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  • Deep Dive: Blur

    In our third episode of Deep Dive, we listen to the 7 studio albums of one of the central bands of the Britpop music scene, Blur.

    What We Listened To
    • Leisure (1991)
    • Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
    • Parklife (1994)
    • The Great Escape (1995)
    • Blur (1997)
    • 13 (1999)
    • Think Tank (2003)
    • The Magic Whip (2015)
    • Next Time on Deep Dive

      Oasis

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      44 min
    • Out of System Transfer

      All the way from New York City, we're joined by Out of System Transfer to chat about spreadsheets (really), the anti-folk genre, what defines a protest song, some great stories from tour, what we're listening to this week, and more!

      Show Notes

      The Bushwick Book Club

      What We're Listening To
      Listen on Spotify

      Glass Animals - How To Be a Human Being

      Anderson Paak on WTF with Marc Maron

      Sunflower Bean - King of the Dudes

      Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall / 2021

      American Football - Silhouettes

      Brandi Carlile

      Screaming Females

      Troll 2

      Hans Gruber & The Die Hards

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      Featured Song

      Make Mine Neat

      1 hr
    • Deep Dive: Modest Mouse

      In the second episode of our new show we look at the 6 studio albums of Modest Mouse, and how the bands output has changed over time.

      What We Listened To
      • This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996)
      • The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
      • The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
      • Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
      • We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)
      • Strangers to Ourselves (2015)
      • Show Notes

        Modest Mouse Freebird Rant

        Next Time on Deep Dive

        Blur

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        43 min
      • Church Girls

        This week we're joined Church Girls from Philadelphia to chat about their new EP Home, the differences of touring in the UK, focusing on positive stories on tour, plus we learn how Spotify playlists work, and more!

        Show Notes

        Church Girls' new album Cycles

        Marissa Carroll

        @tinyblueriss

        The Third Man Records Record Booth

        What We're Listening To
        Listen on Spotify NEW

        FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened

        Fyre Fraud

        Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven

        Yuck - Yuck

        Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want

        Kids See Ghosts

        Parquet Courts

        Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance

        Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent

        Deafheaven - Sunbather

        21 Savage - I Am Greater Than I Was

        Kendrick Lamar

        Daniel Caesar - Freudian

        Life of Pablo

        Snarky Puppy

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        Featured Song

        No Patience from the album Cycles

        1 hr 5 min
      • Deep Dive: King Crimson

        Don't Feed the Artists presents Deep Dive, a new show featuring our takes on the discographies of musicians we love. In our pilot episode of Deep Dive we take a look at the first six years of the influential progressive rock band King Crimson.

        What We Listened To
        • In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
        • In the Wake of Poseidon (1970)
        • Lizard (1970)
        • Islands (1971)
        • Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973)
        • Starless and Bible Black (1974)
        • Red (1974)
        • Next Time on Deep Dive

          Modest Mouse

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          36 min
        • Pool Kids

          To kick off 2019, we're joined by Pool Kids to chat about their album, touring, how music has shifted, a great (awful) tour story from Kentucky, and more!

          Show Notes

          Midway Craft House

          Skeletal Lightning

          Stack Your Roster

          "So that's it? What? We some kinda...Suicide Squad?"

          Woolbright

          Boston Marriage

          Bobby Kid

          Teen Divorce

          Camp Green Lake

          Dikembe

          Expert Timing

          Insignificant Other

          Winded

          Buy the Album on Vinyl

          Catch Pool Kids on Tour with Mom Jeans and Mover Shaker

          What We're Listening To
          Listen on Spotify NEW

          Cigarettes After Sex

          Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math

          Antemasque - Antemasque

          Cymbals Eat Guitars - LOSE

          Woolbright - Busybody Lazybones

          Mover Shaker

          Greet Death

          Phoebe Bridgers

          Bobby Kid

          Dogleg

          Daddy's Beemer

          Apricot Blush

          Destroyer

          Esperanza Spalding

          Alien Boy

          Toe

          Tiara Thomas

          Moderat

          Akon

          A Day to Remember

          Bring Me the Horizon

          Surf City

          Silverstein

          Foo Fighters

          Kurt Rosenwinkel

          J Dilla

          The Most

          Ricky Dillard

          Kim Burrell

          The Fall of Troy

          Soulja Boy - Souljaboytellem.com

          I Set My Friends on Fire - You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter

          Hoops

          Covet

          secondgradeknifefight

          Yung Lean

          My Iron Lung

          Denzel Curry

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          Featured Song

          Borderline from the album Music to Practice Safe Sex

          1 hr 20 min
        • Holiday Party

          We took a week off from interviews to chat about 2018 with our good friend Dave, where we cover our least favorite and best albums of the year, hear how Dave almost saw the Foo Fighters play, plus introduce a new thing!

          Show Notes

          "Should Spotify Change the Way It Pays Artists?"

          "Thanks for an amazing year, John Mayer"

          Least Favorite Albums of the Year

          Muse - Simulation Theory

          Jaden Smith - The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story

          Young the Giant - Mirror Master

          Leon Bridges - Good Thing

          Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want

          Death Cab for Cutie - Thank You for Today

          Interpol - Marauder

          Polyphia - New Levels New

          Best Albums of the Year

          Blue October - I Hope You're Happy

          David Byrne - American Utopia

          MGMT - Little Dark Age

          Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin

          Ty Segall - Fudge Sandwich

          Smashing Pumpkins - Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.

          Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want

          Vulfpeck - Hill Climber

          Anderson .Paak - Oxnard

          Makari - Hyperreal

          Plini - Sunhead

          Anomalie - Métropole Part II

          Silent Planet - When the End Began

          Jacob Collier - Djesse (Vol. 1)

          Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit - Live from the Ryman

          Dawes - Passwords

          Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

          Jóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy

          Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!

          Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch

          St. Vincent - MassEducation

          Thom Yorke - Suspiria

          Between the Buried and Me - Automata

          Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection

          Number One Listen of the Year

          Theo Katzman

          Jason Isbell

          Daniele Luppi

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          Don't miss season 3 of Don't Feed the Artists, starting early 2018
          1 hr 27 min
        • Monobody

          This week on the show we're joined by Monobody from Chicago to chat about the reason behind their new album's name, the Chicago music scene, tour (and show) stories from college, Betty Crocker's Cookbook, selling CDs, Buc-ee's and Wawa, and more!

          Show Notes

          Randi Stella

          Sooper Records

          Nnamdi's solo project

          "Ted Cruz tried to get on Nine Inch Nails’ guest list, Trent Reznor told him to “fuck off”"

          What We're Listening To?

          Queen - The Game

          Nine Inch Nails/David Bowie - Back In Anger

          Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous

          Phineas Newborn Jr.

          Daughters

          Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want

          Louis Cole

          Charlie Wilson

          Herbie Hancock - Thrust

          Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4

          Bill Frisell - Music IS

          Keith Jarrett - Bremen/Lausanne

          Ambrose Akinmusire - Origami Harvest

          Brad Mehldau - Seymour Reads the Constitution!

          Gregory Porter

          Spirit Fingers

          Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

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          Featured Song

          Raytracing by Monobody

          55 min
        • Poppies

          Joining us on tour from New York is Poppies, to chat about SXSW, their latest release "Good EP", how their animated music video came about, being a band in New York, and more!

          Show Notes

          Tristen

          Nnamdi Ogbonnaya

          Shame

          Devin music video

          Annie Zhao

          Snakey

          What We're Listening To?

          Anderson Paak - Oxnard

          Muse - Simulation Theory

          Smashing Pumpkins - Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.

          Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots

          Techno Rebels

          Alexander Robotnick

          Tirzah - Devotion

          Richard Haxton

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          Featured Song

          Dumb Advice from Good EP by Poppies

          1 hr 2 min
        • Kind Beats

          This week we sat down with Kind Beats to talk about actual radio, pressing buttons, Beringer wines (the classy choice), dressing like Lara Croft, "depressing music", a one-of-a-kind tour stories, and more in this episode of this not real podcast.

          Show Notes

          /r/lofi

          /r/LofiHipHop

          /r/hiphopbeats

          /r/chillmusic

          /r/WeAreTheMusicMakers (or to Jackson: /r/WeAreTheMusicCreators)

          Metsa

          J. Roosevelt

          The Late Night Vibe Sessions

          Lapalux

          Lido

          MOJO

          What We're Listening To?

          Silent Planet

          David Ramirez

          Queen

           

          Thom Yorke - Suspiria

          D'Angelo

          Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want

          BeatmakerKelz

          Guggenz

          Ian Ewing

          Sanford Black - Thirty Three Year Old Boy

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          Featured Song

          Lavish from Music to Cuddle to Vol. III by Kind Beats

          1 hr 17 min

        About Don't Feed the Artists

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        Don't Feed the Artists is a show about music featuring interviews, topical discussions, stories about important moments in music, and deep dives into artist's discographies. New episodes are released…