Jams and Tea

For this week's Record Club, Jake, Morgan, and Ryley are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the release of tech death wizards Gorguts' masterpiece COLORED SANDS. Though widely celebrated for the alienating brutality of 1998's OBSCURA, Canadian metal legends Gorguts have released many brilliant albums, though perhaps none more conceptually and musically accomplished than their fifth an...

What makes an album 'overrated'? Join us as we discuss some of the biggest albums of 2013, celebrating 10 years of life and *discourse* this year, that we think don't quite live up to the hype. We dive deep - and sometimes disagree! - on big albums from Arcade Fire, Justin Timberlake, Drake, Kanye, and more in this deep dive dissection of one of the biggest years for music in recent me...

After a week off, we're back to talk about exciting new music from podcast favorites The National, the controversy surrounding Noname's long-awaited new album Sundial, our excitement for the potential of Olivia Rodrigo's upcoming album Guts, the future of K-Pop with NewJeans, and other great new albums you might not have heard from Lauren Auder, Hail the Sun, Johnny Booth, and more! Le...

For this week's Record Club, Jake and Ryley are telling a tale of two piano men: Elton John and Billy Joel, once brothers in arms as symbols of songwriting excellence with enduring appeal and distinct backgrounds from both sides of the Atlantic. Both are beloved artists with rich legacies, but today we look at one record from each of them as a capsule of their greatness and their carefully cra...

This week Jake and Ryley are taking on two big hitter new releases that music fans online have been raving about: George Clanton's expansive and rich psych-pop opus OOH RAP I YA, and Travis Scott's booming and declarative UTOPIA - but how do these heavily anticipated records hold up to the hype? Let us know what you think in the comments on YouTube! 0:00 George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya 19:14...

We're back with another streamlined episode of Jams & Tea NOW talking about the latest in new music and music news! This week we have a lot of fun dissecting the latest viral TikTok crossover, Planet of the Bass, a hilarious and endearing Eurodance parody that begs the question of whether the kitschiest genre of the 90s is having a comeback? We also talk Lizzo's abrupt and surprising c...

This week's discussion topic is the most underrated albums of 2013 - records turning 10 this year that we think deserve more love, should be revisited, or otherwise just get too much disrespect! Let us know what you think of our picks, and hit us up in the comments on YouTube with what you think is the most underrated album celebrating a decade this year!

Today we're tweaking the format slightly for a slimmed down video focusing on the latest new releases, single drops, and music discussion points that have caught our eye! Join us as we discuss the immensely heavy new EP from metalcore supergroup Better Lovers, Big Thief's new single Vampire Empire and the state of indie rock stan culture, new songs from The Gaslight Anthem and Code Orange...

For this week's new release reviews, Jake and Ryley are excited to break down the abstract and poetic new album from PJ Harvey, I INSIDE THE OLD YEAR DYING, and the soulful and cathartic return of Anohni with MY BACK WAS A BRIDGE FOR YOU TO CROSS. These are the first albums from both artists since 2016; join us to see how their comebacks hold up, and which of the two is one of the year's m...

For this week's Record Club, we're celebrating a classic of sophisti-pop, with Scottish legends The Blue Nile's immortal 1989 masterpiece HATS. Join us as we break down what makes this minimal but deeply emotional pop record so affecting, timeless, and appealing over three decades later.

For this week's new release reviews, AdequateEmily joins us again to talk about the folk-tinged heartland emo of Home Is Where with their emotionally crushing new record THE WHALER, and post-rock stalwarts SWANS with their mortality-obsessed THE BEGGAR, the latest of many multi-hour opuses. But how do these records hold up to their hype? It's fair to say we're more taken with one than...

For this week's NOW episode we're joined by friend of the channel AdequateEmily for an unconventional twist on the format. Today, in addition to recapping new and interesting releases, we're commenting on Rolling Stone's bizarre and somewhat baffling list of the most inspirational LGBTQ songs of all time for pride month. We also talk new albums from Queens of the Stone Age, Killer...

Loved and loathed by many, Sacramento-based Deafheaven's 2013 album Sunbather was a landmark in the crossover of extreme metal into the wider musical consciousness, a bold and declarative fusion of black metal and shoegaze that birthed dozens of bands and inspired years of passionate discourse. Now, a full decade on, we're excited to talk through the album in full, breaking down its signif...

Today we have two fresh new reviews for you all: first up is a celebration of Janelle Monae's delightful, low-stakes embrace of all things euphoric in THE AGE OF PLEASURE, but the main attraction this week is the extraordinary new record from Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, the stunning WEATHERVANES. Join us as we unpack how one of the artists that means the most to us has crafted one of his...

After taking a week off, we have a jam-packed NOW episode this weekend that lets us catch up on some great recent releases that should be on your radar, including the newest albums from Kings Gizzard and Krule, Christine and the Queens, and Youth Lagoon, as well as video game hype for Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI, and the recently announced Persona 3 remake. We also have reviews of Across the Spid...

For our latest duo of new release reviews, we're excited to be talking about the emotionally heavy and raw new record from Foo Fighters, BUT HERE WE ARE - their first following the tragic death of Taylor Hawkins. We also discuss the return of legendary Detroit post-punk act Protomartyr with their stellar new album FORMAL GROWTH IN THE DESERT. These are two intense, at points draining, but extr...

For the first of a duo of Record Clubs covering seminal albums released on June 11, 2013, we're delighted to finally get to talk in depth about the most beloved album from an artist who has defined our friendship and connection through music: Jason Isbell. As his magnum opus Southeastern celebrates a decade, we break down everything that makes the album resonant and affecting, as well as Jason...

For this week's episode of Jams & Tea NOW, Jake and Ryley are breaking down their favorite comeback albums of all time - albums that defied expectations by returning an artist to the pinnacle of their greatness after a period of decline. We also discuss the nature of the remix in the streaming era, the perpetual tease of an Oasis reunion, new releases from The Dare and The Lemon Twigs, Jak...

It's Fashionably Late by Falling In Reverse. This is the album that broke us. Watch on YouTube.

For this week's episode of Jams & Tea NOW, we're counting down the ultimate final statements in music, albums that came just before a band broke up or an artist died, that are imbued with the heft or weight of that impending loss. We also pay tribute to the late, great Andy Rourke, discuss Blur's excellent new single, give our thoughts on the gargantuan new Legend of Zelda game, ta...

For our latest Record Club, we're celebrating the 10th anniversary of Daft Punk's legendary opus Random Access Memories. Jake approaches it with fresh ears while Ryley reflects on how the album plays now versus then, as an epic celebration of the history of popular music and electronica, and ultimately the band's final curtain call. What does this album mean to you? How do you think it...

For this week's NOW episode, we're discussing our favorite compilation albums of all time, and what makes a good compilation album in the first place. Plus, we also dig into Jake's recent trip to see Taylor Swift live in Nashville, Machine Gun Kelly's latest effort at manufacturing beef, Animal Collective's unlikely Fleetwood Mac cover, why Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is the best...

For this week's new release reviews, we're excited to extol the virtues of Billy Woods' latest and leanest masterpiece, the colorful but grim MAPS, an eclectic but surprisingly accessible journey through the trials of being an artist on the road. We also review Ed Sheeran's latest effort, an inert slog of shallow and uninspired balladry that limps across the anodyne synthetics of A...

On this week's episode of Jams & Tea NOW, we're excited to break down some of our absolute favorite songs that never made it to a studio album. We also review the new Indigo De Souza album, ALL OF THIS WILL END, talk all things Smashing Pumpkins with the release of their new triple-album ATUM, break down Ed Sheeran's copyright trial, Shaq's nu-metal song, Smokey Robinson's...

For this week's new release reviews, Jake, Morgan, and Ryley are finally tackling the latest album from The National, the long-awaited FIRST TWO PAGES OF FRANKENSTEIN - how will it hold up, having recently finished an entire retrospective series on their discography? We also have an energetic review of Jessie Ware's latest dancefloor opus THAT! FEELS GOOD!, which allows Jake to reckon with...