Welcome back everyone! As is customary this time of year, our resident NOT-metal heads, Dan and Chris, are back to discuss their favorite music of 2023. Hit the link below and dive on in for a sprawling but, thankfully, not overly rambly discussion of all things NOT-metal, including country, jazz, Canadian punk, and everywhere in-between!

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Timecodes:

• (00:00) – Introduction
• (04:18) – Shared Picks / “Top Two”
• (16:50) – Chris: “We’re in the Rock category”
• (28:54) – Dan: Punk
• (35:39) – Chris: “Just Left of Rock”
• (46:15) – Dan: Country
• (53:46) – Chris: “We’ve moved off the Rock Highway”
• (1:06:50) – Dan: Pop (in its various guises)
• (1:21:44) – Chris: “I’m Lost” (Off the Rock Highway, Pt. II)
• (1:31:19) – Dan: The “Don’t Get My Own Category”s
• (1:39:57) – Honorable Mentions
• (1:50:19) – New Old Music of 2023 (Chris)
• (1:54:23) – New Old Music of 2023 (Dan)
• (1:58:12) – Closing Thoughts

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Artists and Albums Discussed:

• Jason Isbell – Weathervanes
• The Dirty Nil – Free Rein to Passions
• Jeff Rosenstock – HELLMODE
• Osees – Intercepted Message
• The Damned – Darkedelic
• Uriah Heep – Chaos & Colour
• Brutal Youth – Rebuilding Year
• Fucked Up – One Day
• Sweeping Promises – Good Living is Coming for You
• Mike Keneally – The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat
• Paramore – This is Why
• Margo Price – Strays
• Lucero – Should’ve Learned By Now
• Sufjan Stevens – Javelin
• Lana del Rey – Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd?
• Everything But the Girl – Fuse
• Blonde Redhead – Sit Down for Dinner
• Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
• Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good!
• Gunship – Unicorn
• Disclosure – Alchemy
• SZA – SOS
• Sunwatchers – Music is Victory Over Time
• The Reds, Pinks and Purples – The Town that Cursed Your Name
• Questlove, David Murray & Ray Angry – Plumb
• Parannoul – After the Magic
• Grave Pleasures – Plagueboys
• Rodrigo y Gabriela – In Between Thoughts… A New World
• Beach Fossils – Bunny
• Danny Brown – Quaranta
• DOMi & JD Beck – NOT TiGHT (2022)
• Owane – yeah whatever (2018); Chapter One: Shredemption [w/ Jack Gardiner] (2021)

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As always, thanks for tuning in so our dear, sweet little non-metal kids can have their moment in the sun, too. Dan and Chris will be back for another round this time next year!

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