John Carpenter - Halloween (Theme)
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1978, John Carpenter wrote, directed, and scored the film Halloween. It was made on a $300,000 bu...
Janelle Monáe - So Afraid
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Janelle Monáe is an award-winning musician and actress who released her first record in 2007. She’...
Cat Power - Woman
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chan Marshall is a singer-songwriter who’s been making records under the name Cat Power since 1995...
Blood Orange - Saint
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Blood Orange is the project of songwriter and producer Devonté Hynes. He’s produced and co-writte...
Patrick Carney feat. Ralph Carney - BoJack Horseman (Main Title Theme)
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
BoJack Horseman is a Netflix original series, an animated comedy about a washed up 90s sitcom star w...
The Decemberists - Once In My Life
05 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Decemberists are a Grammy-nominated five-piece band from Portland, Oregon. They released their f...
Mitski - Your Best American Girl
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mitski has been making records since 2012. Her third record, Puberty 2, came out in June 2016 and wa...
Christine and the Queens - Doesn't Matter
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Christine and the Queens is a singer, songwriter, and producer from France. Her debut album was firs...
Neko Case - Last Lion of Albion
01 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Neko Case is a singer and songwriter. She’s been nominated for multiple Grammys, and in addition t...
Courtney Barnett - Depreston
25 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Courtney Barnett released her debut album in March 2015. By the end of the year, she had been nomina...
Action Bronson - The Chairman's Intent
18 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Action Bronson is a rapper from Queens who’s been making records since 2011. He also stars as the ...
Jhené Aiko - Sativa (feat. Swae Lee)
04 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jhené Aiko is a Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter. She’s released three albums so far. In ad...
CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
CHVRCHES is a trio from Glasgow, Scotland. In this episode, they break down the song “Clearest Blu...
Yo La Tengo - Here You Are
20 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Yo La Tengo formed in 1984. The band is made up Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, and James McNew. In Marc...
Wolf Alice - Don't Delete the Kisses
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Wolf Alice is a band from North London. Their second album, Visions of a Life, was released in Septe...
Kelela - Rewind
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kelela is a singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. In 2015, she released Hallucinogen EP, and l...
Jon Hopkins - Luminous Beings
23 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Hopkins is an electronic music producer whose been nominated twice for the UK’s Mercury Prize....
Liz Phair - Divorce Song
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1993, Liz Phair released her debut album, Exile in Guyville. It was an instant hit, critically...
Arcade Fire - Put Your Money On Me
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Arcade Fire is a Grammy-winning six-piece band originally from Montreal. They’ve released five alb...
Kimbra - Top of the World
11 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kimbra is a singer from New Zealand. Her first album came out in 2011, and in 2013 she won two Gramm...
Jack Johnson - You Can't Control It
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Johnson is a grammy-nominated singer-songwriter from Hawaii. He's had four number one albums o...
Ludwig Göransson - Black Panther
14 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Marvel’s Black Panther was released in theaters on February 16, 2018, and in just a few weeks, ...
Natalie Prass - Short Court Style
28 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Natalie Prass released her debut album in 2015. That year, Time Magazine called her an Artist to W...
Moses Sumney - Quarrel
14 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Moses Sumney is a singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. His first album, Aromanticism, came out in...
Bleachers - I Miss Those Days
31 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bleachers is the moniker of Jack Antonoff, a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. He won...
Julien Baker - Appointments
17 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Julien Baker is from Memphis, Tennessee. She released her second album, Turn Out The Lights, in Oc...
The Roots - It Ain't Fair (feat. Bilal)
03 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Drummer Ahmir Thompson, also known as Questlove, and rapper Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, starte...
R.E.M - Try Not to Breathe
20 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
R.E.M. was formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, bassist Mike Mills, guitarist...
Nine Inch Nails - The Lovers
06 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Trent Reznor started Nine Inch Nails in 1988. He released eight albums, sold over 20 million records...
Rachel Platten - Broken Glass
08 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Platten is a singer and songwriter who’s released four albums, including her 2016 album W...
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things (Main Title Theme)
26 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The show Stranger Things is a Netflix original series. It was first released in July 2016. Season tw...
TOKiMONSTA - Bibimbap
18 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Los Angeles producer and beatmaker Jennifer Lee released her first album as TOKiMONSTA in 2010. Sh...
The Killers - Rut
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Killers formed in Las Vegas in 2001. Since then, they’ve released five records. Their newest a...
Lorde - Sober
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lorde is a Grammy-award winning singer, songwriter, and producer. Her second album, Melodrama, debut...
Rostam - Bike Dream
14 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rostam Batmanglij is a songwriter, producer, and composer, who first rose to prominence in 2006 as o...
Ibeyi - Deathless
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The band Ibeyi is made up of twin sisters Naomi Diaz, and Lisa-Kaindé Diaz. When they were only tee...
Maggie Rogers - Alaska
24 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Rogers had a breakthrough moment when she was a student at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute. Pha...
St. Vincent - New York
15 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Clark grew up in Texas, studied the guitar, and moved to New York in the mid-2000s. She starte...
Grizzly Bear - Four Cypresses
03 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Between 2004 and 2012, Grizzly Bear put out four critically-acclaimed albums. Their newest album is ...
Phoenix - Ti Amo
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Phoenix is a Grammy-winning band from Versailles, France. They started putting out music in 1999, an...
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
13 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Slowdive formed in 1989 in Reading, England. They put out 3 albums between 1991 and 1995, and their ...
Goapele - Stand
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Goapele is a singer/songwriter from the Bay Area. She released her first album in 2001. Since then, ...
Fleet Foxes - Mearcstapa
22 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Fleet Foxes formed in Seattle, Washington in 2006. In 2011, they put out their second record, which ...
Michelle Branch - Best You Ever
14 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Branch is a Grammy-winning singer/songwriter. She released two platinum albums when she wa...
alt-J - In Cold Blood
02 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Alt-J formed in Leeds, England in 2007. Their debut album won a Mercury Prize and their second was n...
Michael Kiwanuka - Black Man in a White World
22 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Kiwanuka is a singer/songwriter from London. His second album, Love and Hate, came out in 20...
Perfume Genius - Slip Away
11 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Hadreas has been making music under the name Perfume Genius since 2008. In May 2017, he put out...
Little Dragon - Sweet
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Little Dragon is a Grammy-nominated band from Gothenburg, Sweden. They formed in 1996, and they rele...
Aimee Mann - Patient Zero
21 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Aimee Mann is a Grammy- and Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter. In the 80s, she fronted the band Til ...
Gorillaz - Andromeda (feat. D.R.A.M.)
11 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Gorillaz is the creation of musician Damon Albarn and comic book artist Jamie Hewlett. They’re a v...
Norah Jones - Day Breaks
30 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Since her debut in 2002, Norah Jones has sold over 50 million albums, and won 8 Grammys. She release...
Dirty Projectors - Up in Hudson
21 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Longstreth started making music under the name Dirty Projectors in 2002, while he was in colleg...
Sleigh Bells - I Can Only Stare
14 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sleigh Bells formed in 2008. They released their fourth album, Jessica Rabbit, in 2016. In this epis...
Bonobo - Break Apart (feat. Rhye)
28 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Green is a producer and DJ who’s been making music under the name Bonobo since 2000. In Janu...
Sara Watkins - Without a Word
17 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Watkins began her music career when she was only 8 years old, as one of the founding members of...
Dropkick Murphys - Blood
07 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The band Dropkick Murphys formed in Boston in 1996. For over twenty years, they’ve made music that...
Nicholas Britell - Moonlight
30 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The film Moonlight tells the story of its main character, Chiron, in three chapters: when Chiron is ...
Solange - Cranes in the Sky
16 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Solange Knowles released her first album in 2002, at the age of 16. Her third album, A Seat at the T...
Metallica - Moth into Flame
06 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Metallica formed in 1981. They were teenagers. Since then, they’ve gone on to become one of the mo...
Justin Hurwitz - La La Land
21 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The film LA LA LAND tells the story of Mia, an aspiring actress played by Emma Stone, and Sebastian,...
DJ Shadow - Mutual Slump
08 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 1996, Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, released his first album, Endtroducing. It’s been hailed prett...
Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
30 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Angel Olsen released her third album, My Woman, in September 2016. It’s been critically acclaimed,...
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Arrival
17 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the film Arrival, Amy Adams plays a linguist trying to decode an alien language. The score was co...
Flatbush Zombies - Bounce
08 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Flatbush Zombies are a hip hop trio from Brooklyn. They formed in 2010. Their album 3001: A Laced Od...
Oathbreaker - 10:56 / Second Son of R.
28 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The band Oathbreaker formed in 2008 in Belgium. In this episode, Caro and Gilles from the band break...
James Vincent McMorrow - Get Low
19 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
James Vincent McMorrow is a singer/songwriter whose first albums fell somewhere on the folk music si...
Phantogram - You Don't Get Me High Anymore
06 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter started Phantogram in 2007. They’ve worked on crafting a particular ...
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
21 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 2006, Swedish trio Peter Bjorn and John released their third album, Writer’s Block. For months ...
Mitski - Your Best American Girl
07 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Mitski has been making records since 2012. Her third record, Puberty 2, came out in June 2016 and wa...
Tobacco - Gods in Heat
25 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Fec, aka Tobacco, has released four albums since 2008. He's also the frontman of the band Black ...
Andra Day - Forever Mine
15 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Singer/songwriter Andra Day put out her first record in August 2015. Since then, she’s been invite...
Patrick Carney feat. Ralph Carney - BoJack Horseman (Main Title Theme)
04 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
BoJack Horseman is a Netflix original series, an animated comedy about a washed up 90s sitcom star w...
Band of Horses - Solemn Oath
25 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Band of Horses released their 5th album in June 2016. In this episode, the band’s frontman, Ben Br...
Grimes - Kill V. Maim
14 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Grimes is the project of Claire Boucher. In 2015, she released Art Angels, her 4th album. In this ...
Andrew Bird - Roma Fade
05 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Bird is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, maybe known best for his violin pla...
CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue
23 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
CHVRCHES is a trio from Glasgow, Scotland. In this episode, they break down the song "Clearest Blue,...
ODESZA - Kusanagi
14 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2014, Odesza put out their album In Return. It debuted at #1 on Billboard's Dance/Elect...
Old Crow Medicine Show - Dearly Departed Friend
29 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Old Crow Medicine Show is a six-piece band from Tennessee, who have been around since 1998. They wer...
Busdriver - Worlds to Run
24 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Busdriver is a rapper from Los Angeles, and since 2001, he's been releasing albums with a signature ...
Carly Rae Jepsen - When I Needed You
09 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Carly Rae Jepsen released her third album, Emotion, in 2015. The closing track on the record is When...
The Lumineers - Ophelia
28 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Lumineers released their second album on April 8, 2016. Their first album went platinum, and the...
Weezer - Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori
18 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Weezer's 10th album, the self-titled "White" album, came out April 1, 2016. In this episode, Rivers ...
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - Astonished Man
05 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down released the album A Man Alive in March 2016. In this episode, Thao ...
Iggy Pop - American Valhalla
22 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Iggy Pop is a pioneer of punk rock, whose legendary career began over fifty years ago. In 2015, he b...
Oneohtrix Point Never - Sticky Drama
10 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Lopatin has been making experimental electronic music as Oneohtrix Point Never since 2007. In...
KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See
01 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Singer/songwriter KT Tunstall released her debut album in 2004. It was nominated for a Mercury Prize...
Clipping - Work Work
18 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Clipping is a trio made up of producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes, and rapper Daveed Diggs....
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
09 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The New Pornographers are kind of a supergroup, with seven members in the band, including Neko Case ...
Kelela - Rewind
28 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kelela is a singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. In 2015, she released Hallucinogen, and land...
MGMT - Time to Pretend
19 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
MGMT was formed by Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden in 2001. The song Time to Pretend was one ...
Courtney Barnett - Depreston
07 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Courtney Barnett released her debut album in March 2015. By the end of the year, she had been nomina...
Björk - Stonemilker
17 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In January 2015, Björk released Vulnicura. She described it as "a complete heartbreak album." And i...
Dustin O'Halloran - Transparent (Main Title Theme)
11 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Transparent is an Amazon original series, created by Jill Soloway. The story centers on a family whe...
Wilco - Magnetized
03 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Wilco formed in 1994, and 21 years later, they released their 9th album, Star Wars. In this episode,...
Natalia Lafourcade - Hasta la Raíz
23 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Natalia Lafourcade has won eight Latin Grammys, including three for the song Hasta la Raíz, which w...
Youth Lagoon - The Knower
16 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Youth Lagoon is the moniker of Trevor Powers, who has been releasing albums under the name since 201...
The Arcs - Put a Flower in Your Pocket
05 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The Arcs is a new project from Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. He started the band with some of the ...
Chet Faker - Gold
26 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Chet Faker is the stage name of Australian singer and songwriter Nick Murphy. His debut album, Built...
Harry Gregson-Williams - The Martian
15 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In the film "The Martian," astronaut Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) is stranded on Mars, forced ...
Deradoorian - A Beautiful Woman
05 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Angel Deradoorian has been a member of the bands Dirty Projectors and Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, an...