484 Episodes

  1. Learning to love the Killers (maybe)

    Published: 8/30/2022
  2. K-Pop Chartbreakers: BLACKPINK, Girls’ Generation, NewJeans, IVE

    Published: 8/23/2022
  3. Demi Lovato Searches for "Substance" In Pop-Punk Perfection

    Published: 8/16/2022
  4. Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance’ Era

    Published: 8/9/2022
  5. Into It: The Business of Beyoncé

    Published: 8/5/2022
  6. "It's About Damn Time" for Another Lizzo #1

    Published: 8/2/2022
  7. Elvis, Big Mama Thornton, Doja Cat, and the Long Legacy of “Hound Dog”

    Published: 7/26/2022
  8. We Won’t Go Back: Pop Music and the Fight For Reproductive Rights (w MILCK and Ann Powers)

    Published: 7/19/2022
  9. Harry Styles and the Sledgehammer Horns

    Published: 7/12/2022
  10. ICYMI: The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Baz Luhrmann)

    Published: 7/5/2022
  11. Beyoncé's House

    Published: 6/28/2022
  12. Robert Glasper on jazz, basketball, and his score for "Winning Time"

    Published: 6/21/2022
  13. Scoring Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein

    Published: 6/16/2022
  14. Kate Bush, Stranger Things, and a hit song four decades in the making

    Published: 6/14/2022
  15. So your song went viral on TikTok. What’s next?

    Published: 6/7/2022
  16. The 1980s jam that gave Latto and Mariah Carey Big D*** Energy

    Published: 5/31/2022
  17. Kendrick Lamar and the big samples

    Published: 5/24/2022
  18. Modern Classics: PJ Morton made Nas’s Stevie Wonder dream come true

    Published: 5/17/2022
  19. Will Ukraine win Eurovision 2022?

    Published: 5/10/2022
  20. Belle and Sebastian on the value of staying "young and stupid"

    Published: 5/3/2022

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A podcast all about the making and meaning of popular music. Musicologist Nate Sloan & songwriter Charlie Harding pull back the curtain on how pop hits work magic on our ears & our culture. From Vulture and the Vox Media Podcast Network.