Pop Excellence

Pop Excellence airs Saturday from 1-3 pm eastern!

This will be my time slot for the duration of the spring semester (through mid-May). As always, you can listen in on whcl.org and/or look at the playlists on my blog afterwards.

Twitter: @kaylabeardslee

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My 2021 Singles Jukebox Reviews

Sorted by most to least recent: I update the list every month or so. Here’s a link to all my 2020 and 2019 reviews! Rosé – On the Ground [4] IU – Celebrity [3] Silk Sonic – Leave the Door Open [4] Sơn Tùng M-TP – Chúng Ta Của Hiện Tại [7] Loona – Star …

April 4, 2021April 4, 2021

Favorite Songs of 2020: 1-15

Songs: 109-86 | 85-61 | 60-36 | 35-16 | 15-1 | Full text list and playlist Albums: 50-26 | 25-1 | Full text list and playlist Honorable mentions 15. Allie X – Learning in Public “Learning in Public” may be the only song on this list that is truly, deeply relatable to me. Oh, wait, …

December 30, 2020April 4, 2021

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Transcript: Genre-bending covers and grab bag with Madi Ballista

This is a lightly edited transcript of both hours of my 4/10/21 radio show. Click here for links to YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music playlists (as well as a link to an audio upload of the show, if you’d rather listen along). Kayla: This is 88.7 WHCL-FM, Clinton, NY and you’re listening to Pop Excellence …

April 10, 2021April 10, 2021

Playlist for 4/10/21: Genre-bending covers and grab bag with Madi Ballista

Madi Ballista of The Singles Jukebox (@runawayballista on Twitter) was a guest on this week’s Pop Excellence show! For the first hour, we talked about genre-bending covers (i.e. covers of hit songs that translate them into a totally different and unexpected genre); the second hour was a standard grab bag playlist, with a super varied …

April 10, 2021April 10, 2021

Playlist for 4/3/21: grab bag

Just one hour of a new show today (I’ll be back to the normal two hours next week): here are Spotify and Apple Music playlists for the grab bag. For the second hour, I rebroadcasted the What I’ve Been Listening To show from January 16: miscellaneous playlist links here. Singles Jukebox guest shows start next …

April 3, 2021April 3, 2021

Transcript: Red Moon, or 25 Fifth Graders Make an Album

This is a lightly edited transcript of both hours of my 9/26/20 radio show. You can listen to a podcast version of it here, although note that this Soundcloud upload doesn’t include the final half hour for copyright reasons. If you’d like to catch up on the last 30 mins of the show after listening …

March 26, 2021

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