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Best of 2023: Dan and Chris recap the year in NOT-Metal!


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Welcome back everyone! As is customary this time of year, our resident NOT-metal heads, Dan and Chris, are back to discuss their favorite music of 2023. Tune in for a sprawling, but not overly rambly discussion of all things NOT-metal, including country, jazz, Canadian punk, and everywhere in-between!

Timecodes:

  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (04:18) - Shared Picks / "Top Two"
  • (16:50) - Chris: "We're in the Rock category"
  • (28:54) - Dan: Punk
  • (35:39) - Chris: "Just Left of Rock"
  • (46:15) - Dan: Country
  • (53:46) - Chris: "We've moved off the Rock Highway"
  • (1:06:50) - Dan: Pop (in its various guises)
  • (1:21:44) - Chris: "I'm Lost" (Off the Rock Highway, Pt. II)
  • (1:31:19) - Dan: The "Don't Get My Own Category"s
    (1:39:57) - Honorable Mentions
  • (1:50:19) - New Old Music of 2023 (Chris)
  • (1:54:23) - New Old Music of 2023 (Dan)
  • (1:58:12) - Closing Thoughts

Artists and Albums Discussed:

  • Jason Isbell - Weathervanes
  • The Dirty Nil - Free Rein to Passions
  • Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE
  • Osees - Intercepted Message
  • The Damned - Darkedelic
  • Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour
  • Brutal Youth - Rebuilding Year
  • Fucked Up - One Day
  • Sweeping Promises - Good Living is Coming for You
  • Mike Keneally - The Thing That Knowledge Can't Eat
  • Paramore - This is Why
  • Margo Price - Strays
  • Lucero - Should've Learned By Now
  • Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
  • Lana del Rey - Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd?
  • Everything But the Girl - Fuse
  • Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner
  • Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
  • Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!
  • Gunship - Unicorn
  • Disclosure - Alchemy
  • SZA - SOS
  • Sunwatchers - Music is Victory Over Time
  • The Reds, Pinks and Purples - The Town that Cursed Your Name
  • Questlove, David Murray & Ray Angry - Plumb
  • Parannoul - After the Magic
  • Grave Pleasures - Plagueboys
  • Rodrigo y Gabriela - In Between Thoughts... A New World
  • Beach Fossils - Bunny
  • Danny Brown - Quaranta
  • DOMi & JD Beck - NOT TiGHT (2022)
  • Owane - yeah whatever (2018); Chapter One: Shredemption [w/ Jack Gardiner] (2021)

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