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 quiz taking, and a little singing PLUS… Gossip Wolf spends a good 5 minutes snapping on the recent Urge Overkill reunion, M.I.A. tweets from deep inside Kanye’s man cave, and we have a cameo from a bona fide NPR CELEBRITY. A podcast so immense in its power that it could not be contained to 30min! HIT IT Y’ALL: 

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Watch David Bazan cover 90’s mega-hit “Creep” by Radiohead (ps- he keeps the swears in):

This week’s music:

• Marianna Ritchey, “Hit It Or Quit It”
• Faust, “So Far”
• Sugar, “Your Favorite Thing”
• Les Rallizes D©nud©s, “People Can Choose”
• Screaming Females, “Buried In The Nude”
• Stereolab, “Ping Pong”
• Vampire’s Sound International, “The Ballad of a Fair Singer”
• Urge Overkill, “Effigy”
• David Bazan, “Hard To Be”
• Mulatu Astatq©, “Ohoho G¨dama”
• Zombi, “Digitalis”

Hit It Or Quit It is hosted by Jessica Hopper and JR Nelson, and produced by Michael Catano.  You can stream past episodes at music.wbez.org or download them at the Chicago Public Media iTunes Store.  You can follow us on Twitter, become our friends on Facebook, or drop us an email.