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 ...

Translating a podcast to a TV screen is a multi-pronged challenge. For a show like “Song Exploder,” hosted in its audio form over various stretches of its nearly seven-year run by Hrishikesh Hirway, ...

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 ...

One of music’s most popular podcasts is coming to Netflix as a new documentary series. And the first trailer for Song Exploder offers a harmonious warmup for what ...

Netflix has turned the long-running podcast Song Exploder into a docuseries of the same name. It has a similar format to the podcast, in which host Hrishikesh Hirway breaks down hit songs and tells ...

Gregory Lawrence (aka Greg Smith) is a writer, director, performer, songwriter, and comedian. He's an associate editor for Collider and has written for Shudder, CBS, Paste Magazine, Guff, Smosh, Obsev ...

Netflix is ready to take you behind the music. On Thursday, the streaming service released the trailer for a new series called Song Exploder. Based on the podcast of the same name, Song Exploder dives ...

Song Exploder, a short docu-series that just arrived on Netflix, dissects the hit songs of popular musicians, tracing the path from first demo to chart-topping success. The four-episode show was ...

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 ...

Netflix’s Song Exploder has quickly become one of the most infectiously fun watches for music fans everywhere. The first season delved into the stories behind music’s biggest and most beloved hits, ...

This week marks a milestone for Hrishikesh Hirway. The music producer celebrates the 100th episode of his successful Song Exploder podcast, a fun project he began in 2014 that has now become a ...