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Music only the World Cup could make

June 30, 2026 2:00am 38 min

The quadrennial soccer (or fútbol, depending who you talk to) competition is upon us again: it's the FIFA World Cup! And while the World Cup is a sporting event, it's still relevant to the folks at Switched On Pop, becau...

Why we can't resist Swedish pop (ft. Zara Larsson) ICYMI

June 22, 2026 11:00pm 44 min

In case you missed it:How does a country of 10 million people dominate the global pop charts? From ABBA's Eurovision breakthrough to Max Martin's methodical hit-making, Sweden has quietly engineered a kind of musical Sto...

2hollis is the underground’s genre-hopping vampire

June 18, 2026 4:01am 33 min

In the last episode of our feral pop miniseries, we take a look at the 22 year old rapper primed to take over the world: 2hollis. Splitting the difference between hardstyle and hip-hop while emanating an aura best descri...

Pop music for an internet-pilled generation

June 17, 2026 4:01am 26 min

This week on Switched On Pop, we’re looking at all things feral pop, the microgenre that takes pop music to its most wild extremes. And no feral pop artist is more tapped into that ethos than underscores. Her music synth...

The new wave of pop is here, and it’s feral

June 16, 2026 4:04am 32 min

What would it sound like if pop music was reverted to its most wild state of being? It would sound hyper-digital, influenced by the electronic vanguard of the 2010s, and speak to a post-genre audience. And while the char...

Olivia Rodrigo has The Cure for sadness

June 15, 2026 11:38am 43 min

Olivia Rodrigo is back with her third studio album, you seem pretty sad for a girl in love. As the title might suggest, it’s a deeply personal affair, with moody soundscapes supporting hyper-detailed lyrics of soul-wrenc...

Paul McCartney went back to Liverpool for something new to say

June 09, 2026 4:01am 42 min

Boys of Dungeon Lane, McCartney's collaboration with producer Andrew Watt, arrived when McCartney was 83 and and he came out swinging: the opening track greets listeners with a dissonant, unresolved guitar chord that set...

How a sci-fi dystopia became a personal utopia (ft. Arc Iris)

June 05, 2026 5:10pm 12 min

A sci-fi ballet imagined a 2080 where AI strips people of purpose, and the day before its New York premiere, an actual dystopia arrived.Arc Iris, the trio of Jocie Adams, Zach Tenoriom and Ray Belli, built iTMRW as a con...

MUNA's end of the world dance party

June 02, 2026 2:00am 53 min

A culture that rewards easily consumable individual identities produces plenty of pop stars and almost no bands. A significant exception: MUNA, the trio of Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin, and Naomi McPherson. MUNA treats th...

Drake's Slop Era

May 26, 2026 2:30pm 55 min

Canada’s favorite export Drake is back! This month, the Toronto singer-rapper extraordinaire released three albums simultaneously: the long-anticipated return to form Iceman, the sultry, R&B Habibti and the pop-focused, ...

Kacey Musgraves walks country’s borderlands

May 19, 2026 2:00am 40 min

Kacey 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 was inspired by a sign...

Two countries at war. Rostam’s 'American Stories' belongs to both.

May 15, 2026 5:08pm 55 min

The 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 band's first three alb...

Eurovision is back – but not without controversy

May 12, 2026 4:01am 57 min

The 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 song that Europe and ad...

Samara Cyn is rap's best new writer

May 08, 2026 10:32am 38 min

How 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 wordplay versus narrative,...

Olivia Rodrigo and the second verse massacre

May 05, 2026 2:00am 49 min

Olivia 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 traditional second ver...

Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.

April 28, 2026 2:00am 48 min

Hrishikesh 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 isolated stems: session pl...

BTS is back. But K Pop is not the same.

April 21, 2026 4:00am 48 min

BTS 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 throne? Or has the world...

Ten years of "Alaska": Maggie Rogers on going viral and singing for 200,000 protestors

April 17, 2026 12:00pm 39 min

Ten 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 played him "Alaska," a...

Learning to Love Train: "Drops of Jupiter" is back in the atmosphere

April 14, 2026 4:00am 47 min

Train 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." Released in 2001, the...

Slayyyter might actually be the 'Worst Girl in America'

April 07, 2026 3:59am 39 min

Going 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 planning to make one fi...

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