Rookie of the Year Folk On By Matt Marrone • August 24th, 2021 Matt goes outside, to a concert of all things!
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2021 By Noah Springer • August 23rd, 2021 Noah goes mainstream!
Feature Excerpt On Orientalism and Exoticism in Videogame Music By William Dowell • August 18th, 2021 The insidious way that Orientalism exists in videogame music.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – July 2021 By Noah Springer • July 30th, 2021 Chill beats to do stuff and improve one’s life to.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – June 2021 By Noah Springer • June 30th, 2021 Noah moved this month but he still put this together for us all. What a guy!
Always Autumn Egress By Autumn Wright • June 3rd, 2021 Autumn explores cycles, hurtling towards the way out of things.
Exploits Feature Variations By Autumn Wright • June 1st, 2021 What these recordings offer in their canonization of different variations is a juxtaposition that glimpses lives and careers.
Exploits Feature Queer Black Manhoods By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 3rd, 2021 Black men in the West are offered two models for existing and neither have room for queerness.
’68 Releases a Menu Worthy of the Meal By Levi Rubeck • April 13th, 2021 This wasn’t a boast but a call-to-arms, and there are many who took on the charge.
portrayal of guilt’s Anthems Against False Hope By Levi Rubeck • April 5th, 2021 Anthems for sinking ships, as if the tide itself was a choleric spirit drawing you down to a lightless ocean floor.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – March 2021 By Noah Springer • March 22nd, 2021 You’ve got to hunt for these albums!
Feature Excerpt Car Rides and Crooning: Bridging the Gap with A Woman’s Heart By Christine M. Estel • March 18th, 2021 Music has a certain power to bridge the general divide.
World Tour Australia By Oluwatayo Adewole • March 9th, 2021 Throw something on the barbie, Tayo’s going down under!
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – February 2021 By Noah Springer • March 1st, 2021 Hey you guys! Noah is doing album roundups again!
Feature Excerpt Videogame Chamber Music By William Dowell • February 26th, 2021 “One Winged Angel” is plenty haunting to start but then you hear the string quartet version. Find out what goes into that.
Letter From the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – February 2021 By Stu Horvath • February 14th, 2021 February sure is long for the shortest month, right? Pass the time with the new Unwinnable Monthly.
Rookie of the Year More Songs About Bob and Judy By Matt Marrone • February 3rd, 2021 Did David Byrne invent Twin Peaks? Matt thinks so.
The Beat Box RIP MF DOOM By Noah Springer • January 29th, 2021 Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name.
Exploits Feature Two Minutes to Late Night – Bedroom Covers By Ed Coleman • January 3rd, 2021 Our pick for best thing on the internet that makes the pandemic bearable.
Fear of the Dark, Side B By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • January 1st, 2021 Maiden Voyage season one wraps up with the departure of Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden! (Decades old) PLOT TWIST!
Rookie of the Year 365 Days of Halloween By Matt Marrone • December 29th, 2020 Practically every time we saw Phoebe Bridgers in 2020, she was wearing a full-body skeleton costume.
Best of 2020 The Best Music of 2020 By Team Unwinnable • December 29th, 2020 Despite the shit show of 2020, musicians soldiered on, doing what they do and providing us all with the briefest of respites from staring at our phones, our walls or each other.
Fear of the Dark, Side A By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • December 25th, 2020 Ho, ho, ho! What could be better than a new episode of Maiden Voyage for Christmas?!? What’s that? You had a whole list of things you asked for and a new Maiden Voyage episode wasn’t one of them? Well, consider this a fun, unexpected stocking stuffer!
Noteworthy Hip Hop Rediscovering 24-Carat Black By Noah Springer • December 22nd, 2020 Noah talks to Zach Schonfeld about his new book on the overlooked legacy of funk and soul band 24-Carat Black.
No Prayer for the Dying, Side B By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • December 18th, 2020 Don’t pray for us, we’re already dead.
No Prayer for the Dying, Side A By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • December 11th, 2020 For an Iron Maiden podcast, this one sure talks a lot about the Rolling Stones…
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Side B By Stu Horvath and Ed Coleman • December 4th, 2020 Is Seventh Son of a Seventh Son the best Iron Maiden album ever? Can it possibly trump Powerslave? Can Ed’s marriage survive his wife’s ambivalence towards Iron Maiden? The suspense is surely killing you, so listen now!
Casting Deep Meteo Searing and Soaring with Jeremy Enigk By Levi Rubeck • December 2nd, 2020 Ghosts captures an experienced sense of hope that blooms straight off of How It Feels.
Exploits 2010 – 2019 By Stu Horvath • December 1st, 2020 Do not party like it’s 2019. Wear masks. Be socially distant. Stay home.
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Side A By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • November 27th, 2020 We’ve reached the promised land: the best Iron Maiden album of all time!
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – November 2020 By Noah Springer • November 27th, 2020 Fresh hip hop for you!
Feature Excerpt Keep Calm with a Cup of Coffee By Katiee McKinstry • November 24th, 2020 Katiee McKinstry chats with developer Andrew Jeremy about the joys of chilling out in coffee shops.
Somewhere in Time, Side B By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • November 20th, 2020 At least this album ends on a good note.
Somewhere in Time, Side A By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • November 13th, 2020 The show moves on to cover Somewhere in Time, because that is the next album chronologically!
Another Look Sing It Out By Yussef Cole • October 30th, 2020 Lovers Rock, one of the films in Steve McQueen’s brilliant new “Small Axe” anthology about the UK’s West Indian community from the 1960s through the 1980s, is full of a palpable and irresistible energy.
Powerslave, Side A By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • October 30th, 2020 Don’t look now, but there are only two minutes to midnight!
World Tour Indonesia By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 23rd, 2020 That’s why Gone With the Wind is/was revered and why we’re inundated with period pieces that refuse to meaningfully interrogate the class/colonial violence that this splendor is built upon.
Piece of Mind, Side B By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • October 23rd, 2020 From the band’s classic, “The Trooper,” to the bonkers lyrics of “Quest for Fire,” to the book report about Dune that is “To Tame a Land,” this album side is all killer, no filler.
