Have you ever heard Weezer's episode of Song Exploder? It's one of the most fucked-up, confounding and ultimately inspiring descriptions of the creative process ever, single-handedly making the case ...

About a decade ago, the musician Hrishikesh Hirway had a vision. Inspired by the work of the English composer Benjamin Britten – and, more recently, its interpolation by the filmmaker Wes Anderson in ...

Just a couple months after Song Exploder's debut mini-season, Hrishikesh Hirway's podcast-turned-Netflix-show is back for four more episodes. The show seems to have worked out some of the growing ...

Song Exploder is an immensely satisfying podcast with a deceptively simple premise. Created and hosted by musician Hrishikesh Hirway, each episode features an artist breaking down one of their tracks, ...

Carlin is a contributor for TIME. Pop Culture For more than a decade, Song Exploder, hosted by composer and producer Hrishikesh Hirway, has given musicians a forum to tell the stories behind their ...

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As a musician himself, Hrishikesh Hirway knows how much thought goes into a song. So, he created Song Exploder, the series where all kinds of musicians – from big names like Madonna to lesser known ...