And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan
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And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan
Every week, we sit down with an acclaimed and venerable songwriter to intimately discuss what happens behind closed doors in the music industry. There are millions of singers, thousands of artists, and only 40 top songs per genre at a time... this podcast is about the people who make them. Produced...
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309 episodes
And The Update Is...Fake Streams, Billion-Dollar Deals & Ed Sheeran's Biggest Career Move Yet
And The Update Is…a weekly beat on the industry .
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Ep. 255: Brittany Howard | How Alabama Shakes Went From a Garbage Truck to Playing with Prince
Today's guest is Brittany Howard — four-time Grammy winner, the voice of Alabama Shakes, and one of the most singular artists of her generation. But h...
And The Update Is...Spotify Deletes 500K Streams ,TIDAL Takes a Stand Against AI,The Charts Have a New Enemy
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And The update Is...AI Lawsuits Are Coming, Clive Davis Remembered & Olivia Rodrigo Makes History
And The Update Is…a weekly beat on the industry .
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Ep. 254: Zooey Deschanel | Her Secret Identity + The Journey of She & Him
Today's guest is one of the most recognizable faces of her generation — an actor whose voice you'd know in a single frame. But her real story isn't th...
And The Update Is...Heartbreak In The Writing Community, Chart Toppers & Goats
And The Update Is…a weekly beat on the industry .
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Ep. 253: Nessa Barrett on Fame, Music, and Finding Herself in Public
Today's guest built an audience of millions before she was old enough to sign a record deal, turned a 30-minute crying freestyle into her debut single...
And The Update Is...Taylor & Drake Make History, AI Makes Headlines
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Ep. 252: Lizzo | Rock Bottom, #1, and the Game Nobody Explains
Today's guest is a Grammy winner, a two-time Billboard #1 artist, and one of the defining pop voices of the last decade. But her real story isn't the...
The Realest Conversation About Songwriting In 2026 | Gino The Ghost | Patreon Exclusive
Today's guest is a multi-Latin-Grammy-winning songwriter and producer with a wall of platinum records — and one of the few people in music willing to...
And The Update Is…Drake, AI, and a $5.4 Billion Question
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And The Update Is...Universal's Big Week: AI, TikTok While Drake Dominates
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Ep. 251: Myles Smith | Stargazing, Therapy, and The Secret Cost of Success
Today's guest is a rising star who's risen so fast he's not really rising anymore — he's just a star.
From a bedroom in Luton playing $50 nylon-...
And The Update Is... AI Covers, Drake’s New Era & Why Michael Jackson Is STILL Charting in 2026
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Ep. 250: Niall Horan | Outlasting Pop's Biggest Band, "Dinner Party" & More
Today's guest came up in the biggest band in the world at seventeen, watched it pause at twenty-two, and built a solo career almost no one in his posi...
And The Update Is...Pop Stars, Lawsuits & Billion-Dollar Moves
And The Update Is…a weekly beat on the industry .
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Rewind: Jack Antonoff | How to Pick the Artists Who'll Define Your Career
Today's guest is a Grammy Producer of the Year who's tied with Babyface for the only three-in-a-row run in the award's history — and whose real story...
And The Update Is…May the 4th Be With the Charts: Hits, Headlines & Industry Chaos
And The Update Is…a weekly beat on the industry .
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Ep. 249: Rick Beato | Songwriters Got Poorer. AI Is Next. So Where Is Music Going?
Today's guest is a multi-instrumentalist, music educator, interviewer, producer, and songwriter. He is also one of the most influential independent mu...
And The Update Is...No Fakes Act, Trademark Protection, and Today's ChartToppers
And The Update Is…a weekly beat on the industry . This week Ross dives into No Fake Act, Justin Bieber's comeback to charts since Coachella, Country &...
Ep. 248: Rogét Chahayed | From Pianist to Sicko Mode, Kiss Me More & APT.
Today's guest is a prolific producer behind Sicko Mode, Broccoli, Bad at Love, Kiss Me More, Laugh Now Cry Later, First Class, and APT. — but whose re...
And The Update Is...The Charts Are Country. The Industry Is AI. Now What?
Every week, And the Writer Is brings you the most important news moving through the music industry — straight, sharp, and no fluff. This week Ross Gol...
How Dan Nigro Builds Superstars | Ep. 195 | Rewind
Today's guest is the Grammy Producer of the Year who built the two biggest pop breakthroughs of the last five years back to back — and whose real stor...
And The Update Is… Live Nation Ruled an Illegal Monopoly, D4VD Arrested for Murder, Udio Pays Up on AI
Every week, And the Writer Is brings you the most important news moving through the music industry — straight, sharp, and no fluff. This week: a jury...
Ep. 247: Billy Corgan | How He Built Smashing Pumpkins Into a 30-Million Album Empire
Today's guest is the architect of alternative rock who sold 30 million albums and defined the sound of an entire generation — but whose real story beg...
And The Update Is… Rap Lyrics Banned in Court, AI Deals Stalling, and a $64B UMG Bombshell
Every week, And the Writer Is brings you the most important news moving through the music industry — straight, sharp, and no fluff. This week: Marylan...
Ep. 246: Dermot Kennedy | How an Irish Busker Became a Worldwide Phenomenon
Today's guest is the Irish troubadour who sold out arenas across the world and built one of the most durable careers in modern music, entirely on his...
Ep. 245: Madison Beer | Becoming Yourself with the World Watching
Today’s guest is one of the most quietly enduring artists in modern pop — a songwriter and performer who’s spent over a decade growing up in public, l...
Ep. 244: Melanie Martinez | How to Protect Your Creative Spirit in a Commercial World
Today’s world builder builds worlds worldwide to make her own universe! Dark and whimsical meets bubblegum grunge when this artist broke out on the sc...
Ep. 243: Charlie Puth | The Long Road to Becoming Yourself
Today’s guest is one of the defining voices in modern pop — a songwriter, producer, and artist behind some of the biggest records of the last decade.<...
Ep. 242: Megan Moroney | The Unlikely Road of a Country Superstar
Today’s guest is one of the fastest-rising voices in modern country — a songwriter whose honesty, wit, and emotional precision have turned deeply pers...
Ep. 241: Jesse Rutherford (The Neighbourhood) | How an Unlikely Band Became Inevitable
Today’s guest is the frontman of one of the most defining bands of the 2010s — a songwriter whose voice helped shape an era of alternative pop that st...
Ep. 240: Ejae | A Career Built Slowly and Heard All at Once
Today’s guest is a Grammy-winning songwriter, global pop architect, and one of the most quietly influential voices shaping modern music across borders...
Ep. 239: Marcus Mumford (of Mumford & Sons) | 'Catching' Songs + Avoiding Self-Sabotage
Today's guest is a festival headliner, Grammy-winning songwriter, and the architect of a sound that accidentally changed the course of folk, country,...
Ep. 238: Illenium | Addiction Almost Killed Him. Music Saved Him.
Today's guest is a multi-platinum DJ, producer, and songwriter who turned personal devastation into one of electronic music's most emotionally resonan...
Ep. 237: Philip Lawrence | The $5 Bus Pass That Started Bruno Mars
Today's guest is a Grammy-winning songwriter, producer, and performer, best known as one-third of The Smeezingtons and a foundational creative force b...
Ep. 236: John Ryan | The Playbook of a World-Class Songwriter
Today's guest has quietly shaped the sound of a generation.
He has written and produced some of the biggest songs of the last 15 years—from One...
Ep.235: David Foster | What It Takes to Last in the Music Business
Today’s guest isn’t just a living legend.
He’s one of the architects of modern music.
As a songwriter and producer, he’s discovered artist...
Ep. 234: Diplo | Branding Decides Who Wins
And The Writer Is... Diplo!
This episode isn’t about hits. It’s about how culture actually gets made.
Taste, burnout, and building cultu...
Ep. 233: Alex Warren | Surviving on Delusional Self-Belief
And The Writer Is… Alex Warren.
Alex joins the podcast to talk openly about resilience, finding his voice, and what it actually takes to turn pa...