Music is culture
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“While these hosts have clearly gone to school to be able to critique music for the NYT, the main host (Caramanica I believe) lacks any sort of insight on the culture that he soaks up the majority of these hour-long episodes critiquing. On top of that, the episodes I've heard featured exclusively male voices that unsurprisingly spoke of women musicians rarely and more negatively than their male counterparts. There truly isn't much substance to be found in this "popcast" as these critics are so far removed from mainstream youth culture that they can't accurately cover what the mainstream youth are listening to, never mind provide any real insight. It's hard enough to find podcasts about music that don't sound like they were recorded through a soda can, so it's especially disappointing to see the New York Times put its name on something so subpar (and that word choice is generous).”Read full review »
KPDMGAT via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/03/19
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“The podcast is well produced and has some great guests on it, but the name "podcast" is extremely misleading. I was looking for a podcast focused on Pop, but was disappointed to see so many episodes dedicated to Rap, Rock, Hip-Hop etc.”Read full review »
Chrismarchie via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/04/17
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“Just be ready to hear the 40 year old white New Yorker talk like a 17 year old black kid on the Internet”
bryngobango via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/30/17
“I love finding music podcasts, but after listening to a few of these on specific artists and larger-scale music business talk I can’t listen to any more. The panel of people in the episodes I listened to, when going to “dissect the artist or topic”, would generally just talk about what they hated...”Read full review »
MUziq56 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/17/18
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