Episode 63: Modest Mouse
Like a rickshaw being pulled around by another rickshaw, we have arrived, slowly, painfully, awkwardly, to our promised destination: an episode on the...
Desert Island Discourse
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Two struggling writers/music-obsessives explore the art of the discography. Once a week, we examine a band's entire recorded output, and try to determine which album to enshrine in our desert island.
State of the Island
Wow, has it really been nine long, excruciating months since we completely dropped the ball on our passion project? Good lord. Well, we're back, baby....
In Memoriam: Mark Hollis and Jackie Shane
We remember the lives and musical legacies of Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis and Jackie Shane.
Episode 62: Bill Evans
To those of you who think of us as Indie Hipsters who refuse to break out of our safe zones, we say HA! You’re only mostly right, because on this epis...
B-Side: Solo Monk by Thelonious Monk
Philip Larkin called him "the elephant on the keyboard." Everyone else with even an ounce of taste calls him one of the most idiosyncratically joyful ...
Episode 61: Songs: Ohia
This week, Caroline Rayner is back on the island to help us talk about the devastating folk-rock stylings of Jason Molina’s first project, Songs: Ohia...
B-Side: Spiritual Machines by Our Lady Peace & blink-182 by blink-182
On our latest Nostalgia Check episode, we talk Our Lady Peace’s Spiritual Machines (AKA Diet OK Computer) and blink-182’s 2003 self-titled “classic.” ...
Episode 60: Silver Jews
Happy Jews Year! Is what I would be saying, except that a combination of terrible illness and just bad timing ended up delaying this episode for like,...
2018 Year In Review: Part 2
We conclude our review of 2018’s musical output with a rundown of our favorite songs and albums of the year, along with a guest appearances by past an...
2018 YEAR IN REVIEW: PART ONE
Join us as we begin to dissect the year that was! In this episode: our disappointments and surprises, plus a very special appearance by one of our mos...