Episode Discussion Topics:

– Christmas music.

– Love Actually facts.

– Artist credibility & Christmas albums.

Tracks: Bleachers’ “Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call” Sufjan Steven’s “Christmas in the Room”

Further Listening/Reading: Bleachers Richard Curtis’s Love Actually (2003) Sufjan Stevens Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams’ Aporia (2020) Sufjan Stevens’ Songs for Christmas (2006 Sufjan Stevens’ Silver & Gold, 2012 George Saunders’ “Chicago Christmas, 1984,” The New Yorker (2003) Playlists: Ongoing Pod Playlist Episode 37 Playlist

Episode Discussion Topics:

– Christmas music.

– When we listen to Christmas music.

– The history of Christmas music.

– Die Hard facts.

Tracks: The Oh Hellos’ “Mvmt I: “Rejoice! Rejoice!”” Run–D.M.C.’s “Christmas In Hollis”

Further Listening/Reading: The Oh Hellos “Joy to the World” “Coventry Carol” “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” The 2025 Essay Daily Advent Calendar Run–D.M.C. John McTiernan’s Die Hard (1988) Nadia Khomami’s "British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie," The Guardian (2025) David Mickey Evans’ The Sandlot (1993)

Playlists:

Ongoing Pod Playlist

Episode 36 Playlist

Episode Discussion Topics:

– The historical timeline of Punk music.

– The aesthetic of Punk music.

– The impact and legacy of Punk music.

– Post Punk & New Wave

Tracks: Geese’s “Trinidad” Wire’s “Pink Flag”

Further Listening/Reading: Ramones Patti Smith Sex Pistols The Clash The Damned Geese’s Getting Killed Mike Nagel’s “Orientation” at The Rumpus, Oct. 2, 2025 Mike Nagel’s Duplex, 2022 Mike Nagel’s “Culdesac,” 2024 Autofocus press Michael Wheaton, writer Little Engines magazine Adam Voith, writer Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, 1982 Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 1996 New Order The Cure The Chameleons Depeche Mode Talking Heads The Rolling Stone’s 2003 Top 500 (#412) vs. The Rolling Stone 2020 Top 500 (#310) Chuck Klosterman’s book But What If We're Wrong? Alex Cox’s Sid and Nancy, 1986 Penelope Spheeris’s The Decline of Western Civilization, 1981

Playlists:

Ongoing Pod Playlist

Episode 35 Playlist