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And the Grammy goes to…
Jan 27, 2026The ultimate gauntlet of popular music is upon us once again: it's Grammy season, and this year, the competition is pretty tight across the board. Big ticket A-listers like Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpente...
Robyn’s new songs bring “drum 'n' grace” to the dance floor
Jan 21, 2026Swedish pop star Robyn emerged as a phenomenon in the mid 1990s, an ingenue whose work with Max Martin presaged the R&B crossover hits of acts like Britney and the Backstreet Boys. Since her debut, sh...
Audrey Hobert says the quiet part out loud
Jan 13, 2026Two years ago, Audrey Hobert had never written a song. She was a staff writer on a Nickelodeon series and had recently moved in with her childhood friend Gracie Abrams in Los Angeles. About six months...
2026 Pop Predictions: big beat, animated avatars, and Bruno Mars
Jan 06, 2026It’s a brand new year, and what better way to ring it in than with the second annual Switched On Pop bingo? Like last year, Charlie, Nate, and Reanna polish their crystal balls and play Popstradamus, ...
The Sound of Silence from Unexplainable
Dec 30, 2025A scientist asked people to sit in a silent room for 15 minutes. Almost half of them decided to give themselves a painful electric shock instead. What is it about our brains that makes our relationshi...
Naughty or nice? The 2025 holiday music round up
Dec 23, 2025Every Christmas season, pop stars far and wide throw their Santa hats into the ring to see who has the next "All I Want for Christmas Is You," and this year is no exception. It's a yearly tradition on...
The year that killed music (best and worst of 2025)
Dec 16, 2025From big-ticket albums by Taylor and Gaga, to a revival of the stomp-clap revival – 2025 had it all, for better and for worse. Now that the year has come to a close, it's time to take a look back at t...
Why pop songwriters break the rules (ft. Amy Allen)
Dec 12, 2025Grammy-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"...
How Sombr’s bedroom recordings became his biggest hits
Dec 09, 2025Sombr 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 ...
"It’s a Hail Mary every time" (ft. Marc Rebillet)
Dec 02, 2025When 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, t...