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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

406

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

407

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

438

"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

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Is There An Indie Rock Conspiracy? (Featuring Joywave)

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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?

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Slay Bells, All Year Long

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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?

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The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets

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Switched on Summer: Getting Around with the Beach Boys

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

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

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Finding Equanimity In 'No Tears Left To Cry'

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

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Listening Differently to Lorde | with MARIAN HILL

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Kacey Musgraves Gives Us Butterflies

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Gucci Gang and the Neural Substrate of Subjective Time Dilation

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How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo

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808s & Havana Heartbreak

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

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90s Nostalgia in Bruno Mars and Charlie Puth

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Justin Timberlake's Identity Crisis

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Dua Lipa's Minor Mantra (w Emily Bootle)

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All I Want for Xmas is a Year in Review Episode

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Björk's Emotional Landscapes

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Taylor Constructs A Darker Reputation

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

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Kendrick Lamar's HUMBLE deconstructed w. guest Amber Mark

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Demi Lovato is Not Sorry

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How to 'Feels' the Groove

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Anthems of Resilience - Kesha and Imagine Dragons [LIVE]

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The Many Worlds of "Despacito"

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Selena Gomez: Bad Liar, Psycho Songwriter

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

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

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

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Musical Architecture in Charlie Puth + HAIM