Beschikbare afleveringen

• Why pop songwriters break the rules (ft. Amy Allen)

  Grammy-winning songwriter Amy Allen joins NYU Steinhardt students live to trace her path from early pitch songs to co-writing some of the decade's defining hits. She explains why Halsey's "Without Me" needed an extended chorus but no...

  12 dec 2025 3430 sec.

• How Sombr’s bedroom recordings became his biggest hits

  Sombr went from crafting raw, reverb soaked songs alone in his Lower East Side bedroom to finding his life shifting in ways he never could have predicted across 2024 and 2025. His biggest tracks kept their imperfections even as world...

  9 dec 2025 2361 sec.

• "It’s a Hail Mary every time" (ft. Marc Rebillet)

  When it comes to improvisational loop jams, few have gone as viral as Marc Rebillet. From his 2020 lockdown-era video “How to Funk in Two Minutes,” which features him wearing nothing but a bathrobe, to unsuspecting New York street...

  2 dec 2025 3109 sec.

• Quitting Spotify (ft. Deerhoof)

  In June 2025, indie veterans Deerhoof scrubbed their entire catalog from the world’s dominant streaming platform. The catalyst wasn't low royalties, but Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military technology through his...

  25 nov 2025 2652 sec.

• Is there a Disney curse?: Demi, Selena, and Miley

  This year, there were a few records that delivered less-than-optimal returns on either the Hot 100 or the Billboard 200 – and they all came from former Disney pop stars.  Demi Lovato’s latest album peaked at number nine on the...

  18 nov 2025 2886 sec.

• Rosalía's 'LUX' brings the symphony to the club

  Spanish pop star Rosalía is back with her new album, Lux. Over eighteen tracks, she trades in the dembow beats that filled her last record Motomami for maximalist orchestral sounds more in line with Björk than Bad Bunny.  The album is...

  11 nov 2025 2642 sec.

• Lily Allen and Tate McRae revive the revenge anthem

  They say the best revenge is living well, but if you’re a pop star going through a break up, that’s false. The best revenge is releasing a searing scorched-earth revenge banger that calls out your ex and, ideally, rides that vengeance...

  4 nov 2025 2030 sec.

• Can “professor” Charlie Puth pass our qualifying exam?

  Charlie Puth breaks down his new single "Changes," a maximalist eighties production hiding a melancholy story about drifting friendships. As he prepares for fatherhood, the singer-songwriter reflects on how relationships evolve from...

  28 okt 2025 2307 sec.

• How D'Angelo changed music, in three songs

  On October 14th, the visionary musician D’Angelo passed away at 51 years old. Only releasing three albums during his lifetime, he synthesized influences from gospel, jazz, rock, and hip-hop to create a singular and transcendent sound...

  21 okt 2025 2225 sec.

• What do John C. Reilly and Taylor Swift have in common? The Great American Songbook

  John C. Reilly joins to discuss Mr. Romantic, his theatrical tribute to the Great American Songbook that treats Irving Berlin and Tom Waits as equals in the canon of timeless American song. Reilly recorded live in one room with his band...

  14 okt 2025 3432 sec.

• Taylor Swift’s Showgirl Sound: How to actually listen to the album

  Taylor Swift's twelfth album has sparked endless speculation about who each song is "really about," but that might be the wrong question entirely. The Life of a Showgirl isn’t biography, it’s polyphonic auto-fiction, where Swift writes...

  7 okt 2025 4168 sec.

• The Power of the Trio (ft. Trousdale live at USC)

  There's no lead singer in Trousdale. The trio of Quinn D'Andrea, Georgia Greene, and Lauren Jones, has shared vocal duties equally since they started singing together as students at the University of Southern California's Thornton...

  3 okt 2025 2919 sec.