The Joy of Music Festivals
For the past two weeks, our series on summer music festivals has uncovered the interplay of festival fashion and music and examined festival subcultures. But we've so far overlooked an essential reaso...
24 Aug 202127min
The Beauty and Horror of Insane Clown Posse's Summer Festival
The Gathering of the Juggalos is the music festival centered around the rap duo Insane Clown Posse. Their songs are hyper-violent and profane; their stage show features grotesque clown makeup and blas...
17 Aug 202135min
How Coachella took the Woodstock look
The co-hosts of The Cut, Jazmin Aguilera and B.A. Parker, think deeply and incisively about fashion. For this special episode of Switched on Pop — the first in our three-part miniseries about summer f...
10 Aug 202125min
Modern Classics: Mark Ronson on Ginuwine's "Pony"
Mark Ronson has a CV too long to list here. Suffice to say he’s a musician who’s worked with everyone from Amy Winehouse to Lady Gaga to Dua Lipa, has one of the highest selling singles of all time wi...
3 Aug 202138min
Summer Hits: Jack Antonoff on Bleachers “Stop Making This Hurt”
We’ve been wanting to speak with Jack Antonoff since we started Switched On Pop back in 2014. We've had countless hours of conversation sound tracked to his productions with artists like Taylor Swift,...
30 Jul 202141min
Modern Classics: Yola on Childish Gambino’s “Redbone” and the Longevity of Soul
In this installment of Modern Classics we speak to the amazing four-time Grammy Nominee musician, singer and songwriter Yola about her new record, Stand For Myself, and how hearing Childish Gambino’s ...
27 Jul 202133min
The Appealing Uneasiness of Listening to L’Rain (Live at JBL)
L’Rain is the musical persona of singer and multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek, whose new album, Fatigue, begins with a lyrical quandary: “What have you done to change?” What follows is a journey of se...
23 Jul 202126min
Summer Hits: City Girls - Twerkulator (with Kyra Gaunt)
One of the songs we anticipate playing on repeat this summer is “Twerkulator” by Miami rap duo City Girls. It’s a track with enough sonic energy to power a small town, but that’s not all we dig. The s...
20 Jul 202124min
