New podcast segment

I’ve begun a new audio feature on Popcast, the Times’s weekly music podcast. It’s a brief interview segment called Artist of the Week, and it will run alongside the CD reviews and other reports. (The full podcast is around 20 minutes.)

The plan is to have an informal conversation with an emerging artist or some musical person otherwise in the news, and so far I’ve been pleased with the results. Last week I talked with Tim Fite, a rapper/provocateur who gave away his last album for free, and this week I interviewed Slug from Atmosphere, whose new album “When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold” opened at No. 5.

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