Hit Parade’s producer joins Chris Molanphy for a 2021 recap: favorite episodes from Bruce to Brenda, and airing of grievances. Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Stitcher Overcast TuneIn RSS Feed For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable javascript to [...] Read more

A festive retrospective on the artists whose holiday hits outperform the rest of their catalog combined. View Transcript View Transcript Advertisement Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Stitcher Overcast TuneIn RSS Feed For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable javascript [...] Read more

Stereogum’s Rachel Brodsky joins Chris Molanphy to talk about how The Bangles and their pop peers survived the ’80s. Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Stitcher Overcast TuneIn RSS Feed For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable javascript to get your [...] Read more

Cyndi Lauper, the Bangles, and Aimee Mann fought ’80s sexism while riding the major-label rollercoaster. View Transcript View Transcript Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Stitcher Overcast TuneIn RSS Feed For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable javascript to get [...] Read more

Author and emo expert Andy Greenwald joins Chris Molanphy to discuss how emo engulfed everything from punk to indie to rap. Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts TuneIn Spotify Stitcher Overcast RSS Feed Amazon Music For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable javascript [...] Read more

The pop-punk and emo boom of the ’90s and ’00s shows how punk keeps selling out and buying in. Advertisement Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts TuneIn Spotify Stitcher Overcast RSS Feed Amazon Music For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable javascript to [...] Read more

Ann Powers joins Chris Molanphy for a retrospective of 1971, from its foundational music to its social movements. Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts TuneIn Spotify Stitcher Overcast RSS Feed Amazon Music For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please enable javascript to get your [...] Read more

Did the music 50 years ago really “change everything”? How a new generation of singer-songwriters rebooted the charts. View Transcript View Transcript Advertisement Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts TuneIn Spotify Stitcher Overcast RSS Feed Amazon Music For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Please [...] Read more

Chris Molanphy quizzes Slate staffers on the chart hits of the 1970s, from Elton to Stevie, Carole to Donna. Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts TuneIn Spotify Stitcher Overcast RSS Feed Amazon Music For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. <p class="slate-notification--error podcast-how-to-listen__notification">Please enable javascript [...] Read more

Chris Molanphy and Caryn Rose discuss Bruce Springsteen’s artistry and whether he tried to evade pop success. Read more