As always, I’ve put way too much thought into these pairings, but the placement of too much thought into odd receptacles is my idea of fun. Links are to the Abstract and off-the-cuff opinions I may already regret. With love from New Jersey:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8: Sloan — Steady + Office Culture — Big Time Things
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9: Open Mike Eagle — Component System With The Auto Reverse + Metric — Formentera
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10: Alvvays — Blue Rev + Yard Act — The Overload
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11: Amber Mark — Three Dimensions Deep + Dayglow — People In Motion
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12: Vince Staples — Ramona Park Broke My Heart + Grace Ives — Janky Star
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13: Sudan Archives — Natural Brown Prom Queen + Phife Dawg — Forever
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14: Carly Cosgrove — See You In Chemistry + Jana Horn — Optimism
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15: The Beths — Expert In A Dying Field + Steve Lacy — Gemini Rights
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16: Saba — Few Good Things + Melody’s Echo Chamber — Emotion Eternal
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17: Gift — Momentary Presence + Alex G — God Save The Animals
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18: Billy Woods — Church + Nilüfer Yanya — Painless
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19: Beyoncé — Renaissance + Years & Years — Night Call
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20: Taylor Swift — Midnights + The Paranoid Style — For Executive Meeting
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21: Beth Orton — Weather Alive + 070 Shake — You Can’t Kill Me
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22: The Weeknd — Dawn FM + Elvis Costello & The Imposters — The Boy Named If
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23: Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul — Topical Dancer + Black Country, New Road — Ants From Up There
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24: Harry Styles — Harry’s House + Joyce Manor — 40 Oz To Fresno
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25: Big Thief — Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You + Ximena Sariñana — Amor Adolescente
MONDAY, DECEMBER 26: Oso Oso — Sore Thumb + Spoon — Lucifer On The Sofa
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27: Natalia Lafourcade — De Todas Las Flores + Death Cab For Cutie — Asphalt Meadows
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28: Nas — King’s Disease III + Ezra Furman — All Of Us Flames
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29: Drake & 21 Savage — Her Loss + Fontaines D.C. — Skinty Fia
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30: Kendrick Lamar — Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers + Kiwi Jr. — Chopper
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31: Bad Bunny — Un Verano Sin Ti + Father John Misty — Chloë And The Next 20th Century
SUNDAY, JANUARY 1: Alex Ferreira — En Lo Que Llega La Primavera + Bruce Hornsby — ‘Flicted
MONDAY, JANUARY 2: Lightning In A Twilight Hour — Overwintering + Peregrine — The Awful Things We’ve Done
TUESDAY, JANUARY 3: Jensen McRae — Are You Happy Now? + Stella Donnelly — Flood
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4: King Princess — Hold On Baby + Wet Leg — Wet Leg
THURSDAY, JANUARY 5: Julia Jacklin — Pre Pleasure + Anxious — Little Green House
FRIDAY, JANUARY 6: Belle & Sebastian — A Bit Of Previous + Smino — Luv 4 Sale
SATURDAY, JANUARY 7: Denzel Curry — Melt My Eyez See Your Future + Silvana Estrada — Marchita
SUNDAY, JANUARY 8: Caracara — New Preoccupations + Rubblebucket — Earth Worship
MONDAY, JANUARY 9: Carly Rae Jepsen — The Loneliest Time + Alison Sudol — Still Come The Night
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10: Billy Woods — Aethiopes + Jordana — Face The Wall
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11: Pool Kids — Pool Kids + Mitski — Laurel Hell
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12: Regina Spektor — Home, Before And After + Tears For Fears — The Tipping Point
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13: Lights — Pep + A Place To Bury Strangers — See Through You
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14: Miranda Lambert — Palomino + Pusha T — It’s Almost Dry
SUNDAY, JANUARY 15: Tim Bernardes — Mil Coisas Invisíveis + Metronomy — Small World
MONDAY, JANUARY 16: Sebastián Yatra — Dharma + Rayland Baxter — If I Were A Butterfly
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17: Rosalía — Motomami + Gang Of Youths — Angel In Realtime
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18: Beach Bunny — Emotional Creature + Kelley Stoltz — The Stylist
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19: Pehuenche — Vida Ventura + Will Sheff — Nothing Special
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20: Drake — Honestly, Nevermind + Pedro The Lion — Havasu
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21: Richard Dawson — The Ruby Cord + Earl Sweatshirt — Sick!
SUNDAY, JANUARY 22: Soccer Mommy — Sometimes, Forever + Spiritualized — Everything Was Beautiful
MONDAY, JANUARY 23: Joey Bada$$ — 2000 + The 1975 — Being Funny In A Foreign Language
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24: The Wonder Years — The Hum Goes On Forever + Aaron Raitiere — Single Wide Dreamer
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25: Carla Morrison — El Renacimiento + Megan Thee Stallion — Traumazine
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26: 2nd Grade — Easy Listening + Of Montreal — Freewave Lucifer F<ck F^ck F>ck
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27: Kanye West — Donda 2 + Tegan And Sara — Crybaby