Hit it or Quit it

The Hit It Or Quit It podcast is back for Season 2 just in time for Valentine's Day! Hosts Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson help spread love and music by choosing special songs for listeners in need. What songs do they recommend?

UPDATE: 11/11/2011 - Listen to the full performance and interview with Jessica Hopper of the Hit It Or Quit It podcast above.Blake Schwarzenbach is a hero to fans of early emo for the albums his band, Jawbreaker, released throughout the early nineties.

If podcasts age at the same rate they produce new episodes, we're finally of voting age! Now who should we vote for? Does anyone know of any candidates who address the problem of skyrocketing rents?

It's HIOQI #17 and we're talking landmarks... - It's been 25 years since Kate Bush's monolith of weird pop amazingness, Hounds of Love, was released.  Washington DC-based musician, engineer and producer Chad Clark breaks down its awesomeness.

This is episode 16 of the Hit It Or Quit It podcast and right away you might be asking yourself, "what's with the youthful, buff Jared Leto photo?"  Well, check out this week's Gossip Wolf segment to find out the story behind the photo that's going to HAUNT YOUR DREAMS.

This week: - Amy from Titus Andronicus gives us something old and something new in a new segment we're calling "Your Favorite Things" - We quiz our listener, Ben from Cleveland, on his 1990s music knowledge - Indie superstar David Bazan drops in to do a little chatting, a little qu

It's been a while, but we're back!  Episode #14 of the Hit It Or Quit It Podcast is in full effect y'all, and it is action packed for sure!

Fear not, triskaidekaphobia-istes!  The Hit It Or Quit It Podcast is here to help ease you through it's potentially cursed and/or terrifying 13th episode with a line up full of sunny weather, west coast jams, and... well...

What's that you say?  The HIOQI podcast has made it through three whole months?  And to celebrate they've pulled out all the stops and put together a boda fide CELEBRITY PODCAST-O-RAMA?  For reals?  FOR REALS!This week: - Tegan of Tegan & Sara talks choreography!

  Obsessions and pleasures - guilty and otherwise - are the name of the game this week on the Hit It Or Quit It podcast: - Music critic and author, Michaelangelo Matos, steps aboard the podcast train to talk about the distinctly Minneapolis-ness of The-Artist-Once-Again-Known-As-Prince.

It's a landmark, folks - double digits.  HIOQI turns 10 episodes old.  In lieu of a clips show, we forged ahead with all-new awesome stuff... THIS WEEK: - Xenia, a 9yr old rock and roll force of nature gives tells us what's happening over at the Girls Rock! Chicago summer camp.

It's HIOQI #9 y'all.  No joke.

It's HIOQI #8!  Excitement! - Ian MacKaye of The Evens, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Dischord Records, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, talks about legendary Washington, DC, concert hall 9:30 Club in honor of its 30th anniversary.

You spent your weekend at the beach, we spent our weekend making sweet, sweet radio... THIS WEEK!

It's time for HIOQI #6!  This week:- POS gives us the weather!- Rhymefest calls the PM of England an a-hole!- JR and Jessica review new records from The Fall and Daniel Higgs!All that plus Gossip Wolf and a hot tip on Austin's finest up-and-comers, Follow that Bird.Download here.

The critically acclaimed Hit It Or Quit It podcast is back with episode 5!This week features weather with Adam Pfahler (former drummer for Jawbreaker), the incredible story of forgotten glam rocker Jobraith and an art installation celebrating the Chosen people on vinyl.

The Hit It Or Quit It podcast is back and better than ever!This week's installment brings the shocking revelation that Drag City Records head honcho Dan Koretsky identifies with The Real Housewives of Orange County! Also included: J.R.

Jessica Hopper and JR Nelson are back with the third installment of the Hit It Or Quit It podcast.

The second episode of the Hit It Or Quit It podcast features discussions on Guru of Gangstarr's passing with Pitchfork hip-hop contributor Tom Breihan and Chicago hip-hop artist Psalm One.

Music writers Jessica Hopper and JR Nelson write the Gossipwolf column for the Chicago Reader. They were recently on Vocalo to discuss some recent columns (and call Har Mar Superstar). Turns out they enjoyed being on Vocalo so much that they signed up for their own account.