The Fairly KickAss Podcast

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for June 2026

Sometimes, it just goes like that. We have a very short period between monthly releases. I mean, what actually IS the "calendar", anyway? This grid of squares gets to just control our lives and what we do and when we do it?? NO!! DOWN WITH CALENDARS!! DOWN WITH CALENDARS!! Down with calendars. All that is to say, monthly reviews for June are here. Newly-charting singles, new album releases. There's one in particular that if you were anywhere near popular music in June, you'll know where a decent portion of our episode will be headed. But there's a lot of other stuff to chat about too! So chat with us! About that stuff! Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social] Instagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickass [https://instagram.com/fairlykickass] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass [https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass] Threads: https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass [https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass] Website (for Ride-Along Playlists): https://fairlykickass.com/ [https://fairlykickass.com/] Next week: we travel from West Philadelphia to Miami, with a quick stop-off in the Wild Wild West, as well as a soon-to-be extra-terrestrial-riddled New York City. Join us for what ended up being a harrowing journey through a certain artist's discography. This week? Just one thing on the calendar: Keep. Kicking. Ass.

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Top 5 Blockbuster Jams

You don't wanna close your eyes for this episode! (Or your ears, I guess, since podcasting isn't a visual medium LOOK I'M TRYING TO WRITE AN INTRO OKAY DEAL WITH IT) In this episode, we talk about our top 5 blockbuster movie jams! What constitutes a "blockbuster"? I dunno, you'll have to ask Dan, J or me (Zack, yo0O). And I ain't tellin'. But we break it all down in the episode, as well as picking five jams that fit each of our bills. Come join us as we rediscover movies from years past! Is your favorite blockbuster jam not on the list? What did we miss? Please let us know in the usual ways: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social] Instagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickass [https://instagram.com/fairlykickass] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass [https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass] Threads: https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass [https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass] Website (for Ride-Along Playlists): https://fairlykickass.com/ [https://fairlykickass.com/] Next week: a quick review turnaround, covering new albums and top 40 charting singles from the month of June. Sometimes it be like that! Sometimes you get two reviews in three weeks. Consider it a gift to each of you, Dearest Listeners. Your gift back to us? You already know: Keep. Kicking. Ass.

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Monthly Reviews for May 2026

Ayyyyyyyyyyyy! Wait, no that's not it... what I meant to say was Mayyyyyyyyyyyy!! We're cashing in those floral chips from the deluge of April, and planting the seeds of May's musical bouquet. That made no sense, and that's fine! Because it ALSO makes no sense for two (but actually four, but really only two) albums to enter the Toppest 40 charts in May. Safe to say it was an interesting month on that side of the house, as well as the new release album side. Fun all around the block, here at the KickAss! Did you have fun in said month? Did you find anything that you particularly enjoyed? Let us know in all the usual ways: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social] Instagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickass [https://instagram.com/fairlykickass] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass [https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass] Threads: https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass [https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass] Website (for Ride-Along Playlists): https://fairlykickass.com/ [https://fairlykickass.com/] Next week: do you like blockbuster flicks? Do you like the music from blockbuster flicks? It's Top 5 Blockbuster Jams. That's what we're doing. No way we could really make that one a guessing game, so you get a freebie. You also get to Keep. Kicking. Ass.

Fairly KickAss Podcast - Billboard End-of-Year Reorder: 2002 Edition

Holy crap, Ass-Kickers - 2002 was a very formative year for the four of us, which makes it even worse that it was such an AWFUL year for popular music. But, because the RNG Gods dictate so much of what we do on this here podcast, we must relent. From Ja Rule to Jewel, from Creed to Eve, from Ludacris to Elliott, Miss...y. (Did I mention Ja Rule? He's here a LOT.) We do what we always do: we take the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End list, we correct it, and we present all of you our very correct interpretations. We were all over the map here, and that's fun! We love that for us, and for all of you. But what say you? What were you bumping in 2002? Did it even make this list in the first place - and if so, did we slot it where it properly belongs? Let us know in all the usual ways: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social] Instagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickass [https://instagram.com/fairlykickass] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass [https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass] Threads: https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass [https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass] Website (for Ride-Along Playlists): https://fairlykickass.com/ [https://fairlykickass.com/] Next week: the floral episode, the output of the April showers. It's a good one. They're all good ones. And so are you. Especially when you Keep. Kicking. Ass. Which is always, obvbiously.

Fairly KickAss Podcast - One Song: Kendrick Lamar

It's Ones all the way down. SomeOnes last week, One Song this week. The topic: one of the most transcendent, prolific artists of our generation. Some would add the qualifier of "hip-hop" or "rap", and while that would be accurate, it's far from necessary. To wit: compile the list of all seven humans with 27+ Grammy awards. Take out conductors and producers (John Williams, Quincy Jones, and Sir Georg Solti - legends in their own rights, of course). That leaves you with four performers: Beyoncé, known for being Beyoncé; jazz standard Chick Corea; expert bluegrass fiddler and EXTREMELY underrated and amazing vocalist, Alison Krauss; and our artist du jour, none other than Kendrick Lamar. IDGAF who you are, what style of music you release, whether you are part of a band or solo or whatever. It takes a truly stratospheric artist to reach K.Dot's heights. And we talk about all of those heights on this episode. We all picked one song from his six-album discography (plus a few mixtapes) as the best, with the knowledge that there were no wrong answers to this question at all. Okay, there were a small handful of wrong answers. But very, very few. This discography was a true joy to listen to, and I implore all of you to do the same. Which song hits as your top from Kendrick's full catalog? Let us know in all the usual ways: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/fairlykickass.bsky.social] Instagram: https://instagram.com/fairlykickass [https://instagram.com/fairlykickass] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass [https://www.tiktok.com/@fairlykickass] Threads: https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass [https://www.threads.net/@fairlykickass] Website (for Ride-Along Playlists): https://fairlykickass.com/ [https://fairlykickass.com/] Next week: ranking! But, like ranking what has already been ranked! It's an awful year too. You'll enjoy it. We enjoyed it. That's it. Keep. Kicking. Ass.