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The mother lode of music and millennialism. Deep dives, vignettes, asides, and exasperations by Alex + his friends: a lifelong musician, audiophile, and editorializer turned fitness instructor, DJ, producer and sound curator. Follow @ear_loder on instagram for more content, playlists, and hot takes.
MGRT + Co. hosts ear_loder, a music show with 24 episodes published.
Buckle up, loders - spring has sprung and we have a pack of wildflower pop girlies all making their first moves on the Summer 2025 chess board. Alec is back for the quarterly unpack. We start by catching up on the life a
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*** A BONUS *** BEFORE we leave the early+mid 90s ... did you know Mariah wrote and recorded A GRUNGE album simultaneously to Daydream? AND it’s on YouTube? Before there was Hannah Montana, there was Chick, and Mariah. E
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The reason the Diva Dive was born - the elusive chanteuse, the woman with 19 #1s as an artist and 18 as a writer - the head Butterfly AND Lamb - and the former title holder for longest running #1 on the billboard charts:
Show notesHAPPY 2025 LODERS! A new year, a new you, a new me. Or the same ones with more crows feet! 30m: Where I've been ((SKIP IF U JUST WANT MY TAKES ON BEY)) 40m: Grammys 2025 reaction 10m: Where we're going SEE YOU MORE OFTEN
Show notesIt's Wicked Pt. 1 : The Reaction Pt. 2 ;) And, another new welcome to the pod: Michael! In our second Wicked Pt. 1 reaction installment: will Cynthia and/or Ariana do a brief run on Wicked Broadway? How do we rate Ariana
Show notesMy pulse is rushing // My head is reeling // My face is flushing /// What is this feeling? Fervid as a flame .... does it have a name? WI-CKED!! WI-CKED!!! .... WIIII - CKKED Yes folks. It's good to [hear] me, isn't it?
Show notesHey loders! It's the most (controversial) time of the year, and we're not even talking about the election. It's the 2024-25 grammy nominations. Luckily, this has been our superbowl for probably half our lives - so you're
Show notesSomehow, it's been 4 months since my last upload. Also - hey - Alex, here. Welcome back; and welcome anew, to Ear Lode. Ready for your first? I wanted to take a different approach to this "comeback" moment and share, in
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if Q1 2024 found us at the rodeo of pop-artists-gone-country, culminating in the magnum opus of beyonce's cowboy carter, then Q2 finds us on the dance floor, but not the glitter disco of post-pandemic yesteryear -- inste
Show notesWHEW - are we already on month 6 of the year? With the amount of new music releases being packed into 2024, every week feels like a lifetime. Alec's back to jointly metabolize some of the new material by Dua, Becky Hill,
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On this MOST commemorative of days, the day of Normani's debut album release "Dopamine" - galt presents the second of our 2-part, 2-year-old series tracking her early career. In today's vintage episode, we chart(ed) the
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Well hey y'all. Galt took most of May off while traveling to visit and support family and friends. While we reboot over here for a bigger and better next chapter of Galt's Radio, I REALIZED that a long ... long ... LONG
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Alec Mac is back!!!! and, apparently, so is Jess Glynne! It's ok to admit, you didn't know she was, or wasn't, or wasn't-but-now-is-again releasing music. But let's take a dive, because the pop world (at least our 2020 +
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Music is always better metabolized. You've heard my predictions, you've heard (and watched) my initial reactions, now here are the takes on Ariana Grande's Eternal Sunshine that took a week+ of listening to brew, stew, c
Show notesJLo . Ariana . Kacey . Bey . Taylor . Jess Glynne . Dua . Normani . Maren . Lana . Shakira . Charli . Camila . Selena . Clairo . St. Vincent . Gaga ? Katy ? Billie ? Sia ? Lorde ? We're already exhausted! a THRILL this w
Show notesgalt's FIRST TAKE :: @beyonce act ii // countrYoncé my inevitable, official thoughts SO FAR 🧠🧐 1) Why was Bey's announcement mid-Superbowl more palatable than Taylor's mid-Grammys? 2) Why do all pop girls end up "going
Show notesIt's always a Kelly day // We have SO much content when covering a career like hers. @kellyclarkson #kellyclarkson @adrewcarrnameddesire // Drew Carr is BACK CHAPTER 1 : Kelly's first era // THE DREW CARR 9 YEAR OLD DEMO
Show notesOn this week's THE VOCAL ... where do all these Beyoncé songs come from? Also : bedtime magic w Galt?? beyoncebeyoncebeyonce LP3 [I AM / SASHA FIERCE] -- Smash Into You LP4 [4] -- I Care , Rather Die Young LP5 [BEYONCÉ]
Show notesFIRST GUEST FEATURE — PLEASE WELCOME TO THE STAGE @adrewcarrnameddesire !!! // Drew Carr! Chapter 1 : HAVE U HEARD OF RENEE RAPP THO? Chapter 2 : It’s giving vocal technique, it’s giving technician , it's giving vocal pr
Show notes✨🔆 the FINAL BJÖRK chapter 🔆✨ her …. masterwork?! 2015’s Vulnicura In the final installment of our Björk retrospective, I share why I think Björk hit the heartstone in 2015, and why her whole career led her to that poi
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