Hrishikesh Hirway

LPs and CDs are here!

Today’s @cluesbysam.com includes:

Over on The West Wing Weekly, @joshuamalina.bsky.social & I going to take on a new TV series: The Diplomat! Starting very soon!

I got to present a 35mm screening of an all-time favorite, You Can Count on Me. I wrote about the movie and seeing it for the first time in the theater in my newsletter: hrishikesh.substack.com/p/you-can-co...

new episode in your podfeed! @hrishikesh.co & #SaminNosrat, @superlinguo.bsky.social, @korystamper.bsky.social & @alexkennedynba.bsky.social - a lovely bunch - answer questions about part-time vegetarianism, people griping if you call yourself bi or pan, & petty linguistics theallusionist.org/vega

My show in NYC on Saturday will be fine; it ends at 9:45pm. And we all know now you only really need to watch the last quarter.

I interviewed Paul McCartney! songexploder.net/paul-mccartney

Thank you to @kenjennings.bsky.social, John Roderick, the Washington Arboretum, KEXP, and the audience at the Triple Door for a wonderful 36 hours in Seattle! Next: Thursday in Cambridge (moderated by @minjinlee.bsky.social) and Saturday in NYC (moderated by Adam Scott). Tix at hrishikesh.co/live.

My work here (as a guest on House of R) is done!

My friends Rebecca Sheir and Eric Shimelonis who have spend the past nine years making the excellent podcast Circle Round are independently launching a new show for kids!!! I kicked in a few bucks, and if you're a fan maybe you could too!!!

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Tomorrow in San Francisco, with Samin Nosrat, and my band! tix: cafedunord.com/tm-event/a-c...

For this month's issue of Anti-viral, a vulnerable conversation with @hrishikesh.co about releasing music when you’re better known for your podcasts, whether it’s scarier to be perceived or not to be perceived, and discovering music that moves you. escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/hrishikesh...

Now that Instagram is TikTok, will someone build an app where I can see my friends’ photos in chronological order? No algorithm, no stories, just wonderful, boring, beautiful pics of their food and kids and vacations that let me feel connected to their lives.

It's @bandcamp.com Friday, music lovers! We've got new albums from @hrishikesh.co and @hiding-places.bsky.social, preorders for Magnolia & Johnson Electric Co and Lunar Vacation represses, and so very much more. 🏁 Get after it: keeledscales.bandcamp.com

new ceramics! (to go with my album) - open.substack.com/pub/hrishike...

"Rollercoaster" by Hrishikesh Hirway @hrishikesh.co (feat. Fenne Lily + Uwade) is out now! 𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 is out April 24: lnk.to/rollercoaster_ www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt_J...

Deeply thrilled to announce Hrishikesh Hirway's (@hrishikesh.co) new LP 𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, out April 24 on Keeled Scales. “Stray Dogs” (feat. Iron & Wine) is out now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBTu...

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social chatting to @hrishikesh.co about You’ll Never Walk Alone and the impact of the song and Liverpool FC on his life is a really great listen. #LFC #YNWA songexploder.net/john-green

In the mood for some festive music, check out this track @hrishikesh.co wrote back in the day for Red Lantern: open.spotify.com/track/6OLqyN...

If you want to know everything about "Playground Love", listen to our Song Exploder episode, which also features Sofia Coppola, Thomas from Phoenix, and The Virgin Suicides' music supervisor Brian Reitzell → songexploder.net/air

@hrishikesh.co from Song Exploder swaps Christmas songs with Arnie this week. Their lists are very different. Songs from the Vienna Boys’ Choir, Dr. Dog, Bob’s Burgers and more! tinyurl.com/y24vzmdt

We’re watching Shibboleth, my favorite Thanksgiving tradition. He gave him the kniiiiiiiiiiife! @hrishikesh.co

The legends Pusha T and Malice of Clipse are on Song Exploder. We talked about "The Birds Don't Sing," a heartbreaking song about the loss of their parents. Featuring John Legend and Stevie Wonder (!!) as guests, and Pharrell on production. songexploder.net/clipse

Episode 300(!) of Song Exploder is with Lady Gaga(!) Listen here: songexploder.net/lady-gaga

Hello Friends. I am ecstatic to announce that I have reacquired the entire Spontaneanation catalogue and effective immediately you can find every episode wherever you get your podcasts. Don’t get drunk and fight each other.

Tickets are on sale now for Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and producer Jim-E Stack's conversation with Hrishikesh Hirway on Song Exploder. www.ticketmaster.com/event/090062... Join on 9/5 at the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles as they break down the creative process behind a song from "SABLE, fABLE".

<singing to myself> nobody wants to hear about your dream, nobody wants to see what you made in ceraaamics

@duolingoesp.bsky.social seems to have started replacing their weird, wonderful voice cast with AI, and it SUCKS. I’m missing the personality that actors brought to the characters the app uses for storytelling. The flat, generic AI voices = a flat, generic lesson. Can’t believe they don’t get that.

Happy to have played a small part in the 20 years of Apple Podcasts. I ran Podcasts Ops from 2013–2015, and continue to support the team in various was today. learn.applepodcasts.apple/20-podcasts-...

I’ll never forget discovering Song Exploder in the submission queue. What I thought was someone randomly uploading a Postal Service track turned out to be one of the coolest podcasts I’d heard by @hrishikesh.co. I recommended to editorial that we feature it immediately. The rest is history.

On one hand, I have to get up and do my work, but on one leg, I have

Damn I cried listening to this & it’s me talking 😭 New episode of song exploder out now ! songexploder.net/lizzo

I have a lot of fun with Samin Nosrat on our Home Cooking podcast, but this episode of Key Change is a different sort of conversation. I found her story—which connects to her relationship to the Ani DiFranco song ‘Untouchable Face’—very moving. I hope you will, too. songexploder.net/keychange

TONIGHT: Gonna be celebrating the cracking of some eggs just for the egg whites. Come to the albumen release party!

HARK DAILY: Today's best podcast moments in one playlist, featuring: - How Trump is getting game theory all wrong on tariffs @mkonnikova.bsky.social - How the 'Severance' theme was created @hrishikesh.co - The hostage kept sane by a Seal song @sfstandard.com

I’ve started a new series on Song Exploder where I talk to fascinating people about the music that transformed them: Key Change. My first guest is actor/musician Sophie Thatcher, on Elliott Smith's "Waltz #1.” You can find it in the Song Exploder feed or here: songexploder.net/keychange