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PinkPantheress Talks New Mixtape ‘Fancy That,’ Success of "Boy's a liar Pt. 2," & Ice Spice May 12, 2025

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PinkPantheress first emerged at the very tail-end of 2020, becoming a TikTok phenom in early 2021 thanks to songs like the Adam F-sampling "Break It Off" and the Sweet Female Attitude-sampling "Pain;" songs which never breached two minutes — and still don’t — capped off my PP’s candyfloss sweet vocals. No one knew who she was.

Fast-forward to now and PinkPantheress has since been revealed as 24-year-old Beverly Walker, and the Bath-born, Canterbury-raised singer and self-taught producer whose back catalog includes her 2021 mixtape To Hell With It, 2022’s EP Take Me Home, and her flawless 2023 debut album Heaven Knows. Meanwhile her career-making turn of having Ice Spice jump on the plinkety dance-pop of “Boy's a liar Pt. 2” means PinkPantheress is an international, chart-bothering concern.

She joins us in the studio just ahead of her set at Coachella to talk about all this — including how she got together with Ice Spice — plus what takes place at PinkPantheress HQ, her love of emo, Kpop, jungle, and drum ‘n’ bass. And the freedom of going back to basics with her new, epic mixtape Fancy That, which mines UK big beat and late 90s dance / pop — from Basement Jaxx to Groove Armada, Underworld to Just Jack to the Sugababes.

She also discusses overcoming stage fright, OCD, drug deals gone wrong, Subway sandwiches, working with The Dare, the aborted Olivia Rodrigo tour, the awesomeness of Lily Allen, and so much more.

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Aly & AJ & Birthday Gifts For Dads May 09, 2025

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Songwriters and actors Aly & AJ join us for the third time to discuss their new, sixth album Silver Deliverer, a record the sister-duo created in the hills of Laurel Canyon and those LA, Fleetwood Mac, sunshine and sadness vibes certainly permeate the collection… a collection they actually wrote and recorded while Aly was pregnant with her first kid.

We discuss all that plus, their experience surviving a shooting while on tour and how that inspired both their activism and the song ‘Sirens,’ how maturation and loss informed some of their most potent new cuts, and what happened to their MTV reality show, back when they were teenagers and fresh from their Disney success.

And speaking of which, we get the tea on Aly turning down the role of Hannah Montana, take a look back on 20 years of Into the Rush, and what are the fashion trends from the 2000s we should bring back or bury forever.

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Key Glock and the Podcast Awards May 08, 2025

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The prolific South Memphis rapper returns after with his fourth LP Glockaveli, joining us in the studio for the first time ever. Still only 27, Glock started rapping in high school, before making waves back in 2017 signing to his cousin Young Dolph’s Paper Route Empire. Since then, as well as the four albums, he’s released seven mixtapes including two with Young Dolph, who was tragically gunned down in 2021.

Glock opens up about Dolph as an ongoing presence in his life — along with God — not to mention the music with the both of them that sits in the vaults. But primarily we dive into his new record: his songwriting process, signing to a major, and his desire to smash preconceptions. Not to mention the effect of becoming a father to a little girl, being raised by women, the story behind new songs ‘Hallelujah,’ ‘The Grinch,’ and the beauty of Erykah Badu’s work. Oh, and the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes, plus much more.

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Goo Goo Dolls & The Conclave is Here May 07, 2025

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Alt rock heroes the Goo Goo Dolls join us in the studio for the first time to talk about the 30 year anniversary of 1995’s A Boy Named Goo. Crazy to think it was actually the Buffalo band’s fifth album that finally garnered mainstream success thanks to the still iconic slowburn “Name.’ It’s a long way from their beginnings as a scuzzy punk band, and even further from their first incarnation as Sex Maggots.

We talk all about their early years, pissing in a hole in the bottom of their tour van, who “Name” is about, and how the success of that song lead to a spate of writer’s block and anxiety that eventually lead to their biggest hit, “Iris” (which Taylor Swift called one of the greatest songs ever written and happens to be about an angel called “Seth”).

Plus Johnny Rzeznik and Robby Takac tell tales of plane crashes, physical fights, and drug deals gone right. Plus they consider the evolving music industry, inform us about Buffalo’s sewer system (obviously, it’s important context), and Rzeznick whips out his acoustic guitar to lift the lid on his creative process, particularly with regards to ‘Slide.’

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Gigi Perez & The Met Gala May 05, 2025

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Gigi Perez’s path to her current status of beloved, confessional alt-pop songwriter on the up-and-up has been anything but straightforward: full of twists and turns, and marked by unfathomable loss, grief, and self-made success.

Joining us in the studio for the first time, she discusses her 2024 breakout hit ‘Sailor,’ and her journey up to this point — from signing to a major, to getting dropped and going it alone and learning to produce, to signing to a major again, ultimately releasing her rich and wondrous debut, At the Beach, In Every Life.

But we also go deep on her childhood, the influence of her sister Celene, an opera singer and the profound effect of her untimely passing, tumblr escapism, and how writing (and Hayley Kiyoko and Troye Sivan) helped her make sense of her sexuality. Plus the power of Chappell Roan, her complicated feelings about religion, and so much more.

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Josh Groban & Happy Birthday Zach May 02, 2025

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Josh Groban joins us in the studio for the first time ever to talk about his greatest hits record Gems and his celebratory Vegas residency. Famed and acclaimed for the past 25 years thanks to his powerful, operatic chops that brought songs like ‘You Raise Me Up,’ not to mention a range of originals and standards (sung, in English, French, Italian, and sometimes Latin) to life.

An adult contemporary icon from the jump, but also a talented actor whose roles on Broadway (Sweeney Todd, Pierre in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812), and TV (Glee, The Office, Parks & Rec), Groban chats about all this, plus his career-making turn rehearsing with Celine Dion when he was a teenager, his neuroses, the early days of his career, his fans teaching him how to fly a plane, and exactly why his face is on the ceiling of an OBGYN, and so much more.

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Myles Smith Talks Success of "Stargazing," Advice from Ed Sheeran & His First Heartbreak Apr 30, 2025

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Hailing from Luton, England, Myles Smith cut his teeth playing open mic nights in pubs to disinterested punters before he even hit his teens (and yes he was underage; they’re not quite so strict over there). So when fame and acclaim finally found him in 2024, thanks to his now international smash and viral sensation ‘Stargazing,’ he was more than ready to get onstage and wow audiences the world over. Cue many lighters held aloft.

Now at 26, Myles is collabing with Shaboozey (on ‘Blink Twice’), touring with Ed Sheeran, and getting phone calls from Lainey Wilson because she wants to hop on his track (‘Nice to Meet You’). We dive into all of this, plus his process, and the powerful story behind his single ‘My First Heartbreak’—a raw and heartfelt reflection on the pain he and his family experienced when his father walked away during his childhood. If you like Mumford and Sons, Myles is your guy. His debut album A Minute, A Moment… is out May 23.

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d4vd Talks New Album 'Withered,' "Feel It," and the success of "Romantic Homicide" Apr 28, 2025

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Unless you’ve been living without an internet connection, you know d4vd — the Texas-teen-turned-newly-20 whose 2022 track ‘Romantic Homicide’ now has 1.5 billion streams and counting. It’s a song that he made on his phone, in his sister’s closet, in just 30 minutes and it changed his life forever.

We last caught up with d4vd back in 2023. Since then the Fortnite-obsessed artist has performed all over the world, toured with SZA, released 40 tracks, written and recorded several LPs and scrapped them, before finally going back to his roots — or back to the closet — with a little help from Ryan Tedder and Kali Uchis, amongst other collaborators, to create Withered, a concept album that’s the first step in his grand vision for his art. A record that pulls from influences such as from The Smiths, Chicken Little, Cigarettes After Sex, Anime, Jeff Buckley deep cuts, Two Door Cinema Club, and more.

We talk about all this plus what happened to his nine facial piercings, how the Invisible String Theory is woven into his work, heartbreak, homeschooling, how God is his therapist, what he learned from Benny Blanco, and when the hell can we hear the song he made with Dominic Fike? Plus, he discusses roping Pokimane and Jason the Ween into his video for ‘What Are You Waiting For,’ and he plays us a track he wrote and recorded in the green room while waiting to come on the show, probably in the same time it takes to eat a complimentary snack, which has to be a first.

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Coco Jones Talks Debut Album, ICU, Britney Spears & Bel-Air Apr 25, 2025

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Way back in 2012, the Disney film Let It Shine, changed Coco’s life. But those dreams disintegrated when her LP was shelved and the movie sequel fell apart. Coco went back to school in Tennessee, and kept on grafting, auditioning, writing and releasing music independently while honing her craft. But when a fan tweeted “What happened to Coco Jones?” in 2020 she decided to jump on live and serve tea: where she’d been, what she’d been up to, plus her experiences with colorism and being a child star with a singing voice that belied her young years.

The Grammy winner stopped into the studio for the second time (more on that in the interview) to talk about all this, plus her upbringing, treading the musical boards in Jersey, and her star turn as Hilary Banks on the hit reboot Bel Air. She also gives us the skinny on her breakout hit ‘ICU,’ her debut album ‘Why Not More?’, and what the hell did Bella and Edward name their kid in the Twilight series?! A very important question.

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DJO Talks Creating "The Crux," Success of "End of Beginning" & Stranger Things Season 5 Apr 24, 2025

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You probably know Joe Keery as Steve Harrington from Stranger Things, the zeitgeist-defining show that was Keery’s big — and honestly first — break, which then went on to define and change the following decade of his life. But the Massachusetts-born artist has been making music for as long as he’s been acting, first as part of Post Animal, with friends he made while studying theater in Chicago, and then under the solo moniker Djo (the D is silent).

We sat down with the 32-year-old to talk about his third album The Crux, an incredible compendium of classic songwriting, recorded at NYC’s legendary Electric Lady Studios. The record combines his love of Paul McCartney, ELO’s Jeff Lynn, The Beach Boys, and The Beatles, not to mention The Strokes, The Cars, glam rock, LCD Soundsystem, and MGMT, and the result is a collection that’s rich and textured and catchy as hell.

What Keery thought was going to be a break up album wound up spinning off into a beautiful exploration of the grounding forces of family and friends. Keery discusses his beginnings, his process, his family, and his monster hit ‘End of Beginning’ — 1.4 billion streams and counting. Plus his newfound clarity on what matters, romantic relationships, the ending of Stranger Things, what he swiped from set, partying with Charli XCX, and much more.

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