Normally this show features a famous (at least, famous in our world) bassist we've been listening to for decades. But for today's episode, I went in a different direction. 

Back in June of this year, I took my second pilgrimage to the Caterwaul Music Gathering, an underground-noise-punk-whatever weekend-long fest that's taken place in Minneapolis, MN for the last five years. In addition to capturing this episode's snazzy cover photo, I came away extremely amped about a slew of new-to-me bands who were putting the bass front and center and squeezing new sounds out of it. 

So in true "FSATT" fashion, I bit off more than I can chew and conducted four interviews…starting with one of the festival's co-founders and curators, musician/podcaster/style maven Conan Neutron. 

So here goes a longer-than-usual episode which provides the added benefit of hipping you to some new(ish) bass-forward bands that deserve your attention. Just be glad I didn't try to feature all of them, huh.

Caterwaul on Instagram

"Loud Bands Playing Terrible Music" Stickers and Other Caterwaul Merch 

Conan Neutron on Instagram

Conan Neutron & The Secret Friends on Bandcamp

Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal Podcast

BirdHands on Instagram

BirdHands on Bandcamp

BirdHands "Jungle Boogie" / "The Glow Up" Split Single with Violenteer

BirdHands live at Chicago Music Exchange Video

Burned or Buried on Instagram

Burned of Buried on Bandcamp

Burned or Buried live at Reggie's Video

Baby Gurl on Instagram

Baby Gurl on Bandcamp

Baby Gurl "Smack My Bishop" Video

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