135.🏫 Nostalgia 101: 90s Swing Revival & Punk Ideology w/ Prof. Matt Landis

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Dan & Manny welcome Prof. Matt Landis to teach them all about the 90s Swing revival.

“ Anytime a musical movement is chasing authenticity you can almost guarantee they're going to be bullshit ”
-Matt Landis

Matt takes Dan & Manny on a deep journey that includes the beginnings of Swing music in the 30s, to the historic events of The Zoot Suit Riots, he explains the core of what it means to be Punk, the impetus of the 90s Swing Revival, and it's absolute failings. Through it all, Matt also tells some amazing stories of his time in the Brooklyn-based cabaret-punk collective The World/Inferno Friendship Society, which honesty can be a whole other episode.

At the end, Dan & Manny ask the pivotal question, "How do you rank the Rocky movies."

Big thanks to Matt for coming on and truly making this one of the best Nostalgia 101 episodes.

Email us ([email protected]) your thoughts & questions about this episode so we can share them on the next show!

APPROXIMATE RUN OF SHOW:

00:00 Introduction to Nostalgia 101

00:13 Meet the Hosts: Dan and Manny

00:40 Swing Revival: A Surprising Return

02:19 Guest Introduction: Matt Landis

05:35 The 90s Swing Revival: A Deep Dive

09:31 The Punk Connection

15:59 The Evolution of Swing and Jump Blues

26:05 World Inferno Friendship Society: A Unique Experience

39:21 The Philosophy of Punk

49:46 Capitalist Apology and Punk Identity

51:14 Racial and Gendered Forms of Oppression in Music

53:28 Nostalgia Test: Swing Music

54:31 Rocky Franchise Marathon

56:54 Ranking the Rocky Movies

Matthew Landis is an adjunct at Stockton University (General/Interdisciplinary Studies) & Rowan University (Music Industry). He was a long-time member of the Brooklyn-based cabaret-punk collective The World/Inferno Friendship Society. He toured (US, Canada, and Europe) with them extensively and recorded/co-wrote/arranged a few singles/7"'s and a full-length record with them as keyboardist. He's a published music critic and poet and has worked as a session musician and sideman for many, many Philadelphia-based artists. He currently fronts the heavy psych/garage/doom/hardcore-adjacent band Vice Trip, is finishing up a book about his time in the World/Inferno Friendship Society, as well as a book of poems. He also has his own Substack (of course he does) called Hopeful Monsters. He lives in Southern New Jersey, for reasons passing understanding.

Vice Trip's Bandcamp: https://vicetrip.bandcamp.com/album/i-cant-imagine-b-w-hungover-on-life My Substack: https://hopefulmonsters.substack.com/ LINKS & ADDITIONAL NOTES:
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