A podcast all about the making and meaning of popular music. Musicologist Nate Sloan & songwriter Ch
Last month, Nirvana entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in nearly two decades — o
Allison Ponthier knows the hardest part of making anything is getting started. When she was young, s
The recorded version of Justin Bieber’s “Peaches” opens with a full-blast chorus alongside driving p
We love listening to music at a ridiculous level of detail. But the other day we heard a podcast tha
There’s no more iconic Britney lyric than the opening of “Gimme More.” It's 2007, four years since h
In 2003 Britney Spears released “Toxic,” a song that would make converts out of pop skeptics, be nam
In the first three years of Britney Spears’ pop music career, she released annual, consecutive album
On a crisp Autumn morning in 1998, the world was introduced to the voice of Britney Spears, and pop
Presenting Chartbreakers, in which Nate and Charlie listen to the Billboard Hot 100 chart from top t
Leon Bridges is the soul singer hailing from Fort Worth, Texas, who burst onto the music scene in 20
The last proper, blowout concert Charlie attended was devastatingly long ago, back in the winter of
The number one song on the charts is a bit of a mystery. “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” is the unlikely
Elvis Costello burst onto the music scene in 1977 with the album My Aim Is True. Songs like “Alison”
Eric Nam is an accidental K-pop star. Growing up in Atlanta, and graduating from college in Boston,
Dawn FM is The Weeknd’s most narratively compelling album yet. More than just a collection of eighti
Why are there no new Christmas songs? One one hand, there's more holiday songs than we’ll ever need.
Whether you’re a TikTok fanatic, or the app’s K-hole-inducing stream of content has forced you to de
Robert Plant is in his own words “cold” and “prickly” while speaking about his new album with Alison
2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ final album, Let it Be. To commemorat
This week we are having a blast feeling really sad. Guest Brittany Luse, cohost of the acclaimed pod
