A podcast all about the making and meaning of popular music. Musicologist Nate Sloan & songwriter Charlie Harding pull back the curtain... more
The Who's "My Generation" wasn't born from inspiration—it was commissioned. In a rare interview, Pete Townshend reveals how six fans... more
In 2022, Lady Gaga embarked on The Chromatica Ball – a stadium tour featuring a stage that Gaga herself referred to... more
When the song “Get Ur Freak On” hit radio in 2001, it set the world of popular music on fire.... more
It may be hard to believe it in this technology-driven day and age, but one of the most pervasive sounds... more
In 2007, a 19-year-old Barbadian pop singer released the lead single off her third album. By doing so, she didn't... more
Tate McRae's billions of streams and perfectly crafted hits can feel almost algorithmic, like an AI trained on 20 years... more
In last month's episode predicting the coming year in pop, one of the team's predictions was that trance music – the... more
Behind Spotify's promise of infinite music lies a carefully engineered system that shapes not just what we hear, but how... more
2024 was an unpredictable year, and 2025 seems to be cut from the same cloth. So for this episode of... more
The first great release of 2025 is already here: Bad Bunny's newest album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS. Over the course... more