Robbie & James Talk Music

Robbie & James are writing and film professors who talk music through their respective academic lens.

Robbie & James Talk Music is a music podcast hosted by robbiemaakestad, with 11 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

robbiemaakestad hosts Robbie & James Talk Music, a music show with 11 episodes published.

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  Episode #39

  Episode 39: On Rotation - Wesley Joseph & Elise Hayes

  Jul 7, 202616 min

  Episode Discussion Topics: – What Robbie & James have been listening to lately. – Repetition in music. – Artists who deserve more recognition. Tracks: Wesley Joseph’s’ “ If Time Could Talk ” Elise Hayes’s “ Dive In ” Further Listening/Reading: Wesley Joseph Forever Ends Someday , 2026 Sid Sriram’s Sidharth , 2023 Jill Christman’s The Heart Folds Early University of Nebraska Press’s American Lives Series Grimes The Black Angels The Chameleons’ Script of the Bridge , 1983 Freddie Gibbs You Only Die 1nce , 2026 Taylor Swift’s Folklore , 2020 Baby Keem’s The Melodic Blue , 2022 Robbie and James Episode 14: Introducing… Love Is Blind, Season 10 Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness , 2022 Tobias Wolff Playlists: Ongoing Pod Playlist Episode 39 Playlist

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  Episode #38

  Episode 38: EPs - Pixies & Flea

  Jun 30, 202623 min

  Episode Discussion Topics: – What Robbie & James have been listening to lately. – The purpose of violence in media. – The violence of systems. Tracks: Pixies’ “ Caribou ” Flea’s “ Lovelovelove ” Further Listening/Reading: Pixies Pixies’ Come On Pilgrim (1987) David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999) Lana & Lilly Wachowski’s The Matrix (1999) Pixies’ Bossanova (1990) The Cure’s Disintegration (1989) Kendrick Lamar’s GNX (2026) MF DOOM’s Madvillainy (2004) Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl (2025) Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite (2019) Flea Flea’s Helen Burns (2012) Flea’s “ 333 ” (2012) Flea’s “ 333 Revisited ” (2012) Flea’s “ Helen Burns ” (2012) Jason Magabo Perez’s “I walk in historiographies of my mother as embodied theory of complex refusal which may or may not generate a syntax of possibility for expansive underfuturities wherein my mother shall walk walk walk against the state” at Interim Poetics. Jason Magabo Perez’s This Is For the Mostless (2017) Playlists: Ongoing Pod Playlist Episode 38 Playlist

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  Episode #37

  Episode 37 - Christmas II - Bleachers & Sufjan Stevens

  Dec 23, 202514 minS0

  <p>Episode Discussion Topics:</p> <p>– Christmas music. </p> <p>– Love Actually facts. </p> <p>– Artist credibility & Christmas albums. </p> <p>Tracks:<br> Bleachers’ “Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call”<br> Sufjan Steven’s “Christmas in the Room” </p> <p>Further Listening/Reading:<br> Bleachers<br> Richard Curtis’s Love Actually (2003)<br> Sufjan Stevens<br> Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams’ Aporia (2020)<br> Sufjan Stevens’ Songs for Christmas (2006<br> Sufjan Stevens’ Silver & Gold, 2012<br> George Saunders’ “Chicago Christmas, 1984,” The New Yorker (2003)<br> <br> Playlists:<br> Ongoing Pod Playlist <br> Episode 37 Playlist</p>

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  Episode #36

  Episode 36 - Christmas I - The Oh Hellos & Run–D.M.C.

  Dec 17, 202514 minS0

  <p>Episode Discussion Topics:</p> <p>– Christmas music. </p> <p>– When we listen to Christmas music.</p> <p>– The history of Christmas music. </p> <p>– Die Hard facts. </p> <p>Tracks:<br> The Oh Hellos’ “Mvmt I: “Rejoice! Rejoice!””<br> Run–D.M.C.’s “Christmas In Hollis” </p> <p>Further Listening/Reading:<br> The Oh Hellos<br> “Joy to the World”<br> “Coventry Carol” <br> “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” <br> The 2025 Essay Daily Advent Calendar<br> Run–D.M.C. <br> John McTiernan’s Die Hard (1988)<br> Nadia Khomami’s "British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie," The Guardian (2025)<br>...

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  Episode #35

  Episode 35 - Punk - Geese & Wire

  Dec 9, 202514 minS0

  <p>Episode Discussion Topics:</p> <p>– The historical timeline of Punk music. </p> <p>– The aesthetic of Punk music. </p> <p>– The impact and legacy of Punk music. </p> <p>– Post Punk & New Wave</p> <p><br> Tracks:<br> Geese’s “Trinidad”<br> Wire’s “Pink Flag” </p> <p>Further Listening/Reading:<br> Ramones<br> Patti Smith<br> Sex Pistols<br> The Clash<br> The Damned<br> Geese’s Getting Killed<br> Mike Nagel’s “Orientation” at The Rumpus, Oct. 2, 2025<br> Mike Nagel’s Duplex, 2022<br> Mike Nagel’s “Culdesac,” 2024<br> Autofocus press<br> Michael Wheaton, writer<br> Little Engines magazine<br> Adam Voith, writer  <br> Ri...

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