Hi I'm Riley from Powertrip.
I'm Chris from Powertrip.
Hi I'm Blake.
Hi I'm Nick.
I'm Chris. I play bass in Powertrip.
We're at Amoeba Records and this is What's in My Bag.
This is one of the greatest American rock bands, ZZ Top 'Tres Hombres.'
It's a great record. There's a lot of their records that I wanted to bring up here and talk about but
love this band. If you don't like this band, I have some words for you.
Great record. I think everybody in this band likes ZZ Top. We're from Texas.
Amazing band.
Insane musicians.
So many albums.
Proud to say were from the same state, for sure.
When I was growing up, my mom would listen to a lot of Motown and soul when she was cleaning the house.
So I've always really liked Marvin Gaye and Al Green
so I picked up two records I don't have by them yet.
Picked up 'The Belle Album.' It's a lesser-known Al Green record.
'Loving You' is one of my favorite songs by his
and 'Georgia Boy' and 'All in All' are some really good songs too.
'Trouble Man' is a really cool soundtrack. Marvin Gaye did it pretty much all by himself.
It's a really good, good album to get stoned to, honestly.
This is one of my favorite bands of all time. The new Guided By Voices double album 'August By Cake.'
It features the guitar player Doug Gillard.
I love the whole era of him being in the band. He's back in the band now so
Robert Pollard, the main singer, is just a really good songwriter.
He's a machine. He writes so many songs. He's a rock n' roll encyclopedia.
I have a lot of respect for him and everybody that's involved in this one.
This is his 100th album. Yeah, he's a quantity guy, but he has a lot of quality in there too.
This is 'Yesterday's Fairytale, Tomorrow's Nightmare' by Disclose.
The band from Kochi City, Japan
and this was reissued by this label out of London called La Vida Es Un Mus.
Run by this cool ass dude named Paco.
This band was a huge influence on the way that I would listen to and understand drums
and they have no bad songs.
Segue into another band that has no bad songs
I found this Wipers rarity. I believe it's a double record. Yeah it's a double 12".
It's got some songs that ended up going on to be on Greg Sage's solo album.
This first one 'Straight Ahead,' and that's an album I really liked.
This just kind of has some demo recordings
some later era Wipers songs but some
cool, different mixes and stuff like that so...
The Wipers are like my favorite band in the world, so I just feel like...
Really?
I should probably pick this up. Yeah what gave that away? I don't know.
So this is the first six Sepultura albums.
Basically picked this up because this band, I mean I speak for all of us
is probably a gigantic influence on our band.
In my opinion, one of the top 10 greatest metal bands of all time.
So many songs on this collection
that I can't even begin to tell you how many songs are amazing on here but
I'd say 'Arise' is probably their best record in my opinion.
Probably the most complete that they ever did
kind of a good mix of the early stuff and before they got
'Into the Groove' era. Yeah, I don't know, this is just
a lot of albums that I really enjoy
by a band that I think is one of the best of all time, metal-wise.
This is a Swedish band called Wulkanaz. It's actually just one guy.
I don't know if I would call it non-traditional, but it's really interesting black metal
and he uses some pretty weird instrumentation.
These records don't always make their way to U.S. record stores so
I saw it and I picked it up.
I actually own both of these comics but I wanted to give a shout out.
This one is 'Prophet' by Brandon Graham
and this guy actually got his career started by drawing porno comics
but this is basically a cool story, it's like Conan in space.
It's got a lot of really big spreads
with a lot of details of different kinds of aliens and battles and stuff like that.
It's just kind of a good, well-written comic for people who like adventure stories.
This is called 'Material.' I'm gonna give a shout out to my boy Ales.
He wrote this, his name's Ales Kot.
It's four different stories of four different people in America
an actress, a guy who was released from Guantanamo Bay
a black boy in Chicago growing up
some college philosopher who's losing his mind
and they're kind of loosely related, but this guy's a really, really great writer.
I think people should look out for him because I think he's gonna be a big name.
I love these two books, check them out.
Yeah I'm sure I'm disappointing all our metal fans but here's another one.
I really love this album and it just got re-released, and I don't have it.
But I love the artwork, I have a big poster on my wall.
It's the first Blur record. I think it's the best.
It's kind of psychedelic, shoegaze-y, y'know
but it's just a good, catchy Britpop rock record
It's got the cows on the back. I mean, that's British as hell, with the cows, y'know.
Yeah, it's so British.
I love this record. I think the members all agree this is their worst record and they hate it
but I love it.
I'm gonna keep disappointing the metal fans here, and keeping it British.
Yeah.
Verve's first album. I had never heard this album until this tour
and Blake was playing it on a night drive, really late
Perfect vibe.
I listened to The Verve when I was a kid. I had that... I can't remember what the album's called
what was the one with 'Bittersweet Symphony?'
'Urban Hymns.'
Yeah, 'Urban Hymns.' I had that album when I was a kid and I loved that album
but I didn't know nearly as much about music as I do now
but this is incredible. I don't know what I've been missing out on
but I can't stop listening to this album. It's just sonically really cool.
It kind of drifts into all sorts of directions, musically.
Vibe city.
It's one of those ones you wake up in the morning and throw it on the record player when you're chilling
and just kind of let it vibe out.
So, yeah, this is an amazing album. I'm excited to get this.
This is a compilation of demos from this band, from California actually, called Nocturnal Blood
and I really liked this band's demo.
Hells Headbangers recently reissued this compilation
and I did not know that this existed until today when I was shopping around so
this is a very cool thing for me to pick up.
I think there's only like four demos on this whole thing, and I haven't heard all of them.
So I'm really excited to listen to this when I get back home.
It's like blackened death metal type stuff.
The good shit.
Sturgill Simpson, 'A Sailor's Guide to Earth.'
This guy kind of ignited my love for country music again.
Everything he's put out is incredible. And he was putting out country records and then
as soon as he became the greatest country artist around he put out a soul record so
I thought that was really cool. Sturgill Simpson. This dude rocks. Incredible live too.
This is Those Once Loyal, on I guess
special edition Record Store Day gold vinyl.
This is probably my favorite, definitely top three favorite death metal bands in the world.
This is the last album they put out. After that they were kind of like, well
we did the best album we possibly could, and they just broke up
and never wrote another song since then
and I thought that was like the coolest thing a band could do
This is my favorite album by them so I'm really excited to have it on vinyl.
I'll keep it British once again.
Killing Joke 'Night Time.' This really cool post-punk band.
Yeah, I don't know, I've been listening to this album for a long time. The beats on it are really cool
like the way that all the patterns of their songs have always been cool to me
And they keep it pretty political, which I like too.
Sick music videos, I don't know
This is just a really cool album and I've always been into so
if you haven't heard this album by this band, listen to this album.
I got the new Jesus and Mary Chain album 'Damage and Joy.'
I haven't really listened to anything they've done recently
but I heard a song off this and it sounded really good.
I really like the stuff they did y'know in the 80s and even the early 90s.
I saw them do 'Psychocandy' front to back a couple years ago
so I think they still got it and I'm excited to listen to it.
Ryan Adams, 'Prisoner.' This guy, I'm sure you guys know him around here.
One of my favorite songwriters, has been since middle school, high school.
I love pretty much everything he's done, Whiskeytown, stuff with the Cardinals.
I'm a big fan of country music and he was kind of...
he touches on that stuff a lot. Yeah, great record. Definitely check this out.
Great record.
Great dude.
Everyone here agrees.
Good guy.
An LP from a band called Kerasphorus
which is a Pete Helmkamp from Angelcorpse's project.
This is both of their records on one record.
Hells Headbangers and Osmose just reissued this I think last year. Or issued this.
It's pretty cool and I missed the chance to order it when it came out, but I found it here.
Again, black death metal stuff.
Last, but definitely not least, this is 'Half Free' by U.S. Girls.
My friend Meg Remy is the main brain behind this project.
Came out on 4AD, and it's kind of all over the place, musically
but every song she is telling a different story about a woman
kind of in like a shitty situation, so
the song 'Damn That Valley' is about a woman who lost her husband in Afghanistan.
It kind of has this reggae feel to it, but then some of the other songs might
be like garage rock or just traditional pop influenced stuff but
this was one of my favorite albums when it came out
and I think Meg is a genius.