Deeply thrilled to announce Hrishikesh Hirway's (@hrishikesh.co) new LP π°π πππ π³πππ π―πππ ππ π³ππππ, out April 24 on Keeled Scales. βStray Dogsβ (feat. Iron & Wine) is out now!
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Thank you so much!
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social chatting to @hrishikesh.co about Youβll Never Walk Alone and the impact of the song and Liverpool FC on his life is a really great listen. #LFC #YNWA
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In the mood for some festive music, check out this track @hrishikesh.co wrote back in the day for Red Lantern: open.spotify.com/track/6OLqyN...
If you want to know everything about "Playground Love", listen to our Song Exploder episode, which also features Sofia Coppola, Thomas from Phoenix, and The Virgin Suicides' music supervisor Brian Reitzell
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@hrishikesh.co from Song Exploder swaps Christmas songs with Arnie this week. Their lists are very different. Songs from the Vienna Boysβ Choir, Dr. Dog, Bobβs Burgers and more! tinyurl.com/y24vzmdt
Weβre watching Shibboleth, my favorite Thanksgiving tradition. He gave him the kniiiiiiiiiiife! @hrishikesh.co
an illustration of Malice and Pusha of Clipse.
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
I wrote about some of the thoughts this episode brought up for me. open.substack.com/pub/hrishike...
Todayβs Song Exploder is one of my favorite episodes so far, about one of my favorite songs of all time. Itβs incredible to hear just how different A-haβs βTake on Meβ 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
Song Exploder - Lady Gaga illustration
Episode 300(!) of Song Exploder is with Lady Gaga(!) Listen here: songexploder.net/lady-gaga
The original logo for the Spontaneanation podcast consisting of a gold βsβ in the middle of a green circle surrounded by a purple outer circle. Elegant in its simplicity. Designed by me and created by Liezl Estipona.
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.
Donβt 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.
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Join on 9/5 at the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles as they break down the creative process behind a song from "SABLE, fABLE".
a round, squat ceramic vase with gunmetal glaze on the outside and a crackly light green glaze on the inside
A small, textured brown vase with a crackly light green glaze on the inside.
a coppery bronze vase with a bottleneck.
A bronze, spherical ceramic vase with a light green glaze inside.
<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. Iβm missing the personality that actors brought to the characters the app uses for storytelling. The flat, generic AI voices = a flat, generic lesson. Canβt believe they donβt get that.
Happy to have played a small part in the 20 years of Apple Podcasts. I ran Podcasts Ops from 2013β2015, and continue to support the team in various was today. learn.applepodcasts.apple/20-podcasts-...
Iβll 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 Iβd 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 & itβs me talking π
New episode of song exploder out now !
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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 storyβwhich connects to her relationship to the Ani DiFranco song βUntouchable Faceββvery 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...
Thank you so much! Thatβs very kind of you!
Oh, I see! Well, the biggest reference for me for that recurring love motif was the feeling I get from Roberta Flack's version of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," which absolutely kills me. Iris is constantly thinking back to the first time she saw Josh, and I wanted that kind of aching love.
Absolutely! I'm honored it took up any space in your brain at any pointβthank you so much! If you ever want to revisit it, it's here: lnk.to/CompanionSdtk
Ha! I was not at all thinking about or listening to that score when I was writing! Which part of the film / score made you think of it!
Iβve 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.β You can find it in the Song Exploder feed or here: songexploder.net/keychange
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the feedback on my increased presence during the episodes; it felt like a big change and I wasn't sure how it would go over.
THE meme of 2025 for me.
