And The Update Is...Heartbreak In The Writing Community, Chart Toppers & Goats
Episode Date: June 19, 2026And The Update Is…a weekly beat on the industry . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 by Joe London & Ross Golan in association with Big Deal Music & Mega House Music. And The Writer Is... ™ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
301 episodes transcribedAnd The Update Is…a weekly beat on the industry . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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…a weekly beat on the industry . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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...
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…a weekly beat on the industry . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
And The Update Is…a weekly beat on the industry . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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-string...
And The Update Is…a weekly beat on the industry . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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…a weekly beat on the industry . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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…a weekly beat on the industry . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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…a weekly beat on the industry . This week Ross dives into No Fake Act, Justin Bieber's comeback to charts since Coachella, Country &...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...