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Musician and longtime internet acquaintance Joey Walker joins us to talk about Joanna Newsom’s Ys, Saved by the Bell, carrying a harp around inside your heart, and websites that thankfully haven’t been updated in years. David | Matt | Tuning Fork. Joanna Newsom Lyrics

Gary of Live Free, Twi Hard, Ham Radio, and the band Smol Data has joined us to talk about the debut album by (the) Arcade Fire, Funeral. Does Win Butler have the best basketball dunks? Does Owen Pallett is on this one? Does Regine Chassagne hurdy or does she gurdy? David | Matt | Gary […]

We’re joined once again by friend of the show Meys, of Picking Up Something Good and And Also With You, to speak about the infamous 0.0 album by The Flaming Lips, Zaireeka. For some reason we also end up talking about Matthew Lesko, Steele from Balto, Mortal Kombat, and Neil Young’s Pono. I was gonna […]

János of always being on his damn podcasts joins us to talk about The Unicorns’ first and final album, Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? from 2003. We uncover some lore about Genius dot com on this one which forever changes our relationship to the website and its staff. Also we are very […]

Our friend James rejoins us to talk about one of his favorites, 2011’s w h o k i l l by tUnE-yArDs. Merrill Garbus has a whole lot of her personal politics come out in the lyrics of this album…moreso than any of us remembered. Some of it works, some of it is going in […]

We’re back, baby! This time we’re looking at Grizzly Bear’s first full-band album from 2006, Yellow House. We’re joined by Brannon from New Nintendo Podcast XL and Children’s Television Workshop. This is the one where Ed Droste says he is the asshole and Chris Taylor crams the album chock fulla ghosts. David | Matt | […]

We got double Minnesota action on this one. Charlie from Live Free, Twi Hard joins us to discuss that most important album of the year 2000 if you were a sad teen, Fevers And Mirrors by Bright Eyes. Conor Oberst does a lot of warbling about Russian space stations on this one and somehow we […]

Jordan from Juergen’ It, Like A Podcast, and Slappers Only joins us to talk about some bearded white men and their tendency to pronounce words incorrectly. There’s some discussion of losing your Melee save file, stuff about Mumford And Sons, and of course dancing shirtless with a saxophone. And who could forget Dad Johnny Wet? […]

Stephanie from City Girls Make Do joins us again to talk about the much-maligned Make Believe by Weezer. Rivers Cuomo’s side project is Incel and the Troubled Relationship. There’s a surprising amount of discussion about Shrek in this one too. David | Matt | Stephanie Tuning Fork

CW for some lyrical content about sexual assault. Roy from Podcasting Is Forbidden In The Cloud Recesses, and previous guest Trevor of Giants Confirmed join us to talk about the most big-brained album of the Prog Aughts. Pitchfork really really hates these guys. But hey, there’s two members of Red Hot Chili Peppers on this […]

Greg from This Might Be A Podcast and Best Midwestern joins us to tackle our first 0.0 review, Travistan by Travis Morrison. We also unexpectedly end up talking about Thomas Jefferson and Harambe. I promise they come up naturally and in relation to the album. David | Matt | Greg Tuning Fork

Since today is the album’s 10 year anniversary, it’s time to revisit James Murphy’s irony-coated dance LP. For some reason everyone said this one was inspired by David Bowie. We don’t really get it. David and Matt are joined by Matt (the Scottish one!) of HKIPGTD. Tron Legacy! Tron Legacy! Tron Legacy! Tron Legacy! David […]

CW for discussion of sexual abuse. Well, we promised we’d name a woman. So how about we get 3 dollars for naming THREE WOMEN? Stephanie and Alex of City Girls Make Do take over the podcast to have a candid discussion about the first Pitchfork Perfect Ten since that one guy’s Relatively Pretty Dark Edgelord […]

Content warning for drug usage, but you probably already knew that if you’re listening to an episode about Wavves. We’re back with the ultimate statement of skateboard-surfer-stoner-slacker culture, King of the Beach by Wavves. We talk about such things as owning two copies of the same album, horses with no shoes, convertible balloons, and Dananananaykroyd. […]

David and Matt are joined by …absolutely nobody! It’s kind of just a David and Matt one this time. We forgot to mention that Dan Deacon’s setup included an iPod taped to a banana. However, we did not forget to mention that Dan Deacon does in fact have a rattlesnake gun AND an Aerosmith gun. […]

David and Matt are joined by our friend Zøe (@monsantobama), famous Washington goth girl and poet, to discuss the ultimate in teen swag, Treats by Sleigh Bells. We had no choice but to stan the short king of Derek Miller. Some day Matt’s nuts will fall back through the atmosphere to earth and be reclaimed […]

This time we’re joined by Nick of the bands For Everest, Bot Garden, and Hard Pass to talk about some Hard Rock, made by Brian, David, and Gilbert Japandroid. We also talk about baseball… and Mark Ronson because we couldn’t not talk about him unfortunately.

David and Matt welcome Sara of Fearbaiting, The Wonder Yeerks, and HKIPGTD to talk about Bloc Party’s 2005 album Silent Alarm. We learn about such things as life under capitalism, war for gasoline, and extremely specific mousepads. Don’t tell Oasis about this episode. Follow Sara: @SunhatZhenya @TheWonderYeerks @Fearbaiting @HKIPGTD  

David and Matt are joined by Meys of Echo Vessel, neo-detritus, RadIsh, and Picking Up Something Good to talk about possibly the most hyped album in the Animal Collective oeuvre. Matt asks for sound effects. Ed Droste gets arrested. A bunch of other bands get talked about because we can’t shut up. Go follow Meys: […]

David and Matt are joined by longtime friend Caitlin to talk about Strange Mercy by St. Vincent. We try to figure out what MAN this album could possibly be about, because it definitely has to be about a MAN. Our best guess is Nick Kroll.