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MAILBAG!!
EPISODE!!!

send your most enthused, fraught, bizarre, unsolveable questions and @joecoscarelli and I will grapple with them

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How Do You Preserve a Vanishing Music Scene? Five recent books collect photographs, memories and ephemera from the hardcore band Agnostic Front, the mysterious dance artist Aphex Twin, the rap collective Odd Future and more.

wrote about some beautiful new books that lovingly reassemble the faded histories of Liquid Sky, Agnostic Front, early Odd Future, Aphex Twin, and ... Chief Keef's Instagram

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/a...

How Music Took Over This Year’s Oscars On Popcast, a conversation about the smooth and bumpy ways that the Academy Awards incorporated music into its 97th annual ceremony on Sunday.

POPCAST!
on music at the Oscars w/ Joe Coscarelli
Cynthia/Ariana ... my guy from YUCK ... a silent Timothée ... Conan wants smoke ... finally listening to “Emilia Pérez” & more

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/a...

YouTube video by Popcast RZA Reveals the Final Wu-Tang Clan Tour + Trying to Break ODB Out of Jail & Being Banned From Radio

RZA on POPCAST!!!
announcing the final Wu-Tang Clan tour
& talking what it takes to get everyone on board, how the Hot 97 ban reshaped rap, and what the Clan learned from going on tour with Rage Against the Machine (and then dropping out)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTjh...

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: The Peak of All Rap Battles? The first rapper to headline the N.F.L.’s biggest stage solo made his Drake diss “Not Like Us” the centerpiece of his set at the expense of a larger statement.

sometimes you gotta pop out at the super bowl

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/a...

Beyoncé, Grammy Underdog No More After nearly 20 years and 99 nominations, the star’s album of the year win for “Cowboy Carter” ends a confounding chapter in the awards’ history.

on a historic grammy win for beyoncé

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/a...

YouTube video by Popcast Will Beyoncé, Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish or Taylor Swift Win Big at the Grammys? Our Predictions!

see them all here 🤠

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4zP...

the Grammys are TONIGHT

Joe & I did predictions and pipe dreams on POPCAST

YouTube video by Popcast Will Beyoncé, Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish or Taylor Swift Win Big at the Grammys? Our Predictions!

NEW GRAMMY PREDICTIONS POPCAST!!!
in which Joe and I run down the top categories and say who will and should win

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4zP...

How LiAngelo Ball’s ‘Tweaker’ Became the Year’s First Rap Hit The N.B.A. washout LiAngelo Ball debuted his track “Tweaker” on a livestream. It’s proving to be much more than a novelty.

wrote about tweaker

whoa-oh-ohhhhhh

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/a...

YouTube video by Popcast Bad Bunny Talks ‘Most Puerto Rican’ New Album, Trump Rally Reaction, LA Paparazzi + Language Barrier

BAD BUNNY!!!!
is on
POPCAST!!!

me & joe coscarelli talking w/ benito
about digging into puerto rico's musical history, language barriers, whether he reads his own DMs and that trump rally

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFuR...