Best New Artist Breakdown 03: 1977-1984
Disco, NuRo, and not knowing where to look during "Afternoon Delight" -- it's all part of our third episode, when we're also talking about Starman's dinner party, the mayonnaise filter, the Michael Mc...
18 Nov 20241h 5min
Best New Artist Breakdown 02: 1969-1976
We're wading into the '70s in our second ep, which includes ruminations on inessential classic rock; how Karen Carpenter and Judy Garland can take you whenever they are; holding your nose and throwing...
11 Nov 202451min
Best New Artist Breakdown 01: 1960-1968
The Best New Artist Breakdown season has begun! Instead of pitting the 64 winners of the Grammys' Best New Artist category against each other, we're talking about each year's nominees and winner in th...
4 Nov 202451min
Pop Goes The Actor 5: Operation Enduring Pop Star
Our finale finds us talking about actor/musicians with lasting pop careers: Oscar-winners (Jamie Foxx), Grammy-winners (Childish Gambino), former child stars (Hailee Steinfeld), and Jokers (Jared Leto...
7 Okt 202445min
Pop Goes The Actor 4: '80s Movie Gents
This week's crop of actor-musician hyphenates got their thespian starts in films of the 1980s: Corey Feldman, Keanu Reeves (Dogstar), Kevin Bacon (the Bacon Brothers), and Kiefer Sutherland. Copyright...
30 Sep 202441min
Pop Goes The Actor 3: Comedians
Do you love to laugh? Then fall down the ha-ha hole that is Pop Goes The Actor's third episode! This week, we're looking at comedians who tested the pop waters, including a Blues Brother, Eddie Murphy...
23 Sep 202447min
Pop Goes The Actor 2: Ladies of the Small Screen
Oh yes it's ladies' night on the second episode of Pop Goes The Actor...but IS the feeling right? Sometimes! We wend our way through copyright-compliant bugle boys of Company Wonder Woman, the adorkab...
16 Sep 202440min
Pop Goes The Actor 1: '70s Sitcoms
Pop Goes The Actor: a mini-season about thespians who tried (and sometimes succeeded at!) being pop musicians. In our premiere episode, we're talking about Jeff Conaway (Taxi), Donny Most (Happy Days)...
9 Sep 202451min
