Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
Bullseye from NPR is your curated guide to culture. Jesse Thorn hosts in-depth interviews with brilliant creators, culture picks from our favorite critics and irreverent original comedy. Bullseye has been featured in Time, The New York Times, GQ and McSweeney's, which called it "the kind of show people listen to in a more perfect world." (Formerly known as The Sound of Young America.)

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Andrew Noz is the blogger behind Cocaine Blunts & Hip-Hop Tapes, one of the internet's most successful hip-hop blogs.  He's also a contributor to NPR, Complex and The Washington City Paper, among other outlets.

Direct download: tsoya100729_noz.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:20pm EDT

Nathan Rabin and Josh Modell join Jesse to recommend the best of popular culture.  Nathan chooses Louis CK's Louie and the new film The Kids Are All Right.  Josh Modell chooses Inception and Children's Hospital.

Direct download: tsoya100723_avclubjuly.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:54am EDT

Stadup comic Nick Adams is the author of How To Make Friends With Black People and a writer for the upcoming NBC series Perfect Couples. 

Direct download: tsoya100721_nickadams.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:59pm EDT

Samantha Bee is The Daily Show's longest-tenured correspondent, with seven years on the air.  She's just released a memoir, entitled I Know I Am, But What Are You?

Direct download: tsoya100719_sambee.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:52pm EDT

Jordan Morris tells us what's hot and what's not.

Direct download: tsoya100714_jordanranksjuly.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:45pm EDT

Colson Whitehead is one of America's most acclaimed novelists.  He was the recepient of a MacArthur "genius" grant for his fiction, which includes Apex Hides the Hurt and John Henry Days.  His latest novel is Sag Harbor, about the African American beach enclave.

Direct download: tsoya100715_colsonwhitehead.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:42am EDT

Jose James is an acclaimed jazz and soul singer.  He has two new albums - a forward-looking, genre-hopping record called Blackmagic and a collection of piano-and-vocals standards called For All We Know

Direct download: tsoya100712_josejames.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:34am EDT

Los Angeles comedy group Superego contribute this sponsorship message from My Baby Dreamer.

Direct download: tsoya100706_mybabydreamer.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:21am EDT

Dan Clowes is the creator of numerous comics and graphic novels, including Ghost World and Art School Confidential.  His latest is Wilson.​

Direct download: tsoya100702_clowes.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:41pm EDT