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59: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2023 12/09/2023

59: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2023 Who will take Beyoncé’s crown? Whose album will be deemed the best of 2023 by pitchfork dot com, the music website? Well, if you’ve visited the site recently, you likely already know the answer, but what our podcast presupposes it...what if you didn’t? Join us as we read you an article and fight amongst ourselves over last episode’s draft. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/28997258

58: Draft - Best Albums of 2023 12/04/2023

58: Draft - Best Albums of 2023 We wouldn't leave you out in the cold during The Season of Lists, no matter how less-than-prolific we've been in podcasting as of late. We're drafting in anticipation of Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2023 and you're currently anticipating listening to said draft. Love you. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/28910198

57: Feist 04/13/2023

57: Feist It's just Feist this time, folks. Maybe that's all it needs to be. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/26528562

56: Caroline Polachek | Gorillaz 02/12/2023

56: Caroline Polachek | Gorillaz Will Caroline Polachek finally make whatever album The Website's been apparently disappointed in her for not making yet? Can you teach an old cartoon band new tricks? Is there any good reason to spend twenty minutes talking about The Grammys in 2023? Who cares! Listen to podcast. Love podcast. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/25904781

55: Mac DeMarco 01/18/2023

55: Mac DeMarco We're looking at the most anticipated albums of 2023. We're making a return trip to the vibe known as Mac DeMarco. And somewhere in the middle we're continuing our extremely scientific project of distilling the entirety of the 1990s into a one-song playlist. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/25640832

54: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2022 12/08/2022

54: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2022 Join your Best New Hosts as they read through The Website's 50 Best Albums of 2022 list and, more importantly, discover the winner of last episode's draft. Do this with us. You simply must. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/25264515

53: Draft - Best Albums of 2022 12/05/2022

53: Draft - Best Albums of 2022 Now knee-deep in the Season of Lists, we're drafting for The Website's Best Albums of 2022 and we're not afraid to say so. But first, we find ourselves in a bit of jeopardy.... /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/25220262

52: Weyes Blood 11/18/2022

52: Weyes Blood Continuing our newer habit of secondary and tertiary deep dives, we're going back to Weyes Blood! But first, we kick off a multi-episode project that's very hard to explain but it involves Mack probably hiding a CD-R in some bushes in Griffith Park. Or something. Editor's note: Apologies for the late posting here. We had hoped to get the episode out before The Website's Weyes Blood review. However, I ended up getting my foot stuck in a large hole. Now, you may think that the largeness of the hole would make it easy to get one's foot out. You don't know this hole. Anyways, that delayed things somewhat. Best New Podcast regrets the error. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/25059234

51: Arctic Monkeys | Taylor Swift 10/19/2022

51: Arctic Monkeys | Taylor Swift We talk about the Best of the 1990s lists. We talk about Arctic Monkeys. We TALK about Taylor Swift. You're truly not going to find this much talking, about these specific topics, in this specific order anywhere else in Podcastland. That's the Best New Podcast guarantee! Disclaimer: Due to some unfortunate technical problems, the audio on the Arctic Monkeys segment is...not up to our usual standards. Apologies. Best New Podcast regrets the error. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/24732267

50: Built to Spill | Death Cab for Cutie | Yeah Yeah Yeahs 09/08/2022

50: Built to Spill | Death Cab for Cutie | Yeah Yeah Yeahs Look, it's episode 50. We were feeling reflective. The only natural course of action was to construct a set of millennial midlife crisis deep dives. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/24308322

49: Beyoncé 07/20/2022

49: Beyoncé Come for the overanalysis of one of the year's biggest event albums, stay for the multiple failed attempts at pronouncing "beabadoobee." /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/23801153

48: Soccer Mommy 06/12/2022

48: Soccer Mommy We're talking top 5's (of a sort). We're talking about the legendary "C Trilogy". We're talking about...LiveJournal for some reason. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/23402057

47: Kendrick Lamar | Arcade Fire 05/03/2022

47: Kendrick Lamar | Arcade Fire This episode we're deep diving into two of The Website's all-time heavy hitters, two artists known for speaking to the current moment who've been largely absent since 2017, two artists given to bold, ambitious statements. They're essentially indistinguishable, really, but we'll do our best to...distinguish...them. K bye. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/22985924

46: Wet Leg | Father John Misty | Belle & Sebastian 04/04/2022

46: Wet Leg | Father John Misty | Belle & Sebastian Today we investigate the power of indie rock myth via three different artists, from three different generations, and how they've construct their narratives (or how those narratives get constructed for them.) Kind of. Okay, that might be a bit of retroactive continuity — really it's just three bands with records coming out and we wanted to talk about them. Ugh, tax season, right? /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/22679375

45: Rosalia | The Weather Station 03/01/2022

45: Rosalia | The Weather Station Two artists following up on massive breakthrough albums, as well as a bright, brand new, soon-to-be-hit opening segment that you'll have to hear to believe. It's all happening, and it's all a podcast. Play ball! /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/22303013

44: Beach House | Spiritualized 02/03/2022

44: Beach House | Spiritualized Dream Pop...Space Rock.... Frankly, I'm stunned by how little the topic of drugs came up on this episode. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/22017347

43: Earl Sweatshirt | Mitski 01/13/2022

43: Earl Sweatshirt | Mitski Deep dives on Earl Sweatshirt and Mitski. Also, the _2021 Best New Podcast Year in Review_. Or is it the inaugural _Best New Podcast Awards_? We didn't quite work that out. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/21761894

42: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2021 12/09/2021

42: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2021 The time has come. The results are in. Join your Best New Hosts as they read through The Website's Best Albums of 2021 list and, more importantly, discover the winner of last episode's draft. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/21429356

41: Draft - Best Albums of 2021 12/05/2021

41: Draft - Best Albums of 2021 At long last your Best New Hosts have returned for a good old fashioned draft in anticipation of The Website's 2021 year end list(s). /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/21380351

40: Lorde | Deafheaven 08/18/2021

40: Lorde | Deafheaven This episode, two artists taking left turns. Also, we debut a new segment in which one of the worst modern US presidents becomes a kind of Carmen Sandiego-like figure, traveling mysteriously through time, space, and Pitchfork interviews. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/20178680

39: Billie Eilish | Jack Antonoff 07/15/2021

39: Billie Eilish | Jack Antonoff We're talking pop and you can't stop us. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/19815734

38: Modest Mouse | Lucy Dacus | Tyler, the Creator 06/24/2021

38: Modest Mouse | Lucy Dacus | Tyler, the Creator Three artists that we feel The Website is a little scared to admit they don't quite know what to do with. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/19588502

37: black midi | St. Vincent 05/13/2021

37: black midi | St. Vincent In this episode we discuss two artists with origins in very prestigious music schools, where they presumably do very prestigious music things. Does all this prestige guarantee a BNM? Absolutely not. That's ridiculous and, frankly, I'm embarrassed for having suggested it. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/19087766

36: Julien Baker | The Hold Steady 02/14/2021

36: Julien Baker | The Hold Steady Have you ever showed up to what you assumed would be the physical manifestation of a pop album, only to find out it was just a regular old theme park?! If so, you're not alone and this class action lawsuit may be for you. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/17945522

35: Drake 01/13/2021

35: Drake We've long known Drake *claims* to be a lover boy, but we've yet to see any real credentials to back that up. However, that may soon change. Join us as we discuss one of the new year's most anticipated albums, Certified Lover Boy. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/17526557

34: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2020 12/10/2020

34: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2020 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. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/17138315

33: Draft - Best Albums of 2020 12/05/2020

33: Draft - Best Albums of 2020 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. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/17076494

32: Adrianne Lenker | Jeff Tweedy 10/22/2020

32: Adrianne Lenker | Jeff Tweedy 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. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/16499423

31: Fleet Foxes 09/23/2020

31: Fleet Foxes A Fleet Foxes scramble-cast, for Shore. /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/16122410

30: Sufjan Stevens | Matt Berninger 09/09/2020

30: Sufjan Stevens | Matt Berninger For an episode nominally about Sufjan Stevens and Matt Berninger, we sure do spend a lot of time talking about Wilco and "Big Mamas." /episode/index/show/bestnewpodcast/id/15948824

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