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#800: Tune-Yards, serpentwithfeet & La Femme, Memories of 800 Episodes of Sound Ops

Bonus podcast 18: Jim's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#799 Carole King's Tapestry on its 50th Anniversary

Bonus podcast 17: Jim's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#798 Disgraceland's Jake Brennan, Songs About Shady Characters & Black Pumas

Bonus podcast 16: Jim's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#797 The Story of Fortune Records, Opinions on The Hold Steady, Julien Baker & King Gizzard & the Wizard Lizard

Bonus podcast 15: Greg's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#796 Best Band Lineup Changes, Opinions on Arlo Parks & slowthai

Bonus podcast 14: Jim's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#795 Todd Rundgren on His Virtual Tour, Meat Loaf, Plus Opinions on The Weather Station

Bonus podcast 13: Jim's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#794 Buried Treasures & Peter Stampfel

Bonus podcast 12: RIP Mary Wilson of the Supremes

#793 John Carpenter, Favorite Film Scores & Opinions on Goat Girl & Madlib

Bonus podcast 11: Greg's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#792 The Zappa Show, Feat. Director Alex Winter; Opinions on Viagra Boys

Bonus podcast 10: Jim's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#791 The Evolution of Taylor Swift; Phil Spector, Jazmine Sullivan & Sylvain Sylvain

Bonus podcast 9: Jim's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#790 Songs About Mistakes, Opinions on Paul McCartney & Steve Earle

Bonus podcast 8: Greg's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#789 Cameron Crowe on Almost Famous, Opinions on Miley Cyrus & MF Doom

Bonus podcast 7: Jim's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#788 Buried Treasures, Greg's Mixtape & Artists We Lost in 2020

#787 The Year in the Music Industry

#786 Sound Opinions Holiday Spectacular 2020

Bonus podcast 6: Best Albums of 2020 Continued!

#785 Best Albums of 2020

Bonus podcast 5: Greg's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#784 Radiohead's Kid A & the Story of Sex Pistols' Manager Malcolm McLaren

Bonus podcast 4: Jim's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#783 Review Roundup & Pylon

Bonus podcast 3: Greg's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#782 Bob Mould & The Story of Hawkwind

Bonus podcast 2: Jim's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#781 Tribute Albums

Bonus podcast: Greg's Desert Island Jukebox pick

#780 Buried Treasures & Singer-Songwriter Nana Adjoa

#779 Jimmy Carter, Rock & Roll President & Hanif Abdurraquib

#778 Songs About Witches & D'Angelo's Voodoo

#777 The Go-Go's Kathy Valentine, R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen and Opinions on Shamir & Shemekia Copeland

#776 Record Review Roundup & Wendy Carlos

#775 The Story of Creem Magazine & British Rock Band IDLES

#774 Hannibal Buress & How Record Stores Are Adapting

#773 Yes' Going For The One & Protomartyr Review

#772 Buried Treasures & the Future of Music Venues

#771 Songs About New Beginnings

#770: Give The Drummer Some

#769: The Replacements & Mission of Burma

#768 The Velvet Underground & Nico

#767 The New Analog & Opinions On Neil Young

#766 Chris Frantz and Talking Heads

#765 Chicago Soul

#764 Songs About Help and the Rock Doctors

#763 Buried Treasures & Caroline Rose

#762 Bill Withers' Live at Carnegie Hall & Opinions on Phoebe Bridgers

#761 Instant Commentaries & Opinions on Bob Dylan

#760 Best Albums of 2020...So Far

#759 Cover Songs, Opinions on Jehnny Beth & Remembering Jimmy Cobb

#758 Buried Treasures & Ask The Critics

#757 Concerts That Shaped Us & Opinions On They Call Me Disco

#756 History in Songs & Best Coast

#755 Virtual Vacations, Mudhoney in Seattle, & RIP Little Richard

#754 God Save the Queens: Women in Hip-Hop, Opinions on Jason Isbell & Chicano Batman, Hamilton Bohannon

#753: Review Roundup, Bill Withers & the Red Sox Organist

#752 Buried Treasures & Sudan Archives

#751 Rocking the Closet: Sexuality in Music, Opinions on Dua Lipa, Waxahatchee & Melkbelly

#750 Raphael Saadiq, Remembering John Prine

#749 Review Roundup & The Masked Marauders

#748 Social Distancing on the Desert Island, R.I.P. Singer and Songwriter Paul K.

#747 Joni Mitchell's Blue

#746 OutKast's Stankonia & Caroline Polachek

#745 Songs About Animals, Opinions on Tame Impala & Grimes

#744 Songs About Time, Ask the Critics Pt. 2

#743 Buried Treasures & Briston Maroney

#742 Ask the Critics, Hologram Tours & Opinions on Wire

#741 King Crimson, R.I.P. Andy Gill of Gang of Four

#740 Best Film Acting Performances By Musicians, Host of Slow Burn on the Muders of Tupac & Biggie

#739 Mary Wilson of The Supremes, Opinions on Drive-By Truckers & Torres

#738 The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, R.I.P. Neil Peart & Opinions on Beach Slang

#737 Buried Treasures & Folk Singer-Songwriter Joan Shelley

#736 Songs About Pot, Rock Doctors & Angie McMahon

#735 Albums of the Decade, Greg's Mixtape, Juice WRLD & Roy Loney

#734 Sound Opinions Holiday Spectacular 2019 with Andy Cirzan

#733 The Best Albums of 2019

#732 William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'N' Roll, Opinions on Leonard Cohen & Sudan Archives

#731 Thanksgiving Leftovers & DJ Shadow on Sampling

#730 Songs That Make You Cry, Opinions on The Replacements & FKA twigs

#729 Buried Treasures & Bobby Rush

#728 Songs About the Radio & Opinions on Michael Kiwanuka

#727 Janis Joplin, Opinions on Kanye West & Neil Young and Crazy Horse

#726 Bands in Costume, Opinions on Battles & Farewell to Music Critic Nick Tosches

#725 The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St.

#724 Songs We Love By Bands We Don't, Opinions on Nick Cave & Farewell to Ginger Baker & Kim Shattuck

#723 Family Bands & Opinions on Wilco

#722 Fugazi's Repeater, Opinions on Psychedelic Country Artist Sturgill Simpson

#721 Opinions on Tool, Lana Del Rey & More, Farewell to Ric Ocasek & Daniel Johnston

#720 Buried Treasures & Peter Lewis of Moby Grape

#719 James Alexander of the Bar-Kays & Favorite Bass Lines