Weekly Beats

Charlie and Mark are back from summer vacation with an in-depth look at the latest project from the man himself, DJ Koze. Afterward, the two talk about the juxtaposition of images and sounds in a provocative new music video. This episode, Mark sounds like he's recording in the middle of a freeway. Sorry about the quality! 0:00 - Intro 6:31 - Knock Knock 35:54 - This is America 1:12:44 - What We Listened To: BTS, Chvrches 1:25:14 - Outro Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Website: Weeklybeats.podomatic.com FB: facebook.com/weeklybeastshow

If you're looking for extremely sleepy analysis of the song The Middle in 30 seconds at a time, I have just the podcast episode for you. It's this one. This is that podcast episode I was gesturing towards just then.

Charlie and Mark spend the week hanging out in the fuzzy, sleepy, serious conversation about addiction that is KOD. Afterward, the pair wipes their faces and hits the dance floor with Ariana, resplendent and full of life. It's another week of beats! 0:00 - Intro 3:09 - KOD 34:39 - No Tears Left to Cry 56:21 - What We Listened To: Twin Shadow, Missa Gaia/Earth Mass, King Tuff, Neko Case, Jean Grae and Quelle Chris, DJ Koze, Nine Inch Nails 1:22:47 - Outro Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Web: weeklybeats.podomatic.com FB: facebook.com/weeklybeatsshow

We finally understand what it is Cardi B likes like that, and then discover a dark double standard in a relationship between Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line. Inbetween all that we break from tradition and spend about 15 minutes trying to break down just what the hell Kanye's deal is right now. 00:00 - Intro 02:27 - Invasion of Privacy 24:31 - KANYE WHAT ARE YOU DOING STOP PLEASE 30:37 - Meant to Be 59:54 - What We Listened To: A Perfect Circle/A.A.L./Amen Dunes/Albert Hammond Jr./Fugazi/Saba/Martha/Mount Eerie/Alex Lahey/Carpenter Brut/Washed Out 1:35:49 - Outro Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Web: weeklybeats.podomatic.com FB: facebook.com/weeklybeastshow

We back, baby! Weekly Beats dives into the next hundred episodes by taking a close look at the powerfully feminist album, In a Poem Unlimited, discussing the ways in which U.S. Girls plays on pop music tropes and incising lyrics to deliver a complete package. Later, Drake delivers an early contender for Song of the Summer, "Nice for What." 0:00 - Intro 2:37 - In a Poem Unlimited 27:41 - Nice for What 56:57 - What We Listened To: Lorde, Run the Jewels, Mitski, Dinosaur Jr., Kacey Musgraves, Christoph de Babalon, Florence + the Machine, Dom, Kamasi Washington, The Life of Pablo, Plus 30 More Minutes of Mark's Stuff 2:00:12 - Outro Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com FB: www.facebook.com/weeklybeatsshow

What better way to celebrate another week in which we were unable to record than by releasing one of our worst episodes of all time? In this one, Charlie gets weird with a camel in our Car Seat Headrest review and Mark just isn't having it. Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com

We're out for the week, so here's on oldie but a goodie: that time Mark thought System of a Down's first track was pronounced Suit Pee. Here's a track by track breakdown of System of a Down's self-titled debut from season 1. Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com

To commemorate the fact that the two of us have sat together and talked about music 100 times now, we decided to countdown our 25 all time personal favorites. Nowhere on the internet is there a more definitive list. I challenge you - in fact, I DARE you to find two better top 25 lists than ours. Thanks for hanging out with us for 100 episodes, everyone! Here's to indeterminate amount of episodes more! Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com

Charlie and Mark spend some time with one of the modern legends of music, David Byrne. Will his latest album impress us or simply confuse us? Later, the pair sits down for yet another 30-second breakdown concerning Post Malone, and at this point in the year, it is very concerning. 0:00 - Intro 2:37 - American Utopia 27:00 - Psycho 51:46 - What We Listened To: Talking Heads, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Pearl Jam, U.S. Girls, Jack White, Preoccupations, Too Mellow, Dream Wife, More David Byrne and Brian Eno, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Vashti Bunyan 1:21:41 - Outro Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com FB: www.facebook.com/weeklybeatsshow

In lieu of a regular episode, we decided to be unable to record this week (ON PURPOSE *JUST TO MESS WITH YOU*), so here's an unreleased review of Baths' Romaplasm and Sam Smith's Too Good at Goodbyes instead! 05:06 - Romaplasm 39:19 - Too Good at Goodbyes 1:05:11 - What We Listened To: Mount Erie/Big Thief/Planetarium Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com FB: www.facebook.com/weeklybeatsshow

Mark and Charlie party hard with Andrew W.K. on his long-awaited return, You're Not Alone. After being reminded that music is worth living for, the pair travels to Wakanda with Kendrick and SZA to enjoy the lead-off single from the Black Panter Soundtrack. 0:00 - Intro 2:57 - You're Not Alone 45:12 - All the Stars 1:18:13 - What We Listened To: Vince Staples, Lorde + Run the Jewels, More Andrew W.K., Fischerspooner, Franz Ferdinand, DJ Taye, Ought 1:42:22 - Outro Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com FB: www.facebook.com/weeklybeatsshow

We get into the scuzziest weeds in the cultural wasteland with jpegmafia's excellently produced Veteran, and then dive into Drake's first feature after a decade-plus of absence on BlocBoy JB's Look Alive. 00:00 - Intro 03:42 - Veteran 28:25 - Look Alive 48:45 - What We Listened To: Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow's Annihilation Score/Natalie Prass/Chvrches/Tennis/Stevie Wonder/Exile (Who Apparently Wrote the Street Fighter 4 Intro Song I Guess) 1:06:50 - Outro Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com FB: www.facebook.com/weeklybeatsshow

Come turn back the clocks to the year 2010 as Mark and Charlie relive some of the greatest moments in music from their years in high school. Reminisce in the emo whining of one Max Bemis, revisit the worldly sounds of Vampire Weekend, and resurrect the nightmare Prom dancemaster, Soulja Boy. We've got it all for you on today's show, whether you like it or not! 0:00 - Intro 4:24 - Say Anything 46:42 - Vampire Weekend 1:11:08 - Soulja Boy 1:44:37 - Outro Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com FB: www.facebook.com/weeklybeatsshow

We're revisiting an old favorite on this week's show. The new version of Twin Fantasy is all polished up and ready for discussin'. Then, the pair identifies all of the new rules in Dua Lipa's appropriately titled single. 0:00 - Intro 4:11 - Twin Fantasy 35:07 - New Rules 1:01:42 - What We Listened To: Car Seat Headrest, The Mountain Goats, MGMT, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, The Peter Brotzmann Octet, Vampire Weekend 1:21:56 - Outro

We have a super-packed stuffed crust pizza of an episode this week in which we dissect every single track in Justin Timberlake's Man of the Woods, even though two of them are about wearing a shirt! We are the greatest music review preppers on the internet, and I'll challenge anyone who says different. Next, we break down Drake's latest chart topper and get into a bevvy of new releases. 00:00 - Intro 03:26 - Man of the Woods 01:14:39 - God's Plan 01:39:40 What We Listened To: ShitKid/Nite Jewel/Albert Hammond Jr./awakebutstillinbed/De Lux/Muckqs/Curtis Roach/MGMT/Muse/Preoccupations/Courtney Barnett 02:11:47 - Outro Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com FB: facebook.com/weeklybeatsshow Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com

It's a double-stuffed episode of Weekly Beats. Mark and Charlie take down the Grammys, wander through the wondrous space-scapes of the latest Mimicking Birds record, and contemplate love and gender roles while listening to "Bad at Love" by Halsey. Plus more conversations about Rhye, Snoop Dogg, and some particularly confusing statements from Quincy Jones. 0:00 - Intro 3:45 - The 2018 Grammys 22:16 - Layers of Us 49:05 - Bad at Love 1:14:20 - What We Listened To: Quincy Jones interview, Rhye, H.W.A., The Dogg Pound, Gang Starr, Snoop Dogg, Sufjan Stevens, A Perfect Circle, Purple Rain (the film), Chvrches. 2:02:53 - Outro Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com FB: facebook.com/weeklybeatsshow Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com

In lieu of a regular episode this week, we have the next best/worst thing: the next episode of Teaching Tool! Charlie's lesson plan from hell presses on, as he does his best to impress the greater qualities of the band Tool to Mark, who sincerely wishes they'd quit it with the interlude tracks. Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com FB: facebook.com/weeklybeatsshow Instagram: Weekly_Beats

We decide Shopping's latest album is not lonely, and that it is instead fine. Cardi B gives us whiplash on Bruno Mars' latest smash hit in this week's 30 second breakdown, and Charlie discusses an early contender for worst rock record of the year. It's kinda a week! 00:00 - Intro 03:31 - The Official Body 27:25 - Finesse 58:55 - What We Listened To: Porches/Johnny Greenwood/Fallout Boy/Warren G/The Vines/The Strokes 1:24:54 - Outro Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com FB: facebook.com/weeklybeatsshow Instagram: Weekly_Beats

The boys get down and dirty with the next big rapper, CupcakKe. Later, the duo tries not to lose their minds when analyzing the latest feel-good anthem from Imagine Dragons, Thunder. 0:00 - Intro 2:08 - Ephorize 30:50 - Thunder 58:37 - What We Listened To: Meet Me in the Bathroom/Cardi B/Joe Satriani/Camilla Cabello/The Shins/Serj Tankian 1:36:30 - Email and Outro Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com FB: facebook.com/weeklybeatsshow Instagram: Weekly_Beats

Another one! Weekly Beats is back with another bonus episode that we fished out of the vault from the far-off year of 2017. On this episode, Charlie and Mark dive deep into the thick soundscapes cultivated by King Krule. Later, the pair promises to buy a Hyundai after hearing the latest Billboard topper Feel It Still. 0:00 - Intro 3:48 - The OOZ 36:04 - Feel It Still 59:17 - What We Listened To: Bleachers/Black Lips/Ariel Pink/Unreal/DJ Seinfeld/Yasuaki Shamizu/Tim Heidecker/Weezer/Drake/xSPONGEXCOREx 1:27:58 - Outro Email: weeklybeatsshow@gmail.com FB: facebook.com/weeklybeatsshow Website: weeklybeats.podomatic.com