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No Filler Music Podcast — 346 episodes

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Bigger Than Radio: Guster's Keep It Together

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Whatcha Heard? The Mole Man Edition

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Underneath California: The Hidden Depths of Phantom Planet’s The Guest

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No Filler Rewind - Garage Rock Evolved: Phantom Planet's Self-Titled Re-Invention

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Whatcha Heard? The Last Possible Second Edition

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Nothing Left to Lose, Everything to Prove: Foo Fighters' Debut Self-Titled

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Whatcha Heard? The Dinner Party Edition

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Hard By The Tide: Blind Melon's Soup

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Whatcha Heard? The Frankenstein Edition

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Songs For The Newly Sane: 311's From Chaos

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Whatcha Heard? The Missed Connections Edition

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Experience the Warmth - Incubus' Make Yourself

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Best of 2025 - Part Four (Episode 2)

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Best of 2025 - Part Four (Episode 1)

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Best of 2025 - Part Three

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Best of 2025 - Part Two

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Best of 2025 - Part One

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Folk Pop Without The Pop Structure: Fleet Foxes' 2008 Self-Titled

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No Filler Rewind - Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues

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No Filler Rewind - Warm Blanket: The Music of the Sundays

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No Filler Rewind - Niche-less Indie Rock: The Music Of Ambulance LTD

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Burn The Witch - A Deep Dive into QOTSA's Creepiest Tracks (Bonus Halloween Episode)

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Whatcha Heard? The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning Edition

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Stratospheric Sludge: The Deep Space Cuts of Hum's Defining Record

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Whatcha Heard - The Vegemite Sandwich Edition

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Whatcha Heard - The Deftones PSA Edition

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Face-Melters and Mind-Benders: Thee Oh Sees Deep-Dive

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Whatcha Heard - The Not Enough David Ruffin Edition

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Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (Part 2)

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Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (Part 1)

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Whatcha Heard: The Bare Minimum Edition

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Foals - Math Rock's Mainstream Darlings

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Whatcha Heard - The Firsts and Lasts Edition

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Spewing Poetry: The Undeniable Greatness of The Tragically Hip

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Whatcha Heard - The Blast From The Past Edition

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Was Bush Really Grunge? Breaking Down Their Early Sound

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Whatcha Heard - The Fashionably Late Edition

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Undeniably 80s: The Synth-Pop Fusion of Nu Shooz

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Whatcha Heard - The Blogosphere Edition

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Erlend Øye's Groove Machine: A Deep Dive Into The Whitest Boy Alive

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Best of 2024 - Part Four

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Best of 2024 - Part Three

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Best of 2024 - Part Two

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Best of 2024 - Part One

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Whatcha Heard: The Belated 300th Episode Edition

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Bonus Halloween Episode: The Music of It Follows and Halloween III: Season of the Witch

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Kitchens of Distinction: Happy, Tragic Euphoria

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Whatcha Heard: The Softies and The Sundays Edition

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Cinematic Beats From The Not-So-Distant Future - Peace Orchestra

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Whatcha Heard: The You Don't Know Cantrell Edition

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Fuzz and Fury: Wolf People's Ruins

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Whatcha Heard: The Big Red Edition

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Vivid and Searing: Ringo Deathstarr's Pure Mood

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Whatcha Heard: The Warm and Weightless Edition

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Lava Lamps and Warhol Paintings: The Soundcarriers' Celeste

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Whatcha Heard: The Obscure Kubrick Edition

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Dreamy Fuzzy Breezy: Ovlov's Buds

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Whatcha Heard: The Texas Trios and Dream Pop Duos Edition

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Outside The Lines: The Elusive Sound of Majesty Crush

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Whatcha Heard: The Four On The Floor Edition

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The Radiohead of Metal: Deftone's Around The Fur

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Whatcha Heard: The Almost No Shoegaze Edition

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Ethereal Wave: Cocteau Twins "Head Over Heels"

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Whatcha Heard: The Heaven and Hell Edition

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The Trailblazing, Ear-Bleeding Fuzz of Dinosaur Jr.

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Best of 2023: Part Four

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Best of 2023: Part Three

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Best of 2023: Part Two

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Best of 2023: Part One

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Italian Horror Icons: Dario Argento and the Music of Goblin (with Guest Adrian Sebastian Haynes)

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Spooktober Rewind: Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats

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Spooktober Rewind: Slashers and Synthwaves

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Spooktober Rewind: The Undoing of David Wright

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The You Can Find It All On Your Radio Edition

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The Duct Tape Edition

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The Mostly Dream Pop Edition

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The Sockgaze Edition

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The Thom Yorke Has A Son? Edition

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The 1981 Edition

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The Globetrotting Edition

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The Knob Fiddlin' Edition

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Whatcha Heard - The Extra Long Chili Cheese Coney Edition

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Rewind: Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow

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Show Announcement

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Best of 2022 - Part Four

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Best of 2022 - Part Three

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Best of 2022 - Part Two

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Best of 2022 - Part One

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Rewind: Beyond Zombie - The Overlooked Gems From The Cranberries First Three Records

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Space Age Dream Pop: The Music of Sweet Trip

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Shimmering, Radiant, Lush: Cocteau Twins' Heaven or Las Vegas

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A Warm Blanket: The Music of The Sundays

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Grungegaze Dream Fuzz: The Music of Soul Blind (with guest Roni)

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Devil Music: White Zombie's La Sexorcisto (Bonus Halloween Episode)

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Whatcha Heard? The S Is For Smile Edition

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Rewind: A Hard Day's Nightmare - The Music of Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats

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Rewind: Slashers and Synthwave - The Music of John Carpenter

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Rewind: Dark and Dazey - The Music of Cock & Swan

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Shoegaze Rewired: The Music of Bowery Electric

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Whatcha Heard? The Take Another Sip Edition

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Rewind: Sidetrack - Slowdive

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Rise of the Shoegazing Phoenix: Slowdive's 2017 Self-Titled Return

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Raw, Visceral, Mysterious: The Breeder's Pod (with guest Nathan Forster)

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Whatcha Heard? The Cycle Resumes Edition

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And So On And So Forth: The Many Adjectives of HEALTH (with guest Nathan Forster)

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Rewind - Dreaming In Slow Motion: The Ethereal Sludge of Doomgaze

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Massively Loud, Hauntingly Quiet: The Music of Spotlights

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Mysterious, Uncontrolled, Free: The Music of Pencey Sloe

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Whatcha Heard? The Lullaby Commune Edition

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Prepare For Blast Off: The Interstellar Thunder Pop of Pinkshinyultrablast

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Punched Up Shoegaze: Narrow Head's Grunge Revivalism

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Noisy, free-flowing, and truly liberated: The music of Band Of Susans

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Whatcha Heard? The Yard Work Edition

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Sloan: The Fab Four of 90's Alt Rock

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Controlled Chaos: The Intoxicating Shoegaze of Swirlies

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Guitar-Driven Sonic World: The Music of Swervedriver

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Whatcha Heard? The Day & Nyquil Edition

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An Uneven Wilderness: Unwound's Repetition

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Rewind: Jimmy Eat World - Clarity

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Rewind: The Obscure Shoegaze Episode

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A Little Heavier: How Helmet Bridged Indie Rock and Metal

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Whatcha Heard? The Mort Garson Horror Picture Show Edition

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F*cking Phil: Drop Nineteens' Delaware

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A Different Shade of Grunge: Lush's Early EPs

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Heavy, Spacey, Mesmerizing: Hum's Downward Is Heavenward

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Whatcha Heard? The Somewhere Between Motown and Sade Edition

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It's not shoegazing, it's brogue-gazing: Pale Saints' In Ribbons

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All About The Noise: Catherine Wheel's Chrome

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Jangly, Murky, Mysterious: How R.E.M's Murmur Ushered In The Alt Rock Wave

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Whatcha Heard? The I Gotta Have More Tambourine Edition

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And We Were So Small: The Music of Polaris

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The World Was So Big: The Music of Miracle Legion

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Rewind: REM - Life's Rich Pageant

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Niche-less Indie Rock: The Music Of Ambulance LTD

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Whatcha Heard? The Surprise Surprise Edition

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Steeped In Suburbia: Real Estate - Days

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Lo-Fi Daydream - Beach Fossils

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21st Century Dream Pop: Beach House - Teen Dream

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Best of 2021 - Part Four

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Best of 2021 - Part Three

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Best of 2021 - Part Two

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Best of 2021 - Part One

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Rewind: Washed Out And The Chillwave Movement

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Human In The Machine: Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion

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Panda Bear - Person Pitch (with guest Josh Stewart)

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200th Episode: Chillwave and Dream Pop in the Music Blog Era (with Josh Stewart)

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Whatcha Heard? The Could You Repeat That Edition

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A Hard Day's Nightmare: The Music of Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats

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No Filler Rewind: Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks

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This Is A Lonesome Crowded Antarctica: Modest Mouse's First Three Studio Albums

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Loud-Quiet-Loud: How Pixies Ushered In A New Dynamic With Doolittle

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Whatcha Heard? The Duos and Dreampop Edition

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How Sonic Youth Made Rock Real Again: A Conversation With David Browne

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The Planet-Powering Energy of Talking Head's Remain In Light

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No Filler Rewind: Television - Marquee Moon

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Properly Chilled: The Downtempo Mixtape

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Whatcha Heard? The Good Vibes Bart Edition

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When Techno Meets Downtempo: Underworld's A Hundred Days Off

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Hypnotic, Elegant, Sublime: Thievery Corporation's Downtempo Masterpiece The Mirror Conspiracy

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Quantic: The 5th Exotic - Jazzy, Soulful, Funk-Infused Trip-Hop

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Röyksopp: Melody A.M. - Dreamy Downtempo For the Masses

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Whatcha Heard? The Doozy Edition

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Bloc Party: Silent Alarm

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Blink And You'll Miss It: Our 182nd Episode!

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So We Meet Again: The Triumphant Return of Kings of Convenience

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Whatcha Heard? The Where Has Catherine Wheel Been All Our Lives Edition

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The Hives: Harder, Faster, Louder

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The Walkmen: Indie's Timeless, Elevated Garage Rockers

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French Kicks "Swimming" - How A Garage Rock Band Went Out On Their Own Terms

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Whatcha Heard? The Grab Bag Edition

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No Filler Rewind: Psychedelic, Shimmering, Heavy - Smashing Pumpkin's Gish

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Built To Spill's Keep It Like A Secret: The Definitive Indie Rock Album

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Beyond Zombie: The Overlooked Gems From The Cranberries First Three Records

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Not So Dumb: The Forgotten Alt-Rock Gems From The Dumb & Dumber Soundtrack

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Whatcha Heard? Redacted Edition

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Distinctly Grunge, Distinctly Texan: Toadies - Rubberneck

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Lighten Things Up A Little: The Presidents of the United States of America

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Whatcha Heard? The Complete 180 Edition

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Dreaming in Slow Motion: The Ethereal Sludge of Doomgaze

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The Obscure Shoegaze Episode

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Sleep's Holy Mountain: Bridging Metal's Past & Future

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Funky Soulful Spaceship: The Progressive R&B Supergroup Known as The Internet

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Amon Tobin: Chaos Theory

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Whatcha Heard? Deep Freeze Edition

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Reflection and Reckoning: Blood Orange's Freetown Sound

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Jesse Johnson & The Minneapolis Sound

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No Filler Rewind: A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

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No Filler Presents: Whatcha Heard? Episode 01

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Andy Stott: The Darker Side of Electronic

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Arms & Sleepers - Black Paris 86

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No Filler Rewind: Amon Tobin - Bricolage

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No Filler's Best of 2020: Listener Favorites

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No Filler's Best of 2020: Part 4

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No Filler's Best of 2020: Part 3

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No Filler's Best of 2020: Part 2

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No Filler's Best of 2020: Part 1

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Sidetrack Double Feature: Longwave + French Kicks

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The Stills: Logic Will Break Your Heart

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Sidetrack: The Pathetx

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The White Stripes - Elephant

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Slashers and Synthwaves: The Music of John Carpenter (BONUS HALLOWEEN EPISODE)

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Sidetrack: Poor Moon - "Heaven's Door"

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Fleet Foxes: Shore

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Hughes Tunes: Pretty In Pink

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Hughes Tunes: Weird Science

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Hughes Tunes: Sixteen Candles

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Hughes Tunes: Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Dad Tunes: Seal

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Dad Tunes: Gloria Estefan

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Dad Tunes: Dire Straits (with guest Tyler Darling)

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Dad Tunes: Gino Vannelli

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Dad Tunes: Van Halen

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Dad Tunes: The Cars - Self-Titled

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"Record Store Zombie" - A Conversation With Mark Burke

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Flickerstick: How the VH1 Reality Champs Spawned Our Love for Live Music and Superfandom

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Garage Rock Evolved: Phantom Planet's Self-Titled Re-Invention

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Ethan Durelle - White Knuckles On Turned Wheels (with special guest Joel Fruth)

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Mae: Destination: Beautiful

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mewithoutYou - [A→B] Life: When Poetry and Post-Hardcore Meet

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Emery: The Weak's End

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Sidetrack: Mutoid Man

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Antenna: Cave In's "Sell Out" Space-Rock Masterpiece

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Sidetrack: Hey Mercedes - Frowning of a Lifetime

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Emo Pop Perfected: Hot Rod Circuit's Sorry About Tomorrow

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Two-Thirds of Blink 182 Go Dark: Tom Delonge Gets Serious With Box Car Racer

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What's Our Age Again? No Filler Goes Back To School & Jams Out To Blink-182

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Sidetrack: Post Malone & Co. Give Us A Socially Distanced Proper Nirvana Tribute Concert

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No Doubt: The Beacon Street Collection

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Sidetrack: Temple of the Dog

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Pearl Jam - Ten

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Sidetrack: Army of Anyone

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Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

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Sidetrack: Lazer Guided Melodies - Spiritualized's 4-Suite Space Rock Masterpiece

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Psychedelic, Shimmering, Heavy: Smashing Pumpkin's Gish

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Thomas Bangalter - Irreversible Soundtrack

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Daft Punk: Homework

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No Filler Rewind: The Hypnagogic Bliss of Tycho's Dive

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Lush Heaviness: The Immersive Sound Textures of KILN

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Sidetrack: Architeq - Gold + Green

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Riding the Synthwave with Com Truise

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Sidetrack: Frampton Comes Alive!

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Paul McCartney Unplugged in '91:

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Our Top 10 Tracks from the 2010s

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2019 Recap: Our Top 10 Tracks

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2019 Recap: Our Top 10 Discoveries

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Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow

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100th Episode - Steely Dan's Hired Gun: The Guitar Solos of Larry Carlton

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Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

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Bamnan and Slivercork: Midlake's Perfect Blend of Psychedelic and Folk

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The Shins - Oh, Inverted World

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Sidetrack - Neva Dinova's Songs Written For No One

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Coldplay - Parachutes

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Sidetrack: Prong - Beg To Differ

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BONUS HALLOWEEN EPISODE: Grave Robbin' With The Undoing Of David Wright

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Metallica - Ride the Lightning

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Sidetrack: Welcome Year Zero: Hail Satan with Ghost

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Khemmis' Quest To Reignite Metal's Spark

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Sidetrack: Kyuss - The Desert Rock Dwellers of Sky Valley

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Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

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Sidetrack: The Nice - Flower Kings of Prog Rock

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Yes's Fragile and the Origins of Progressive Rock

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Sidetrack: Cock & Swan - Seattle’s Darling Dreamgazers

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Shoegaze Upon The Wall Of Sound: My Bloody Valentine's 'Loveless'

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Sidetrack: Slowdive

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Ep 41: Washed Out

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Sidetrack: Eric Cardona

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Ep 40: Mr Twin Sister

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Sidetrack: Zamrock

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Ep 38: Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker

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Sidetrack: Something In The Way She Moves - A verse from James Taylor inspires a Beatle

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Ep 37: Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (w/ special guest Larry Llodra)

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Ep 36: Television - Marquee Moon

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Sidetrack: Balkans and the Post Punk Revival Revival

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Ep 35: The Strokes - Is This It

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Sidetrack: Dick Dale, Link Wray, & Duane Eddy

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Sidetrack: The Soft Boys

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Sidetrack: The Yé-yé French Pop Stylings of Juniore

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Ep 34: Air - Talkie Walkie

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Sidetrack: Static X

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Ep 33: Korn and the Rise of Nu-Metal

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Ep 32: A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

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Sidetrack: Radiohead - Bangers And Mash

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Ep 31: Radiohead - In Rainbows (w/ special guest Nathan Forster)

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Sidetrack: Beck's Early Influences

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Ep 30: Beck - Sea Change

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Sidetrack: Jonny Greenwood - You Were Never Really Here OST

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Ep 29: Radiohead - Hail To The Thief

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Sidetrack: Textual - Cracked Halls Menthol In My Pocket

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Ep 28: The Mercury Program - a data learn the language

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Sidetrack: Soulfly - The Summoning

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Sidetrack: Helmet - Vaccination

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Ep 27: Radiohead - Amnesiac

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EP 26 - No Filler Favorites From 2018

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Sidetrack: The Minus 5 - Find A Finger

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Ep 25: R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant

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Sidetrack: Aphex Twin

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Ep 24: Radiohead - Kid A

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Sidetrack: David Byrne & St. Vincent - Dinner For Two

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Ep 23: Talking Heads 77

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Sidetrack: The Music Of Suspiria (feat. Goblin & Thom Yorke)

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Ep 22: Radiohead - OK Computer

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Sidetrack: The Fall - I Am Damo Suzuki

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Ep 21: Can - Tago Mago

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Bonus Sidetrack: Jacqueline Taïeb - 7 A.M.

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Bonus Episode: The Demo Files - Kings of Convenience :: Quiet Is The New Loud

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Sidetrack: Polish Jazz Sampled - The Music of Skalpel

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Ep 20: Amon Tobin - Bricolage

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Sidetrack: Black Dice - Tree Tops

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Ep 19: Animal Collective - Sung Tongs

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Sidetrack: Roy Harper - The Same Old Rock

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Ep 18: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

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Sidetrack - Sleep

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Ep 17: Black Sabbath

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Sidetrack: Spoon - "The Book I Write" (Stranger Than Fiction S/T)

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Ep 16: Spoon - Gimme Fiction

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Sidetrack: The Dead Texan

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Ep 15: Loscil - "First Narrows"

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Sidetrack: Eurythmics - "Ministry of Love"

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Ep 14: Spoon - Kill The Moonlight

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Sidetrack: Echo & The Bunnymen - Show of Strength

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Ep 13: Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights

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Sidetrack: Elvis Costello - Secondary Modern

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Ep 12: Spoon - Girls Can Tell

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Sidetrack: American Football

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Ep 11: Jimmy Eat World - Clarity

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Sidetrack: Spoon Gives Laffitte A Musical Middle Finger

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Ep 10: Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks

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Sidetrack: Melvin Lindsey's Quiet Storm

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Ep 9: Sade - Promise

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Sidetrack: Polvo - Snowstorm In Iowa

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Ep 8: Foals - Antidotes

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Sidetrack: Feist - Leisure Suite

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Ep 07: Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street

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Sidetrack: The Mamas & The Papas - Mansions

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Ep 06: Crosby, Stills & Nash - Self-Titled

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Sidetrack: Pat Metheny & Tosca

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Ep 05: Tosca - Suzuki

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Sidetrack: Mark Lanegan - Undertow

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EP 04: Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose

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Sidetrack: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Effigy

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Ep 03: Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood

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Sidetrack: Boards of Canada - Bocuma

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Ep 02: Tycho - Dive

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Sidetrack: Green River - Swallow My Pride

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Ep 01: Alice In Chains - Dirt

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Ep 00: Teaser