Darin Bresnitz is covering a lot of ground in the worlds of food and music on this week's installment of Snacky Tunes. Darin calls up Mitchell Davis, Executive Vice President of the James Beard Foundation and host of HRN's 'Taste Matters', to talk about the upcoming James Beard Awards. Learn how food media and journalism has changed the buzz around restaurants and food policy. Mitchell reports live from The World's 50 Best Restaurants in London; who will be this year's winner? Later, Darin chats with The Rev about his upcoming events- Burger Week and Beer Balls. Find out why beer and burgers make the ultimate food pairing, and hear Darin and The Rev talk about their ideal meatballs. Finally Amanda from Other Music calls in to talk about this year's Smorgasburg Record Fair! This episode has been sponsored by Rolling Press.

"My appreciation for other people's artistry of the burger goes beyond what I can do. I like to cook things other than burgers at home." [28:15] -- The Rev on Snacky Tunes

This week Greg takes helm of Snacky Tunes solo and finds himself in company with the new editor-in-chief of Tasting Table, Scott Hocker as well as Justin Miller and Jonathan Galkin of DFA records. Scott gives a preview of their new test kitchen and takes on the latest food buzzwords-- from locavore to foodie--and tries to predict what the next big one will be. Stay tuned because the dfa crew talks about the formation of dfa, their work with bands such as The Rapture and YACHT, and their neverending wish to get indie kids to dance. As if that was not enough Justin does a special in-studio vinyl set just for us. This episode is sponosored by Fairway Market.

This week Snacky Tunes goes into meat overdrive. Columnist and critic for Time Magazine Josh Ozersky stops in to talk about his 1-night-only, all-you-can-eat meat blowout event on the East River: Meatopia. Tune in to learn how a whole steer is cooked and how to get a special discount to Meatopia. Later on they are joined by Dean Bein of True Panther Records. who have put out artists like Girls, Real Estate, Ty Seagull, Delorean and more. This episode was sponsored by Full Service