482 Episodes

  1. The Benson Boone-Doggle

    Published: 08/07/2025
  2. Can Recession Pop predict the market?

    Published: 01/07/2025
  3. How Americana helped mainstream country find its soul

    Published: 27/06/2025
  4. Country music is Mexican (Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera)

    Published: 26/06/2025
  5. The Ballad of Lainey Wilson and Jessie Murph

    Published: 25/06/2025
  6. The hick hop renaissance (BigXthaPlug and Bailey Zimmerman)

    Published: 24/06/2025
  7. Is Morgan Wallen the problem with country music?

    Published: 23/06/2025
  8. "Manchild" and other songs about male incompetence

    Published: 17/06/2025
  9. Frankly, Sinatra still matters (with Seth MacFarlane)

    Published: 10/06/2025
  10. Is the future of pop...heavy metal?!

    Published: 03/06/2025
  11. Charli XCX threw this party 4 us

    Published: 27/05/2025
  12. 808: The drum machine that changed music forever (Twenty Thousand Hertz)

    Published: 25/05/2025
  13. Chartbreakers: Lorde & Drake reboot, Worship Pop, and the shortest song ever

    Published: 20/05/2025
  14. ‘Sinners’ summons the demons of American music

    Published: 13/05/2025
  15. Eurovision feast: Poison Cake, Milkshake Man, and Espresso Macchiato (featuring Tommy Cash)

    Published: 06/05/2025
  16. Put your headphones on for TikTok's Addison Rae

    Published: 01/05/2025
  17. Generation Taylor: Gracie, Maisie, Phoebe (with Jensen McRae)

    Published: 22/04/2025
  18. Music's New Success Model

    Published: 15/04/2025
  19. Miley Cyrus goes avant-garde

    Published: 08/04/2025
  20. Chappell Roan is giving country... and hair metal?

    Published: 01/04/2025

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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.

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