Best Kyle Wilcox Podcasts (2024)

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Give to the Max 2023: Ne Obliviscaris's "Portal Of I" 1:49:03

6M ago1:49:03

1:49:03

Surprise! It’s a special episode of CrossFade, thanks to a generous member of the MinnMax community. On Give to the Max Day, the MinnMax community raised more than $57,000 to help foster kids in Minneapolis. One of the many appealing donation rewards was an episode of CrossFade where the donor got to choose the album we talked about! Chris Fayter (…

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Ending Season 2 with the Last Community Shuffle for A While, Probably! 1:31:41

1+ y ago1:31:41

1:31:41

CrossFade is taking a break! We haven’t picked a return date yet, but Matt and Jason have ideas about how to make it even better going forward. We decided to end this season on a high note by bringing back the CrossFade Community Shuffle. It’s an episode where dozens of our Patreon supporters send us their current favorite songs, we shuffle a bunch…

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Neil Young, “Our Rock Dad” with Tyler Wilcox 1:09:40

1+ y ago1:09:40

1:09:40

Neil Young’s had quite a career. A hugely influential solo career, his work with CSNY, that thing during The Last Waltz, and now you can’t even hear his music on the biggest music streaming platform on Earth. Wow! To finally crack the nut on Neil, Matt brought in writer and fellow Neil Young fanatic Tyler Wilcox for an in-depth discussion on two es…

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The Impact of Yo! MTV Raps in 13 Songs 1:23:33

1+ y ago1:23:33

1:23:33

Was rap already everywhere by the time you were old enough to choose what you wanted to listen to? If so, then it might be hard to imagine how important a show like Yo! MTV Raps was for the genre and for the music industry as a whole. It only ran for seven years, but in that time, it had an indelible impact on the kinds of music people were exposed…

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11 Songs to Remember Mimi Parker of Low 1:16:38

1+ y ago1:16:38

1:16:38

We’ve talked a lot about the Duluth-based indie rock band Low on this show, because Matt knows them well and Jason’s never heard them. In the wake of co-founder/drummer/vocalist Mimi Parker’s death in early November 2022, we wanted to dedicate an episode to a short retrospective on the group and Mimi’s contributions to it. If you know Low, we hope …

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Bruce Springsteen & Archers Of Loaf with Natalie Marlin 1:49:27

1+ y ago1:49:27

1:49:27

This episode of CrossFade (The BossFade?) featuring writer, podcaster, and music journalist Natalie Marlin (https://twitter.com/NataliesNotInIt/) is devoted to rock icon Bruce Springsteen and ‘90s indies Archers of Loaf! Matt and Natalie chat a lot about the kinds of stories Bruce tells through his music and what makes his mild corniness endearing,…

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Cinderella & Def Leppard with Elana Levin 1:54:12

1+ y ago1:54:12

1:54:12

Like the bodacious ‘dos from which the sound gets its name, “hair metal” can be a hard genre to pin down! Luckily, we’ve got writer/podcaster/critic/organizer and hair metal fan Elana Levin to run through two genre classics to help set some things straight! Matt and Elana cover Def Leppard’s “Hysteria” (the one with “Pour Some Sugar On Me” on it) a…

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7 Songs to Remember Pharoah Sanders (1940 - 2022) 1:05:02

2y ago1:05:02

1:05:02

Pharoah Sanders (not “Pharaoh”) was a disciple of John Coltrane and a pioneer in his own right, putting spiritual jazz on the map with unique, genre-blending textures. You can’t truly encapsulate an artist like Pharoah Sanders in a few songs, but on this episode, we pay our respects to the legend with seven songs that we think exemplify some of the…

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Charley Crockett & New Kingdom with Infinity Knives (Tariq Ravelomanana) 1:12:57

2y ago1:12:57

1:12:57

“When I say ‘I like everything,’ I really, really like everything.” So says Tariq Ravelomanana (https://twitter.com/infinitykniives), who creates music under the name Infinity Knives. He means it, too: He gets inspiration from everywhere: folk, country, experimental, grunge, pop, hip-hop, prog, rap. That idealist eclecticism comes through in his ow…

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The Wind Waker OST Listening Party with Sarah and Kyle 1:15:04

2y ago1:15:04

1:15:04

Hoy! For a special treat, Jason gathered Kyle and Sarah (aka the other pieces of the Triforce) for a roundtable adventure through the soundtrack to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. You can listen to it wherever you get podcasts – and in a CrossFade first, you can watch the whole discussion on YouTube at the link below! Watch this discussion on …

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The Great iPod Shuffle: The Bangers Housed On Our Trusty Old iPods 57:53

2y ago57:53

57:53

We recently uncovered our old iPods. We haven’t really used them for several years, so we thought it’d be a lot of fun to hit “shuffle” and see which of the tens of thousands of songs on them came up first. Then we discussed each of them on mic! We’re proud of some and cringing at a few others. It’s a real time capsule, kind of a snapshot of who we…

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Uyama Hiroto & Joy Division with Bijan Stephen 1:36:04

2y ago1:36:04

1:36:04

This week on CrossFade, it’s all about the 𝓋𝒾𝒷𝑒𝓈 – which makes it a great episode for writer, critic, and podcast host Bijan Stephen’s debut! Uyama Hiroto was a close friend and collaborator with Nujabes (known best for his Samurai Champloo soundtrack and being an influential artist in the jazz/hip-hop space), and it shows in “freeform jazz,” his 2…

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Streetlight Manifesto & Nolan Potter with John Carson 1:33:46

2y ago1:33:46

1:33:46

It’s a proggy, skanky episode of CrossFade with writer, editor, and podcaster John Carson (https://twitter.com/John_Carson)! In this episode, we’re just barely scratching the surface of ska with John’s pick, Streetlight Manifesto’s “Everything Goes Numb”. Then we chart new territory with Nolan Potter’s “Music Is Dead,” one of Matt’s favorite albums…

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Music that Made Us: The Doobie Brothers & Creedence Clearwater Revival 1:31:51

2y ago1:31:51

1:31:51

What music did you listen to when you were 5 years old? How did it impact the music you listen to or the way you approach it? Do you still listen to any of it today? In this chooglin’ episode of CrossFade, Matt and Jason take a suggestion from the community (thanks MinnMax supporter podbod!) and go back to some of the first music we can remember lo…

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Bon Iver & Iron Maiden with Cody Matthew Johnson 56:22

2y ago56:22

56:22

We’re thrilled to welcome Cody Matthew Johnson, known for his music and sound work on games like Trek to Yomi, Devil May Cry 5, Guardians of the Galaxy, Resident Evil 2 Remake, and many more, to compare and contrast Bon Iver with Iron Maiden! Dare you to find another show that brings together two things THAT different. We talk with Cody about how B…

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Nitpicking Two of Pitchfork's Perfect 10s 1:02:30

2y ago1:02:30

1:02:30

What does perfection mean to you? What if you knew someone ELSE called something “perfect”? That’s what we wanted to find out on this episode of CrossFade, so we looked at two of the dozen albums that have received a perfect 10 score from Pitchfork, the music publication everybody famously agrees with and enjoys without reservation. Wilco’s breakth…

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Our Favorite Albums of 2022 So Far 1:07:53

2y ago1:07:53

1:07:53

2022 is almost halfway over! To mark the occasion, Matt and Jason picked their favorite records released this year for this special discussion. Jason picked Soul Glo’s “Diaspora Problems” (March 25) because it’s high-energy, it bends genres, and crams a lot of righteous fury into its lyrics. Matt’s loved the work of Benny the Butcher for a long tim…

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Silver Jews & The Mountain Goats with Joe Juba 2:04:27

2y ago2:04:27

2:04:27

Content warning: This episode contains discussions of sensitive topics like depression, sexual abuse, and suicide as explored in the music of The Mountain Goats and Silver Jews. MinnMax Contributor and all-around gentleman Joe Juba brought an album by one of his favorite artists to CrossFade! This episode might be the most we’ve ever delved into ly…

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Matt & Jason Raid Each Other’s Bandcamp Collections 1:37:06

2y ago1:37:06

1:37:06

What would make you buy digital music in 2022? Is it respect? Curiosity? Guilt? Little bit of all of the above? That’s what we wanted to know from each other – and why we took a dive into each other’s growing collections to interrogate each other’s music tastes! Matt and Jason each picked five songs from the other’s Bandcamp collection to talk abou…

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Electrelane & Erase Errata with Erin Margaret Day 1:36:44

2+ y ago1:36:44

1:36:44

It’s a mid-aughts extravaganza on CrossFade, featuring writer, critic, connoisseur and musician Erin Margaret Day (https://twitter.com/comeawaywithEMD)! Between English indie rockers Electrelane and SF experimental rock group Erase Errata, get ready for rock, noise, ambience, and more rock! With Erin, we break down the radical roots of these bands …

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The Billboard Top 20: March 2022 1:39:17

2+ y ago1:39:17

1:39:17

However big a left turn this is for you, you should know it’s also pretty wild for us, too. On this episode, Matt and Jason turn the dial to “POPULAR” for a look into the top 20 songs on the Billboard Top 200! We discuss which songs work for us, which don’t, and how the streaming age has made it very, VERY easy to ignore what’s on the radio. From J…

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Arcade Fire & Built to Spill with AJ Moser 1:35:53

2+ y ago1:35:53

1:35:53

Note: This episode was recorded and published before claims of misconduct against Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler were made public on Aug. 27, 2022. AJ Moser is the biggest Arcade Fire fan we know, and in this episode of CrossFade, he got to make the case for “Funeral” being one of the greatest indie rock records of the 21st century. Matt returned …

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The Strokes’ “Is This It” 59:10

2+ y ago59:10

59:10

Okay so this one’s not a duel, but it’s still a hell of an album! For this special episode, we asked the CrossFade community to vote on albums they wanted to hear us discuss. It was a tight race (sorry, Frightened Rabbit ☹) but the vox populi won out when they voted for The Strokes’ breakthrough 2001 record, “Is This It”! Listen as Matt (very smart…

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Guns N’ Roses & Alice Cooper with Dan Ryckert 1:40:52

2+ y ago1:40:52

1:40:52

Season 2 is here and so is everyone’s favorite guy on the internet, Dan Ryckert! It seems like “Chinese Democracy” is nobody’s favorite Guns N’ Roses album. It took a huge amount of money and time to make and then it underperformed when it DID come out – so why did Dan pick it? And what made Matt finally break out Alice Cooper’s “Love It to Death”?…

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Season 2 with Dan Ryckert Coming Feb. 11! 2:18

2+ y ago2:18

2:18

It’s a new year and we’re back with more CrossFade! We hope your year’s off to a great start, and we hope you’re hungry for more fun music discussions. Our first episode with Dan Ryckert drops Friday, Feb. 11. Leave a question or song suggestion by Feb. 3 on the appropriate post at https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/posts?filters%5Btag%5D=crossfade an…

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CrossFade Intermission! The Deepest Dive - Final Fantasy VII Remake 2:58:09

2+ y ago2:58:09

2:58:09

Hello CrossFade subscribers! This is MinnMax's Ben Hanson with a one-off interruption of this wonderful feed. In honor of MinnMax's 2nd anniversary, we're celebrating "Free Week" and lifting the curtain to offer free tastes of our Patreon-exclusive content. So this is The Deepest Dive on Final Fantasy VII Remake, the first part of our gigantic comm…

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Season 1 Finale! The CrossFade Community Shuffle: The Replacements, fire-toolz, Neutral Milk Hotel & More 1:18:28

3y ago1:18:28

1:18:28

And that’s a wrap on Season 1 of CrossFade! We’ll be back with new episodes in 2022. For now, we wanted to celebrate our supporters with another Community Shuffle, where we shuffle their favorite songs and talk about what shakes out! This episode’s crop is particularly vibrant, so be sure to check it out to discover great new (or classic) music you…

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Led Zeppelin & Peter Gabriel with Tom Salta (Deathloop) 1:19:14

3y ago1:19:14

1:19:14

If at first you don't succeed, listen, listen again – welcome Tom Salta (Deathloop, Tom Clancy’s Advanced Warfighter, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, PUBG, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, and many more) to CrossFade! Tom’s a big production guy, so Peter Gabriel’s tight instrumentation and arrangements on “So” make it a really pivotal album for him.…

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Jimi Hendrix & Ivan Tcherepnin with Peter McConnell (Psychonauts 2) 1:53:35

3y ago1:53:35

1:53:35

Go inside the mind that created the music for the best-known video game about going inside people’s minds: Peter McConnell is on CrossFade! WIth Peter, we dissect the music of Ivan Tcherepnin, Peter’s late mentor and experimental/avant garde composer of the 20th century, and “Axis: Bold as Love,” the second record from The Jimi Hendrix Experience. …

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The Beatles vs. Queens of the Stone Age (feat. Darren Korb) 1:55:12

3y ago1:55:12

1:55:12

The gods of guesting have been kind to us once again, and Darren Korb, audio director for Supergiant Games (Hades, Bastion, Transistor, Pyre) and voice of Zagreus in Hades, has landed in our lap to talk of Beatles and Queens! Darren loves how weird, inventive, and well-produced The Beatles’ penultimate album “Abbey Road” is, and in this episode, he…

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The Kinks vs. Gentle Giant (feat. Marty O’Donnell) 1:59:17

3y ago1:59:17

1:59:17

This one’s a biggie – Marty O’Donnell, composer for games like Halo, Destiny, Riven, and current audio director for Highwire Games, is on CrossFade to talk about one of the albums that convinced him to stop just playing music and start composing instead! Gentle Giant’s “Octopus” is one of Marty’s favorite records and “hugely influential” to his pat…

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Alkaline Trio vs. The Exploding Hearts (feat. Mike Park) 1:21:38

3y ago1:21:38

1:21:38

Welcome musician, activist, and founder of Asian Man Records Mike Park (https://twitter.com/mikeparkmusic) to CrossFade! Mike’s run his own record label for 25 years, in addition to all the music he’s written and played or the anti-racism activism he’s done throughout his career. We couldn’t be more excited to have him on the show – and talking abo…

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Kendrick Lamar vs. Foo Fighters (feat. Janet Garcia) 2:08:21

3y ago2:08:21

2:08:21

Welcome MinnMax cohort, streamer, writer, critic, and former teacher Janet Garcia (https://twitter.com/gameonysus) to CrossFade! Foo Fighters was one of the bands that helped Janet discover music outside of hip-hop, so “In Your Honor” holds a really important place in her heart (and her running playlist). Matt’s pick, Kendrick Lamar’s breakthrough …

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Curtis Mayfield vs. Rush (feat. Jason Graves) 1:45:24

3y ago1:45:24

1:45:24

Jason Graves has composed for games, movies, TV (including Dead Space, Until Dawn, Tomb Raider, The Order: 1886, The Dark Pictures Anthology, and a lot more) for decades, and now he’s on CrossFade! Jason discovered Rush sometime in high school – just the right age to be listening to new, weird stuff. A drummer, he naturally gravitated toward Neil P…

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Weezer vs. Tropical F*** Storm (feat. Lizzie Killian) 1:55:01

3y ago1:55:01

1:55:01

Lizzie Killian (FIFTYcc, chiptune rock band The Glowing Stars, formerly of Zynga, Humble Bundle, GamesRadar & more) joins this Weez-tastic episode of CrossFade! Something about “Pinkerton” caught Lizzie’s ear in high school. Maybe it was the rough production, disarmingly vulnerable lyrics, or just the solid solos – whatever it was, it quickly becam…

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The Beach Boys vs. Nina Nastasia (feat. Todd Hanson)

3y ago

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Writer and performer Todd Hanson (The Onion, Squidbillies, WTF with Marc Maron, & more) guests on this very special episode of CrossFade! Todd didn’t really get into The Beach Boys until a couple years ago, when he discovered their strange, dark album Surf’s Up, recorded in 1971 to turn around the public’s waning interest in fun-in-the-sun pop afte…

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Girl Talk vs. Prince Paul (Anniversary Episode feat. Ben Hanson) 2:08:05

3y ago2:08:05

2:08:05

CrossFade turned 1 last month and we couldn’t be more pleased with how it’s been received! To celebrate, we welcomed the guest from our very first episode back to the show: MinnMax founder Ben Hanson (https://twitter.com/yozetty)! In a weird way, Ben’s pick (Girl Talk’s “Feed the Animals”) reminds us of CrossFade itself – unorthodox pairings that a…

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John Phillips vs. Television (feat. Matt Sweeney) 1:44:56

3+ y ago1:44:56

1:44:56

Freehand guitarist Matt Sweeney (heard in the Red Dead Redemption 2 soundtrack, Skunk, Chavez, and more) guests on this episode of CrossFade! He picked “John, the Wolf King of L.A.,” the first solo record from The Mamas & The Papas founder John Phillips, because of its hauntingly beautiful arrangements and its dark underbelly. The discussion focuse…

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Cat Stevens vs. Boards of Canada (feat. Austin Wintory) 1:51:38

3+ y ago1:51:38

1:51:38

Composer Austin Wintory (Journey, ABZÛ, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, The Pathless, The Banner Saga, and countless other games and films) is one of the best-known names in video game music – but he didn’t know anything about music for the first ten years of his life. He brought Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ 1970 hit record “Tea for the Tillerman” to CrossFade …

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Paul Simon vs. Blue Öyster Cult (feat. Chris Remo) 1:35:50

3+ y ago1:35:50

1:35:50

Chris Remo (Valve, Campo Santo, Gone Home, Firewatch, and the Idle Thumbs podcast) joins CrossFade for a discussion of “Graceland,” Paul Simon’s controversial career-boosting 1986 record, and why it took him until his 30s to finally like it. Matt gains another inductee to the cult of Blue Öyster Cult with their 1974 psych-rock “Secret Treaties,” wh…

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Beck vs. The Cure (feat. Sarah Elmaleh) 2:26:35

3+ y ago2:26:35

2:26:35

On this voice-tastic episode of CrossFade, voice actor and activist Sarah Elmaleh (Gears 5, Anthem, Gone Home, Star Wars: Squadrons, and more https://twitter.com/selmaleh) hops in the booth with a dancy high school favorite – Beck’s funky “Midnite Vultures” – and Matt keeps things light with The Cure’s smash 1989 record, “Disintegration.” Questions…

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Hybrid vs. Owen Pallett (feat. Gareth Coker) 1:59:23

3+ y ago1:59:23

1:59:23

Gareth Coker (composer for film and games including Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, ARK: Survival Evolved, Immortals Fenyx Rising, and Halo Infinite) doesn’t often get to gab about the music he listens to instead of the music he makes, which makes it such a treat to talk about why “Disappear Here,” the fourth album from Bri…

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The CrossFade Community Shuffle: Death Grips, Gorillaz, Phish, JPEGMAFIA, Sufjan Stevens & More 1:35:15

3+ y ago1:35:15

1:35:15

We’re back to the community playlist, digging through a randomly shuffled list of our MinnMax community’s favorite songs to see what shakes out! This time, the crop (including a lot of artists we’ve never even heard of!) runs the gamut from prog to rock to R&B and… whatever you call Aphex Twin (in a good way!). Thanks to everyone who left a song! S…

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The MF DOOM Special (feat. Suriel Vazquez) 1:59:13

3+ y ago1:59:13

1:59:13

Few artists had an impact on the landscape around them as MF DOOM had on rap. With the reveal of his passing in 2020, we felt it was the right time to finally feature the masked madman, and who better to help us commemorate him than MinnMax’s own Suriel Vazquez (https://twitter.com/surielvazquez)? Together, we suss out what made DOOM unique, even a…

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Two Solid Seasonal Songs to Ring in 2021 17:56

3+ y ago17:56

17:56

It’s here! As a quick “thank you” you to everyone who’s listened to and supported CrossFade this year, Matt and Jason wanted to share two of their favorite songs that hold that wintertime feeling as we ring in the new year. Thanks so much for checking out our show! To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below… 9:45 - Purple Mo…

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My Chemical Romance vs. Deerhoof (feat. Blake Hester) 2:04:39

3+ y ago2:04:39

2:04:39

My Chemical Romance’s breakthrough “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” and Deerhoof’s “Apple O’” don’t sound anything alike, but they both represent outsider music in their own ways. In today’s episode, Matt explains why Deerhoof tickles his earhoof and Blake tries to explain what it was like to hear MCR for the first time as a churchgoing 10-year-old…

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The CrossFade Community Shuffle: Reviewing Your Favorite Songs 1:40:57

3+ y ago1:40:57

1:40:57

The MinnMax community has such interesting music tastes. Listeners send us songs for every single episode, so we thought, “Why not make a whole episode out of that?” So that’s what we did! We hit shuffle on almost a playlist of almost 100 songs(!) suggested by our supporters and came up with 18 we could fit into an episode. We ended up with such a …

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David Bowie vs. The Dismemberment Plan (feat. John T. Drake)

3+ y ago

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John T. Drake (VP Biz Dev and Licensing for Games at Disney, fmr. PlayStation and Harmonix) joins Matt and Jason for a crazy specific episode of CrossFade! Where vocalist Travis Morrison looks inward on The Dismemberment Plan’s “Change,” Ziggy St--erm, David Bowie looks to the skies on “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”…

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The Afghan Whigs vs. Beulah (feat. Jeff Cork) 2:06:39

3+ y ago2:06:39

2:06:39

Is it ‘90s in here or is it just me? Jeff Cork (BetterQuest, Game Informer) brings his beloved Beulah record, “When Your Heartstrings Break,” to CrossFade’s doorstep and Matt responds with The Afghan Whigs’s “Black Love.” Both albums are appropriately fueled by angst – sometimes about masculinity, sometimes about insecurity, and sometimes about the…

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The Van Halen Special (feat. Greg Renoff) 2:17:33

3+ y ago2:17:33

2:17:33

Eddie Van Halen was it: the guitarist who helped drag hard rock into the pop age, leaving contemporaries in both performing and composition in the dust. On the occasion of his passing in October 2020, we’re joined by Greg Renoff (https://twitter.com/gregrenoff), author of “Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy …

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