Switched on Pop
The podcast that explores the making and meaning of popular music hosted by Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan
- Website
- http://www.switchedonpop.com
- Description
- Breaking down how popular music works
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-04-16 19:55
- last episode published
- 2024-04-16 09:00
- publication frequency
- 8.14 days
- Contributors
- Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 429
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Music
Recommendations
Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-04-16 | There are few artists pushing the boundaries of their respective genres like Maryland rapper Rico Nasty and German-Iraqi electronic producer Boys Noize. The two have run in the same circles for over half a decade, but their joint collaboration has reac... |
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| 2024-04-09 | Joe Keery is best known for his acting roles, such as the reformed jock Steve Harrington in "Stranger Things" and his chilling performance in season 5 of "Fargo." But he's also a spectacular musician. Rising through the Chicago music scene in college, ... |
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| 2024-04-02 | Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter is her foray into country music, but this isn't just dirt roads, blue jeans and whiskey. Her country music distills all of American pop: blues, gospel, R&B, soul, house, hip-hop and yes, country. If this ain't country, what ... |
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| 2024-03-26 | Hip-hop is in a weird place right now. Research says that the genre, in both streaming and chart performance, has declined over the last decade. And while rap artists can still get number one songs on the Hot 100, it’s a far cry from the peak of trap c... |
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| 2024-03-22 | What do Duke Ellington, United Airlines, and the K Pop group Red Velvet share in common? They've all covered George Gershwin's piano concerto, Rhapsody in Blue. First premiered in 1924, the piece became an immediate hit for the way it blended American ... |
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| 2024-03-19 | Sidestep the gossip and focus on the music in Ariana Grande’s latest album Eternal Sunshine. The music is an exercise in nostalgia: 70s Disco, 90s R&B, and 00s pop and dance music. As she moves through the musical past, her lyrics tear through past... |
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| 2024-03-15 |
How to DIY a Music Career (with Amelia Meath and David Gray at SXSW) In a landscape where the music industry seems designed to stifle creativity and independence, Amelia Meath stands as a beacon of resistance. Through her involvement in bands like Sylvan Esso, Mountain Man, and The A's, and as a founder of label Psychic... |
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| 2024-03-12 |
Is Beyoncé's music #sponcon? And other mysteries LIVE in Brooklyn Live from On-Air Fest in Brooklyn, Nate and Charlie investigate listeners’ burning musical mysteries, such as: Is Beyoncé’s reference to Lexus in “Texas Hold ’Em” product placement? And, could we be tuning all our music the wrong way? These stories hav... |
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| 2024-03-05 | One of the most inventive and gifted musicians working today is none other than Jacob Collier. Maybe you know him from his YouTube videos, or co-writing SZA’s “Good Days,” or even performing alongside Joni Mitchell at this year’s Grammys. Jacob is a mu... |
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| 2024-02-27 | Renaissance Act II truthers, your time has come: There’s new music from Beyoncé, and boy, is it country. Her two new singles dropped two weeks ago, and in the time since, they’ve both climbed up the chart and taken the internet by storm. There’s the ba... |
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