Thanks @Slate #HitParadePod listeners &subscribers for enjoying my labor of love in 2021 (special shout to the @SlatePlus community). We covered lots of ground, ranging across genres&decades. Now’s a good time to catch up on Hit Parade episodes you missed! slate.com/podcasts/hit-p… January 2021: These Are the Good Times Edition—how Chic, a sleek, visionary disco group, helped to birth hip-hop and gave new wave its pulse. Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards reinvented acts from Diana Ross to David Bowie to Duran Duran. @Slate #HitParadePod slate.com/podcasts/hit-p…

Every year ’round this time @Slate’s #MusicClub is a special holiday treat & this week is the 2021 edition, hosted by the intrepid @carlzolius & joined by a cavalcade of music scribes. Below, a thread highlighting all the profound pop ponderings thus far. slate.com/tag/music-club… @Slate 1: Ringmaster @carlzoilus kicks off by defining the #GreatLanguishing & applies it to subdued returns from Kacey, Lorde, Billie &Adele. “The music that called on me in 2021 found a way to disperse some of these layers of existential fog.” @Slate #MusicClub slate.com/culture/2021/1…