# Hearing Things
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## Posts
- [Juicy J's Spoken Word Jazz Album (Yes, You Read That Right)](https://www.hearingthings.co/juicy-j-spoken-word-jazz-album.md) - Plus bubbly nonchalant California rap, empowering UK R&B, North Indian classical singing mixed with space-jazz and post-rock, and an icy electronic debut from a new Cambridge duo
- [Rico Nasty Explains Her Credit Card Statement](https://www.hearingthings.co/rico-nasty-explains-her-credit-card-statement.md) - The Maryland rapper talks through recent purchases, including her favorite energy drink, hair products, and a recent splurge on Nobu tacos.
- [Tom Waits Just Released the Most Withering Diss Track of the Year](https://www.hearingthings.co/tom-waits-just-released-the-most-withering-diss-track-of-the-year.md) - Houseflies, beware.
- [A Legend's Technicolor Dub Extravaganza](https://www.hearingthings.co/a-legends-technicolor-dub-extravaganza.md) - Plus a Detroit veteran's velour instrumental album, a Ghanaian-American pop star's kaleidoscopic mixtape, a digicore wunderkind's groovy new EP, and an indie rock stalwart's rage against the industry's little boxes
- [New Hearing Things Merch Alert](https://www.hearingthings.co/new-hearing-things-merch-alert.md) - Upgrade your membership at an exclusive discount to secure your custom HT slipmat and receive a playlist just for you.
- [Stop Listening to Music](https://www.hearingthings.co/stop-listening-to-music.md) - ...at least from time to time.
- [Sci-Fi Prog-Pop for Alien Dance Clubs](https://www.hearingthings.co/sci-fi-prog-pop-for-alien-dance-clubs.md) - Plus regret-soaked Americana and haunting Irish folk.
- [The Last Immortal Rock Star](https://www.hearingthings.co/vampire-lestat-music-review.md) - How ‘The Vampire Lestat’ is resurrecting the archetype of the sexy, sweaty rock frontman.
- [Charli XCX Wants to Run With the Big Dogs](https://www.hearingthings.co/charli-xcx-wants-to-run-with-the-big-dogs.md) - Plus an ultra-rare hi-fi audio collage, a dispatch from a rising Memphis rap star, and deconstructed footwork meant to approximate the chaos of the timeline
- [How I Became A Beatmaker (By Watching Other People Make Beats)](https://www.hearingthings.co/how-i-became-a-beatmaker-by-watching-other-people-make-beats.md) - A first-time beatmaker’s case for the nuances of developing style and gatekeeping within rap production.
- [Debating Our Most Controversial Faves of 2026 So Far](https://www.hearingthings.co/debating-our-most-controversial-faves-of-2026-so-far.md) - The whole HT crew reconvenes for a podcast episode about songs that just might piss some people off.
- [Nia Archives Has the Range](https://www.hearingthings.co/nia-archives-has-the-range-2.md) - Plus Four Tet’s un-Googleable new album, Syd’s grown-woman swagger, and a high-wire act of underground rap
- [Alt-Pop Trickster 1010Benja Is Not Scared to Admit He’s Using Generative AI](https://www.hearingthings.co/alt-pop-trickster-1010benja-is-not-scared-to-admit-hes-using-generative-ai.md) - “If you have it broken down as organic versus AI, the AI is gonna win our world. The good guy doesn’t win this one.”
- [Post-Punk With a Touch of Steely Dan](https://www.hearingthings.co/post-punk-with-a-touch-of-steely-dan.md) - Plus sepia-toned sample loops and a Beyoncé loosie.
- [A Future Classic for Alt Black Queer Folks](https://www.hearingthings.co/a-future-classic-for-alt-black-queer-folks.md) - Plus: Cain Culto shredding on the fiddle like the devil went down to Lexington, and vocals that sound like a gremlin suffocating inside a steel box.
- [Horse Lords’ Perpetual Motion Machine](https://www.hearingthings.co/horse-lords-perpetual-motion-machine.md) - The beloved avant-rock band on polyrhythm, just intonation, and conveying liberatory politics through sound.
- [Where Does Phoebe Bridgers Go From Here?](https://www.hearingthings.co/where-does-phoebe-bridgers-go-from-here.md) - Podcast dissections of the biggest indie-rock comeback of the year, a rap comeback we didn’t know we needed, and a reality-TV comeback we might not want at all
- [Navy Blue on The Lyrics that Changed His Life](https://www.hearingthings.co/navy-blue-on-the-lyrics-that-changed-his-life.md) - The rapper-producer, model, and skateboarder breaks down songs from Vashti Bunyan, Broadcast, and the late Brooklyn rapper Ka
- [The Five Most Overrated Albums of 2026 (So Far)](https://www.hearingthings.co/overrated-albums-of-2026-so-far.md) - Others frothed over these. We did not.
- [How to Disappear Mostly](https://www.hearingthings.co/how-to-disappear-mostly-radiohead-motion-picture-house-review.md) - Considering Radiohead’s liminal existence at their Motion Picture House experience.
- [Is There a Difference Between "AI Music" and "Music Made With AI"?](https://www.hearingthings.co/is-there-a-difference-between-ai-music-and-music-made-with-ai.md) - 1010Benja walks the line
- [Beth Orton Takes the First-Ever HT Questionnaire](https://www.hearingthings.co/beth-orton-takes-the-first-ever-ht-questionnaire.md) - The esteemed British singer-songwriter on the most radicalizing moment of her life, wanting to be a criminologist, and a mysterious recent meeting with Kate Bush.
- [Queer Reggaetón Mexa and Cerebral Dutch Twee](https://www.hearingthings.co/feardorian-sml-review.md) - Plus, an experimental scene veteran drops a suite of communal optimism and a promising young upstart conjures 808s and indie-rock riffs.
- [A Lapsed Catholic Goes to Rosalía’s Ecclesiastical Lux Tour](https://www.hearingthings.co/a-lapsed-catholic-goes-to-rosalias-ecclesiastical-lux-tour.md) - How the Spanish star uses devotion to push her art to unprecedented places.
- [A Day in the Park with Wiki](https://www.hearingthings.co/a-day-in-the-park-with-wiki.md) - The influential New York rapper soaks in the city’s greenery while talking about growing up without aging out, his struggles with sobriety, and crafting his lush new album, Ancient History.
- [For the Baddies Just Trying Not to Lose It](https://www.hearingthings.co/for-the-baddies-just-trying-not-to-lose-it.md) - Remember the name Earthsignchels
- [An Instant Party-Starter Anywhere on Planet Earth](https://www.hearingthings.co/five-albums-kelsey-lu-harara-baile.md) - Plus: a melancholy world of glass-topped coffee tables and Armani suits, and a rapper with a vocab sure to melt even the thickest thesaurus.
- [Just Be Grateful That Rivers Cuomo Isn’t Your Dad](https://www.hearingthings.co/just-be-grateful-that-rivers-cuomo-isnt-your-dad.md) - Waste or Taste takes on Weezer’s latest attempt at relevance, a viral 9-year-old singer’s spin on an OutKast classic, and a blistering track from one of the coolest artists currently working.
- [A Symphony for 100 Electric Guitars](https://www.hearingthings.co/a-symphony-for-100-electric-guitars.md) - Playing Glenn Branca’s excruciatingly beautiful 'Hallucination City' at Lincoln Center was one of the deepest musical experiences of my life.
- [Old Sounds Made New](https://www.hearingthings.co/five-albums-old-sounds-made-new.md) - Wake-and-bake breakup anthems, lost sessions from a modern indie-rap classic, and a post-punk singer who sounds like Lou Reed after a three-week bender.
- [How Cain Culto Forged a Path in the Fire](https://www.hearingthings.co/cain-culto-interview-occulto-002.md) - Get to know the rapping, fiddling Latine Loki with a smudge of black kohl around his eyes.
- [A Musical Threesome, Just in Time for Pride Month](https://www.hearingthings.co/a-musical-threesome-just-in-time-for-pride-month.md) - Plus a Must Hear rap song, house music to worry to, and more.
- [Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien on the Guitar That Defines His Haunting Sound](https://www.hearingthings.co/radioheads-ed-obrien-on-the-guitar-that-defines-his-haunting-sound.md) - How the art-rock icon used a specific instrument to add uncanny atmosphere to so many Radiohead classics as well as tracks from his new solo album.
- [Put a Seashell to Your Ear](https://www.hearingthings.co/vince-staples-death-cab-reviews.md) - Plus Vince Staples’ rock album, Death Cab’s comeback, and Must-Hear Mexican R&B
- [The Tender Ferocity of Hip-Hop Upstart KJade](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-tender-ferocity-of-hip-hop-upstart-kjade.md) - The Phoenix rapper opens up about family, moving to New York, writing through the pain, and her dazzling debut album, ‘On Everything I Love.’
- [Talking About How I’m Not Supposed to Talk About Phoebe Bridgers’ New Album](https://www.hearingthings.co/phoebe-bridgers-msg-show-new-album.md) - The indie-folk singer-songwriter pulled off a phones-free tour and arena show featuring new material with no leaks or big spoilers.
- [Flop Alert, Ariana Grande Edition](https://www.hearingthings.co/flop-alert-ariana-grande-edition.md) - Podcast takes on new tracks from Glinda the Good, electro-pop girlie Kim Petras, and breathless New York rapper Errol Holden.
- [3 Must Hears 4 Fresh Ears](https://www.hearingthings.co/3-must-hears-4-fresh-ears.md) - This week we’ve got grimy club jazz from an outré techno vet, eerie romance set to traditional Caribbean styles, Southern Gothic coming-of-age collage-rap, and more.
- [You Can Hear the Ass Cheeks](https://www.hearingthings.co/you-can-hear-the-ass-cheeks.md) - If you listen closely enough...
- [The Return of Vordul Mega, Underground Rap’s Missing Link](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-return-of-vordul-mega-underground-raps-missing-link.md) - As a member of Cannibal Ox, Vordul Mega was one of the most adventurous rappers of the 2000s—until he all but disappeared. After nearly two decades of struggle, he's back to claim his legacy.
- [Fine Dining But Make It Latin Trap](https://www.hearingthings.co/fine-dining-but-make-it-latin-trap.md) - Plus: Veeze avoids the empty calories on his leaked-mixtape edit.
- [The Field's New Groove](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-fields-new-groove.md) - How the surprisingly emotional use of an unusual time signature powers the ambient-techno god’s best track in years.
- [The One New Drake Song You Need to Hear](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-one-new-drake-song-you-need-to-hear.md) - Plus Weird Al's weed stash, the next great young London art-rock band, and more.
- [Kiwi Lenderman and Copycat Extraordinaires](https://www.hearingthings.co/five-albums-kiwi-lenderman.md) - Plus: fretless guitar and funky drum machine jams from an Orthodox priest in coastal Greece.
- [‘Mighty Real’ Sets the Record Queer on the History of LGBTQ Music](https://www.hearingthings.co/barry-walters-mighty-real-review.md) - Amid a music-writer milieu still dominated by straight perspectives, Barry Walters’ new book offers a much-needed alternate history of pop, from the Velvet Underground to RuPaul.
- [Myaap Explains Her Credit Card Statement](https://www.hearingthings.co/myaap-explains-her-credit-card-statement.md) - The Milwaukee rap princess talks through recent purchases, including designer clothes, dinner for her girlfriend, and a bustdown Tinkerbell pendant
- [Charli XCX and the Meaning of Rock Music](https://www.hearingthings.co/charli-xcx-and-the-meaning-of-rock-music.md) - Plus podcast takes on “Hacks” actor Meg Stalter’s pivot to music and the new single by a band called the Rolling Stones.
- [Muna’s Must Hear Album Makes the Dire World a Little More Manageable](https://www.hearingthings.co/munas-must-hear-album-makes-the-dire-world-a-little-more-manageable.md) - Plus: “Leeds’ premier and pre-eminent Xenofeminist crisis-energy rock duo.”
- [C2C Is Now One of New York’s Most Necessary Festivals](https://www.hearingthings.co/c2c-is-now-one-of-new-yorks-most-necessary-festivals.md) - The long-running Italian fest finds its footing Stateside with a night of gloriously freaky beats, noise, and sex.
- [Don’t Stop ’Til You Rewrite History](https://www.hearingthings.co/michael-jackson-biopic-essay.md) - The Michael Jackson estate’s campaign to un-cancel the King of Pop is all about what they let you see.
- [Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew on Making a Band of Friends Last Forever](https://www.hearingthings.co/broken-social-scenes-kevin-drew-on-making-a-band-of-friends-last-forever.md) - An all-encompassing interview about the Canadian collective’s first new album in nearly a decade—and why their music means so much to me.
- [JPEGMafia's Bit Is Wearing Thin](https://www.hearingthings.co/jpegmafias-bit-is-wearing-thin.md) - Plus: Kacey and Miranda squash the beef
- [The London Beatmaker Flipping YouTube Freestyles Into High Art](https://www.hearingthings.co/tokischa-amor-droga-review.md) - Plus: The existential debut of a rising Dominican pop star.
- [Flying Lotus Breaks Down 8 Perfectly Produced Records](https://www.hearingthings.co/flying-lotus-breaks-down-8-perfectly-produced-records.md) - The Los Angeles-bred producer and founder of Brainfeeder Records dissects tracks by faves including Marvin Gaye, Queen, J Dilla, Madlib, and more.
- [Lucy Dacus Makes More Than Just Sad Music](https://www.hearingthings.co/lucy-dacus-makes-more-than-just-sad-music.md) - The singer-songwriter gets back to what she does best on a new single.
- [How Kehlani Does R&B Nostalgia Right](https://www.hearingthings.co/how-kehlani-does-r-b-nostalgia-right.md) - Plus: Kooky, cheeky art-rock and dreamy experimental pop from a med student.
- [Heavensouls Has Yet to Meet a Genre He Can’t Awesomely Dismantle](https://www.hearingthings.co/heavensouls-has-yet-to-meet-a-genre-he-cant-awesomely-dismantle.md) - Inside the mind of Chidi Obialo, an omnivorous 20-year-old prodigy forging music’s future
- [The Last Folk Singer](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-last-folk-singer.md) - On the road with Frank Hurricane, DIY hero and mystical troubadour of the American underbelly
- [Katseye—Pop Progressives or Soulless Shills?](https://www.hearingthings.co/katseye-pop-progressives-or-soulless-shills.md) - It’s time to put new tracks by Olivia Rodrigo, Katseye, and Yaya Bey through the Waste or Taste gauntlet.
- [Find Trent Reznor in the Club](https://www.hearingthings.co/nine-inch-noize-album-review.md) - Plus 1970s Congolese funk that sounds like it went through a meat pulverizer!
- [Flop Star](https://www.hearingthings.co/flop-star.md) - Anne Hathaway and Micaela Coel’s promising pop-star flick 'Mother Mary' is like a would-be hit song without a hook.
- [Who Plays Metal in Morocco?](https://www.hearingthings.co/morocco-metal-scene-history.md) - An inside view of how one music scene fought to exist—and came to flourish.
- [The Return of Kelela (and Los Thuthanaka)](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-return-of-kelela-and-los-thuthanaka.md) - Plus: one extremely bitter birthday text.
- [The Most Expansive Pop Minds Working Hit the Desert for a Jam Sesh](https://www.hearingthings.co/dijon-coachella-live-album.md) - Dijon's eight-man band takes Coachella. Plus: a low-key rapper/producer with more lore than a Greek myth.
- [Earl Sweatshirt, Mike, and Sideshow Are Proving That Rap Doesn’t Need to Have a Chosen One](https://www.hearingthings.co/earl-sweatshirt-mike-and-sideshow-are-proving-that-rap-doesnt-need-to-have-a-chosen-one.md) - Recent albums from the indie rap heroes gracefully toe the line between humility and divinity
- [Girlhood at the Epicenter of Alternative Music’s Mainstream Moment](https://www.hearingthings.co/melissa-auf-der-maur-memoir-review.md) - Hole’s Melissa Auf der Maur looks back lucidly on her 1990s in “Even the Good Girls Will Cry,” as I seek out memoirs by levelheaded women artists from the generation before mine.
- [25 Tours We’re Looking Forward To](https://www.hearingthings.co/25-tours-were-looking-forward-to-spring-2026.md) - HT staffers pick their most anticipated live shows for spring and summer 2026.
- [Bon Iver's Religious Non-Religious Music](https://www.hearingthings.co/bon-ivers-religious-non-religious-music.md) - Plus: Two electronic geniuses' surprising collab, a beloved bass virtuoso gets lost, and more.
- [This Record Store Talk Show Is My Favorite Thing on the Internet](https://www.hearingthings.co/revival-of-the-fittest-review.md) - Revival of the Fittest might just heal America.
- [You Need to Hear This Trance Song About Why Apples Are Awesome](https://www.hearingthings.co/you-need-to-hear-this-trance-song-about-why-apples-are-awesome.md) - In which we Waste or Taste equine DJ Horsegiirl’s fruity new anthem, Flea’s Frank Ocean cover, and Gelli Haha’s springy psych-pop.
- [Fizzy House Beats for Going Outside](https://www.hearingthings.co/fizzy-house-beats-for-going-outside.md) - Plus: Robyn bravely goes deep into the heart of sexistentialism.
- [The New New Jack Swing](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-new-new-jack-swing.md) - A handful of new albums gives one woman hope for the resurgence of new jack swing ballads.
- [Elucid on the Music He Wants to Soundtrack His Funeral](https://www.hearingthings.co/elucid-on-the-music-he-wants-to-soundtrack-his-funeral.md) - The Queens-born rapper/producer speaks on fatherhood, the joy of celebrating life, and the nooks and crannies of his album I Guess U Had To Be There.
- [Don't Fake the Phonk](https://www.hearingthings.co/five-songs-dont-fake-the-phonk.md) - The greatest 25-minute space-jazz sax excursion you'll hear all week, guaranteed.
- [Grace Ives Goes for the Fences](https://www.hearingthings.co/grace-ives-goes-for-the-fences.md) - Plus: everyone's favorite Argentine pop-tricksters, an album that's like minimal techno for orchestra, and more.
- [How PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson’s “Stateside” Interrogates the American Dream](https://www.hearingthings.co/how-pinkpantheress-and-zara-larssons-stateside-interrogates-the-american-dream.md) - A possibly too-close reading of one of the most ubiquitous songs of the year
- [NYC Electropunks Lip Critic Explain Their Credit Card Statement](https://www.hearingthings.co/nyc-electropunks-lip-critic-explain-their-credit-card-statement.md) - Including that one time a superfan stole singer Bret Kaser’s identity
- [Does Horny Music Have to *Sound* Horny?](https://www.hearingthings.co/does-horny-music-have-to-sound-horny.md) - Our podcast crew goes deep on the merits of thirsty tracks in honor of Kacey Musgraves’ horned-up new single. Plus: Mike and Earl Sweatshirt, and a clinically insane cover of Van Halen’s “Jump.”
- [Kim Gordon Is Just Making Bangers Now](https://www.hearingthings.co/kim-gordon-is-just-making-bangers-now.md) - Plus: A 19-year-old's spontaneous—and genius—take on Fela Kuti-style Afrobeat.
- [Breakout Club Poet Joshua Idehen on the Lyrics that Changed His Life](https://www.hearingthings.co/breakout-club-poet-joshua-idehen-on-the-lyrics-that-changed-his-life.md) - From Dizzee Rascal’s screwface anthem to Rufus Wainwright’s heartfelt wisdom to Björk’s Scandinavian wisecracks, these are the tracks and lines the songwriter keeps closest.
- [Townes Van Zandt and the Loneliest C# Minor Chord in Texas](https://www.hearingthings.co/townes-van-zandt-and-the-loneliest-c-minor-chord-in-texas.md) - How a single shadowy chord reframes the meaning of a classic country ballad.
- [Aldous Harding Meets the Real John Cale](https://www.hearingthings.co/aldous-harding-meets-the-real-john-cale.md) - Plus a music video that channels the beautiful simplicity of prime-era Spike Jonze, and more.
- [Do Real R&B Loverboys Still Exist?](https://www.hearingthings.co/joshua-idehen-review.md) - They might! Plus: A beloved Nigerian British poet's life-affirming house tracks, a guitar hero for people who think guitar heroes are show-offs, and more.
- [Dancefloor Oracle Zora Jones Breaks Down 11 Perfectly Produced Tracks](https://www.hearingthings.co/zora-jones-breaks-down-12-perfectly-produced-songs.md) - The mind-bending dynamo on the music that taught her how to hear the future.
- [Liv.e and Karriem Riggins Want You to Love Each Other and Go Outside](https://www.hearingthings.co/liv-e-karriem-riggins-want-you-to-love-each-other-and-go-outside.md) - The singer-producer duo known as GENA speak on romance, comfort, the relationship between rap and R&B, and creating their debut album, The Pleasure Is Yours
- [Lana Del Rey’s Deranged Trad-Wife Vision Quest](https://www.hearingthings.co/lana-del-reys-deranged-trad-wife-vision-quest.md) - Our podcast crew takes on the latest singles from Lana Del Rey and Jessie Ware, along with a track from illuminati punk freaks Angine de Poitrine.
- [Mitski’s Cat Lady Masterpiece](https://www.hearingthings.co/mitskis-cat-lady-masterpiece.md) - Plus: Underground rap's next star, a Ghanaian pop musician blending tradition with the future, and more.
- [Slowing Down With Jana Horn](https://www.hearingthings.co/jana-horn-profile-interview.md) - This experimental folk singer-songwriter moonlights as a short story author—or is it the other way around?
- [Safe in the Bosom of the Wub](https://www.hearingthings.co/safe-in-the-bosom-of-the-wub.md) - Patron saints of queer pop return, a sax virtuoso takes up the flute, and more.
- [Hudson Freeman Is the Indie-Rock Philosopher Who Happened to Go Viral](https://www.hearingthings.co/hudson-freeman-is-the-indie-rock-philosopher-who-happened-to-go-viral.md) - The pensive singer-songwriter embodies a jumble of contradictions: He’s a Brooklyn leftist who was raised in the evangelical church. An indie boy with grand ambitions. A viral phenom with songs that are built to last.
- [Between the Forceps and the Stone](https://www.hearingthings.co/joni-mitchell-hejira-review.md) - A look back at some albums that changed us.
- [What Does It Mean For Rap to Have “Substance”?](https://www.hearingthings.co/what-does-it-mean-for-rap-to-have-substance.md) - Hip-hop is constantly mired in discussions about importance, significance, and, yes, substance. If you come up for air, you’ll feel it all around you.
- [Who Knew U2 Still Had the Sauce?](https://www.hearingthings.co/u2-new-protest-song.md) - Plus: A 17-year-old rapper who'll make you cry.
- [Angine de Poitrine Are the Real Deal](https://www.hearingthings.co/angine-de-poitrine-are-the-real-deal.md) - Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love polka-dotted French Canadian microtonal math rock
- [Charli XCX Is the Best Part of 'Wuthering Heights'](https://www.hearingthings.co/charli-xcx-is-the-best-part-of-wuthering-heights.md) - Plus Must Hear ambient and Massachusetts rap, Irish dream pop, and a big neo-soul comeback.
- [Katie Tupper Is a Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Neo-Soul](https://www.hearingthings.co/katie-tupper-interview.md) - “I want to get as close as I can to making neo-soul music in a way that’s respectful to its deep, rich culture, while still respecting the fact that I’m a white woman from Saskatchewan.”
- [Can Straight People Physically Hear This Music?](https://www.hearingthings.co/can-straight-people-physically-hear-this-music.md) - It’s time to Waste or Taste new tracks by UK grime firecracker Nadia Rose, trash-adjacent dance-pop tart Slayyyter, and super wavy New York rap misfit Xaviersobased.
- [The Wasserman Exodus Is a Different Kind of Reckoning](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-wasserman-exodus-is-a-different-kind-of-reckoning.md) - What happens when artists, rather than fans, must choose whether to ignore bad behavior.
- [An R&B Futurist's Glossy, Lightly Horny Debut](https://www.hearingthings.co/an-r-b-futurists-glossy-lightly-horny-debut.md) - Plus: a beloved folk artist gets the covers treatment, a minimalist piano god soundtracks a tremendous film, and more.
- [Benito Bowl Wasn’t About Them—It Was About Us](https://www.hearingthings.co/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime.md) - How Bad Bunny triumphed on the Super Bowl stage.
- [Big-Jeans Anthems and Anime Fjords](https://www.hearingthings.co/big-jeans-anthems-and-anime-fjords.md) - Get strapped into your JNCOs, folks.
- [A Thrilling Slice of Brazilian Funk](https://www.hearingthings.co/brazilian-funk-bratz-dolls.md) - Plus: music that sounds like the last breath of a whoopee cushion and a pop album from a band of 10-inch-tall dolls.
- [Why I Can’t Quit the Grammys](https://www.hearingthings.co/why-i-cant-quit-the-grammys.md) - Confessions of a conflicted trophy watcher
- [Monocultural Rap Stardom is Dead—and That’s OK](https://www.hearingthings.co/monocultural-rap-stardom-is-dead-and-thats-ok.md) - What does it mean to be a rap star in 2026? Some thoughts on rap’s current standing in the mainstream and the genre’s health in the post-social media era.
- [Harry Styles Just Found Out About LCD Soundsystem](https://www.hearingthings.co/harry-styles-just-found-out-about-lcd-soundsystem.md) - Our intrepid podcast crew dares to ask the question: Should we, as a society, feel bad for Harry Styles?
- [Straight Outta Saskatoon](https://www.hearingthings.co/straight-outta-saskatoon.md) - Must Hear road-weary R&B and omnivorous rap experimentalism, a psych-punk supergroup featuring Sonic Youth's secret weapon, and more.
- [The Sneaky Genius of Industry's Synthy Soundtrack](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-sneaky-genius-of-industrys-synthy-soundtrack.md) - For four seasons, the HBO show has given us impeccable needle drops that subtly undermine its shady world of crypto-capitalism.
- [Dawn of Midi's Eternal Return](https://www.hearingthings.co/dawn-of-midi-interview-dysnomia.md) - The legendary experimental band on the making of their opus, 'Dysnomia,' and coming back to its obsessive rhythms 13 years later.
- [You're a Goofy Goober](https://www.hearingthings.co/youre-a-goofy-goober.md) - Hard-won easy listening, a perfectly outlandish West Coast rap throwback, and more.
- [Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw on the Lyrics That Changed Her Life](https://www.hearingthings.co/dry-cleaning-florence-shaw-interview-lyrics.md) - The post-punk singer admires Björk’s verbosity and Life Without Buildings’ lateral connections.
- [Does the World Need Another A$AP Rocky Album?](https://www.hearingthings.co/does-the-world-need-another-a-ap-rocky-album.md) - The rapper takes a break from Denzel movies and daddy-dom to drop his most superficial album yet. Plus: Must Hear indie rock about a literal dead horse.
- [You're Not Ready for This Opening Line](https://www.hearingthings.co/youre-not-ready-for-this-opening-line.md) - Three raging Must Hear tracks and more.
- [Liz Pelly on the Impact of Her Anti-Spotify Book ‘Mood Machine’ and Where We Go From Here](https://www.hearingthings.co/liz-pelly-on-the-impact-of-her-anti-spotify-book-mood-machine-and-where-we-go-from-here.md) - “The point is to encourage people to reject the idea that it’s a one-click solution.”
- [Super-Useful Seasonal Depression Soundtracks](https://www.hearingthings.co/super-useful-seasonal-depression-soundtracks.md) - A Singaporean rapper, a symphonic UK band, an artful club producer, and more music for working out the doldrums.
- [Robyn's Sexistentialist Treatise](https://www.hearingthings.co/robyns-sexistentialist-treatise.md) - Plus: Doechii and SZA chillax, Bonnie "Prince" Billy holes up, and more.
- [The Psychological Horror of Diana Ross' "Upside Down"](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-psychological-horror-of-diana-ross-upside-down.md) - A close look at the mysterious underpinnings of a disco classic.
- [Bbymutha Is Coming For Everybody](https://www.hearingthings.co/bbymutha-is-coming-for-everybody.md) - Plus: a Venezuelan band processes the moment, a Gen Z songwriter leaves virality behind, a beloved post-punk band mines the historical archives, and more.
- [Do I Really Have to Care About AI Music Now?](https://www.hearingthings.co/do-i-really-have-to-care-about-ai-music-now.md) - Thoughts on what—if anything—generative AI programs like Suno could bring to the future of music.
- [Our ‘Waste or Taste’ Podcast Is Back!](https://www.hearingthings.co/our-waste-or-taste-podcast-is-back.md) - The new season kicks off with an episode all about our most controversial favorite songs of the past year—the ones we’re kind of embarrassed to enjoy, but enjoy nonetheless.
- [The Most Overrated Albums of 2025](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-most-overrated-albums-of-2025.md) - The albums that made us go "huh?" this year, from a lifeless rap sequel to a certain spectacularly hyped indie rock record.
- [Meet the Most Productive Musician of 2025](https://www.hearingthings.co/meet-the-most-productive-musician-of-2025.md) - A chat with Cure for Paranoia’s Cameron McCloud, who went viral this year by posting a new political and playful rap verse every single day.
- [Keiyaa Breaks Down 12 Perfectly Produced Songs](https://www.hearingthings.co/keiyaa-breaks-down-12-perfectly-produced-songs.md) - The R&B innovator dissects tracks by faves including Britney Spears, Brandy, and Nine Inch Nails, explaining how they inspired the sound of her brilliant 2025 album ‘Hooke’s Law.’
- [Jill’s Favorite Music of 2025](https://www.hearingthings.co/jill-mapes-favorite-music-of-2025.md) - From experimental pop’s new main girlies to indie rock’s most reliable players, here’s a glimpse at my year in albums, songs, and live shows.
- [Music to Make You Feel Invincible](https://www.hearingthings.co/music-to-make-you-feel-invincible.md) - Each in their own way, this week's selections will have you walking around like no one can touch you.
- [Julianne's Favorite Music of 2025](https://www.hearingthings.co/juliannes-favorite-music-of-2025.md) - The big-idea music that inspired me most this year, from Afro-Colombian orchestral pop to epic folk about the state of labor to, of course, Bad Bunny.
- [Music Mk.gee Probably Hears in His Dreams](https://www.hearingthings.co/music-mk-gee-probably-hears-in-his-dreams.md) - We're listening to everything, all the time. Here are five older albums that were new to us in 2025—and made our years.
- [Dylan’s Favorite Independent Rap Records of 2025](https://www.hearingthings.co/dylans-favorite-independent-rap-records-of-2025.md) - My favorite rap under-the-radar rap releases of 2025, from Bay Area swag rap and psychedelic freakouts to a euphoric footwork/juke/rap hybrid
- [The Dumbest Songs of 2025](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-dumbest-songs-of-2025.md) - A break from our regularly scheduled program to discuss the absolute worst of the year.
- [Andy's Favorite Music of 2025](https://www.hearingthings.co/andys-favorite-music-of-2025.md) - From drizzly digital grunge to jackhammering club music, lo-fi guitar explorations to glacial jazz standards, this is the music that moved me most this year.
- [Shostakovich’s 5th Played Backwards in a Concrete Silo](https://www.hearingthings.co/shostakovichs-5th-played-backwards-in-a-concrete-silo.md) - A BPM-crushing jungle experiment by a canny Instagram curator, a rap album bridging the revolutionary and the corner boy, and more.
- [Ryan’s Favorite Music of 2025](https://www.hearingthings.co/ryan-dombal-favorite-music-of-2025.md) - The sounds that struck me most this year, including subversive slowcore, deranged future-pop, apocalyptic techno, and more.
- [The Pop-Music Satire in ‘I Love LA’ Is Absolutely Lethal](https://www.hearingthings.co/i-love-la-pop-music-satire-is-absolutely-lethal.md) - Watch the Elijah Wood episode, just trust me.
- [Pop Songs With Plot Twists](https://www.hearingthings.co/liv-e-karriem-riggins-review.md) - Plus: agitprop merengue, dreamlover alt-R&B, an actually-good Christmas song, and more.
- [Is That a Salamander on Bass?](https://www.hearingthings.co/is-that-a-salamander-on-bass.md) - Plus raging oboes, subsonic dub frequencies, and more.
- [In Praise of the Most Perfect Podcast Theme Song Ever](https://www.hearingthings.co/in-praise-of-the-most-perfect-podcast-theme-song-ever.md) - As heard on the show ‘Heavyweight,’ a track by the Weakerthans expresses the beauty of life’s smallest and most consequential moments.
- [The Bronx Duo Bringing Perreo to the Mosh Pit](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-bronx-duo-bringing-perreo-to-the-mosh-pit.md) - Plus: A Spider-Man-inspired rapper building his own superhero persona, an exploration in the freaky tunings of nature, and more.
- [Jubilee on Showing Three Generations of New Yorkers How to Dance](https://www.hearingthings.co/jubilee-magic-city-interview.md) - Wisdom from one of the city’s most trusted club stalwarts.
- [The Guitar-Bass Hybrid That Gives Tortoise Its Lonesome Sound](https://www.hearingthings.co/the-guitar-bass-hybrid-that-gives-tortoise-its-lonesome-sound.md) - Bassist and multi-instrumentalist Douglas McCombs has made the cult-favorite Bass VI a staple of the post-rock legends’ palette.
- [Put on Your Big Guy Pants](https://www.hearingthings.co/ice-spice-spongebob.md) - Plus Skrillex remixing Caroline Polachek, an actually good viral TikTok indie-folk hit, and more.
- [Raps About Tony Blair, Synths About Vikings](https://www.hearingthings.co/navy-blue-eris-drew-review.md) - Plus two more intimate hip-hop albums and a high-energy new DJ-Kicks mix.
- [Max B and the Plight of the Post-Prison Rapper](https://www.hearingthings.co/max-b-and-the-plight-of-the-post-prison-rapper.md) - The New York icon is free. Let’s let him figure out what’s next on his own time.
- [Westerman Is Not Dead Yet](https://www.hearingthings.co/westerman-is-not-dead-yet.md) - After three albums, two near-death experiences, and one global pandemic, the British singer-songwriter knows what he wants.
- [Brat Summer to Wraith Winter](https://www.hearingthings.co/brat-summer-to-wraith-winter.md) - Plus psych-pop homage, delirious club music, slo-mo folk, and mystical Atlanta rap that would have the 'Game of Thrones' crew throwing bows.
- [Rosalía's Orchestral Benediction](https://www.hearingthings.co/rosalia-lux-review.md) - Plus: a must-hear album from a virtuosic avant-rock quartet, the fiery return of an essential Chicago rap collective, and more.
- [New York, I Love You](https://www.hearingthings.co/new-york-i-love-you-zohran.md) - On LCD Soundsystem, borrowed nostalgia, and the election of Zohran Mamdani
- [Let Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme Usher You Into Hell (the Holiday Season)](https://www.hearingthings.co/jinkx-monsoon-bendelacreme-holiday-show-interview.md) - The drag performers’ holiday show gets weirder and more spectacular every year. They shared the secrets of their upcoming sci-fi Christmas extravaganza, which takes inspiration from 'Tales From the Crypt' and 'Freaky Friday.'
- [Noname and De La Soul Glide Over the Abyss](https://www.hearingthings.co/noname-and-de-la-soul-glide-over-the-abyss.md) - Plus a welcome return to form from Oneohtrix Point Never, spaced-out sophsitipop from rural New England, and surrealist funk from the UK.
- [Danny Brown, Back for the First Time](https://www.hearingthings.co/danny-brown-back-for-the-first-time.md) - The audacious rap veteran on sobriety, platforming trans artists, and working with the next generation of hyperpop stars on his latest album, ‘Stardust.’
- [Four Must Hears From Our Ears to Yours](https://www.hearingthings.co/keiyaa-review-anna-von-hauswolff.md) - A Swedish singer and pipe organist, a Portuguese experimentalist, a Canadian rapper, and more.
- [Claire Rousay Breaks Down 7 Perfectly Produced Songs](https://www.hearingthings.co/claire-rousay-breaks-down-7-perfectly-produced-songs.md) - The ambient experimentalist dissects records by faves including Elliott Smith and Charli XCX, and details the process behind her twilit new album, ‘A Little Death.’
- [No One Is Doing It Like Rosalía Right Now](https://www.hearingthings.co/no-one-is-doing-it-like-rosalia-right-now.md) - Plus the resurrection of a rap one-hit wonder, revolutionary rave, and ecstatic Thin Lizzy riffage.
- [Music for Crashing Out](https://www.hearingthings.co/lily-allen-review-flycatcher-nappy-nina.md) - Albums contending with divorce, expatriation, suburban malaise, and other concerns
- [Why Is It So Easy to Flood Streaming With AI Slop?](https://www.hearingthings.co/why-is-it-so-easy-to-flood-streaming-with-ai-slop.md) - And what the hell is Operation Clown Dump?
- [Sudan Archives Is Pushing the Tempo](https://www.hearingthings.co/sudan-archives-interview-the-bpm.md) - An afternoon at the museum with the genre-smashing violinist.
- [Five of Our Favorite Songs of 2025](https://www.hearingthings.co/five-of-our-favorite-songs-of-2025.md) - These tracks just keep on giving.
- [Tyler, the Creator Brought This Reckoning on Himself](https://www.hearingthings.co/tyler-the-creator-brought-this-reckoning-on-himself.md) - The California rapper-producer spent his early years cultivating a fanbase of trolls. How much reckoning will it take to shake them?
- [The Minor Nobility of Just Messing Around](https://www.hearingthings.co/one-battle-after-another-music.md) - A Yale professor and ‘One Battle After Another’ star makes his cheeky debut. Plus pop from the Tehrangeles diaspora, the new Tame Impala, and more.
- [Cate Le Bon Breaks Down 7 Perfectly Produced Records](https://www.hearingthings.co/cate-le-bon-michelangelo-dying-interview-production.md) - The Welsh musician looked to Kate Bush and krautrock for production inspiration on her latest album, ‘Michelangelo Dying.’
- [D’Angelo Tribute Edition](https://www.hearingthings.co/dangelo-tribute-edition.md) - Remembering the R&B giant with a handful of tracks that express his one-of-a-kind brilliance.
- [One Year of Hearing Things](https://www.hearingthings.co/one-year-of-hearing-things.md) - Renew those subscriptions cuz we’re just getting started!
- [Music for Giving a Crap About Other People](https://www.hearingthings.co/music-for-giving-a-crap-about-other-people.md) - Deliriously strange club music, in-the-moment ambience, a knotted-up singer-songwriter, and more.
- [To Live and Die by a Kai Cenat Stream](https://www.hearingthings.co/to-live-and-die-by-a-kai-cenat-stream.md) - A breakdown and analysis of the hugely popular Twitch streamer’s Mafiathon series and his standing as one of rap’s favorite press stops
- [Like J Dilla Zooted Off a Few Lines of Pixy Stix Powder](https://www.hearingthings.co/like-j-dilla-zooted-off-a-few-lines-of-pixy-stix-powder.md) - Plus the catchiest song Dry Cleaning have ever made, a grown-and-sexy house-pop situation, and more.
- [Requiem for a Beam](https://www.hearingthings.co/cds-history-sasha-frere-jones.md) - A journey across the lifespan of CDs, from the cafe to the landfill and back.
- [A Geese Review That's Not Like Every Other Geese Review](https://www.hearingthings.co/geese-band-review.md) - Plus a Massachusetts cellist's untamed rock music, a Cuban repartero's big-leagues gambit, and more.
- [Jeff Tweedy on the Lyrics That Changed His Life](https://www.hearingthings.co/jeff-tweedy-on-the-lyrics-that-changed-his-life.md) - One of America’s greatest living songwriters delves into his admiration for Bill Callahan, Lana Del Rey, Kim Deal, and more.
- [Cardi B Can’t Contain Her Bronx Rizz](https://www.hearingthings.co/cardi-b-am-i-the-drama-review.md) - On her second album Am I the Drama?, the captivating rapper cackles through her city-hewn armor.
- [Tracks About Dreaming That Will Wake You All the Way Up](https://www.hearingthings.co/tracks-about-dreaming-that-will-wake-you-all-the-way-up.md) - Plus a sparkling ode to Caribbean music history and a crude-but-real pop trifle from Doja Cat.
- [Work Music for Not Doing Work](https://www.hearingthings.co/cate-le-bon-lady-wray-reviews.md) - Plus psychedelic dorm poster jams, ripping saxophones, gospel-inspired disco-funk, and more.
- [Kelly Moonstone Is Waxing (And Loving It)](https://www.hearingthings.co/kelly-moonstone-is-waxing-and-loving-it.md) - The NYC indie singer, rapper, songwriter, and producer on love, loss, and creating her luminous debut album New Moon.
- [So You Want to Remove Your Music From Spotify](https://www.hearingthings.co/so-you-want-to-remove-your-music-from-spotify.md) - Artists and labels on the realities of taking their work off the world’s biggest—and most maligned—music streaming service.
- [Danny Brown’s Incredibly Gonzo Hyperpop Blowout](https://www.hearingthings.co/danny-browns-incredibly-gonzo-hyperpop-blowout.md) - Plus an otherworldly new supergroup featuring Phoenix, Trent Reznor’s latest locked-in score, and more
- [Music for the Rapture (Not Today)](https://www.hearingthings.co/music-for-the-rapture-not-today.md) - Free jazz, ambient drone, doomy metal, and other sounds you need to ascend.
- [Chappell Roan’s Live Show Is Very Good and Very Gay](https://www.hearingthings.co/chappell-roans-live-show-is-very-good-and-very-gay.md) - An emotional dispatch from Chappell’s Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things Tour
- [Those Gilmore Girls Sure Do Know A Lot About Music](https://www.hearingthings.co/those-gilmore-girls-sure-do-know-a-lot-about-music.md) - TV’s greatest fast-talking mother and daughter created a discerning but feminine cultural canon, gilded with la-la-las.
- [Unrequited Indie Rock for People Who Read in Bed](https://www.hearingthings.co/unrequited-indie-rock-for-people-who-read-in-bed.md) - Plus club music from Saturn’s freakiest ring, Jeff Tweedy resurrects Lou Reed, and more
- [Asher White's Short, Strange Trip](https://www.hearingthings.co/asher-whites-short-strange-trip.md) - The young experimental pop auteur talks about her life in music so far, from her days as a tweenage noise musician, to the bad acid experience that pulled her toward songwriting, to her thrilling new album, '8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living.'
- [Music for Moving Into the Madness](https://www.hearingthings.co/jade-review-kelman-duran.md) - A kaleidoscopic songwriter, a chaotic pop star, a buoyant rap-punk duo, and more.
- [Lucrecia Dalt Wants to Stay Like This Forever](https://www.hearingthings.co/lucrecia-dalt-interview.md) - A conversation with the Colombian musician on geology, near-death experiences, and her new album, ‘A Danger to Ourselves.’
- [Juiced-Up Rap Anthems to Cure Your End-of-Summer Depression](https://www.hearingthings.co/juiced-up-rap-anthems-to-cure-your-end-of-summer-depression.md) - Plus dance music for the massive festival in your head and a jazzy love letter to motherly perseverance
- [DJ Haram Breaks Down Eight Perfectly Produced Songs From Around the World](https://www.hearingthings.co/dj-haram-breaks-down-eight-perfectly-produced-songs-from-around-the-world.md) - The New Jersey producer, DJ, and sound designer burrows deep into songs by Preservation, RP Boo, Ziad Rahbani, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and more.
- [Dance Pop for the Perpetually Offline](https://www.hearingthings.co/big-thief-review-sophia-stel.md) - Plus complicated thoughts on the new Big Thief album, three Nashville session guitarists going ambient-cool, and more.
- [Hallucinating With Pino Palladino and Blake Mills](https://www.hearingthings.co/hallucinating-with-pino-palladino-and-blake-mills.md) - The two virtuosos talk about the appeal of fretless instruments and the D'Angelo classic that was started 16 years before it came out.
- [Chance the Rapper and Earl Sweatshirt Are Rap Dads Figuring It Out](https://www.hearingthings.co/chance-the-rapper-and-earl-sweatshirt-are-rap-dads-figuring-it-out.md) - On their new albums, two established rappers navigate their 30s, fatherhood, and the next chapter of their careers
- [A Piano Banger for Heaven’s Hottest Dance Club](https://www.hearingthings.co/a-piano-banger-for-heavens-hottest-dance-club.md) - Plus a late-summer collab jam packed with dancehall legends, Earl Sweatshirt’s favorite new producer, and more.
- [UMAW Is Changing How We Think About Musicians’ Rights](https://www.hearingthings.co/umaw-is-changing-how-we-think-about-musicians-rights.md) - Five years after United Musicians and Allied Workers began its fight for a fairer industry, organizers and members consider how far they’ve come—and what’s next.
- [Five Overrated Albums of 2025](https://www.hearingthings.co/overrated-albums-2025.md) - Others frothed over these LPs. We did not.
- [A Fireside Chat With Nourished by Time](https://www.hearingthings.co/a-fireside-chat-with-nourished-by-time.md) - Marcus Brown talks about the making of his amazing new album 'The Passionate Ones,' filming a video at a New Jersey mega-mall, and how he stacks up against flip-happy arena rocker Benson Boone.
- [Friends—How Many of Us Have Them?](https://www.hearingthings.co/friends-how-many-of-us-have-them.md) - This week’s picks include a few weird and wonderful collaborations between musical comrades, along with an anthem against ageism and a welcome comeback from Mac DeMarco.
- [Bruiser Wolf on the Lyrics That Changed His Life](https://www.hearingthings.co/bruiser-wolf-on-the-lyrics-that-changed-his-life.md) - The Detroit rapper and Bruiser Brigade member pays homage to songs by Nas, 2Pac, Run-DMC, and more
- [Our 2025 Faves So Far](https://www.hearingthings.co/five-albums-our-2025-faves-so-far.md) - One near-perfect LP from each of our founder-critics
- [Hannah Frances Makes Prog Rock for Tender Folkies](https://www.hearingthings.co/hannah-frances-makes-prog-rock-for-tender-folkies.md) - The Vermont singer-songwriter on her love of Yes, her brilliant new album, and the benefits of not going to music school
- [An Unheard Version of the Replacements’ Most Prescient Classic](https://www.hearingthings.co/an-unheard-version-of-the-replacements-most-prescient-classic.md) - Plus a prime slice of ‘High Fidelity’-core, a drum’n’bass surprise from Steve Lacy, and more
- [Ovrkast Breaks Down 12 Perfectly Produced Rap Beats](https://www.hearingthings.co/ovrkast-breaks-down-12-perfectly-produced-rap-beats.md) - The California rapper-producer waxes about songs produced by 9th Wonder, No I.D., Alchemist, Conductor Williams, and more
- [Loud-Ass Guitars for a Crumbling Planet](https://www.hearingthings.co/five-albums-loud-ass-guitars-for-a-crumbling-planet.md) - Plus Pile’s most ambitious work, Kaytranada’s return to form, and a Faye Webster associate who channels Holden Caulfield

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