Rob Harvilla
Senior Staff Writer
Harvilla writes about music and other pop culture. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, and was alive in the ’80s.
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‘Stop Making Sense’ and the Top Five Concert Films
Plus, Sean and Amanda discuss the tentative agreement between the WGA and AMPTP
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Jimmy Buffett Found Paradise on Earth
Remembering the "Margaritaville" singer, who built an island of chillness and invited everyone to join him
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Oliver Anthony, Jason Aldean, and the State of the Pop-Chart Culture Wars
A discussion of pop music and country’s big, strange summer on the charts. Plus: Where do Morgan Wallen’s continued popularity and the discourse around Luke Combs’s "Fast Car" cover fit in?
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Talking Heads: Part 2 With Rob Harvilla
Yasi and Rob return this week to find the Talking Heads in peril. What will become of them?
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: “One,” U2
Rob focuses in on what Bono and U2 meant to music in the ’90s versus their ’80s impact
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: Fugazi and the Making of a Hardcore Revolution
Also! Minor Threat! Rites of Spring! Embrace! And … emo. ;(
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Beyoncé, Destiny’s Child, and the ‘Star Search’ Loss That Launched a Kingdom
We’re talking "Say My Name," but before we get there, we’ve gotta discuss the most infamous defeat to ever happen in front of Ed McMahon
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: How Sinéad O’Connor Turned a Prince Song Into Her Classic
The Irish singer-songwriter died Wednesday at age 56. She leaves a vast legacy that includes being perhaps the only person to do a Prince song better than Prince.
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: Mazzy Star, “Fade Into You”
Exploring one of the decades slowest, mopiest, most important alt-rock standards
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100 Episodes of ‘60 Songs’: A They Might Be Giants Celebration
The world’s most inaccurately named music podcast hits the century mark, so Rob’s doing one for him