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Genre-spanning music snobbery / Important tunes for important people

# of Episodes

100

Host

Ben

First Aired

October 5th, 2012

Last Episode

April 24th, 2015

Previous broadcasts

April 24th, 2015

Nirvana, Run the Jewels, Drake, Future, and more.

April 24th, 2015

Danny Brown, Belle & Sebastian, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, and more.

April 17th, 2015

Radiohead, Pink Floyd, The Microphones, Unwound, and more.

April 10th, 2015

Arcade Fire, Waxahatchee, Big Star, Frank Ocean, and more.

April 3rd, 2015

Belle & Sebastian, Vampire Weekend, The Olivia Tremor Control, ACTION BRONSON, and more.

March 27th, 2015

Grinderman, Kanye West, The Mountain Goats, Earl Sweatshirt, and more.

March 20th, 2015

Hank Mobley, Pissed Jeans, Yo La Tengo, Panda Bear, and more.

March 6th, 2015

The Olivia Tremor Control, Arcade Fire, Earl Sweatshirt, Sonic Youth, and more.

February 27th, 2015

Beulah, Bruce Springsteen, Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab for Cutie, and more.

February 20th, 2015

Lesley Gore, American Football, Drake, Gravediggaz, and more.

February 13th, 2015

Beck, The Beach Boys, Pulp, The Smiths, and more.

February 6th, 2015

Panda Bear, Mount Eerie, Run the Jewels, Beck, and more.

January 30th, 2015

Flying Lotus, Cut Copy, The Decemberists, Tnght, and more.

January 23rd, 2015

TV on The Radio, The Antlers, The Roots, Kanye West and Jay-Z, and more.

January 16th, 2015

Pavement, Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens, Morphine, and more.

December 12th, 2014

The Antlers, Swans, FKA twigs, Iceage, and more.

December 5th, 2014

Perfume Genius, Beck, The Antlers, Cloud Nothings, and more.

November 21st, 2014

The Haxan Cloak, Andy Stott, Bjork, Tim Hecker, and more.

November 14th, 2014

Flying Lotus, Curtis Mayfield, Spiritualized, Tame Impala, and more.

November 7th, 2014

Perfume Genius, Phoenix, Arca, Paul McCartney and Wingsq, and more.

October 31st, 2014

The Birthday Party, Nine Inch Nails, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Cramps, and more.

October 24th, 2014

Bon Iver, Yo La Tengo, Bob Dylan, Atlas Sound, and more.

October 10th, 2014

Weezer, and more.

October 3rd, 2014

Perfume Genius, Iceage, Destroyer, Radiohead, and more.

September 19th, 2014

Aphex Twin, Oneohtrix Point Never, Earl Sweatshirt, Radiohead, and more.

September 12th, 2014

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Swans, Death Grips, Sun Kill Moon, and more.

September 5th, 2014

The Beatles, Spoon, Galaxie 500, The Replacements, and more.

April 25th, 2014

The Flaming Lips, Smog, James Blake, Arcade Fire, and more.

April 11th, 2014

Spoon, Queens of The Stone Age, Nirvana, Kanye West, and more.

April 4th, 2014

Animal Collective, Songs: Ohia, Cream, LCD Soundsystem, and more.

March 21st, 2014

Janelle Monae, No Age, The War on Drugs, TV on The Radio, and more.

March 14th, 2014

The Smiths, and more.

February 28th, 2014

M. Ward, Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and more.

February 21st, 2014

Outkast, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Pavement, The Beach Boys, and more.

February 14th, 2014

Belle & Sebastian, Bjork, Big Star, Marvin Gaye, and more.

February 7th, 2014

Franz Ferdinand, The National, Arctic Monkeys, The Feelies, and more.

January 31st, 2014

Queens of The Stone Age, The Beta Band, Fiona Apple, Elliott Smith, and more.

January 24th, 2014

Wu Tang Clan, Tom Waits, The Smashing Pumpkins, A Tribe Called Quest, and more.

January 17th, 2014

Bruce Springsteen, Badbadnotgood, Mutual Benefit, Real Estate, and more.

December 13th, 2013

Yo La Tengo, Low, James Blake, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, and more.

December 7th, 2013

Volcano Choir, Queens of The Stone Age, Danny Brown, Vampire Weekend, and more.

November 22nd, 2013

The National, Mazzy Star, The Knife, Destroyer, and more.

November 15th, 2013

Radiohead, Danny Brown, James Blake, Mutual Benefit, and more.

November 1st, 2013

Death Grips, The Knife, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, and more.

October 25th, 2013

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Youth Lagoon, Elliott Smith, Joanna Newsom, and more.

October 18th, 2013

Broken Bells, Pallbearer, Yo La Tengo, Danny Brown, and more.

October 11th, 2013

Thundercat, James Blake, Smog, Four Tet, and more.

October 4th, 2013

Phoenix, The Dismemberment Plan, The Knife, Thelonious Monk, and more.

September 27th, 2013

Beck, Kurt Vile, Drake`, The Haxan Cloak, and more.

September 20th, 2013

Big Boi, Volcano Choir, Jon Hopkins, Bill Callahan, and more.

September 13th, 2013

Sebadoh, Radiohead, The Beatles, Flying Lotus, and more.

April 19th, 2013

Thurston Moore, Pissed Jeans, Black Sabbath, Ceremony, and more.

April 12th, 2013

Big K.R.I.T., The Tallest Man on Earth, LCD Soundsystem, James Blake, and more.

April 5th, 2013

The Breeders, James Blake, Fleet Foxes, Silver Jews, and more.

March 29th, 2013

The Flaming Lips, The Fall, Arcade Fire, Jack White, and more.

March 22nd, 2013

Waxahatchee, Built to Spill, TV on The Radio, Animal Collective, and more.

March 15th, 2013

Field Music, Erykah Badu, Tame Impala, Foals, and more.

March 1st, 2013

The Modern Lovers, The Smashing Pumpkins, Neil Young, The Flaming Lips, and more.

February 22nd, 2013

The Who, The Olivia Tremor Control, My Morning Jacket, M. Ward, and more.

February 15th, 2013

Spoon, The Heligoats, Sonic Youth, Weezer, and more.

February 8th, 2013

Buck Owens, The Band, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Billy Preston, and more.

February 1st, 2013

Professor Longhair, Janelle Monae, Lettuce, D'Angelo, and more.

January 25th, 2013

M83, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Eels, and more.

January 18th, 2013

Iceage, Husker Du, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Dan Deacon, and more.

January 11th, 2013

Vampire Weekend, Neutral Milk Hotel, Neil Young, Portishead, and more.

December 7th, 2012

Divine Fits, Spiritualized, David Byrne & St Vincent, Purity Ring, and more.

November 30th, 2012

Death Grips, El-P, The Walkmen, Flying Lotus, and more.

November 16th, 2012

Yo La Tengo, Mount Eerie, Sigur Ros, Caribou, and more.

November 9th, 2012

Slowdive, Wilco, Jj, Bjork, and more.

November 2nd, 2012

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Grizzly Bear, Deerhunter, Andrew Bird, and more.

October 26th, 2012

How To Destroy Angels, The Sonics, Scott Walker, Death Grips, and more.

October 20th, 2012

The Tallest Man on Earth, Converge, Spoon, David Bowie, and more.