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How John Denver got huge in Asia
Mar 07, 2023“Take Me Home, Country Roads” is a song about West Virginia, but its message of homecoming has resonance far beyond Appalachia. Songwriter and producer Ian Fitchuk found this out when he was requested...
Chartbreakers: Jersey Club, Complicated Country, and 50s Crooners
Feb 28, 2023Currently on Billboard’s hot 100 there is an unexpected UK Garage / Jersey House mashup, a disgraced country star making a questionable comeback, and an out of nowhere fifties ballad all jockeying for...
Five years later, the legacy of Nipsey Hussle's "Victory Lap"
Feb 22, 2023Five years ago, Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hussle released Victory Lap, his only full length album. It was the high point of a career stretching back to the mid 2000s, when Hussle started releasing mix...
“Flowers” and the art of the response song
Feb 14, 2023“Flowers” by Miley Cyrus is spending another week on top of the Billboard 100 – quite fitting for Valentine’s Day. The disco-country track has gotten people talking for a few reasons, but most notabl...
Rihanna Party! ICYMI
Feb 12, 2023In case you missed it, “Rihanna Is The 21st Century’s Most Influential Musician” according to NPR. Millions and millions of fans the world over agree, and while we try to avoid overt expressions of po...
The L.A. guitar shop that reinvented indie folk
Feb 07, 2023In 2010, a photographer named Reuben Cox moved to Los Angeles to start Old Style Guitar Shop. In the years since, the instruments that he continues to repair and sell have come to define the sound of ...
A History of Whammies at the Grammys - Into It with Sam Sanders
Feb 02, 2023It's Grammys weekend and Sam Sanders, host of Vulture's Into It podcast, is ready for disappointment! Sam is joined by Switched on Pop's Charlie Harding and Reanna Cruz to break down the Grammys' hist...
Wonders: Bobby McFerrin
Jan 31, 2023In 1988, Bobby McFerrin recorded a song a cappella with a simple message: not to worry, and just enjoy life. That song, aptly titled “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” topped the charts and become one of the mo...
The New Wave of Paramore
Jan 24, 2023Six years after their last record, Paramore is back with new music, and their upcoming record seems to have an uncanny connection to the era of new wave. But what is “new wave” anyway? Is it just a pe...
Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20
Jan 20, 2023Streaming feels like it's both at its height and on a precipice. Musicians are fed up at getting paid fractions of a penny, and the whole business model seems precarious. Switched On Pop co-host Charl...