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 ...

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 ...

If you're a big music fan and an avid podcast listener, you've probably heard of Song Exploder. The biweekly podcast created by Hrishikesh Hirway in 2014 features a range of musicians, who dive deep ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix is ready to take you behind the music. On Thursday, the streaming service released the trailer for a new series called ...

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 ...

The new Netflix show deftly explores the making of songs from R.E.M., Alicia Keys, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ty Dolla Sign. It’s exhilarating TV. By Wesley Morris Netflix might offer flashier, more stunt ...

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 ...

Getting the band back together: Original R.E.M. members Mike Mills, Bill Berry, Peter Buck and Michael Stipe appear in new Netflix series "Song Exploder," debuting Oct. 2 (Photo by Ron Galella, ...

“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” director Morgan Neville has teamed up with “Song Exploder” host Hrishikesh Hirway to adapt the hit podcast into a Netflix docuseries premiering Oct. 2, the streamer ...