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Kacey Musgraves walks country’s borderlands
May 19, 2026Kacey 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 wa...
Rostam reimagines American music
May 15, 2026The 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 ...
Eurovision is back – but not without controversy
May 12, 2026The 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 son...
Samara Cyn is rap's best new writer
May 08, 2026How 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 wordpl...
Olivia Rodrigo and the second verse massacre
May 05, 2026Olivia 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 tr...
Hrishikesh Hirway made an album about running out of time — in no time
Apr 28, 2026Hrishikesh 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 isolat...
BTS is back. But K Pop is not the same.
Apr 21, 2026BTS 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 thro...
Maggie Rogers: going viral is a trap
Apr 17, 2026Ten 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 pl...
Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere
Apr 14, 2026Train is the kind of band that some people love to hate. Songs like "Meet Virginia" and "Hey Soul Sister" gave the band huge hits, and no small amount of snark. And then there's "Drops of Jupiter." R...
Slayyyter might actually be the 'Worst Girl in America'
Apr 07, 2026Going for broke turned out to be the most honest thing Slayyyter ever made. After financial losses and a depressive episode that left her ready to quit music entirely, Slayyyter entered the studio pla...