Bree Steele chat to the UK's biggest and best artists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode features an artist discussing a song of theirs, breaking down the sounds and ideas that went into the writing and recording. Hosted and produced by Hrishikesh Hirway.
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How Did You Manage That is a series which delves into the world of music management. Every episode Ally McCrae & Sophie Paluch will be sitting down to chat with a music manager about their career. They’ll be talking to managers of global superstars as well as those just starting out on their journey and discussing the highs, the lows and everything in-between. How Did You Manage That is brought to you by The Music Managers Forum (MMF). Check out our HDYMT "Supertracks" playlist on Spotify to ...
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Jordan Clark. Emma O’Driscoll. The combo you didn’t know you needed ’til now. It’s time we celebrate our defenders and gave them some love, and do so with a new guest each and every week of the AFL season. GET INVOLVED IN THE SHOW: Send us a video or voice memo at @freodockers on Instagram with your question, comment or feedback for the show and we’ll play some back each week on the pod!
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Meant to capture the spirit of life on the road, Thru Here delves into everything road trips, the people travellers meet along the way and the places which have touched our guests the most. It's all set in Riding Mountain National Park, a forested oasis amidst Manitoba's sprawling prairies and a destination stop on many Canadian road trips. Catch up with a brand new guest every Thursday.
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In a world where live performance has all but disappeared for the moment, those clever people at The Cosmic Shambles Network have come up with an ingenious plan to banish our housebound boredom and keep us all entertained. They’ve been in touch with some of our best-loved performers and household name scientists and they are very pleased to announce the Stay at Home Festival. 9 live shows a week, streamed online, with all star guests including Robin Ince, Josie Long, Brian Cox and Jo Brand. ...
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If your name is Arlo Cox, don't listen to this one. Drop us five stars and leave us a review (positive only, because 'we're confidence players' - Jordan Clark) Better Down Back, powered by MyPlace. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Fremantle Football Club
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Two ripper stories from Brandon Walker of the time he caused an emergency at the MCG and his unique mouthguard/shower habit… Drop us five stars and leave us a review (positive only, because 'we're confidence players' - Jordan Clark) Better Down Back, powered by MyPlace. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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In 1968, singer and songwriter Graham Nash joined David Crosby and Stephen Stills to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash. All of them had already been in successful bands: Graham Nash had been in The Hollies; David Crosby was in The Byrds; and Stephen Stills was in Buffalo Springfield. The next year, Neil Young joined them, to make Crosby, St…
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The AFL Trade Period has just wrapped, but JOM has a unique full circle story of how he ended up at Freo via Trade two years ago... Drop us five stars and leave us a review (positive only, because 'we're confidence players' - Jordan Clark) Better Down Back, powered by MyPlace. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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Pharrell Williams is—well, let me just say, he’s a big reason why Song Exploder exists. He’s a singer, songwriter and producer, and in the 90s, when I first heard the work that he was doing with the Neptunes, which was his production duo with Chad Hugo, it blew my mind. It made me want to know where those sounds came from and where those ideas came…
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Alex Pearce's iconic 'fist to the sky' tribute celebration will be a core memory for us all. Drop us five stars and leave us a review (positive only, because 'we're confidence players' - Jordan Clark) Better Down Back, powered by MyPlace. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Fremantle Football Club
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Andy says he didn't but all signs point to yes, he did. Drop us five stars and leave us a review (positive only, because 'we're confidence players' - Jordan Clark) Better Down Back, powered by MyPlace. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Fremantle Football Club
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For the last couple weeks, I’ve been getting ready for a trip I’m going to make to Connecticut, to moderate a conversation between Jon Batiste and his wife, the author Suleika Jaouad. So I’ve been deep in my prep and research, and I thought about the first time I ever spoke to Jon Batiste, which was for a Song Exploder episode that came out back in…
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Come to see a different side of JL, and stay for the unreal phone call we make to Luke Ryan live on the podcast. If you missed it on our #DoigMedal live stream, here's Jordan & Em's wrap of AFL season 2024 ft. unheard JL stories and predictions on where Clarky would finish in the Doig count... We hope you love it. And, don’t forget to… DROP US A VO…
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Troye Sivan is a singer and songwriter from Australia. He’s been nominated for a Golden Globe, two Grammys, and he’s won four of Australia’s ARIA awards. His song “My My My!” was a #1 hit on the Billboard Dance Chart, and his third album, Something to Give Each Other, was one of Billboard’s picks for the best albums of 2023. Troye’s also an actor; …
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Paul Craig (Biffy Clyro) & Kwame Kwaten (Blue Lab Beats, Hak Baker) on Chairing the Music Managers Forum and the Changing Landscape of Music Management
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Paul Craig of Nostromo Management (Biffy Clyro) and Kwame Kwaten of Ferocious Talent (Blue Lab Beats, Hak Baker) are interviewed by the Music Manager Forum's Laura Erinle in this special edition of How Did You Manage That? Ahead of their terms ending as MMF Board Chair and Vice-Chair at the MMF AGM on the 17th of September 2024, Paul & Kwame look b…
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Beabadoobee is an award-winning singer and songwriter from England who’s been releasing music since 2017. Her third album is called This Is How Tomorrow Moves. It came out in August 2024 and went to #1 on the UK charts. She made the album with her bandmate Jacob Bugden and with producer Rick Rubin at his studio, Shangri-La, in Malibu. And for this …
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Remi Wolf is a singer and songwriter originally from Palo Alto, California. She’s been releasing music since 2019. She performed at Coachella in 2023, and has toured with Olivia Rodrigo, Lorde, and Paramore. Her second album, Big Ideas, came out in July 2024. I talked to Remi about how she and her collaborators wrote and produced the song “Soup.” H…
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Clarky makes claims about which celebrities follow him on Instagram, Rick reveals his pancake ritual & Em is doing something 'condescending' in her day to day life. Three weeks in a row of defender guests hasn't translated well on field so we've gone back to a forward this week! We hope you love it. And, don’t forget to… DROP US A VOICE MEMO: https…
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The ‘boss’ thing is getting out of hand for Jordan, Emma grills Clarky on his Turkish Olympic shooter celebration & the big Moose is our special guest! Petition for Alex Pearce & Brandon Walker to start an audiobook. We hope you love it. And, don’t forget to… DROP US A VOICE MEMO: https://memo.fm/betterdownback/ Leave us a question or comment in th…
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Two from two on the defender front, this podcast is turning itself around! Clarky deals with being called BOSS during his milestone presser, Em is stunned about Don's mouthguard habit & we can't get enough of Retro Round. We hope you love it. And, don’t forget to… DROP US A VOICE MEMO: https://memo.fm/betterdownback/ Leave us a question or comment …
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WE DID IT, WE GOT A DEFENDER! 9 episodes in and this podcast has finally found its purpose. New dad Coxy joins a buoyant Clarky fresh off his 100m sprint & Em who doesn't take a single sip of her loud water bottle all episode. We hope you love it. And, don’t forget to… DROP US A VOICE MEMO: https://memo.fm/betterdownback/ Leave us a question or com…
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Sam Smith is a Grammy and Oscar-winning singer and songwriter from London, England. Their first album, In the Lonely Hour, came out in 2014. It went quintuple platinum in the US, and the biggest hit from that album is the song “Stay With Me,” which has over 2 billion streams on Spotify alone. For this episode, in honor of the song’s 10th anniversar…
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Better Down Back | #8 Andy Brayshaw
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Andy may have been 10th on our invite list for guest this week, but his BDB episode is definitely in the top 8 of all the episodes we've done. Snea was at his brilliant best, the Clark Medal gets controversial this week & Em refuses to bring a quieter water bottle on set... We hope you love it. And, don’t forget to… DROP US A VOICE MEMO: https://me…
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Clarky finds it difficult to wake up for an early start time to record, and Emma realises that Jordan says 'it's time for my favourite segment' before every segment... JOM's storytelling is unreal as we learn more about the talented footballer than we ever have before + Youngy's dad sends in a voice memo! We hope you love it. And, don’t forget to… …
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Clarky & Em make the discovery on this week's BDB that they've never had a defender on the show despite being a podcast that celebrates defenders... Jye Amiss builds his ultimate Freo player, we learn about his love for country music and fishing + we play more of your voice memos in the People's Segment! We hope you love it. And, don’t forget to… D…
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Fenne Lily is a singer and songwriter from Dorset, England. She released her first album in 2018, but I didn’t find her music until 2023, when she put out her third album, Big Picture. The album she released in between those two was one that got a little lost in the lockdown, when all her touring plans around it got canceled. All of that plays into…
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Better Down Back | #5 Hayden Young
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This has to be the best BDB yet (let us know if you agree!) with Youngy in all-time form as our guest and some extremely hostile banter between Clarky and Em... We debut a brand new segment, a brand new sponsor and play your voice memos on the show for the very first time! We hope you love it. And, don’t forget to… DROP US A VOICE MEMO: https://mem…
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Last year, Vagabon released her third album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, which I’ve been listening to a lot. So I wanted to revisit an episode that I recorded with her back in 2020, about her breakout song "Water Me Down." The episode also features the voice of Eric Littmann, who co-produced the track. He passed away in June 2021, way too young. Vagabo…
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The Big Cohuna from Cohuna showed us his gentle persona on this week’s show as Clarky and Em put JT in the spotlight. We’ve got it all this week - stories of ripped pants and lawnmowers driven into lakes + how JT uses weekly catchups with our Club psychologist to mentally prepare himself for footy each weekend. We hope you love it. And, don’t forge…
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Clarky & Drisco grill Caleb on his claim that he vomited 6 times in the last quarter against the Pies, Clarky asks Caleb what his favourite colour is + we ask him about his recent proposal to now fiancée Chloe! Three episodes down of Better Down Back!!! AUDIO NOTE: We apologise for the slight echo sound of this week's show and for the distortion in…
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Crowded House formed in 1985 in Melbourne, Australia. They’ve released eight albums, including their most recent one, Gravity Stairs, which came out last month. But on their very first album, they had a big hit with "Don’t Dream It’s Over." Crowded House made “Don’t Dream It’s Over” with Grammy-nominated producer Mitchell Froom, who they went on to…
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It's bye week but that don't stop the pod! Clarky tells us about his now famous salute celebration, we talk about our huge 92-point win and Drisco found out her mum has been hanging out with Jordan's. + Josh Corbett is our guest, a man who is the definition of resilience. GET INVOLVED IN THE SHOW: DM us a video or voice memo at @freodockers on Inst…
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Jordan Clark. Emma O’Driscoll. The combo you didn’t know you needed ’til now. It’s time we gave the defenders some love, so get your ears around our brand new Club Podcast! Sharpy is our very first guest of the season, and the man does not disappoint. GET INVOLVED IN THE SHOW: Send us a video or voice memo at @freodockers on Instagram with your que…
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Lizzy McAlpine released her first album in 2020, and her second album in 2022. And between the two, she’s had a lot of success. One of her songs, "Ceilings," was a viral TikTok hit, and has been streamed over half a billion times. So you might think, with all that success, you’d want to keep working in way that’s been working. But while Lizzy was m…
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The Flaming Lips formed in Oklahoma City in 1983. Over the last four decades, they’ve put out 16 albums. In 1999, they put out their album The Soft Bulletin, and that brought them a new level of success. And then, in 2002, they followed it up with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, which was their biggest album to date. Pitchfork named it one of the …
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One of the songs I keep coming back to is “Mohabbat” by Arooj Aftab. It’s really special to me. I listen to it all the time. I’ve been listening to it so often that I wanted to revisit Arooj's episode about it. In the time since the episode has come out, she has released a collaborative album with Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily called Love In Exile…
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The band War formed in 1969, in Long Beach, California. “Low Rider” is from their 1975 album Why Can’t We Be Friends? The song was a hit as soon as it came out. It went to #1 on the Billboard R&B charts. And it’s just had tremendous lasting power ever since. Besides being in Dazed and Confused, where I heard it, it’s been sampled by The Beastie Boy…
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Shania Twain is a singer and songwriter from Ontario, Canada. She’s the only female artist to have had three consecutive Diamond albums — albums that have sold over ten million copies. Actually, her 1997 album Come On Over is the best-selling album by a female solo artist of all time. One of the most iconic songs from that iconic album is "You’re S…
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Danny Brown started his career in 2007 by handing out mixtapes in Detroit, where he’s from. In 2011, he put out his acclaimed second album, XXX. Since then, he’s collaborated with rappers like Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky and JPEGMafia, but he’s also worked with electronic bands like Purity Ring and The Avalanches, and he did a verse on a remix for K…
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Rhiannon Giddens has released five solo albums since 2015. Before that, she was a member of the Grammy-winning band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She is now also the artistic director of the Silkroad Ensemble, the musical supergroup that Yo-Yo Ma founded. Rhiannon Giddens is one of those people where I feel like they have to start inventing new aw…
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I wanted to revisit an episode about one of my favorite songs from 2021, “Black Dog” by Arlo Parks. A few months after this episode originally came out, Arlo Parks won the Mercury Prize for Album of the Year. She was also nominated for two Grammys: Best New Artist and Best Alternative Album. Since then, she released a new album called My Soft Machi…
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Green Day is a punk band from the East Bay in California. Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool have been playing music together since 1987. They’ve sold over 90 million records. They’ve won four Grammys, including twice for Best Rock Album. They put out their first album in 1990, and their second album, Kerplunk!, in 1991. And then, they m…
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The first episode of Song Exploder, about The Postal Service song "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight," came out 10 years ago, in January 2014. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the podcast, we're doing what bands do, and putting out a deluxe, expanded edition of our very first release: this version features a new interview, new insights, and new…
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For the last episode of the year, I got the chance to drive up to Northridge, California, and have a conversation with Dave Grohl. We talked about the Foo Fighters song “The Teacher,” which is an epic, 10-minute-long song. Dave told me it’s the most important piece of music he’s ever written, because it’s dedicated to his mother, Virginia, who pass…
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Raye is a singer, songwriter and producer from London. Besides being an artist in her own right, she’s also been a songwriter for other artists since she was a teenager. She’s co-written songs for Beyoncé, Charli XCX, and Ellie Goulding. In 2023, she released her debut album, My 21st Century Blues. The first single, “Escapism," became her first son…
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Sampha is a singer, songwriter and producer from London. His first album, Process, won the Mercury Prize in 2017. He’s collaborated with artists like the XX, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Solange. If you saw the Song Exploder Netflix show, Sampha was in the Alicia Keys episode, for the song they did together as a duet. This year, in October 2023, Samp…
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I think one of the hardest things there is to do in music is to write a love song that expresses something real. I read that the song "Liar" by Paramore was written by Hayley Williams, the singer of the band, about her longtime bandmate Taylor York, and about the feelings she started to realize she’d had for him. Paramore has been a band for over 2…
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Kesha is a singer and songwriter from Los Angeles. She put out her first song in 2009, and it was a huge #1 hit in the US and 13 other countries. She’s had 10 top-ten singles on the Billboard charts, and sold millions of albums. She got famous for songs that were about partying, and breaking the rules, and having fun. But this year, in May 2023, sh…
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Alvvays is from Toronto. Their first album came out in 2014, and they’ve put out two other albums since then. In Canada, they’ve won the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year, and all three of their albums have been shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. Their first song was also one of their biggest hits. It’s called "Archie, Marry Me." R…
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Laufey is a singer and songwriter originally from Iceland. She studied piano and cello as a kid. When she was 15, she was a guest soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. She went to Berklee College of Music in Boston, and that’s when she started writing songs. While she was still a student, she had a number one hit on Icelandic radio. Her firs…
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This summer, in June 2023, Janelle Monáe put out her fourth album, The Age of Pleasure. Listening to it made me want to revisit her Song Exploder episode, from 2018. One thing on Song Exploder that I personally love is when we get to hear an artist’s raw voice memo, from the moment when they’re first coming up with a song idea. This episode has one…
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The "Skip Intro" button first got introduced to us through Netflix in 2017, and, I know, a lot of people use it – including me. But, if I can get into old-man, back-in-my-day mode for a second, I have so much fondness for the opening theme music for so many shows. It’s a chance to set the mood for everything that you’re about to see. One of the int…
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It can be hard to be in a band, or really, in any kind of group where there’s creative collaboration, and you’re supposed to act like it's a democracy. Because what do you do with an idea that you love, if nobody else believes in it? That question is a big part of this episode with Local Natives. Local Natives is a band from Southern California. Th…
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Bakar is a singer and songwriter from London. In 2018 he put out his first release, Badkid. A year later, he put out the EP, Will You Be My Yellow?, and this September, he’s releasing his second full-length album, Halo. One of Bakar’s tracks from the EP and the upcoming album is a song called "Hell N Back," which went platinum, and hit number one o…
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