Billbuds is a pop music review show hosted by Johnny O'Mara and John Patrick Coan.
Huzzah! 100 episodes for the Billbuds! Okay, we technically forgot to mention it on the show, but can you blame us? We are reviewing SZA's 2022 album SOS and this thing has like, a million tracks. We…
This week we are reviewing The Beastie Boys for the first time and instead of picking one of their many #1 albums, we picked their 2007 instrumental album The Mix-Up. If this is your first time liste…
This week we are dipping into our listener suggestion bag to review AJR's 2nd studio album from 2017, The Click. We've never heard of AJR before so let's see how this goes!
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Happy New Year! What better way to celebrate 2024 than by going back in time 20 years and reviewing our top 10 songs of 2004. Also, check out our full playlists and let us know what songs you were lo…
It's a Decemberistsmas miracle! We remembered that we do this! So we fucked up last year but our buddy James D'Amato, host of the OneShot Podcast and Campaign Podcast is back to help us understand th…
It's the most magical time of the year and JPC's least favorite time of the year: Christmas Music season. And we are kicking it off with a real banger. It's a Backstreet Boys Christmas album from, yo…
We finally get to an album we've been wanting to cover for a long time. It's Aerosmith's 1993 album Get A Grip. There is absolutely no way we can cover the emensity of their 50+ year career, but we c…
It's another adventure in the music of middle school (at least the host's subjective experience of middle school) and this time it is with Evanescense's 2002 debut album Fallen. This album is the 6th…
It's the final Weezer album of Weezetoberfest 2023. It has been quite a ride. For the finale, we are listening to The Black Album from 2019. Rivers had been hyping this album since 2016 so now we fi…
It's Weezer's 5th album named Weezer (Teal) and it's their first album of all cover songs. If you were on Twitter in 2019, you've probably heard at least one of them, but how will the other 9 stack u…
It's been a HOT Weezetober so far, but can Weezer continue the momentum with 2017's Pacific Daydream? That question WILL be answered today!
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It's the fourth monochromatic Weezer album we've listened to on the show! This week, Weezetoberfest continues with 2016's White Album. Are we in the middle of a Weezer resurgence? Dare we hope?!
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Can you believe it's already that time of year again? Happy Weezetoberfest to all! We are coming at you weekly all month long and we are kicking it off with Weezer's 9th studio album Everything Will …
This week, we are reviewing Maggie Rogers' 2019 debut Heard It In A Past Life.
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It's time to Dismantle Summer with a trip to 2013 by reviewing The Wonder Years' 4th album The Greatest Generation.
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This week we are traveling back to 1956 (the first year of the top 200 charts!) to listen to Harry Belafonte's Calypso.
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Liz Anderson is back to talk about My Chemical Romance's 2006 album The Black Parade. Will she turn us into MCR heads? (is that what MCR fans call themselves?)
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This week, we are reviewing an album that was pretty impactful for us way back in 2013. It's Chance the Rapper's second mixtape Acid Rap. Do we know the difference between a mix tape and an album? Ki…
We're going back to 2007 to rediscover one of JPC's college favs. This week, we are listening to Sara Bareilles' 2nd album (but first on a major label) Little Voice. It's also releasing on the album'…