Charlie Harding 9/20/22 Charlie Harding 9/20/22

Lady Gaga & The Pequeños Monstruos

How Lady Gaga uses Latin influence to engage with her Latinx audience

Charlie Harding 9/13/22 Charlie Harding 9/13/22

Invasion of the Vibe Snatchers

Why do so many songs sound familiar? Because the number of chart topping interpolations — songs built off of old hits — has roughly doubled in the five years. It’s everywhere and you can’t escape it.

Nate Sloan 8/30/22 Nate Sloan 8/30/22

Learning to love the Killers (maybe)

Listening with open ears to the bands that confound us

Charlie Harding 8/23/22 Charlie Harding 8/23/22

K-Pop Chartbreakers: BLACKPINK, Girls’ Generation, NewJeans, IVE

Breaking down the K-pop charts: BLACKPINK, Girls’ Generation, NewJeans, IVE

Charlie Harding 8/16/22 Charlie Harding 8/16/22

Demi Lovato Searches for "Substance" In Pop-Punk Perfection

2022 finds Demi Lovato traveling back in time to the sound of the late 90’s and early 2000’s: pop-punk.

Charlie Harding 8/9/22 Charlie Harding 8/9/22

The ‘Renaissance’ Era

Sam Sanders discusses how Renaissance honors dance music innovators and finds new modes of expression in the genre.

Nate Sloan 8/2/22 Nate Sloan 8/2/22

"It's About Damn Time" for Another Lizzo #1

Lizzo channels retro soul and responds to fan feedback on her latest album

Charlie Harding 7/26/22 Charlie Harding 7/26/22

Elvis, Big Mama Thornton, Doja Cat, and the Long Legacy of “Hound Dog”

Baz Luhrmann’s hit box office hit biopic Elvis has spurred new interest in the music of The King.

Nate Sloan 7/18/22 Nate Sloan 7/18/22

We Won’t Go Back: Pop Music and the Fight For Reproductive Rights (w MILCK and Ann Powers)

Musicians speak out—and sing out—on the repeal of Roe v Wade

Charlie Harding 7/12/22 Charlie Harding 7/12/22

Harry Styles and the Sledgehammer Horns

Harry Styles’s latest album brings back the power and pomp of the 80s brass section

Charlie Harding 6/28/22 Charlie Harding 6/28/22

Beyoncé’s House

Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul” is an ode to liberation and tribute to the pioneers of house.

Nate Sloan 6/21/22 Nate Sloan 6/21/22

Robert Glasper on jazz, basketball, and his score for "Winning Time"

The polymath pianist breaks down Coltrane and Kareem

Charlie Harding 6/16/22 Charlie Harding 6/16/22

Scoring Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein

Why 80s films sounded so cheesy, but Stranger Things does not

Charlie Harding 6/14/22 Charlie Harding 6/14/22

Kate Bush, Stranger Things, and a hit song four decades in the making

Why "Running Up That Hill" is doing better in 2022 than 1985

Charlie Harding 6/7/22 Charlie Harding 6/7/22

So your song went viral on TikTok. What’s next?

1500 songs went viral on TikTok in 2020, did the platform really change what we listen to?

Nate Sloan 5/31/22 Nate Sloan 5/31/22

The 1980s jam that gave Latto and Mariah Carey Big D*** Energy

How Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" powered decades of pop hits

Charlie Harding 5/24/22 Charlie Harding 5/24/22

Kendrick Lamar and the big samples

The samples on Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers aren’t used just for their sound, in many cases they unlock the song’s meaning.

Charlie Harding 5/17/22 Charlie Harding 5/17/22

Modern Classics: PJ Morton made Nas’s Stevie Wonder dream come true

Revered keyboardist and songwriter PJ Morton spoke with Switched On Pop about what it's like to work with his heroes and to share overlooked modern classics from Stevie and NAS catalogue.