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Return Of The Guitar: Halsey, 5 Seconds of Summer, Joji
In 2019 guitar made a comeback in the top 10. According to analysis from Hit Songs Deconstructed, about a third of all songs featured the electric gu…
6 years, 1 month ago
Look At Selena Gomez Now with Justin Tranter & Ian Kirkpatrick
Selena Gomez has her first #1 song on the Hot 100. “Lose You To Love Me” is a confessional look at her past five years of heartbreak and health chall…
6 years, 1 month ago
Five Directions: How do the solo efforts of One Direction stack up?
The boy band One Direction has been on hiatus for nearly five years, yet only now have all of the members of the group released a solo album. But how…
6 years, 1 month ago
Post Malone has us Running in Circles
Post Malone has confounded your hosts since he emerged on the scene, so this week we sit down to try and get to the bottom of our cycles of attractio…
6 years, 1 month ago
Hopes and Fears of Mac Miller, Future, Drake, and Billie Eilish
Mac Miller, Future and Billie Eilish all have good and bad news to share. On Miller’s posthumous album, Circles, he exposes personal struggles with f…
6 years, 1 month ago
Dua Lipa’s Disco Fever
Dua Lipa remembers the disco era in her hit “Don’t Start Now.” What may sound like just another dance floor track, upon deeper listening unfolds as a…
6 years, 2 months ago
ICYMI: Chance The Rapper, Kehlani, & The Shifting Sound of R&B — with Oak Felder
The sound of R&B is difficult to pin down. Since the 1950s, the label has been used both as a genre and as a catch-all for the entirety of black popu…
6 years, 2 months ago
ICYMI: Billie Eilish is a Different Kind of Pop Star (ft. FINNEAS)
On a trajectory to be one of the biggest pop stars for this generation, seventeen year old Billie Eilish is not, however, your typical pop star. Her …
6 years, 2 months ago
Dolly Parton's America (with Jad Abumrad)
There are icons, and then there’s Dolly Parton. The country singer-turned-actress-turned-cultural phenomenon has produced a nearly unparalleled body …
6 years, 2 months ago
Who's Afraid of the Sound of TikTok? (w Cat Zhang)
Bass distorted to the edge of audibility; voices croaking out dark and violent lyrics; a hacked-together DIY aesthetic. This isn't a fringe musical m…
6 years, 3 months ago