Special "all covers" episode!

1. Crimson and Clover - A. G. Cook
2. This Must Be the Place - Dad Sports
3. Different Drum - Le Pain
4. Nightswimming - Piney Gir
5. Near Wild Heaven - Quivers
6. Welcome to the Jungle - The Skullitones
7. Oops!... I Did it Again - Rubblebucket
8. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - Øzwald
9. If You Leave - Angel Olsen
10. Bitter Sweet Symphony - Deco
11. New Slang - Porridge Radio
12. Perfect Day - Karen O & Danger Mouse
13. Like a Rolling Stone - Phosphorescent

This episode features a clip from The David Pakman Show where he talks about the moral panics around book censorship on the right. Wait, are they for or against book bans? It can be hard to keep track.

1. Aujourd'hui, demain - Requin Chagrin
2. Şinanay - Kit Sebastian
3. French Disko - Kit Sebastian
4. Ta Fardah - PAINT
5. Land Man (Album Version) - PAINT
6. Mounadji "76" - Guts / Mackjoss
7. Bicycles - Pale Spectres
8. D(r)iving - Pale Spectres
9. Lucy - The Hannah Barberas
10. Harper Valley PTA - The Hannah Barberas
11. Fruit Flies Like a Banana - Tampopo
12. Ketchup - Tampopo
13. Spark Again - Louïse Papier

This episode features a clip from The Ezra Klein Show where Ezra talks to the Ukrainian philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko about how the west views Ukraine, how Ukraine views the west, and how Russia views them both. It was a great hour-long conversation. My two-minute clip is heavily edited, so go listen to the whole thing! 

1. Party - Sipper
2. Freedom - Jenny Hval
3. Classic Objects - Jenny Hval
4. Sunday - Sea Lemon
5. Fortune Teller - Sea Lemon
6. House Show - VHS Sports
7. Flowers - VHS Sports
8. Everything Is Simple - Widowspeak
9. Salt - Widowspeak
10. Lights Out - Traffik Island
11. Babylon Blues - Traffik Island
12. Gothenburg English - Alyssa Gengos
13. O Kanan Dume - Alyssa Gengos
14. Aline - Jarvis Cocker

This episode features a clip from Dan Olson's epic 2+ hour rant/takedown of the grifts known as crypto and NFTs and all their associated cruft, Line Goes Up. I have friends who've earned literally hundreds of thousands of dollars leveraging the NFT shell game to great effect. But they did so with no delusions of grandeur, just wanting to take part in the early stages of an obvious MLM scheme. So I guess good on them for getting in early and milking the cash cow. But I still find the whole thing distasteful. Ha.

1. Yamar - Dry Bread

2. Forget Me Not - Say She She

3. Deja Vu - Pearl Charles

4. The Dance - Air Waves

5. Kind of a Nice Time - Vansire

6. Over the Sink (Single Edit) - Films on Song

7. Floating Blue - Petite League

8. Eternal Shame - Chemtrails

9. Dominoes - Shoulder Season

10. Champagne Beach - Sugarloaf Beach

11. Everything is Going to Be Alright - Princess Chelsea

12. I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton

This episode features a clip from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher where he laments the American trend of things entirely changing but keeping their old name, regardless of how little it still applies.

1. Good 2 Yourself - Life in Sweatpants
2. Hurts Being Alive (Brothertiger Remix) - Down Time
3. White Love (Radio Mix) - One Dove
4. Spoonfeed - mandaworld
5. Alphamale - mandaworld
6. Strawberry Boy - Boy with Apple
7. Phase One Million - Vanishing Twin
8. Tub Erupt - Vanishing Twin
9. Poolside - Dreamgirl
10. Sometimes - Dreamgirl
11. Constellation Dirtbike Head - TOBACCO
12. The Pied Piper - Crispian St. Peters

This episode features clips from Wes Anderson’s best film The Grand Budapest Hotel related to Boy with Apple. And also from the HBO series Silicon Valley.

1. Suburbia - NoSo
2. I Hate the War - The Ballet
3. Come Back - The Ballet
4. Second Time - The Ballet Rework (feat. Mary Wyer) - Red Sleeping Beauty
5. Once Twice Melody - Beach House
6. Another Go Around - Beach House
7. The Link Is About to Die - Los Bitchos
8. Good to Go! - Los Bitchos
9. Disraeli Woman - Alex Izenberg
10. Anne in Strange Furs - Alex Izenberg
11. Easy to Love - Sam Evian
12. Time to Melt - Sam Evian
13. So We Won't Forget (Mang Dynasty Version) - Khruangbin

This episode features a clip from The New York Times’ podcast The Daily, where Sabrina Tavernise translates the message Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave to Russian citizens on the eve of Putin’s invasion to try to inform them of what what was actually going on since they really only have access to state propaganda. There’s also a clip from The David Pakman Show where he addresses the alt-left and contrasts their wrongness with the spot-on record of the Biden Administration.

1. Ana Ng - Cheekface
2. Frankly Valley - ØZWALD
3. Geppetto - ØZWALD
4. Like a Dog - Reptaliens
5. Don't Wait for Me - Reptaliens
6. Fuck June - Sipper
7. Sore - Sipper
8. Shanghai - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
9. Dreams - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
10. Moderation - Cate Le Bon
11. Harbour - Cate Le Bon
12. Kissing Lessons - Lucy Dacus

This episode features a promo for Jon Ronson’s new podcast miniseries, Things Fell Apart, from BBC4 Radio. He investigates the surprising origins of different elements of today's culture wars featuring interviews with many people who, however pivotal, you've probably never heard of, and who rarely give interviews. It's topics like anti-abortion activism among evangelicals, publicly shaming people for things they said online, different waves of feminism and contemporary trans activists, racism, anti-racism, teaching sex ed, and on and on. A common theme among many of the episodes is activists becoming, in a sense, victims of their own success. It's terrifically well done and strikes a nearly impossible to achieve note of nuanced even-handedness. I think everyone who was featured in the show would say they got a perfectly fair hearing and that listeners will feel similarly about how their views are represented, regardless of which side of any given issue they are on. It's just fantastic.

Season 18 Finale!

1. Hey Lover - The Daughters of Eve
2. R.I.N.G.O. - The Courettes
3. Won't Let You Go - The Courettes
4. I Can Hardly Wait - The Courettes
5. Midnight In My Head - DINNER feat. Charlie Hilton
6. Like You Said - DINNER feat. Charlie Hilton
7. Getting Older - Doug Hoyer
8. 2 Dumb 2 Quit - Doug Hoyer
9. Across That Fine Line - Nation of Language
10. Whatever You Want - Nation of Language
11. Eyes on the Road - Trace Mountains
12. Seen it Coming - Trace Mountains
13. I'm Going Down to Tell All These Motherfuckers All My Love - PAPA

This episode features a clip from a man-on-the-street style interview segment from Jimmy Kimmel Live! where they ask people if Saturday Night Live went too far parodying Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, then showed them clips of the actual Boebert. The modern GOP is so embarrassing.

Special “Christmas Music 2021” Episode!

1. Anorak Christmas - Sugar World
2. Cold Christmas - The Aislers Set
3. Oh What a Christmas! - El Perro del Mar
4. Drinking Alone on Christmas - The Crystal Furs
5. We Won't Come Home at Christmas Time - The Reds, Pinks & Purples
6. Little Altar Boy - Dean & Britta
7. Christmas Dreams - Dotcom Davinci
8. Christmas In Hell - Crocodiles
9. All Star (Christmas Advert Version) - Rosey PM and Turtle's Breath
10. Quarantine Christmas - ØZWALD
11. Christmas With You - Summer Salt
12. Carol of the Bells - The Westerlies
13. Just Like Christmas - Tripp Mirror
14. Christmas Steve - Advance Base
15. Fireside - Jenny Owen Youngs, John Mark Nelson, Tancred

This episode features an extended clip from Chilly Gonzales’ Pop Music Masterclass for 1LIVE Radio where he breaks down Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You“. It was good enough to make it worth making myself a liar over. Love the comparison to MGMT’s Kids.

1. I Was A Tunnel - Generationals
2. Aşkın Kanunu - Esin Engin Orkestrası
3. Güller ve Dudaklar - Esin Engin Orkestrası
4. Melody in F - Danny Rubenstein and his Orchestra
5. The Happy People - Danny Rubenstein and his Orchestra
6. A Little Dancing - Acid House Kings
7. Great Scraps - Franz Charcoal (aka Frankie Cosmos)
8. The Moon and the Sun - William Onyeabor
9. Argos Farfish - Sharhabil Ahmed
10. Zulum Aldunya - Zulum Aldunya
11. Call Our Own - Habibi