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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

LCD Soundsystem, Danny Brown, Phoenix, Japandroids, and more.

April 24th, 2015

Danny Brown, Sufjan Stevens, Belle & Sebastian, Oasis, and more.

April 17th, 2015

Unwound, The National, Nick Drake, Aphex Twin, and more.

April 10th, 2015

Outkast, The Sonics, Makthaverskan, Sufjan Stevens, and more.

April 3rd, 2015

Sharon Van Etten, Leonard Cohen, The Band, Sufjan Stevens, and more.

March 27th, 2015

The National, Queens of The Stone Age, The Beatles, Father John Misty, and more.

March 20th, 2015

Kendrick Lamar, Janelle Monae, Sufjan Stevens, Merchandise, and more.

March 6th, 2015

The Shins, The XX, David Bowie, Wayne Shorter, and more.

February 27th, 2015

Death Cab for Cutie, Arcade Fire, Bruce Springsteen, Ben Folds, and more.

February 20th, 2015

The Shins, J Dilla, Sufjan Stevens, Joanna Newsom, and more.

February 13th, 2015

Beat Happening, Waxahatchee, Beck, Run the Jewels, and more.

February 6th, 2015

Beck, The Strokes, Curtis Mayfield, Wild Flag, and more.

January 30th, 2015

FKA twigs, Drake, Caribou, The Decemberists, and more.

January 23rd, 2015

Divine Fits, The Antlers, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Wilco, and more.

January 16th, 2015

Father John Misty, Wye Oak, Sufjan Stevens, Madvillain, and more.

December 12th, 2014

Swans, Sun Kil Moon, Cloud Nothings, Aphex Twin, and more.

December 5th, 2014

The War on Drugs, Real Estate, The Antlers, Shabazz Palaces, and more.

November 21st, 2014

U2, The Roots, Tim Hecker, Oneohtrix Point Never, and more.

November 14th, 2014

Unwound, Tame Impala, Spiritualized, Oneohtrix Point Never, and more.

November 7th, 2014

Leonard Cohen, Pentagram, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and more.

October 31st, 2014

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Smashing Pumpkins, Death Grips, Liars, and more.

October 24th, 2014

Father John Misty, Fever Ray, Parquet Courts, Warpaint, and more.

October 10th, 2014

Weezer, and more.

October 3rd, 2014

Kanye West, Yo La Tengo, Wilco, Scott Walker, and more.

September 19th, 2014

Aphex Twin, Lana Del Ray, Earl Sweatshirt, Radiohead, and more.

September 12th, 2014

Kanye West, Death Grips, Swans, Deafheaven, and more.

September 5th, 2014

Parquet Courts, Iceage, The Replacements, Purity Ring, and more.

April 25th, 2014

Radiohead, Smog, Pavement, Primal Scream, and more.

April 11th, 2014

Pavement, Nirvana, Radiohead, The Shins, and more.

April 4th, 2014

The Antlers, The Mountain Goats, Childish Gambino, CHVRCHES, and more.

March 21st, 2014

Janelle Monae, Radiohead, Okkervil River, The War on Drugs, and more.

March 14th, 2014

The Smiths, and more.

February 28th, 2014

The Smiths, Yo La Tengo, Karriem Riggins, Horace Silver, and more.

February 21st, 2014

Santogold, Baths, Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, and more.

February 14th, 2014

Radiohead, Yo La Tengo, Kanye West, The Magnetic Fields, and more.

February 7th, 2014

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Wipers, The Feelies, Franz Ferdinand, and more.

January 31st, 2014

Bjork, TV on The Radio, Elliott Smith, The Beta Band, and more.

January 24th, 2014

A Tribe Called Quest, Spiritualized, Yo La Tengo, Guided by Voices, and more.

January 17th, 2014

Queens of The Stone Age, Talking Heads, New Order, Badbadnotgood, and more.

December 13th, 2013

The National, The Haxan Cloak, Atoms for Peace, Low, and more.

December 7th, 2013

Vampire Weekend, Arctic Monkeys, Queens of The Stone Age, Earl Sweatshirt, and more.

November 22nd, 2013

Destroyer, Jon Hopkins, Joy Division, DARKSIDE, and more.

November 15th, 2013

MIA, Sleep, Animal Collective, Talking Heads, and more.

November 1st, 2013

David Bowie, Gorillaz, Death Grips, Grinderman, and more.

October 25th, 2013

Chance the Rapper, Youth Lagoon, Arcade Fire, Queens of The Stone Age, and more.

October 18th, 2013

Broken Bells, Elliott Smith, Nine Inch Nails, Fennesz, and more.

October 11th, 2013

Ty Segall, Nicolas Jaar, Cass Mccombs, Thundercat, and more.

October 4th, 2013

St Vincent, Tame Impala, The Flaming Lips, Spiritualized, and more.

September 27th, 2013

Tom Waits, Beck, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Kurt Vile, and more.

September 20th, 2013

The Stone Roses, Sonny Rollins, Jon Hopkins, FKA twigs, and more.

September 13th, 2013

The Smiths, Flying Lotus, Belle & Sebastian, Chromatics, and more.

April 19th, 2013

Simon & Garfunkel, Iron & Wine, Pissed Jeans, Grimes, and more.

April 12th, 2013

Portishead, LCD Soundsystem, Big K.R.I.T., James Blake, and more.

April 5th, 2013

Pixies, Silver Jews, Fleet Foxes, James Blake, and more.

March 29th, 2013

Arcade Fire, The Strokes, The Velvet Underground, Archers of Loaf, and more.

March 22nd, 2013

Built to Spill, MGMT, Broken Bells, Beck, and more.

March 15th, 2013

Thrush Hermit, Tom Waits, Colour, Tame Impala, and more.

March 1st, 2013

Weezer, Sleater-Kinney, Monsters of Folk, Catherine Wheel, and more.

February 22nd, 2013

The Olivia Tremor Control, Beulah, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Belle and Sebastian, and more.

February 15th, 2013

The Smiths, Spoon, Wilco, The National, and more.

February 8th, 2013

The Meters, Dirty Projectors, Darwin Deez, Bjork, and more.

February 1st, 2013

Bibio, Janelle Monae, The Brecker Brothers, Professor Longhair, and more.

January 25th, 2013

Foxygen, Duster, Iron & Wine, Elliott Smith, and more.

January 18th, 2013

St. Vincent, The Shins, Iceage, Flying Lotus, and more.

January 11th, 2013

Vampire Weekend, Interpol, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Shins, and more.

December 7th, 2012

The Twilight Sad, Converge, Purity Ring, Japandroids, and more.

November 30th, 2012

Jack White, Animal Collective, Cloud Nothings, David Byrne & St Vincent, and more.

November 16th, 2012

Matthew Dear, Sigur Ros, Pavement, Tame Impala, and more.

November 9th, 2012

Fugazi, Mos Def, My Bloody Valentine, Crystal Castles, and more.

November 2nd, 2012

Modest Mouse, Bon Iver, Panda Bear, Neil Young, and more.

October 26th, 2012

Death Grips, The Boys Next Door, Deerhunter, Scott Walker, and more.

October 20th, 2012

Converge, Andrew Bird, The National, David Bowie, and more.