Matthew Burchanoski 1/31/22 Matthew Burchanoski 1/31/22

The Downward Spiral: Breaking Alt Rock

Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction, Faith No More, and Mike Patton appreciation hour.

Casey Lovegrove 1/1/22 Casey Lovegrove 1/1/22

Sound of Silver: Get Innocuous

LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix, Hot Chip. All three abidingly groovy, but which best plucks the heartstrings?

Casey Lovegrove 12/13/21 Casey Lovegrove 12/13/21

The Moon and Antarctica: Cosmic Indie

There’s guitars all the way down.

Casey Lovegrove 12/6/21 Casey Lovegrove 12/6/21

good kid, m.A.A.d.city: Concept Rap

Matt loves a good concept album and a good hip-hop album, and here the twain do meet with Kendrick Lamar, Danny Brown, and Lupe Fiasco.

Casey Lovegrove 12/1/21 Casey Lovegrove 12/1/21

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain: Pavement Covers

Do Matt and Tim like Pavement any better several months on? Ehh…

Casey Lovegrove 11/15/21 Casey Lovegrove 11/15/21

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea: Myth & History

An indie classic, the genesis of a new Broadway musical, two progressive folk artists that prove Matt listens to at least some country-adjacent stuff.

Matthew Burchanoski 10/26/21 Matthew Burchanoski 10/26/21

Kala: Movie Placement

And I don’t want the world to see me fly like paper get high like planes when you come crash into me.

Matthew Burchanoski 10/12/21 Matthew Burchanoski 10/12/21

Either/Or: Kierkegaard

Philosophy and depressed musicians. Matt’s in his niche.

Matthew Burchanoski 10/12/21 Matthew Burchanoski 10/12/21

Deci’s Midnight Runners #4: Metal & Lucas

With a Lucas Choose Your Own Adventure and an 80s metal bracket, you might say we’re operating at peak us.

Matthew Burchanoski 10/5/21 Matthew Burchanoski 10/5/21

Stankonia: 2000 Rap Hits

“Country Grammar” and “Southern Hospitality” enter. Only one can leave.

Matthew Burchanoski 7/1/21 Matthew Burchanoski 7/1/21

Untrue: Intimate

We all like feeling closely connected to our music, and few artists do that better than Burial, Julien Baker, and Death Cab for Cutie.

Matthew Burchanoski 6/21/21 Matthew Burchanoski 6/21/21

Beyoncé: Self-Titled

Lowkey two incredibly influential albums, and Beyoncé isn’t one of them…

Matthew Burchanoski 6/18/21 Matthew Burchanoski 6/18/21

Achtung Baby: Berlin, Hell of a Place

Berlin does something special and weird to musicians, including U2, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and The Psychedelic Furs.

Matthew Burchanoski 6/16/21 Matthew Burchanoski 6/16/21

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back: Pazz and Jop ‘88

Public Enemy had the most 1988 album, by Pazz and Jop and historical standards, but did Midnight Oil or Tracy Chapman have the second most?

Matthew Burchanoski 5/26/21 Matthew Burchanoski 5/26/21

Different Class: The History of the World Heretofore

A band with lyrics not enough people bother to actually listen to and a band with few lyrics make cases for class revolution.

Matthew Burchanoski 5/19/21 Matthew Burchanoski 5/19/21

Master of Puppets: Metal to the People

Two titans do battle to see who brings Metal to the People in the spirit of Master of Puppets.

Matthew Burchanoski 5/12/21 Matthew Burchanoski 5/12/21

Kid A: The Next Radiohead

Radiohead is incomparable but don’t tell the critics that when it comes to Travis and Muse.

Matthew Burchanoski 5/3/21 Matthew Burchanoski 5/3/21

The Low End Theory: Native Tongues

It’s the Tribe y’all, and a look at the other Native Tongues heavyweights.

Matthew Burchanoski 4/26/21 Matthew Burchanoski 4/26/21

Blue Album: Opened for Weezer in ‘94/’95

Weezer’s Blue Album is dumb fun all these years later. Matt talks two bands who, if the world were just, could have made it as big as Weezer.

Matthew Burchanoski 4/19/21 Matthew Burchanoski 4/19/21

Deci’s Midnight Runners #3: Pop-Punk and WWII

Tim with the old classics, Matt with the new hotness.