Song Exploder
A podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
- Website
- http://www.songexploder.net
- Description
- A podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-04-18 06:37
- last episode published
- 2024-04-17 15:57
- publication frequency
- 12.53 days
- Contributors
- Hrishikesh Hirway
- Owner
- Song Exploder
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 301
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Design Music Arts
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-04-17 | The band War formed in 1969, in Long Beach, California. “Low Rider” is from their 1975 album Why Can’t We Be Friends? The song was a hit as soon as it came out. It went to #1 on the Billboard R&B charts. And it’s just had tremendous lasting power e... |
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| 2024-04-03 | Shania Twain is a singer and songwriter from Ontario, Canada. She’s the only female artist to have had three consecutive Diamond albums — albums that have sold over ten million copies. Actually, her 1997 album Come On Over is the best-selling album by ... |
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| 2024-03-20 | Danny Brown started his career in 2007 by handing out mixtapes in Detroit, where he’s from. In 2011, he put out his acclaimed second album, XXX. Since then, he’s collaborated with rappers like Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky and JPEGMafia, but he’s also wor... |
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| 2024-03-06 | Rhiannon Giddens has released five solo albums since 2015. Before that, she was a member of the Grammy-winning band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She is now also the artistic director of the Silkroad Ensemble, the musical supergroup that Yo-Yo Ma foun... |
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| 2024-02-21 | I wanted to revisit an episode about one of my favorite songs from 2021, “Black Dog” by Arlo Parks. A few months after this episode originally came out, Arlo Parks won the Mercury Prize for Album of the Year. She was also nominated for two Grammys: Bes... |
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| 2024-02-07 | Green Day is a punk band from the East Bay in California. Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool have been playing music together since 1987. They’ve sold over 90 million records. They’ve won four Grammys, including twice for Best Rock Album. Th... |
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| 2024-01-24 |
The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (Deluxe Anniversary Edition) The first episode of Song Exploder, about The Postal Service song "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight," came out 10 years ago, in January 2014. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the podcast, we're doing what bands do, and putting out a deluxe, expand... |
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| 2023-12-20 | For the last episode of the year, I got the chance to drive up to Northridge, California, and have a conversation with Dave Grohl. We talked about the Foo Fighters song “The Teacher,” which is an epic, 10-minute-long song. Dave told me it’s the most im... |
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| 2023-12-06 | Raye is a singer, songwriter and producer from London. Besides being an artist in her own right, she’s also been a songwriter for other artists since she was a teenager. She’s co-written songs for Beyoncé, Charli XCX, and Ellie Goulding. In 2023, she r... |
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| 2023-11-15 | Sampha is a singer, songwriter and producer from London. His first album, Process, won the Mercury Prize in 2017. He’s collaborated with artists like the XX, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Solange. If you saw the Song Exploder Netflix show, Sampha was in t... |
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