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59: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2023 from 2023-12-09T01:41
Who will take Beyoncé’s crown? Whose album will be deemed the best of 2023 by pitchfork dot com, the music website? Well, if you’ve visited the site recently, you likely already know the answer,...
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58: Draft - Best Albums of 2023 from 2023-12-04T01:10
We wouldn't leave you out in the cold during The Season of Lists, no matter how less-than-prolific we've been in podcasting as of late. We're drafting in anticipation of Pitchfork's 50 Best Albu...
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56: Caroline Polachek | Gorillaz from 2023-02-12T20:13
Will Caroline Polachek finally make whatever album The Website's been apparently disappointed in her for not making yet? Can you teach an old cartoon band new tricks? Is there any good reason to...
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55: Mac DeMarco from 2023-01-18T03:00
We're looking at the most anticipated albums of 2023. We're making a return trip to the vibe known as Mac DeMarco. And somewhere in the middle we're continuing our extremely scientific project o...
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54: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2022 from 2022-12-08T07:09
Join your Best New Hosts as they read through The Website's 50 Best Albums of 2022 list and, more importantly, discover the winner of last episode's draft. Do this with us. You simply must.
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53: Draft - Best Albums of 2022 from 2022-12-05T02:07
Now knee-deep in the Season of Lists, we're drafting for The Website's Best Albums of 2022 and we're not afraid to say so. But first, we find ourselves in a bit of jeopardy....
52: Weyes Blood from 2022-11-18T07:25
Continuing our newer habit of secondary and tertiary deep dives, we're going back to Weyes Blood! But first, we kick off a multi-episode project that's very hard to explain but it involves Mack ...
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51: Arctic Monkeys | Taylor Swift from 2022-10-19T04:07
We talk about the Best of the 1990s lists. We talk about Arctic Monkeys. We TALK about Taylor Swift. You're truly not going to find this much talking, about these speci...
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50: Built to Spill | Death Cab for Cutie | Yeah Yeah Yeahs from 2022-09-08T01:42:42
Look, it's episode 50. We were feeling reflective. The only natural course of action was to construct a set of millennial midlife crisis deep dives.
49: Beyoncé from 2022-07-20T01:31:36
Come for the overanalysis of one of the year's biggest event albums, stay for the multiple failed attempts at pronouncing "beabadoobee."
48: Soccer Mommy from 2022-06-12T19:34:31
We're talking top 5's (of a sort). We're talking about the legendary "C Trilogy". We're talking about...LiveJournal for some reason.
47: Kendrick Lamar | Arcade Fire from 2022-05-03T00:44:49
This episode we're deep diving into two of The Website's all-time heavy hitters, two artists known for speaking to the current moment who've been largely absent since 2017, two artists given to ...
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46: Wet Leg | Father John Misty | Belle&Sebastian from 2022-04-04T21:48:45
Today we investigate the power of indie rock myth via three different artists, from three different generations, and how they've construct their narratives (or how those narratives get construct...
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45: Rosalia | The Weather Station from 2022-03-01T21:56
Two artists following up on massive breakthrough albums, as well as a bright, brand new, soon-to-be-hit opening segment that you'll have to hear to believe. It's all happening, and it's all a po...
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44: Beach House | Spiritualized from 2022-02-03T22:33:22
Dream Pop...Space Rock.... Frankly, I'm stunned by how little the topic of drugs came up on this episode.
43: Earl Sweatshirt | Mitski from 2022-01-13T04:06:59
Deep dives on Earl Sweatshirt and Mitski. Also, the 2021 Best New Podcast Year in Review. Or is it the inaugural Best New Podcast Awards? We didn't quite work that out.
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42: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2021 from 2021-12-09T07:28:58
The time has come. The results are in. Join your Best New Hosts as they read through The Website's Best Albums of 2021 list and, more importantly, discover the winner of last episode's draft. Listen
41: Draft - Best Albums of 2021 from 2021-12-05T03:51:36
At long last your Best New Hosts have returned for a good old fashioned draft in anticipation of The Website's 2021 year end list(s).
40: Lorde | Deafheaven from 2021-08-18T03:28:47
This episode, two artists taking left turns. Also, we debut a new segment in which one of the worst modern US presidents becomes a kind of Carmen Sandiego-like figure, traveling mysteriously thr...
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39: Billie Eilish | Jack Antonoff from 2021-07-15T01:22:26
We're talking pop and you can't stop us.
Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asle...
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38: Modest Mouse | Lucy Dacus | Tyler, the Creator from 2021-06-24T04:07:21
Three artists that we feel The Website is a little scared to admit they don't quite know what to do with.
Note: At one point in the show we inaccurately claim that Tyler, the Creator'...
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37: black midi | St. Vincent from 2021-05-13T01:43:25
In this episode we discuss two artists with origins in very prestigious music schools, where they presumably do very prestigious music things. Does all this prestige guarantee a BNM? Absolutely ...
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36: Julien Baker | The Hold Steady from 2021-02-14T21:38:17
Have you ever showed up to what you assumed would be the physical manifestation of a pop album, only to find out it was just a regular old theme park?! If so, you're not alone and this class act...
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34: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2020 from 2020-12-10T06:29:19
The time has finally come. Listen along as we read through The Website's year-end top albums list and determine the winners of this year's draft. That's about 10% of it. The rest, as usual, is m...
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33: Draft - Best Albums of 2020 from 2020-12-05T22:26:30
With the year slowly starting to fade and with the release of The Website's year-end lists imminent, your Best New Hosts gather to do what they do just fine: draft. This episode we pick the albu...
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32: Adrianne Lenker | Jeff Tweedy from 2020-10-22T01:28:23
A cabin album! 😱 A quarantine album! 😱 Two singers toss their Big bands to the side and get contemplative. Or remain contemplative. I dunno, just listen to the podcast.
30: Sufjan Stevens | Matt Berninger from 2020-09-09T18:02:53
For an episode nominally about Sufjan Stevens and Matt Berninger, we sure do spend a lot of time talking about Wilco and "Big Mamas."
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29: Taylor Swift from 2020-07-26T01:27:53
In an uncharacteristic instance of somewhat timely podcasting, we put together a Deep Dive on Taylor Swift's new surprise release, folklore.
28: 2020 Half-Year Contenders from 2020-07-20T01:50:49
In this episode, with nothing to deep dive, your hosts become bored and essentially just start talking about the upcoming 2020 year-end list anyway.
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27: Bob Dylan | Phoebe Bridgers from 2020-06-17T19:14:15
All aboard Lou Reed's Time Travelin' Dirigible! It's time to invent The Beatles!
DEEP DIVES:
Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways
Phoebe Bridgers –
26: Moses Sumney | Perfume Genius | Car Seat Headrest from 2020-05-05T00:20:44
Do you have a personal relationship with Stephen Malkmus?
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Moses Sumney – græ
Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately...
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25: The Taco Bell Concert Hole from 2020-04-16T19:27:18
25: The Taco Bell Concert Hole
In retrospect, a lot of the concerts we've been to could or should have been live streams.
Note: You may notice that Mike's audio in the final se...
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24: I'm The Dog Man from 2020-04-12T21:02:44
In which we discuss how very concerned music journalists are about artists being derivative. Sometimes. Except when they aren't at all.
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23: The M. Night Shyamalan of Sexy from 2020-03-06T03:13:44
Your Best New Hosts blow off some Super Tuesday steam and then proceed to spend about ninety percent of the show unraveling the mystery of why one would title an album Kiss Land.
22: A Sub-Bachelor Level of Entertainment from 2020-02-06T04:43:58
As we once sang on our now-legendary 2014 performance on The Late Show with David Letterman: "Podcasts change / But you know some podcasts never do."
So, anyway, here's another e...
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21: Where’s Waldo-ing Himself from 2020-01-20T03:30:40
Breaking in the (still somewhat) new year by getting back to basics with some deep dives. Also discussed: some of your hosts' most eagerly awaited albums of 2020 and Duffy's nuanced take on the ...
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20: LIVE READING - The 50 Best Albums of 2019 from 2019-12-17T04:10:07
20: LIVE READING - The 50 Best Albums of 2019
After a brief delay due to wintertime sniffles, your Best New Hosts have emerged from their NyQuil haze to finish what they started and read ...
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19: Draft - Best Albums of 2019 from 2019-12-03T03:54:56
The Season of Lists cannot be stopped. The Season of Lists soldiers on with another draft. The Season of Lists will soon provide The Website's Top 50 Albums of 2019, one presumes. Listen as your...
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18: Mom, I Know You, Man from 2019-11-01T01:24:14
A lovely, classic Deep Dives episode before we round out the year by diving back into the Season of Lists. We discuss two artists with similarly lengthy discographies and...well, the similaritie...
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17: Live Reading - Best Albums of the 2010s from 2019-10-13T20:00
Your Best New Podcasters read through the The Website’s list of the Best Albums of the 2010s and find out the winner of the previous episode’s draft. Much, much yelling ensues.
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16: Draft - Best Albums of the 2010s from 2019-10-08T01:44:29
The Season of Lists kicks into high gear with perhaps the biggest list of them all. Join us for a good old fashioned draft in anticipation of The Website's ranking of the Best Albums of the 2010...
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15: The Jacuzzi from 2019-10-06T01:50:39
Better late than never? I sure hope so because, while we recorded this one over a week ago, The Website beat us to the punch, reviewing one of our Deep Dives while our all-star post production t...
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14: The Biggest Potato from 2019-09-15T23:10:55
It’s all Lucy with the football with diamonds all over again.
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- M83 - DSVII
- The New Pornographers - In the Morse Code of Brake Light... Listen
13: I Podcast With My Whole Body from 2019-09-03T04:06:07
Part seven of a twelve-episode special investigation into Whitney's beer hacks.
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- Charli XCX - Charli
- Bat For Lashes - Lost Gi... Listen
12: Midnite Diapers in the Moonlight Barking from 2019-07-30T03:54:10
This month we were so excited about our one year anniversary that we didn’t actually check when it was.
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- Bon Iver - i,i
- Taylor Swift - ... Listen
11: That'll Get You in Some Chinos from 2019-07-03T04:24:01
This month two artists move on from the mixtape and two more move into new band names. But first, your hosts take you on a tour of the 2013 BNM that almost was, as they spend about 20 minutes pr...
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10: Sir Luscious Lefty Son of Left Foot from 2019-06-02T00:07:15
Join us this month in dissecting the music careers of a big ol' pack of aging dudes. How does one age gracefully in dance music? How does one age gracefully in rock music? How long can we go wit...
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9: Legalize It, Slowly from 2019-05-02T03:15:18
How much consistency is too much? Are capital letters inherently more effective than lowercase? Should an artist’s non-musical antics influence their album reviews?
Who knows. Here’s anot...
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8: Five Panda Bears and a Deerhoof from 2019-04-02T03:49:27
Duffy is off tending to his very own best new small human child, so Mike and Mack take the opportunity to really stretch out and luxuriate in the sound of their own voices. Will they successfull...
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Episode 7: Tickled&Pickled from 2019-03-05T03:54:59
How many synths must a Malkmus use, before you stop talking about his old band? How many vocals must be autotuned, in order to Chop & screw a Lamb?
These questions and more will go unansw...
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Episode 6: Bridge With Grandma from 2019-01-30T04:16:12
A large, content-rich episode awaits you this month, featuring Deep Dives into new releases from Ariana Grande, Jessica Pratt, Panda Bear, HEALTH, and Cass McCombs.
Up top we discuss the ...
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Episode 5: Pump and Dump from 2019-01-03T03:39:38
New year, new BNP! We kick off 2019 discussing a host of old favorites, as well as a newer soon-to-be-favorite. Plus, a brand new hit segment is born. What a time to be alive!
Deep Dives:...
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Episode 4: Jeremih Was a Bullfrog from 2018-12-14T03:40:15
We couldn't wait a whole month this time! In this very special episode your valued hosts gather to count down Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2018 and reveal the winner of last episode's fantasy d...
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Episode 3: Full Umbrage from 2018-12-04T05:01:51
The holiday season is well underway and we are in a celebratory mood as we prepare for what is unquestionably the most important event of the year: Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2018! And there i...
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Episode 2: Laundry Dad Phase from 2018-10-31T03:34:22
In this episode we discuss upcoming releases from Sun Kil Moon, Kanye West, Jeff Tweedy, Moonface, and Smashing Pumpkins. Also discussed: clunky album titles, our poor pronunciation skills, and ...
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Best New Podcast Episode 1: Old Man Steam from 2018-09-28T04:52:19
In this, our inaugural episode, we discuss upcoming albums for October 2018. Other topics include: guitar solos, string quartet tributes, and Australians talking over music.
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