Music

13 episodes

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  • 1

    Maggie Rogers - Alaska

    Song Exploder

    20:00 | Aug 24th, 2017

    4 recommendations

    Maggie Rogers had a breakthrough moment when she was a student at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute. Pharrell Williams visited to her class, and when he heard her song "Alaska," his reaction was dramatic, a...Show More

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    Highly highly highly recommend this episode. It was incredible to hear from Maggie Rogers how she created her song Alaska over years of cumulative life experiences. I had to rewatch the video of her ...Show More

  • 2

    The Evolution of Cool

    How Music Does That

    14:26 | Sep 1st, 2018

    1 recommendation

    The quality of "cool" in music has deep roots in the evolution of the brain.

  • 3

    Boots 'n Cats

    Twenty Thousand Hertz

    26:17 | Dec 10th, 2018

    2 recommendations

    Beatboxing began as an imitation of a drum machine, but over the decades it has evolved as a means to emulate any number of percussive sounds. Now beatboxing is being studied by scientists who are fas...Show More

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    Breakmaster Cylinder - Reply All

    Song Exploder

    12:32 | Nov 26th, 2018

    1 recommendation

    Four years ago, on November 24, 2014, the first episode of the podcast Reply All came out. It’s a podcast about the internet hosted by Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt. And since then, they’ve put out 131 epi...Show More

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    Find out how the Reply All podcast's intro music was created! By the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder. This was a fun behind-the-scenes episode.

  • 5

    Baby Shark

    Decoder Ring

    38:17 | Feb 25th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    Baby Shark is an megaviral YouTube video, an unstoppable earworm, a top 40 hit, a Eurodance smash, a decades old campfire song, and the center of an international copyright dispute. This month on Deco...Show More

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    This was hilarious and fun! I always wondered about the addictive Baby Shark song and its origins. I’m not sure if I believe the origins story entirely but I appreciate the diligent traceback. Also in...Show More

  • 6

    Come And Get It

    Singing To My Girlfriend

    03:35 | Nov 8th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    Selena Gomez

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    Guy sings a song everyday to his girlfriend...without background music. What more can you ask for in a podcast?!?

  • 7

    The Jabberwocky of Harry Potter

    How Music Does That

    11:18 | Oct 25th, 2019

    3 recommendations

    How the muggle and wizarding worlds collide in the Harry Potter theme.

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    Harry Potter’s theme song is literally out of this world, because it doesn’t follow the normal music harmonic conventions that we expect as uninteresting muggles. There are even tritones that the chur...Show More

  • 8

    Semisonic - Closing Time

    Song Exploder

    25:05 | Jan 15th, 2020

    4 recommendations

    The song “Closing Time” by the American rock band Semisonic came out in March 1998. It hit #1 on the Alternative charts, and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Song. It gets played in stadiums, ...Show More

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    Chills will go down your spine when you hear the part about the day when Closing Time drops as a single. Heartwarming story about the intermingling of music and fatherhood. 💖

  • 9

    K-poparazzi

    Radiolab

    37:23 | Feb 24th, 2016

    3 recommendations

    In the U.S., paparazzi are pretty much synonymous with invasion of privacy. But today we travel to a place where the prying press create something more like a prison break.  K-pop is a global juggerna...Show More

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    What will K-pop fans do to you if you dishonour their favourite stars? An eye-opening look into the manufacturing of the K-pop dream, the man who unravelled it by importing American paparazzi, and the...Show More

  • 10

    1. My Friend Michael

    Wind of Change

    45:17 | May 11th, 2020

    22 recommendations

    LANGLEY, VIRGINIA, 2011: The Scorpions’ song “Wind of Change” became the soundtrack to the end of the Cold War. But decades later, New Yorker investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe heard a rumo...Show More

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    A New Yorker journalist investigates whether the CIA wrote a famous song that helped collapse the USSR. So many questions. So mysterious.

  • 11

    Speedy Beet

    Radiolab

    24:05 | May 22nd, 2020

    2 recommendations

    There are few musical moments more well-worn than the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. But in this short, we find out that Beethoven might have made a last-ditch effort to keep his musi...Show More

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    This was a fun episode about Beethoven's metronome markings on his music and why he wanted his music played faster. Was his metronome broken or was this because of something else? Fascinating analysis...Show More

  • 12

    Lo-Fi hip-hop has emerged as a hugely popular genre and internet subculture. Its millions of loyal fans rely on curated lo-fi playlists and live-streams to write to, study to and even fall asleep to. ...Show More

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    I’m currently addicted to lo-fi music when I’m working on something that I have to actively concentrate on. This is such a great overview on the origins of this super popular genre, why it’s related t...Show More

  • 13

    Dr. Indre Viskontas uses her unique background in neuroscience and as an operatic vocalist to explore how some music can elicit a physical reaction. This talk was filmed at TEDxSanFrancisco. All TEDx ...Show More

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    How music makes you feel when you make it vs how it makes others feel when they listen to it could be completely different. And hitting the high notes isn't really the exciting part for our brains, it...Show More

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