Popcast
Hosted by Joe and Jon · The New York Times
2.2from 7,582 ratings
- 583
- Episodes
- 95
- Transcribed
- 7,582
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
- 5M
- YouTube views
About Popcast
Popcast is hosted by Jon Caramanica, a pop music critic for The New York Times, and Joe Coscarelli, a culture reporter for The New York Times. It covers the latest in popular music criticism, trends and news. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.
- Publisher
- The New York Times
- Category
- music · music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Aug 2014
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
95 of 583 episodes have a transcript.
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Audrey Hobert on ‘Sue Me’ Success, Gracie Abrams, Malcolm Todd & Her Next Album
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Kai Cenat on Quitting Streaming at His Peak to Start a Fashion Brand
21 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Busta Rhymes Turned 300 Unreleased J Dilla Beats Into His New Album
Inside a recent episode
Audrey Hobert on ‘Sue Me’ Success, Gracie Abrams, Malcolm Todd & Her Next Album
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] My sense of clothing, weird. But what is weird? I don't know. I think everybody is, and normal people scare me. But yeah, I don't know. I think the perception of the work, which... so blessed that it's been perceived by the way like has made me go okay maybe i was exaggerating a little bit but it's really just to kind of like make a point like i at the time of writing the album was very obsessed with my songs being short obsessed with them being blunt catchy and so you'd have to pack a lot in a punch but i also wanted to say as much as i possibly could i i would think lowly of myself as a writer in the moment if i didn't feel like i was saying a lot Like sometimes I wish I could be more evasive. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Popcast
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Audrey Hobert
- Kai Cenat
- Busta Rhymes
- Stavros Halkias
- Travis Barker
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 5,034,638
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 3.4 / 5
- 1,532 ratings
- Spotify
- 1.9 / 5
- 6,050 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts Popcast?
Joe and Jon host the show. Published by The New York Times.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Popcast take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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