This week we're talking about poptimism: a critical methodology proposing that pop music deserves just as much attention and critical evaluation as other music. Except it's more complicated than that. Much more complicated. Join us as we try to make more sense of this argument and discuss our own thoughts on the subject.

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This week we bring back our Book Club segment and talk about Meet Me in the Bathroom: an oral history detailing New York rock in the early millennium, including bands like The Strokes and Interpol. Enjoy!

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This week we talk about some September releases, including new albums by Carcass, Amon Tobin, Low, and Injury Reserve!

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This week we dive deep into some albums with big birthdays, including (but not limited to) Nirvana's Nevermind and Mastodon's Blood Mountain!

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This week we get all whacky and topic-free, and discuss...well, whatever's on our minds! Which, this time, happens to include, among other things: artist prolificacy and diminishing returns, the Sun Ra Arkestra being active without Sun Ra (and similar examples), and our inability to understand the hype around the new Turnstile album. Enjoy!

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We bring back our Exploration segment this week, talking about dance music and all the convoluted genre tags that come with it and our miscellaneous foibles in exploring eleven (five and six albums, respectively) EDM albums. Enjoy!

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This week we talk about some albums that came out this month, including releases by Wolves in the Throne Room, Jason Sharp, Horsey, and Leprous!

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This week we go back to a topic we covered over a year and a half ago, and discuss a few of our favorite lyrics!

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This week we talk about some nice albums with birthdays, including work by Bjork, Danny Brown, Leprous, and Chelsea Wolfe.

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We return with our Book Club segment and discuss a text by Kay Larson that's a mixture of music history, biography, and pseudo-comparative religion, all focusing on John Cage and Zen Buddhism. Buckle in: it's a conversation that takes us from thoughts on John Cage to thoughts on performance art and hero worship and the nature of art and music in general.

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