Adam Mansbach is the author of Go The Fuck to Sleep, the Golem of Brooklyn and many others. He is also a rap fan and arguably the world’s foremost authority on all things Boogie Down Productions, rap beefs, and sending your kids to college. He joins the Club to talk about the classic rap album “Criminal Minded.”

Alicia Kennedy is a food writer, essayist, and author of the bestselling book “No Meat Required.”  She joins the show to discuss the 90’s alternative classic “Grace” by Jeff Buckley.

Tim Rutili from Califone is an artist, filmmaker and musician who has been making experimental indie rock for well over three decades, including as a founding member of Red Red Meat and Califone. He joins the Club to discuss the 1972 classic "Exile on Main St" by the Rolling Stones.

Hattie Webb is a singer-songwriter-harpist who has been creating and performing music on the international stage for over 20 years, with the likes of Tom Petty, Leonard Cohen, Sting, Gotye, Glen Hansard, Steve Martin, Edie Brickell, Rick Rubin, The Avett Brothers & Natalie Maines. Her new album, “Wild Medicine,” which features several tracks performed with long-time Petty sidemen, has just been released. She joins the show to talk about Carole King’s masterpiece “Tapestry.” 

Nathan Mongol Wells is a Dallas-based songwriter, singer for the garage rock band Ottoman Turks, and solo artist making outlaw country for the modern age. He joins the Club to talk about the great indie rock odyssey, 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields.

Slow Leaves is the solo project of singer-songwriter Grant Davidson, a multi-instrumentalist curating every aspect of his music and its presentation, including being producer, cover art designer, photographer, and video director. On the latest album “Meantime,”Slow Leaves fixes a taut indie groove with folk sensibilities, and draws your ear to the sometimes beautiful, sometimes middling, meantime of life.He joins the Club to talk about one of the great alternative rock albums of all time, the 90s classic “Automatic for the People” by R.E.M.

Chris Brooker is a former radio DJ and music director with a passion for music. As a former program director for several stations across the midwest, he became an expert at finding new artists and sharing them with the world. If you're wondering, he will judge you on your favorite band. He joins the Club to judge one of the great electronic pop records of all time, Moby’s “Play.”

Dan Pashman is a James Beard and Webby award winning creator and host of the Sporkful podcast. He has invented pasta shapes that have won him a Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year award, released cookbooks, and appeared on CBS This Morning, The Today Show, NPR’s Morning Edition, and WTF with Marc Maron, among many others. He joins the Club to talk about one of the greatest heartland rock records of all time, “Born In The U.S.A.” by Bruce Springsteen.