Trust The Wizards Podcast

20/08/2025

Our Kicker's old band has released their first new song for over 30 years. We think it's pretty good.

3 track album

14/08/2025

Just when you might have given up hope, here's another Robert Pollard's Guide To The Late 60s Podcast to bring you sunshine courtesy of Curt Boettcher.

A couple of records that hit the brief of “rainbow-hued, cotton candy, three-minute confections” from the pen (pan?) of Curt Boettcher. First a selection of demos for an unreleased solo…

11/06/2025

From our Kicker's band's bandcamp page:

https://tomviolence4.bandcamp.com/

08/05/2025

This is great!

10 track album

12/04/2025

This tape from Robert Pollard’s collection was seemingly only labelled as “Scott Walker – ’66 – ’70”. As there doesn’t appear to be a single album by…

24/03/2025

Nilsson’s next two albums push Chorizo to breaking point. You can find out what we thought of the two albums by clicking on the image below. Here’s an alternative, and possibly superior…

17/01/2025

A new album from Hap a Damwain is something to be exited about. Even our Kicker attempting Welsh on it doesn't spoil things.

14 track album

27/12/2024

Our Kicker has released The Kickers 2024 lists. Find out if your favourites have won right here...

Another year, another blog post starting with my favourite SONG OF THE YEAR – a full run down of all my favourite songs can be heard on the first of our two end of the year podcasts, but this…

17/11/2024

The first 2 of 4 Nilsson albums under review on Robert Pollard's Guide To The Late 60s Podcast.
Robert Pollard himself is a huge fan, but what about the wizards?

Nilsson’s second and third albums listened to in reverse chronological order as per the listing on Pollard’s tape. The Beatles loved him, but do the wizards? You can find out what we th…

28/10/2024

Featuring the best heckle* ever...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl-BHzhdiM8

*actually, Simon's dad recreating Nye Bevan's "lower than vermin" speech

25/10/2024

A couple of unusual albums on this tape. Firstly, an experimental psychedelic rock album from the man who gave us one of Chorizo’s all-time favourites, Runaway, and also one of Kicker’s…

25/09/2024

This tape paired up perhaps the saddest of all albums with the birth of prog rock. You can find out what we thought of all that by clicking on the image below. Our chats about the previous tapes ca…