Midnight Madness

Tuesday, January 13, 202601/13/2026

Midnight Madness: 3 Songs from Chess

Fievel shares their favorite musical of all time, Chess, with Anand. Spoiler alert: it’s great!

Tuesday, January 6, 202601/06/2026

Midnight Madness: West Side Story

Anand thinks he’s putting one over on Fievel, but instead they nerd out on Leonard Bernstein for an hour. The…

Tuesday, December 16, 202512/16/2025

Midnight Madness: 3 Songs by Judee Sill

Anand learned Judee Sill existed so he and Fievel checked out three songs by this Laurel Canyon-era songwriter and were…

Tuesday, December 9, 202512/09/2025

Midnight Madness: “Jon” by Gisle Roen Johansen

Fievel shares some macabre stoner jazz metal from the future with Anand. It rips.

Tuesday, November 25, 202511/25/2025

Midnight Madness: 3 Songs by Innov Gnawa

Fievel throws a dart at the map and lands on Morocco. Anand and Fievel then stumble upon a Daptone Records-signed…

Tuesday, November 18, 202511/18/2025

Midnight Madness: 3 songs by Fati Mariko

Fievel and Anand discover their favorite new artists from Niger quite by accident.

Tuesday, November 11, 202511/11/2025

Midnight Madness: Soft Rock Reckoning “Strange Magic” by ELO

All things must end, and as such Soft Rocktober is done with the final test of ELO’s “Strange Magic.” And…

Tuesday, November 4, 202511/04/2025

Midnight Madness: Soft Rock III The Rubric & The Curse

Anand shares his soft rock rubric with Fievel and then mentions in passing that perhaps soft rock is not actually…

Tuesday, October 28, 202510/28/2025

Midnight Madness: Soft Rocktober Part II

Fievel and Anand dig deeper into the mystery of just what “soft rock” is and feature an interview with expert…

Tuesday, October 14, 202510/14/2025

Midnight Madness: Soft Rocktober Part 1

Fievel and Anand share their favorite soft rock tunes and begin to unravel just what defines the genre as part…

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