The biggest theme song fail

The biggest theme song fail

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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.

Hrishikesh Hirway, host of Song Exploder, returns with his first album in fifteen years, In the Last Hour of Light, made under a premise that's almost contradictory for a podcaster built around isolated stems: session players who had never heard the songs, vocals tracked live in ...  Show more

BTS is back. But K Pop is not the same.

BTS is back. The best selling K Pop group of all time has been on hiatus for four years. They haven’t released an album in six. They were once the biggest band in the world. Can they regain their throne? Or has the world moved on. Leaning on traditional Korean sounds and a bevy o ...  Show more

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