This is a podcast primarily about music but on occasion we have to recognize other forms of stealing. At the RNC last night, Melania Trump plagiarized Michelle Obama. The irony was too good not to talk about it.

The new Ghostbusters movie is out this weekend and we ain’t afraid of no ghosts or plagiarism accusations. So we’re looking at the Ghostbuster theme and all the drama that swirled around this famous plagiarism case. BTW, we’re excited to see an all female cast — Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Chris Hemsworth, Sigourney Weaver, Michael K. Williams (Omar from The Wire).

Traditionally, we break music up into genres – rock, country, classical, etc. But what if we broke it up in a different way? This week we talk about musical tropes that transcend genre. Enjoy!

So many of the words we use in music come from some surprising places. We had fun with this week’s musicology episode looking at common classical music terms you know – piano, A cappella, and even tuba. Hope you enjoy!

Summer will be here this weekend! And this episode is sweet but short — we talk about the chords that connect Grease, One Direction and The Beatles. We do a singing demonstration – Enjoy! Shields Brothers Mashup: Twist & Shout and What Makes You Beautiful

We’re continuing with our special musicology series this week. This time we’re talking about the beat that came along that has dominated music since the 1970s — the 4 on the Floor. Big thanks to The A.V.Club for the great review of our Falsetto episode by Dennis DiClaudio.

Men’s high voices – ever wonder why Adam Levine or Justin Timberlake sound like that? Falsetto is the answer. Do women have falsetto? Take a listen to a special musicology episode.

Still reeling from Prince’s death, we decided to talk about some of his most famous exploits and songwriting stories – some good, some a little steal-y, some involving Michael Jackson. We love you Prince. If you didn’t listen to last week’s podcast, check out our thank you to Prince via a cover of his song, Nothing Compares 2 U (Prince).

Profoundly sadden by the death of Prince today. He was a huge influence on us. We think nothing compares to Prince so here’s our cover of Nothing Compares 2 U written by Prince, made famous by Sinéad O’Connor.

We couldn’t resist a little monkey business this week. In this podcast we talk about the infamous monkey selfie lawsuit. This takes copyright to a new kingdom – the animal kingdom.

Since the turn of the century, one word song titles have dominated the charts. Is this a result of big data and behavioral economics number crunching or is it just a advertising scheme? Have you noticed the rise of the one word song? Well we give your our take on why this is happening. Enjoy!

Happy St Patrick’s Day! We did some LIVE SINGING on a traditional Irish folk song, I’ll Tell Me Ma, for ya! You can get it on iTunes. We included a Mumford and Sons cover of The Wanderer. Enjoy!

Deadpool is sweeping the nation. It has become the highest grossing rated “R” movie in history. Super heroes win again! With Deadpool, we’re continuing our “I Like to Score” theme (we started with episode 99. The Music of Better Call Saul). Junkie XL is the composer (Superman vs Batman) who uses the 80s for inspiration. We talk about him and the influences he used on the score like Michael Jackson, Van Halen and the theme from Miami Vice.

#FreeKesha has been the rallying cry for many major pop stars over the past few days including Adele, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, etc. We don’t know what happened between Kesha and Dr. Luke but we do know Dr. Luke is pop’s consummate music thief.

At last night’s Grammy’s, Lady Gaga did the tribute to David Bowie. It’s a sad commentary when you can’t find a popular rock artist(s) to pay tribute to a great rock icon. Not that we don’t like Lady Gaga … but it’s more telling about the state of rock music. Which is why this week we want to talk about Coachella and the huge festivals that are creating Zombie rock bands. Trust us … this will make sense and all will be explained.

Ready for Sunday’s Super Bowl Halftime show? Take a listen to our choices for the 10 greatest Super Bowl Halftime shows of all time. Enjoy the game, the nachos and the halftime show this Super Bowl Sunday!

Election season is in full swing. Politicians are back to stealing songs, using songs without permission. In this episode, we talk about the history of political songs and fights between artists and politicians.

Today we mourn the passing of a great icon, David Bowie. In this podcast episode, we talk about David Bowie’s career and possibly the most famous steal ever, Ice Ice Baby versus Under Pressure. We covered Under Pressure with our local symphony orchestra a few years ago. Watch!

At the last minute, we putting up our last podcast of 2015. We give you a couple of our resolutions for 2016 along with a very brief sneak listen to our upcoming album. Also, our friend and fellow alum from Season 2 of NBC The Voice, Erin Willett, will be on The Biggest Loser beginning Monday, January 4th. So we included our cover of I Love Rock n’Roll with Erin recorded live in our studiage. You can also watch the video bonus we uploaded. Happy New Year! Have a great 2016!!

Our friend and fellow Season 2 alum from NBC The Voice, Erin Willett, will be on the Biggest Loser beginning next week, Monday, January 4th. Here’s a video we made with her in our studiage right after the The Voice Blind Auditions. Enjoy!

Next week the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, will be released into theaters. Along with the rest of the world, we are super excited. Tristan even experienced Star Wars in the darkest jungles of Peru last week (on Peruvian TV). We breakdown the original Star Wars steals that set the tone for the legendary series.    

Here’s a throwback Thanksgiving – another of our video parodies featuring our Internet Icon compadre, LA filmmaker extraordinaire, Joule Thief.  We were spoofing on Britney Spears’ Work B**ch. Wishing you a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving! While you are driving to your holiday feasts, take a listen to one of our most downloaded episodes – Music Clustering. For whatever reason, clustering of good music happens rarely. We decided to look at what years really produced consistently awesome music. We made up our own metric for “awesome.” Every year has flagship songs so what we really looked at was the second tier, the songs that surrounded the flagship songs. Listen to hear our crazy theory about music...

We met Christina Aguilera on The Voice Season 2. Her single, Your Body, came out about the same time. It was a bomb. So we decided to do a parody with the song and make it about something we all love – MONOPOLY. This was our first parody video. Enjoy and get ready to play Monopoly on your Thanksgiving holiday next week!