

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Listen to Tucker on Travis Bickle on the Riviera and Comic Books are Burning In Hell!

This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting! Lorin and Matt discuss your emails, your questions and your Roachamendations. Topics this week include:

-Matt receives the greatest gift

-Who’s Festing with more lists of bands

-Matt and Lorin look at a map of Australia

-Resequencing Untouchables

-Who’s Emailing with recs for Devildriver, Gemini Syndrome and the beautiful boys of Taproot

-Number One Son feedback

-And Vandals Can’t Handles II: The Return of the Roach

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This week on the Roach Koach podcast we consider getting a time machine to address the A&R for Number One Son’s debut album, Majority of One. Lorin and Matt welcome Jeremy from the Breathing Nu Life podcast to discuss this album, it’s potential, and more. Topics include:

-Boots on the ground at Sick New World

-Meeting Head from Korn!

-Lord Clothing

-Rapping, Rocking, Screaming

-Band stats

-“Lost AND blind? That’s nu-metal, baby.”

-Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Jeremy decide if Number One Son deserve a place in the Nu-Metal Canon. Take a listen!

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Listen to Jeremy on the Breathing Nu Life podcast!

This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Lorin and Matt dive into your DMs, lists, reviews and Roachamendations. Topics this week include:

-The Roach Koach Sell Out Era

-The Nu-Metal Junk Drawer

-Andrew Wolfe!

-A funeral for Nu-Metal?

-Gravity Kills push

-Who’s Emailing

-What is the Nu-Metal Party Bop of the summer?

-Jerk episode feedback

-And a New NU list

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This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s time to get back to our namesake, our papas, that’s right, the boys in Papa Roach. Lorin and Matt welcome back returning guest Ashley Woolsey to discuss the 2004 Papa Roach album, Getting Away with Murder. Topics this episode include:

-What was everyone like in 2004?

-Lorin’s 2004 livejournal

-The return of Ed Hardy

-Anime music

-Song meanings dot com

-Songs for Chores Playlist

-Vampire music

-“Great work from the hotties”

-A Moby Dick update

-Is Papa Roach too mainstream?

-Cocaine plus Pepsi Blue

-And Canon Talk, where Lorin, Matt, and Ashley decide if Jacoby and the boys deserve a place in the Nu-Metal Canon. 

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This week on the Roach Koach podcast it’s all about Who’s Tweeting, as Matt and Lorin go over your questions, recommendations, and discuss the latest in Nu news. Topics this week include:

-Trivium vs Nu-Metal

-Lil Uzi Vert goes Nu

-Who’s Emailing

-Staind’s new rippers

-Boots on the ground at Powerman 5000

-Who’s Recommending w/ iBurn, Vexed, and Splutter

-The Finale of Andrew Wolfe’s Roachamendations Part III

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