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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 r
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
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 Ne
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 r
We’ve talked a lot about the Duluth-based indie rock band Low on this show, because Matt knows them well and Jason’s never heard them. In the wake of co-founder/drummer/vocalist Mimi Parker’s death in early November 2022, we wanted to dedicate
This episode of CrossFade (The BossFade?) featuring writer, podcaster, and music journalist Natalie Marlin (https://twitter.com/NataliesNotInIt/) is devoted to rock icon Bruce Springsteen and ‘90s indies Archers of Loaf! Matt and Natalie chat a
Like the bodacious ‘dos from which the sound gets its name, “hair metal” can be a hard genre to pin down! Luckily, we’ve got writer/podcaster/critic/organizer and hair metal fan Elana Levin to run through two genre classics to help set some thi
Pharoah Sanders (not “Pharaoh”) was a disciple of John Coltrane and a pioneer in his own right, putting spiritual jazz on the map with unique, genre-blending textures. You can’t truly encapsulate an artist like Pharoah Sanders in a few songs, b
“When I say ‘I like everything,’ I really, really like everything.”So says Tariq Ravelomanana (https://twitter.com/infinitykniives), who creates music under the name Infinity Knives. He means it, too: He gets inspiration from everywhere: folk,
Hoy! For a special treat, Jason gathered Kyle and Sarah (aka the other pieces of the Triforce) for a roundtable adventure through the soundtrack to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. You can listen to it wherever you get podcasts – and in a C
We recently uncovered our old iPods. We haven’t really used them for several years, so we thought it’d be a lot of fun to hit “shuffle” and see which of the tens of thousands of songs on them came up first. Then we discussed each of them on mic
This week on CrossFade, it’s all about the 𝓋𝒾𝒷𝑒𝓈 – which makes it a great episode for writer, critic, and podcast host Bijan Stephen’s debut!Uyama Hiroto was a close friend and collaborator with Nujabes (known best for his Samurai Champlo
It’s a proggy, skanky episode of CrossFade with writer, editor, and podcaster John Carson (https://twitter.com/John_Carson)!In this episode, we’re just barely scratching the surface of ska with John’s pick, Streetlight Manifesto’s “Everything
What music did you listen to when you were 5 years old? How did it impact the music you listen to or the way you approach it? Do you still listen to any of it today?In this chooglin’ episode of CrossFade, Matt and Jason take a suggestion from
We’re thrilled to welcome Cody Matthew Johnson, known for his music and sound work on games like Trek to Yomi, Devil May Cry 5, Guardians of the Galaxy, Resident Evil 2 Remake, and many more, to compare and contrast Bon Iver with Iron Maiden! D
What does perfection mean to you? What if you knew someone ELSE called something “perfect”? That’s what we wanted to find out on this episode of CrossFade, so we looked at two of the dozen albums that have received a perfect 10 score from Pitch
2022 is almost halfway over! To mark the occasion, Matt and Jason picked their favorite records released this year for this special discussion.Jason picked Soul Glo’s “Diaspora Problems” (March 25) because it’s high-energy, it bends genres, an
Content warning: This episode contains discussions of sensitive topics like depression, sexual abuse, and suicide as explored in the music of The Mountain Goats and Silver Jews.MinnMax Contributor and all-around gentleman Joe Juba brought an a
What would make you buy digital music in 2022? Is it respect? Curiosity? Guilt? Little bit of all of the above?That’s what we wanted to know from each other – and why we took a dive into each other’s growing collections to interrogate each oth
It’s a mid-aughts extravaganza on CrossFade, featuring writer, critic, connoisseur and musician Erin Margaret Day (https://twitter.com/comeawaywithEMD)!Between English indie rockers Electrelane and SF experimental rock group Erase Errata, get
However big a left turn this is for you, you should know it’s also pretty wild for us, too. On this episode, Matt and Jason turn the dial to “POPULAR” for a look into the top 20 songs on the Billboard Top 200!We discuss which songs work for us
Note: This episode was recorded and published before claims of misconduct against Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler were made public on Aug. 27, 2022.AJ Moser is the biggest Arcade Fire fan we know, and in this episode of CrossFade, he got to ma
Okay so this one’s not a duel, but it’s still a hell of an album!For this special episode, we asked the CrossFade community to vote on albums they wanted to hear us discuss. It was a tight race (sorry, Frightened Rabbit ☹) but the vox populi w
Season 2 is here and so is everyone’s favorite guy on the internet, Dan Ryckert!It seems like “Chinese Democracy” is nobody’s favorite Guns N’ Roses album. It took a huge amount of money and time to make and then it underperformed when it DID
It’s a new year and we’re back with more CrossFade! We hope your year’s off to a great start, and we hope you’re hungry for more fun music discussions.Our first episode with Dan Ryckert drops Friday, Feb. 11. Leave a question or song suggestio
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