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Lana Del Rey's Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (with Shaad D'Souza)
As a follow-up to last week's Lana Del Rey deep dive, music critic Shaad D'Souza returns to the show to break down her ninth studio album, Did You Know That There's a ...
LANA DEL REY (with Kathy Iandoli)
In preparation for her ninth studio album, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, dropping tonight, Kathy Iandoli joins Pop Pantheon to explore the enigm...
KACEY MUSGRAVES (with Who? Weekly's Bobby Finger)
Author and Who? Weekly co-host Bobby Finger joins Pop Pantheon to unpack the career of sly country agitator turned alt pop girlie Kacey Musgraves. Bobby and DJ Louie d...
Miley Cyrus' Endless Summer Vacation (with Shaad D'Souza) (Patreon Preview)
Miley Cyrus just dropped her 8th studio album, Endless Summer Vacation, last Friday, so critic Shaad D'Souza- our guest for our Miley episode and who reviewed the new ...
Do We Still Need Poptimism? (with Vulture's Jason P. Frank)
Vulture's Jason P. Frank joins DJ Louie to discuss the idea of "Poptimism", or the movement in musical critical discourse during the mid 2000s and 2010s that allowed f...
New Music Speed Round: Sam Smith, Ava Max, Lana, Ice Spice & More! (with Main Pod Girl's AJ Marks) (Patreon Preview)
Main Pod Girl's (and PP Discord fav!) AJ Marks joins DJ Louie to dissect and debate new songs from Sam Smith, Kelela, Ava Max, Ice Spice, Zara Larsson, Chloe & More!To...
JA RULE, NELLY, LUDACRIS & 50 CENT (with Jordan Sargent)
Writer and A&R person Jordan Sargent returns to Pop Pantheon to explore a definitive moment in establishing hip hop’s centrism in mainstream pop music – the early 2000...
The State of Streaming: How It's Impacted Pop Stars, Music & Us (with Trapital's Dan Runcie)
Trapital Host Dan Runcie joins DJ Louie to discuss the state of the streaming ecosystem. Dan and Louie dig into how streaming has impacted the nature of pop stardom by...
FRANK SINATRA (with You Must Remember This' Karina Longworth)
Critic, author and host of the podcast You Must Remember This Karina Longworth joins Pop Pantheon to help tell the story of patient zero for the concept of a “Pop Musi...
Was Rihanna's Halftime Show Good? (with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd) (Patreon Preview)
In a preview of our new Patreon episode available in full on Pop Pantheon: All Access, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd joins DJ Louie for a Monday morning recap of Rihanna'...
Rihanna Super Bowl Setlist Draft Extravaganza!! (with Lindsey Weber, Jason Lipshutz & Julianne Escobedo Shepherd)
Pop Pantheon All-Stars Lindsey Weber,Jason Lipshutz and Julianne Escobedo Shepherd join DJ Louie to preview Rihanna's epic return to music at Super Bowl LVII
We Need to Talk About The Grammys... (Patreon Preview)
In a preview of the new episode of Pop Pantheon: All Access, DJ Louie and Russ break down the 2023 Grammys, from Beyoncé’s infuriating, disheartening and all-too-famil...
THE WEEKND (with Anupa Mistry)
Writer and producer Anupa Mistry joins to discuss the greatest Anti-Hero of 21st Century Pop, The Weeknd. DJ Louie and Anupa tackle The Weeknd’s career, from his anony...
What Pantheon Rankings Have I Gotten Wrong?: Kesha, ABBA, Miley, Your Calls & More!
For this week's B-Side, we're reassessing all the Pop Pantheon rankings of the last year, including debates on Kesha, Miley, ABBA, Belinda Carlisle, Spice Girls and Mo...
MADONNA: PART 4 (with Pot Psychology's Rich Juzwiak) [Originally Published on 4/21/2021]
As a capstone to our Madonna series, we're re-running the fourth-ever episode of Pop Pantheon in which Pot Psychology's Rich Juzwiak joins DJ Louie to discuss later pe...
MADONNA: PART 3 (with Annie Zaleski)
Author and journalist Annie Zaleski returns to Pop Pantheon for part three of our Madonna series. DJ Louie and Annie tackle the “Earth Mother” period of Madonna’s care...
MADONNA: PART 2 (with The Clive Davis Institute's Jason King)
Clive Davis Institute chair Jason King returns to Pop Pantheon for part two of our Madonna series. DJ Louie and Jason tackle the imperial period of the Queen of Pop, f...
New Music Speed Round: Meghan Trainor, Paramore, Lana Del Rey & More (Patreon Preview)
If you like this and want to hear more of this episode, plus tons of other bonus content as well as gain access to our Discord channel, the guest list at Gorgeous Gorg...
MADONNA: PART 1 (with Inside The Groove's Edward Russell)
For the first of our new three-part series on the Queen of Pop, Madonna, host of the podcast Inside the Groove Edward Russell joins DJ Louie to discuss Madge’s early y...
Taylor Swift's Reputation (with Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos) (Patreon's Version)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! As a little Xmas treat, we're posting this episode which was originally published on our Patreon, Pop Pantheon: All Access, a deep-...
KATY PERRY: PART 2 (with Variety's Daniel D'Addario)
Chief Television Critic at Variety Daniel D’Addario is back with DJ Louie for part two of our series on Purposeful Popstress Katy Perry! Louie and Dan kick off this in...
KATY PERRY: PART 1 (with Variety's Daniel D'Addario)
Chief Television Critic at Variety Daniel D’Addario joins DJ Louie for a long-awaited and sprawling two-parter about Rick Caruso’s favorite pop star, Katy Perry! In Pa...
Imperial Phases: What Are They, Who's Had One and Do They Still Exist? (with Tom Ewing)
The concept of an "Imperial Phase"- a short-lived period of a pop star's career where artistic revelation meets commercial saturation and everything they touch turns t...
The Best (and Worst) Pop Music of 2022 (with NPR's Hazel Cills)
Editor at NPR Music Hazel Cills joins DJ Louie for a thorough rundown of pop music in the year 2022. They talk Beyoncé, Rosalia, Taylor, Muna, Drake, Charli, Kendrick,...
AMY WINEHOUSE (with Sasha Frere-Jones)
Musician and Writer Sasha Frere-Jones joins DJ Louie to discuss the tragically short career and life of the great British soul singer, Amy Winehouse. Louie and Sasha b...
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me and the State of the Pop Doc (with New York Magazine's Rachel Handler)
New York Magazine's Rachel Handler joins DJ Louie to discuss both Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, the recently-released doc about the pop star on Apple TV+, and the broade...
BELINDA CARLISLE, DEBBIE GIBSON, TIFFANY & TAYLOR DAYNE: Forgotten Ladies of the 1980s (with Stereogum's Tom Breihan)
We’re shaking things up a bit this week! The ‘80s were formative for our ideas of modern pop stardom but it’s not just Madonna, Prince, Michael, Janet, George and the ...
Can the Super Bowl Put Rihanna in Tier 1?? (Preview)
This is a preview of one of the bonus episodes out right now on our new Patreon, Pop Pantheon: All Access! If you like this and want to hear more of this episode as we...
The Joys & Terrors of Stan Culture (with The New York Times' Joe Coscarelli)
Pop Music Reporter for The New York Times, Joe Coscarelli, returns to the podcast to dig into the origins, agony and ecstasy of internet stan culture. DJ Louie and Joe...
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