On this Christmas-morning episode of Music In Time, it's all about the gifts! Join host Evan McCormick as he unwraps a playlist featuring selections from the best albums added to his music collection in 2024. Come for tales of record collecting, show-going, and band discovery; stay for the year-end musical round-up that will stand the the test of time. And help yourself to some eggnog!

Playlist
1. Crystal Clear (Beer) - Joel Jerome
2. Elbahareya - Mazaher Ensemble
3. Summer - Mary Timony 
4. Queen of Languages - Destroyer
5. Be More Light - KyEhLay 
6. The Wishing Well - Ovlov  
7. Forsythia - Mandy 
8. Shines - The Paisley Daze 
9. Make It My Way - The Wesleys
10. Glue - The Gerbils 
11. Under Wraps - Barry Adamson 
12. Twisterella - Ride - Twisterella 
13. Shivers - The Boys Next Door

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Music does not just exist. It exists in specific times and places and in the sonic world of each individual listener who engages with it. That’s the basic idea behind "Music in Time," which explores the social and political context in which songs and albums emerge, are listened to, and reflected on over the years. Each broadcast focuses on a single album, detailing the social and political circumstances surrounding its release and moments in time that made certain music resonate anew. How is music shaped by these historical moments, and, in turn, how does it shape the histories that we remember?

By day, Evan McCormick is a historian at Columbia University, where he is part of the Obama Presidency Oral History project, interviewing a range of people — from cabinet members to ordinary folks — about their memories of the Obama years. By night, McCormick is a music lover and singer-songwriter, recording under the stage name Egan Caufield. For most of his life these two worlds remained separate, but after relocating to Catskill, in 2020, he chose to bring history and music together over the airwaves, and "Music in Time" was born.