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Pump it up! This week we welcome John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants to discuss Elvis Costello’s 1978 album This Year’s Model!

This week: the story of John’s very early discovery of Elvis Costell…

Heather could only make it through 37 seconds of the full-length; can Ramsey make it through the single? This week, for some reason, we tackle Limp Bizkit’s seminal 1999 hit, “Nookie.”

This week: An …

You asked for it; we talked through it! This week we listen to the enormously popular 2006 album from My Chemical Romance, “The Black Parade!”

This week: Heather compiles and delivers TON of research…

This week the incredibly hilarious Paul Rust and Michael Cassady, known together as Don’t Stop Or We’ll Die, are here to spin some Elfman soundtrack treats and some Belafonte calypso beats as we list…

This year’s annual Every Time I Die Christmas show was impossible, so instead, they released a pair of new songs, their first new music since 2016. Today we listen to 2020's “A Colossal Wreck” and tr…

This week we consider the last of the pre-pandemic times as return to Spanish Love Songs and listen to their prescient, 2020 album, “Brave Faces Everyone.”

This week: A very special episode: faith, d…

We are joined this week by journalist Luke O’Neil, author of Welcome to Hell World and the book Lockdown in Hell World to discuss Elliott Smith’s 1997 album Either/Or!

This week: Elliott Smith goes h…

Last week we gave you our most played songs: this week, we each give our choice for the best new song of 2020!

This week: We revisit our segment “Heather Guesses What Superheroes Are Avengers!” Heath…

Remember all the way back 26 days ago when everybody was posting screenshots of their Spotify accounts? Well, here’s the audio version of that! This week, Ramsey and Heather go through their top 5 so…

This week, comedy writer and podcaster extraordinaire Jordan Morris (Bubble, JJGo) shows up to ska up our lives with Less Than Jake’s 1996 album, “Losing Streak!”

This week: The tumultuous world of a…

This week we get into the holiday spirit with a surprise Christmas episode by listening to Phoebe Bridgers “Christmas Song” from her 2020 If We Make It Through December EP!

This week: Heather surpris…

This week we finally listen to one of Heather’s favorites: Kevin Devine’s 2006 album “Brother’s Blood!”

This week: We finally talk about one of Heather’s most important performers! Ramsey watches odd…

This week we are joined by music journalist/dietician Ian Cohen who brings us The 1975’s 2016 album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It.

This week: The perils of …

After a brief psychic connection and a refresher on who Fall Out Boy is, this week we listen to their cover of The Jungle Book’s “I Wanna Be Like You” from the 2015 compilation We Love Disney!

This w…

It’s been almost 100 episodes since Ramsey has heard Modern Baseball. Last time he divided the group in two and decided he was on Team Jake. Will the same be true when the band divides the album in h…

This week we are joined by comedian Nick Wiger (Doughboys/How Did This Get Played?/Earth to Ned) who introduces us to a metal classic, Metallica’s 1984 album Ride the Lightning!

This week: One of us …

The last time we heard from Coheed and Cambria they were weaving a tale of an epic space battle. Now they’ve teamed up with Rick Springfield to continue the epic tale of Jessie’s Girl in “Jessie’s Gi…

Hey, remember when people were mad about politics all the time? Let’s go back to that magical time in 2001 and listen to Green Day’s concept album “American Idiot!”

This week: What kind of hat does a…

This week we welcome Sloppy Boy and Birthday Boy Tim Kalpakis! Together we dig deep into Sublime’s self-titled album from 1996!

This week: What kind of hat does a rich guy wear? Who is who in the Slo…

This week we go super current as we follow up on a band we’ve listened to before, I Am the Avalanche, with their brand new single “Better Days!”

This week: favorite football positions! We combine fou…