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• Paul McCartney went back to Liverpool for something new to say

  Boys of Dungeon Lane, McCartney's collaboration with producer Andrew Watt, arrived when McCartney was 83 and and he came out swinging: the opening track greets listeners with a dissonant, unresolved guitar chord that sets the album's...

  9 jun 2026 2528 sec.

• How a sci-fi dystopia became a personal utopia (ft. Arc Iris)

  A sci-fi ballet imagined a 2080 where AI strips people of purpose, and the day before its New York premiere, an actual dystopia arrived. Arc Iris, the trio of Jocie Adams, Zach Tenorio and Ray Belli, built iTMRW as a concept record...

  5 jun 2026 782 sec.

• Why bands give us purpose (ft. MUNA)

  A culture that rewards easily consumable individual identities produces plenty of pop stars and almost no bands. A significant exception: MUNA, the trio of Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin, and Naomi McPherson. MUNA treats the band as a...

  2 jun 2026 3139 sec.

• Drake's Slop Era

  Canada’s favorite export Drake is back! This month, the Toronto singer-rapper extraordinaire released three albums simultaneously: the long-anticipated return to form Iceman, the sultry, R&B Habibti and the pop-focused, clubby Maid of...

  26 mei 2026 3345 sec.

• Kacey Musgraves walks country’s borderlands

  Kacey Musgraves' album Middle of Nowhere finds the country outlaw taking a break from exploring her inner life to look outward, back to her roots: the regional stylings of Texas. She says the album was inspired by a sign in her hometown...

  19 mei 2026 2351 sec.

• Rostam reimagines American music

  The pedal steel and the saz both live in the spaces between equal-tempered notes, and that gap is where Rostam built American Stories. Rostam joined Vampire Weekend at Columbia in 2006, produced the band's first three albums, and after...

  15 mei 2026 3249 sec.

• Eurovision is back – but not without controversy

  The flowers are blooming and the calendar says May. That can only mean one thing: the Eurovision Song Contest is upon us once again. This year, thirty-five countries face off to determine the best song that Europe and adjacent...

  12 mei 2026 3275 sec.

• Samara Cyn is rap's best new writer

  How do you write a rap verse that's clever without saying so? Samara Cyn, one of the sharpest young writers in hip-hop, joins us to talk about Detour, her new EP about going analog. We get into wordplay versus narrative, the Missy...

  8 mei 2026 2254 sec.

• Olivia Rodrigo and the second verse massacre

  Olivia Rodrigo's chart-topping new single "drop dead," the lead single from her forthcoming third album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, breaks one of pop's oldest rules by abandoning the traditional second verse and replacing...

  5 mei 2026 2655 sec.

• Hrishikesh Hirway made an album about running out of time — in no time

  Hrishikesh Hirway, host of Song Exploder, returns with his first album in fifteen years, In the Last Hour of Light, made under a premise that's almost contradictory for a podcaster built around isolated stems: session players who had...

  28 apr 2026 2592 sec.

• BTS is back. But K Pop is not the same.

  BTS is back. The best selling K Pop group of all time has been on hiatus for four years. They haven’t released an album in six. They were once the biggest band in the world. Can they regain their throne? Or has the world moved on....

  21 apr 2026 2909 sec.

• Maggie Rogers: going viral is a trap

  Ten years ago, Maggie Rogers was a senior at NYU, scrambling to finish a song for a music production class she was close to failing. The guest critic that week happened to be Pharrell Williams. She played him "Alaska," a track she'd...

  17 apr 2026 2256 sec.