After a long stretch of “special episodes,” from our all-Adele supershow to our series of best of 2015 episodes to our David Bowie eulogy, we’re finally back to doing what we do best on Hear and Now with Steve Jozef: reviewing albums. In this episode, we break down Rihanna’s long-awaited ANTI and Anderson Paak’s majestic Malibu. But […]
Episode 10: The Top 10 Pop & Folk Albums of 2015
We’ve finally arrived at the end of our 2015 retrospective on Hear and Now, having already covered the best hip hop, rock, and electronic albums of the year. But we’re closing out with perhaps the most diverse and interesting lists of the bunch: “pop & folk” a.k.a., “everything that didn’t […]
Episode 7: The Top 10 Hip Hop Albums of 2015
It’s the end of the year, which means family reunions, Christmas presents, New Years resolutions, and for a handful of potentially somewhat mentally ill audiophiles including myself, obsessive best-of list making. And this year, I’m sharing that process with you on our music criticism podcast Hear and Now, whether you […]
Episode 6: The Adele Supershow
With the holiday season beginning and Christmas songs dominating the radio, few artists dare to put out new music. This week, there’s only one new album worth talking about, but it happens to be one of the biggest releases of the year: Adele’s 25, the long-awaited followup to her chart-shattering, Grammy-reaping 21. So […]
Episode 5: Grimes, Ty Dolla $ign, Oneohtrix Point Never
This week on our music criticism podcast Hear and Now, we’re talking about some of the boldest and most interesting new albums of the year. First up is the long anticipated return of electronic producer Grimes in her most arrestingly poppy effort so far, Art Angels. Then we delve into Ty Dolla $ign’s […]
Episode 4: Joanna Newsom, Neon Indian, Majical Cloudz
This week on our music review podcast Hear and Now with Steve Jozef, all three of the albums we’re talking about kick ass, and all in totally different ways. We begin with the lush and beautiful new release Divers from harp-plucking indie folk darling Joanna Newsom. Next, we groove and jive to the […]
Episode 3: Disclosure, Wavves, John Grant
Hear and Now just keeps getting smoother, tighter, and more competently edited, doesn’t it? This week we’re talking up Caracal, the new release from the now hyper-popular house duo Disclosure. We move on to the surf punk group Wavves, with their newest and perhaps best album, V. And we finish things […]
Hear and Now Episode 2: CHVRCHES, Fetty Wap, Julia Holter
Hey, episode 2! We’ve made it this far! This week on Hear and Now with Steve Jozef, we kick things off with the new album Every Open Eye from Glasgow synthpop group CHVRCHES, their followup to their breakout release The Bones of What You Believe. Then we tackle the debut self-titled album from the […]
Introducing Hear and Now with Steve Jozef, a Nerdophiles Podcast
Even if you think of yourself as a music fanatic, you probably don’t read music reviews, and I don’t blame you at all. Have you ever read a description of a song and pictured the exact sounds in your head? Neither have I. Music simply doesn’t suit itself to the written […]
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