Rachel Maddow Sets ‘Ultra’ Season 2 Date
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Rachel Maddow Sets ‘Ultra’ Season 2 Podcast Premiere Date, Exploring New Chapter in the History of America’s Radical Right (EXCLUSIVE)
Rachel Maddow is back with another deep dive into the history of America’s radical right with the second installment of MSNBC podcast “Ultra.” The eight-episode Season 2 of…
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Jon Stewart to Launch Weekly Podcast With Comedy Central
Jon Stewart is upping his output with Comedy Central to bring a weekly audio show to your earbuds. Stewart — after exiting “The Daily Show” in 2015 — rejoined the Comedy Centr…
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Comedy Podcasts, Led by ‘The Joe Rogan Experience,’ Gained Ad Market Share in 2023 as Overall U.S. Spending Cooled
Podcast ad revenue in the U.S. — after seven years of double-digit growth — hit a slowdown in 2023, with overall spending increasing 5% to $1.93 billion, according to a new…
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Universal and Rotten Tomatoes Partner for New ‘Seen on Screen’ Podcast
UFEG’s Make It Universal and Rotten Tomatoes have partnered to create the new “Seen on Screen” podcast hosted by Rotten Tomatoes awards editor Jacqueline Coley. The bi-weekly…
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Taylor Swift Renews Her Vows With Heartbreak in Audacious, Transfixing ‘Tortured Poets Department’: Album Review
Would you be surprised to know (or be reminded) that Taylor Swift hasn’t really released a breakup album in a decade? For a gal who’s never really shorn that as her songwriting…
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Former Spotify Exec Max Cutler Launches Creator-Focused Media Company Pave Studios
Max Cutler sold Parcast Studios, his scripted-audio entertainment start-up, to Spotify in 2019 under a deal in which Spotify ultimately paid about $100 million. Cutler went…
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Quinta Brunson, Damon Lindelof Among First Guests on New Peabody Awards Podcast ‘We Disrupt this Broadcast’
Quinta Brunson, Damon Lindelof, Ramy Youssef, Pamela Adlon and Charlie Brooker are among the first guests to appear on the Peabody Awards’ new podcast “We Disrupt This Broadcast,”…
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Khruangbin Brings It Back to Basics With the Low-Key Majesty of ‘A La Sala’: Album Review
Few would have predicted that one of the biggest alt-rock breakthroughs of the last decade would be a mostly instrumental trio from Houston with a name that seems dauntingly…
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Vampire Weekend Reinvents Its Sound (Again) With ‘Only God Was Above Us’: Album Review
A major problem with early success is getting past it — case in point, the cheerful bop of Vampire Weekend’s first two albums and their image as peppy college boys who’d studied…
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Faith Stowers Launching Tell-All Podcast That Will Break Down ‘Vanderpump’ & ‘The Valley’ Fallout; Reveals Key Role in New Randall Emmett Film (EXCLUSIVE)
“Vanderpump Rules” alum Faith Stowers is ready to speak her truth about reality television. The actor is launching a podcast with her creative partner Marcus Millions called…
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Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Is a Sprawling, Endlessly Entertaining Tour de Force: Album Review
What does “going country” mean to Beyoncé — musically speaking? That’s a mystery that really had to wait until this week to be solved. We’d already picked up a good idea of what…
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Johnny Knoxville Will Celebrate ‘Slightly Unhinged People’ in His First Podcast, ‘Pretty Sure I Can Fly,’ From SmartLess Media, Campside and Amplify Pictures
Professional prankster and stunt performer Johnny Knoxville is getting behind the podcast mic for “Pretty Sure I Can Fly” — a show that “explores and celebrates the remarkable and…
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