For podcaster Hrishikesh Hirway, it all changed with Bjork. Hirway had been hosting “Song Exploder” for two years inviting musical artists across genres to each break down the making of a song. As his ...

The post The Song Exploder Podcast Is Becoming a Netflix Series appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Hrishikesh Hirway’s popular podcast Song Exploder has been adapted into a new Netflix series by ...

Among the first instruments you hear in “Losing My Religion,” the 1991 smash hit by R.E.M., is a mandolin. Played by guitarist Peter Buck, the minimalist melody moves through the song virtually ...

Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician and composer who hosts and produces the podcast Song Exploder through Maximum Fun. You can find new episodes twice a month on iTunes, tunein and on the Maximum Fun ...

The farther away a mountain is, the easier climbing it appears. Up close, staring at a 14,000-foot increase would cause anyone to reconsider. From a place outside true understanding, things always ...

“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” director Morgan Neville has teamed up with “Song Exploder” host Hrishikesh Hirway to adapt the hit podcast into a Netflix docuseries premiering Oct. 2, the streamer ...

Netflix’s Song Exploder has quickly become one of the most infectiously fun watches for music fans everywhere. The first season delved into the stories behind music’s biggest and most beloved hits, ...

Years before he got into podcasting, Hrishikesh Hirway heard a strange sound on his street late at night. It was a passing truck, dragging glass bottles behind it that clinked against the pavement. He ...

You might say that Thao Nguyen knows music inside and out. As the front person for the band Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, she’s been playing music before some of us knew how to operate a cell phone.

For much of the first half of the twentieth century, it was possible for a curious listener to identify each of the constituent parts of a pop song. A hit such as Frank Sinatra’s “Young at Heart,” ...

The explosive popularity of Netflix’s quarantine docu-series — for example, “Tiger King” or “Jeffrey Epstien: Filthy Rich” — has spurred a mass influx of similar single-season productions. Netflix’s ...