Switched on Pop
VultureA 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.
The Benson Boone-Doggle
Jul 8 • 34m
Can Recession Pop predict the market?
Jul 1 • 34m
The Ballad of Lainey Wilson and Jessie Murph
Jun 25 • 28m
Is Morgan Wallen the problem with country music?
Jun 23 • 35m
Is the future of pop...heavy metal?!
Jun 3 • 45m
Charli XCX threw this party 4 us
May 27 • 38m
‘Sinners’ summons the demons of American music
May 13 • 38m
Music's New Success Model
Apr 15 • 46m
Miley Cyrus goes avant-garde
Apr 8 • 38m
Lady Gaga's Monster Return
Mar 18 • 53m
Playing "Hide and Seek" with Imogen Heap
Mar 4 • 35m
Learning to love: Tate McRae
Feb 18 • 45m
Does It Trance? The Weeknd & FKA Twigs
Feb 11 • 46m
How Spotify hacked our ears (and our data)
Feb 4 • 53m
Bad Bunny's love letter to Puerto Rico
Jan 21 • 46m
The biggest theme song fail
Jan 14 • 41m
Have Disney musicals lost their edge?
Jan 7 • 41m
Going Off Book
Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 31m
Auto-Tune always and forever
Dec 24, 2024 • 1h 2m
Santa Claus is coming to town and stalking America
Dec 20, 2024 • 33m
Breaking Through: Doechii, Mk.gee, Rosé
Dec 17, 2024 • 42m
The best (and worst) of holiday music in 2024
Dec 13, 2024 • 36m
Kendrick Lamar: from Pulitzer to pop
Dec 10, 2024 • 41m
We're off to see the "Wicked"
Dec 3, 2024 • 40m
Listening 2 Madonna: Ray of Light
Nov 29, 2024 • 44m
Listening 2 Madonna: Spanish Eyes
Nov 27, 2024 • 44m
Listening 2 Madonna: Who's That Girl?
Nov 25, 2024 • 49m
Fleetwood Mac perfected turning drama into hits
Nov 19, 2024 • 52m
Still Freaky After All These Years: Gaga, Tyler, The Cure
Nov 12, 2024 • 33m
Did Kendrick Lamar kill hip-hop?
Nov 5, 2024 • 58m
Where are all the scary songs?
Oct 29, 2024 • 32m
The virtuosity of Stevie Wonder
Oct 22, 2024 • 1h 7m
The last decade of pop explained
Oct 15, 2024 • 54m
Learning to love: Coldplay
Oct 8, 2024 • 49m
Fall Out Boy and the worst earworm ever
Oct 1, 2024 • 41m
Mexican pop is bigger than you think
Sep 24, 2024 • 44m
How Megan Thee Stallion brought Japanese hip hop to the Hot 100
Sep 17, 2024 • 42m
Learning to love: Oasis
Sep 10, 2024 • 53m
Newcomers: Porter Robinson
Sep 6, 2024 • 34m
Sabrina Carpenter is more than Short n' Sweet
Sep 3, 2024 • 40m
Newcomers: Jhayco
Aug 30, 2024 • 22m
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars bring back the duet
Aug 27, 2024 • 46m
Newcomers: Magdalena Bay
Aug 23, 2024 • 23m
Kesha v Katy + Tayla Parx on pop’s obsession with eras
Aug 13, 2024 • 44m
Introducing One Song
Aug 9, 2024 • 1h 14m
brat but it's a podcast about the album by CharliXCX
Aug 6, 2024 • 41m
Why Chappell Roan is the sound of 2024
Jul 30, 2024 • 34m
Is country the new hip hop?
Jul 23, 2024 • 35m
The music industry's AI fight
Jul 19, 2024 • 49m
Switched-On Wendy Carlos
Jul 17, 2024 • 37m
The song of the summer is DEAD with Today Explained
Jul 15, 2024 • 26m
The Imperfect Feminine: Camila, Charli, and Sabrina
Jul 2, 2024 • 46m
Empress Of asks for your consideration (with Empress Of)
Jun 25, 2024 • 37m
Bootsy Collins is gonna funk you up (with Bootsy Collins)
Jun 18, 2024 • 40m
Freaking out about songwriting with Nile Rodgers
Jun 11, 2024 • 35m
Begging songs and basketball's musicality (with Hanif Abdurraqib)
Jun 4, 2024 • 29m
Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist (with Charlie Puth)
May 28, 2024 • 39m
Billie Eilish hits both hard and soft
May 21, 2024 • 43m
Is pop music just fast food? (with Gastropod)
May 14, 2024 • 39m
Rosie Tucker's unending bliss
May 10, 2024 • 23m
Eurovision 2024: from Baby Lasagna to Windows95Man
May 7, 2024 • 33m
Justice is never-ending
May 4, 2024 • 41m
Taylor Swift's Literary Era
Apr 23, 2024 • 46m
Lost Notes: How Fela Kuti Found Afrobeat in LA
Apr 20, 2024 • 32m
Berlin's Hottest Club is Rico Nasty & Boys Noize
Apr 16, 2024 • 44m
Chasing old sounds: Djo's "End of Beginning" with Joe Keery
Apr 9, 2024 • 39m
Cowboy Carter: This Ain't Country
Apr 2, 2024 • 39m
Hip-hop's Sea Change at Rolling Loud
Mar 26, 2024 • 42m
Rhapsody in Blue, Reimagined
Mar 22, 2024 • 30m
Eternal Sunshine of Ariana Grande's Mind
Mar 19, 2024 • 44m
How to DIY a Music Career (with Amelia Meath and David Gray at SXSW)
Mar 15, 2024 • 37m
Is Beyoncé's music #sponcon? And other mysteries LIVE in Brooklyn
Mar 12, 2024 • 44m
Jacob Collier unites the world
Mar 5, 2024 • 1h 0m
Beyoncé's Country
Feb 27, 2024 • 44m
Adult Contemporary, but make it cool (with CHROMEO)
Feb 20, 2024 • 29m
The Star Spangled Banger!
Feb 13, 2024 • 53m
Brittany Howard's Chaos Theory (with Brittany Howard)
Feb 6, 2024 • 35m
The b*tch of loving musical theater (with Bridger Winegar)
Jan 30, 2024 • 45m
Kali Uchis takes on the world
Jan 23, 2024 • 36m
Soundalikes: Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande
Jan 16, 2024 • 38m
The case of the missing vocals, and other listener questions
Jan 9, 2024 • 46m
Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon - ICYMI
Jan 2, 2024 • 25m
Wham! Op. 84 “Last Christmas” with Chilly Gonzales - ICYMI
Dec 25, 2023 • 48m
"Did I mention that it's Christmas in this club?" (w Matt Rogers)
Dec 19, 2023 • 32m
Nicki Minaj's Roman Empire
Dec 12, 2023 • 50m
Hear the Year: The music we loved in 2023
Dec 5, 2023 • 44m
Behind the Scenes of Switched on Pop on Harman Audio Talks
Nov 28, 2023 • 31m
Noah Kahan’s Folk Pop Revival
Nov 21, 2023 • 39m
Why Country Music Dominated 2023's Charts
Nov 14, 2023 • 47m
The Beatles: "Now and Then" and Forever
Nov 7, 2023 • 30m
Rerecording Taylor Swift's 1989, Dark Side of the Moon, and Demi Lovato
Oct 28, 2023 • 42m
Chartbreakers: Mitski tops the TikTok chart
Oct 24, 2023 • 43m
Feeling Fine with Faye Webster
Oct 11, 2023 • 41m
Metro Boomin Wants Some More
Oct 6, 2023 • 39m
In Defense of Crunk
Oct 3, 2023 • 41m
Made In America: Jay-Z & Toby Keith ICYMI
Sep 28, 2023 • 46m
The Art of Flow (with DJ Jazzy Jeff) ICYMI
Sep 26, 2023 • 35m
Doja Cat’s Satanic Suite
Sep 19, 2023 • 39m
Jimmy Buffett: Next Year in Margaritaville
Sep 12, 2023 • 36m
Beyoncé's 'Renaissance' Era ICYMI
Sep 5, 2023 • 30m
Olivia Rodrigo’s Good Ideas
Aug 29, 2023 • 31m
Wonders: "Stacy's Mom" and Adam Schlesinger
Aug 22, 2023 • 30m
The mid-career crises of Travis Scott and Post Malone
Aug 15, 2023 • 36m
The secret world of songwriting camps
Aug 8, 2023 • 34m
Your cursive singing is tearing this family apart!
Aug 1, 2023 • 31m
Barbie and the plasticity of pop
Jul 25, 2023 • 46m
How Louis Armstrong invented the modern pop star
Jul 18, 2023 • 33m
Speak Now (about Taylor's versions)
Jul 11, 2023 • 46m
What makes a gay anthem?
Jun 27, 2023 • 35m
Chartbreakers: Mexican regional y más
Jun 13, 2023 • 44m
Listening 2 Daft Punk: Random Access Memories
Jun 6, 2023 • 36m
Listening 2 Daft Punk: Human After All / Alive 2007
May 30, 2023 • 39m
Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery
May 23, 2023 • 36m
Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework
May 16, 2023 • 37m
The Jonas Brothers' Yacht Rock Revival
May 9, 2023 • 39m
From Westeros-techno to trance metal: Eurovision 2023
May 2, 2023 • 28m
Who killed the key change in pop music?
Apr 25, 2023 • 33m
A.I. Drake has put music in a tailspin
Apr 21, 2023 • 37m
BTS goes solo together
Apr 18, 2023 • 49m
This Generation's Caroline Polachek
Apr 11, 2023 • 43m
The Shakira Conspiracy
Apr 4, 2023 • 31m
Reinventing Bach
Mar 28, 2023 • 40m
100 gecs and the new sound of hyperpop
Mar 21, 2023 • 39m
Switches Brew
Mar 17, 2023 • 24m
Modern Classics: Seal - Kiss From a Rose
Mar 14, 2023 • 37m
How John Denver got huge in Asia
Mar 7, 2023 • 33m
Chartbreakers: Jersey Club, Complicated Country, and 50s Crooners
Feb 28, 2023 • 30m
Five years later, the legacy of Nipsey Hussle's "Victory Lap"
Feb 22, 2023 • 35m
“Flowers” and the art of the response song
Feb 14, 2023 • 39m
Rihanna Party! ICYMI
Feb 12, 2023 • 54m
The L.A. guitar shop that reinvented indie folk
Feb 7, 2023 • 36m
A History of Whammies at the Grammys - Into It with Sam Sanders
Feb 2, 2023 • 24m
Wonders: Bobby McFerrin
Jan 31, 2023 • 34m
The New Wave of Paramore
Jan 24, 2023 • 34m
Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20
Jan 20, 2023 • 1h 22m
SZA's Endless Melody
Jan 18, 2023 • 29m
Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon
Jan 10, 2023 • 28m
ICYMI 90s Music Canon
Jan 3, 2023 • 38m
ICYMI: We *do* talk about Bruno
Dec 27, 2022 • 27m
Anitta & Rosalía on the borders of Latin pop
Dec 20, 2022 • 27m
How Bad Bunny won 2022
Dec 13, 2022 • 34m
The soft sounds of Kali Uchis (live from Vulture Fest)
Dec 6, 2022 • 32m
Why do new Christmas songs fail?
Nov 29, 2022 • 27m
The Art of Flow
Nov 22, 2022 • 36m
Willow Smith rocks harder
Nov 15, 2022 • 26m
The Sound of Sapphism
Nov 8, 2022 • 33m
Scary Pockets funkify pop classics (with Lizzy McAlpine)
Nov 1, 2022 • 33m
Up late with Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’
Oct 24, 2022 • 38m
Steve Lacy brings bedroom pop to the Billboard top
Oct 18, 2022 • 34m
Why it hurts to release a record (with Sylvan Esso)
Oct 11, 2022 • 47m
Santigold sings Spirituals
Oct 4, 2022 • 26m
The future of music pt I
Sep 27, 2022 • 33m
Lady Gaga & The Pequeños Monstruos
Sep 20, 2022 • 32m
Invasion of the Vibe Snatchers
Sep 13, 2022 • 26m
Into It: Song of Summer 2022
Sep 6, 2022 • 17m
Learning to love the Killers (maybe)
Aug 30, 2022 • 32m
K-Pop Chartbreakers: BLACKPINK, Girls’ Generation, NewJeans, IVE
Aug 23, 2022 • 34m
Demi Lovato Searches for "Substance" In Pop-Punk Perfection
Aug 16, 2022 • 25m
Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance’ Era
Aug 9, 2022 • 31m
Into It: The Business of Beyoncé
Aug 5, 2022 • 39m
"It's About Damn Time" for Another Lizzo #1
Aug 2, 2022 • 30m
Elvis, Big Mama Thornton, Doja Cat, and the Long Legacy of “Hound Dog”
Jul 26, 2022 • 23m
Harry Styles and the Sledgehammer Horns
Jul 12, 2022 • 24m
ICYMI: The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Baz Luhrmann)
Jul 5, 2022 • 53m
Beyoncé's House
Jun 28, 2022 • 32m
Robert Glasper on jazz, basketball, and his score for "Winning Time"
Jun 21, 2022 • 24m
Scoring Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Jun 16, 2022 • 21m
Kate Bush, Stranger Things, and a hit song four decades in the making
Jun 14, 2022 • 31m
So your song went viral on TikTok. What’s next?
Jun 7, 2022 • 34m
The 1980s jam that gave Latto and Mariah Carey Big D*** Energy
May 31, 2022 • 27m
Kendrick Lamar and the big samples
May 24, 2022 • 31m
Modern Classics: PJ Morton made Nas’s Stevie Wonder dream come true
May 17, 2022 • 29m
Will Ukraine win Eurovision 2022?
May 10, 2022 • 28m
Belle and Sebastian on the value of staying "young and stupid"
May 3, 2022 • 28m
The New Alternative
Apr 26, 2022 • 31m
Jump-starting the creative process with Allison Ponthier
Apr 19, 2022 • 20m
A Higher Power Ballad
Apr 12, 2022 • 27m
How sound becomes hearing
Apr 5, 2022 • 41m
Listening 2 Britney: Gimme More
Mar 29, 2022 • 27m
Listening 2 Britney: Toxic
Mar 22, 2022 • 28m
Listening 2 Britney: I'm a Slave 4 U
Mar 15, 2022 • 29m
Listening 2 Britney: ...Baby One More Time
Mar 8, 2022 • 29m
Leon Bridges and Khruangbin Sing a Song of Texas
Feb 15, 2022 • 34m
Shaking Out the Numb with Sylvan Esso
Feb 8, 2022 • 30m
We *do* talk about Bruno
Feb 1, 2022 • 26m
32 Albums in, Elvis Costello is Just Getting Started
Jan 25, 2022 • 34m
Accidental K-pop star Eric Nam risks it all to go his own way
Jan 19, 2022 • 37m
The Weeknd drives through purgatory (with a little help from Jim Carrey)
Jan 11, 2022 • 37m
Why do new Christmas songs fail?
Dec 21, 2021 • 26m
Tai Verdes TikTok-ed his way to a breakout hit
Dec 14, 2021 • 31m
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise The Roof
Dec 7, 2021 • 31m
The Beatles get back to their roots
Nov 30, 2021 • 40m
Taylor, Adele & Silk Sonic’s broken hearts club (with Brittany Luse)
Nov 23, 2021 • 41m
Snotty Nose Rez Kids on hip hop and Indigenous protest
Nov 16, 2021 • 26m
The State of the Pop Union
Nov 9, 2021 • 35m
Why ABBA songs just hit different
Nov 2, 2021 • 34m
The Healing Power of Pop with Esperanza Spalding
Oct 26, 2021 • 35m
James Bond's Spycraft Sound
Oct 19, 2021 • 34m
James Blake & The Return of Harmony
Oct 12, 2021 • 39m
Sparkle spoke out against R Kelly. It cost her her career.
Oct 7, 2021 • 31m
ICYMI: The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Take A Daytrip)
Sep 28, 2021 • 35m
Deja Vu: Why Olivia Rodrigo keeps giving up songwriting credits
Sep 21, 2021 • 1h 0m
CHVRCHES and the sound of 80s horror
Sep 14, 2021 • 33m
Modern Classics: Carina del Valle Schorske on Cat Power's "Manhattan"
Aug 31, 2021 • 29m
The Joy of Music Festivals
Aug 24, 2021 • 27m
The Beauty and Horror of Insane Clown Posse's Summer Festival
Aug 17, 2021 • 35m
How Coachella took the Woodstock look
Aug 10, 2021 • 25m
Modern Classics: Mark Ronson on Ginuwine's "Pony"
Aug 3, 2021 • 38m
Summer Hits: Jack Antonoff on Bleachers “Stop Making This Hurt”
Jul 30, 2021 • 41m
The Appealing Uneasiness of Listening to L’Rain (Live at JBL)
Jul 23, 2021 • 26m
Summer Hits: City Girls - Twerkulator (with Kyra Gaunt)
Jul 20, 2021 • 24m
Summer Hits: Lorde - Solar Power (w Hanif Abdurraqib)
Jul 16, 2021 • 31m
Summer Hits: Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (with Jessica Hopper)
Jul 13, 2021 • 35m
Modern Classics: Labrinth's "Sexy MF" (with Sam Sanders)
Jul 6, 2021 • 30m
Growing Pains with Lucy Dacus
Jul 2, 2021 • 32m
Summer Hits: BTS - Butter (with Jenna Andrews)
Jun 29, 2021 • 36m
Pop’s Worst Kept Secret ft. Emily Warren
Jun 22, 2021 • 28m
J Cole’s The Off Season and the Power of the 12/8 Shuffle
Jun 8, 2021 • 31m
ICYMI Rina Sawayama Reimagines the 00s
Jun 1, 2021 • 20m
Vijay Iyer on why jazz has always been political
May 25, 2021 • 31m
Introducing Galaxy Brains
May 18, 2021 • 34m
Turns out Willow Smith rocks
May 11, 2021 • 32m
Julia Michaels’ Songwriting Superpowers
May 4, 2021 • 42m
How Take A Daytrip took off (full interview)
Apr 30, 2021 • 39m
The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Take A Daytrip)
Apr 27, 2021 • 37m
Pop On A Perilous Planet (w Kyle Devine)
Apr 20, 2021 • 35m
Silk Sonic's Retro Soul (with Tayla Parx)
Apr 6, 2021 • 53m
AJR Conjure Broadway on 'OK Orchestra'
Mar 30, 2021 • 43m
What the 63rd Grammys say about the state of pop
Mar 16, 2021 • 42m
Kimbra reflects on a song that we used to know
Mar 9, 2021 • 49m
Kaytranada's journey from basement beat-making to the Grammys
Mar 2, 2021 • 37m
Adrian Younge's new project sounds like James Baldwin meets Marvin Gaye
Feb 16, 2021 • 34m
The Scandalous Sounds of Bridgerton (w Kris Bowers)
Feb 9, 2021 • 41m
Epik High is our gateway into Korean hip hop (with Tablo)
Jan 26, 2021 • 53m
Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” is a full throttle power ballad
Jan 19, 2021 • 40m
D.O.C. (Death of the Chorus) with Emily Warren
Jan 12, 2021 • 41m
ICYMI: The End Of Pop Music As We Know It: Fall Out Boy & Charli XCX
Jan 5, 2021 • 48m
ICYMI: Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?
Dec 29, 2020 • 49m
Wham! Op. 84 “Last Christmas” with Chilly Gonzales
Dec 21, 2020 • 53m
Taylor Swift has "evermore" of a good thing
Dec 15, 2020 • 45m
Women's Rap Renaissance
Dec 8, 2020 • 42m
Red Hot + Blue with Meshell Ndegeocello
Dec 1, 2020 • 43m
The Cyndi Lauper Conspiracy (with Sam Sanders)
Nov 24, 2020 • 36m
ANTHEMS: Missy Elliott — Work It
Nov 17, 2020 • 37m
ANTHEMS: Smash Mouth — All Star
Nov 10, 2020 • 34m
ANTHEMS: Jock Jams — Get Ready For This
Nov 3, 2020 • 35m
ANTHEMS: Queen — We Are The Champions
Oct 27, 2020 • 36m
Cory Henry has Something to Say
Oct 20, 2020 • 31m
The Pop Music Forecast (with Lauren Michele Jackson)
Oct 14, 2020 • 41m
Brandy Clark's Life Is A Record
Oct 7, 2020 • 31m
Keith Urban on The Speed of Now Part 1
Oct 2, 2020 • 43m
Mickey Guyton sings truth to Country Music
Sep 29, 2020 • 55m
Disclosure: Where Energy Flows
Sep 22, 2020 • 40m
THE 5TH — MOVEMENT IV, What Beethoven Would Have Wanted
Sep 18, 2020 • 31m
THE 5TH — MOVEMENT III, Putting the Classism in Classical
Sep 15, 2020 • 32m
THE 5TH — MOVEMENT II, From Struggle to Victory
Sep 11, 2020 • 28m
THE 5TH — MOVEMENT I, A Battle Brewing
Sep 8, 2020 • 27m
Announcing THE 5TH with The New York Philharmonic
Sep 4, 2020 • 1m
The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets (ICYMI)
Sep 1, 2020 • 32m
Benee and the Art of the Sad Banger
Aug 26, 2020 • 28m
90s Music Canon
Aug 18, 2020 • 38m
Bruno Major restyles the Great American Songbook
Aug 11, 2020 • 47m
Black Is King (ICYMI Beyoncé's Gift To Africa ft. Ivie Ani)
Aug 4, 2020 • 39m
folklore: taylor swift's quarantine dream
Jul 28, 2020 • 40m
The Women Reclaiming Nu-Metal ft. Rina Sawayama
Jul 21, 2020 • 42m
Rosie: Investigating a Crime at the Heart of the Music Industry
Jul 14, 2020 • 28m
The Many Colors of Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’
Jun 30, 2020 • 35m
I Am America (w Shea Diamond and Justin Tranter)
Jun 30, 2020 • 22m
Jacob Collier on staying creative and his 646 track song “All I Need”
Jun 19, 2020 • 35m
What it means to make music in 2020
Jun 16, 2020 • 35m
Big Floyd And The Influence Of Houston Chopped N Screwed Music
Jun 9, 2020 • 32m
Carly Rae Jepsen: Meeting The Muse
May 26, 2020 • 42m
Why lo-fi is the perfect background music
May 19, 2020 • 37m
Eurovision Lives! (with Netta)
May 12, 2020 • 42m
How To Soundtrack A Villain: Killing Eve
May 5, 2020 • 39m
Did Fiona Apple Just Release a Perfect Album?
Apr 28, 2020 • 35m
Doja Cat’s “Say So” is a Masterclass in Good Times
Apr 21, 2020 • 30m
Were We Wrong About Kanye West?
Apr 14, 2020 • 47m
Aussie2Aussie: 5SOS on Tame Impala (with Luke Hemmings & Calum Hood)
Apr 7, 2020 • 37m
The (murder) Ballad of Joe Exotic “Tiger King” (with Robert Moor)
Apr 5, 2020 • 37m
D’Angelo and the Legacy of Voodoo (with Faith Pennick)
Mar 31, 2020 • 44m
"Happy Birthday" is the Worst (with Anne-Marie)
Mar 24, 2020 • 34m
Bad Bunny Has A Message For Your Mom
Mar 17, 2020 • 35m
The Fire & Fury Of Overcoats
Mar 10, 2020 • 38m
Can't Help Falling in Lauv (the interview)
Mar 3, 2020 • 33m
What Happens When Justin Bieber Samples Your Music
Feb 25, 2020 • 35m
Return Of The Guitar: Halsey, 5 Seconds of Summer, Joji
Feb 18, 2020 • 27m
Look At Selena Gomez Now with Justin Tranter & Ian Kirkpatrick
Feb 11, 2020 • 37m
Five Directions: How do the solo efforts of One Direction stack up?
Feb 4, 2020 • 36m
Post Malone has us Running in Circles
Jan 28, 2020 • 40m
Hopes and Fears of Mac Miller, Future, Drake, and Billie Eilish
Jan 21, 2020 • 44m
Dua Lipa’s Disco Fever
Jan 14, 2020 • 38m
ICYMI: Billie Eilish is a Different Kind of Pop Star (ft. FINNEAS)
Dec 31, 2019 • 46m
Dolly Parton's America (with Jad Abumrad)
Dec 24, 2019 • 40m
Who's Afraid of the Sound of TikTok? (w Cat Zhang)
Dec 17, 2019 • 36m
Prelude & Feud on a 'G' Thang: Biggie vs Tupac
Dec 3, 2019 • 45m
Pop is the Sound We Need Right Now (with Electric Guest)
Nov 26, 2019 • 41m
The Past, Present, and Future of EMO (with Allegra Frank)
Nov 19, 2019 • 53m
When Pop and Classical Collide (with James Bennett II)
Nov 12, 2019 • 1h 0m
Unlocking the Rhythms of Rosalía
Nov 5, 2019 • 49m
Rihanna Party! (with Gina Delvac)
Oct 29, 2019 • 55m
Why U Love 2 Listen 2 Prince (with Anil Dash)
Oct 22, 2019 • 34m
A Brief History of Men Singing Really High
Oct 15, 2019 • 46m
Total Request Live! Taylor, Lana, Kim, and More (with Sam Sanders)
Oct 7, 2019 • 42m
Mastering Music (with Dallas Taylor of Twenty Thousand Hertz)
Oct 1, 2019 • 56m
Jazz 1959
Sep 24, 2019 • 49m
BONUS: Charli XCX and The Future of Music (with Dani Deahl)
Sep 22, 2019 • 34m
The “Baby Shark” Phenomenon (with Andrea Silenzi)
Sep 17, 2019 • 36m
BONUS: Who are the Picassos of pop? (with Ross Golan)
Sep 13, 2019 • 47m
Switched Off Book the Improvised Musical (with Jess McKenna and Zach Reino)
Sep 10, 2019 • 1h 31m
ICYMI: How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo
Sep 3, 2019 • 52m
ICYMI: Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre?
Aug 27, 2019 • 48m
Songs of Summer Call-in Special
Aug 20, 2019 • 53m
Beyoncé's Gift To Africa (with Ivie Ani)
Aug 6, 2019 • 38m
LCD Soundsystem and the Unbearable Sameness of Restaurant Playlists
Jul 30, 2019 • 35m
The $50M Beat Marketplace That Broke the Billboard
Jul 23, 2019 • 30m
Shawn Mendes and the Rhythm of Rhyme
Jul 16, 2019 • 33m
Space, The Final Frontier: Madonna, Stephen Puth and Street Studios
Jul 9, 2019 • 59m
What BTS's "Boy With Love" ft. Halsey Can Teach Us About K-pop
Jul 2, 2019 • 40m
"Prince Ali" and Why We're All Music Theorists
Jun 25, 2019 • 30m
Why Does Every Intro Sound Like It's Underwater? (Live)
Jun 18, 2019 • 26m
The Man Behind the Rocketman with Giles Martin
Jun 11, 2019 • 52m
The Greatest Pop Stories Never Told (with Jessica Hopper)
Jun 4, 2019 • 42m
Should You Care About Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber?
May 28, 2019 • 53m
The Smooth Sound of NPR Morning News
May 21, 2019 • 41m
Is There An Indie Rock Conspiracy? (Featuring Joywave)
May 15, 2019 • 31m
Lizzo And The End of Genre (with Sam Harris of X Ambassadors)
May 7, 2019 • 51m
Taylor Swift Causes a PANIC!
Apr 30, 2019 • 41m
Sounds Like Teen Spirit (with Elle Fanning)
Apr 23, 2019 • 55m
Lil Nas X: Country at the Crossroads
Apr 16, 2019 • 42m
Billie Eilish is a Different Kind of Pop Star (ft. FINNEAS)
Apr 9, 2019 • 46m
BONUS: Bhi Bhiman's 'Peace of Mind' Episode 1
Apr 8, 2019 • 29m
Bhi Bhiman Puts the Music Before the Message
Apr 2, 2019 • 46m
Comeback Kids: The Jonas Brothers are Back
Mar 25, 2019 • 34m
Lost & Found: The Drama of Pop Form with Emily King
Mar 19, 2019 • 30m
How Streaming Changed the Sound of Pop
Mar 12, 2019 • 36m
Top 40 Activism with Justin Tranter
Mar 5, 2019 • 47m
What Makes An Award Winning Song?
Feb 20, 2019 • 41m
What Makes a Song Sexy?
Feb 5, 2019 • 34m
The Deep History of '7 Rings'
Jan 29, 2019 • 39m
Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?
Jan 23, 2019 • 48m
Slay Bells, All Year Long
Dec 26, 2018 • 40m
Look What You Made Us Do
Dec 11, 2018 • 57m
Entering Beard Phase with Mike Posner
Nov 27, 2018 • 52m
How Dirty Projectors Make You Feel Energy (with David Longstreth)
Nov 13, 2018 • 55m
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Love the 90s
Oct 16, 2018 • 37m
Sicko Rap and Drunk Country
Oct 3, 2018 • 36m
The Side Effects of Pop Music with Emily Warren
Sep 18, 2018 • 45m
Drake vs Drake
Sep 6, 2018 • 43m
Summer Heat of the 2000s: Beyoncé and Black Eyed Peas (Pt. II)
Aug 23, 2018 • 27m
Summer Heat of the 2000s: Nelly + Katy Perry (Pt. 1)
Aug 9, 2018 • 25m
Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre?
Jul 27, 2018 • 49m
The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets
Jul 12, 2018 • 30m
Switched on Summer: Getting Around with the Beach Boys
Jun 28, 2018 • 30m
The Pure Pop of Charlie Puth + Carly Rae (ft Hanif Abdurraqib)
Jun 14, 2018 • 46m
Finding Equanimity In 'No Tears Left To Cry'
May 17, 2018 • 38m
Can AI 'Algorhythms' Write Pop Songs? (With Taryn Southern)
May 3, 2018 • 55m
Listening Differently to Lorde | with MARIAN HILL
Apr 19, 2018 • 45m
Kacey Musgraves Gives Us Butterflies
Apr 5, 2018 • 29m
Gucci Gang and the Neural Substrate of Subjective Time Dilation
Mar 22, 2018 • 27m
How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo
Mar 8, 2018 • 52m
808s & Havana Heartbreak
Feb 22, 2018 • 57m
My My My! Troye Sivan + Queer Pop (w Gina Delvac, Darryl Bullock)
Feb 8, 2018 • 58m
90s Nostalgia in Bruno Mars and Charlie Puth
Jan 25, 2018 • 35m
Justin Timberlake's Identity Crisis
Jan 11, 2018 • 37m
Dua Lipa's Minor Mantra (w Emily Bootle)
Dec 28, 2017 • 18m
All I Want for Xmas is a Year in Review Episode
Dec 14, 2017 • 41m
Björk's Emotional Landscapes
Nov 30, 2017 • 39m
Taylor Constructs A Darker Reputation
Nov 16, 2017 • 39m
Unlikely Mashups: Taylor + Cardi B | Clean Bandit + Berlioz
Nov 2, 2017 • 47m
Kendrick Lamar's HUMBLE deconstructed w. guest Amber Mark
Oct 19, 2017 • 31m
Demi Lovato is Not Sorry
Oct 6, 2017 • 37m
How to 'Feels' the Groove
Sep 22, 2017 • 33m
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Sep 7, 2017 • 43m
The Many Worlds of "Despacito"
Aug 10, 2017 • 31m
Selena Gomez: Bad Liar, Psycho Songwriter
Jul 13, 2017 • 44m
Morgan Page Reveals the Rule of 3 in Julia Michaels and Maroon 5
Jun 16, 2017 • 46m
DJ Khaled - I'm The One... six... four... five
Jun 1, 2017 • 38m
Musical Architecture in Charlie Puth + HAIM
May 18, 2017 • 41m
The End Of Pop Music As We Know It: Fall Out Boy & Charli XCX
May 4, 2017 • 48m
Harry Styles, Eschatology and Teen Girl Fandom
Apr 20, 2017 • 44m
What's to Love About Ed Sheeran? (guest Ross Golan)
Apr 6, 2017 • 42m
Zedd + Alessia Cara - Stay (w special guest Grey)
Mar 23, 2017 • 45m
Chained to the Green Light: Katy Perry + Lorde
Mar 10, 2017 • 40m
Oscar Week!: La La Land ft. Genevieve Koski
Feb 24, 2017 • 52m
Zayn, Taylor Swift & The Grammys
Feb 9, 2017 • 33m
The Puzzle of Ariana Grande's "Into You" (with K. Flay)
Jan 27, 2017 • 49m
Seduced by the Sound: The Weeknd + Daft Punk
Jan 12, 2017 • 25m
Dreaming Of A White Christmas
Dec 16, 2016 • 41m
How to Listen to Music in 4 Easy Steps
Dec 1, 2016 • 47m
Playing it Cool: How Tove Lo Aims High
Nov 17, 2016 • 30m
Made In America: Toby Keith & Jay-Z
Nov 3, 2016 • 48m
Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal
Oct 20, 2016 • 45m
The Most Popular Song In The World
Oct 6, 2016 • 40m
Lady Gaga Is A Perfect Illusion
Sep 22, 2016 • 1h 3m
How Beyoncé to The Beatles Modulate Your Emotions
Sep 9, 2016 • 38m
Pop Drops and Chipmunk Soul
Aug 25, 2016 • 41m
The Gideon and Hubcap Show
Aug 15, 2016 • 27m
Breaking Down The House
Aug 1, 2016 • 40m
Around The World With Drake
Jul 14, 2016 • 43m
When Good Music Happens To Bad People
Jun 30, 2016 • 39m
Justin Timberlake Goes Medieval
Jun 16, 2016 • 36m
All About Those Baseline Assumptions About Femini$m in Pop
Jun 6, 2016 • 34m
Jonas vs. Jonas: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Boy Band
May 19, 2016 • 36m
Purple Lemonade: Prince & Beyoncé
May 5, 2016 • 45m
Pablo And The Wolves
Apr 22, 2016 • 37m
The Populist Pop of Twenty One Pilots
Apr 6, 2016 • 33m
American Oxygen
Mar 23, 2016 • 26m
Say Hey
Mar 10, 2016 • 44m
Now I Sia, Now I Don't
Feb 26, 2016 • 39m
B Side: Singing With Mama Jan
Feb 18, 2016 • 7m
Call Your Girlfriend
Feb 12, 2016 • 39m
Click With Dick And Other Campaign Anthems
Jan 29, 2016 • 1h 1m
The Life Changing Magic of Music in 2015
Jan 17, 2016 • 32m
Linus & Lucy
Dec 17, 2015 • 33m
Same Here
Dec 2, 2015 • 32m
Searching for Max Martin
Nov 19, 2015 • 44m
Hotline Hello: Drake and Adele
Nov 4, 2015 • 34m
Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
Oct 22, 2015 • 36m
Justin Bieber’s Existential Suite
Oct 7, 2015 • 32m
The Weeknd: Dance of Deception
Sep 23, 2015 • 26m
Let’s Talk About Sax
Sep 9, 2015 • 36m
Kacey Musgraves: Transgressing Country
Aug 14, 2015 • 27m
Song of Summer: LIVE!
Jul 30, 2015 • 30m
The Dual Meaning of Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen
Jul 15, 2015 • 21m
One Direction: Our Modern Day Castrati
May 29, 2015 • 24m
The Final Dropout
May 15, 2015 • 8m
Hidden Sounds in FourFiveSeconds
May 6, 2015 • 22m
Carly Rae Jepsen – I Really Like You
Apr 15, 2015 • 22m
Hozier’s Waffling of Faith in Take Me To Church
Apr 2, 2015 • 18m
Taylor Swift’s Beethovian Blank Space
Mar 26, 2015 • 16m
A Cappella Dreams
Mar 16, 2015 • 48m
Radio Africa
Feb 19, 2015 • 31m
Star Spangled
Jan 28, 2015 • 28m
Mark Ronson: Funk Politics
Jan 15, 2015 • 34m
The Imperative Jingle Bells
Dec 20, 2014 • 32m
To Be Young
Dec 11, 2014 • 32m
Boom Bang Pow
Nov 14, 2014 • 29m
The Oeuvre of Taylor Swift
Oct 28, 2014 • 34m
Heartbreak
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