October 2023 - Chris Molanphy

Author and New York venues historian Jesse Rifkin says CBGB spawned punk because it let bands make mistakes. View Transcript Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Stitcher Amazon Music Overcast TuneIn RSS Feed For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable javascript to [...] Read more

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Why Is a 4-Year-Old Taylor Swift Song No. 1?

27 October 202329 October 2023

How “Cruel Summer” assumed its rightful place at the top of the charts. What do you get for the woman who already has everything—a billion-dollar-grossing tour, the keys to several cities, a smash movie, a strapping boyfriend? Some collectors are completists about their Beanie Babies or their Dickens first editions. But the perfect matched set [...] Read more

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Hit Parade: This Ain’t No Party?! Edition

14 October 202329 October 2023

How the first wave of CBGB punks became Billboard popstars, reshaping their knotty thrash into catchy bops. View Transcript View Transcript Advertisement Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Stitcher Amazon Music Overcast TuneIn RSS Feed For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable [...] Read more