Beyoncé's Country
Renaissance Act II truthers, your time has come: There’s new music from Beyoncé, and boy, is it country. Her two new singles dropped two weeks ago, and in the time since, they’ve both climbed up the c...
27 Feb 202444min
Adult Contemporary, but make it cool (with CHROMEO)
The Canadian Electro-Funk duo CHROMEO have made consistently funky, highly danceable music for twenty years. They’ve released five studios albums, done the Coachella festival circuit and have been nom...
20 Feb 202429min
The Star Spangled Banger!
Who is the biggest Diva of them all? The U.S. National Anthem, which borrows its melody from a historic British drinking song, has undergone enormous musical change in the hands of pop music vocalists...
13 Feb 202453min
Brittany Howard's Chaos Theory (with Brittany Howard)
When it comes to powerful artistry, few can match the intensity of Brittany Howard. Over the past decade, we’ve seen her bring her signature Southern belt to the Alabama Shakes, her intimate songwriti...
6 Feb 202435min
The b*tch of loving musical theater (with Bridger Winegar)
When it comes to musical theater, everyone has an opinion. And Bridger Winegar, host of the very funny podcast I Said No Gifts!, is no exception. In the paradoxical tradition of Bridger's podcast, Cha...
30 Jan 202445min
Kali Uchis takes on the world
Colombian-American singer Kali Uchis has cemented herself as something of a vibe curator; her signature genre fusion has brought forward everything from Latin radio mainstays to Bootsy Collins collabo...
23 Jan 202436min
Soundalikes: Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande
We live in an age of musical nostalgia where artists wear influences on their sleaves. Case in point, two established artists who are drawing from established pop music history: Lil Nas X's "J. Christ...
16 Jan 202438min
The case of the missing vocals, and other listener questions
All throughout the year, Switched on Pop gets a litany of musical questions that need answering. To kick off 2024, hosts Charlie and Nate answer some of these questions live on air! From the renewed i...
9 Jan 202446min
