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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ever notice that the piano part from “Dancing Queen” is tucked into the end of MGMT’s song “No Time To Pretend”? Or that The Album Leaf kept the squeaking of an old piano pedal in the final recording ...

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 ...

“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 leads the One AM Radio project, ...

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 ...