538 Episodes

  1. How Gossip Is Remaking Online Hip-Hop Media

    Published: 5/18/2022

  2. Why We Collect

    Published: 5/11/2022

  3. A Decade of Drill Rap

    Published: 5/8/2022

  4. Machine Gun Kelly’s Pop-Punk Pivot

    Published: 4/27/2022

  5. Will Smith, Before the Slap

    Published: 4/21/2022

  6. The 2022 Grammys: Let’s Discuss

    Published: 4/5/2022

  7. Charli XCX’s Ever-Evolving Pop

    Published: 3/30/2022

  8. The Many Worlds of Rosalía

    Published: 3/23/2022

  9. The Sounds of Ukrainian Pop

    Published: 3/15/2022

  10. Reggaeton’s Global Expansion and Wide-Open Future

    Published: 3/8/2022

  11. The Enigma of Big Thief

    Published: 3/2/2022

  12. Remembering Betty Davis, a Futuristic Funk Force

    Published: 2/23/2022

  13. Mitski, In and Out of the Spotlight

    Published: 2/16/2022

  14. Spotify’s Ongoing Joe Rogan Problem

    Published: 2/9/2022

  15. Remembering Greg Tate, Critic and Catalyst

    Published: 2/1/2022

  16. A Killing Jolts Sweden’s Rap Scene

    Published: 1/26/2022

  17. What’s Left for the Weeknd to Conquer?

    Published: 1/18/2022

  18. 2021 in Jazz: Intimacy and Conversation

    Published: 1/12/2022

  19. Bonus Episode: Lana Del Rey’s American Fever Dreams

    Published: 1/1/2022

  20. What We Forgot to Talk About in 2021

    Published: 12/28/2021

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The Popcast is hosted by Jon Caramanica, a pop music critic for The New York Times. It covers the latest in popular music criticism, trends and news. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.