"Let it Roll" is a podcast about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.
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Nate WIlcox Podcasts
We talk to interesting people via podcast and weekly livestream.
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1956 Rock & Roll in Full Flower: Ed Ward's History of Rock & Roll
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Nate Wilcox and Ed Ward continue their discussion of Ed's "History of Rock & Roll 1920-1963 " with a look at rock and roll in 1956, focusing on the rocky yet productive relationships between African-American recording artists and the Jewish entrepreneurs who brought their work to market. We discuss the relationship between James Brown and Sy…
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1955 Rock & Roll is Born....Maybe: Ed Ward's History of Rock & Roll
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Nate Wilcox and Ed Ward continue their discussion of Ed's History of Rock & Roll 1920-1963 with a look at 1955 and 1956. These are the years when the “American Prometheus” brought forth Elvis Presley, when Chuck Berry culturally appropriated Western Swing for his first hit and Hollywood shocked the masses with the first rock and roll movies. As…
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Jennifer Granick: Surveillance and Cybersecurity
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On this episode of the Plutopia News Network, Jon, Scoop and Wendy talk with Jennifer Granick, Surveillance and Cybersecurity Counsel at the ACLU, about the expanding machinery of government and corporate surveillance and its threat to civil liberties and democracy. Jennifer explains how long-standing rules limiting government use and combination o…
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1953-1954 Rock, Meet Roll: Ed Ward's History of Rock & Roll
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Nate Wilcox and Ed Ward continue their discussion of Ed's History of Rock & Roll 1920-1963 with a look at the period when Rock and Roll really got started. We’ll hear about the woman who discovered Elvis Presley, a pair of Jewish music fans who become legit R&B legends, how a Turkish record mogul wrote Ray Charles’ first hit, when country music d…
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The Early 1950s and Good Rockin Tonight: Ed Ward's History of Rock & Roll
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Nate Wilcox and Ed Ward continue their discussion of Ed's History of Rock & Roll 1920-1963 with a look at the legendary song “Good Rockin’ Tonight” and the two simultaneous hit versions that came out in 1949 plus the early work of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Ruth Brown, and the late, great Johnny Ace. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUB…
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Ed Ward's History of Rock & Roll: 1945-1950 The Post-War Years
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Nate Wilcox and Ed Ward kick off their discussion of Ed's History of Rock & Roll 1920-1963 with a look at some of the factors that made the first five years after World War II so critical to the evolution of Rock and Roll. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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Technologist and former British Telecom chief scientist Peter Cochrane joins the Plutopia to talk about his lifelong pursuit of truth and his work on a “truth engine” that used AI to grade the reliability of news sources and authors. Cochrane argues that real truth is hard, costly, and collaborative — unlike social media, which feeds users comforti…
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TechnoRoll 3.20: How Dance Music Conquered America With Michaelangelo Matos
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An interview with Michaelangelo Matos author of “The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America.” Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness ask Michaelangelo Matos the questions raised over the course of TechnoRoll series 3 GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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TechnoRoll 3.19: Daft Punk Sweeps the Grammys as EDM Goes Mainstream
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at EDM's Animal Farm moment when the genre and its practitioners were finally accepted by the American music industry. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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TechnoRoll 3.18: Electric Daisy Carnival's Move From LA to Las Vegas Legitimized EDM for the US Music Biz
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at EDMs commercial triumphs in the early 2010s, epitomized by Electric Daisy Carnival's move from LA to Las Vegas, the rise of Skrillex and brostep, and the cross-over success of David Guetta and others. …
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Sophie Nightingale: Our Minds on Digital Technology
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The Plutopia podcast hosts Dr. Sophie Nightingale, a psychologist at Lancaster University, to discuss how digital technology — especially social media, generative AI, and the constant flow of online information — shapes human memory, judgment, and vulnerability to deception. She explains that people struggle to evaluate critically the sheer volume …
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TechnoRoll 3.17: Daft Punk Break Through at Coachella 2006
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the book's treatment of EDM's breakthrough moment when Daft Punk played Coachella 2006 and blew away Madonna and Kanye West. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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TechnoRoll 3.16: Mashups & Electroclash at the Turn of the Millennium
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at Matos' treatment of electroclash, mashups and the impact of 9/11 on the electronic dance music scene in America. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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TechnoRoll 3.15: The DEA Cracks Down on Disco Donnie & the NOLA Rave Scene
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at Disco Donnie, the DEA and the rave bust that brought the first era of rave to an end. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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Ben Collier: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
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Ben Collier, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, joins Plutopia to discuss his MIT Press book Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. The book argues that media overstates Tor’s ties to crime. Originally developed at the U.S. Naval Research Lab as “onion routing,” Tor …
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TechnoRoll 3.14 Carl Craig Brought the Detroit Electronic Music Festival Roaring to Life
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the 2000 Detroit Electronic Music Festival which finally brought the Techno pioneers a measure of popular acclaim in their home city. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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TechnoRoll 3.13: Moby and Fatboy Slim Rocked Woodstock '99
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the US music industry's continuing efforts to make "electronica" the next big thing, culminating in Moby and Fatboy Slim's appearances at the rave tent of Woodstock '99, an infamous debacle that epitomized the worst of …
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TechnoRoll 3.12: Underworld & Chemical Brothers Headlined Organic '96
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the continuing efforts of the American music business to promote the genre they now called "electronica" via live events and CD releases. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE…
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In this episode of the Plutopia News Network Podcast, hosts Jon Lebkowsky, Scoop Sweeney, and Wendy Grossman talk with mathematician and juggler Colin Wright, who holds a PhD in pure mathematics from Cambridge and is known for his engaging talks on how math appears everywhere in life. Wright explains that math is not about numbers or formulas but a…
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TechnoRoll 3.11: Daft Punk Make Their US Debut at Even Furthur in Wisconsin
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Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of "The Underground is Massive" with a look at the Even Further event and Daft Punk's American debut. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE -- The final 15 mi…
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