CrossFade: The Dueling Album Review Show

Jan 05 2024 67 ep. 96 mins 427
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CrossFade is a dueling album review show about expanding your musical horizons hosted by Matt Helgeson. Released every two weeks, CrossFade has guests introduce one of their favorite albums of all time to Matt Helgeson (and vice versa) as they review the highlights, play clips, and compare each other's picks. On every episode, we answer questions from the community via MinnMax's Patreon page - https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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Give to the Max 2023: Ne Obliviscaris's "Portal Of I"

Jan 05 2024 109 mins  
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 rewards was an episode of CrossFade where the donor got to choose the album we talked about! Chris Fayter (a.k.a. Crayter) chose “Portal

Ending Season 2 with the Last Community Shuffle for A While, Probably!

Dec 30 2022 91 mins  
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 an episode where dozens of our Patreon supporters send us their current favorite songs, we shuffle a bunch of them, and we listen to and

Neil Young, “Our Rock Dad” with Tyler Wilcox

Dec 23 2022 69 mins  
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 Neil, Matt brought in writer and fellow Neil Young fanatic Tyler Wilcox for an in-depth discussion on two essential Neil records: Citizen

The Impact of Yo! MTV Raps in 13 Songs

Dec 09 2022 83 mins  
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 ran for seven years, but in that time, it had an indelible impact on the kinds of music people were exposed to. In this episode, Matt (who wa

11 Songs to Remember Mimi Parker of Low

Nov 25 2022 76 mins  
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 an episode to a short retrospective on the group and Mimi’s contributions to it. If you know Low, we hope this is a faithful look ba

Bruce Springsteen & Archers Of Loaf with Natalie Marlin

Nov 11 2022 109 mins  
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 lot about the kinds of stories Bruce tells through his music and what makes his mild corniness endearing, as well as why Archers Of Loaf�

Cinderella & Def Leppard with Elana Levin

Oct 28 2022 114 mins  
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 things straight! Matt and Elana cover Def Leppard’s “Hysteria” (the one with “Pour Some Sugar On Me” on it) and “Long Cold

7 Songs to Remember Pharoah Sanders (1940 - 2022)

Oct 14 2022 65 mins  
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, but on this episode, we pay our respects to the legend with seven songs that we think exemplify some of the broad strokes in artist’s

Charley Crockett & New Kingdom with Infinity Knives (Tariq Ravelomanana)

Sep 23 2022 72 mins  
“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, country, experimental, grunge, pop, hip-hop, prog, rap. That idealist eclecticism comes through in his own music, including his 202

The Wind Waker OST Listening Party with Sarah and Kyle

Sep 09 2022 75 mins  
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 CrossFade first, you can watch the whole discussion on YouTube at the link below! Watch this discussion on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iTiQ_7