CrossFade: The Dueling Album Review Show

• The Roots — “undun” (Give to the Max 2024)

  For this year’s Give to the Max Day, MinnMax supporters raised more than $65,000 for Emerge Mothers Academy, a nonprofit supporting Twin Cities single moms. Along with the great feeling of supporting a worthy cause with their charitable donation, Nikolai (TechBeatNik) also unlocked an episode of CrossFade about “undun,” the 2011 record by Philly R&B/hip-hop group The Roots! It was a lot of fun coming back to CrossFade for such an interesting album and such a good cause. Remember, you make this happen! We’d love it if you’d rate and review CrossFade on iTunes, ‘cause it means more people can find the show and love it, too! You can find Matt and Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson and https://twitter.com/nintendufus respectively and in the #music channel of the MinnMax Discord server. Our theme song is “The Lights” by Maps Of Norway from their 2008 record, “Die Off Songbird”: https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI Support MinnMax on Patreon and get access to tons of great, exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/ Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist, a growing Spotify playlist of our community’s favorite music: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox Timestamps 0:00 - Give to the Max 2024: The Roots’s “undun” 1:36 - The roots of The Roots 5:50 - The Roots — “undun” 6:34 - "Dun" 8:16 - “Sleep” 10:46 - “Make My” 14:32 - “One Time” 18:54 - “Kool On” 25:32 - “The OtherSide” 29:08 - “Stomp” 30:18 - The storytelling on “undun” 37:08 - “Lighthouse” 39:48 - “I Remember” 42:41 - “Tip the Scale” 48:12 - “Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)” 49:35 - “Possibility (2nd Movement)” 50:32 - “Will To Power (3rd Movement)” 52:01 - “Finality (4th Movement)” 57:55 - Music Things from 2024 (Matt’s new band, our Spotify Wrapped, bands who disbanded, Jack White’s album, Steve Albini’s death)

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• Give to the Max 2023: Ne Obliviscaris's "Portal Of I"

  Surprise! It’s a special episode of CrossFade, thanks to a generous member of the MinnMax community. On Give to the Max Day, the MinnMax community raised more than $57,000 to help foster kids in Minneapolis. One of the many appealing donation rewards was an episode of CrossFade where the donor got to choose the album we talked about! Chris Fayter (a.k.a. Crayter) chose “Portal Of I,” the debut album of Australian prog metal band Ne Obliviscaris, which became one of his COVID-era comfort listens. We’re really jazzed to get back behind the mic to discuss some great, unique music. Thanks to Chris and the MinnMax community for their ongoing generosity! Go back a few decades to find new music: http://www.mediatraffic.de/tracks.htm We’d love it if you’d rate and review CrossFade on iTunes, ‘cause it means more people can find the show and love it, too! You can find Matt and Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson and https://twitter.com/nintendufus respectively and in the #music channel of the MinnMax Discord server. Our theme song is “The Lights” by Maps Of Norway from their 2008 record, “Die Off Songbird”: https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI Support MinnMax on Patreon and get access to tons of great, exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/ Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist, a growing Spotify playlist of our community’s favorite music: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox Timestamps 0:00 - Give to the Max 2023: Ne Obliviscaris’s “Portal Of I” 3:04 - A message from Crayter, charitable sponsor of this episode 13:40 - Ne Obliviscaris - "Portal Of I" 14:31 - Tapestry of the Starless Abstract 24:16 - Xenoflux 30:08 - Of the Leper Butterflies 37:06 - Forget Not 41:23 - And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope 51:23 - As Icicles Fall 54:44 - Of Petrichor Weaves Black Noise 1:05:15 - Community questions 1:40:43 - Sampha - “Jonathan L. Seagull” (suggested by MinnMax supporter notweirder)

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• Ending Season 2 with the Last Community Shuffle for A While, Probably!

  CrossFade is taking a break! We haven’t picked a return date yet, but Matt and Jason have ideas about how to make it even better going forward. We decided to end this season on a high note by bringing back the CrossFade Community Shuffle. It’s an episode where dozens of our Patreon supporters send us their current favorite songs, we shuffle a bunch of them, and we listen to and talk about them live on the show! It’s one of our favorite CrossFade traditions, so we hope you enjoy it. You can still enjoy all 60-some episodes of CrossFade for free wherever you listen to podcasts. From the bottom of our hearts, we want to express our appreciation for everyone who’s enjoyed the show so far. Thanks for listening, chatting, asking, tweeting, posting, and sharing in the fun of CrossFade! You’re the ones who make it great. We’d love it if you’d rate and review CrossFade on iTunes, ‘cause it means more people can find the show and love it, too! You can find Matt and Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson and https://twitter.com/nintendufus respectively and in the #music channel of the MinnMax Discord server. Our theme song is “The Lights” by Maps Of Norway from their 2008 record, “Die Off Songbird”: https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI Support MinnMax on Patreon and get access to tons of great, exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/ Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist, a growing Spotify playlist of our community’s favorite music: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox Timestamps 0:00 - The Last Community Shuffle for A While, Probably! 6:30 - Niyaz - “Shir Ali Mardan (Song of a Warrior)” suggested by Shazirah 11:27 - Nation of Language - “Sacred Tongue” suggested by Nolan Kelly 15:25 - Puscifer - “Green Valley” suggested by Ian Pierce 19:22 - Taylor Swift - “mirrorball” suggested by Mackenzie Beyer 23:52 - The Killers - “Miss Atomic Bomb” suggested by Ramses Garcia 28:56 - Black Country, New Road - “Chaos Space Marine” suggested by Holden Hintz 33:51 - Frightened Rabbit - “The Modern Leper” suggested by Halea Kasishke 38:00 - Craig Finn - “Messing with the Settings” suggested by Gabriel Cleveland 44:07 - The Knife - “Heartbeats - Live” by podbod 48:25 - Paolo Nutini - “Through The Echoes” suggested by Luca Alberti 51:52 - honeyhoney - “Thin Line” suggested by Matt Rogers 55:47 - Haken - “Invasion” suggested by Sjors van Berkel 1:00:34 - Rahul Sipligunj, Kaala Bhairava - “Naatu Naatu” from RRR suggested by Bob Kinnear 1:08:24 - P.O.S - “Wearing a Bear” suggested by Josh LaBaw 1:11:51 - Yot Club - “u dont kno me” suggested by Bezlo 1:16:05 - MEMBA, EVAN GIIA, Nooran Sisters - “For Aisha” suggested by Geoff Enright 1:20:43 - Algernon Cadwallader - “Pitfall”

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• Neil Young, “Our Rock Dad” with Tyler Wilcox

  Neil Young’s had quite a career. A hugely influential solo career, his work with CSNY, that thing during The Last Waltz, and now you can’t even hear his music on the biggest music streaming platform on Earth. Wow! To finally crack the nut on Neil, Matt brought in writer and fellow Neil Young fanatic Tyler Wilcox for an in-depth discussion on two essential Neil records: Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 1974 (Live at The Bottom Line) and Tonight’s the Night. Take a listen to some Real Neil with the biggest Youngheads out there! Find Tyler at the following links: https://twitter.com/tywilc https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/ https://aquariumdrunkard.com/ https://www.uncut.co.uk/author/twilcox/ We’d love it if you’d rate and review CrossFade on iTunes, ‘cause it means more people can find the show and love it, too! You can find Matt and Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson and https://twitter.com/nintendufus respectively and in the #music channel of the MinnMax Discord server. Our theme song is “The Lights” by Maps Of Norway from their 2008 record, “Die Off Songbird”: https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI Support MinnMax on Patreon and get access to tons of great, exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/ Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist, a growing Spotify playlist of our community’s favorite music: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox Timestamps 0:00 - Neil Young, “Our Rock Dad” with Tyler Wilcox 0:10 - Tyler and Neil Young 3:27 - The “expanding Ditch universe” of Neil Young 5:45 - Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 1974 (Live at The Bottom Line) 8:18 - Revolution Blues 13:08 - Pushed It Over the End 19:01 - Long May You Run 24:53 - Ambulance Blues 29:45 - Motion Pictures 38:53 - Tonight’s the Night 44:25 - Speakin’ Out 47:59 - Mellow My Mind 51:06 - Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown 55:38 - Tired Eyes 1:00:33 - Albuquerque

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• The Impact of Yo! MTV Raps in 13 Songs

  Was rap already everywhere by the time you were old enough to choose what you wanted to listen to? If so, then it might be hard to imagine how important a show like Yo! MTV Raps was for the genre and for the music industry as a whole. It only ran for seven years, but in that time, it had an indelible impact on the kinds of music people were exposed to. In this episode, Matt (who was around for the rise of rap) and Jason (who was not) pore over the show’s lasting impact by listening to some of the music you probably would’ve heard on Yo! MTV Raps back in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. It’s quite a trip, spanning everything from classic braggadocio to harrowing tales of gangland paranoia to bit-based schtick and more. Watch the MTV-produced Yo! MTV Raps documentary Jason references at the beginning of the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyji4m-exjU We’d love it if you’d rate and review CrossFade on iTunes, ‘cause it means more people can find the show and love it, too! You can find Matt and Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MattHelgeson and https://twitter.com/nintendufus respectively and in the #music channel of the MinnMax Discord server. Our theme song is “The Lights” by Maps Of Norway from their 2008 record, “Die Off Songbird”: https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI Support MinnMax on Patreon and get access to tons of great, exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax/ Listen to the CrossFade Community Playlist, a growing Spotify playlist of our community’s favorite music: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox Timestamps 0:00 - The Impact of Yo! MTV Raps in 13 Songs 0:52 - Demme, Freddy, and the origin of Yo! MTV Raps 7:39 - Eric B. & Rakim - “Follow The Leader” 12:07 - Boogie Down Productions - “My Philosophy” 19:21 - Sir Mix-A-Lot - “Posse On Broadway” 24:02 - Special Ed - “I Got It Made” 27:26 - EPMD - “You Gots To Chill” 33:02 - The D.O.C. - “It’s Funky Enough” 36:55 - Queen Latifah & Monie Love - “Ladies First” 42:07 - N.W.A. - “Express Yourself” 47:22 - Jungle Brothers - “Beyond This World” 54:15 - Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)” 1:01:13 - Slick Rick - “Children’s Story” 1:07:12 - Ghetto Boys - “My Mind Playing Tricks On Me” 1:12:51 - 3rd Bass - “The Gas Face” 1:18:28 - Ice Cube - "It Was a Good Day"

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