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This week, Music In Time celebrates its 21st episode. In honor of its passage into radio adulthood we're putting on a rager of a show. Host Evan McCormick highlights artists who found musical fame when they were young, and spins tracks from albums that came out just after they turned 21. Exploring ideas of sonic maturity, coming of age, and lost youth, this is one grown-up playlist. 

PLAYLIST
1. Grown Up Wrong - The Rolling Stones
2. Sun - Donovan
3. Thick As Thieves - The Jam
4. Some Love - New Age Steppers
5. dammit - Blink-182
6. Burnout - Greenday
7. Hand In My Pocket - Alanis Morisette
8. Paper Bag - Fiona Apple
9. I'll Take You Down - Autoclave
10. Drain You - Nirvana
11. Ocean Song - Bikini Kill
12. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore - The Smiths
13. Ammi Ammi - Archy Marshall (King Krule)
14. 1969 - The Stooges

Music does not just exist. It exists in specific times and places, and in the sonic world of each individual listener who engages with it. That’s the basic idea behind "Music in Time," which explores the social and political context in which songs and albums emerge, are listened to, and reflected on over the years. Each broadcast focuses on a single album, detailing the social and political circumstances surrounding its release and moments in time that made certain music resonate anew. How is music shaped by these historical moments, and, in turn, how does it shape the histories that we remember?

By day, Evan McCormick is a historian at Columbia University, where he is part of the Obama Presidency Oral History project, interviewing a range of people — from cabinet members to ordinary folks — about their memories of the Obama years. By night, McCormick is a music lover and singer-songwriter, recording under the stage name Egan Caufield. For most of his life these two worlds remained separate, but after relocating to Catskill, in 2020, he chose to bring history and music together over the airwaves, and "Music in Time" was born.