Podcasts that feel like
Song Exploder
Hrishikesh Hirway · Music · 378 episodes
Musicians take apart one song and show you where the magic lives.
contemplative · awe · tender
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The Ringer · Music
One work examined until it opens
The difference: Album-length seasons
One classic album dissected line by line, a season at a time.
Vulture · Music Commentary
How pop songs do what they do
The difference: Theory, chattier
Two music nerds decode why pop songs work.
Pushkin Industries · Music
Musicians on craft, unhurried
The difference: Conversations, not deconstruction
Rick Rubin and friends in unhurried conversation with great musicians.
The Ringer · Music
Songs as cultural time machines
The difference: Essayistic, nostalgic
Rob Harvilla explains the 90s one song and one feeling at a time.
WNYC Studios & OSM Audio · Music History
Music as a lens on everything
The difference: One artist, one country
Nine chapters on Dolly Parton as the great American unifier.
Roman Mars · Design
The invisible craft in things
The difference: Design world
The hidden design of everyday things, told with calm curiosity and perfect pacing.
On Being Studios · Society & Culture
shares that contemplative, awe feel
Krista Tippett's slow, luminous conversations about what it means to be human.
Vox · Life Sciences
shares that contemplative, awe feel
A show about everything science can't explain yet, told with wonder.
Slate Podcasts · Relationships
shares that contemplative, tender feel
The conversations we avoid, had out loud with strangers.
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