Song Exploder
Music

Song Exploder

by Hrishikesh Hirway

Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode features an artist discussing a song of theirs, breaking down the sounds and ideas that went into the writing and recording. Hosted and produced by Hrishikesh Hirway.

100 episodes
EN language
All Episodes
1
Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
24:26 Mar 11, 2026
2
Silvana Estrada - Como Un Pájaro
25:39 Feb 25, 2026
3
Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth
28:57 Feb 18, 2026
4
The Marías - No One Noticed
25:04 Feb 11, 2026
5
Leon Thomas - Mutt
24:53 Jan 28, 2026
6
Key Change: John Green on "You'll Never Walk Alone."
26:13 Jan 21, 2026
7
Hit-Boy and Nipsey Hussle - Racks In the Middle (feat. Roddy Ricch and Hit-Boy)
22:14 Jan 14, 2026
8
Air - Playground Love (feat. Gordon Tracks)
25:13 Dec 17, 2025
9
Key Change: Rian Johnson on Wagner's 'Das Rheingold'
23:24 Dec 10, 2025
10
Jessie Reyez - Goliath
23:03 Dec 3, 2025
11
Key Change: Demi Adejuyigbe on The Strokes
24:01 Nov 19, 2025
12
Clipse - The Birds Don't Sing
26:30 Nov 12, 2025
13
Buckingham Nicks - Frozen Love
35:19 Oct 29, 2025
14
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
20:42 Oct 22, 2025
15
A-ha - Take On Me
31:54 Oct 15, 2025
16
Lady Gaga - Abracadabra
27:00 Oct 1, 2025
17
Key Change: David Chang on "I See a Darkness"
21:02 Sep 24, 2025
18
Ethel Cain - Nettles
31:17 Sep 17, 2025
19
Sam Fender - People Watching
32:36 Sep 3, 2025
20
Key Change: Jia Tolentino on "I Love You Always Forever"
17:16 Aug 27, 2025
21
Jay Som - Tenderness
18:27 Aug 20, 2025
22
Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down
31:22 Aug 6, 2025
23
Gigi Perez - Sailor Song
24:55 Jul 23, 2025
24
Key Change: Jason Schwartzman on the ‘Rushmore’ soundtrack
22:31 Jul 16, 2025
25
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
26:54 Jul 9, 2025
26
Little Simz - Free
26:45 Jun 25, 2025
27
Key Change: Shirley Manson on Siouxsie and the Banshees
24:20 Jun 18, 2025
28
Anohni - 4 Degrees
24:25 Jun 11, 2025
29
Jeff Tweedy - How to Write One Song
43:34 May 28, 2025
30
Lorde - Sober
19:35 May 21, 2025
31
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
28:19 May 7, 2025
32
Lizzo - Still Bad
28:57 Apr 23, 2025
33
Key Change: Samin Nosrat on Ani DiFranco
26:42 Apr 16, 2025
34
MJ Lenderman - You Don't Know The Shape I'm In
27:34 Apr 2, 2025
35
Key Change: James Acaster on OutKast
25:18 Mar 26, 2025
36
Lucy Dacus - Thumbs
24:29 Mar 19, 2025
37
Theodore Shapiro - Severance (Main Title Theme)
23:18 Mar 5, 2025
38
Key Change: Hanif Abdurraqib on The Clash
31:16 Feb 26, 2025
39
Sasami - In Love With A Memory (feat. Clairo)
29:40 Feb 19, 2025
40
of Montreal - Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games
27:46 Feb 5, 2025
41
Key Change: Sophie Thatcher on Elliott Smith
21:52 Jan 29, 2025
42
Yola - Symphony
24:18 Jan 22, 2025
43
Adrianne Lenker - Sadness As a Gift
25:51 Jan 8, 2025
44
Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please
31:59 Dec 18, 2024
45
Gracie Abrams - I Love You, I'm Sorry
25:52 Dec 4, 2024
46
Waxahatchee - Fire
18:04 Nov 27, 2024
47
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
27:48 Nov 13, 2024
48
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Our House
26:24 Oct 30, 2024
49
Pharrell Williams - Piece By Piece
14:54 Oct 16, 2024
50
Jon Batiste - We Are
24:23 Oct 2, 2024
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