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The New Alternative
In March 2022 an unusual entry made it onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart. 90s grunge band Nirvana entered the chart for only their fifth time in histo…
3 years, 11 months ago
Jumpstarting the creative process with Allison Ponthier
Allison Ponthier knows that the hardest part of making anything is getting started. For the New York based Texan singer/songwriter, “starting the son…
3 years, 11 months ago
A Higher Power Ballad
Episode 263
There was something different about Justin Bieber’s performance of his hit song “Peaches” at the 2022 Grammy Awards. The recorded version, which spen…
3 years, 11 months ago
How sound becomes hearing
We love listening to music at a ridiculous level of detail. But the other day we heard a podcast that made us fundamentally question the accuracy and…
4 years ago
Listening 2 Britney: Gimme More
Episode 262
There’s no more iconic Britney lyric than the opening of “Gimme More.” It's 2007, four years since her last album In The Zone was released, and Britn…
4 years ago
Listening 2 Britney: Toxic
Episode 261
In 2003 Britney Spears released “Toxic,” a song that would make converts out of pop skeptics, be named one of the greatest tracks of the 21st century…
4 years ago
Listening 2 Britney: ...Baby One More Time
On a crisp Autumn morning in 1998, the world was introduced to the voice of Britney Spears, and pop would never be the same. Britney’s mix of vocal f…
4 years ago
Chartbreakers (ft. Megan Thee Stallion and the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Episode 258
Presenting Chartbreakers, in which Nate and Charlie listen to the Billboard Hot 100 chart from top to bottom and discover a TikTok controversy, a Nas…
4 years, 1 month ago
Leon Bridges and Khruangbin Sing a Song of Texas
Episode 257
Leon Bridges is the soul singer hailing from Fort Worth, Texas, who burst onto the music scene in 2015 with the album Coming Home. Since then he’s es…
4 years, 1 month ago
Shaking Out the Numb with Sylvan Esso
Episode 256
The last proper, blowout concert Charlie attended was devastatingly long ago, back in the winter of 2019. Bringing some funk to buttoned-up Walt Disn…
4 years, 1 month ago