//00:00//Daft Punk's Alive 2007 (2007)//On JF three-peat (weezy voice)//On pre-hyper internet information transfer//On close encounters with the EDM gods//On religious live experiences//On every man's losing their shirt moment//On feedback robo-rock//On remaining human behind the masks//On disco drums//On anti-electronica rock snobbery//On the potency of electronic music performed live//On the buckets of why to make a live record//

//(1:14:51)//Prince's ⁠Purple Rain (1984)//On 6 of 39//On uncool coolness//On Apex Mountain for Apollonia('s titties)//On Prince during Computer Blue//On autobiographical-ish Prince//On the incoherent movie hall of fame//On Holy Shit The Bodyguard//On maybe the best guitarist ever//On the Beautiful Ones//On dangerous queer icon Prince//On is this the artists best album answered by a real source//On total, mythical, cultural saturation//

//(2:37:00)//Preview of episode//19//

//00:00//Billy Woods' Hiding Places (2019)//On this mysterious guy with so much to say//On Billy's haunted house//On the density of an intensely well-read, inquisitive, worldly, sophisticated artist//On boomer hip hop//On exploring spaces you never wanted to return to//On spiderhole living/rap//On Mick's hip hop North Star//

//(39:45)//Radiohead's ⁠In Rainbows (2007)⁠//On urgent anxiety//On a beautiful existential crisis//On the Radiohead arc//On how much more time we have here//On promo-swift release strategies//On paying what you want//On proto-Patreon//On dilapidated Wilshire compound vibz//On the light going out//On the panic of realizing you're going to die//On vague layered discomfort//On PTA and Radiohead//On Greenwood and PTA//On next-level Greenwood//On anxiety and beauty//

//(1:38:47)//The 2023 Jack White Extended Universe Fantasy Draft! Holy Shit Broh!//On drafting upside with the first pick//On Danny taking the Oregon corner and Zach taking the Alabama defensive end//On premier league chant rock//On Patty Mahomes @ 10//On best bar-clearing songs//On Perry Mason extra era Jack White//On a clean White Stripes sweep//On Elephant, actually not great//On Jack's 2000s and 2010s versus Dylan's 1960s and 1970s//On the Grohl-White-Homme-Oberst Traveling Wilbury's spin-off//On not trusting anyone that doesn't like Led Zeppelin (Dave)//On conflicted Evanescence vibz//On a Blunderbuss heist//On reputational Jack White suicide//On a Sea of Cowards slam dunk//On scraping a deep barrel//On feuding Jack White being a productive Jack White//

//(3:10:23)//De La Soul is Alive/Streaming!//On De La rejoicing//On hip hop's landscape getting filled in//On fun//On hip hop's Wizard of Oz moment//On happy hip hop//On hip hop can be whatever you want//On the DLS PSA//

//(3:30:25)//Preview of episode//18//

//00:00//JAY-Z's The Blueprint (2001)//On salute to a fallen Music Friend//On loss//On boss music//On re-purposing the Jay-Z picture//On stepping through the Biggie Smalls opening//On Jay-Z's diamond which pressure created//On not writing anything down//On Ye//On missing the old Kanye//On cutting a super classic in two weeks//On separating from the East Coast pack//On Jim Morrison-tinged diss tracks//On tasteful obscure album art references//On Sean Carter synchronized with jigga//On enduring relevancy//

//(50:05)//Rage Against The Machine's Renegades (2000)//On ironic financial viability//On source code albums//On Rage-ifying//On the only great rap-rock act//On holy shit broh Rick Rubin//On stealing Dylan and Springsteen songs//On Tom Joad reprisals//On all roads leading to Lennon and McCartney//On calibrating against best cover albums//on peak exercise albums//On primordial hip hip tributes by hard rock bands//

//(1:47:11)//Josh Koppel Interview//On his most recognized poem//On getting phone calls from Rick Rubin's office//On Morello's vision and tenants of the band//On writing messages on money//On the state of digital music and contemporary discovery//On the internet being the new rock n' roll//On the potency of delusional aspirations as a writer//On the challenge of having all of the world's music at your fingertips//On a creative life//

//(2:12:24)//Preview of episode//17//

//Dedicated to John Pritchard//Pictures of You by Drugdealer and Kate Bollinger//

//00:00//Brand New's The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (2006)//On the essence//On beauty in the exploration of darkness//On the crossfade intersecting loop chant thing//On point-counterpoint//On to emo and beyond//On the Brand New ark//On Brand New @ MSG//On the best part of doing this thing//On incredibly dark but beautiful//On John Cusack's arc versus the Brand New arc//On doing so much with so little time//On an album art conversation (finally)//

//(1:16:36)//Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (Original Soundtrack) (2001)//On what Wes Anderson is shooting at//On things not working out but working out anyway//On scheming, wonder and whimsy//On surreality grappling with reality//On Mothersbaugh score Apex Mountain//On the hey jude dog whistle//On Margot is a punk//On Nico is to Tenenbaum's what surfer rock was to Pulp Fiction//On deliberate but slippery cleverness//On The Clash as instant cool-making//On way too apropos Elliot Smith//On Wes fucking up the Between the Buttons reference//On Wes Anderson Apex Mountain//On just one man's opinion//On "You heard me, Coltrane!"//

//(2:23:09)//Preview of episode//16//

//00:00//The Clash's London Calling (1979)//On historic sonic diversity//On longer, better, broader//On being more than punk//On the punk orthodoxy always being pissed//On not being tied to your roots//On the clampdown//On spanish bombtracks//On reggae for the end times//On Orwellian, Vonneguttian, dystopian radio broadcasts//On commentary with pop value//On anthemic self worth//On masterpiece London Calling//On not so vanilla sessions//On greatest ever in two different decades//

//(57:12)//Talking Heads' Talking Heads: 77 (1977)//On coming in lukewarm//On unconvention//On a glimmer of potential//On liner notes trickery//On Arcade Fire-style dog whistles//On Talking Heads validating//On creative icon Byrne//On Arthur Russell on cello//On RISD friends//On Talking Heads creative, original, innovative 77'--91'//

//(1:33:31)//Preview of episode//15//

//00:00//Middle Brother's Middle Brother (2011)//On odes to things that aren't had//On peak rock-bottom Isbell//On mood and/or audience//On Orbison karaoke//On Wilco-adjacent//On Newport Not-So-Folk Festival's history//On Middle Brother principal symmetry//On the grand Deertick conversation 15 years in the making//On emotional carnage and sonic beauty//

//(57:06)//alt-J's The Dream (2022)//On ultimate musical satisfaction//On Alt-J in my life//On a ton of instruments for a three-piece//On coca-cola and opera singing//On floaty, sparkly, wobbly organs//On Belushi's exit//On the best COVID record on record//On kirkland brand Radiohead//On the Mercury Music Prize deepest dive//On insert pin for Arctic Monkeys debut record Music Friends episode//On Thom Yorke super snubs//On re-re-re-re-birth//On getting better//On their improbable crest//On Alt-J as the perpetual butt of the joke//On embracing the internet's sharpest barbs//

//(2:06:17)//Preview of episode//14//

//00:00//Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (2022)//Recorded 5-17-2022//On grown Kendrick//On shepherd Kendrick//On therapy//On Eckhart Tolle and Kodak Black back-to-back//On the hurt hurting others//On singular Kendrick//On the holy quadology of pop stardom//On not savior Kendrick//On the Kyrie stamp of approval//On Kodak's imperfections as our imperfections?//On humor sprinkles//On early Eminem tracks//

//(55:18)//Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. (2017)//Recorded 4-17-2017//On the To Pimp a Butterfly release valve//On the uptempo vs. downtempo ratio//On wickedness vs. weakness//On the depth of Kendrick//On back-to-back-to-back champs//On bedroom rap//On mysterious Kendrick//On not doing it for the gram//On forcing his way into the conversation//On storytelling wizardry//On Kendrick's 2016 Finals' comeback moment//On Mike Will energy//On covering all the bases//

//(1:40:05)//Preview of episode//13//

//00:00//New Found Glory's Sticks And Stones (2002)//On summer lovin'//On the genesis of sweating girls//On albums with memory//On riffs as hooks//On deep drumming lineage//On tasteful heaving noises//On downhill uptempo emo-pop//On peak information//On peak NFG//On spousal musical enjoyment//

//(57:32)//Rage Against The Machine's Rage Against The Machine (1992)//On musical purity//On the Rage paradox//On imposter syndrome//On waking up//On tightness musically//On Taco Bell Sauce-colored instruments//On song structure roulette//On going after King when he spoke out on Vietnam//On burning monks//On the perfect catalog//

//(2:04:15)//Preview of episode//12//

//Check out Dillon's album--The False Starts' Yeah No for Sure (2020)//

//00:00//Gustav Holst's The Planets (1918)//On JFII//On the solar system of emotions//On war vibz//On the Lusitania//On Mars, Jupiter and Neptune//On suites, compositions, movements//On melodic plagiarism//On all roads leading to Holst//On Kalamazoo!//On Mars as a double IPA and Jupiter as a brown ale//On Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath starting metal and Holst starting Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath//On the mysterious and ethereal nature of everything//

//(49:34)//Wu-Tang Clan's Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)//On {1} Numerology//On Midnight Marauders release parties//On {2} Technology//On {3} Kung Fu Flicks//On masterful subtlety//On {4} Chemistry//On cocaine being a hell of a drug//On {5} Eastern Philosophies//On {6} Chess//On Method's smoky, gravelly-ness//On {7} Slang//On Swayze-ing//On {8} Organized Crime//On {9} Comics//On vigilante RZA//On the 27th best ever record//On apex carhartt rap//

//(1:50:20)//10th Episode Bonus Broh! 10 Songs That Fucked You Up!//On 40 years on Earth in 10 songs//On satisfying honesty//On girl-sweating songs//On Motown roulette//On loud pre-teen activity//On suburb punk//On weed and The Shins//On buying $14.99 CDs when you have $21.99 to your name//On malleability//On Kendrick Lamar//On Spud Infinity//On looking for something//On finding fresh angles in familiar places//

//(3:14:30)//Preview of episode//11//

//00:00//Steven Wilson's Hand Cannot Erase (2015)//On crushingly depressing songs//On all concept record roads leading to loneliness//On dulcimers and chapman sticks//On Floyd vibz//On vignette roulette//On the internet making it easier to be alone//On aliens?//

//(43:20)//The Beatles' Let it Be (1970)//On best content ever?//On Beatle nose hairs and fingernails//On the long and winding road sucking//On the most famous quartet of all-time succeeding in getting back but splintering on how to move forward//On Billy Preston's impact//On Paul McCartney, my god broh, on Paul McCartney//On volume shooter McCartney from way downtown//On McCartney-Jordan, Lennon-Pippen, Harrison-Grant (then Rodman), Starr-Paxson (then Kerr)//On humor//On Ringo as the kid in the middle of a divorce//On THE rooftop show//On Let It Be and LeBron James on the 18' Cavs//On the Alien CD-R//On Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath starting metal//

//(1:48:19)//Preview of episode//10//