Only Three Lads - Classic Alternative Music Podcast

They're creepy, they're kooky, they're altogether spooky...but they ROCK!

It's a MONSTER of a Halloween edition of the Only Three Lads Weekend Six Pack, featuring six frighteningly groovy new tunes guaranteed to rattle a few bones!

Our very special guest is Matt Favazza from Chicago garage punk veterans THE GOLDSTARS, who joins us to talk about their first full-length album in over 20 years, The Halloween Album! It's 13 tracks (what else?) of ghoulish rock n' roll goodness, out NOW on Mordorlorff Music!

This week's spine-tingling Six Pack:

The Goldstars – "Monsters Go Away" (from The Halloween Album, Mordorlorff Music)

The Darts – "Vampires In Love" (from Halloween Love Songs, Meow Hiss Music)

Palmyra Delran & The Doppel Gang – "Spirit In My House" (single, Wicked Cool Records)

The Hellflowers – "Creature" (from the forthcoming album Haunted)

Guerrilla Teens – "Gravedigger" (from the EP Sympathy For The Decibel, Sonic Jett Records)

Lady Darkevyl feat. Chris Church – "I Watch You Sleep" (from the compilation Chilling, Thrilling Hooks and Haunted Harmonies, Big Stir Records)

TURN IT UP...IF YOU DARE!

Hear The Goldstars' new album at thegoldstars.bandcamp.com.

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Looking at critical lists of the greatest New York albums of all time, they seem heavily slanted towards the initial art punk blast of the late ‘70s (and deservedly so) with Ramones, Blondie, Television, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, etc., hip-hop in the ‘90s like Nas, Biggie, Wu-Tang, Jay-Z, or the indie rock of the 2000s with The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Interpol. But the ‘80s was the decade that provided the crucial bridge to all of that, a melting pot of styles as diverse as the city itself. From noise rock to pure pop to rap to no wave jazz, we celebrate the kaleidoscopic world of the Big Apple in the Reagan era.

Joining Brett for the discussion is someone who wasn't just merely there, but was a crucial part of the New York music and art landscape in the '80s. Drummer Bob Bert spent the decade behind the kit for two legendary bands, Sonic Youth and Pussy Galore. His recently released debut solo album, Beach Bongo Bloodbath (Bar/None Records) is the record you didn't realize you needed in 2026 - 25 minutes of percussion-forward, guitar free, gloriously unhinged originals and cover versions like you've never heard them done before.

Hear about Bob's adventures through the vibrant NYC art punk scene of the '70s and '80s, silkscreen printing for Andy Warhol, joining Sonic Youth and making of one of the most beloved albums of their career (Bad Moon Rising), the force of nature that is Lydia Lunch, and what makeshift percussion "instrument" Steve Albini gifted Bob to complete his drum kit with Pussy Galore.

Thanks to Howard Wuelfing from Howlin' Wuelf Media for the introduction and coordination.

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This week's Third Lad Wesley Stace (aka singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding) had dinner reservations to get to, which meant that we didn't get to play this absurdly fun O3L game with him - "The Dylan Dylemma".

But, hey, we're not ones to let a good game go to waste. Play along with our only contestant, Uncle Gregg, as he is challenged to guess which quote came from which famous Dylan - Nobel Prize winning, Rock n' Roll Hall Fame troubadour Bob Dylan; hard-drinking Welsh poet Dylan Thomas; or brooding Porsche owner Dylan McKay (as played by Luke Perry on the hit '90s TV show Beverly Hills 90210).

How well do YOU know your Dylans!?
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With over 1,500 covers of 350+ compositions by over 600 artists, Bob Dylanis is clearly one of the most frequently covered songwriters in music history. His material has been covered at some point by a wide range of rock, pop, folk, soul, blues, country, and jazz artists. For a folkie from Minnesota inspired by songs learned from Woody Guthrie to a rock legend, he has built a songbook that will surely be passed down as long as there are voices to sing and ears to listen.

Appropriately enough, our Third Lad is a prolific singer / songwriter who cribbed the stage name that he’s used throughout his career from one of Dylan’s iconic records. Since the late ‘80s, British born and raised Wesley Stace and his alter ego John Wesley Harding has strung together a remarkable and varied catalogue, from early records like 1989’s Here Comes The Groom and 1991’s The Name Above The Title that grabbed the attention of alternative radio and MTV to recent critical favorites like the Americana of 2017’s Wesley Stace’s John Wesley Harding and the elegance of 2021’s Late Style. His brand new album on Pravda Records, One Last Heist, is an organic, slinky, groovy affair - one that will surely thrill long time fans of Wesley’s clever narratives and exquisite songcraft, yet doesn’t quite sound like anything he’s ever done before. As if he wasn’t already a renaissance man, he’s also penned four novels and since 2009 has curated the recurring live variety show Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders at New York’s City Winery, featuring a few dropping assortment of his creative friends from the worlds of music, literature, and comedy.

Special thanks to Howard Wuelfing for his introduction and coordination.
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Explore the past, present, and future as we welcome the return of one of the most pivotal figures of alternative music, Robyn Hitchcock!

The past: We wax ecstatic about the best albums of 1968, the year that happens to be the launching point in Robyn's newly released second memoir, Stranded In The Future (Akashic Books).

The present: Stranded In The Future is a delightfully surreal self-portrait of the artist as a young man, from teenage obsessions through to the formation of his seminal band The Soft Boys. Fans of his first volume, 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left, will delight in how the story continues to unfold. But Robyn has not only turned in an exquisitely crafted page-turner in 2026, he also also released an exquisitely crafted new album, The Confuser, on Tiny Ghost Records. It's a record bearing all of the trademarks of classic Hitchcock - absurdist imagery, clever lyrical turns, sparkling pop melodies, and the perfect combination of jangle and groove.

The future: The lads contemplate the future of rock n' roll and the impact of artificial intelligence on art and life.

We are this thing.

Thanks to Holly Watson from Holly Watson PR for the coodination!
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