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• Communion Song

  In a world too often divided, we are celebrating the songs that unite us, that bring us to a shared understanding, that give a sense of togetherness, and yes, even hope. Whether with a group on a desert pilgrimage or singing along in isolation in the midst of a pandemic, we explore the songs that, religion aside, give us a sense of communion.VIDEOS Violeta Parra: Gracias a la VidaC. Tangana: Los Tontos (NPR Tiny Desk, starts at 4:10 - but please watch it all!)EXTRASOverlooked No More: Violeta Parra, Folk Genius Who Redefined Latin American MusicJoan Baez and Mercedes Sosa: Live Performance of Gracias a la VidaA Guide to the Films of Yorgos LanthimosLos Tontos (Official Video)Un Veneno Scene from Paquita SalasUn Veneno Official Video (filmed in LA)Antes de Morirme (featuring Rosalía)Tú Me Dejaste de QuererIngobernableNYT Piece on C. Tangana and El MadrileñoKEXP Interview with C. TanganaNew Order: Bizarre Love TriangleOther Fun NPR Tiny Desk ConcertsJuvenile KhruanghbinDakha BrakhaSheila E. Ssing SsingConnect with us on Instagram (to share your song picks or troll us), Spotify (for our ever-growing playlist), and Stereothematica.com (for extra fun)! If you like what you’re hearing, please subscribe, and if you love it, a five-star rating and review would send us into the exosphere of excitement. And email us at [email protected]! We will write back!

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• Funeral March

  In this episode, we lean into our inner goths and imagine the songs we’d want played at our own memorials…IF we even have one. One of us goes full velvet-draped drama with sweeping strings and tragic romance; the other is all about spiritual soulfulness, reggae-tinged resilience, and a send-off that feels more like a tipsy singalong than a dirge. We may have gone in completely different directions, but we both love the way music holds our grief and our joy, and how being a little “death positive” can actually make life feel more vivid.VIDEOS Giuseppe Verdi: Act 1 Prelude from “La Traviata” (1979 Decca / Sutherland Pavarotti) Jimmy Cliff: “Many Rivers to Cross” (1969)Connect with us on Instagram (to share your song picks or troll us), Spotify (for our ever-growing playlist), and Stereothematica.com (for extra fun)! If you like what you’re hearing, please subscribe, and if you love it, a five-star rating and review would send us into the exosphere of excitement. And email us at [email protected]! We will write back!

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• Put it in a Letter

  This is our love letter to the lost art of letter-writing…in songs. Consider it a carefully folded note passed across time. Signed, sealed, AND delivered by the Postal Service, or by hand. Song as letter, or letter as song, whatever the concept, these musical missives hit our hearts in ways an email can't. VIDEOS XTC: Dear God (1986)Lulu: To Sir, With Love (1967) EXTRAS ‘Dear God’: The violent protests triggered by XTC’s controversial single - Far Out Magazine The Blasphemous Story of XTC & "Dear God" I New British Canon - Trash Theory YouTubeDear God · Todd Rundgren cover SNL Obama Tribute - Cecily Strong and Sasheer Zamata singing To Sir, With Love (2017)One Song, Jimi Hendrix: Purple HazeLulu performs Shout (1965)Lulu performs Boom Bang-a-Bang for Eurovision (1969)Lulu performs The Man With the Golden Gun (1975)To Sir With Love: Representing Education and Race RelationsConnect with us on Instagram (to share your song picks or troll us), Spotify (for our ever-growing playlist), and Stereothematica.com (for extra fun)! If you like what you’re hearing, please subscribe, and if you love it, a five-star rating and review would send us into the exosphere of excitement. And email us at [email protected]! We will write back!

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• Scary Songs

  We’re getting into the spooky spirit talking about the scariest songs in our music libraries. While Monster Mash and Thriller do make an appearance, we’re clawing our way past the Halloween clichés to scream about the songs that really get under our skin and linger like the breath of death.  VIDEOS Die Antwoord: Baby’s on Fire (2012)The Zombies: Butcher’s Tale (Western Front 1914)SPECIAL TREAT (NO TRICKS HERE)SCARY SONG LISTENER COLLAB PLAYLIST - Share YOUR scariest songs...if you DARE!!EXTRASJon Savage on song: The Zombies – Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)Die Antwoord - Umshini Wam (Short Film, Directed by Harmony Korine, 2011)Die Antwoord: I Fink You Freeky (2012)Chappie Featurette (2015)Pitchfork’s Review of Die Antwoord’s Tension (4.2)Zef: The Die Antwoord Story (2024)Die Antwoord Accused of Child AbuseConnect with us on Instagram (to share your song picks or troll us), Spotify (for our ever-growing playlist), and Stereothematica.com (for extra fun)! If you like what you’re hearing, please subscribe, and if you love it, a five-star rating and review would send us into the exosphere of excitement. And email us at [email protected]! We will write back!

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• Go Corporate!

  Your eyes are not deceiving you–we are indeed going corporate! At least for this episode, wherein we reflect on the strange sorcery of songs from commercials: the ones that, for a moment, make you forget you're a cog in the sparkling machine of late capitalism. Sure, they were used to sell us stuff, but we still kind of love them.VIDEOS Geico Caveman Ad featuring “Remind Me” by Röyksopp (2006)Remind Me: Röyksopp (2001)Volkswagen, Trio, Da Da Da (1997)Trio: Da Da Da (1982)EXTRASApple iPod Commercial feat. the Ting TingsTony Hale in VW CommercialVolkswagen, Nick Drake, Pink Moon Parker Posey Gap Commercial Michael Jackson Pepsi Generation Gap Khaki SwingThe California Raisins, I Heard it Through the GrapevineThe Ellen Coming Out Controversy for AdvertisersConnect with us on Instagram (to share your song picks or troll us), Spotify (for our ever-growing playlist), and Stereothematica.com (for extra fun)! If you like what you’re hearing, please subscribe, and if you love it, a five-star rating and review would send us into the exosphere of excitement. And email us at [email protected]! We will write back!

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