Several new podcasts have quickly earned popularity on podcast charts. Top of the Apple charts this month is NBC News’s newest venture into audio, “The Thing About Pam,” from Keith Morrison and the “Dateline” team, which demonstrates corporate media’s continued experimentation with the audio-only form. But here are some other newcomers that could be worth your time — whether you’re a musical kid, a lover of mafia history, a cosmic believer, curious about classical music, concerned about gentrification and the environment or a Phishhead.
‘Pitch It’
There are about four million children in the U.S. who don’t have access to music teachers, according to the trailer for “The Music Box.” This podcast, a production of Louisville Public Media, is here to change that. Revamped from its first season as a classical music education podcast after going through PRX’s Project Catapult, a podcast training project for public media stations, “The Music Box” is now a…
