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Episode 78: The Chemical Brothers's "Exit Planet Dust"
Episode 78
Time's funny, innit? As today's youth excavate the nineteen hundred and nineties for the ecstasy of seemingly simpler times, here lies a fossil recor…
16 hours ago
Episode 77: Otoboke Beaver's "Super Champon"
Episode 76
For our money, this is what running through the halls of your high school and screaming at the top of your lungs actually feels like. And why shouldn…
1 month ago
Episode 76: Chic's "C'est Chic"
Episode 76
This episode’s meaning is neither deep nor hidden: the Nile is a river. To good times, that is. If the savoir faire, stellar musicianship, and seismi…
2 months ago
Episode 75: Nas's "Illmatic"
Episode 75
Illmatic’s impact on hip-hop is a foregone conclusion — one listen and it ain’t hard to tell why. But as we unpacked the lyrical density, the layered…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 74: N.E.R.D's "In Search Of..."
Episode 74
It may be true that No One Ever Really Dies, but at the turn of the millennium, a young, wild, and free new wave in culture most certainly came alive…
4 months ago
Episode 73: Odetta's "It's a Mighty World"
Episode 73
Odetta — a must-know titan of American music and culture — once noted that young people “learn about American history through battles.” But her dream…
5 months, 1 week ago
Episode 72: R.D. Burman's "Shalimar"
Episode 72
Once upon a time in Bollywood, one magical man made enough music to fill a million moments—and made space for hundreds of other artists along the way…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 71: Marianne Faithfull's "Broken English"
Episode 71
“That’s the thing about pretty faces… We don’t expect them to belong to the fighters— the junkies and monks and cockroaches who’ll survive every atom…
7 months ago
Episode 70: Sade's "Love Deluxe"
Episode 70
Any denier that all art is political need look no further than the smoothed-out soul slipstream of Sade, a group defined by its economics. Rare outpu…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 69: Charles Mingus's "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady"
Episode 69
When you think of true "artists" in music, who comes to mind? Charles Mingus embodied its romantic ideal, for better and for worse. His magnum opus "…
8 months, 3 weeks ago