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. Tune in for a sprawling, but not overly rambly discussion of all things NOT-metal, including country, jazz, Canadian punk, and everywhere in-between!

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

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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