The Five Best Music Podcasts Of 2022

Frank Racioppi
Ear Worthy
Published in
9 min readDec 12, 2022

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Why are so many terrific music podcasts available to tickle the inner ear of listeners? A major reason is that each music genre is the master of its own domain. Hip-hop, jazz, pop, country, easy listening and more all construct their own universe around the music. Clothes, culture, language, and morality spring forth from the notes on sheet music. Therefore, each genre can offer listeners its curated music and interviews with artists in that genre via a podcast.

For example, hosted by Elliott Wilson and Brian ‘B.Dot’ Miller, Rap Radar is the home of some of hip-hop’s most revealing interviews. Both Wilson and Miller are true journalists who do an immense amount of research, know how to listen, and are driven to get the answers to the questions hip-hop fans want to know.

Therefore, this list of only five of the best music podcasts leaves out many deserving music podcasts. However, year-end lists are a time-honored tradition and certainly a surefire way to incite anger in readers whose favorite music podcast is not on the list.

So apologies up front, and here goes: (If this was on YouTube, you’d see that my fingers are crossed and I’m wearing kevlar.)

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Frank Racioppi
Ear Worthy

I am a South Jersey-based writer who manages Podcast Reports on Blogger and have a book available on Amazon about podcasts and podcasting called “Ear Worthy.”