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

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Total: 442

It’s May, and that can only mean one thing: it’s time for the Eurovision Song Contest. This year’s e

When trouble strikes in music town, there’s one guy who gets the call. That’s me, Joe Treble, forens

We have an emergency podcast drop because the biggest and fastest moving story on the internet right

BTS goes solo together

2023/4/18

The South Korean idol group BTS is one of the biggest musical sensations in history. They're constan

From the first seconds of her latest album Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, Caroline Polachek assert

The Shakira Conspiracy

2023/4/4

Shakira is back on the Billboard Hot 100 – thanks to the help of Argentinian producer Bizarrap. Toge

Reinventing Bach

2023/3/28

If you’ve ever learned classical piano, you probably tried to play one of Bach’s Inventions. The com

Everyone will describe the music of 100 gecs differently. To some, Dylan Brady and Laura Les make de

Switches Brew

2023/3/17

Every week the Switched On Pop team gets together and everybody shares one song they’re loving right

“Kiss From a Rose” is one of the most unusual number one hits of all time. Seal’s song can’t decide

“Take Me Home, Country Roads” is a song about West Virginia, but its message of homecoming has reson

Currently on Billboard’s hot 100 there is an unexpected UK Garage / Jersey House mashup, a disgraced

Five years ago, Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hussle released Victory Lap, his only full length album. I

“Flowers” by Miley Cyrus is spending another week on top of the Billboard 100 – quite fitting for Va

Rihanna Party! ICYMI

2023/2/12

In case you missed it, “Rihanna Is The 21st Century’s Most Influential Musician” according to NPR. M

In 2010, a photographer named Reuben Cox moved to Los Angeles to start Old Style Guitar Shop. In the

It's Grammys weekend and Sam Sanders, host of Vulture's Into It podcast, is ready for disappointment

Wonders: Bobby McFerrin

2023/1/31

In 1988, Bobby McFerrin recorded a song a cappella with a simple message: not to worry, and just enj

The New Wave of Paramore

2023/1/24

Six years after their last record, Paramore is back with new music, and their upcoming record seems

Streaming feels like it's both at its height and on a precipice. Musicians are fed up at getting pai