Let It Roll
Pantheon Media
"Let it Roll" is a podcast about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.
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Jan 23, 2020 • 38min
Morris Day: We Dig Mike Judge's Tales From The Tour Bus
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Justin Bankston discuss Mike Judge's brilliant Tales from the Tour Bus season 2: Funk. This episode covers Morris Day, leader of The Time and rival to Prince himself. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.
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Jan 16, 2020 • 49min
James Brown: We Dig Mike Judge's Tales From The Tour Bus
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Justin Bankston discuss Mike Judge's brilliant Tales from the Tour Bus season 2: Funk. This episode covers The Godfather of Funk, James Brown. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.
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Jan 9, 2020 • 43min
Bootsy Collins: We Dig Mike Judge's Tales From The Tour Bus
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Justin Bankston discuss Mike Judge's brilliant Tales from the Tour Bus season 2: Funk. This episode covers funk bassist Bootsy Collins. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.
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Jan 2, 2020 • 50min
Rick James: We Dig Mike Judge's Tales From The Tour Bus
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Justin Bankston discuss Mike Judge's brilliant Tales from the Tour Bus season 2: Funk. This episode covers the two-parter on punk funk king Rick James. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.
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Dec 26, 2019 • 40min
George Clinton: We Dig Mike Judge's Tales From The Tour Bus
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Justin Bankston discuss Mike Judge's brilliant Tales from the Tour Bus season 2: Funk. This episode features legendary P-Funk leader George Clinton.This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.
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Dec 9, 2019 • 59min
The History of Music is Subversive, Not Respectable
Ted Gioia returns to discuss his latest book ”Music: A Subversive History.” Ted and Nate discuss the tension between the social outsiders who’ve always been the source of musical innovation and the mainstream academicians who borrow their ideas.
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Dec 2, 2019 • 1h 14min
Grunge Exploded Out of Seattle and Fell Back to Earth
Host Nate Wilcox and grunge oral historian Mark Yarm discuss the incredible rise and brutal fall of grunge, the blend of punk and metal that finally put alternative rock on the top of the charts.This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.
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Nov 25, 2019 • 55min
Emperor Moguls of Rap: Dr Dre, Diddy and Jay-Z
Forbes senior Editor Zack O’Malley Greenburg joins host Nate Wilcox to discuss his book “3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise.” They talk about how hip hop’s 90’s boom produced three of the wealthiest music entrepreneurs since Barry Gordy.This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.
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Nov 18, 2019 • 1h 15min
America Awaited the Beatles
Host Nathan Wilcox speaks to cultural historian and "Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America" author Jonathan Gould about the America the Beatles found in 1964 and the whys and hows of their nearly instant mass popularity.This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.
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Nov 11, 2019 • 1h 5min
Electronic Music From the Avant Garde to Top of the Pops
Today, music historian David Stubbs joins Nate to discuss his book “Future Sounds: The Story of Electronic Music from Stockhausen to Skrillex.” The discussion ranges from the first conceptual beginnings of electronic music in the European avant-garde to Stevie Wonder’s pioneering use of synths in the 70s to the conquest of the music world by EDM in the 21st Century.This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.
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