Presidents of the United States of America - Freaked Out and Small (2000) [w/ Chris Ballew of PUSA]

04/10/25 • 44 min

MILLIONS OF MEEPS-ES,⁣
MEEPS-ES FOR ME!⁣
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Get it? That “Peaches” song.⁣
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On tha eve of America’s Independence Day, I present to you our greatest independents: Presidents of the United States of America.⁣
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Their splendor rivals that of Bill Pullman in ID4, or even Julianne Moore in Hunger Games and on this episode President Chris from tha band that brought you “Peaches” and Weird Al’s “Gump” tells us all about their album “Freaked Out and Small."
This was recorded after they had already broken up but in tha middle of them FORMING A BAND WITH “BABY GOT BACK” EMCEE SIR MIX-A-LOT?!⁣
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Yes. All of this is true. And it’s all for you on Episode 100.

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Ether Seeds - Ether Seeds (2003) [w/ Dustin Lowery of Ether Seeds]

MEEPER SEEDS.
Too Easy.
Sometimes albums are made for Roadrunner... and not released?
HUH?! WHAT'S THAT MEAN?!
In the mid 2000s the label was going through a boom and signing lots of bands since Roadrunner had recently been caught by the coyote that was Island Def Jam essentially making the bird a major label with that major label money and a huge mainstream hit with Nickelback.
In 2003, Ether Seeds, was set to release their self titled debut album on Roadrunner Records. The Seeds were a band fronted by Dustin Lowery who was then and still is now brothers to Clint Lowery of Sevendust fame and Corey Lowery who is currently in Seether but did time in Stuck Mojo, Stereomud and others.
The band were signed to the label, recorded the album, and weeks before it was set to release... were dropped! And the album never came out. They weren't the only band on Roadrunner or in the music industry to suffer that fate by any means but certainly one of the more head scratching with not only a strong pedigree but a great record behind it!
Dustin was generous enough to tell us the story of the band's entire life on this episode and while you know the ending, the episodes in between are pretty fascinating.
So save your own life... and listen now!!!

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Chimaira - Chimaira (2005) [w/ Mark Hunter, Rob Arnold, and Chris Spicuzza of Chimaira]

NOTHING MEEPMAINS...

Almost works. It's the 20th anniversary of Chimaira's self-titled 2005 album and we got half the band to tell us all about it.

Ohio's finest were coming off the strength of their 2003 breakout "The Impossibility of Reason" and would lean into a much more metal sound with longer songs, bigger solos, and more technical riffage.

This would also be their last effort on Roadrunner and their only record with drummer Kevin Talley. How did it all come together? How did it all fall apart? What was on Kevin's video camera?
All this and nothing else on this 100th episode anniversary edition of Meep Meep.