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Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedals
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The duo recently brought their deep dives on the art of pop music to Netflix.
Key facts
- Now, after 12 years and nearly 500 episodes, the show recently made the leap to video on Netflix, featuring guests like Aaron Dessner (The National), Trevor Horn (The Buggles, Yes), and Cypress Hill
- Charlie Harding: The Martin D-28 is the platonic idea of both what a guitar sounds like and, the reporter is ashamed to admit how much this matters to me, how a guitar looks
- Cohosts Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding obsessively dissect pop songs, from the theory behind their musical choices to their production techniques
- Switched on Pop is a production of New York Magazine’s Vulture and the Vox Media Podcast Network
Summary
If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. As if you needed more reason to love Carly Rae Jepsen’s “ Call Me Maybe ” beyond its pop perfection, it is also, according to lore, the genesis for Switched on Pop, one of the best music podcasts out there. Sloan is a composer and professor of musicology at USC Thornton School of Music, where he researches pop, but also jazz and even Tin Pan Alley. Now, after 12 years and nearly 500 episodes, the show recently made the leap to video on Netflix, featuring guests like Aaron Dessner (The National), Trevor Horn (The Buggles, Yes), and Cypress Hill.