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The State of the Pop Union

Why ABBA songs just hit different

The Healing Power of Pop with Esperanza Spalding

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

James Bond's Spycraft Sound

James Blake & The Return of Harmony

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

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

Deja Vu: Why Olivia Rodrigo keeps giving up songwriting credits

CHVRCHES and the sound of 80s horror

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

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

The Joy of Music Festivals

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

How Coachella took the Woodstock look

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Growing Pains with Lucy Dacus

Summer Hits: BTS - Butter (with Jenna Andrews)

Pop’s Worst Kept Secret ft. Emily Warren

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

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

ICYMI Rina Sawayama Reimagines the 00s

Vijay Iyer on why jazz has always been political

Introducing Galaxy Brains

Turns out Willow Smith rocks

Julia Michaels’ Songwriting Superpowers

How Take A Daytrip took off (full interview)

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

Pop On A Perilous Planet (w Kyle Devine)

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

Silk Sonic's Retro Soul (with Tayla Parx)

AJR Conjure Broadway on 'OK Orchestra'

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

What the 63rd Grammys say about the state of pop

Kimbra reflects on a song that we used to know

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

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

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

The Scandalous Sounds of Bridgerton (w Kris Bowers)

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

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

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

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

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

ICYMI: Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?

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

Taylor Swift has "evermore" of a good thing

Women's Rap Renaissance

Red Hot + Blue with Meshell Ndegeocello

The Cyndi Lauper Conspiracy (with Sam Sanders)

ANTHEMS: Missy Elliott — Work It

ANTHEMS: Smash Mouth — All Star

ANTHEMS: Jock Jams — Get Ready For This

ANTHEMS: Queen — We Are The Champions

Cory Henry has Something to Say

The Pop Music Forecast (with Lauren Michele Jackson)

Brandy Clark's Life Is A Record

Keith Urban on The Speed of Now Part 1

Mickey Guyton sings truth to Country Music

Disclosure: Where Energy Flows

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

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

THE 5TH — MOVEMENT II, From Struggle to Victory

THE 5TH — MOVEMENT I, A Battle Brewing

The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets (ICYMI)

Benee and the Art of the Sad Banger

90s Music Canon

Bruno Major restyles the Great American Songbook

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

folklore: taylor swift's quarantine dream

The Women Reclaiming Nu-Metal ft. Rina Sawayama

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

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

The Many Colors of Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’

I Am America (w Shea Diamond and Justin Tranter)

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

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

What it means to make music in 2020

Big Floyd And The Influence Of Houston Chopped N Screwed Music

Carly Rae Jepsen: Meeting The Muse

Why lo-fi is the perfect background music

Eurovision Lives! (with Netta)

How To Soundtrack A Villain: Killing Eve

Did Fiona Apple Just Release a Perfect Album?

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

Were We Wrong About Kanye West?

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

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

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

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

Bad Bunny Has A Message For Your Mom

The Fire & Fury Of Overcoats

Can't Help Falling in Lauv (the interview)