The legends Pusha T and Malice of Clipse are on Song Exploder. We talked about "The Birds Don't Sing," a heartbreaking song about the loss of their parents. Featuring John Legend and Stevie Wonder (!!) as guests, and Pharrell on production. songexploder.net/clipse

Today’s Song Exploder is one of my favorite episodes so far, about one of my favorite songs of all time. It’s incredible to hear just how different A-ha’s “Take on Me” was when it started, and the work, creativity, and luck it required to turn it into the giant hit it became. songexploder.net/a-ha

Episode 300(!) of Song Exploder is with Lady Gaga(!) Listen here: songexploder.net/lady-gaga

Hello Friends. I am ecstatic to announce that I have reacquired the entire Spontaneanation catalogue and effective immediately you can find every episode wherever you get your podcasts. Don’t get drunk and fight each other.

Tickets are on sale now for Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and producer Jim-E Stack's conversation with Hrishikesh Hirway on Song Exploder. www.ticketmaster.com/event/090062... Join on 9/5 at the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles as they break down the creative process behind a song from "SABLE, fABLE".

<singing to myself> nobody wants to hear about your dream, nobody wants to see what you made in ceraaamics

@duolingoesp.bsky.social seems to have started replacing their weird, wonderful voice cast with AI, and it SUCKS. I’m missing the personality that actors brought to the characters the app uses for storytelling. The flat, generic AI voices = a flat, generic lesson. Can’t believe they don’t get that.

Happy to have played a small part in the 20 years of Apple Podcasts. I ran Podcasts Ops from 2013–2015, and continue to support the team in various was today. learn.applepodcasts.apple/20-podcasts-...

I’ll never forget discovering Song Exploder in the submission queue. What I thought was someone randomly uploading a Postal Service track turned out to be one of the coolest podcasts I’d heard by @hrishikesh.co. I recommended to editorial that we feature it immediately. The rest is history.

On one hand, I have to get up and do my work, but on one leg, I have

Damn I cried listening to this & it’s me talking 😭 New episode of song exploder out now ! songexploder.net/lizzo

I have a lot of fun with Samin Nosrat on our Home Cooking podcast, but this episode of Key Change is a different sort of conversation. I found her story—which connects to her relationship to the Ani DiFranco song ‘Untouchable Face’—very moving. I hope you will, too. songexploder.net/keychange

TONIGHT: Gonna be celebrating the cracking of some eggs just for the egg whites. Come to the albumen release party!

HARK DAILY: Today's best podcast moments in one playlist, featuring: - How Trump is getting game theory all wrong on tariffs @mkonnikova.bsky.social - How the 'Severance' theme was created @hrishikesh.co - The hostage kept sane by a Seal song @sfstandard.com

I love Song Exploder. Thank you @hrishikesh.co for having me on! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

I’ve started a new series on Song Exploder where I talk to fascinating people about the music that transformed them: Key Change. My first guest is actor/musician Sophie Thatcher, on Elliott Smith's "Waltz #1.” You can find it in the Song Exploder feed or here: songexploder.net/keychange

THE meme of 2025 for me.

My original soundtrack for the film "Companion" is out now, and you can pre-order it on vinyl! lnk.to/CompanionSDTK. The movie itself comes out Jan 31 - go see it!

Adrianne Lenker and her co-producer, Philip Weinrobe, tell the story of 'Sadness As A Gift' with Song Exploder 💫 Listen to the podcast here songexploder.net/adrianne-len... Illustration by Carlos Lerma

Happy day: There's a new episode of the Home Cooking podcast out, with Samin Nosrat and @hrishikesh.co!

I talked to Sabrina Carpenter and Jack Antonoff about the making of “Please Please Please” for the last Song Exploder episode of the year. songexploder.net/sabrina-carpenter

On threads, you can have a lot of followers but zero engagement. I prefer Bluesky where I have neither

I wrote a brief essay on the primacy of the Toll House chocolate chip cookie and the origin of its recipe. open.substack.com/pub/hrishike...

We would need to get some questions from listeners. Probably holiday-themed. Recorded as voice memos and emailed to [email protected]. In theory!

The song that's stuck in my head today: this cover of Arthur Russell's "This Is How We Walk on the Moon" by Speakers Corner Quartet, featuring Tirzah. Feels somber but resolute in a way that I really appreciate right now.

The song that’s been stuck in my head - “Empty Beach” by Coco. song.link/i/1491373710

On the new episode of Song Exploder, I talked to Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman about the making of a classic — “Deceptacon” by Le Tigre. songexploder.net/le-tigre

The song that’s stuck in my head right now: “Coyote” by Ken Pomeroy, feat. John Moreland. found.ee/kenpomeroyco...