We enter yet another episode of off-the-cuff musical takes in this new episode. Some topics: the paradoxical nature of Nickelback, active vs. passive listening, and comparing Oneohtrix Point Never and Wadada Leo Smith.

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This week we travel back to the past, to when we had...not-so-good of tastes in music, and reflect on how things have changed for the better.

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This week we dive deep down into the catacombs of esoteric music and explore Zeuhl, a genre created by the band Magma.

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This week we go back to an old Caesura classic: Album Dares, where we “dare” each other to listen to an album the other hasn’t heard before. This week’s picks: the debut Specials album, and Morton Subotnick’s Silver Apples of the Moon.

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This week finds us talking about some of our August picks, including the new Video Age and Deerhoof (live) albums, as well, as discussing some old favorites: Opeth’s Ghost Reveries, and Rancid’s And Out Come The Wolves!

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This week...well, the title says it, right? This week we read This Searing Light, The Sun, and Everything Else, a fascinating oral biography of the band Joy Division, and we talk about our thoughts on it, and how it has shaped our opinions on the band and its members.

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This week we have…no topic! And instead devote this time to kind of seeing where the conversation takes us, baited by a challenge we issued to ourselves: to each listen to one “classic” album that we haven’t previously listened to before.

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(P.S. Shoutout to Pad Chennington for recommending Pedestrian Deposit!)

What if the Sex Pistols didn’t break up? What if the British Invasion wasn’t much of an invasion? We talk about these and other musical what-ifs this week.

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This week we review two recently-released albums (by Laraaji and Xythlia) and discuss two anniversary albums for July (Miles Davis and Joy Division).

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This week we talk about our favorite guitar solos—though the ones you expect to find (Stairway to Heaven, Comfortably Numb) are nowhere to be found!

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