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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

Danny Brown, Kanye West, LCD Soundsystem, The Stooges, and more.

April 24th, 2015

Oasis, Belle & Sebastian, Deerhunter, The Velvet Underground, and more.

April 17th, 2015

Neutral Milk Hotel, Pavement, Aphex Twin, Sonic Youth, and more.

April 10th, 2015

Jamie xx, Waxahatchee, Majical Cloudz, The Beatles, and more.

April 3rd, 2015

The Mountain Goats, Leonard Cohen, Sharon Van Etten, ACTION BRONSON, and more.

March 27th, 2015

Yo La Tengo, Nick Drake, Drake, Gorillaz, and more.

March 20th, 2015

Spoon, Modest Mouse, Merchandise, Pissed Jeans, and more.

March 6th, 2015

The XX, The Dodos, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, The Fall, and more.

February 27th, 2015

Bruce Springsteen, The Decemberists, Rage Against the Machine, Franz Ferdinand, and more.

February 20th, 2015

Tame Impala, Sufjan Stevens, Gravediggaz, Krill, and more.

February 13th, 2015

Pulp, Portishead, The Replacements, TV on The Radio, and more.

February 6th, 2015

Can, Purity Ring, Arcade Fire, Panda Bear, and more.

January 30th, 2015

Thom Yorke, Justice, Sleater-Kinney, The Decemberists, and more.

January 23rd, 2015

Volcano Choir, MGMT, Spoon, Death Grips, and more.

January 16th, 2015

Vampire Weekend, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sufjan Stevens, Madvillain, and more.

December 12th, 2014

St. Vincent, The Antlers, Spoon, Aphex Twin, and more.

December 5th, 2014

Andy Stott, Pallbearer, Caribou, Perfume Genius, and more.

November 21st, 2014

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Waxahatchee, Thurston Moore, The Smiths, and more.

November 14th, 2014

Flying Lotus, Oneohtrix Point Never, Air, Objekt, and more.

November 7th, 2014

Leonard Cohen, Phoenix, Pentagram, Paul McCartney and Wingsq, and more.

October 31st, 2014

Beat Happening, Tom Waits, David and Jad Fair, Bauhaus, and more.

October 24th, 2014

Father John Misty, Tnght, Parquet Courts, Run the Jewels, and more.

October 10th, 2014

Weezer, and more.

October 3rd, 2014

Scott Walker, Destroyer, The Mountain Goats, U2, and more.

September 19th, 2014

Oneohtrix Point Never, Earl Sweatshirt, Guided by Voices, Smog, and more.

September 12th, 2014

Swans, Kanye West, Titus Andronicus, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, and more.

September 5th, 2014

Sleep, Kanye West, The Beatles, Parquet Courts, and more.

April 25th, 2014

Future, Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., Wye Oak, and more.

April 11th, 2014

The Stone Roses, Spoon, Portishead, Pavement, and more.

April 4th, 2014

Animal Collective, Tom Waits, CHVRCHES, Songs: Ohia, and more.

March 21st, 2014

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

March 14th, 2014

The Smiths, and more.

February 28th, 2014

Horace Silver, Sonic Youth, Tim Hecker, The Smiths, and more.

February 21st, 2014

Santogold, Daft Punk, Justin Timberlake, The XX, and more.

February 14th, 2014

Frank Ocean, Spoon, Elliott Smith, The Cure, and more.

February 7th, 2014

Bloc Party, Joy Division, The Clientele, Interpol, and more.

January 31st, 2014

St Vincent, The Twilight Sad, Queens of The Stone Age, Oneohtrix Point Never, and more.

January 24th, 2014

The Breeders, R.E.M., Wu Tang Clan, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and more.

January 17th, 2014

Pixies, Liars, Bruce Springsteen, Television, and more.

December 13th, 2013

The Haxan Cloak, Kurt Vile, Kanye West, Superchunk, and more.

December 7th, 2013

Danny Brown, Arcade Fire, Run the Jewels, Arctic Monkeys, and more.

November 22nd, 2013

Mazzy Star, The Magnetic Fields, The National, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, and more.

November 15th, 2013

Brian Eno, M. Ward, Mutual Benefit, Radiohead, and more.

November 1st, 2013

The Misfits, Forest Swords, Grinderman, The Smashing Pumpkins, and more.

October 25th, 2013

Arcade Fire, Elliott Smith, The Postal Service, The Smiths, and more.

October 18th, 2013

Yo La Tengo, Nine Inch Nails, FUZZ, Kanye West, and more.

October 11th, 2013

Smog, Cass Mccombs, Pusha T, Unwound, and more.

October 4th, 2013

Queens of The Stone Age, St Vincent, Spiritualized, The Knife, and more.

September 27th, 2013

Nick Drake, The Replacements, Pavement, Beck, and more.

September 20th, 2013

Deerhunter, Jon Hopkins, FKA twigs, Pavement, and more.

September 13th, 2013

Otis Redding, Beck, Chromatics, New Order, and more.

April 19th, 2013

Husker Du, Iceage, Flying Lotus, Dirty Projectors, and more.

April 12th, 2013

LCD Soundsystem, Portishead, Spiritualized, Grizzly Bear, and more.

April 5th, 2013

Interpol, Vampire Weekend, The Breeders, Kurt Vile, and more.

March 29th, 2013

Ted Leo & the Pharamacists, The Flaming Lips, Arcade Fire, Wavves, and more.

March 22nd, 2013

Dirty Projectors, Flying Lotus, Low, Thom Yorke, and more.

March 15th, 2013

Foals, Parliament, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Psychic Paramount, and more.

March 1st, 2013

The Modern Lovers, The Birthday Party, Youth Lagoon, Sleater-Kinney, and more.

February 22nd, 2013

Yo La Tengo, Beulah, Jim James, Deerhunter, and more.

February 15th, 2013

Buddy Holly, The Mountain Goats, Andrew Bird, You Won't, and more.

February 8th, 2013

Buck Owens, Billy Preston, Bjork, My Bloody Valentine, and more.

February 1st, 2013

D'Angelo, Melvins, White Denim, Iceage, and more.

January 25th, 2013

The Stooges, Elliott Smith, Mission of Burma, Foxygen, and more.

January 18th, 2013

Leonard Cohen, Iceage, Phoenix, Radiohead, and more.

January 11th, 2013

Atoms for Peace, Vampire Weekend, The Shins, Jack White, and more.

December 7th, 2012

Grizzly Bear, Converge, Sigur Ros, Swans, and more.

November 30th, 2012

Jack White, Tame Impala, The Shins, Animal Collective, and more.

November 16th, 2012

Tame Impala, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Weezer, Caribou, and more.

November 9th, 2012

Slint, Grinderman, Fugazi, Slowdive, and more.

November 2nd, 2012

Modest Mouse, Flying Lotus, Yo La Tengo, Wipers, and more.

October 26th, 2012

The Smashing Pumpkins, Death Grips, Misfits, How To Destroy Angels, and more.

October 20th, 2012

Andrew Bird, Destroyer, The Tallest Man on Earth, The National, and more.