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The Bridge: Learn How to Face It, She’s Gone

28 January 202229 January 2022

Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine helps us track the winding byways of Hall & Oates’s hitmaking career—and we bid farewell to our producer. 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 [...] Read more

Culturebox Slate

How Meat Loaf Became Music’s Most Unlikely Megaseller

21 January 202223 January 2022

The theatrical, thunderous singer was the perfect partner for the man behind the curtain. A little over 50 years ago, in the early summer of 1971, a pair of singers who’d gotten their big break in the roadshow version of the musical Hair made their debut on the Billboard charts. The duo’s breakthrough hit, “What [...] Read more

Hit Parade Slate

Hit Parade: Rock ’n Soul Edition

15 January 202229 January 2022

Hall and Oates took a decade to find their sound, created their own ’80s genre and made their dreams come true. 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 [...] Read more

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The Bridge: Jingle Bells?

31 December 202123 January 2022

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

Slate The Music Club

Music Club 2021: Emo is back, with a zillennial-tinged vengeance.

22 December 202123 January 2022

In Slate’s annual Music Club, Slate critic Carl Wilson emails about the year in music with fellow critics — featuring New York Times contributor Lindsay Zoladz, freelance writer Briana Younger, NPR music critic Ann Powers, Glitter Up the Dark author Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork contributing editor Jenn Pelly, WXNP Nashville editorial director Jewly Hight, Penguin Books author Julianne [...] Read more

Hit Parade Slate

Hit Parade: Chestnut Roasters Edition

18 December 202123 January 2022

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

Slate Why Is This Song No. 1?

Why the Year’s Most Popular Song Never Went to No. 1

6 December 202123 January 2022

Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” is Billboard’s top song of 2021, even though it never topped the Hot 100. Chart historians rank 1965 among pop’s greatest years. An amazing array of totemic songs topped Billboard’s Hot 100 that year. Five straight No. 1s by the Beatles—a sweep from “I Feel Fine” through “Yesterday”—and the first two by [...] Read more

Hit Parade Slate

The Bridge: Sexism’s Eternal Flame

3 December 202123 January 2022

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

Slate Why Is This Song No. 1?

Did Taylor Swift Just Make Billboard Chart History?

25 November 202126 November 2021

She’s given The Beatles and Don McLean a 10-minute run for their money. “So, are you gonna be writing about Bob Dylan’s No. 1 song?” my rather giddy father asked me on the phone one day, a little over a year and a half ago. “Isn’t that what you write about?” I had to patiently [...] Read more

Hit Parade Slate

Hit Parade: Be the One to Walk in the Sun Edition

20 November 202123 January 2022

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