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Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode features an artist discussing a song of theirs, breaking down the sounds and ideas that went into the writing and recording. Hosted and produced by Hrishikesh Hirway.
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One Song

Hartbeat

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On each episode of ONE SONG, friends Diallo Riddle (Emmy-nominated star and creator of HBO Max’s 'South Side' and IFC’s 'Sherman’s Showcase') and Blake "LUXXURY" Robin (Music Producer & TikTok creator) will hilariously break down ONE SONG from the pop music canon that you know - or need to know - but have never heard quite like this.
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Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

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Music: it's good. On each episode of Strong Songs, host Kirk Hamilton takes listeners inside a piece of music, breaking it down and figuring out what makes it work.
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Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

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Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time. From Pushkin Industries. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance. To get early access to ad-free episodes and extra content, subscribe to Pushkin+ in Apple Podcasts are pushkin.fm/pus. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.
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What makes a song a smash? Talent? Luck? Timing? All that—and more. Chris Molanphy, pop-chart analyst and author of Slate’s “Why Is This Song No. 1?” series, tells tales from a half-century of chart history. Through storytelling, trivia and song snippets, Chris dissects how that song you love—or hate—dominated the airwaves, made its way to the top of the charts and shaped your memories forever. Want more Hit Parade? Join Slate Plus to unlock monthly early-access episodes, bonus episodes of " ...
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Song Cycle

Cincinnati Song Initiative

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This is Song Cycle, where we gab with cool people who bring their innovative ideas and projects to life to contribute to a more vibrant society through song. Join the conversation!
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Dissect

The Ringer

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Analyzing the music and meaning of one album per season, one song per episode. Join host Cole Cuchna as he dives deep into albums by Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Radiohead, Beyonce, Tyler The Creator, Frank Ocean, and more. Let's Dissect.
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The "I'm In Love With That Song" Podcast - Music Commentary, Song Analysis & Rock History. Welcome to the “I’m In Love With That Song” Podcast. Each episode, we’ll take one of my favorite songs and dive deep into it, listening to all the nuances that make it a great song. You may be unfamiliar with some of these songs, while others you’ve probably heard a hundred times, but I bet if we listen closely, we can discover something new. Of course, there’s no definitive answer to what makes a grea ...
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Since launching in 2000, All Songs Considered has been NPR's flagship program for music discovery, artist interviews and conversations with friends and fellow music lovers about the really big questions, like what was the best decade for music, are there albums everyone can agree on, and what do you put on when you need a good cry? Weekly, with host Robin Hilton and the NPR Music family.
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Sad Song Queens

Sad Song Queens

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The Sad Song Queens podcast brings together two award-winning Music Supervisors, Lindsay Wolfington and Laura Webb, as they sit down with the artists and songwriters behind some of the most evocative and emotional songs. Drawing on years of experience curating the perfect soundtracks for film and television, Lindsay and Laura explore the stories, experiences, and emotions that shape these deeply moving songs.
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Curious, funny, surprising daily history - with Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina and Arion McNicoll. From the invention of the Game Boy to the Mancunian beer-poisoning of 1900, from Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain to America's Nazi summer schools... each day we uncover an unexpected story for the ages. In just ten minutes! Best Daily Podcast (British Podcast Awards 2023 nominee). Get early access and ad-free listening at Patreon.com/Retrospectors or subscribe on Apple Podcasts.
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Three Song Stories is an exploration of the power music has to connect us to times, places, people, and emotions from our lives. The show brings out the guests’ personalities, and personal histories, by mining the connections music has made during their lifetimes. It’s also a chance to sit back and listen to the eclectic mix of songs the guests have chosen for their ultimate musical memory short list.
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1 phone call. 1 hour. No names. No holds barred. Thats the premise behind Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, hosted by comedian Chris Gethard (the Chris Gethard Show, Broad City, This American Life, and one of Time Outs 10 best comedians of 2015). Every week, Chris opens the phone line to one anonymous caller, and he cant hang up first, no matter what. From shocking confessions and family secrets to philosophical discussions and shameless self-promotion, anything can and will happen! T ...
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Shitty Song of the Week

RedStar Digital Media

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It's the music competition show that takes two terrible songs and makes them battle head-to-head for the title of Shitty Song of the Week. Any genre, any year, any band. No song will be left unscathed!
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Scene to Song

Shoshana Greenberg

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Hosted by writer Shoshana Greenberg, Scene to Song brings on a guest to talk about a musical, musical theater writer, or a topic or trend in musical theater. Theme music by Julia Meinwald.
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Send us a text Tim chats with film director and writer Grant McPhee about the Beatles song Yellow Submarine. They talk about the song’s fun sound, its strange mix of ideas, and the way it has grown into a song for all ages. Find out more about Grant McPhee and his work Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/grantmcphee.bsky.social X (Twitter): https://x…
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Mickela Mallozzi is host and Executive Producer of Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi, a PBS travel series that showcases the diversity of dance from around the world Mickela is a professional dancer and trained musician who had a dream in 2010 about travelling the world with a camera while dancing in the lives of everyday people. Since dreaming that …
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Send us a text Join the fellas as they take a fun strut through 5 more unreleased tracks from the SOTT Super Deluxe including The Cocoa Boys and It's Bes Like That Sometimes while also presenting each others a series of impossible choices. Follow along and see which decision you'd make! Support the show A deeper dive into Prince than you probably w…
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Sometimes a Song’s origin can be traced back a long, long way. For today, during our week of the “season,” I immediately thought of a “modern” folk song with a lyric from the antiquities. Of course the lyrics, the poetry, we have in English from the King James Version of the Bible, dating to 1611, the time when Shakespeare was coming to the end of …
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Austin’s Paige Renee Berry has had music at the center of their life since before they could talk. The Knoxville, Tennessee native began writing their own music in college, and when they moved to Austin in 2015, Berry co-founded the folk duo The Rosaries. In 2018 Berry started taking their own solo music head-on but quickly fleshed out their vision…
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It’s Round Three of Juke Box Jury, and five more songs heading to Basel 2025 to represent their country at the Eurovision Song Contest make a stop in the Insight Studios to face two returning judges. Hits, misses, and maybes are all on offer. And will we think this week’s winner has a chance of winning the Song Contest? Let’s find out. Eurovision I…
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The Hold Steady's Craig Finn. Momma. Newcomers Lily Seabird and duendita. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson teamed up with Zach McCormick of Minnesota Public Radio's The Current to highlight their favorite albums out April 4. Featured albums: • Craig Finn, 'Always Been' • Momma, 'Welcome to My Blue Sky' • Lily Seabird, 'Trash Mountain' • duendita, 'a st…
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Kirk digs into one of the most dense and challenging records in his collection, with an analysis of "Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)" from The Mars Volta's 2003 progressive rock opus De-Loused in the Comatorium. Written by: Omar Rodríguez-López, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, and Jeremy Ward Produced by: Omar Rodríguez-López & Rick Rubin Album: De-Loused in t…
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Who’s calling? It’s One Song calling all you listeners in faraway towns. This week, Diallo and LUXXURY are joined by award-winning comedian, actor, musician, and writer Fred Armisen to discuss what makes “London Calling” by The Clash an enduring punk classic. They debate their favorite Clash albums, break down the epic (and backwards) double guitar…
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Adonxs is representing Czechia at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with his powerful entry Kiss Kiss Goodbye. The singer joins Steve to talk about his pop star dreams as a child, nailing the song’s epic dance break, channeling Queen and Prince, and he reveals the other Eurovision stars that were in his class at university. The Official Eurovisio…
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Jake Lenderman plays and records under the name MJ Lenderman. He put out his first album in 2019. In addition to his solo work, he’s been a member of the band Wednesday, and he’s also featured on the Waxahatchee hit song “Right Back to It." In September 2024, the fourth MJ Lenderman album came out. It’s called Manning Fireworks. The New Yorker name…
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In this week’s episode, the Queens chat with Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses about the legendary song “The Funeral”. They discuss how sync music changed his life, his four daughters, and his friendship with Sam from Iron & Wine. Check out our friends at The Songwriting School of Los Angeles! Support the show To help support these artists’ as well as…
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Saxon came out of England in the 1970's and quickly established themselves as one of the leading lights of the "New Wave Of British Heavy Metal" (NWOBHM). Their 2nd album, Wheels Of Steel, is considered one of the classic Metal albums. On this episode, we dive into "747 (Strangers In The Night)", one of the hits from this album and remains a concer…
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This week, Red and Jodie are joined by CJ to go through some Cuntry Music!! (no, that's not a typo) Can a weird, buddy-comedy song about "having a guy for that" beat a song about 2 cucks and pleasing their wives?? YOU be the JUDGE!! Post Malone + Luke Combs - A Guy For That VS Russell Dickerson + Jake Scott - She Likes It Follow CJ's show on Twitte…
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Campfires.mp3 By the time the video game Below was released at the end of 2018, the anticipation was high. The game had been announced in 2013, when its studio – Capybara Games – was trying to follow the success of the award-winning Sword and Sworcery. Below had some ingredients of it…
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Roger Beckett is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, community builder and artist manager from Pickering, Ontario. He has written and had songs released in various genres, “Fade Away” (Country), “7 Billion” (Pop), with Canadian and US songwriters and artists. He has also performed at various venues in Toronto and at the Bluebird a…
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Strike a pose! Two of the biggest pop divas have a message for the world, but do we unite for Janet or do we move to the music for Madonna? Only one pop diva can be the biggest star of 1990, so let us debate which it is, is it Madonna's "Vogue" or Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation"? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privac…
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Step right up and get learned by Jodi Goble, composer and vocal coach extraordinaire! She drops golden nuggets along the way for how composers and singers can best learn from each other, what's awesome about American art song today and where it's headed, and even her favorite hobby that may or may not involve a blow torch. Stick around for a fascin…
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As I prepare to record more episodes, I am sharing a conversation I had with former podcast guest Spencer Robelen on his The Hitchcock Gays podcast about Hitchcock’s 1945 film Spellbound starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. I hope you enjoy getting to know Spencer’s podcast, and Scene to Song will be back in two weeks with a new episode. You c…
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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the third and final (and very, very long) part of a multi-episode look at the song “Never Learn Not to Love” by the Beach Boys, and the links between Charles Manson and the LA music scene, as well as the life o…
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