Song Exploder

Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Father and Son

The legendary singer/songwriter Yusuf / Cat Stevens released his first album in 1967. He’s a member of the Rock...

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Common - A Riot In My Mind

Common is a Grammy- and Oscar-winning rapper, actor, and activist from Chicago. He’s been making records since...

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• 1 month

Jewel - You Were Meant For Me

Jewel is a singer-songwriter from Homer, Alaska, who’s received four Grammy nominations and sold over 30...

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• 2 months

Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted

Billie Eilish started releasing music when she was 14 years old. Her debut album came out last year, when she was 17....

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Re-issue: Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street

This episode is a little different. It’s a re-issue of Phoebe Bridgers’ Song Exploder episode from...

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• 2 months

Deftones - Ohms

Deftones are a Grammy-winning band from Sacramento who’ve sold over ten million albums. Their ninth album,...

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• 3 months

Run the Jewels - JU$T

Rapper Killer Mike and rapper/producer El-P first met in 2011. They both had established rap careers, but they...

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• 3 months

Dua Lipa - Levitating

Dua Lipa is a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter from London. Her second album, Future Nostalgia, came out in March...

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• 3 months

Selena Gomez - Lose You to Love Me

Selena Gomez is a singer, songwriter, and actress, who’s spent most of her life in the public eye. She started...

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• 4 months

Reissue: Ludwig Göransson - Black Panther

On August 28, 2020, actor Chadwick Boseman died. He was only 43 years old. Unbeknownst to many, even some of his...

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• 4 months

Kelly Lee Owens - On

Kelly Lee Owens is an electronic music producer and songwriter originally from Wales. She’s released two...

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• 4 months

Black Pumas - Colors

Black Pumas formed in Austin, Texas in 2017, when singer Eric Burton met producer Adrian Quesada. Their self-titled...

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• 5 months

The 1975 - The Birthday Party

The 1975 are a band from Manchester, England, made up of Matty Healy, Adam Hann, Ross MacDonald, and George Daniel....

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• 5 months

Waxahatchee - Fire

Katie Crutchfield is a singer and songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama. She’s been making music under the name...

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• 6 months

Khruangbin - So We Won't Forget

Khruangbin is a band from Houston, Texas, who first formed in 2010. NME called them the "low key superstars" of...

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• 6 months

Apparat - Goodbye (Theme from "Dark")

The Netflix original series Dark debuted in December 2017. It’s a really mysterious, mind-bending German...

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• 7 months

Mobb Deep - Shook Ones, Pt. II

The rappers Prodigy and Havoc met when they were still in high school in New York. Havoc grew up in Queensbridge, the...

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• 7 months

Reissue: Michael Kiwanuka - Black Man in a White World

Instead of a new episode this week, revisiting this episode originally published in May 2017. Please consider...

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• 8 months

100 gecs - Money Machine

100 gecs is a duo, made up of Laura Les and Dylan Brady. In 2016, they put out an EP called 100 gecs, and three years...

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• 8 months

Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter

Laura Marling is a singer and songwriter from London. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo...

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• 8 months