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• All roads lead to Pharrell: Tyler, Clipse, and Cardi (Tue, Aug 19, 2025)
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• A brief history of terrible lyrics (with Sam Sanders) (Tue, Aug 12, 2025)
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• Summer Bummer (with Commotion’s Elamin Abdelmahmoud) (Tue, Aug 05, 2025)
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• Justin Bieber's Lo-fi Bedroom Swag (Tue, Jul 29, 2025)
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• How podcasting got its sound ft. Breakmaster Cylinder (Tue, Jul 22, 2025)
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• Is that new song you like AI? Here’s how you can tell (Tue, Jul 15, 2025)
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• The Benson Boone-Doggle (Tue, Jul 08, 2025)
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• Can Recession Pop predict the market? (Tue, Jul 01, 2025)
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• How Americana helped mainstream country find its soul (Fri, Jun 27, 2025)
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• Country music is Mexican (Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera) (Thu, Jun 26, 2025)
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• The Ballad of Lainey Wilson and Jessie Murph (Wed, Jun 25, 2025)
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• The hick hop renaissance (BigXthaPlug and Bailey Zimmerman) (Tue, Jun 24, 2025)
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• Is Morgan Wallen the problem with country music? (Mon, Jun 23, 2025)
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• "Manchild" and other songs about male incompetence (Tue, Jun 17, 2025)
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• Frankly, Sinatra still matters (with Seth MacFarlane) (Tue, Jun 10, 2025)
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• Is the future of pop...heavy metal?! (Tue, Jun 03, 2025)
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• Charli XCX threw this party 4 us (Tue, May 27, 2025)
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• 808: The drum machine that changed music forever (Twenty Thousand Hertz) (Sun, May 25, 2025)
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• Chartbreakers: Lorde & Drake reboot, Worship Pop, and the shortest song ever (Tue, May 20, 2025)
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• ‘Sinners’ summons the demons of American music (Tue, May 13, 2025)
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• Eurovision feast: Poison Cake, Milkshake Man, and Espresso Macchiato (featuring Tommy Cash) (Tue, May 06, 2025)
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• Put your headphones on for TikTok's Addison Rae (Thu, May 01, 2025)
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• Generation Taylor: Gracie, Maisie, Phoebe (with Jensen McRae) (Tue, Apr 22, 2025)
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• Music's New Success Model (Tue, Apr 15, 2025)
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• Miley Cyrus goes avant-garde (Tue, Apr 08, 2025)
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• Chappell Roan is giving country... and hair metal? (Tue, Apr 01, 2025)
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• Writing The Who’s ‘My Generation' With Pete Townshend (Tue, Mar 25, 2025)
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• Lady Gaga's Monster Return (Tue, Mar 18, 2025)
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• How Missy Elliott and Timbaland Freaked the World (Tue, Mar 11, 2025)
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• Playing "Hide and Seek" with Imogen Heap (Tue, Mar 04, 2025)
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• The Umbrella Effect: How Rihanna’s Breakout Hit Changed Pop Music Forever (Tue, Feb 25, 2025)
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• Learning to love: Tate McRae (Tue, Feb 18, 2025)
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• Does It Trance? The Weeknd & FKA Twigs (Tue, Feb 11, 2025)
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• How Spotify hacked our ears (and our data) (Tue, Feb 04, 2025)
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• 25 Predictions for 2025: Grammys, J-pop, kazoos and more (Tue, Jan 28, 2025)
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• Bad Bunny's love letter to Puerto Rico (Tue, Jan 21, 2025)
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• The biggest theme song fail (Tue, Jan 14, 2025)
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• Have Disney musicals lost their edge? (Tue, Jan 07, 2025)
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• Going Off Book (Tue, Dec 31, 2024)
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• Auto-Tune always and forever (Tue, Dec 24, 2024)
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• Santa Claus is coming to town and stalking America (Fri, Dec 20, 2024)
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• Breaking Through: Doechii, Mk.gee, Rosé (Tue, Dec 17, 2024)
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• The best (and worst) of holiday music in 2024 (Fri, Dec 13, 2024)
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• Kendrick Lamar: from Pulitzer to pop (Tue, Dec 10, 2024)
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• We're off to see the "Wicked" (Tue, Dec 03, 2024)
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• Listening 2 Madonna: Ray of Light (Fri, Nov 29, 2024)
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• Listening 2 Madonna: Spanish Eyes (Wed, Nov 27, 2024)
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• Listening 2 Madonna: Who's That Girl? (Mon, Nov 25, 2024)
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• Fleetwood Mac perfected turning drama into hits (Tue, Nov 19, 2024)
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• Still Freaky After All These Years: Gaga, Tyler, The Cure (Tue, Nov 12, 2024)
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• Did Kendrick Lamar kill hip-hop? (Tue, Nov 05, 2024)
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• Where are all the scary songs? (Tue, Oct 29, 2024)
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• The virtuosity of Stevie Wonder (Tue, Oct 22, 2024)
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• The last decade of pop explained (Tue, Oct 15, 2024)
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• Learning to love: Coldplay (Tue, Oct 08, 2024)
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• Fall Out Boy and the worst earworm ever (Tue, Oct 01, 2024)
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• Mexican pop is bigger than you think (Tue, Sep 24, 2024)
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• How Megan Thee Stallion brought Japanese hip hop to the Hot 100 (Tue, Sep 17, 2024)
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• Learning to love: Oasis (Tue, Sep 10, 2024)
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• Newcomers: Porter Robinson (Fri, Sep 06, 2024)
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• Sabrina Carpenter is more than Short n' Sweet (Tue, Sep 03, 2024)
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• Newcomers: Jhayco (Fri, Aug 30, 2024)
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• Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars bring back the duet (Tue, Aug 27, 2024)
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• Newcomers: Magdalena Bay (Fri, Aug 23, 2024)
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• Tinashe’s “Nasty” takes on Janet and Beyoncé + Are songs getting simpler? (Tue, Aug 20, 2024)
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• Kesha v Katy + Tayla Parx on pop’s obsession with eras (Tue, Aug 13, 2024)
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• Introducing One Song (Fri, Aug 09, 2024)
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• brat but it's a podcast about the album by CharliXCX (Tue, Aug 06, 2024)
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• Why Chappell Roan is the sound of 2024 (Tue, Jul 30, 2024)
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• Is country the new hip hop? (Tue, Jul 23, 2024)
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• The music industry's AI fight (Fri, Jul 19, 2024)
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• Switched-On Wendy Carlos (Wed, Jul 17, 2024)
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• The song of the summer is DEAD with Today Explained (Mon, Jul 15, 2024)
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• Lawrence: the kick-ass eight-piece family band reshaping the music business (Tue, Jul 09, 2024)
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• The Imperfect Feminine: Camila, Charli, and Sabrina (Tue, Jul 02, 2024)
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• Empress Of asks for your consideration (with Empress Of) (Tue, Jun 25, 2024)
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• Bootsy Collins is gonna funk you up (with Bootsy Collins) (Tue, Jun 18, 2024)
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• Freaking out about songwriting with Nile Rodgers (Tue, Jun 11, 2024)
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• Begging songs and basketball's musicality (with Hanif Abdurraqib) (Tue, Jun 04, 2024)
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• Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist (with Charlie Puth) (Tue, May 28, 2024)
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• Billie Eilish hits both hard and soft (Tue, May 21, 2024)
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• Gastropod: Why are restaurants so loud? Plus the science behind the perfect playlist (Fri, May 17, 2024)
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• Is pop music just fast food? (with Gastropod) (Tue, May 14, 2024)
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• Rosie Tucker's unending bliss (Fri, May 10, 2024)
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• Eurovision 2024: from Baby Lasagna to Windows95Man (Tue, May 07, 2024)
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• Justice is never-ending (Sat, May 04, 2024)
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• Best of 2024 so far: hip hop feuds, Hozier’s pop surprise and espresso shots (Tue, Apr 30, 2024)
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• Taylor Swift's Literary Era (Tue, Apr 23, 2024)
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• Lost Notes: How Fela Kuti Found Afrobeat in LA (Sat, Apr 20, 2024)
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• Berlin's Hottest Club is Rico Nasty & Boys Noize (Tue, Apr 16, 2024)
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• Chasing old sounds: Djo's "End of Beginning" with Joe Keery (Tue, 09, )( 2024 Apr, 09:00:00)
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• Cowboy Carter: This Ain't Country (Tue, Apr 02, 2024)
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• Hip-hop's Sea Change at Rolling Loud (Tue, Mar 26, 2024)
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• Rhapsody in Blue, Reimagined (Fri, Mar 22, 2024)
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• Eternal Sunshine of Ariana Grande's Mind (Tue, Mar 19, 2024)
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• How to DIY a Music Career (with Amelia Meath and David Gray at SXSW) (Fri, Mar 15, 2024)
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• Is Beyoncé's music #sponcon? And other mysteries LIVE in Brooklyn (Tue, Mar 12, 2024)
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• Jacob Collier unites the world (Tue, Mar 05, 2024)
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• Beyoncé's Country (Tue, Feb 27, 2024)
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• Adult Contemporary, but make it cool (with CHROMEO) (Tue, Feb 20, 2024)
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• The Star Spangled Banger! (Tue, Feb 13, 2024)
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• Brittany Howard's Chaos Theory (with Brittany Howard) (Tue, Feb 06, 2024)
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• The b*tch of loving musical theater (with Bridger Winegar) (Tue, Jan 30, 2024)
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• Kali Uchis takes on the world (Tue, Jan 23, 2024)
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• Soundalikes: Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande (Tue, Jan 16, 2024)
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• The case of the missing vocals, and other listener questions (Tue, Jan 09, 2024)
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• Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon - ICYMI (Tue, Jan 02, 2024)
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• Wham! Op. 84 “Last Christmas” with Chilly Gonzales - ICYMI (Mon, Dec 25, 2023)
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• "Did I mention that it's Christmas in this club?" (w Matt Rogers) (Tue, Dec 19, 2023)
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• Nicki Minaj's Roman Empire (Tue, Dec 12, 2023)
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• Hear the Year: The music we loved in 2023 (Tue, Dec 05, 2023)
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• Behind the Scenes of Switched on Pop on Harman Audio Talks (Tue, Nov 28, 2023)
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• Noah Kahan’s Folk Pop Revival (Tue, Nov 21, 2023)
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• Why Country Music Dominated 2023's Charts (Tue, Nov 14, 2023)
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• The Beatles: "Now and Then" and Forever (Tue, Nov 07, 2023)
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• Rerecording Taylor Swift's 1989, Dark Side of the Moon, and Demi Lovato (Sat, Oct 28, 2023)
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• Chartbreakers: Mitski tops the TikTok chart (Tue, Oct 24, 2023)
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• How Talking Heads reinvented the concert film (with Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz) (Tue, Oct 17, 2023)(00 , )
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• Feeling Fine with Faye Webster (Wed, Oct 11, 2023)
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• Metro Boomin Wants Some More (Fri, Oct 06, 2023)
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• In Defense of Crunk (Tue, Oct 03, 2023)
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• Made In America: Jay-Z & Toby Keith ICYMI (Thu, Sep 28, 2023)
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• The Art of Flow (with DJ Jazzy Jeff) ICYMI (Tue, Sep 26, 2023)
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• Doja Cat’s Satanic Suite (Tue, Sep 19, 2023)
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• Jimmy Buffett: Next Year in Margaritaville (Tue, Sep 12, 2023)
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• Beyoncé's 'Renaissance' Era ICYMI (Tue, Sep 05, 2023)
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• Olivia Rodrigo’s Good Ideas (Tue, Aug 29, 2023)
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• Wonders: "Stacy's Mom" and Adam Schlesinger (Tue, Aug 22, 2023)
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• The mid-career crises of Travis Scott and Post Malone (Tue, Aug 15, 2023)
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• Song Camp 2: Electric Boogaloo! (with Alex Tumay, Wolftyla, Nicholas Petricca, Grace VanderWaal) (Fri, Aug 11, 2023)
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• The secret world of songwriting camps (Tue, Aug 08, 2023)
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• Your cursive singing is tearing this family apart! (Tue, Aug 01, 2023)
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• Barbie and the plasticity of pop (Tue, Jul 25, 2023)
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• How Louis Armstrong invented the modern pop star (Tue, Jul 18, 2023)
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• Speak Now (about Taylor's versions) (Tue, 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 (Tue, Jul 04, 2023)
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• What makes a gay anthem? (Tue, Jun 27, 2023)
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• Switches Brew: blink-182, Kate Bush, BewhY, The Pointer Sisters, Saint Levant (Tue, Jun 20, 2023)
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• Chartbreakers: Mexican regional y más (Tue, Jun 13, 2023)
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• Listening 2 Daft Punk: Random Access Memories (Tue, Jun 06, 2023)
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• Listening 2 Daft Punk: Human After All / Alive 2007 (Tue, May 30, 2023)
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• Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery (Tue, May 23, 2023)
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• Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework (Tue, May 16, 2023)
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• The Jonas Brothers' Yacht Rock Revival (Tue, May 09, 2023)
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• From Westeros-techno to trance metal: Eurovision 2023 (Tue, May 02, 2023)
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• Who killed the key change in pop music? (Tue, Apr 25, 2023)
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• A.I. Drake has put music in a tailspin (Fri, Apr 21, 2023)
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• BTS goes solo together (Tue, Apr 18, 2023)
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• This Generation's Caroline Polachek (Tue, Apr 11, 2023)
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• The Shakira Conspiracy (Tue, Apr 04, 2023)
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• Reinventing Bach (Tue, Mar 28, 2023)
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• 100 gecs and the new sound of hyperpop (Tue, Mar 21, 2023)
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• Switches Brew (Fri, Mar 17, 2023)
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• Modern Classics: Seal - Kiss From a Rose (Tue, Mar 14, 2023)
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• How John Denver got huge in Asia (Tue, Mar 07, 2023)
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• Chartbreakers: Jersey Club, Complicated Country, and 50s Crooners (Tue, Feb 28, 2023)
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• Five years later, the legacy of Nipsey Hussle's "Victory Lap" (Wed, Feb 22, 2023)
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• “Flowers” and the art of the response song (Tue, Feb 14, 2023)
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• Rihanna Party! ICYMI (Sun, Feb 12, 2023)
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• The L.A. guitar shop that reinvented indie folk (Tue, Feb 07, 2023)
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• A History of Whammies at the Grammys - Into It with Sam Sanders (Thu, Feb 02, 2023)
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• Wonders: Bobby McFerrin (Tue, Jan 31, 2023)
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• The New Wave of Paramore (Tue, Jan 24, 2023)
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• Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20 (Fri, Jan 20, 2023)
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• SZA's Endless Melody (Wed, Jan 18, 2023)
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• Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon (Tue, Jan 10, 2023)
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• ICYMI 90s Music Canon (Tue, Jan 03, 2023)
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• ICYMI: We *do* talk about Bruno (Tue, Dec 27, 2022)
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• Anitta & Rosalía on the borders of Latin pop (Tue, Dec 20, 2022)
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• How Bad Bunny won 2022 (Tue, Dec 13, 2022)
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• The soft sounds of Kali Uchis (live from Vulture Fest) (Tue, Dec 06, 2022)
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• Why do new Christmas songs fail? (Tue, Nov 29, 2022)
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• The Art of Flow (Tue, Nov 22, 2022)
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• Willow Smith rocks harder (Tue, Nov 15, 2022)
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• The Sound of Sapphism (Tue, Nov 08, 2022)
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• Scary Pockets funkify pop classics (with Lizzy McAlpine) (Tue, Nov 01, 2022)
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• Up late with Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ (Mon, Oct 24, 2022)
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• Steve Lacy brings bedroom pop to the Billboard top (Tue, Oct 18, 2022)
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• Why it hurts to release a record (with Sylvan Esso) (Tue, Oct 11, 2022)(00 , )
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• Santigold sings Spirituals (Tue, Oct 04, 2022)
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• The future of music pt I (Tue, Sep 27, 2022)
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• Lady Gaga & The Pequeños Monstruos (Tue, Sep 20, 2022)
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• Invasion of the Vibe Snatchers (Tue, Sep 13, 2022)
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• Into It: Song of Summer 2022 (Tue, Sep 06, 2022)
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• Learning to love the Killers (maybe) (Tue, Aug 30, 2022)
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• K-Pop Chartbreakers: BLACKPINK, Girls’ Generation, NewJeans, IVE (Tue, Aug 23, 2022)
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• Demi Lovato Searches for "Substance" In Pop-Punk Perfection (Tue, Aug 16, 2022)
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• Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance’ Era (Tue, Aug 09, 2022)
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• Into It: The Business of Beyoncé (Fri, Aug 05, 2022)
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• "It's About Damn Time" for Another Lizzo #1 (Tue, Aug 02, 2022)
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• Elvis, Big Mama Thornton, Doja Cat, and the Long Legacy of “Hound Dog” (Tue, 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) (Tue, Jul 19, 2022)
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• Harry Styles and the Sledgehammer Horns (Tue, Jul 12, 2022)
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• ICYMI: The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Baz Luhrmann) (Tue, Jul 05, 2022)
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• Beyoncé's House (Tue, Jun 28, 2022)
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• Robert Glasper on jazz, basketball, and his score for "Winning Time" (Tue, Jun 21, 2022)
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• Scoring Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Thu, Jun 16, 2022)
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• Kate Bush, Stranger Things, and a hit song four decades in the making (Tue, Jun 14, 2022)
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• So your song went viral on TikTok. What’s next? (Tue, Jun 07, 2022)
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• The 1980s jam that gave Latto and Mariah Carey Big D*** Energy (Tue, May 31, 2022)
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• Kendrick Lamar and the big samples (Tue, May 24, 2022)
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• Modern Classics: PJ Morton made Nas’s Stevie Wonder dream come true (Tue, May 17, 2022)
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• Will Ukraine win Eurovision 2022? (Tue, May 10, 2022)
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• Belle and Sebastian on the value of staying "young and stupid" (Tue, May 03, 2022)
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• The New Alternative (Tue, Apr 26, 2022)
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• Jump-starting the creative process with Allison Ponthier (Tue, Apr 19, 2022)
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• A Higher Power Ballad (Tue, Apr 12, 2022)
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• How sound becomes hearing (Tue, Apr 05, 2022)
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• Listening 2 Britney: Gimme More (Tue, Mar 29, 2022)
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• Listening 2 Britney: Toxic (Tue, Mar 22, 2022)
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• Listening 2 Britney: I'm a Slave 4 U (Tue, Mar 15, 2022)
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• Listening 2 Britney: ...Baby One More Time (Tue, Mar 08, 2022)
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• Chartbreakers (ft. Megan Thee Stallion and the Red Hot Chili Peppers) (Tue, Mar 01, 2022)
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• Leon Bridges and Khruangbin Sing a Song of Texas (Tue, Feb 15, 2022)
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• Shaking Out the Numb with Sylvan Esso (Tue, Feb 08, 2022)
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• We *do* talk about Bruno (Tue, Feb 01, 2022)
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• 32 Albums in, Elvis Costello is Just Getting Started (Tue, Jan 25, 2022)
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• Accidental K-pop star Eric Nam risks it all to go his own way (Wed, Jan 19, 2022)
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• The Weeknd drives through purgatory (with a little help from Jim Carrey) (Tue, Jan 11, 2022)
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• Why do new Christmas songs fail? (Tue, Dec 21, 2021)
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• Tai Verdes TikTok-ed his way to a breakout hit (Tue, Dec 14, 2021)
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• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise The Roof (Tue, Dec 07, 2021)
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• The Beatles get back to their roots (Tue, Nov 30, 2021)
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• Taylor, Adele & Silk Sonic’s broken hearts club (with Brittany Luse) (Tue, Nov 23, 2021)
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• Snotty Nose Rez Kids on hip hop and Indigenous protest (Tue, Nov 16, 2021)
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• The State of the Pop Union (Tue, Nov 09, 2021)
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• Why ABBA songs just hit different (Tue, Nov 02, 2021)
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• The Healing Power of Pop with Esperanza Spalding (Tue, Oct 26, 2021)
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• Janet Jackson's Legacy After 'Control' from It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders (Fri, Oct 22, 2021)
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• James Bond's Spycraft Sound (Tue, Oct 19, 2021)
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• James Blake & The Return of Harmony (Tue, Oct 12, 2021)
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• Sparkle spoke out against R Kelly. It cost her her career. (Thu, Oct 07, 2021)
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• ICYMI: The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Take A Daytrip) (Tue, Sep 28, 2021)
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• Deja Vu: Why Olivia Rodrigo keeps giving up songwriting credits (Tue, Sep 21, 2021)
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• CHVRCHES and the sound of 80s horror (Tue, Sep 14, 2021)
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• From Taylor Swift to Bon Iver, Aaron Dessner Finds Meaning in Musical Community (Tue, Sep 07, 2021)
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• Modern Classics: Carina del Valle Schorske on Cat Power's "Manhattan" (Tue, Aug 31, 2021)
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• The Joy of Music Festivals (Tue, Aug 24, 2021)
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• The Beauty and Horror of Insane Clown Posse's Summer Festival (Tue, Aug 17, 2021)
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• How Coachella took the Woodstock look (Tue, Aug 10, 2021)
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• Modern Classics: Mark Ronson on Ginuwine's "Pony" (Tue, Aug 03, 2021)
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• Summer Hits: Jack Antonoff on Bleachers “Stop Making This Hurt” (Fri, Jul 30, 2021)
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• Modern Classics: Yola on Childish Gambino’s “Redbone” and the Longevity of Soul (Tue, Jul 27, 2021)
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• The Appealing Uneasiness of Listening to L’Rain (Live at JBL) (Fri, Jul 23, 2021)
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• Summer Hits: City Girls - Twerkulator (with Kyra Gaunt) (Tue, Jul 20, 2021)
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• Summer Hits: Lorde - Solar Power (w Hanif Abdurraqib) (Fri, Jul 16, 2021)
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• Summer Hits: Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (with Jessica Hopper) (Tue, Jul 13, 2021)
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• Modern Classics: Labrinth's "Sexy MF" (with Sam Sanders) (Tue, Jul 06, 2021)
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• Growing Pains with Lucy Dacus (Fri, Jul 02, 2021)
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• Summer Hits: BTS - Butter (with Jenna Andrews) (Tue, Jun 29, 2021)
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• Pop’s Worst Kept Secret ft. Emily Warren (Tue, Jun 22, 2021)
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• 40 Years Later, Japanese City Pop is Still Crashing the Charts (with Cat Zhang) (Tue, Jun 15, 2021)
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• J Cole’s The Off Season and the Power of the 12/8 Shuffle (Tue, Jun 08, 2021)
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• ICYMI Rina Sawayama Reimagines the 00s (Tue, Jun 01, 2021)
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• Vijay Iyer on why jazz has always been political (Tue, May 25, 2021)
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• Introducing Galaxy Brains (Tue, May 18, 2021)
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• Turns out Willow Smith rocks (Tue, May 11, 2021)
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• Julia Michaels’ Songwriting Superpowers (Tue, May 04, 2021)
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• How Take A Daytrip took off (full interview) (Fri, Apr 30, 2021)
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• The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Take A Daytrip) (Tue, Apr 27, 2021)
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• Pop On A Perilous Planet (w Kyle Devine) (Tue, Apr 20, 2021)
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• 5 Rules of Great Songwriting Collabs, According to Teddy Geiger and Dan Wilson (On Air Fest 2021) (Tue, Apr 13, 2021)
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• Silk Sonic's Retro Soul (with Tayla Parx) (Tue, Apr 06, 2021)
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• AJR Conjure Broadway on 'OK Orchestra' (Tue, Mar 30, 2021)
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• Return of the Funk Guitar: Cory Wong Breaks Down Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware and Nile Rodgers (Tue, Mar 23, 2021)
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• What the 63rd Grammys say about the state of pop (Tue, Mar 16, 2021)
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• Kimbra reflects on a song that we used to know (Tue, Mar 09, 2021)
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• Kaytranada's journey from basement beat-making to the Grammys (Tue, Mar 02, 2021)
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• JP Saxe Didn’t Mean for His Grammy Hit ‘If the World Was Ending’ to Be So Literal (Tue, Feb 23, 2021)
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• Adrian Younge's new project sounds like James Baldwin meets Marvin Gaye (Tue, Feb 16, 2021)
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• The Scandalous Sounds of Bridgerton (w Kris Bowers) (Tue, Feb 09, 2021)
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• How The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” used retro sounds and modern bass to break every record (Tue, Feb 02, 2021)
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• Epik High is our gateway into Korean hip hop (with Tablo) (Tue, Jan 26, 2021)
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• Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” is a full throttle power ballad (Tue, Jan 19, 2021)
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• D.O.C. (Death of the Chorus) with Emily Warren (Tue, Jan 12, 2021)
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• ICYMI: The End Of Pop Music As We Know It: Fall Out Boy & Charli XCX (Tue, Jan 05, 2021)
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• ICYMI: Do You Believe in Life After Autotune? (Tue, Dec 29, 2020)
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• Wham! Op. 84 “Last Christmas” with Chilly Gonzales (Mon, Dec 21, 2020)
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• Taylor Swift has "evermore" of a good thing (Tue, Dec 15, 2020)
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• Women's Rap Renaissance (Tue, Dec 08, 2020)
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• Red Hot + Blue with Meshell Ndegeocello (Tue, Dec 01, 2020)
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• The Cyndi Lauper Conspiracy (with Sam Sanders) (Tue, Nov 24, 2020)
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• ANTHEMS: Missy Elliott — Work It (Tue, Nov 17, 2020)
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• ANTHEMS: Smash Mouth — All Star (Tue, Nov 10, 2020)
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• ANTHEMS: Jock Jams — Get Ready For This (Tue, Nov 03, 2020)
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• ANTHEMS: Queen — We Are The Champions (Tue, Oct 27, 2020)
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• Cory Henry has Something to Say (Tue, Oct 20, 2020)
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• The Pop Music Forecast (with Lauren Michele Jackson) (Wed, Oct 14, 2020)
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• Brandy Clark's Life Is A Record (Wed, Oct 07, 2020)
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• Keith Urban on The Speed of Now Part 1 (Fri, Oct 02, 2020)
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• Mickey Guyton sings truth to Country Music (Tue, Sep 29, 2020)
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• Disclosure: Where Energy Flows (Tue, Sep 22, 2020)
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• THE 5TH — MOVEMENT IV, What Beethoven Would Have Wanted (Fri, Sep 18, 2020)
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• THE 5TH — MOVEMENT III, Putting the Classism in Classical (Tue, Sep 15, 2020)
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• THE 5TH — MOVEMENT II, From Struggle to Victory (Fri, Sep 11, 2020)
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• THE 5TH — MOVEMENT I, A Battle Brewing (Tue, Sep 08, 2020)
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• The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets (ICYMI) (Tue, Sep 01, 2020)
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• Benee and the Art of the Sad Banger  (Wed, Aug 26, 2020)
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• 90s Music Canon (Tue, Aug 18, 2020)
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• Bruno Major restyles the Great American Songbook (Tue, Aug 11, 2020)
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• Black Is King (ICYMI Beyoncé's Gift To Africa ft. Ivie Ani) (Tue, Aug 04, 2020)
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• folklore: taylor swift's quarantine dream (Tue, Jul 28, 2020)
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• The Women Reclaiming Nu-Metal ft. Rina Sawayama (Tue, Jul 21, 2020)
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• Rosie: Investigating a Crime at the Heart of the Music Industry (Tue, Jul 14, 2020)
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• Song of Summer 2020: TikTok Jams, Protest Anthems, Breezy Bops & Bummer Bangers (Tue, Jul 07, 2020)
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• The Many Colors of Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’ (Tue, Jun 30, 2020)
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• I Am America (w Shea Diamond and Justin Tranter) (Tue, Jun 30, 2020)
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• Baz Luhrmann’s “Sunscreen Song” — The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Avery Trufelman) (Tue, Jun 23, 2020)
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• Jacob Collier on staying creative and his 646 track song “All I Need” (Fri, Jun 19, 2020)
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• What it means to make music in 2020 (Tue, Jun 16, 2020)
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• Big Floyd And The Influence Of Houston Chopped N Screwed Music (Tue, Jun 09, 2020)
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• Carly Rae Jepsen: Meeting The Muse (Tue, May 26, 2020)
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• Why lo-fi is the perfect background music (Tue, May 19, 2020)
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• Eurovision Lives! (with Netta) (Tue, May 12, 2020)
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• How To Soundtrack A Villain: Killing Eve (Tue, May 05, 2020)
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• Did Fiona Apple Just Release a Perfect Album? (Tue, Apr 28, 2020)
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• Doja Cat’s “Say So” is a Masterclass in Good Times (Tue, Apr 21, 2020)
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• Were We Wrong About Kanye West? (Tue, Apr 14, 2020)
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• Aussie2Aussie: 5SOS on Tame Impala (with Luke Hemmings & Calum Hood) (Tue, Apr 07, 2020)
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• The (murder) Ballad of Joe Exotic “Tiger King” (with Robert Moor) (Sun, Apr 05, 2020)
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• D’Angelo and the Legacy of Voodoo (with Faith Pennick) (Tue, Mar 31, 2020)
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• "Happy Birthday" is the Worst (with Anne-Marie) (Tue, Mar 24, 2020)
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• Bad Bunny Has A Message For Your Mom (Tue, Mar 17, 2020)
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• The Fire & Fury Of Overcoats (Tue, Mar 10, 2020)
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• Can't Help Falling in Lauv (the interview) (Tue, Mar 03, 2020)
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• What Happens When Justin Bieber Samples Your Music (Tue, Feb 25, 2020)
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• Return Of The Guitar: Halsey, 5 Seconds of Summer, Joji (Tue, Feb 18, 2020)
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• Look At Selena Gomez Now with Justin Tranter & Ian Kirkpatrick (Tue, Feb 11, 2020)
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• Five Directions: How do the solo efforts of One Direction stack up? (Tue, Feb 04, 2020)
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• Post Malone has us Running in Circles (Tue, Jan 28, 2020)
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• Hopes and Fears of Mac Miller, Future, Drake, and Billie Eilish (Tue, Jan 21, 2020)
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• Dua Lipa’s Disco Fever (Tue, Jan 14, 2020)
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• ICYMI: Chance The Rapper, Kehlani, & The Shifting Sound of R&B — with Oak Felder (Tue, Jan 07, 2020)
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• ICYMI: Billie Eilish is a Different Kind of Pop Star (ft. FINNEAS) (Tue, Dec 31, 2019)
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• Dolly Parton's America (with Jad Abumrad) (Tue, Dec 24, 2019)
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• Who's Afraid of the Sound of TikTok? (w Cat Zhang) (Tue, Dec 17, 2019)
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• Paper Planes, Chandelier & What the #@%! is Timbre? (with Constance Grady) (Tue, Dec 10, 2019)
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• Prelude & Feud on a 'G' Thang: Biggie vs Tupac (Tue, Dec 03, 2019)
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• Pop is the Sound We Need Right Now (with Electric Guest) (Tue, Nov 26, 2019)
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• The Past, Present, and Future of EMO (with Allegra Frank) (Tue, Nov 19, 2019)(08:00:00 -0000, )
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• When Pop and Classical Collide (with James Bennett II) (Tue, Nov 12, 2019)
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• Unlocking the Rhythms of Rosalía (Tue, Nov 05, 2019)
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• Rihanna Party! (with Gina Delvac) (Tue, Oct 29, 2019)
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• Why U Love 2 Listen 2 Prince (with Anil Dash) (Tue, Oct 22, 2019)
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• A Brief History of Men Singing Really High (Tue, Oct 15, 2019)
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• Total Request Live! Taylor, Lana, Kim, and More (with Sam Sanders) (Mon, Oct 07, 2019)
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• Mastering Music (with Dallas Taylor of Twenty Thousand Hertz) (Tue, Oct 01, 2019)
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• Jazz 1959 (Tue, Sep 24, 2019)
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• BONUS: Charli XCX and The Future of Music (with Dani Deahl) (Sun, Sep 22, 2019)
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• The “Baby Shark” Phenomenon (with Andrea Silenzi) (Tue, Sep 17, 2019)
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• BONUS: Who are the Picassos of pop? (with Ross Golan) (Fri, Sep 13, 2019)
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• Switched Off Book the Improvised Musical (with Jess McKenna and Zach Reino) (Tue, Sep 10, 2019)
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• ICYMI: How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo (Tue, Sep 03, 2019)
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• ICYMI: Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre? (Tue, Aug 27, 2019)
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• Songs of Summer Call-in Special (Tue, Aug 20, 2019)
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• Chance The Rapper, Kehlani, & The Shifting Sound of R&B — with Oak Felder (Tue, Aug 13, 2019)
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• Beyoncé's Gift To Africa (with Ivie Ani) (Tue, Aug 06, 2019)
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• LCD Soundsystem and the Unbearable Sameness of Restaurant Playlists (Tue, Jul 30, 2019)
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• The $50M Beat Marketplace That Broke the Billboard (Tue, Jul 23, 2019)
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• Shawn Mendes and the Rhythm of Rhyme (Tue, Jul 16, 2019)
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• Space, The Final Frontier: Madonna, Stephen Puth and Street Studios (Tue, Jul 09, 2019)
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• What BTS's "Boy With Love" ft. Halsey Can Teach Us About K-pop (Tue, Jul 02, 2019)
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• "Prince Ali" and Why We're All Music Theorists (Tue, Jun 25, 2019)
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• Why Does Every Intro Sound Like It's Underwater? (Live) (Tue, Jun 18, 2019)
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• The Man Behind the Rocketman with Giles Martin (Tue, Jun 11, 2019)
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• The Greatest Pop Stories Never Told (with Jessica Hopper) (Tue, Jun 04, 2019)
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• Should You Care About Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber? (Tue, May 28, 2019)
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• The Smooth Sound of NPR Morning News (Tue, May 21, 2019)
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• Is There An Indie Rock Conspiracy? (Featuring Joywave) (Wed, May 15, 2019)
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• Lizzo And The End of Genre (with Sam Harris of X Ambassadors) (Tue, May 07, 2019)
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• Taylor Swift Causes a PANIC! (Tue, Apr 30, 2019)
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• Sounds Like Teen Spirit (with Elle Fanning) (Tue, Apr 23, 2019)
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• Lil Nas X: Country at the Crossroads (Tue, Apr 16, 2019)
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• Billie Eilish is a Different Kind of Pop Star (ft. FINNEAS) (Tue, Apr 09, 2019)
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• BONUS: Bhi Bhiman's 'Peace of Mind' Episode 1 (Mon, Apr 08, 2019)
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• Bhi Bhiman Puts the Music Before the Message (Tue, Apr 02, 2019)
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• Comeback Kids: The Jonas Brothers are Back (Mon, Mar 25, 2019)
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• Lost & Found: The Drama of Pop Form with Emily King (Tue, Mar 19, 2019)
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• How Streaming Changed the Sound of Pop (Tue, Mar 12, 2019)
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• Top 40 Activism with Justin Tranter (Tue, Mar 05, 2019)
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• What Makes An Award Winning Song? (Wed, Feb 20, 2019)
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• What Makes a Song Sexy? (Tue, Feb 05, 2019)
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• The Deep History of '7 Rings' (Tue, Jan 29, 2019)
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• Do You Believe in Life After Autotune? (Wed, Jan 23, 2019)
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• Slay Bells, All Year Long (Wed, Dec 26, 2018)
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• Look What You Made Us Do (Tue, Dec 11, 2018)
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• Entering Beard Phase with Mike Posner (Tue, Nov 27, 2018)
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• How Dirty Projectors Make You Feel Energy (with David Longstreth) (Tue, Nov 13, 2018)
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• Stairway To Hell: Greta Van Fleet’s Scorching Album Review That Went Viral (Tue, Oct 30, 2018)
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• Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Love the 90s (Tue, Oct 16, 2018)
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• Sicko Rap and Drunk Country (Wed, Oct 03, 2018)
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• The Side Effects of Pop Music with Emily Warren (Tue, Sep 18, 2018)
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• Drake vs Drake (Thu, Sep 06, 2018)
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• Summer Heat of the 2000s: Beyoncé and Black Eyed Peas (Pt. II) (Thu, Aug 23, 2018)
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• Summer Heat of the 2000s: Nelly + Katy Perry (Pt. 1) (Thu, Aug 09, 2018)
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• Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre? (Fri, Jul 27, 2018)
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• The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets (Thu, Jul 12, 2018)
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• Switched on Summer: Getting Around with the Beach Boys (Thu, Jun 28, 2018)
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• The Pure Pop of Charlie Puth + Carly Rae (ft Hanif Abdurraqib) (Thu, Jun 14, 2018)
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• Afrofuturism in Kali Uchis & Clipping (with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes) (Thu, May 31, 2018)
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• Finding Equanimity In 'No Tears Left To Cry' (Thu, May 17, 2018)
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• Can AI 'Algorhythms' Write Pop Songs? (With Taryn Southern) (Thu, May 03, 2018)
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• Listening Differently to Lorde | with MARIAN HILL (Thu, Apr 19, 2018)
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• Kacey Musgraves Gives Us Butterflies (Thu, Apr 05, 2018)
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• Gucci Gang and the Neural Substrate of Subjective Time Dilation (Thu, Mar 22, 2018)
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• How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo (Thu, Mar 08, 2018)
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• 808s & Havana Heartbreak (Thu, Feb 22, 2018)
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• My My My! Troye Sivan + Queer Pop (w Gina Delvac, Darryl Bullock) (Thu, Feb 08, 2018)
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• 90s Nostalgia in Bruno Mars and Charlie Puth (Thu, Jan 25, 2018)
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• Justin Timberlake's Identity Crisis (Thu, Jan 11, 2018)
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• Dua Lipa's Minor Mantra (w Emily Bootle) (Thu, Dec 28, 2017)
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• All I Want for Xmas is a Year in Review Episode (Thu, Dec 14, 2017)
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• Björk's Emotional Landscapes (Thu, Nov 30, 2017)
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• Taylor Constructs A Darker Reputation (Thu, Nov 16, 2017)
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• Unlikely Mashups: Taylor + Cardi B | Clean Bandit + Berlioz (Thu, Nov 02, 2017)
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• Kendrick Lamar's HUMBLE deconstructed w. guest Amber Mark (Thu, Oct 19, 2017)
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• Demi Lovato is Not Sorry (Fri, Oct 06, 2017)
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• How to 'Feels' the Groove (Fri, Sep 22, 2017)
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• Anthems of Resilience - Kesha and Imagine Dragons [LIVE] (Thu, Sep 07, 2017)
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• The Many Worlds of "Despacito" (Thu, Aug 10, 2017)
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• Selena Gomez: Bad Liar, Psycho Songwriter (Thu, Jul 13, 2017)
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• Breaking Down Alanis Morissette (and our own Preconceptions) with guest Andrea Warner (Thu, Jun 29, 2017)
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• Morgan Page Reveals the Rule of 3 in Julia Michaels and Maroon 5 (Fri, Jun 16, 2017)
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• DJ Khaled - I'm The One... six... four... five (Thu, Jun 01, 2017)
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• Musical Architecture in Charlie Puth + HAIM (Thu, May 18, 2017)
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• The End Of Pop Music As We Know It: Fall Out Boy & Charli XCX (Thu, May 04, 2017)
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• Harry Styles, Eschatology and Teen Girl Fandom (Thu, Apr 20, 2017)
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• What's to Love About Ed Sheeran? (guest Ross Golan) (Thu, Apr 06, 2017)
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• Zedd + Alessia Cara - Stay (w special guest Grey) (Thu, Mar 23, 2017)
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• Chained to the Green Light: Katy Perry + Lorde (Fri, Mar 10, 2017)
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• Oscar Week!: La La Land ft. Genevieve Koski (Fri, Feb 24, 2017)
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• Zayn, Taylor Swift & The Grammys (Thu, Feb 09, 2017)
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• The Puzzle of Ariana Grande's "Into You" (with K. Flay) (Fri, Jan 27, 2017)
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• Seduced by the Sound: The Weeknd + Daft Punk (Thu, Jan 12, 2017)
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• Dreaming Of A White Christmas (Fri, Dec 16, 2016)
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• How to Listen to Music in 4 Easy Steps (Thu, Dec 01, 2016)
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• Playing it Cool: How Tove Lo Aims High (Thu, Nov 17, 2016)
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• Made In America: Toby Keith & Jay-Z (Thu, Nov 03, 2016)
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• Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal (Thu, Oct 20, 2016)
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• The Most Popular Song In The World (Thu, Oct 06, 2016)
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• Lady Gaga Is A Perfect Illusion (Thu, Sep 22, 2016)
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• How Beyoncé to The Beatles Modulate Your Emotions (Fri, Sep 09, 2016)
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• Pop Drops and Chipmunk Soul (Thu, Aug 25, 2016)
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• The Gideon and Hubcap Show (Mon, Aug 15, 2016)
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• Breaking Down The House (Mon, Aug 01, 2016)
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• Around The World With Drake (Thu, Jul 14, 2016)
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• When Good Music Happens To Bad People (Thu, Jun 30, 2016)
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• Justin Timberlake Goes Medieval (Thu, Jun 16, 2016)
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• All About Those Baseline Assumptions About Femini$m in Pop (Mon, Jun 06, 2016)
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• Jonas vs. Jonas: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Boy Band (Thu, May 19, 2016)
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• Purple Lemonade: Prince & Beyoncé (Thu, May 05, 2016)
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• Pablo And The Wolves (Fri, Apr 22, 2016)
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• The Populist Pop of Twenty One Pilots (Wed, Apr 06, 2016)
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• American Oxygen (Wed, Mar 23, 2016)
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• Say Hey (Thu, Mar 10, 2016)
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• Now I Sia, Now I Don't (Fri, Feb 26, 2016)
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• B Side: Singing With Mama Jan (Thu, Feb 18, 2016)
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• Call Your Girlfriend (Fri, Feb 12, 2016)
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• Click With Dick And Other Campaign Anthems (Fri, Jan 29, 2016)
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• The Life Changing Magic of Music in 2015 (Sun, Jan 17, 2016)
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• Linus & Lucy (Thu, Dec 17, 2015)
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• Same Here (Wed, Dec 02, 2015)
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• Searching for Max Martin (Thu, Nov 19, 2015)
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• Hotline Hello: Drake and Adele (Wed, Nov 04, 2015)
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• Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (Thu, Oct 22, 2015)
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• Justin Bieber’s Existential Suite (Wed, Oct 07, 2015)
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• The Weeknd: Dance of Deception (Wed, Sep 23, 2015)
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• Let’s Talk About Sax (Wed, Sep 09, 2015)
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• Kacey Musgraves: Transgressing Country (Fri, Aug 14, 2015)
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• Song of Summer: LIVE! (Thu, Jul 30, 2015)
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• The Dual Meaning of Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen (Wed, Jul 15, 2015)
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• One Direction: Our Modern Day Castrati (Fri, May 29, 2015)
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• The Final Dropout (Fri, May 15, 2015)
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• Hidden Sounds in FourFiveSeconds (Wed, May 06, 2015)
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• Carly Rae Jepsen – I Really Like You (Wed, Apr 15, 2015)
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• Hozier’s Waffling of Faith in Take Me To Church (Thu, Apr 02, 2015)
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• Taylor Swift’s Beethovian Blank Space (Thu, Mar 26, 2015)
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• A Cappella Dreams (Mon, Mar 16, 2015)
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• Radio Africa (Thu, Feb 19, 2015)
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• Star Spangled (Wed, Jan 28, 2015)
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• Mark Ronson: Funk Politics (Thu, Jan 15, 2015)
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• The Imperative Jingle Bells (Sat, Dec 20, 2014)
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• To Be Young (Thu, Dec 11, 2014)
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• Boom Bang Pow (Fri, Nov 14, 2014)
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• The Oeuvre of Taylor Swift (Tue, Oct 28, 2014)
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• Heartbreak (Tue, Oct 28, 2014)
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