| Episode 16: Video Games & Music |

On this week’s episode of the Aim to Misbehave podcast, video game writer Drew Millard joins returning guest Luke Winkie to talk about the myriad ways the world of video games (and technology) interact with music. We talk about holographic pop stars, both at Coachelle and abroad, the soundtracks to Squaresoft Playstation games, and the possible origins of 50 Cent’s diamond skull MacGuffin.

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| Episode 15: Hip-Hop in 2012 |

On the latest episode of the Aim to Misbehave podcast, freelancer Craig Jenkins has his computer go haywire while recording, and we are unfortunately only gifted with a few minutes of his time. That’s okay, as Complex magazine staff writer Andrew Martin stays aboard the whole episode to talk about the beat scenes in California and Philadelphia, regionalism in hip-hop, the enduring mystery of Earl Sweatshirt, and who to expect things from in rap in 2012. 

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| Episode 14: March Review |

On the latest episode of the Aim to Misbehave podcast, PrefixMag editor Andrew Winistorfer and freelancer writer Susannah Young join the podcast in March’s edition of the Aim to Misbehave monthly review. We talk about The Men, Perfume Genius, and Action Bronson, as well as repping for albums by John Talabot, THEESatisfaction and Sharon Van Etten.

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| Episode 13: SXSW |

On the latest episode of the Aim to Misbehave podcast, we have sound problems. Namely, New York hotels have shitty bandwidth. As a consequence, our guest, freelance writer Paul de Revere, sounds as if he’s calling in via tin can to talk with Chris Bosman and Xavier Palin, member of rap group The Lower Class, about the madness that was 2012’s SXSW. It’s okay, though, as cogent points are made about Jay-Z, human behavior, Doritos, and Spring Break.

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| Episode 12: Artist Breakdowns |

We’re back from our spring break here at the Aim to Misbehave podcast, and on our return we’re talking about one of the more noteworthy pieces of music news that happened: Bradford Cox’s hour-long rendition of “My Sharona” in Minneapolis. We use that as jumping off point to talk about artists who have had notorious live breakdowns, and also examine our role and responsibility in these situations as a music-listening public. PrefixMag.com editor Andrew Winistrofer and Vulture contributor Eric Sundermann guest.

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| Episode 11: January/February Review |

In the first of what will be a monthly feature on Aim to Misbehave, Chris is joined by previous guests Laura Studarus and Luke Winkie, who debate the merits of six records that have been released so far in 2012. Luke gives Grimes a 5/10, Laura fights for her foreign exchange music crush Air, Chris kind of sounds like a dick, and everybody agrees that Leonard Cohen is awesome. Check it out below.

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| Episode 10: Valentine’s Day |

It’s been almost a week since Valentine’s Day, but we here at the Aim to Misbehave podcast needed to divulge ourselves of relationship angst. Chris Bosman was joined by New York Magazine, Village Voice, and Rolling Stone contributor Eric Sundermann and WNYU Music Director and The Big Takeover and Billboard contributor Maria Sherman to discuss sixteen songs about love, breakups, and relationships in dubious honor of this holiday. We discuss the effective simplicity of love songs, the nature of people in relationships, and oh yeah some music, too.

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| Episode 9: Music Piracy |

On the latest episode of the Aim to Misbehave podcast, host Chris Bosman is joined by freelance contributors Luke Winkie and Stephen Humphries to talk about music piracy. Jumping off of the recent SOPA/PIPA happenings and the subsequent MegaUpload raid, the trio discuss the changes in music, music listening, and music writing that piracy has wrought.

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| Episode 8: Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die |

Because we’ve been talking about it a lot over the course of these first eight podcasts, we figured it was time to have a knockdown drag-out war on the topic of Lana Del Rey’s divisive Born To Die. Beats Per Minute and Potholes in my Blog contributor Craig Jenkins and Pitchfork, Epitonic and Prefix contributor Susannah Young join us to correct me on the pronunciation of Lana, whether bad shit is better if you know it’s bad, and why Lizzy Grant is judged harsher than other artists similarly borrowing from obviously better source material.

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| Episode 7: Cultural Appropriation in Music |

We’re taking on another of those East Coast liberal elitist topics this week on the Aim to Misbehave Podcast. Billboard, MTV Hive, and Spin contributor slash AlterNet.org editor Julianne Escobedo Shepheard and returning guest, Beats Per Minute contributing editor Sean Highkin join Chris Bosman to talk about the historical and modern implications of cultural appropriation in music, from Elvis and Paul Simon, to Eminem and tUnE-yArDs.

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| Episode 6: Feminism in the Indie Community |

Lists are all well and good, but man cannot survive by lists alone. Now that we’ve hit some of the traditional year-end and year-beginning lists here at the Aim to Misbehave podcast, we’re sinking our teeth into some real topics. Joined by Under the Radar’s Laura Studarus, the wonderful Marissa Nadler, and Marissa’s guests, humorist Lauren Brody and Ryan Walsh from the band Hallelujah the Hills, we discuss why all successful indie ladies are gorgeous, why Chris Brown still has a career, why Odd Future is boring, and what to do about arrogant sound guys.

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| Episode 5: 2012’s Most Anticipated |

PrefixMag.com contributing editor and Prefix, Paste, and Under the Radar contributor Luke Winkie return on this week’s podcast to talk about their most anticipated musical topics of 2012. We predict Born to Die will hit #32 on Pitchfork’s Best Albums of 2012 list, wonder if anyone will sleep with Abel Tesfaye while reporting on him, and meanwhile Chris is the only one who has any idea who the Wrens are (Are they part of Rocafella?)

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| Episode 4: 2011’s Best Records |

We’re back from the holidays, and as everyone is prepping their survival gear for the oncoming armageddon, we take our final look back at 2011 with Aim to Misbehave’s Best Albums of the Year podcast. This time around, we have Pitchfork contributors David Raposa and Stephen M. Deusner. Someone doesn’t like Adele, someone does like a Miranda Lambert project, and someone is a company man. As always, stream above and podcast below.

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| Episode 3: 2011’s Best Tracks |

This week on Aim to Misbehave, Audiosuede founder and Editor-in-Chief Christian Hagen (@ChristianJHagen), Vice Magazine and Potholes in My Blog contributor Kara-Lis Coverdale (@kliscoverdale) and myself talked about our favorite songs that came out over the past year. Words that were used a lot include “beautiful”, “evocative”, and “aboot.” Stream above and download below.

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| Episode 2 - 2011’s Best Music Videos |

This week on Aim to Misbehave, Chris is joined by Prefix Magazine contributing editor Andrew Winistorfer and Yours Truly’s Will Abramson to discuss the best music videos of the year, covering videos that reminded them of everything from gothic teenage fantasies to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. You can stream the podcast above or download it at the link below.

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