From third eye wide open psych to Third Eye Blind, this playlist—featuring tunes mentioned on our biweekly playlist Click Vortex—has a little bit (or a lot) of just about everything. Read more.
WASTOIDS Archive
A complete archive of articles from WASTOIDS, the predecessor to Public Record. These posts from 2021 to 2026 are preserved here for reference.
Mixtape: Music From Click Vortex
Click Vortex: No Meat, All Loaf
We're talking cult music icons today on The 'Tex: Judee Sill, Emitt Rhodes, sunshine popper Curt Boettcher, garage rockers from Mars ? & the Mysterians, and Stephen Kalinich—plus appearances by a few mega-stars including Meat Loaf and Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys. Read more.
Mixtape: Back Ted N-Ted
We’ve got a new mixtape from electro-rockers Back Ted n Ted, featuring everything from Björk to LL Cool J. From glammed out grunge to trip hop, indie rock, and glitched out electronica, this one has a little of everything. Read more.
The Spindle: The Monkees "(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone"
You're walking 'round like you're front page news, pressing play on a new episode of The Spindle. On this episode, the guys focus on The Monkees' 1967 hit "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone," with a couple detours into other versions of the song, including Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Sex Pistols, and Minor Threat. As post-modern as it gets, The Monkees were (and are) a pop phenomenon, and this single illustrates why. Read more.
Mixtape: XSONAZX (Los Esplifs)
Saul Millan of XSONAZX and Los Esplifs. WASTOIDS playlist displays his particular balance, drawing from Arizona history with selections from Charles Mingus and Sun City Girls and pairing it with slo-mo hip-hop from DJ Screw, jazz fusion from Tony Williams and Herbie Hancock, and blissful new age music from Laraaji. Read more.
Click Vortex: Half Strung With Kimber Lanning (Stinkweeds/Local First AZ)
Kimber Lanning of Stinkweeds and Local First Arizona joins us to debate shoegaze vs dream pop, detail her run-in with Oasis, and much more on an all-new episode of Click Vortex. Read more.
Mixtape: Stinkweeds
Welcome to Mixtape, our new weekly feature where we hand the keys to the WASTOIDS Spotify account over to cool folks to share what they're listening to. Today's installment comes from the crew at Stinkweeds. Opened by shoe gazer and record collector Kimber Lanning in 1987, Stinkweeds is one of Arizona's best record shops. To [...] Read more.
The Spindle: Black Flag, TV Party EP
We've got nothing better to do than have a couple of brews and tune into the latest episode of The Spindle, in which Marc and John drop the needle on Black Flag's 1982 TV Party EP. Read more.
WASTOIDS With: Keith Morris (OFF!)
Ahead of OFF!'s tour kick off this week, Keith Morris joins us for a mile-a-minute discussion about the band's free-jazz inspired new album Free LSD, his love of prog rock, and much more. Read more.
Click Vortex: Ice Cold Trash Pie
From deep within the depths of the internet, it's Click Vortex. This episode is all over the map, focusing in on the 20th anniversary of Cody ChesnuTT's profane and fuzzy lo-fi gem The Headphone Masterpiece, the TV theme song glory of Andrew Gold, Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Quarterflash, garbage apple pies, and much more. Read more.