HRISHIKESH HIRWAY: You're listening to "Song Exploder," where musicians take apart their songs and, piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. My name is Hrishikesh Hirway. MARTÍNEZ: And he ...

Take us through a recent workday. I woke up, looked at my emails, responded to some and sent some off. Most of them are around trying to book future guests for Song Exploder; either I’m getting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alicia Keys in "Song Exploder," a new Netflix series based on the popular music podcast. (Matt Sayles / Netflix) Among the first ...

Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in ...

Hrishikesh Hirway brings his DIY music dissection to a new documentary series unpacking tracks from Alicia Keys, R.E.M., and "Hamilton." Translating a podcast to a TV screen is a multi-pronged ...

The new Netflix documentary series “Song Exploder” takes viewers through the process of making a hit song, such as those by R.E.M., Alicia Keys, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. “Song Exploder” debuted as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Killers' Brandon Flowers and Ronnie Vannucci appeared on Song Exploder, a podcast that features musicians analyzing their own ...

During this Golden Age of music documentaries in which we currently live several distinct film trends have emerged. There’s your standard biodoc, chronicling an important artist’s rise and fall and ...

“Song Exploder,” in which artists deconstruct their tunes, comes to visual life in the new Netflix docuseries of the same name. Hrishikesh Hirway, a musician who leads the One AM Radio project, ...

We’ve been fascinated at how songwriters create their sonic paintings seemingly out of whole cloth. But, while there are times when lyrics and melodies come springing out of a writer’s brain almost ...

Among the first instruments you hear in “Losing My Religion,” the 1991 smash hit by R.E.M., is a mandolin. Played by guitarist Peter Buck, the minimalist melody moves through the song virtually ...