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2 Brothers Road Trip Radio
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2 Brothers creating a shared playlist for a yearly road trip and reconnecting through music. Co-hosted by @jlowry001.bsky.social and @saelacroix.bsky.social
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Punxsutawney Phil may have said there's 6 weeks more of winter, but the Superb Owl says episode 23 is out early.

4 new songs get added to the playlist this week with tracks from Rage Against the Machine, Kesha ft. Big Freedia, Wet Leg, & Tinashe with Disco Lines.

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2BRTR - Season 2 - Episode 23
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February 8, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Happy Birthday in Rasta Heaven to the Legend himself Bob Marley. Joe's #albumoftheweek is the best-selling Reggae album of all time, the Bob Marley & the Wailers compilation Legend

It's filled with many of their most popular tunes like Jamming which Joe added to the Season 1 playlist in Episode 24
February 6, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Happy Birthday to Kevin Wasserman, better known as Noodles - the lead guitarist of The Offspring

In celebration of Noodles, Sean’s #albumoftheweek is the band’s 1994 chart breaking album Smash which has sold more than 11 million albums worldwide and helped usher punk into the mainstream
February 4, 2026 at 6:53 PM
A new episode is live 🥳

Sean's still watching Bond movies & Joe took a deep dive into Dolly Parton's discography.

And after catching up, they add four new songs to the Road Trip Radio Playlist with tracks from Fousheé, Thrice, Hyper Minds, and Gossip #2BRTR

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2BRTR - Season 2 - Episode 22
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February 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Happy anniversary to Authority Zero's 12:34, released on this day in 2007.

Joe's #albumoftheweek is the 3rd LP from the band. He's already added a song to the Season 2 Playlist from it in Episode 12 - will he remember to add another Authority Zero song in Episode 34 to complete the 12:34 prophecy?
January 30, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Happy birthday to the Queen Diva of Bounce, Big Freedia. In her honor, Sean’s #albumoftheweek is Big Freedia’s second compilation album, Hitz Vol. 2, 2010-2020.

Big Freedia has been inspiring people to shake their asses in the club since 1999 and is your favorite diva’s favorite diva.
January 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A new episode is live 🥳

Sean finished the Bad Religion book Do What You Want while Joe did a deep dive into Billie Eilish’s discography

After catching up, 4 songs get added to the playlist with tracks from Mudvayne, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, La Femme, & Daft Punk

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2BRTR - Season 2 - Episode 21
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January 26, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Released on this day in 2005, Joe's #albumoftheweek is Minority Rules by Whole Wheat Bread.

Joe picked up this album from their merch table at a show long ago where they were one of the opening bands for Authority Zero at the Knitting Factory in LA.
January 25, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Released on this day in 2002, Sean’s #albumoftheweek is a special one - And All That Could Have Been by Nine Inch Nails

Released on CD & a 2xDVD, this album documents the band’s 2000 Fragility v2.0 tour with slightly different tracklists depending on format & is a must listen for hardcore NIN fans
January 22, 2026 at 4:45 PM
A day late but the brothers are back

They catch up on life, movies, & Sean found a DJ Shadow sample in the wild watching a John Carpenter film

And then the brothers add 4 new songs to the playlist with tracks from Lady Gaga, Pennywise, Tucker Wetmore, & Strung Out

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2BRTR - Season 2 - Episode 20
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January 20, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Happy Birthday Fat Mike 🥳

Joe's #albumoftheweek is Punk in Drublic vinyl 2025 re-issue by NOFX.

During the first stop of the Season 1 Road Trip last summer, Joe picked this up from Vinyl Threat, the music shop inside the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas, which was founded by Fat Mike in 2023.
January 17, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Sean’s #albumoftheweek is this amazing Touché Amoré 5 album cassette box set.

Released on this day in 2021, and limited to 500 copies, it includes the band's first 5 albums: …To the Beat of a Dead Horse, Parting the Seas Between Brightness and Me, Is Survived By, Stage Four, and Lament.
January 15, 2026 at 10:23 PM
A new episode is live 🥳

After catching up about busy weeks back in the office after the holiday break, the brothers add 4 more songs to the playlist with tracks from Paramore, the Gorillaz, Laleh, and John Michel & Anthony James featuring Young Senju & Kennadi Rose

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2BRTR - Season 2 - Episode 19
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January 12, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Happy Birthday Jimmy Page!

Joe's #albumoftheweek is Led Zeppelin II which includes a song Jimmy has said in the past is his favorite Zeppelin song - the massive hit Whole Lotta Love.

Joe's favorite song from the album is unsurprisingly the J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired Ramble On.
January 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Released as a single LP on this day in 2022, Sean’s #albumoftheweek is Landscape Tantrums (Unfinished Original Recordings of De-Loused in the Comatorium) by The Mars Volta.

This album is an earlier recording of the band's debut album featuring 8 of the 10 tracks that appeared on De-Loused.
January 7, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Happy New Year! The brothers 1st episode of 2026 is live 🥳

They catch up and talk new years goals, mostly podcast adjacent, and then it's the main event with new songs added to the playlist from Bad Religion, Sublime, Winona Fighter, and Sha & Copenema (& friends).

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2BRTR - Season 2 - Episode 18
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January 5, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Happy birthday Michael Stipe! The lead singer of R.E.M. celebrates another year around the sun today & in honor of him, Sean’s #albumoftheweek is the 1991 album Out of Time

A record pulled from Andie’s collection, this LP included numerous singles, including Losing My Religion & Shiny Happy People
January 4, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Joe's album of the week is Wanted Dread & Alive Special Edition Re-issue on Recycled Yellow Vinyl from Peter Tosh

Released on this day one year ago, this is another pick-up from Lou's Records in Encinitas from the Season 1 road trip

Full of amazing tracks, Joe's favorite on this LP is Rastafari Is
January 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
The final episode of 2025 is live 🍾

The brothers cover their top 3 songs of the year, a list with amazing unexpected crossover, & then 4 new songs are added to the playlist with tracks from Lorde, The Limousines, Rosalía, and Ren with The Skinner Brothers & SAHAJi.

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2BRTR - Season 2 - Episode 17
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December 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Joe's #albumoftheweek is Licensed To Ill by the Beastie Boys.

On this day in 1986, the Beastie Boys kicked off their infamous Licensed To Ill tour at The Ritz, a notable music club in the 80's and 90's in New York City, in support of their breakout, debut LP, released just one month prior.
December 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
2 years in a row Sean fails #albumoftheweek on Christmas & submits a movie.

Happy Christmas, mentioned by Sean in the recent Season 2 Episode 16 is an independent dramedy starring Anna Kendrick as a messy 20 year old in desperate need of getting her act together.

Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ho ho ho, Santa is doing practice runs with his sleigh & dropped a new episode into your podcast feed

After chatting, the brothers add 4 new songs to the playlist. This week sees holiday themed songs from No Doubt, B Team, Reel Big Fish & another track from OutKast

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December 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Joe's #albumoftheweek is Live from the Road by Chevelle

Sean added the song Wonder What's Next from this album to the Road Trip Radio Playlist in Episode 10 of Season 1

Sam Loeffler, the man behind the kit laying down the hard rock backbone for Chevelle turns 51 years old today. Happy Birthday Sam
December 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
In honor of Krysten Ritter's birthday, Sean's #albumoftheweek is Ex Vivian's self-titled album

Sean discovered this LP after watching the Jessica Jones series on Netflix, not because songs from Ex Vivian are featured, but because Ex Vivian is Krysten Ritter who played the lead role as Jessica Jones
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Episode 15 is live 🥳

The brothers talk Lord of the Rings & Knives Out before getting into the stats of their music listening in 2025

Then 4 more songs get added to the playlist, with additions this week from Rise Against, Metallica, Duncan Dhu, & the Beastie Boys

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2BRTR - Season 2 - Episode 15
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December 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM