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| Title | Date published | ||
| A Decade of Drill Rap | 2022-05-08 | ||
| Machine Gun Kelly’s Pop-Punk Pivot | 2022-04-27 | ||
| Will Smith, Before the Slap | 2022-04-21 | ||
| The 2022 Grammys: Let’s Discuss | 2022-04-05 | ||
| Charli XCX’s Ever-Evolving Pop | 2022-03-30 | ||
| The Many Worlds of Rosalía | 2022-03-23 | ||
| The Sounds of Ukrainian Pop | 2022-03-15 | ||
| Reggaeton’s Global Expansion and Wide-Open Future | 2022-03-08 | ||
| The Enigma of Big Thief | 2022-03-02 | ||
| Remembering Betty Davis, a Futuristic Funk Force | 2022-02-23 | ||
| Mitski, In and Out of the Spotlight | 2022-02-16 | ||
| Spotify’s Ongoing Joe Rogan Problem | 2022-02-09 | ||
| Remembering Greg Tate, Critic and Catalyst | 2022-02-01 | ||
| A Killing Jolts Sweden’s Rap Scene | 2022-01-26 | ||
| What’s Left for the Weeknd to Conquer? | 2022-01-18 | ||
| 2021 in Jazz: Intimacy and Conversation | 2022-01-12 | ||
| Bonus Episode: Lana Del Rey’s American Fever Dreams | 2022-01-01 | ||
| What We Forgot to Talk About in 2021 | 2021-12-28 | ||
| TikTok’s Music Critics Reflect on 2021 | 2021-12-21 | ||
| The Best Albums of 2021? Let’s Discuss. | 2021-12-14 |