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How Charlie Puth honored Whitney Houston for 125 million people (live at Berklee NYC)
Apr 03, 2026Charlie Puth joins Switched On Pop in Studio A at Power Station at Berklee NYC, live before a room of current students, ten days after performing the national anthem at Super Bowl 60 and weeks before ...
RAYE’s maximalist masterpiece is the hope we need
Mar 31, 2026RAYE names Amy Winehouse and Edith Piaf as her artistic predecessors on the opening tracks of new album This Music May Contain Hope. Both died young, undone by the same darkness they sang about, and p...
Where have all the white rappers gone?
Mar 24, 2026On a recent podcast interview, Kentucky rapper Jack Harlow said that, to craft his new album Monica, he “got blacker.” The problem is… Jack Harlow is white. The statement, while extremely tone-deaf, s...
Jacob Collier can make anyone sing
Mar 17, 2026Jacob Collier is a rare musician: an expert in so many musical languages (western harmony, negative harmony, microtonalism) and a phenomenal communicator about music. He's something like an Ambassador...
Harry Styles loses himself to dance
Mar 10, 2026The dance floor is where Harry Styles does his therapy, and this album is the session notes. Four years after Harry's House, Styles returns with Kiss All the Time, Disco Occasionally, a record built f...
Can Bruno Mars counterprogram his way to another hit album?
Mar 03, 2026Bruno Mars is back with a new album called The Romantic, his first solo release since 2016’s 24k Magic. At first listen, the lead single, “I Just Might,” sounds like an outtake from 2021’s collaborati...
Charli XCX’s "Wuthering Heights" fever dream
Feb 24, 2026Emerald Fennell's new adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 gothic romance "Wuthering Heights" is the most talked-about film of the year. But for pop lovers, the soundtrack is the real event: Charli xcx, ...
Will Sinners do for blues what O Brother did for bluegrass?
Feb 17, 2026It's the middle of award season, and Ryan Coogler's ode to the Black music canon Sinners has emerged as the Oscars frontrunner and the most nominated film in Academy Awards history. The love the movie...
Jazz is A$AP Rocky’s secret weapon
Feb 10, 2026A$AP Rocky’s latest album, Don’t Be Dumb, is a wild ride through a cacophony of sounds — punk, industrial, drum ‘n’ bass, indie rock, and of course, hip hop. But on one track, “Robbery,” he and the ri...
Does humor belong in music?
Feb 03, 2026What makes Weird Al songs so indelible? Why is Bo Burnham more than just a comic? How do the biggest pop hits make us crack up in the middle of a somber ballad? Humor is always present in music, but w...