It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

It's back! We are doing our first ever re-release of a very popular series of episodes from our past. Join Michelle, Kyle & Russ as we rip through a very exciting album tournament. Kyle picked 8 albums for the tournament and so did Russ, bringing the grand total of albums to 16. Each week, Kyle & Russ state their case for why they're cjosen album s…

Over the past 3 years Michelle, Kyle & Russ have brough you 160+ episodes of the Infectious Groove Podcast. Covering music news, our jammy jams, interviews with some of our favorite artists ever....we've accomplished a lot. Whether it was interviewing Steve Gorman, Bill Champlin, Arnel Pineda, Jeff Scott Soto or many others, we've had a great time …

The time has come for one more Totally Epic Cover Battle! This week we call in our old friend Seth to discuss a Bob Dylan song from 1973 versus a much different take on the song from Guns N' Roses. Axl, Slash, Duff and the original lineup of the band take the song in a completely different direction. We know you know the singalong ("knock-knock-kno…

"Dewey Cox has to think about his entire life before he goes on stage". That and MANY other music biopic tropes are the reasons that we've never done an episode on them before. Seeing as this is our last season, we finally found a way to do a whole episode about music biopics! Lauren from Beer'd Al Podcast joins Michelle and Russ as we list our Top…

Michael Jackson has produced some of the greatest music in the past 100 years. Over the years, the Infectious Groove Podcast has reviewed many Michael Jackson albums including Thriller, HIStory and Invincible. This week, we focus on the 1987 follow up to Thriller, Bad. Our friend Garrett from The EverTrending Story Podcast sits in with us as we tal…

Do you remember whem we used to sing....totally different versions of a classic song? This week on the show we circle back to one of our favorite topics, the Totally Epic Cover Battle. We're putting the classic 1967 Van Morrison version of "Brown Eyed Girl" up against the cover made famous by the band Everclear, released in the year 2000. We've got…

We discuss lyrics quiet often on our show but this week, we decided to make it the main focus. We called our friends fromt the BFYTW Podcast and asked them to sit in with us for this special discussion. Artists like Rush, Pink Floyd, Nightwish, Toby Keith, Eminem, Hadaway, Guns N' Roses, Shania Twain and more all get brought up. We have our usual f…

If you're a long time listener of our show, you've heard us mention The Lone Bellow many times over the years. With this week being Michelle's turn to pick an album for review, she chose the latest effort fromt the band. "Love Songs For Losers" was released in November of 2022 and marks the first time the band have produced an album theirselves. Ju…

At first I was afraid.....I was petrified....you know those lyrics and you're familiar with at least one version of the song that takes off from there. This week we're cracking opening another Totally Epic Cover Battle with the song "I WIll Survive". The classic disco cut by Gloria Gaynor was reworked with an entirely new take by the band Cake in t…

Is learning a ton about the artists you love a good thing? What if you find out they're not that great of person? In our day & age, we have more access to information about artists than ever. Even when you're not looking for it, the information usually makes it way to you. So what do you do when an arist you love does something bad? What about the …

This week's episode features an album pick from Russ for review. We've called in a member of the OddPods Media family to help us out too! Richie from Super Media Bros sits in with Russ while we talk through one of Russ' favorite albums of the past decade: "Happier Than Ever" by Billie Eilish. Richie is new to the album and Russ was new to Billie as…

We are excited to welcome out friends from The Itch Rocks Podcast back for one more Totally Epic Cover Battle. This week find Michelle & Russ discussing the song "Beat It" from two different eras. We discuss the original version by Michael Jackson from his incredible "Thriller" album against the cover version from the band Fall Out Boy. Russ also s…

Soundtracks can add so much to the experience of seeing a movie. Whether it's one of the greatest movies you've ever seen and the music helps you relieve it or you'd rather forget the movie, but want to hear the songs from it. Overall, the music from motion pictures can often outlive the movie itself. This week, we welcome Dayton back from the dock…

The early to mid 90s yieded a lot of diverse sounds but somehow, you usually only hear about grunge from that era. This week, the IGP crew opens up the suggestion box and let's a listener pick the album for us to review. Our listener chose an album that really shows hoo diverse that era of music was. This week we take a look at "Fashion Nugget" by …

Who knows? We do. This week the Infectious Groove Podcast returns to it's popular Totally Epic Cover Battle series and boy do we have a good one. Seth from Treble Treble podcast joins us to work through a battle featuring two artists that he loves: David Bowie and Nirvana. First released in 1970, the song "Man Who Sold The World" went on to become …

We are kicking off Season 8 with a bang! We're discussing a topic we've meant to cover since Day 1: mixed tapes and CDs. Have you ever made one of somone? Has anyone ever made one for you? What do they mean? Are they always romantic gestures? Do they even matter in the day and age of streaming / playlists? All these questions and more answered as M…

Back in January of 2020, we released the first episode of the Infectious Groove Podcast. Over the years, we've been shocked and delighted about so many things. We've been able to interview so many great artists. We've talked abiout so much music. From Pink Floyd to The Black Crowes to Michael Jackson and many more. Our Season 7 finale happens to li…

Do you like new & unique sounds? Well boy howdy have we got an album for you to check out. This week, our Album Review series continues and this time it's Michelle's turnt to bring something to the table. Michelle choose an artist from New Zealand named Gin Wigmore and her third effort "Blood To Bone". Gin brings influences from all sorts and genre…

Way back in 1984, Don Henley was enjoying solo success after having left The Eagles. One of his most memorable hits came from his second solo album. The song "Boys Of Summer" cemented Don as a hitmaker as a solo artist. Just shy of 20 years later, The Ataris came along and released a cover version of the song to massive success. In our latest episo…

It's that time of year again! Time for Russ & Michelle to take a look back on what they were listening to in 2022, via Spotify Wrapped. Be prepared for the usual "reasoning" and arguments, along with some great reasons why we listened to what we listened to. Along for the ride this week is Seth, a long time supporter of our show and podcaster in hi…

Songs popping up in commercials, movies & television is not a new thing. However, you can end up very surprised when it happens with a certain artist or song. How many people were shocked when they first heard "Revolution" by The Beatles being used to sell Nike sneakers? It can be done well, but we seem to be still figuring out how. With the recent…

What would happen if someone released an album that's supposed to be "country" but instread, it sounded like soul, rock, R&B? What if that album had an incredible rendition of "In Bloom" by Nirvana? Believe it or not, someone already did that. Country / music outlaw Sturgill Simpson released exactly that ablum in April of 2016. This week, Russ & Mi…

Technical difficulties tried to prevent us from brining this episode to you, but if you've listened to us for any length of time you know that nothing holds us back! This week, we were supposed to be joined by Dayton from the Dockingbay77 podcast but his internet prevented that. Luckily, we have plenty of experienced podcasters in the family, so we…

Whether you're a parent or not, you've probably wondered what music should or shouldn't be played in front of children. We tackle that topic this week on the podcast by jumping head first into how we've deal with it so far. Michelle & Russ both have children of their own, but we also called in Chris from the Dadnarok YouTube channel to give us a ha…

Whether or not the Gorillaz are "real", our music discussion podcast certainly is! It's time once again for us to open our doors to a crowd pick for our album review rotation. This week not only did we let the crowd pick, but we let them join the show. Listen in as Russ sits down with Lauren and John of Beer'd Al Podcast fame while we talk through …

Jolene...Jolene....Jolene...Joleeeeeene! You know the song and we know you love it. Who did it better though? Was it the incredible woman who whote it, Dolly Parton? Is is possible that Jack White and his big sister Meg managed to make the better version? Join us as Michelle & Russ welcome Hillary from The Muck Podcast to talk through exactly that …

Although much younger then many other genres, rap music already has a long and storied history. Much like any other genre, new artists are constantly breaking rules, setting new heights and exploring new sounds. During this episode, Russ is joined by Brad of the Album Concept Hour as they both list and explain their personal favorite rap albums of …

This week on your favorite music podcast, Michelle has chosen an album for us to review. Is this album considered country music? We cover that aspect along with our thoughts in general about the best songs, the stinkers and our overall rating. We're excited to welcome returning guest Aaron from the I Had To Say It Podcast to sit in with us for the …

We're got a fantastic match up this time out for the next in our series of Totally Epic Cover Battles. This time out, we're discussing a very sad song with two completely different versions that span over 30 years apart. "Oh where oh where can my baby be?" sounds FAR different coming from J Frank Wilson than it does Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam. Both…

Very soon after we started the Infectious Groove Podcast, one of the biggest parts of our lives were taken away: LIVE CONCERTS. This might seem like a small worry for many, but for us concerts were a way of life. We, like everyone else, took precaution and waited patiently for the live concert experience to return. It's been just about a year since…

Release in 2010, "The Suburbs" by Arcade Fire went on to massive critical and commercial success. Would you believe that we never got around to hearing the album? On top of that, would you believe that we never even got around to listening to Arcade Fire.....at all?? Well it's true! It's not just us either. This week we're joined by Dayton of the d…

"When the rain's blowin' in your face...and the whole world is on your case..." that's how this modern day standard starts. Nearly unrivaled lyricist Bob Dylan first brought the song "Make You Feel My Love" to the world in the fall of 1997. Since it's release, the song has been covered hundreds of times. We figured, what better way to kick off our …

Somehow, someway, we've made it through yet another season of pretty much everyone's favorite music podcast. If you're confused as to what podcast I'm referencing, it's this one. I just figured I'd put that out there. If you're just tuning it, first of all, thank you, second of all, you're in for quite the wild ride. We've made it through a mountai…

First unleashed on the world in late 1979, Pink Floyd - The Wall is many things to many people. Shortly after the release of the album, the band toured with an unbelieveable stage show performing the album in it's entirety. After completion of the tour, the album was made into a motion picture by MGM in 1982. The album has been performed in it's en…

Not many people have tried to cover the one and only, undisputed King of Pop Michael Jackson. Those that have usally find themselves trying to top something that is already perfect. A funny thing happened to the band Alien Ant Farm: they didn't set out to top Michael Jackson and they didn't even want to have their cover be the focal point of their …