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The time has finally come. Listen along as we read through The Website's year-end top albums list and determine the winners of this year's draft. That's about 10% of it. The rest, as usual, is mainly us mispronouncing things. The 100 Best Songs of 2020 | Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2020 | Pitchfork

With the year slowly starting to fade and with the release of The Website's year-end lists imminent, your Best New Hosts gather to do what they do just fine: draft. This episode we pick the albums we think will top the 50 Best Albums of 2020. First, however, with judgement in our hearts we take a look back in a year-end installment of "Stuck It or Suck It." And, yes, you saw that runtime right, Li...

A cabin album! 😱 A quarantine album! 😱 Two singers toss their Big bands to the side and get contemplative. Or remain contemplative. I dunno, just listen to the podcast. Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker Announces 2 Albums, Shares New Song: Listen | Pitchfork Wilco's Jeff Tweedy Announces New Album Love Is the King, Shares New Songs: Listen | Pitchfork

A Fleet Foxes scramble-cast, for Shore . New Fleet Foxes Album Picks Up Literally Where Last One Ended, Robin Pecknold Says | Pitchfork Premature Evaluation: Fleet Foxes Crack-Up - Stereogum Robin Pecknold | Stereogum

For an episode nominally about Sufjan Stevens and Matt Berninger, we sure do spend a lot of time talking about Wilco and "Big Mamas."

In an uncharacteristic instance of somewhat timely podcasting, we put together a Deep Dive on Taylor Swift's new surprise release, folklore . "Betty" by Taylor Swift Review | Pitchfork Taylor Swift 'folklore' Review: An Indie Record Unconcerned With Being Cool - Stereogum The National's Aaron Dessner Talks Taylor Swift's New Album folklore | Pitchfork

In this episode, with nothing to deep dive, your hosts become bored and essentially just start talking about the upcoming 2020 year-end list anyway.

All aboard Lou Reed's Time Travelin' Dirigible! It's time to invent The Beatles! DEEP DIVES: Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher LIGHTNING ROUND: Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? Maya Hawke – Blush Arca – KiCk i MIKE – Weight of the World Lamb of God, – Lamb of God CeeLo Green – CeeLo Green Is Thomas Callaway LINKS: Community Justice Exchange — Donate via AB Charities St...

Do you have a personal relationship with Stephen Malkmus? DEEP DIVES: Moses Sumney – græ Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open LIGHTNING ROUND: Built To Spill – Built To Spill Plays The Songs Of Daniel Johnston Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song Man Man – Dream Hunting In The Valley Of The In-Between Surfer Blood – Carefree Theatre The Psychedelic...

25: The Taco Bell Concert Hole In retrospect, a lot of the concerts we've been to could or should have been live streams. Note: You may notice that Mike's audio in the final segment is...weird. We hate to lean on the old "technical difficulties" crutch, so let's just say that his laptop spontaneously became haunted and we'll do our best to arrange for a priest or other clergy member to look into t...

In which we discuss how very concerned music journalists are about artists being derivative. Sometimes. Except when they aren't at all. Deep Dives HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III The Strokes - The New Abnormal Lightning Round Hamilton Leithauser - The Loves Of Your Life Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter Shabazz Palaces - The Don of Diamond Dreams Rufus Wainwright - Unfollow The Rule Braids - Sha...

Your Best New Hosts blow off some Super Tuesday steam and then proceed to spend about ninety percent of the show unraveling the mystery of why one would title an album Kiss Land . DEEP DIVES: U.S. Girls - Heavy Light The Weeknd - After Hours Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud LIGHTNING ROUND: Megan Thee Stallion - Suga Mandy Moore - Silver Landings 21 Savage & Metro Boomin - Savage Mode 2 Big Freedia - Lou...

As we once sang on our now-legendary 2014 performance on The Late Show with David Letterman : "Podcasts change / But you know some podcasts never do." So, anyway, here's another episode. DEEP DIVES King Krule - Man Alive! Real Estate - The Main Thing Tame Impala - The Slow Rush Grimes - Miss Anthropocene LIGHTNING ROUND Green Day - Father of All… La Roux - Supervision Huey Lewis & the News - Weath...

Breaking in the (still somewhat) new year by getting back to basics with some deep dives. Also discussed: some of your hosts' most eagerly awaited albums of 2020 and Duffy's nuanced take on the announcement of a new Bright Eyes record. Deep Dives Wolf Parade - Thin Mind Torres - SIlver Tongue Destroyer - Have We Met Lightning Round Halsey - Manic Mac Miller - Circles Of Montreal - UR FUN Pinegrove...

20: LIVE READING - The 50 Best Albums of 2019 After a brief delay due to wintertime sniffles, your Best New Hosts have emerged from their NyQuil haze to finish what they started and read The Website's long-anticipated year-end best albums list. More importantly, the winner of the previous episode's draft is revealed! "Revealed" makes it sound like it was some kinda secret though. We just didn't kn...

The Season of Lists cannot be stopped. The Season of Lists soldiers on with another draft. The Season of Lists will soon provide The Website's Top 50 Albums of 2019, one presumes. Listen as your Best New Hosts scramble and bicker in preparation for this. Also, another rousing round of "Do We Give a Shit?" HYPERLINKS OF INTEREST Pitchfork | Real Estate Unveil Signature Wine Pitchfork | Watch David...

A lovely, classic Deep Dives episode before we round out the year by diving back into the Season of Lists. We discuss two artists with similarly lengthy discographies and...well, the similarities pretty much end there! Plus, the return of a classic fan-favorite segment: Bowers or Burroughs. HYPERLINKS OF INTEREST Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum on Jordan, Jesse, Go! We're on the World Wide Web! We're o...

Your Best New Podcasters read through the The Website's list of the Best Albums of the 2010s and find out the winner of the previous episode's draft. Much, much yelling ensues. HYPERLINKS OF INTEREST Pitchfork - The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Best New Podcast - Drafts We're on Instagram a little bit We also have a website, with things. Also, email exists! bestnewpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com  

The Season of Lists kicks into high gear with perhaps the biggest list of them all. Join us for a good old fashioned draft in anticipation of The Website's ranking of the Best Albums of the 2010s. HYPERLINKS OF INTEREST We're on Instagram a little bit. We also have a website, with things. Also, email exists! bestnewpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com  

Better late than never? I sure hope so because, while we recorded this one over a week ago, The Website beat us to the punch, reviewing one of our Deep Dives while our all-star post production team was still hard at work fine-tuning the episode. Ah, such is life in podcasting's fast lane. Beep, beep. DEEP DIVES FKA twigs - MAGDALENE Angel Olsen - All Mirrors LIGHTNING ROUND Devon Walsh - True Love...

It's all Lucy with the football with diamonds all over again.   DEEP DIVES M83 - DSVII The New Pornographers - In the Morse Code of Brake Lights Vagabon - Vagabon   LIGHTNING ROUND Frankie Cosmos - Close It Quietly Vivian Girls - Memory Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence Pixies - Beneath the Eyrie Devendra Banhart - Ma Tegan And Sara - Hey, I'm Just Like You Kanye West - Jesus is King HYPERLINKS OF...

Part seven of a twelve-episode special investigation into Whitney's beer hacks. DEEP DIVES Charli XCX - Charli Bat For Lashes - Lost Girls (Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar LIGHTNING ROUND Jenny Hval - The Practice Of Love Lower Dens - The Competition Death Cab - The Blue EP Laurie Anderson - Songs from the Bardo Blink-182 - Nine HYPERLINKS OF INTEREST Pitchfork feature: Charli XCX Is the Pop Star o...

This month we were so excited about our one year anniversary that we didn't actually check when it was.   DEEP DIVES Bon Iver - i,i Taylor Swift - Lover Clairo - IMMUNITY Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold   LIGHTNING ROUND Tool - Fear Inoculum Jay Som - Anak Ko G Flip - About Us !!! - Wallop Ride - This Is Not a Safe Place The Hold Steady - Thrashing Thru The Passion Whitney - Forever Turned...

This month two artists move on from the mixtape and two more move into new band names. But first, your hosts take you on a tour of the 2013 BNM that almost was, as they spend about 20 minutes probably mispronouncing Jai Paul's name.   DEEP DIVES Chance the Rapper - TBA Cuco - Para Mí The Soft Cavalry - s/t Purple Mountains - s/t   LIGHTNING ROUND Maxo Kream - Brandon Banks BJ the Chicago Kid - 112...

Join us this month in dissecting the music careers of a big ol' pack of aging dudes. How does one age gracefully in dance music? How does one age gracefully in rock music? How long can we go without referencing either Chillwave or Sandinista! by The Clash? Some say we'll never know…. DEEP DIVES Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars Titus Andronicus - An Obelisk Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin...