Best New Artist Breakdown 08: 2017-2024

It's the Best New Artist Breakdown season finale, featuring a MASTAS greatest-hits line-up, the return of sprung rhythm, grand unifying complaints about breakthrough categories, Elt Zeppelin, and how to evolve past Wolfman Jack in pop-music discovery. Do we agree with the Grammys' most recent BNA choices? Have we decided how to tackle the 2025 nominees? Should jerks win awards? Come spook the Recording Academy herd with us!

Intro and outro by Laura Barger and Jack Baldelli; for more information/to become a patron of the show, visit patreon.com/mastas.

SHOW NOTES

• • Ms. Warwick "roasts" Chance The Rapper
  • Episode 68: "Stay" Title Bout
  • Episode 247: Julia Michaels, "All Your Exes"
  • MB's Top 10 Songs of 2024 at The Lost Songs Project
  • Episode 224: Dua Lipa, "Levitating"
  • Record Of The Year Showdown, Episode 4: 2007-2022
  • Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 3: The NEXT Next 15
  • Episode 189: Yola, "Faraway Look"
  • NPR's Stephen Thompson on Ingrid Andress's upsetting anthem
  • Phoebe Bridgers in The New Yorker

  • Single 19: Favorite Discoveries on NPR's Women+ Song List