In a year where so many traditions are disrupted, we are sticking with one that brings us comfort and joy: ruining Christmas through music.

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• Wikipedia Links: Dolly Parton, Chilly Gonzales, Tori Amos, Phoebe Bridgers
• Amazon Links: A Holly Dolly Christmas, A Very Chilly Christmas, Christmastide, If We Make It Through December
• Ecommerce Links: Xmas Socks
• St. Michael and the Mary Line

Episode 314: What to Expect When You’re Expecting the Son of God originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

What, did you think that Ryan and Matt wouldn’t be back to ruin Christmas?

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• Wikipedia: Tyler the Creator, The Monkees, William Shatner, Old 97’s
• Fear (punk band)
• Little Drummer Boy Game (#ldb)
• “William Shatner’s Holiday Album Features a Military Christmas Song” on Military.com
• Beat Bugs
• “I Wish It Was Christmas Today” on SNL

Episode 313: If Gritty Has His Way, Everyone Will Be Upsot originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan and TFT Punk Correspondent Rachel D discuss Invasion of Privacy, the debut album from our next president, Cardi B.

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Cardi B, Invasion of Privacy

• Invasion of Privacy: Amazon, Apple Music
• Lyrics
• Wikipedia: Cardi B, Invasion of Privacy, Love and Hip Hop: New York
• Reviews: P4k
• The Cardi B Love and Hip Hop Supercuts: Season 6, Season 7
• NPR: “The Business of Being Cardi B”

Episode 312: The Cardi B Manifesto originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan, Matt, and Rachel D make their contribution to this scam with an episode on Jean Grae and Quelle Chris’s Everything’s Fine.

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Jean Grae x Quelle Chris, Eerything’s Fine

• Everything’s Fine: Amazon, Apple News*
• Lyrics
• Wikipedia: Jean Grae, Quelle Chris, Everything’s Fine
• Reviews: P4k

Episode 311: If Fine is Everything Then Everything is Fine originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan, Matt, and TFT Punk Correspondent Rachel D talk about “In A Poem Unlimited” by U.S. Girls.

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Syllabus: U.S. Girls, In A Poem Unlimited

• In A Poem Unlimited Amazon, Apple Music
• Lyrics
• Wikipedia: U.S. Girls, In A Poem Unlimited
• Review: P4k
• US Girls Blogger Blog
• Harold Bloom
• Hamlet, Act II Scene 2 on Genius (!)
• “Duck Amuck”

U.S. Girls Van Tour

Last week, U.S. Girls hosted the ‘In A Poem Unlimited’ van tour, stopping at infamous sites in New York City that embody themes of the new album. From the apartment where Norman Mailer stabbed his wife ('Velvet 4 Sale') to the subway grate where Marilyn Monroe was famously photographed ('Incidental Boogie') and the War Resisters League, home to the oldest secular pacifist group in the country ('Mad As Hell') – the tour gave riders a NYC translation of the universal themes that inspire U.S. Girls' music.‘In A Poem Unlimited’ is out now: http://smarturl.it/InAPoemUnlimited

Posted by 4AD on Friday, February 16, 2018

Episode 310: Ain’t I a Stinker? originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan and TFT PCRD (Punk Correspondent Rachel D) return to 2018 to discuss POST–by Jeff Rosenstock.

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Syllabus: Jeff Rosenstock, POST–

• POST– Amazon, Apple Music
• Lyrics
• Wikipedia: Jeff Rosenstock, POST–
• Reviews: P4k
• Bowling Alone

Episode 309: Punking Alone originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Rachel leaves her man at home, and Ryan and Matt leave their girl with her friends. It’s 11:30, and the podcast is jumpin’, jumpin’.

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Syllabus Destiny’s Child, The Writing’s on the Wall

• The Writing’s on the Wall: Amazon, Apple Music
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• Wikipedia: Destiny’s Child, The Writing’s on the Wall
• P4k retrospective
• Belshazzar’s Feast, Daniel 5

Episode 308: Every Unhappy Destiny’s Child Boyfriend is Unhappy in His Own Way originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan, Matt, and Rachel D try to figure out what a girl wants, what a girl needs. On Christina Aguilera, the singer’s self-titled debut album, it turns out she doesn’t even know herself—until she does.

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Syllabus: Christina Aguilera, Christina Aguilera

• Christina Aguilera: Amazon, Apple Music
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• Wikipedia: Christina Aguilera, Christina Aguilera
• So Real, Mandy Moore

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Episode 307: Christina Aguilera is in a Power Pose originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan and Matt tread the fine line between bromance and the bro-trayal as they consider Through Being Cool by Saves the Day and Something to Write Home About by The Get Up Kids.

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Syllabus: Saves the Day, Through Being Cool and The Get Up Kids, Something to Write Home About

• Through Being Cool
  • Amazon, Apple Music
  • Lyrics
  • Wikipedia: Band, Album
• Something to Write Home About
  • Amazon, Apple Music
  • Lyrics
  • Wikipedia: Band, Album
  • Review: P4k (2.0) (for reference: P4k on Death Cab’s We Have the Facts… and it’s 7.5)

Episode 306: THAT Guy Knows What I’m Talking About originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan, Matt, and TFT Punk Correspondent Rachel D listen to the psychedelic Latin rock and the highly-marketable fusion-pop of Santana’s Supernatural.

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Syllabus: Santana, et al., Supernatural

• Supernatural: Amazon, Apple Music
• Lyrics
• Wikipedia: Santana (band), Carlos Santana, Supernatural
• Guiro

Episode 305: Man, It’s a Hot One originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Ryan, Matt, and Rachel D consider The Dismemberment Plan’s *Emergency & I* (1999), an album about which Pitchfork wrote, “If you consider yourself a fan of groundbreaking pop, go out and buy this album right now. Now. Get up. Go.”

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Syllabus: The Dismemberment Plan, Emergency & I

• Emergency & I: Amazon, Apple Music
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• Wikipedia: The Dismemberment Plan, Emergency & I
• Reviews: P4k Original, P4k Reissue

Episode 304: 30-Something Sunday Vibes originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]