Pop Excellence

Pop Excellence airs Mondays from 3-5 pm eastern!

Above is my new time slot for the duration of the fall semester: you can listen in each week on whcl.org! Next week’s show (9/20) will be my annual Synthpop September theme.

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Listening Report: April 2021

Link to past months’ posts These are all the albums I listened to for the first time in April. Yes, this post is incredibly late, but how about we just pretend it isn’t, okat? I reached 20 new listens this month, which is a record for these posts so far! Admittedly, I only got there …

August 20, 2021

My 2021 Singles Jukebox Reviews

Sorted by most to least recent (last updated 8/11). Here’s a link to all my 2020 and 2019 reviews! Sigrid – Mirror [5] Galantis, David Guetta & Little Mix – Heartbreak Anthem [5] Aespa – Next Level [0] Erika de Casier – Busy [8] BTS – Butter [5] Baby Queen – Dover Beach [10] Itzy …

April 4, 2021August 11, 2021

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Playlist for 9/20/21: Synthpop September IV and non-synthpop b-sides

Today was the fourth annual Synthpop September! As always, the first hour consisted of a tour through some examples of the most interesting stylistic niches and nuances of the synthpop subgenre, while the second hour consisted of songs in distinctly non-synthpop genres (for the sake of balance). There were some songs I played today that …

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021

Playlist for 9/13/21: Back-in-the-studio release roundup!

Today’s show (my first broadcasted from the actual WHCL station in a year and a half, wow) was a two-hour roundup of a bunch of my favorite recent album and song releases that I hadn’t had a chance to talk about on the radio yet! Spotify playlist (will be edited in about 10 min after …

September 13, 2021September 13, 2021

Playlist for 9/4/21: Second gen K-pop and grab bag with Anna Katrina Lockwood

Today, Anna Katrina Lockwood of The Singles Jukebox was a guest on my show! We talked about second gen K-pop artists for the first hour, and for the second hour we continued with a slightly looser version of the theme, playing some first and third and fourth gen (maybe? maybe not?) songs and discussing what …

September 4, 2021September 4, 2021

Playlist for 8/28/21: Time capsule songs with Iris Xie

Iris from The Singles Jukebox was a guest this week! We talked about our “time capsule songs”—essentially, songs with which we have personal histories and associations with specific times in our lives. Spotify playlist and Apple Music playlist. A podcast version of the show is available here: this recording has just our conversation with the …

August 28, 2021August 28, 2021

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