Preaching to the Chorus EPISODE 489 The chorus was once the part of the song that brought us together, the place we gathered to sing. Now it's the most engineered thirty seconds in music. Legendary producer Trevor Horn and hip-hop icon B-Real of Cypress H... See more
Let’s get it started EPISODE 486 Research says you judge a song in under half a second. So why write an intro at all? On this episode of Switched on Pop, Charlie and Nate kick off their Netflix launch and probe what an intro means in today's musical lands... See more
“It’s funny, because when you asked, ‘Could it happen again?’ my thought was, Would I wish it on anybody? ” Ten years ago, Maggie Rogers was a senior at NYU, scrambling to finish a song for a music-production class she was close to failing. The guest crit... See more
How Charlie Puth honored Whitney Houston for 125 million people (live at Berklee NYC) EPISODE Charlie Puth joins Switched On Pop in Studio A at Power Station at Berklee NYC, live before a room of current students, ten days after performing the national an... See more
RAYE’s maximalist masterpiece is the hope we need EPISODE 465 RAYE names Amy Winehouse and Edith Piaf as her artistic predecessors on the opening tracks of new album This Music May Contain Hope. Both died young, undone by the same darkness they sang about... See more
