Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alicia Keys in "Song Exploder," a new Netflix series based on the popular music podcast. (Matt Sayles / Netflix) Among the first ...

The popular Song Exploder podcast is coming to Netflix. The new television series from host and executive producer Hrishikesh Hirway and filmmaker Morgan Neville will launch October 2nd on the ...

Making music can be magical and mystifying, especially for those of us who have no discernible musical talent whatsoever. But Netflix's new documentary series Song Exploder, inspired by the podcast of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in ...

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 ...

Among the first instruments you hear in “Losing My Religion,” the 1991 smash hit by R.E.M., is a mandolin. Played by guitarist Peter Buck, the minimalist melody moves through the song virtually ...

For podcaster Hrishikesh Hirway, it all changed with Bjork. Hirway had been hosting “Song Exploder” for two years, inviting musical artists across genres to each break down the making of a song. As ...

“Song Exploder,” in which artists deconstruct their tunes, comes to visual life in the new Netflix docuseries of the same name. Hrishikesh Hirway, a musician who ...