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Tuning Fork
Hosted by David and Matt · EN
David and Matt lived through the Pitchfork golden era and thus know far too many of the Best New Music albums as the soundtrack to the entire time they were in college, but how well do they hold up? Artwork by Nicky Flowers – https://nickyflowers.bandcamp.com/ Theme Music: “Open Air” by Animal Style – http://www.nmlstyl.com/
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24 – Ys by Joanna Newsom (9.4)
Feb 6, 202201:45:34Tap to summarizeMusician and longtime internet acquaintance Joey Walker joins us to talk about Joanna Newsom's Ys, Saved by the Bell, carrying a harp around inside your heart, and websites that thankfully haven't been updated in years. David | Matt | Tuning Fork. Joanna Newsom Lyrics
Transcribe →23 – Funeral by Arcade Fire (9.7)
Sep 27, 202101:39:07Tap to summarizeGary of Live Free, Twi Hard, Ham Radio, and the band Smol Data has joined us to talk about the debut album by (the) Arcade Fire, Funeral. Does Win Butler have the best basketball dunks? Does Owen Pallett is on this one? Does Regine Chassagne hurdy or does she gurdy? David | Matt | Gary | Tuning Fork
Transcribe →22 – Zaireeka by The Flaming Lips (0.0)
Jul 18, 202101:26:44Tap to summarizeWe're joined once again by friend of the show Meys, of Picking Up Something Good and And Also With You, to speak about the infamous 0.0 album by The Flaming Lips, Zaireeka. For some reason we also end up talking about Matthew Lesko, Steele from Balto, Mortal Kombat, and Neil Young's Pono. I was gonna release this one as 3 separate episodes to be played simultaneously but I think that Pitchfork writer Jason Josephes would find me and murder me. David | Matt | Meys | Tuning Fork Zaireeka listening party on Bandcamp
Transcribe →21 – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? by The Unicorns (8.9)
May 9, 202101:56:36Tap to summarizeJános of always being on his damn podcasts joins us to talk about The Unicorns' first and final album, Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? from 2003. We uncover some lore about Genius dot com on this one which forever changes our relationship to the website and its staff. Also we are very thankful to Nick Thorburn for inventing podcasts. David | Matt | János | Tuning Fork Interview with Alden Penner Music by Alden Penner as "go fuck yourself"
Transcribe →20 – w h o k i l l by tUnE-yArDs (8.8)
Mar 2, 202101:33:57Tap to summarizeOur friend James rejoins us to talk about one of his favorites, 2011's w h o k i l l by tUnE-yArDs. Merrill Garbus has a whole lot of her personal politics come out in the lyrics of this album...moreso than any of us remembered. Some of it works, some of it is going in our cringe compilation. David | Matt | James | Tuning Fork
Transcribe →19 – Yellow House by Grizzly Bear (8.7)
Jan 26, 202101:48:07Tap to summarizeWe're back, baby! This time we're looking at Grizzly Bear's first full-band album from 2006, Yellow House. We're joined by Brannon from New Nintendo Podcast XL and Children's Television Workshop. This is the one where Ed Droste says he is the asshole and Chris Taylor crams the album chock fulla ghosts. David | Matt | Brannon | Tuning Fork
Transcribe →18 – Fevers And Mirrors by Bright Eyes (5.4, 9.0)
Nov 2, 202001:54:48Tap to summarizeWe got double Minnesota action on this one. Charlie from Live Free, Twi Hard joins us to discuss that most important album of the year 2000 if you were a sad teen, Fevers And Mirrors by Bright Eyes. Conor Oberst does a lot of warbling about Russian space stations on this one and somehow we end up talking about that goddamn Quizno's commercial again. Join us, won't you? David | Matt | Charlie Tuning Fork
Transcribe →17 – Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes (9.0)
Sep 21, 202001:38:43Tap to summarizeJordan from Juergen' It, Like A Podcast, and Slappers Only joins us to talk about some bearded white men and their tendency to pronounce words incorrectly. There's some discussion of losing your Melee save file, stuff about Mumford And Sons, and of course dancing shirtless with a saxophone. And who could forget Dad Johnny Wet? David | Matt | Jordan Tuning Fork
Transcribe →16 – Make Believe by Weezer (0.4)
Aug 16, 202001:34:57Tap to summarizeStephanie from City Girls Make Do joins us again to talk about the much-maligned Make Believe by Weezer. Rivers Cuomo's side project is Incel and the Troubled Relationship. There's a surprising amount of discussion about Shrek in this one too. David | Matt | Stephanie Tuning Fork
Transcribe →15 – Frances The Mute by The Mars Volta (2.0)
Jul 19, 202001:25:11Tap to summarizeCW for some lyrical content about sexual assault. Roy from Podcasting Is Forbidden In The Cloud Recesses, and previous guest Trevor of Giants Confirmed join us to talk about the most big-brained album of the Prog Aughts. Pitchfork really really hates these guys. But hey, there's two members of Red Hot Chili Peppers on this album so it can't be all bad. David | Matt | Roy | Trevor Tuning Fork
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