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You’ve waited. You’ve begged. You’ve cried. And now your prayers have finally been answered. This year, Rochel and Claire reflect on 2024’s music in over 20 categories, from country to jazz, from Brats to Brits, from Sabrina to femtanyl.

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Full list of nominees and winners:

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

BRAT - Charli XCX

Challengers (Original Score) - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

CHROMAKOPIA - Tyler, The Creator

The Great American Bar Scene - Zach Bryan

Petrichor - 070 Shake

#RICHAXXHAITIAN - Mach-Hommy

Silence Is Loud - Nia Archives

Still - Erika de Casier

Sugar Water - Maude Latour

The Thief Next to Jesus - Ka

SONG OF THE YEAR

Crowded Roomz - Nia Archives

Disease - Lady Gaga

Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter

Girl, so confusing featuring Lorde - Charli XCX, Lorde

Holy, Holy - Geordie Greep

meet the grahams - Kendrick Lamar

My guy (Corporate Shuffle) - Underscores

Not Like Us - Kendrick Lamar

SIN MIEDO - JPEGMAFIA

Starburned and Unkissed - Caroline Polachek

BEST NEW ARTIST

Anycia

Baby Kia

LustSickPuppy

POLO PERKS <3<3<3, AyooLii, and FearDorian

TAAHLIAH

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

Easyfun (“Just Like That”, “SO TRU”, BRAT)

FearDorian (“Hoodrat”, A DOG’S CHANCE, Triple Digits [112])

Mustard (“Not Like Us”, “TV Off”, Faith of a Mustard Seed)

Michael Uzowuru (“Black&Blue”, LANA, The Great Impersonator)

Zhone (“Talk Talk featuring Troye Sivan”, “JOYRIDE”, Sugar Water)

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR

Navy Blue

Zach Bryan

A.G. Cook

Geordie Greep

SZA

BEST POP SONG

Disease - Lady Gaga

Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter

Girl, so confusing featuring Lorde - Charli XCX, Lorde

Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan

Leash - Sky Ferreira

WYA? - Leah Kate, 24kGoldn

BEST POP ALBUM

Big Ideas - Remi Wolf

BRAT - Charli XCX

Girl with No Face - Allie X

Imaginal Disk - Magdalena Bay

Sugar Water - Maude Latour

BEST HIP HOP SONG

Black&Blue - Vince Staples

HISS - Megan Thee Stallion

I Killed You - Tyler, The Creator

meet the grahams - Kendrick Lamar

Not Like Us - Kendrick Lamar

BEST HIP HOP ALBUM

Alligator Bites Never Heal - Doechii

CHROMAKOPIA - Tyler, The Creator

Personification - Maxo Kream

#RICHAXXHAITIAN - Mach-Hommy

The Thief Next to Jesus - Ka

BEST ROCK SONG

Anybody - Porridge Radio

Audacious - Franz Ferdinand

FIRE4FUN - Jhariah

Jerkin’ - Amyl and the Sniffers

Over Each Other - Linkin Park

BEST ROCK ALBUM

Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me - Porridge Radio

Forever - Charly Bliss

There Goes the Neighbourhood - Kid Kapichi

TRUST CEREMONY - Jhariah

What a Devastating Turn of Events - Rachel Chinouriri

BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC SONG

Compress / Repress - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Crowded Roomz - Nia Archives

Eusexua - FKA twigs

M3 N MIN3 - femtanyl, Danny Brown

My Girl - Coco & Clair Clair

Spring Breakers - Charli XCX

BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUM

BRAT - Charli XCX

Challengers (Original Score) - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Diva of the People - Gavin Turek

Gramarye - TAAHLIAH

Silence Is Loud - Nia Archives

BEST COUNTRY SONG/ALBUM

ALBUM: The Great American Bar Scene - Zach Bryan

SONG: Texas Hold ‘Em - Beyoncé

BEST JAZZ ALBUM

Fearless Movement - Kamasi Washington

The Great Bailout - Moor Mother

No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin - Meshell Ndegeocello

Odyssey - Nubya Garcia

Rong Weicknes - Fievel Is Glauque

BEST R&B SONG

30 for 30 - SZA, Kendrick Lamar

Hell of a Ride - Nourished by Time

MUTT - Leon Thomas

Nasty - Tinashe

Young Lion - Sade

BEST R&B ALBUM

A Kid From Toronto - Kalisway

Algorithm - Lucky Daye

Bird’s Eye - Ravyn Lenae

CRYBABY - Rae Khalil

Still - Erika de Casier

BEST ALTERNATIVE SONG

Floating on a Moment - Beth Gibbons

Holy, Holy - Geordie Greep

Mahashmashana - Father John Misty

My guy (Corporate Shuffle) - underscores

SIN MIEDO - JPEGMAFIA

Starburned and Unkissed - Caroline Polachek

BEST ALTERNATIVE ALBUM

Amelia - Laurie Anderson

empathogen - WILLOW

The New Sound - Geordie Greep

Petrichor - 070 Shake

Pointy Heights - Fousheé

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Death & Romance - Magdalena Bay (Amanda Kramer)

Perfect Stranger - FKA twigs (Jordan Hemingway)

Run It - clipping. (Lawrence Klein)

Von dutch - Charli XCX (TORSO)

Young Lion - Sade (Sophie Muller)

BEST COVER

Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl - yeule

Burning Down the House - Paramore

Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other - Orville Peck, Willie Nelson

Murder on the Dancefloor - New Radicals

Slap That Bass | Get Happy | What the World Needs Now Is Love - Nick Cave

This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us - The Last Dinner Party

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As 2024 draws to a close, Rocky and Rose return to the Twilight saga once again to reflect on the peak of Team Edward vs. Team Jacob: Eclipse. Chris Weitz is out! David Slade is in! Bella must make the ultimate choice that she already pretty much made two movies ago. Is it better than New Moon? You bet! Is it good? It’s complicated. Persons of interest include Stonewall Jackson, Bree Tanner, and, regrettably, Harry Potter.

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2016 seems so long ago, and yet, it increasingly feels like we didn’t learn as many lessons from it as we once thought. What are we, some kind of Thunderbolts*—er, Suicide Squad? Rocky and Blurry break down the good, the bad, and the deeply ugly of a film truly emblematic of its time… and maybe, just maybe, of ours. Persons of interest include Ryan Gosling, Zack Snyder, and the vibrant nation of Australia.

Rocky is currently fundraising for her first short film! It’s called We Need More S.A.F.E. Spaces for Women! and the fundraiser is live on Indiegogo throughout the month of November. If you’re a fan of the show, we’d really appreciate your support. It’s gonna be fun, I swear.

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For this year’s Pulp Friction Halloween Spec-Dracular, a massive Sawhead takes Rocky on the ride of a lifetime, starting where it all began: Saw (2004). This tightly-wound thriller bears little resemblance to the “torture porn” label often applied to the series—if anything, it’s more like gay porn. Halloween ghouls of interest include Hawk Tuah, Art the Clown, and Taika Waititi.

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When you’re having a dialogue about what kind of movie you want to see, that is Megalopolis. Sam and Rocky are here to break down the most polarizing and endlessly fascinating film in theaters right now. Persons of interest include Paul Newman, Jon Hamm, and Spike Lee.

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Yes, that’s “hundred” with an “H”. Thanks to listeners like you, we’ve hit a huge milestone, and we’re celebrating the only way we know how: by being unfettered haters. Annas will be Invented, Jacobs will be Defended, we’ll find out which forgotten MCU property outlasted Endgame, and we’ll spend the length of an Avengers movie complaining. There may even be a post-credits scene? Persons of interest include Karl Rove, Morbius, and Disney Facebook groups.

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On-set feuds. Studios collapsing. Tragic celebrity deaths. Real-life vampirism. The story of how AMC’s Anne Rice’s Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire came to be is undoubtedly one of the most harrowing we’ve ever covered. But what about the end result? Myles says yay, Rocky says… fine. Persons of interest include Cher, Bryan Fuller, and #JaredLeto.

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Let’s look back on a time when superhero comedies could be, y’know, funny. First-time guest Lily joins Rocky to talk about a modern animated classic that may or may not stand in the shadow of another modern animated classic. Is it the big screen’s best Batman? Was it the death knell for the super-serious era of capeshit? Persons of interest include Ryan Reynolds, Michael Jackson, and Gob Bluth.

See Lily introduce Dracula’s Daughter at the Los Feliz Theater this Sunday!

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This week on Pulp Friction, Rocky and Ruth are cancelling themselves before Gen Z gets a chance as they look at the latest record from hip-hop’s incorrigible clown prince, Eminem. The rapper has spent the better part of the past 15 years trying to relive his old glory, but has he finally managed it here? Persons of interest include Spider-Man, Caitlyn Jenner, and Juvenile.

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We asked for your riddles, and you failed to deliver. Now, our intrepid heroes (Rocky, Sam, and Leon) find themselves at their lowest point, playing skiffle for scraps on the Universal Studios backlot. That won’t stop them in their quest to solve the Beatles’ riddle once and for all as they look at the band’s 4th studio album, Beatles for Sale. Persons of interest include Berry Gordy and his beam attack.

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