Music Commentary Podcasts

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats

37 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1K ratings
Welcome to Night Vale creator Joseph Fink and the Mountain Goats singer/songwriter John Darnielle discuss what it means to be an artist, a fan, and, as many people are, both at once. Season...

Frank Turner's Tales From No Man's Land

15 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 313 ratings
Telling the stories of rock & roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, dance hall singer Dora Hand, WW1 spy Mata Hari and more, singer-songwriter Frank Turner talks to historians, poets and fellow musi...

Meet the Composer

89 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 199 ratings
Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds of the composers making some of the most innovative and breathtakingly beautiful music today.

Peace Of Mind with Bhi Bhiman

11 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 194 ratings
In a nod to the protest albums of the 1960s and 70s, Bhi Bhiman’s Peace of Mind finds inspiration in the chaos that is modern American life. So much so that he had to release the album as a podcas...

DaUnknownAdmin Podcast

94 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 120 ratings
Freestyle, House, Electro, EDM Podcast Mixes

Everything Is Rent

65 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking musical Rent premiered on Broadway in 1996. Over the years, musical theater fans all over the world have become Rent-heads, Rent-haters, and Rent-indifferent-istas....

Aquarium Drunkard - SIDECAR (TRANSMISSIONS) - Podcast

57 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 82 ratings
Weekly podcast companion for the Aquarium Drunkard music blog / SIRIUS XMU satellite radio show. Sound collage, old-school, free-form radio.

SpeshFX

8 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 71 ratings
The story of beatboxing, from Boots 'n' Cats to Lip Rolls. Join host Tani Levitt on the journey from discovery to obsession, and deep into the beatboxing community. Hear from world champion beatbo...

Stereo Confidential

103 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 64 ratings
Stereo Confidential investigates the music world. From the landmark, to the underrated, to the downright bizarre, Chris, James and Michael aim to uncover the artists, albums, songs, and moments tha...

Breakfast with Vinnie!

11 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 59 ratings
Eat up!

This Particular Album is Very, Very Important to Me

26 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Does music make you feel things? Like, anything at all? If not, you might be a sociopath! If so, this might be the podcast for you! Join hosts Joel Spence and Deborah Tarica each week as they invit...

Helga

17 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Helga with host Helga Davis features probing conversations with creative and performing artists who have a unique, uncompromising voice and a stake in the matter of social change. Davis is an inter...

Post-Pinkerton

83 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Post-Pinkerton examines every Weezer song released after the band's 1996 album Pinkerton.

ROOTS ROCK RADIO

61 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
ROOTS ROCK RADIO presents the best indie ROOTS ROCK/POP, ALT COUNTRY/AMERICANA, BLUES/ROCKABILLY, GARAGE/PUNK, and Real ROCK & ROLL from around the globe. ©2019 RICHARD TAYLOR http://facebook.com/g...

Country Mile

12 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Country Mile, the USA TODAY NETWORK’s new podcast series, explores the evolution of one of America’s truest art forms through the stories told by the stars who lived them. The format is simple: Tw...

CAUTIONARY TALES with Jason Pettigrew

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 40 ratings
You want to have a career in music, but someone else is getting the money. AltPress editor in chief Jason Pettigrew engages with rockers of all kinds to learn how they navigated the treacherous wat...

Exploring Music Podcast

66 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
The SyncLodge Podcast Series Exploring Music, where we explore the obscure, where we delve in deep, into the vast vaults of great, but maybe, not so known, music and the industry that, for better o...

BBC Music Magazine

107 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 35 ratings
Welcome to the BBC Music Magazine podcast. Join us once a month for the latest classical music news, the top stories in the new issue of BBC Music Magazine, a guide to the magazine’s cover CD, plus...

My Favourite Elliott Smith Song

44 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratings
The premise of this podcast is very simple - in each episode, we speak to a famous fan of Elliott Smith's to discuss their favourite song of his and how they got into his music.

RADIO TUAZ

19 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratings
RADIO TUAZ is a music podcast that is comprised of weekly DJ mixes from artists all around the world.

Fully & Completely

31 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Fully & Completely with Greg & Jamie is not your typical music podcast. Ordinary was never an option given its ingredients. First of all, the podcast examines one of the most engaging and enigmati...

"OFF THE TOP"

8 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Dial into a low-key podcast that fuses music, sports and pop culture.

Sabbath Bloody Podcast

37 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
A Sabbagraphy for the masses! Now that The End has come and gone, I’ve decided to put myself and any other willing Supernauts through Heaven & Hell! Exploring the music and impact of the band Black...

Sample Excavator

11 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
A podcast by Angelo Robledo that digs through the crates of musics' past to piece together the stories behind the world's biggest records.

Culture Creature

55 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Culture Creature is a podcast featuring revealing, in-depth interviews with musicians in all genres.

Listening to Fletcher C Johnson

7 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
A storytelling podcast about the lows and lows of being a musician. Each episode premieres a song from Fletcher’s upcoming album, Are You Feelin’ It, while divulging tales of addiction, homelessnes...

Collab Gab

4 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
A podcast about music collaborations you love to remember and those you hope to hear

Alternative Airwaves

129 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
There are a lot of really great artists that go unnoticed, and their music is freely and legally available online. Alternative Airwaves discovers those artists.

My Name is Weezer

34 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
You know you love…probably two Weezer records, but did you know that they recorded like a billion songs? Friends and comedians Jen Kleinrock and Patrick Ehlers learn about themselves and each other...

Holding Things Together

8 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
Holding Things Together is an unofficial aftershow to Country Music: A Ken Burns Film. Your hosts Don, Becky and Nick bring years of experience as classic country music radio DJs for a spirited con...