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A podcast all about the making and meaning of popular music. Musicologist Nate Sloan & songwriter Ch

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Merging hip hop and Indigenous culture, rap duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids are creating a sound that goes

From time to time, it is our constitutional duty to provide an update to the people on the current s

Swedish supergroup ABBA is releasing their first album in forty years, making this the perfect time

It. Has. Been. A. Year. We’ve felt it; you’ve felt it. Sometimes, it’s comforting to consider how un

Sam Sanders is one of our favorite friends of the podcast. His NPR show, It's Been A Minute, has rel

James Bond's Spycraft Sound

2021/10/19

The latest installment of the James Bond franchise, No Time To Die, closes the book on the Daniel Cr

For a decade James Blake has crafted an idiosyncratic sound. His early work as a minimalist electron

On this week’s episode we're sharing a story fromThe Cut where senior writer Angelina Chapin and co-

Lil Nas X has a talent for creating productive controversy. First with “Old Town Road,” he challenge

In the last few years music copyright claims have skyrocketed. More and more artists are giving song

CHVRCHES is well-known for their comprehensive use of synthesizers and their updated take on “synthp

On August 27th Big Red Machine, the joint musical project of Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner - artis

Recently the hosts of Switched on Pop kept seeing the same byline next to their favorite pieces of m

For the past two weeks, our series on summer music festivals has uncovered the interplay of festival

The Gathering of the Juggalos is the music festival centered around the rap duo Insane Clown Posse.

The co-hosts of The Cut, Jazmin Aguilera and B.A. Parker, think deeply and incisively about fashion.

Mark Ronson has a CV too long to list here. Suffice to say he’s a musician who’s worked with everyon

We’ve been wanting to speak with Jack Antonoff since we started Switched On Pop back in 2014. We've

In this installment of Modern Classics we speak to the amazing four-time Grammy Nominee musician, si

L’Rain is the musical persona of singer and multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek, whose new album, Fatig