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Switched on Pop — 541 episodes

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We have Confessions to make...

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A piano lesson that will change how you listen (ft. Lang Lang)

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IV. Take It to the Bridge (ft. Tayla Parx)

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I. Let's get it started (ft. Aaron Dessner)

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Music only the World Cup could make

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Why we can't resist Swedish pop (ft. Zara Larsson) ICYMI

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2hollis is the underground’s genre-hopping vampire

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Paul McCartney went back to Liverpool for something new to say

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How a sci-fi dystopia became a personal utopia (ft. Arc Iris)

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Why bands give us purpose (ft. MUNA)

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Drake's Slop Era

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Kacey Musgraves walks country’s borderlands

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Rostam reimagines American music

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Samara Cyn is rap's best new writer

15

Olivia Rodrigo and the second verse massacre

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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album about running out of time — in no time

17

BTS is back. But K Pop is not the same.

18

Maggie Rogers: going viral is a trap

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Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

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Slayyyter might actually be the 'Worst Girl in America'

21

How Charlie Puth honored Whitney Houston for 125 million people (live at Berklee NYC)

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RAYE’s maximalist masterpiece is the hope we need

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Where have all the white rappers gone?

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Jacob Collier can make anyone sing

25

Harry Styles loses himself to dance

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Can Bruno Mars counterprogram his way to another hit album?

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Charli XCX’s "Wuthering Heights" fever dream

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Will Sinners do for blues what O Brother did for bluegrass?

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Jazz is A$AP Rocky’s secret weapon

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Does humor belong in music?

31

And the Grammy goes to…

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Robyn’s new songs bring “drum 'n' grace” to the dance floor

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Audrey Hobert says the quiet part out loud

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2026 Pop Predictions: big beat, animated avatars, and Bruno Mars

35

The Sound of Silence from Unexplainable

36

Naughty or nice? The 2025 holiday music round up

37

The year that killed music (best and worst of 2025)

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Why pop songwriters break the rules (ft. Amy Allen)

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How Sombr’s bedroom recordings became his biggest hits

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"It’s a Hail Mary every time" (ft. Marc Rebillet)

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Quitting Spotify (ft. Deerhoof)

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Is there a Disney curse?: Demi, Selena, and Miley

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Rosalía's 'LUX' brings the symphony to the club

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Lily Allen and Tate McRae revive the revenge anthem

45

Can “professor” Charlie Puth pass our qualifying exam?

46

How D'Angelo changed music, in three songs

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

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Taylor Swift’s Showgirl Sound: How to actually listen to the album

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The Power of the Trio (ft. Trousdale live at USC)

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Doja Cat is the new Janet

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

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The music theory behind K Pop Demon Hunters' chart dominance

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The architecture of the album with Djo (Joe Keery live at NYU)

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Finneas and Ashe want you to start a band

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Fleetwood Mac's Missing Link Album Returns After 50 Years

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The classical rebel who infiltrated pop music

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All roads lead to Pharrell: Tyler, Clipse, and Cardi

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A brief history of terrible lyrics (with Sam Sanders)

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Summer Bummer (with Commotion’s Elamin Abdelmahmoud)

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Justin Bieber's Lo-fi Bedroom Swag

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How podcasting got its sound ft. Breakmaster Cylinder

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Is that new song you like AI? Here’s how you can tell

63

The Benson Boone-Doggle

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Can Recession Pop predict the market?

65

How Americana helped mainstream country find its soul

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Country music is Mexican (Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera)

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The Ballad of Lainey Wilson and Jessie Murph

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The hick hop renaissance (BigXthaPlug and Bailey Zimmerman)

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Is Morgan Wallen the problem with country music?

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"Manchild" and other songs about male incompetence

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Frankly, Sinatra still matters (with Seth MacFarlane)

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Is the future of pop...heavy metal?!

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Charli XCX threw this party 4 us

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808: The drum machine that changed music forever (Twenty Thousand Hertz)

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

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‘Sinners’ summons the demons of American music

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

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Put your headphones on for TikTok's Addison Rae

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

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Music's New Success Model

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Miley Cyrus goes avant-garde

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Chappell Roan is giving country... and hair metal?

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Writing The Who’s ‘My Generation' With Pete Townshend

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Lady Gaga's Monster Return

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How Missy Elliott and Timbaland Freaked the World

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Playing "Hide and Seek" with Imogen Heap

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The Umbrella Effect: How Rihanna’s Breakout Hit Changed Pop Music Forever

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Learning to love: Tate McRae

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Does It Trance? The Weeknd & FKA Twigs

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How Spotify hacked our ears (and our data)

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

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Bad Bunny's love letter to Puerto Rico

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The biggest theme song fail

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Have Disney musicals lost their edge?

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Going Off Book

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Auto-Tune always and forever

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Santa Claus is coming to town and stalking America

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Breaking Through: Doechii, Mk.gee, Rosé

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The best (and worst) of holiday music in 2024

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Kendrick Lamar: from Pulitzer to pop

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We're off to see the "Wicked"

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Listening 2 Madonna: Ray of Light

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Listening 2 Madonna: Spanish Eyes

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Listening 2 Madonna: Who's That Girl?

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Fleetwood Mac perfected turning drama into hits

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

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Did Kendrick Lamar kill hip-hop?

108

Where are all the scary songs?

109

The virtuosity of Stevie Wonder

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The last decade of pop explained

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Learning to love: Coldplay

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Fall Out Boy and the worst earworm ever

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Mexican pop is bigger than you think

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How Megan Thee Stallion brought Japanese hip hop to the Hot 100

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Learning to love: Oasis

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Newcomers: Porter Robinson

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Sabrina Carpenter is more than Short n' Sweet

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Newcomers: Jhayco

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Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars bring back the duet

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Newcomers: Magdalena Bay

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

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Kesha v Katy + Tayla Parx on pop’s obsession with eras

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Introducing One Song

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brat but it's a podcast about the album by CharliXCX

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Why Chappell Roan is the sound of 2024

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Is country the new hip hop?

127

The music industry's AI fight

128

Switched-On Wendy Carlos

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The song of the summer is DEAD with Today Explained

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Lawrence: the kick-ass eight-piece family band reshaping the music business

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The Imperfect Feminine: Camila, Charli, and Sabrina

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Empress Of asks for your consideration (with Empress Of)

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Bootsy Collins is gonna funk you up (with Bootsy Collins)

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Freaking out about songwriting with Nile Rodgers

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Begging songs and basketball's musicality (with Hanif Abdurraqib)

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Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist (with Charlie Puth)

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Billie Eilish hits both hard and soft

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Gastropod: Why are restaurants so loud? Plus the science behind the perfect playlist

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Is pop music just fast food? (with Gastropod)

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Rosie Tucker's unending bliss

141

Eurovision 2024: from Baby Lasagna to Windows95Man

142

Justice is never-ending

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

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Taylor Swift's Literary Era

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Lost Notes: How Fela Kuti Found Afrobeat in LA

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Berlin's Hottest Club is Rico Nasty & Boys Noize

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Chasing old sounds: Djo's "End of Beginning" with Joe Keery

148

Cowboy Carter: This Ain't Country

149

Hip-hop's Sea Change at Rolling Loud

150

Rhapsody in Blue, Reimagined

151

Eternal Sunshine of Ariana Grande's Mind

152

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

153

Is Beyoncé's music #sponcon? And other mysteries LIVE in Brooklyn

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Jacob Collier unites the world

155

Beyoncé's Country

156

Adult Contemporary, but make it cool (with CHROMEO)

157

The Star Spangled Banger!

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Brittany Howard's Chaos Theory (with Brittany Howard)

159

The b*tch of loving musical theater (with Bridger Winegar)

160

Kali Uchis takes on the world

161

Soundalikes: Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande

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The case of the missing vocals, and other listener questions

163

Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon - ICYMI

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Wham! Op. 84 “Last Christmas” with Chilly Gonzales - ICYMI

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

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Nicki Minaj's Roman Empire

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Hear the Year: The music we loved in 2023

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Behind the Scenes of Switched on Pop on Harman Audio Talks

169

Noah Kahan’s Folk Pop Revival

170

Why Country Music Dominated 2023's Charts

171

The Beatles: "Now and Then" and Forever

172

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

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Chartbreakers: Mitski tops the TikTok chart

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How Talking Heads reinvented the concert film (with Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz)

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Feeling Fine with Faye Webster

176

Metro Boomin Wants Some More

177

In Defense of Crunk

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Made In America: Jay-Z & Toby Keith ICYMI

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The Art of Flow (with DJ Jazzy Jeff) ICYMI

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Doja Cat’s Satanic Suite

181

Jimmy Buffett: Next Year in Margaritaville

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Beyoncé's 'Renaissance' Era ICYMI

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Olivia Rodrigo’s Good Ideas

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Wonders: "Stacy's Mom" and Adam Schlesinger

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The mid-career crises of Travis Scott and Post Malone

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

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The secret world of songwriting camps

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Your cursive singing is tearing this family apart!

189

Barbie and the plasticity of pop

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How Louis Armstrong invented the modern pop star

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Speak Now (about Taylor's versions)

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

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What makes a gay anthem?

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

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Chartbreakers: Mexican regional y más

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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Random Access Memories

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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Human After All / Alive 2007

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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery

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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework

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The Jonas Brothers' Yacht Rock Revival

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From Westeros-techno to trance metal: Eurovision 2023

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Who killed the key change in pop music?

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A.I. Drake has put music in a tailspin

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BTS goes solo together

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This Generation's Caroline Polachek

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The Shakira Conspiracy

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Reinventing Bach

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100 gecs and the new sound of hyperpop

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Switches Brew

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Modern Classics: Seal - Kiss From a Rose

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How John Denver got huge in Asia

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Chartbreakers: Jersey Club, Complicated Country, and 50s Crooners

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

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“Flowers” and the art of the response song

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Rihanna Party! ICYMI

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The L.A. guitar shop that reinvented indie folk

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A History of Whammies at the Grammys - Into It with Sam Sanders

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Wonders: Bobby McFerrin

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The New Wave of Paramore

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Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20

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SZA's Endless Melody

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Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon

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ICYMI 90s Music Canon

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ICYMI: We *do* talk about Bruno

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Anitta & Rosalía on the borders of Latin pop

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How Bad Bunny won 2022

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The soft sounds of Kali Uchis (live from Vulture Fest)

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The Art of Flow

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Willow Smith rocks harder

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The Sound of Sapphism

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Scary Pockets funkify pop classics (with Lizzy McAlpine)

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Up late with Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’

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Steve Lacy brings bedroom pop to the Billboard top

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Why it hurts to release a record (with Sylvan Esso)

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Santigold sings Spirituals

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The future of music pt I

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Lady Gaga & The Pequeños Monstruos

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Invasion of the Vibe Snatchers

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Into It: Song of Summer 2022

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Learning to love the Killers (maybe)

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

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Demi Lovato Searches for "Substance" In Pop-Punk Perfection

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Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance’ Era

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Into It: The Business of Beyoncé

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"It's About Damn Time" for Another Lizzo #1

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

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

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Harry Styles and the Sledgehammer Horns

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ICYMI: The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Baz Luhrmann)

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Beyoncé's House

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

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Scoring Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein

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

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So your song went viral on TikTok. What’s next?

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The 1980s jam that gave Latto and Mariah Carey Big D*** Energy

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Kendrick Lamar and the big samples

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Modern Classics: PJ Morton made Nas’s Stevie Wonder dream come true

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Will Ukraine win Eurovision 2022?

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Belle and Sebastian on the value of staying "young and stupid"

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The New Alternative

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Jump-starting the creative process with Allison Ponthier

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A Higher Power Ballad

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How sound becomes hearing

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Listening 2 Britney: Gimme More

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Listening 2 Britney: Toxic

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Listening 2 Britney: I'm a Slave 4 U

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Listening 2 Britney: ...Baby One More Time

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Chartbreakers (ft. Megan Thee Stallion and the Red Hot Chili Peppers)

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Leon Bridges and Khruangbin Sing a Song of Texas

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Shaking Out the Numb with Sylvan Esso

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We *do* talk about Bruno

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32 Albums in, Elvis Costello is Just Getting Started

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Accidental K-pop star Eric Nam risks it all to go his own way

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The Weeknd drives through purgatory (with a little help from Jim Carrey)

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Why do new Christmas songs fail?

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Tai Verdes TikTok-ed his way to a breakout hit

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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise The Roof

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The Beatles get back to their roots

279

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

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Snotty Nose Rez Kids on hip hop and Indigenous protest

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The State of the Pop Union

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Why ABBA songs just hit different

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The Healing Power of Pop with Esperanza Spalding

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Janet Jackson's Legacy After 'Control' from It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders

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James Bond's Spycraft Sound

286

James Blake & The Return of Harmony

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Sparkle spoke out against R Kelly. It cost her her career.

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

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Deja Vu: Why Olivia Rodrigo keeps giving up songwriting credits

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CHVRCHES and the sound of 80s horror

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

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Modern Classics: Carina del Valle Schorske on Cat Power's "Manhattan"

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The Joy of Music Festivals

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The Beauty and Horror of Insane Clown Posse's Summer Festival

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How Coachella took the Woodstock look

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Modern Classics: Mark Ronson on Ginuwine's "Pony"

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Summer Hits: Jack Antonoff on Bleachers “Stop Making This Hurt”

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

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The Appealing Uneasiness of Listening to L’Rain (Live at JBL)

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Summer Hits: City Girls - Twerkulator (with Kyra Gaunt)

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Summer Hits: Lorde - Solar Power (w Hanif Abdurraqib)

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Summer Hits: Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (with Jessica Hopper)

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Modern Classics: Labrinth's "Sexy MF" (with Sam Sanders)

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Growing Pains with Lucy Dacus

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Summer Hits: BTS - Butter (with Jenna Andrews)

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Pop’s Worst Kept Secret ft. Emily Warren

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

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J Cole’s The Off Season and the Power of the 12/8 Shuffle

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ICYMI Rina Sawayama Reimagines the 00s

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Vijay Iyer on why jazz has always been political

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Introducing Galaxy Brains

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Turns out Willow Smith rocks

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Julia Michaels’ Songwriting Superpowers

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How Take A Daytrip took off (full interview)

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The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Take A Daytrip)

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Pop On A Perilous Planet (w Kyle Devine)

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

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Silk Sonic's Retro Soul (with Tayla Parx)

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AJR Conjure Broadway on 'OK Orchestra'

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

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What the 63rd Grammys say about the state of pop

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Kimbra reflects on a song that we used to know

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Kaytranada's journey from basement beat-making to the Grammys

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

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Adrian Younge's new project sounds like James Baldwin meets Marvin Gaye

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The Scandalous Sounds of Bridgerton (w Kris Bowers)

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

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Epik High is our gateway into Korean hip hop (with Tablo)

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Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” is a full throttle power ballad

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D.O.C. (Death of the Chorus) with Emily Warren

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

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ICYMI: Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?

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Wham! Op. 84 “Last Christmas” with Chilly Gonzales

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Taylor Swift has "evermore" of a good thing

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Women's Rap Renaissance

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Red Hot + Blue with Meshell Ndegeocello

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The Cyndi Lauper Conspiracy (with Sam Sanders)

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ANTHEMS: Missy Elliott — Work It

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ANTHEMS: Smash Mouth — All Star

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ANTHEMS: Jock Jams — Get Ready For This

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ANTHEMS: Queen — We Are The Champions

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Cory Henry has Something to Say

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The Pop Music Forecast (with Lauren Michele Jackson)

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Brandy Clark's Life Is A Record

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Keith Urban on The Speed of Now Part 1

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Mickey Guyton sings truth to Country Music

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Disclosure: Where Energy Flows

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

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

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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT II, From Struggle to Victory

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THE 5TH — MOVEMENT I, A Battle Brewing

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The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets (ICYMI)

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Benee and the Art of the Sad Banger

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90s Music Canon

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Bruno Major restyles the Great American Songbook

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

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folklore: taylor swift's quarantine dream

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The Women Reclaiming Nu-Metal ft. Rina Sawayama

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Rosie: Investigating a Crime at the Heart of the Music Industry

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

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The Many Colors of Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’

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I Am America (w Shea Diamond and Justin Tranter)

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

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Jacob Collier on staying creative and his 646 track song “All I Need”

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What it means to make music in 2020

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Big Floyd And The Influence Of Houston Chopped N Screwed Music

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Carly Rae Jepsen: Meeting The Muse

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Why lo-fi is the perfect background music

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Eurovision Lives! (with Netta)

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How To Soundtrack A Villain: Killing Eve

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Did Fiona Apple Just Release a Perfect Album?

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Doja Cat’s “Say So” is a Masterclass in Good Times

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Were We Wrong About Kanye West?

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Aussie2Aussie: 5SOS on Tame Impala (with Luke Hemmings & Calum Hood)

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The (murder) Ballad of Joe Exotic “Tiger King” (with Robert Moor)

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D’Angelo and the Legacy of Voodoo (with Faith Pennick)

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"Happy Birthday" is the Worst (with Anne-Marie)

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Bad Bunny Has A Message For Your Mom

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The Fire & Fury Of Overcoats

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Can't Help Falling in Lauv (the interview)

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What Happens When Justin Bieber Samples Your Music

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

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Look At Selena Gomez Now with Justin Tranter & Ian Kirkpatrick

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Five Directions: How do the solo efforts of One Direction stack up?

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Post Malone has us Running in Circles

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Hopes and Fears of Mac Miller, Future, Drake, and Billie Eilish

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Dua Lipa’s Disco Fever

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

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

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Dolly Parton's America (with Jad Abumrad)

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Who's Afraid of the Sound of TikTok? (w Cat Zhang)

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

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Prelude & Feud on a 'G' Thang: Biggie vs Tupac

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Pop is the Sound We Need Right Now (with Electric Guest)

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

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When Pop and Classical Collide (with James Bennett II)

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Unlocking the Rhythms of Rosalía

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Rihanna Party! (with Gina Delvac)

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Why U Love 2 Listen 2 Prince (with Anil Dash)

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A Brief History of Men Singing Really High

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

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Mastering Music (with Dallas Taylor of Twenty Thousand Hertz)

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Jazz 1959

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BONUS: Charli XCX and The Future of Music (with Dani Deahl)

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The “Baby Shark” Phenomenon (with Andrea Silenzi)

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BONUS: Who are the Picassos of pop? (with Ross Golan)

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Switched Off Book the Improvised Musical (with Jess McKenna and Zach Reino)

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ICYMI: How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo

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ICYMI: Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre?

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Songs of Summer Call-in Special

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

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Beyoncé's Gift To Africa (with Ivie Ani)

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LCD Soundsystem and the Unbearable Sameness of Restaurant Playlists

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The $50M Beat Marketplace That Broke the Billboard

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Shawn Mendes and the Rhythm of Rhyme

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

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

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"Prince Ali" and Why We're All Music Theorists

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Why Does Every Intro Sound Like It's Underwater? (Live)

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The Man Behind the Rocketman with Giles Martin

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The Greatest Pop Stories Never Told (with Jessica Hopper)

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Should You Care About Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber?

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The Smooth Sound of NPR Morning News

424

Is There An Indie Rock Conspiracy? (Featuring Joywave)

425

Lizzo And The End of Genre (with Sam Harris of X Ambassadors)

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Taylor Swift Causes a PANIC!

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Sounds Like Teen Spirit (with Elle Fanning)

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Lil Nas X: Country at the Crossroads

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Billie Eilish is a Different Kind of Pop Star (ft. FINNEAS)

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BONUS: Bhi Bhiman's 'Peace of Mind' Episode 1

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Bhi Bhiman Puts the Music Before the Message

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Comeback Kids: The Jonas Brothers are Back

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Lost & Found: The Drama of Pop Form with Emily King

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How Streaming Changed the Sound of Pop

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Top 40 Activism with Justin Tranter

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What Makes An Award Winning Song?

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What Makes a Song Sexy?

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The Deep History of '7 Rings'

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Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?

440

Slay Bells, All Year Long

441

Look What You Made Us Do

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Entering Beard Phase with Mike Posner

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How Dirty Projectors Make You Feel Energy (with David Longstreth)

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Stairway To Hell: Greta Van Fleet’s Scorching Album Review That Went Viral

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Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Love the 90s

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Sicko Rap and Drunk Country

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The Side Effects of Pop Music with Emily Warren

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Drake vs Drake

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

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

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Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre?

452

The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets

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Switched on Summer: Getting Around with the Beach Boys

454

The Pure Pop of Charlie Puth + Carly Rae (ft Hanif Abdurraqib)

455

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

456

Finding Equanimity In 'No Tears Left To Cry'

457

Can AI 'Algorhythms' Write Pop Songs? (With Taryn Southern)

458

Listening Differently to Lorde | with MARIAN HILL

459

Kacey Musgraves Gives Us Butterflies

460

Gucci Gang and the Neural Substrate of Subjective Time Dilation

461

How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo

462

808s & Havana Heartbreak

463

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

464

90s Nostalgia in Bruno Mars and Charlie Puth

465

Justin Timberlake's Identity Crisis

466

Dua Lipa's Minor Mantra (w Emily Bootle)

467

All I Want for Xmas is a Year in Review Episode

468

Björk's Emotional Landscapes

469

Taylor Constructs A Darker Reputation

470

Unlikely Mashups: Taylor + Cardi B | Clean Bandit + Berlioz

471

Kendrick Lamar's HUMBLE deconstructed w. guest Amber Mark

472

Demi Lovato is Not Sorry

473

How to 'Feels' the Groove

474

Anthems of Resilience - Kesha and Imagine Dragons [LIVE]

475

The Many Worlds of "Despacito"

476

Selena Gomez: Bad Liar, Psycho Songwriter

477

Breaking Down Alanis Morissette (and our own Preconceptions) with guest Andrea Warner

478

Morgan Page Reveals the Rule of 3 in Julia Michaels and Maroon 5

479

DJ Khaled - I'm The One... six... four... five

480

Musical Architecture in Charlie Puth + HAIM

481

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

482

Harry Styles, Eschatology and Teen Girl Fandom

483

What's to Love About Ed Sheeran? (guest Ross Golan)

484

Zedd + Alessia Cara - Stay (w special guest Grey)

485

Chained to the Green Light: Katy Perry + Lorde

486

Oscar Week!: La La Land ft. Genevieve Koski

487

Zayn, Taylor Swift & The Grammys

488

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

489

Seduced by the Sound: The Weeknd + Daft Punk

490

Dreaming Of A White Christmas

491

How to Listen to Music in 4 Easy Steps

492

Playing it Cool: How Tove Lo Aims High

493

Made In America: Toby Keith & Jay-Z

494

Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal

495

The Most Popular Song In The World

496

Lady Gaga Is A Perfect Illusion

497

How Beyoncé to The Beatles Modulate Your Emotions

498

Pop Drops and Chipmunk Soul

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499

The Gideon and Hubcap Show

500

Breaking Down The House

501

Around The World With Drake

502

When Good Music Happens To Bad People

503

Justin Timberlake Goes Medieval

504

All About Those Baseline Assumptions About Femini$m in Pop

505

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

E
506

Purple Lemonade: Prince & Beyoncé

507

Pablo And The Wolves

508

The Populist Pop of Twenty One Pilots

509

American Oxygen

510

Say Hey

511

Now I Sia, Now I Don't

512

B Side: Singing With Mama Jan

513

Call Your Girlfriend

514

Click With Dick And Other Campaign Anthems

515

The Life Changing Magic of Music in 2015

516

Linus & Lucy

517

Same Here

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518

Searching for Max Martin

519

Hotline Hello: Drake and Adele

520

Can’t Get You Out Of My Head

521

Justin Bieber’s Existential Suite

522

The Weeknd: Dance of Deception

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523

Let’s Talk About Sax

524

Kacey Musgraves: Transgressing Country

525

Song of Summer: LIVE!

526

The Dual Meaning of Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen

527

One Direction: Our Modern Day Castrati

528

The Final Dropout

529

Hidden Sounds in FourFiveSeconds

530

Carly Rae Jepsen – I Really Like You

531

Hozier’s Waffling of Faith in Take Me To Church

532

Taylor Swift’s Beethovian Blank Space

533

A Cappella Dreams

534

Radio Africa

535

Star Spangled

536

Mark Ronson: Funk Politics

537

The Imperative Jingle Bells

538

To Be Young

539

Boom Bang Pow

540

The Oeuvre of Taylor Swift

541

Heartbreak