Summer Album/Winter Album
Hosted by Craig Finn and Jody Avirgan · Jody Avirgan & Craig Finn
4.7from 87 ratings
- 25
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 87
- Ratings
- 2025
- First episode
- 17K
- YouTube views
About Summer Album/Winter Album
**One of The Atlantic's 20 Best Podcasts**On this podcast we believe that all albums are either summer albums or winter albums. But what defines them? The lyrics, the music, your personal relationship with the record? Summer Album/Winter Album is a musical debate podcast with Jody Avirgan (538, 30 for 30, Radiotopia) and Craig Finn (The Hold Steady).Each episode, Jody and Craig offer their opening arguments, and then with the help of a guest, explore one of the greatest records of all time. Then: a verdict from the artist. New episodes twice a month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Jody Avirgan & Craig Finn
- Category
- arts · music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Feb 2025
- Latest episode
- 16 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 25 episodes have a transcript.
16 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Grateful Dead's "Workingman's Dead" w/ MC Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger)
16 Jul 2026
Janes Addiction's "Ritual de lo Habitual" w/ Hamilton Leithauser
26 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Janes Addiction's "Ritual de lo Habitual"
Inside a recent episode
Grateful Dead's "Workingman's Dead" w/ MC Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger)
Published 16 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You know, when I hear this song, it connects me to the idea of, like, San Francisco rock. You know, like, you say, oh, it's San Francisco rock, and then you put on Uncle John's band, you say, that's not what I was thinking. But Easy Wind is, you know, you could see them playing with Jefferson Airplane. […]
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- MC Taylor
- Hamilton Leithauser
- Hanif Abdurraqib
- Diallo Riddle
- Luxxury
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 17,078
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 67 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 20 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100
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- Quality
- 52
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 85
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Craig Finn and Jody Avirgan host the show. Published by Jody Avirgan & Craig Finn.
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