A podcast all about the making and meaning of popular music. Musicologist Nate Sloan & songwriter Ch
When Bristol-based producer Laxcity logged onto Twitter to find out that Justin Bieber sampled his m
In 2019 guitar made a comeback in the top 10. According to analysis from Hit Songs Deconstructed, ab
Selena Gomez has her first #1 song on the Hot 100. “Lose You To Love Me” is a confessional look at h
The boy band One Direction has been on hiatus for nearly five years, yet only now have all of the me
Post Malone has confounded your hosts since he emerged on the scene, so this week we sit down to try
Mac Miller, Future and Billie Eilish all have good and bad news to share. On Miller’s posthumous alb
Dua Lipa remembers the disco era in her hit “Don’t Start Now.” What may sound like just another danc
The sound of R&B is difficult to pin down. Since the 1950s, the label has been used both as a ge
On a trajectory to be one of the biggest pop stars for this generation, seventeen year old Billie Ei
There are icons, and then there’s Dolly Parton. The country singer-turned-actress-turned-cultural ph
Bass distorted to the edge of audibility; voices croaking out dark and violent lyrics; a hacked-toge
We hand over the hosting duties to Constance Grady, book reviewer for Vox.com, to discuss our new bo
The East Coast / West Coast hip hop feud between Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls is full of tragedy a
Electric Guest (Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton) take a left turn towards pop on “Dollar" — a song a
Nate doesn’t know much about the musical style known as emo. Sadly, he was too busy nerding out on j
Once upon a time, classical music was pop, so today it's worth stepping back and asking: where does
Back in the fall of 2017, our producer Megan Lubin went for a stroll near her house, popped in earbu
Last year, NPR Music ran an audacious headline: "Rihanna Is The 21st Century's Most Influential Musi
Anil Dash is obsessed with Prince. Since he’s the host of the tech podcast Function, he has a unique
Men singing high is so ubiquitous in modern pop that we might take it granted, never pausing to ask:
