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Switched on Pop

Listen closer to pop music — hear how it moves us. Hosted by musicologist Nate Sloan & songwriter Charlie Harding. From Vulture and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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What do John C. Reilly and Taylor Swift have in common? The Great American Songbook

Oct 14, 2025
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Taylor Swift’s Showgirl Sound: How to actually listen to the album

Oct 7, 2025
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The Power of the Trio (ft. Trousdale live at USC)

Oct 3, 2025
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Doja Cat is the new Janet

Sep 30, 2025
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Stockholm syndrome: Why we can't resist Swedish pop (ft. Zara Larsson)

Sep 23, 2025
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The music theory behind K Pop Demon Hunters' chart dominance

Sep 17, 2025
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The architecture of the album with Djo (Joe Keery live at NYU)

Sep 15, 2025
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Finneas and Ashe want you to start a band

Sep 9, 2025
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Fleetwood Mac's Missing Link Album Returns After 50 Years

Sep 2, 2025
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The classical rebel who infiltrated pop music

Aug 26, 2025
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All roads lead to Pharrell: Tyler, Clipse, and Cardi

Aug 19, 2025
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A brief history of terrible lyrics (with Sam Sanders)

Aug 12, 2025
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Summer Bummer (with Commotion’s Elamin Abdelmahmoud)

Aug 5, 2025
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Justin Bieber's Lo-fi Bedroom Swag

Jul 29, 2025
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How podcasting got its sound ft. Breakmaster Cylinder

Jul 22, 2025
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Is that new song you like AI? Here’s how you can tell

Jul 15, 2025
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The Benson Boone-Doggle

Jul 8, 2025
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Can Recession Pop predict the market?

Jul 1, 2025
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How Americana helped mainstream country find its soul

Jun 27, 2025
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Country music is Mexican (Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera)

Jun 26, 2025
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The Ballad of Lainey Wilson and Jessie Murph

Jun 25, 2025
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The hick hop renaissance (BigXthaPlug and Bailey Zimmerman)

Jun 24, 2025
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Is Morgan Wallen the problem with country music?

Jun 23, 2025
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"Manchild" and other songs about male incompetence

Jun 17, 2025
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Frankly, Sinatra still matters (with Seth MacFarlane)

Jun 10, 2025
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Is the future of pop...heavy metal?!

Jun 3, 2025
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Charli XCX threw this party 4 us

May 27, 2025
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808: The drum machine that changed music forever (Twenty Thousand Hertz)

May 25, 2025
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Chartbreakers: Lorde & Drake reboot, Worship Pop, and the shortest song ever

May 20, 2025
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‘Sinners’ summons the demons of American music

May 13, 2025
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Eurovision feast: Poison Cake, Milkshake Man, and Espresso Macchiato (featuring Tommy Cash)

May 6, 2025
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Put your headphones on for TikTok's Addison Rae

May 1, 2025
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Generation Taylor: Gracie, Maisie, Phoebe (with Jensen McRae)

Apr 22, 2025
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Music's New Success Model

Apr 15, 2025
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Miley Cyrus goes avant-garde

Apr 8, 2025
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Chappell Roan is giving country... and hair metal?

Apr 1, 2025
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Writing The Who’s ‘My Generation' With Pete Townshend

Mar 25, 2025
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Lady Gaga's Monster Return

Mar 18, 2025
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How Missy Elliott and Timbaland Freaked the World

Mar 11, 2025
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Playing "Hide and Seek" with Imogen Heap

Mar 4, 2025
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The Umbrella Effect: How Rihanna’s Breakout Hit Changed Pop Music Forever

Feb 25, 2025
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Learning to love: Tate McRae

Feb 18, 2025
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Does It Trance? The Weeknd & FKA Twigs

Feb 11, 2025
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How Spotify hacked our ears (and our data)

Feb 4, 2025
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25 Predictions for 2025: Grammys, J-pop, kazoos and more

Jan 28, 2025
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Bad Bunny's love letter to Puerto Rico

Jan 21, 2025
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The biggest theme song fail

Jan 14, 2025
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Have Disney musicals lost their edge?

Jan 7, 2025
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Going Off Book

Dec 31, 2024
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Auto-Tune always and forever

Dec 24, 2024
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Santa Claus is coming to town and stalking America

Dec 20, 2024
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Breaking Through: Doechii, Mk.gee, Rosé

Dec 17, 2024
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The best (and worst) of holiday music in 2024

Dec 13, 2024
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Kendrick Lamar: from Pulitzer to pop

Dec 10, 2024
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We're off to see the "Wicked"

Dec 3, 2024
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Listening 2 Madonna: Ray of Light

Nov 29, 2024
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Listening 2 Madonna: Spanish Eyes

Nov 27, 2024
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Listening 2 Madonna: Who's That Girl?

Nov 25, 2024
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Fleetwood Mac perfected turning drama into hits

Nov 19, 2024
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Still Freaky After All These Years: Gaga, Tyler, The Cure

Nov 12, 2024
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Did Kendrick Lamar kill hip-hop?

Nov 5, 2024
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Where are all the scary songs?

Oct 29, 2024
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The virtuosity of Stevie Wonder

Oct 22, 2024
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The last decade of pop explained

Oct 15, 2024
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Learning to love: Coldplay

Oct 8, 2024
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Fall Out Boy and the worst earworm ever

Oct 1, 2024
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Mexican pop is bigger than you think

Sep 24, 2024
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How Megan Thee Stallion brought Japanese hip hop to the Hot 100

Sep 17, 2024
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Learning to love: Oasis

Sep 10, 2024
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Newcomers: Porter Robinson

Sep 6, 2024
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Sabrina Carpenter is more than Short n' Sweet

Sep 3, 2024
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Newcomers: Jhayco

Aug 30, 2024
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Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars bring back the duet

Aug 27, 2024
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Newcomers: Magdalena Bay

Aug 23, 2024
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Tinashe’s “Nasty” takes on Janet and Beyoncé + Are songs getting simpler?

Aug 20, 2024
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Kesha v Katy + Tayla Parx on pop’s obsession with eras

Aug 13, 2024
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Introducing One Song

Aug 9, 2024
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brat but it's a podcast about the album by CharliXCX

Aug 6, 2024
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Why Chappell Roan is the sound of 2024

Jul 30, 2024
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Is country the new hip hop?

Jul 23, 2024
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The music industry's AI fight

Jul 19, 2024
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Switched-On Wendy Carlos

Jul 17, 2024
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The song of the summer is DEAD with Today Explained

Jul 15, 2024
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Lawrence: the kick-ass eight-piece family band reshaping the music business

Jul 9, 2024
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The Imperfect Feminine: Camila, Charli, and Sabrina

Jul 2, 2024
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Empress Of asks for your consideration (with Empress Of)

Jun 25, 2024
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Bootsy Collins is gonna funk you up (with Bootsy Collins)

Jun 18, 2024
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Freaking out about songwriting with Nile Rodgers

Jun 11, 2024
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Begging songs and basketball's musicality (with Hanif Abdurraqib)

Jun 4, 2024
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Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist (with Charlie Puth)

May 28, 2024
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Billie Eilish hits both hard and soft

May 21, 2024
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Gastropod: Why are restaurants so loud? Plus the science behind the perfect playlist

May 17, 2024
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Is pop music just fast food? (with Gastropod)

May 14, 2024
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Rosie Tucker's unending bliss

May 10, 2024
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Eurovision 2024: from Baby Lasagna to Windows95Man

May 7, 2024
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Justice is never-ending

May 4, 2024
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Best of 2024 so far: hip hop feuds, Hozier’s pop surprise and espresso shots

Apr 30, 2024
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Taylor Swift's Literary Era

Apr 23, 2024
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Lost Notes: How Fela Kuti Found Afrobeat in LA

Apr 20, 2024
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Berlin's Hottest Club is Rico Nasty & Boys Noize

Apr 16, 2024
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Chasing old sounds: Djo's "End of Beginning" with Joe Keery

Apr 9, 2024
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Cowboy Carter: This Ain't Country

Apr 2, 2024
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Hip-hop's Sea Change at Rolling Loud

Mar 26, 2024
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Rhapsody in Blue, Reimagined

Mar 22, 2024
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Eternal Sunshine of Ariana Grande's Mind

Mar 19, 2024
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How to DIY a Music Career (with Amelia Meath and David Gray at SXSW)

Mar 15, 2024
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Is Beyoncé's music #sponcon? And other mysteries LIVE in Brooklyn

Mar 12, 2024
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Jacob Collier unites the world

Mar 5, 2024
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Beyoncé's Country

Feb 27, 2024
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Adult Contemporary, but make it cool (with CHROMEO)

Feb 20, 2024
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The Star Spangled Banger!

Feb 13, 2024
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Brittany Howard's Chaos Theory (with Brittany Howard)

Feb 6, 2024
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The b*tch of loving musical theater (with Bridger Winegar)

Jan 30, 2024
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Kali Uchis takes on the world

Jan 23, 2024
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Soundalikes: Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande

Jan 16, 2024
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The case of the missing vocals, and other listener questions

Jan 9, 2024
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Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon - ICYMI

Jan 2, 2024
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Wham! Op. 84 “Last Christmas” with Chilly Gonzales - ICYMI

Dec 25, 2023
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"Did I mention that it's Christmas in this club?" (w Matt Rogers)

Dec 19, 2023
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Nicki Minaj's Roman Empire

Dec 12, 2023
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Hear the Year: The music we loved in 2023

Dec 5, 2023
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Behind the Scenes of Switched on Pop on Harman Audio Talks

Nov 28, 2023
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Noah Kahan’s Folk Pop Revival

Nov 21, 2023
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Why Country Music Dominated 2023's Charts

Nov 14, 2023
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The Beatles: "Now and Then" and Forever

Nov 7, 2023
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Rerecording Taylor Swift's 1989, Dark Side of the Moon, and Demi Lovato

Oct 28, 2023
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Chartbreakers: Mitski tops the TikTok chart

Oct 24, 2023
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How Talking Heads reinvented the concert film (with Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz)

Oct 17, 2023
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Feeling Fine with Faye Webster

Oct 11, 2023
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Metro Boomin Wants Some More

Oct 6, 2023
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In Defense of Crunk

Oct 3, 2023
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Made In America: Jay-Z & Toby Keith ICYMI

Sep 28, 2023
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The Art of Flow (with DJ Jazzy Jeff) ICYMI

Sep 26, 2023
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Doja Cat’s Satanic Suite

Sep 19, 2023
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Jimmy Buffett: Next Year in Margaritaville

Sep 12, 2023
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Beyoncé's 'Renaissance' Era ICYMI

Sep 5, 2023
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Olivia Rodrigo’s Good Ideas

Aug 29, 2023
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Wonders: "Stacy's Mom" and Adam Schlesinger

Aug 22, 2023
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The mid-career crises of Travis Scott and Post Malone

Aug 15, 2023
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Song Camp 2: Electric Boogaloo! (with Alex Tumay, Wolftyla, Nicholas Petricca, Grace VanderWaal)

Aug 11, 2023
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The secret world of songwriting camps

Aug 8, 2023
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Your cursive singing is tearing this family apart!

Aug 1, 2023
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Barbie and the plasticity of pop

Jul 25, 2023
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How Louis Armstrong invented the modern pop star

Jul 18, 2023
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Speak Now (about Taylor's versions)

Jul 11, 2023
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My Beyoncé Ticket Cost $4,000: Why the Touring Industry Might Be Broken – Into It with Sam Sanders

Jul 4, 2023
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What makes a gay anthem?

Jun 27, 2023
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Switches Brew: blink-182, Kate Bush, BewhY, The Pointer Sisters, Saint Levant

Jun 20, 2023
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Chartbreakers: Mexican regional y más

Jun 13, 2023
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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Random Access Memories

Jun 6, 2023
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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Human After All / Alive 2007

May 30, 2023
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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery

May 23, 2023
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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework

May 16, 2023
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The Jonas Brothers' Yacht Rock Revival

May 9, 2023
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From Westeros-techno to trance metal: Eurovision 2023

May 2, 2023
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Who killed the key change in pop music?

Apr 25, 2023
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A.I. Drake has put music in a tailspin

Apr 21, 2023
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BTS goes solo together

Apr 18, 2023
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This Generation's Caroline Polachek

Apr 11, 2023
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The Shakira Conspiracy

Apr 4, 2023
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Reinventing Bach

Mar 28, 2023
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100 gecs and the new sound of hyperpop

Mar 21, 2023
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Switches Brew

Mar 17, 2023
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Modern Classics: Seal - Kiss From a Rose

Mar 14, 2023
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How John Denver got huge in Asia

Mar 7, 2023
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Chartbreakers: Jersey Club, Complicated Country, and 50s Crooners

Feb 28, 2023
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Five years later, the legacy of Nipsey Hussle's "Victory Lap"

Feb 22, 2023
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“Flowers” and the art of the response song

Feb 14, 2023
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Rihanna Party! ICYMI

Feb 12, 2023
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The L.A. guitar shop that reinvented indie folk

Feb 7, 2023
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A History of Whammies at the Grammys - Into It with Sam Sanders

Feb 2, 2023
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Wonders: Bobby McFerrin

Jan 31, 2023
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The New Wave of Paramore

Jan 24, 2023
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Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20

Jan 20, 2023
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SZA's Endless Melody

Jan 18, 2023
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Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon

Jan 10, 2023
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ICYMI 90s Music Canon

Jan 3, 2023
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ICYMI: We *do* talk about Bruno

Dec 27, 2022
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Anitta & Rosalía on the borders of Latin pop

Dec 20, 2022
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How Bad Bunny won 2022

Dec 13, 2022
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The soft sounds of Kali Uchis (live from Vulture Fest)

Dec 6, 2022
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Why do new Christmas songs fail?

Nov 29, 2022
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The Art of Flow

Nov 22, 2022
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Willow Smith rocks harder

Nov 15, 2022
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The Sound of Sapphism

Nov 8, 2022
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Scary Pockets funkify pop classics (with Lizzy McAlpine)

Nov 1, 2022
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Up late with Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’

Oct 24, 2022
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Steve Lacy brings bedroom pop to the Billboard top

Oct 18, 2022
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Why it hurts to release a record (with Sylvan Esso)

Oct 11, 2022
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Santigold sings Spirituals

Oct 4, 2022
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The future of music pt I

Sep 27, 2022
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Lady Gaga & The Pequeños Monstruos

Sep 20, 2022
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Invasion of the Vibe Snatchers

Sep 13, 2022
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Into It: Song of Summer 2022

Sep 6, 2022
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Learning to love the Killers (maybe)

Aug 30, 2022
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K-Pop Chartbreakers: BLACKPINK, Girls’ Generation, NewJeans, IVE

Aug 23, 2022
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Demi Lovato Searches for "Substance" In Pop-Punk Perfection

Aug 16, 2022
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Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance’ Era

Aug 9, 2022
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Into It: The Business of Beyoncé

Aug 5, 2022
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"It's About Damn Time" for Another Lizzo #1

Aug 2, 2022
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Elvis, Big Mama Thornton, Doja Cat, and the Long Legacy of “Hound Dog”

Jul 26, 2022
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We Won’t Go Back: Pop Music and the Fight For Reproductive Rights (w MILCK and Ann Powers)

Jul 19, 2022
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Harry Styles and the Sledgehammer Horns

Jul 12, 2022
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ICYMI: The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Baz Luhrmann)

Jul 5, 2022
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Beyoncé's House

Jun 28, 2022
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Robert Glasper on jazz, basketball, and his score for "Winning Time"

Jun 21, 2022
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Scoring Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein

Jun 16, 2022
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Kate Bush, Stranger Things, and a hit song four decades in the making

Jun 14, 2022
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So your song went viral on TikTok. What’s next?

Jun 7, 2022
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The 1980s jam that gave Latto and Mariah Carey Big D*** Energy

May 31, 2022
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Kendrick Lamar and the big samples

May 24, 2022
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Modern Classics: PJ Morton made Nas’s Stevie Wonder dream come true

May 17, 2022
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Will Ukraine win Eurovision 2022?

May 10, 2022
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Belle and Sebastian on the value of staying "young and stupid"

May 3, 2022
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The New Alternative

Apr 26, 2022
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Jump-starting the creative process with Allison Ponthier

Apr 19, 2022
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A Higher Power Ballad

Apr 12, 2022
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How sound becomes hearing

Apr 5, 2022
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Listening 2 Britney: Gimme More

Mar 29, 2022
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Listening 2 Britney: Toxic

Mar 22, 2022
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Listening 2 Britney: I'm a Slave 4 U

Mar 15, 2022
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Listening 2 Britney: ...Baby One More Time

Mar 8, 2022
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Chartbreakers (ft. Megan Thee Stallion and the Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Mar 1, 2022
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Leon Bridges and Khruangbin Sing a Song of Texas

Feb 15, 2022
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Shaking Out the Numb with Sylvan Esso

Feb 8, 2022
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We *do* talk about Bruno

Feb 1, 2022
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32 Albums in, Elvis Costello is Just Getting Started

Jan 25, 2022
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Accidental K-pop star Eric Nam risks it all to go his own way

Jan 19, 2022
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The Weeknd drives through purgatory (with a little help from Jim Carrey)

Jan 11, 2022
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Why do new Christmas songs fail?

Dec 21, 2021
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Tai Verdes TikTok-ed his way to a breakout hit

Dec 14, 2021
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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise The Roof

Dec 7, 2021
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The Beatles get back to their roots

Nov 30, 2021
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Taylor, Adele & Silk Sonic’s broken hearts club (with Brittany Luse)

Nov 23, 2021
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Snotty Nose Rez Kids on hip hop and Indigenous protest

Nov 16, 2021
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The State of the Pop Union

Nov 9, 2021
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Why ABBA songs just hit different

Nov 2, 2021
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The Healing Power of Pop with Esperanza Spalding

Oct 26, 2021
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Janet Jackson's Legacy After 'Control' from It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders

Oct 22, 2021
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James Bond's Spycraft Sound

Oct 19, 2021
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James Blake & The Return of Harmony

Oct 12, 2021
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Sparkle spoke out against R Kelly. It cost her her career.

Oct 7, 2021
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ICYMI: The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Take A Daytrip)

Sep 28, 2021
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Deja Vu: Why Olivia Rodrigo keeps giving up songwriting credits

Sep 21, 2021
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CHVRCHES and the sound of 80s horror

Sep 14, 2021
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From Taylor Swift to Bon Iver, Aaron Dessner Finds Meaning in Musical Community

Sep 7, 2021
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Modern Classics: Carina del Valle Schorske on Cat Power's "Manhattan"

Aug 31, 2021
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The Joy of Music Festivals

Aug 24, 2021
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The Beauty and Horror of Insane Clown Posse's Summer Festival

Aug 17, 2021
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How Coachella took the Woodstock look

Aug 10, 2021
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Modern Classics: Mark Ronson on Ginuwine's "Pony"

Aug 3, 2021
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Summer Hits: Jack Antonoff on Bleachers “Stop Making This Hurt”

Jul 30, 2021
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Modern Classics: Yola on Childish Gambino’s “Redbone” and the Longevity of Soul

Jul 27, 2021
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The Appealing Uneasiness of Listening to L’Rain (Live at JBL)

Jul 23, 2021
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Summer Hits: City Girls - Twerkulator (with Kyra Gaunt)

Jul 20, 2021
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Summer Hits: Lorde - Solar Power (w Hanif Abdurraqib)

Jul 16, 2021
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Summer Hits: Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (with Jessica Hopper)

Jul 13, 2021
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Modern Classics: Labrinth's "Sexy MF" (with Sam Sanders)

Jul 6, 2021
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Growing Pains with Lucy Dacus

Jul 2, 2021
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Summer Hits: BTS - Butter (with Jenna Andrews)

Jun 29, 2021
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Pop’s Worst Kept Secret ft. Emily Warren

Jun 22, 2021
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40 Years Later, Japanese City Pop is Still Crashing the Charts (with Cat Zhang)

Jun 15, 2021
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J Cole’s The Off Season and the Power of the 12/8 Shuffle

Jun 8, 2021
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ICYMI Rina Sawayama Reimagines the 00s

Jun 1, 2021
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Vijay Iyer on why jazz has always been political

May 25, 2021
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Introducing Galaxy Brains

May 18, 2021
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Turns out Willow Smith rocks

May 11, 2021
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Julia Michaels’ Songwriting Superpowers

May 4, 2021
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How Take A Daytrip took off (full interview)

Apr 30, 2021
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The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Take A Daytrip)

Apr 27, 2021
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Pop On A Perilous Planet (w Kyle Devine)

Apr 20, 2021
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5 Rules of Great Songwriting Collabs, According to Teddy Geiger and Dan Wilson (On Air Fest 2021)

Apr 13, 2021
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Silk Sonic's Retro Soul (with Tayla Parx)

Apr 6, 2021
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AJR Conjure Broadway on 'OK Orchestra'

Mar 30, 2021
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Return of the Funk Guitar: Cory Wong Breaks Down Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware and Nile Rodgers

Mar 23, 2021
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What the 63rd Grammys say about the state of pop

Mar 16, 2021
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Kimbra reflects on a song that we used to know

Mar 9, 2021
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Kaytranada's journey from basement beat-making to the Grammys

Mar 2, 2021
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JP Saxe Didn’t Mean for His Grammy Hit ‘If the World Was Ending’ to Be So Literal

Feb 23, 2021
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Adrian Younge's new project sounds like James Baldwin meets Marvin Gaye

Feb 16, 2021
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The Scandalous Sounds of Bridgerton (w Kris Bowers)

Feb 9, 2021
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How The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” used retro sounds and modern bass to break every record

Feb 2, 2021
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Epik High is our gateway into Korean hip hop (with Tablo)

Jan 26, 2021
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Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” is a full throttle power ballad

Jan 19, 2021
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D.O.C. (Death of the Chorus) with Emily Warren

Jan 12, 2021
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ICYMI: The End Of Pop Music As We Know It: Fall Out Boy & Charli XCX

Jan 5, 2021
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ICYMI: Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?

Dec 29, 2020
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Wham! Op. 84 “Last Christmas” with Chilly Gonzales

Dec 21, 2020
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Taylor Swift has "evermore" of a good thing

Dec 15, 2020
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Women's Rap Renaissance

Dec 8, 2020
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Red Hot + Blue with Meshell Ndegeocello

Dec 1, 2020
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The Cyndi Lauper Conspiracy (with Sam Sanders)

Nov 24, 2020
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ANTHEMS: Missy Elliott — Work It

Nov 17, 2020
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ANTHEMS: Smash Mouth — All Star

Nov 10, 2020
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ANTHEMS: Jock Jams — Get Ready For This

Nov 3, 2020
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ANTHEMS: Queen — We Are The Champions

Oct 27, 2020
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Cory Henry has Something to Say

Oct 20, 2020
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The Pop Music Forecast (with Lauren Michele Jackson)

Oct 14, 2020
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Brandy Clark's Life Is A Record

Oct 7, 2020
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Keith Urban on The Speed of Now Part 1

Oct 2, 2020
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Mickey Guyton sings truth to Country Music

Sep 29, 2020
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Disclosure: Where Energy Flows

Sep 22, 2020
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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT IV, What Beethoven Would Have Wanted

Sep 18, 2020
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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT III, Putting the Classism in Classical

Sep 15, 2020
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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT II, From Struggle to Victory

Sep 11, 2020
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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT I, A Battle Brewing

Sep 8, 2020
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The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets (ICYMI)

Sep 1, 2020
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Benee and the Art of the Sad Banger 

Aug 26, 2020
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90s Music Canon

Aug 18, 2020
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Bruno Major restyles the Great American Songbook

Aug 11, 2020
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Black Is King (ICYMI Beyoncé's Gift To Africa ft. Ivie Ani)

Aug 4, 2020
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folklore: taylor swift's quarantine dream

Jul 28, 2020
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The Women Reclaiming Nu-Metal ft. Rina Sawayama

Jul 21, 2020
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Rosie: Investigating a Crime at the Heart of the Music Industry

Jul 14, 2020
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Song of Summer 2020: TikTok Jams, Protest Anthems, Breezy Bops & Bummer Bangers

Jul 7, 2020
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The Many Colors of Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’

Jun 30, 2020
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I Am America (w Shea Diamond and Justin Tranter)

Jun 30, 2020
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Baz Luhrmann’s “Sunscreen Song” — The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Avery Trufelman)

Jun 23, 2020
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Jacob Collier on staying creative and his 646 track song “All I Need”

Jun 19, 2020
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What it means to make music in 2020

Jun 16, 2020
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Big Floyd And The Influence Of Houston Chopped N Screwed Music

Jun 9, 2020
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Carly Rae Jepsen: Meeting The Muse

May 26, 2020
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Why lo-fi is the perfect background music

May 19, 2020
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Eurovision Lives! (with Netta)

May 12, 2020
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How To Soundtrack A Villain: Killing Eve

May 5, 2020
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Did Fiona Apple Just Release a Perfect Album?

Apr 28, 2020
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Doja Cat’s “Say So” is a Masterclass in Good Times

Apr 21, 2020
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Were We Wrong About Kanye West?

Apr 14, 2020
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Aussie2Aussie: 5SOS on Tame Impala (with Luke Hemmings & Calum Hood)

Apr 7, 2020
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The (murder) Ballad of Joe Exotic “Tiger King” (with Robert Moor)

Apr 5, 2020
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D’Angelo and the Legacy of Voodoo (with Faith Pennick)

Mar 31, 2020
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"Happy Birthday" is the Worst (with Anne-Marie)

Mar 24, 2020
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Bad Bunny Has A Message For Your Mom

Mar 17, 2020
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The Fire & Fury Of Overcoats

Mar 10, 2020
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Can't Help Falling in Lauv (the interview)

Mar 3, 2020
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What Happens When Justin Bieber Samples Your Music

Feb 25, 2020
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Return Of The Guitar: Halsey, 5 Seconds of Summer, Joji

Feb 18, 2020
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Look At Selena Gomez Now with Justin Tranter & Ian Kirkpatrick

Feb 11, 2020
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Five Directions: How do the solo efforts of One Direction stack up?

Feb 4, 2020
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Post Malone has us Running in Circles

Jan 28, 2020
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Hopes and Fears of Mac Miller, Future, Drake, and Billie Eilish

Jan 21, 2020
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Dua Lipa’s Disco Fever

Jan 14, 2020
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ICYMI: Chance The Rapper, Kehlani, & The Shifting Sound of R&B — with Oak Felder

Jan 7, 2020
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ICYMI: Billie Eilish is a Different Kind of Pop Star (ft. FINNEAS)

Dec 31, 2019
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Dolly Parton's America (with Jad Abumrad)

Dec 24, 2019
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Who's Afraid of the Sound of TikTok? (w Cat Zhang)

Dec 17, 2019
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Paper Planes, Chandelier & What the #@%! is Timbre? (with Constance Grady)

Dec 10, 2019
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Prelude & Feud on a 'G' Thang: Biggie vs Tupac

Dec 3, 2019
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Pop is the Sound We Need Right Now (with Electric Guest)

Nov 26, 2019
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The Past, Present, and Future of EMO (with Allegra Frank)

Nov 19, 2019
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When Pop and Classical Collide (with James Bennett II)

Nov 12, 2019
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Unlocking the Rhythms of Rosalía

Nov 5, 2019
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Rihanna Party! (with Gina Delvac)

Oct 29, 2019
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Why U Love 2 Listen 2 Prince (with Anil Dash)

Oct 22, 2019
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A Brief History of Men Singing Really High

Oct 15, 2019
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Total Request Live! Taylor, Lana, Kim, and More (with Sam Sanders)

Oct 7, 2019
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Mastering Music (with Dallas Taylor of Twenty Thousand Hertz)

Oct 1, 2019
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Jazz 1959

Sep 24, 2019
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BONUS: Charli XCX and The Future of Music (with Dani Deahl)

Sep 22, 2019
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The “Baby Shark” Phenomenon (with Andrea Silenzi)

Sep 17, 2019
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BONUS: Who are the Picassos of pop? (with Ross Golan)

Sep 13, 2019
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Switched Off Book the Improvised Musical (with Jess McKenna and Zach Reino)

Sep 10, 2019
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ICYMI: How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo

Sep 3, 2019
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ICYMI: Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre?

Aug 27, 2019
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Songs of Summer Call-in Special

Aug 20, 2019
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Chance The Rapper, Kehlani, & The Shifting Sound of R&B — with Oak Felder

Aug 13, 2019
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Beyoncé's Gift To Africa (with Ivie Ani)

Aug 6, 2019
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LCD Soundsystem and the Unbearable Sameness of Restaurant Playlists

Jul 30, 2019
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The $50M Beat Marketplace That Broke the Billboard

Jul 23, 2019
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Shawn Mendes and the Rhythm of Rhyme

Jul 16, 2019
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Space, The Final Frontier: Madonna, Stephen Puth and Street Studios

Jul 9, 2019
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What BTS's "Boy With Love" ft. Halsey Can Teach Us About K-pop

Jul 2, 2019
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"Prince Ali" and Why We're All Music Theorists

Jun 25, 2019
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Why Does Every Intro Sound Like It's Underwater? (Live)

Jun 18, 2019
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The Man Behind the Rocketman with Giles Martin

Jun 11, 2019
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The Greatest Pop Stories Never Told (with Jessica Hopper)

Jun 4, 2019
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Should You Care About Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber?

May 28, 2019
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The Smooth Sound of NPR Morning News

May 21, 2019
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Is There An Indie Rock Conspiracy? (Featuring Joywave)

May 15, 2019
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Lizzo And The End of Genre (with Sam Harris of X Ambassadors)

May 7, 2019
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Taylor Swift Causes a PANIC!

Apr 30, 2019
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Sounds Like Teen Spirit (with Elle Fanning)

Apr 23, 2019
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Lil Nas X: Country at the Crossroads

Apr 16, 2019
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Billie Eilish is a Different Kind of Pop Star (ft. FINNEAS)

Apr 9, 2019
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BONUS: Bhi Bhiman's 'Peace of Mind' Episode 1

Apr 8, 2019
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Bhi Bhiman Puts the Music Before the Message

Apr 2, 2019
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Comeback Kids: The Jonas Brothers are Back

Mar 25, 2019
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Lost & Found: The Drama of Pop Form with Emily King

Mar 19, 2019
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How Streaming Changed the Sound of Pop

Mar 12, 2019
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Top 40 Activism with Justin Tranter

Mar 5, 2019
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What Makes An Award Winning Song?

Feb 20, 2019
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What Makes a Song Sexy?

Feb 5, 2019
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The Deep History of '7 Rings'

Jan 29, 2019
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Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?

Jan 23, 2019
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Slay Bells, All Year Long

Dec 26, 2018
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Look What You Made Us Do

Dec 11, 2018
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Entering Beard Phase with Mike Posner

Nov 27, 2018
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How Dirty Projectors Make You Feel Energy (with David Longstreth)

Nov 13, 2018
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Stairway To Hell: Greta Van Fleet’s Scorching Album Review That Went Viral

Oct 30, 2018
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Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Love the 90s

Oct 16, 2018
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Sicko Rap and Drunk Country

Oct 3, 2018
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The Side Effects of Pop Music with Emily Warren

Sep 18, 2018
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Drake vs Drake

Sep 6, 2018
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Summer Heat of the 2000s: Beyoncé and Black Eyed Peas (Pt. II)

Aug 23, 2018
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Summer Heat of the 2000s: Nelly + Katy Perry (Pt. 1)

Aug 9, 2018
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Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre?

Jul 27, 2018
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The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets

Jul 12, 2018
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Switched on Summer: Getting Around with the Beach Boys

Jun 28, 2018
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The Pure Pop of Charlie Puth + Carly Rae (ft Hanif Abdurraqib)

Jun 14, 2018
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Afrofuturism in Kali Uchis & Clipping (with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes)

May 31, 2018
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Finding Equanimity In 'No Tears Left To Cry'

May 17, 2018
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Can AI 'Algorhythms' Write Pop Songs? (With Taryn Southern)

May 3, 2018
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Listening Differently to Lorde | with MARIAN HILL

Apr 19, 2018
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Kacey Musgraves Gives Us Butterflies

Apr 5, 2018
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Gucci Gang and the Neural Substrate of Subjective Time Dilation

Mar 22, 2018
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How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo

Mar 8, 2018
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808s & Havana Heartbreak

Feb 22, 2018
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My My My! Troye Sivan + Queer Pop (w Gina Delvac, Darryl Bullock)

Feb 8, 2018
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90s Nostalgia in Bruno Mars and Charlie Puth

Jan 25, 2018
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Justin Timberlake's Identity Crisis

Jan 11, 2018
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Dua Lipa's Minor Mantra (w Emily Bootle)

Dec 28, 2017
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All I Want for Xmas is a Year in Review Episode

Dec 14, 2017
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Björk's Emotional Landscapes

Nov 30, 2017
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Taylor Constructs A Darker Reputation

Nov 16, 2017
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Unlikely Mashups: Taylor + Cardi B | Clean Bandit + Berlioz

Nov 2, 2017
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Kendrick Lamar's HUMBLE deconstructed w. guest Amber Mark

Oct 19, 2017
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Demi Lovato is Not Sorry

Oct 6, 2017
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How to 'Feels' the Groove

Sep 22, 2017
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Anthems of Resilience - Kesha and Imagine Dragons [LIVE]

Sep 7, 2017
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The Many Worlds of "Despacito"

Aug 10, 2017
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Selena Gomez: Bad Liar, Psycho Songwriter

Jul 13, 2017
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Breaking Down Alanis Morissette (and our own Preconceptions) with guest Andrea Warner

Jun 29, 2017
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Morgan Page Reveals the Rule of 3 in Julia Michaels and Maroon 5

Jun 16, 2017
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DJ Khaled - I'm The One... six... four... five

Jun 1, 2017
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Musical Architecture in Charlie Puth + HAIM

May 18, 2017
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The End Of Pop Music As We Know It: Fall Out Boy & Charli XCX

May 4, 2017
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Harry Styles, Eschatology and Teen Girl Fandom

Apr 20, 2017
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What's to Love About Ed Sheeran? (guest Ross Golan)

Apr 6, 2017
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Zedd + Alessia Cara - Stay (w special guest Grey)

Mar 23, 2017
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Chained to the Green Light: Katy Perry + Lorde

Mar 10, 2017
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Oscar Week!: La La Land ft. Genevieve Koski

Feb 24, 2017
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Zayn, Taylor Swift & The Grammys

Feb 9, 2017
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The Puzzle of Ariana Grande's "Into You" (with K. Flay)

Jan 27, 2017
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Seduced by the Sound: The Weeknd + Daft Punk

Jan 12, 2017
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Dreaming Of A White Christmas

Dec 16, 2016
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How to Listen to Music in 4 Easy Steps

Dec 1, 2016
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Playing it Cool: How Tove Lo Aims High

Nov 17, 2016
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Made In America: Toby Keith & Jay-Z

Nov 3, 2016
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Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal

Oct 20, 2016
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The Most Popular Song In The World

Oct 6, 2016
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Lady Gaga Is A Perfect Illusion

Sep 22, 2016
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How Beyoncé to The Beatles Modulate Your Emotions

Sep 9, 2016
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Pop Drops and Chipmunk Soul

Aug 25, 2016
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The Gideon and Hubcap Show

Aug 15, 2016
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Breaking Down The House

Aug 1, 2016
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Around The World With Drake

Jul 14, 2016
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When Good Music Happens To Bad People

Jun 30, 2016
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Justin Timberlake Goes Medieval

Jun 16, 2016
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All About Those Baseline Assumptions About Femini$m in Pop

Jun 6, 2016
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Jonas vs. Jonas: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Boy Band

May 19, 2016
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Purple Lemonade: Prince & Beyoncé

May 5, 2016
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Pablo And The Wolves

Apr 22, 2016
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The Populist Pop of Twenty One Pilots

Apr 6, 2016
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American Oxygen

Mar 23, 2016
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Say Hey

Mar 10, 2016
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Now I Sia, Now I Don't

Feb 26, 2016
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B Side: Singing With Mama Jan

Feb 18, 2016
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Call Your Girlfriend

Feb 12, 2016
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Click With Dick And Other Campaign Anthems

Jan 29, 2016
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The Life Changing Magic of Music in 2015

Jan 17, 2016
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Linus & Lucy

Dec 17, 2015
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Same Here

Dec 2, 2015
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Searching for Max Martin

Nov 19, 2015
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Hotline Hello: Drake and Adele

Nov 4, 2015
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Can’t Get You Out Of My Head

Oct 22, 2015
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Justin Bieber’s Existential Suite

Oct 7, 2015
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The Weeknd: Dance of Deception

Sep 23, 2015
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Let’s Talk About Sax

Sep 9, 2015
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Kacey Musgraves: Transgressing Country

Aug 14, 2015
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Song of Summer: LIVE!

Jul 30, 2015
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The Dual Meaning of Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen

Jul 15, 2015
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One Direction: Our Modern Day Castrati

May 29, 2015
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The Final Dropout

May 15, 2015
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Hidden Sounds in FourFiveSeconds

May 6, 2015
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Carly Rae Jepsen – I Really Like You

Apr 15, 2015
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Hozier’s Waffling of Faith in Take Me To Church

Apr 2, 2015
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Taylor Swift’s Beethovian Blank Space

Mar 26, 2015
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A Cappella Dreams

Mar 16, 2015
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Radio Africa

Feb 19, 2015
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Star Spangled

Jan 28, 2015
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Mark Ronson: Funk Politics

Jan 15, 2015
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The Imperative Jingle Bells

Dec 20, 2014
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To Be Young

Dec 11, 2014
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Boom Bang Pow

Nov 14, 2014
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The Oeuvre of Taylor Swift

Oct 28, 2014
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Heartbreak

Oct 28, 2014