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HEALTH - Stonefist
The band HEALTH formed in Los Angeles in 2005. Their newest record, Death Magic, came out in 2015. They spent four years trying to make it. They desc…
10 years, 8 months ago
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
Multi-Love is the title track from the 2015 album by Unknown Mortal Orchestra. In this episode, Ruban Nielson tells the story of how he made the song…
10 years, 9 months ago
Thundercat - Them Changes
Thundercat is the alter-ego of bassist and singer-songwriter Stephen Bruner. He’s played bass for both Suicidal Tendencies and Erykah Badu and went o…
10 years, 9 months ago
Death Cab for Cutie - El Dorado
Death Cab for Cutie released Kintsugi, their 8th album, on March 31, 2015. The song El Dorado, like other songs on the record, was written in the wak…
10 years, 9 months ago
Sylvan Esso - Coffee
Sylvan Esso has two members, Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, who met while they were both working on other projects. Amelia asked Nick to do a remix o…
10 years, 10 months ago
U2 - Cedarwood Road
10 Cedarwood Road is the address of Bono’s childhood home in Dublin. For the U2 song "Cedarwood Road," Bono looked back to his life there as a teenag…
10 years, 10 months ago
Will Butler - Anna
Will Butler is a member of the band Arcade Fire, and he co-wrote the score for the film Her, which earned him an Oscar nomination. In March 2015, he …
10 years, 10 months ago
Ramin Djawadi - Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones premiered on HBO in April 2011 and became the most watched show in HBO's history. The main title theme was written by Emmy-nominated …
10 years, 11 months ago
Brian Tyler - Avengers: Age of Ultron
The title card for Avengers: Age of Ultron comes up twelve minutes into the movie. Against a black background, the Avengers logo takes up almost the …
10 years, 11 months ago
tUnE-yArDs - Water Fountain
In this episode, Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs breaks down "Water Fountain." It's a song that draws inspiration from the politics of drought and dance…
10 years, 11 months ago