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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery
Daft Punk’s first album laid the groundwork for their robot personas, with four to the floor beats, programmed drum machines, and sequenced synthesiz…
3 years ago
Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework
Ten years ago, Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories gave life back to music. The world-beating smash “Get Lucky” broke streaming records, forged a retr…
3 years ago
The Jonas Brothers' Yacht Rock Revival
After nearly two decades as a band the Jonas Brothers are staking their claim to a magnum opus by calling their next album, quite simply, The Album (…
3 years ago
From Westeros-techno to trance metal: Eurovision 2023
It’s May, and that can only mean one thing: it’s time for the Eurovision Song Contest. This year’s edition of the international-but-primarily-in-Euro…
3 years, 1 month ago
Who killed the key change in pop music?
When trouble strikes in music town, there’s one guy who gets the call. That’s me, Joe Treble, forensic musicologist. This week, I've got one of the m…
3 years, 1 month ago
A.I. Drake has put music in a tailspin
We have an emergency podcast drop because the biggest and fastest moving story on the internet right now is about a song called “Heart On My Sleeve.”…
3 years, 1 month ago
BTS goes solo together
The South Korean idol group BTS is one of the biggest musical sensations in history. They're constantly breaking records and they have one of the mos…
3 years, 1 month ago
This Generation's Caroline Polachek
From the first seconds of her latest album Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, Caroline Polachek asserts that she is truly a once-in-a-generation artist…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Shakira Conspiracy
Shakira is back on the Billboard Hot 100 – thanks to the help of Argentinian producer Bizarrap. Together, their song “Shakira: BZRP Music Sessions, V…
3 years, 2 months ago
Reinventing Bach
If you’ve ever learned classical piano, you probably tried to play one of Bach’s Inventions. The composer wrote fifteen pieces containing the most im…
3 years, 2 months ago