Make it Stop: A Bad Music Podcast

29/07/2025

FINALLY, after a long hiatus (sorry Stoppies!) we are thrilled/enraged to bring you a truly confounding episode of Make it Stop, where our intrepid hosts engage in the critical work of unraveling the Mars Volta's deeply ill conceived 9th studio album, Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio. Joining us to wade through the murky depths is perpetual pod bestie Ben Stein , who shares Mike's love for the often infuriating, but undoubtedly talented band. Will the love endure through 14 painfully plodding tracks that lack hooks, drums, guitars, and any semblance of a coherent song structure? Will Heather learn to appreciate the obscure lyrical meanderings and intricate layers of jazzy jams or will she crash out entirely? And ultimately, is this the rare story of a band that maybe needs to be doing drugs in order to make a decent album? Find out on this episode of Make it Stop! Link in bio to listen now.

Part of the network.

09/07/2025

Sorry for the delay, we've been floating down the lazy river of life like our pal Ben here BUT do not fear, new episodes are about to wash ashore soon... just perhaps not at as predictable of a schedule as we initially planned. Our first 4 eps are available on spotify now to tide you over in the meantime...new ep coming soon!

13/05/2025

Feeling futuristic, h***y and... confused? Are your circuits overloaded with indie electro-clash posturing, fembot fantasies, and the desperate clang of a pop star perpetually trying to reboot her identity to decidedly mixed results? This week, we plug into Bionic, Christina Aguilera’s glittery, glitchy, seemingly cursed attempt at beating Lady Gaga in the art pop culture wars of the early 2010s.

Joining us on this cybernetic misadventure is Boston musician and unrivaled electro pop diva Dave of as we unravel the tangled wires of Xtina’s identity crisis, complete with MIA-mimicking monotone choruses, Switch-pop dumbed down dubstep beats, and an inexplicable string of Sia-penned coffeehouse ballads. We dig into the cultural wasteland of 2010, when pop was plastic, femme-powerment was market-tested, and a newly married mom wanted all of us to know how much she wanted you to licky licky yum yum on her Woohoo. Bop, flop, whichever way you slice it....we wish it would STOP.

Link in bio to listen now. Part of the network.

16/04/2025

Stoppies, are you ready to go to MOUND TOWN? Are you ready to don your trueys, blast some longhorns and hole up with your weird friends in an abandoned shack in the woods to make autotuned nightmare trap about paint by number horror tropes all encased in a thick glue of glitchy witch hop freak s**t? Well WE ARE! Our first episode back and we're keeping it in the family with true blue besties and who help us sift through the chopper-ed and screwed weirdness that is , a Northern California bred freak show making modern day Monster Mashups for troubled teens. Do we hate it? Do we get it? Does it matter? Find out on this episode of MAKE IT STOP!

Link in bio to listen neeeeeowwwwww

15/04/2025

Are you ready, Stoppies? Our new season starts TODAY! Which audio atrocities do you hope we dissect, devour and decompensate this time?

18/03/2025

New ep with and coming soooooon

15/03/2025

REAL HAUNTED MOUND HOURS WHO UP

NEW SEASON DROPS APRIL 15

BE THERE OR BE A SCARECRAW

🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
👻👻👻👻👻👻
🔪💩🔪🔪💩🔪
🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸
💀🎃💀💀🎃💀

15/03/2022

Check it out!! We love you KIRA (even if you justifiably don't love us...)

Former Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler goes in a haunting dream pop direction on the first single of her debut solo album.

15/01/2022

Hey stoppies. How's it going?

We've been trying to figure out the right way to say this, but we're sure you've already kind of figured out that we haven't been putting out episodes this season like we had hoped. For over 100 episodes and too many hours to even comprehend, we've spent the past 4+ years eviscerating trash albums with some extremely hilarious people and an incredible fan base that we are so grateful for.

But that doesn't change the reality that our energy has shifted to other places. We both have new projects that we're working on, including getting back to writing and performing original music again. And while Make it Stop will always be something incredibly special, it seems unfair to keep dragging out the inevitable.

We have a few more episodes that we've recorded that we still need to edit and release. And we also know that we can't send off this show without some sort of completely bats**t insane finale with all of our best friends returning. We'd love to hear your suggestions for how we can send off this s**t storm right. And who knows, neither of us are going anywhere, and if something particularly egregious catches our eye or our ear there's no stopping us from putting out another episode in the future should our cold dead hearts be stirred.

But for now it's only right to keep you in the loop and to let you know that the next few episodes will be the last official ones for the Make it Stop podcast. We are so grateful for all the love and appreciation and insanity we've experienced with you, our loyal audience over the past few years. We could have never imagined that we would have made it this far, with hundreds of thousands of downloads, the opportunity to interview our heroes, multiple hate reviews, several enemies in the music business, and an incredible community of fans that continue to patiently support our bulls**t. We love you more than you know.

BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE,

Heather and Mike

04/12/2021

Sneek peek of our next ep w our favorite wrestling mark .felicey

20/11/2021

where's the lie tho.

also - van morrison eps 1 and 2 now up on spotify. wrestlemania the album coming soon. you've been warned...