Happy New Year and welcome to the Best of 2024 series! Our listeners are choosing their favorite album and song from last year and today we have a much loved member of our community making his first-ever contribution to the Best Of series. It’s Mike Kohli from Rome, NY, who chooses “Starburster” from Fontaines D.C. as his song of the year and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Flight b741 as his album of the year. Thank you Mike!

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Happy New Year and welcome to the Best of 2024 series! Our listeners are choosing their favorite album and song from last year and we begin where we always do, with Steven Routledge. He has selected The Cure’s Songs of A Lost World as his best album and Christopher Owen’s “Do You Need A Friend” as his song. A great way to get us started, thank you Steven!

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The year is almost over, but the November 2024 New Music Train still has a run to make, from the suburbs of Kansas City to South Carolina to Franklin Park, Illinois. That’s right, it’s Scot Isom, Harris King and Sunny Varney on board, talking about new tunes from The Fleshtones, Paul Kelly, Yoo Doo Right, Kim Deal, Cult of Luna, Magick Potion, Sergeant Thunderhoof and The Snozzberries.

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New York City and its suburbs are the starting point for the November 2024 New Music Train’s journey today and then it makes the long trek to Scotland. That means we have Jason Goebel, Kurt Gallagher and Roger Grace on board to discuss new music from Wallice, Willie Nelson, Sinkane, Kendrick Lamar, Jill Lorean, The Joy Hotel and Cat Burns. 

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 It’s a jam-packed trip on the November 2024 New Music Train today, with three musical messengers on board: Kevin Porter, Liam McIndoe and Bob Peterson. They will discuss new tunes from Illiterate Light, Perfume Genius and Alan Sparhawk, The Chills, The Wildhearts, Andrew Gabbard, Michael Kiwanuka and Lambrini Girls. And if you listen carefully, you’ll hear some New Music Train theme music! 

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It’s a little later this month, but the November 2024 New Music Train has been fired up and is pulling out from Stirling in Scotland and heading for the heartland of the USA. That means Steven Routledge and Paul Hayden are aboard and they will tell you about new music from Mur, Patterson Hood, Wussy and The Circulators.

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Jim kicks off November New Music with songs by the Excuses and the Delta Bombers. Plus, an R.E.M. cover from Al Green.

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Jim and Patrick are joined by Bob and Phil Ingrassia and Bob Peterson to discuss the life and musical legacy of Minneapolis musical legend Slim Dunlap, who passed recently at the age of 73. 

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The Indiana Hoosiers are in the college football playoff! This is the most unlikely of unlikely sports stories. To mark this remarkable achievement, Jim talks about Indiana bands from his time at Indiana University in the late '80s.

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Will Gronek chimes in with two songs that he has inducted into the Perfect Pop pantheon. Welcome, “Good Enough” by Dodgy and “Ocean Drive” by Lighthouse Family and thanks Will! 

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