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Our fifth annual Albums of the Year Special Episode, highlighting our favorite albums of 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015 and 2025.

Seth Sturgill joins us for our Season 4 Finale as we dig into Porter's 2024 album full of retro sounds and influences, and explores themes of grappling with fame, para-social relationships and nostalgia.

This week we get a peek into Green Day's early influences on their surprising 2000 release.

This week we celebrate the approach of the 25th anniversary of Deftones’ brooding, career-defining masterpiece.

This week we take quite the journey across the textured landscapes of a jazz funk fusion legend.

This week we explore the sullen landscape of Young's unusual 1970 studio album.

This week we travel the dusty roads of John Prine's 1973 studio album, Sweet Revenge.

This week we tackle the impressively experimental fifth studio album of one of the most important and most fiercely independent bands in American history.

This week we challenge ourselves by covering the fully instrumental, fully contemplative, and fully incredible 2007 opus by Austin's own Explosions In The Sky.

This week we groove to the funk-fueled, career-defining, breakout masterpiece that is Outkast's 1998 album Aquemini.

This week we take a journey through the dark and sexy sonic landscape of Massive Attack's breakthrough 1998 album.

This week we cover the new wave arena rock millenial anthems of Hot Fuss.

This week we kick off the new year with one of the most ambitious and iconic alt rock albums of the '90s.

This is the big one! Our fourth annual Albums of the Year Special Episode, highlighting our favorite albums of 1974, 1984, 1994, 2004, 2014 and 2024.

This week we take a drive with the iconic 8th album from the incomparable R.E.M.

This week we traverse apocalyptic love songs, psychedelic hip-hop influenced piano ballads and other sonic oddities as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Spoon's eighth full length album.

These week we brave the complex and raw narrative songwriting of John Darnielle as The Mountain Goats.

This week we traverse the sparse but beautiful landscape of Bon Iver's widely praised 2011 self titled album.

This week we cover Linkin Park’s turn of the millennium breakthrough debut album, and its widespread influence.

This week we welcome the one and only Dan from RetroLogic to talk about one of the most consistent bands in indie rock and their pivotal 2002 album.

This week we delve into the sparse soundscapes and vivid lyricism of Townes Van Zandt's 1969 self-titled album.

This week we delve into one of the most important and crushingly beautiful albums of all time, Fiona Apple's 1996 debut "Tidal."

This week we burn the midnight oil with one of the most influential hip hop albums of the early '90s.

This week we dive into what may be the single most eclectic and creative album of the century, the 2010 magnum opus, Plastic Beach.

In this episode we cover the breakthrough 2001 album from Jimmy Eat World that brought us generation-defining massive hits like The Middle and Sweetness.

In the premiere episode of our 4th season, we discuss Portishead's unexpected, genre defining debut.

In our Season 3 Finale we highlight some of the best musical duos from the '60s through the 2010s, and ultimately choose the best of each decade.

Adam and Liam wax nostalgic on the era of box set subscriptions, music by telephone, TV infomercials and other quintessentially '90s methods of consuming music.

Adam and Liam build their dream team 3MC + DJ hip hop crews.

Adam and Liam present individual lists of their Top 5 Hollywood actors who are also accomplished musicians, and then hash out a combined final list.

Liam expands Adam's mind on the decades long career of understated Swedish songwriter and producer Max Martin.

Adam expands Liam's mind on the sonic melting pot of global influences that is Khruangbin.

Adam and Liam continue to grapple over the top sibling music groups by decade, this time picking the best of the '00s and '10s, and finish up by discussing the '20s so far and recapping the top picks.

Adam and Liam grapple over the top sibling music groups and pick the best of the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s... but something weird happens as they approach the turn of the millennium.

Happy New Year! In our third annual Albums of the Year Special we discuss our favorite albums of 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003, 2013 and 2023, and ultimately reveal our #1 Albums of the Year!

This week we explore the uniquely joyful, jazzy, and funky sounds of the loosely-defined Japanese subgenre of City Pop.

This week we take a deep dive into the upbringing, decades-long career, and enormous influence of producer and Def Jam co-founder Rick Rubin.

This week we launch a brand new segment, Groove Gear! This series will cover the history and implementation of distinct music gear used in popular music. We start the series by covering the Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos.

Adam, Liam and the community put together a 1 hour spookytimes playlist for you.

Special guest Seth Sturgill joins forces with Liam to tag team expanding Adam's mind on the surprising authenticity of Blink 182.

Adam takes Liam on a sonic journey through the evolution of NYC art noise turned dream pop band Blonde Redhead.

In our Season 3 premiere, Adam and Liam present individual lists of their Top 5 debut albums that completely changed music, and then hash out a combined final list.

In our final episode of Season 2 we HIGH FIVE the Top 5 album closers.

Adam and Liam present individual lists of their Top 5 TV cartoon theme songs of the 1980s, and then hash out a combined final list.

This week Adam and Liam highlight a wide variety of memorable and sometimes unexpected cover songs from the past 70+ years of popular music.