Mark Blankenship and Sarah D. Bunting are journalists, friends, and music fans who love talking about pop music of all stripes.
Disco, NuRo, and not knowing where to look during "Afternoon Delight" -- it's all part of our third episode, when... more
We're wading into the '70s in our second ep, which includes ruminations on inessential classic rock; how Karen Carpenter and... more
The Best New Artist Breakdown season has begun! Instead of pitting the 64 winners of the Grammys' Best New Artist... more
Our finale finds us talking about actor/musicians with lasting pop careers: Oscar-winners (Jamie Foxx), Grammy-winners (Childish Gambino), former child stars... more
This week's crop of actor-musician hyphenates got their thespian starts in films of the 1980s: Corey Feldman, Keanu Reeves (Dogstar),... more
Do you love to laugh? Then fall down the ha-ha hole that is Pop Goes The Actor's third episode! This... more
Oh yes it's ladies' night on the second episode of Pop Goes The Actor...but IS the feeling right? Sometimes! We... more
Pop Goes The Actor: a mini-season about thespians who tried (and sometimes succeeded at!) being pop musicians. In our premiere... more
1996's Romeo + Juliet seemed like a slam-dunk ending to our soundtrack mini-season...but we have regrets! Epcot industrial music, lazy versions... more
This episode is, we suppose, like a box of chocolates, because technically you don't know what you're going to get,... more