On this week's Spiral, the fellas catch up with poet extraordinarie Charly "City Mouse" Fasano and Vincent, his talented illustrator brother, and get a crash course on the taxonomy of a "Chad," find out about Charlie's latest books, Snitches Get Stitches and Taking the Workhorse to the Glue Factory, his collaboration with Love Me Destroyer's Scooter James, and hear music from Vin's band, Fight Spider with Spider.

On this week's Spiral, the fellas catch up with three-fifths of Mustangs & Madras and find out how the band hooked up with the Latest Flame imprint, how it got screwed over on a pair of ill-fated European tours that fell apart thanks to a flakey band that didn't keep its word and a German booking agent who had a "nervous breakdown."

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This week on the Spiral, the fellas head up to Ft. Snodgrass to hang out with Drag the River and Armchair Martian's affable frontman. There, Jon enlightened them on the finer points of Thin Lizzy and informed the boys that Drag the River is not, as, ahem, previously reported, broken up. Download episode five here, or listen to the stream below.

And then, after the jump, check out a bonus Spiral episode featuring Andrea Ball.

This week on the Spiral, your intrepid hosts saunter off to the hinterlands of Arvada to sit down with the Archive. There they played with a stolen keytar and listened to Fat Guy's pearls of sagely wisdom.

WARNING: This podcast may not be suitable for sensitive listeners as it starts off with a cover version of the theme song to Blossom. Whoa!

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This week, the Spiral catches up with Big Timber while they work on some new material at the Furnace Room.

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This week, the Spiral podcast catches up with Bad Weather California before they head out this weekend for a tour of the Southwest.

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Welcome to the first installment of Westword's Spiral podcast. This week, Love Me Destroyer's Scooter James gets in touch with his acoustic side and proclaims his love for Stryper.

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