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Ready or not, January is here. It's time to embrace the new. It’s also time to will your wildest, most delusional music fantasies into existence. In that spirit, we’ve put together a list of albums we’re looking forward to – and some we’re just crossing
As 2025 is quickly coming to an end, we're releasing our music highlights for the year! We asked some of our friends to give us 5 of their favorite songs and albums as well. Nicole's selected highlights will kick things off and Ryan's top
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Tara Giancaspro has been a friend of ours for over 3 years now! She's been a guest on 5 of our episodes dating back to 2022, including our Muppet Christmas Carol episode last year. To read more from her, you can check out XOXO Gossip Giancaspro! Tara been
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On November 7th, Oglio Records re-released Brian Wilson: Live at the Roxy Theatre, the first post-humous release since Brian's passing last June. It's available on vinyl for the first time as a 3LP box set, alongside a 2CD set and digital edition. You order it directly
I've never met Ben Gibbard. While I had the chance to interview guitarist, Chris Walla, bassist, Nick Harmer, and drummer (at the time), Michael Schorr, in 2002, Ben was under the weather so he didn't participate in the interview. He performed with the band later that
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Originally the trio of Bruce Smith (Public Image Ltd, The Pop Group), Daniel Ash (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Tones on Tail), and Paul Spencer Denman (Sade, Sweetback) started playing together in 2019, but then the pandemic happened. Back in August, they released their first single, "On A Rocka".
There have been a bevvy of exciting new releases over the past couple of months so we wanted to highlight some of the albums that we had been anticipating. David Byrne - Who is the Sky? (Matador) Even though he's riding a wave of momentum from his American
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues and the enduring, endearing silliness of heavy metal Ozzy Osbourne once said that he would “die a happy man” if he dropped dead at his farewell show. After ascending to stage on a blacked-out throne adorned with outstretched bat wings, he nearly did – shuffling
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Jonathan Richman isn’t reading this. He might be building a pizza oven (he runs a stone masonry business in Chico, California). He might be writing a song in one of the five languages he speaks. He might even be painting in oil. But the last place you’re likely
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Scott Interrante is an Astoria, Queens-based composer for reality tv shows and the co-host of two podcasts: This Is The Greatest Song I’ve Ever Heard In My Entire Life (@gr8songpod) and a new podcast about movie musicals Big White Elephants (@bigwhiteelephantspod) (Editor's note: Ryan was a guest