It's impossible to list the best songs from an entire year. But that doesn't stop us from trying! Bill Childs joins as our guest this week, and talks about a new David Bowie tribute album he just co-produced called "Let All The Children Boogie" benefiting the It Gets Better Project. And then we get down to it: what are Bill's favorite songs of 2016 so far? Get ready for some fun, and to get introduced to some music you never knew!

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David Bowie Tribute Song List:

"Heroes" - Ted Leo 

"Let's Dance" - Antibalas 

"Ziggy Stardust" - Rhett Miller

Bill Child's Top Ten Songs of 2016:

10. "Hey Big Star" - Kishi Bashi

9. "Echo of the Whoos" - Calliope Musicals

8. "The Last Thing on My Mind" - The Joy Formidable

7. "The Stripper Has No Navel" - Honus Honus

6. "333" - Against Me!

5. "Good as Hell" - Lizzo

4. "Don't Hurt Yourself" - Beyoncé (feat. Jack White)

3. "Voices in My Head" - Bob Mould

2. "Keep It Between the Lines" - Sturgill Simpson

1. "Nobody Dies" - Theo & The Get Down Stay Down

 

Quiet Company is our podcast's house band: theirs is the music you hear throughout all our shows. We thought it was about time you hear the story behind the band, so we invited Taylor and Tommy aboard. They're living through the consolidation of the music industry -- where having a ton of fans doesn't necessarily translate into being able to survive off your music -- plus share a fascinating history, having begun as a Christian-influenced rock act that wrote a record chronicling how that Christian influence ended.

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Song List:

"Out of Exile" - Audioslave

"You're One of Them Aren't You" - The Paper Chase

"How to Fake Like You Are Nice and Caring" - Quiet Company

"The Shepard and The Black Sheep" - Quiet Company

"Midnight at the Dairy Palace" - Quiet Company with Panoramic Voices

 

"Atlanta," Donald Glover's show on FX, snuck up on us. Instead of a one-note, grim'n'gritty look at the world of an up-and-coming rapper, "Atlanta" turned out be an ambitious, weird, complex, funny, strange show more interested in the idiosyncrasies of its characters than making generalizations about race. In short: it's terrific. Critic Michael Arceneaux joins us to discuss what made "Atlanta's" first season so good, and why you should give it a shot.

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You've heard Chris mention "Clouds Of Sils Maria" a few times as one of his favorite films in recent years, and maybe you've thought, "Oh, he's just saying that to sound smart." Today's episode should convince you otherwise! This is a great film, and we brought in film critic and professor Christopher Llewellyn Reed to talk about its pleasures and its significance. We think it's fun to hear two smart people groove on a relatively obscure film we wholeheartedly recommend -- and we hope you think it's fun, too!

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Open Mike Eagle is a rapper whose music spans genres and reveals more about himself than almost any musician we know. Generally on the Juggernaut, we talk about art that is fully itself, and that's Open Mike: nothing is a pose, he's painfully self aware, and he's a brilliant writer. When you listen to OME, you laugh and you lose your breath and you understand what it means to *become* your art. (As a bonus side note, Open Mike became the inspiration for a character in Chris's new novel.) Enjoy!

 

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Mikes website - http://mikeeagle.net/

Songs used in this episode:

"Dishes" by Open Mike Eagle

"Qualifiers" by Open Mike Eagle

"Password" by Open Mike Eagle

"Gibberish Rap" by Hannibal Buress

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How does the cultural sausage get made? Eric Garcia knows. Eric is a successful novelist who's pivoted to movies and TV and has been involved in the adaptation of four of his novels. The results have sometimes been terrific and sometimes been frustrating. In this episode, Eric discusses what it's like to be in the belly of Hollywood's "corner-sanding" beast, and why he keeps putting himself through the adaptation game.

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Chris Harris's new novel, "War On Sound," is out, and we thought it would be fun to turn the tables have have *him* for an interview subject. So Chris Walsh joins as temporary host and asks Chris about the new book, his writing in general, and the sources of his creativity and frustration. Please check out WarOnSoundBook.com if you'd like to learn more!

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Today Cousin Josh Fischberg joins the Juggernaut and we count down our top 10 favorite movies of the 2010s. How much P.T. Anderson and Coen Brothers made the list? Our goal for this show is to share films that mean a lot to us, that have taught us something about empathy and about what it means to be a person. And hopefully you can get a few movies to check out while you're at it!

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Josh's list:

10. Birdman (2014) 9. Whiplash (2014) 8. Meek's Cutoff (2010) 7. Drive (2011) 6. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 5. The Social Network (2010) 4. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 3. Inception (2010) 2. The Lobster (2016) 1. Her (2013) Follow The Juggernaut: @JuggernautPod Join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1792363834316273/

Chris' list:

10. Clouds Of Sils Maria (2015) 9. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) 8. Whiplash (2014) 7. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 6. Meek's Cutoff (2010) 5. Her (2013) 4. The Lobster (2016) 3. Upstream Color (2013) 2. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 1. The Master (2012)  

Tom Scott was discovered early in his acting career and cast as the drummer in Tom Hanks's directorial debut, "That Thing You Do." That was  20 years ago, and Tom has been a working actor since. But why? Why is he comfortable in the skins of other selves, and what feeling is he chasing in a difficult, frustrating profession? Tom has been in great stuff like "Southland" and "Boiler Room," and (he acknowledges) less-great stuff, too. He offers a philosophical perspective on acting choices, fear and what it's like when Hollywood jerks you around.

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Tom's wonderful short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMi5wwb1FMc

Toms ImDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0779866/?ref_=nv_sr_1

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The Lobster is a perfect example of the kind of film we'd like to champion: it's unexpected and dystopic and strange, and so it bears the veneer of an "artsy-fartsy" film that's not for everyone. But that's hogwash! If *only* more movies had such a strong and complex point of view about one of the bedrock assumptions that underpins most of our lives! There's nothing abstract or difficult to understand in The Lobster. It's just different, and different is great. We bring on a brilliant writer, Eileen G'Sell, to talk about what may be 2016's best film.

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