Music History Podcasts

Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music

15 episodes - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5.4K ratings
The podcast about 20th Century Country Music and the lives of those who gave it to us.

Mogul

29 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.7K ratings
Mogul is a show about hip hop’s most iconic moments, told by the people who lived them. Season 2 dives into the birth of southern hip hop. It all started in Miami with the 2 Live Crew, a group tha...

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

53 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
What makes a song a smash? Talent? Luck? Timing? All that—and more. Chris Molanphy, pop-chart analyst and author of Slate’s “Why Is This Song No. 1?” series, tells tales from a half-century of ch...

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

82 episodes - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 820 ratings
Every week, we sit down with an acclaimed and venerable songwriter to intimately discuss what happens behind closed doors in the music industry. There are millions of singers, thousands of artists...

Digging Deep with Robert Plant

13 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 641 ratings
Robert Plant is celebrating S2 of his hugely popular podcast, Digging Deep with Robert Plant, with the release of a very special limited edition 7’’ singles box set. DIGGING DEEP includes 1...

Frank Turner's Tales From No Man's Land

15 episodes - Latest episode: 3 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...

DJ Mike Rizzy

101 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 232 ratings
Hip Hop/Soul DJ/Producer

Bizarre Albums

29 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 195 ratings
Tony Thaxton explores the weirder side of music, celebrating and telling the story behind those strange albums that make you wonder how and why they exist. Doing deep dives on albums released by pr...

Discography

22 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 159 ratings
Discography is a deep dive into a legendary musician's catalogue - album by album - to give you the big picture on who they are and what's cemented their place in the annuls of sonic history. Walk...

DaUnknownAdmin Podcast

94 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 120 ratings
Freestyle, House, Electro, EDM Podcast Mixes

185 Miles South

49 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 119 ratings
A hardcore punk rock podcast documenting the undertold stories of regional CA hardcore scenes and beyond.

Sail On: The Beach Boys Podcast

44 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 97 ratings
Leading you further and further down the Beach Boys rabbit hole as gently and as thoroughly as humanly possible since 2017!

Who Cares About the Rock Hall?

96 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 86 ratings
A podcast about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hosted by comedians Joe Kwaczala and Kristen Studard. He's a long-time devotee. She's a skeptic. Join them as he attempts to get her (and their guests...

Tinsel Tunes - A Christmas Music Podcast

24 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 77 ratings
Tinsel Tunes podcast goes into great detail about Christmas music. Full of fun and interesting facts, it will get you into the Christmas Spirit. ​ ​Hear about your favorite classics or modern songs...

Rightnowish

15 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 76 ratings
Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We’ll dance in warehouses in the...

Our Lives Their Deaths: A True Crime Podcast

111 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Hello! We're in the process of remastering our earlier episodes. We've learned a lot and are beginning to refine past episodes. Thanks for understanding! (10/19/19 update: Episodes marked 'remas...

Things We Said Today Beatles Radio Show

305 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★ - 61 ratings
Great weekly discussion of the Beatles world by Beatles experts Allan Kozinn, Ken Michaels and Darren DeVivo. Send comments to [email protected]

Three Sides of the Coin Video

100 episodes - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 60 ratings
This is only our opinion… it is neither right nor wrong.

Promotion Man Podcast

20 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
Fred Meyers shares his stories with L.A. Lloyd about his adventures from his days at Warner Bros Records and Virgin Records and his relationships with some of the most influential bands that Fred w...

MLVC: The Madonna Podcast

28 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 50 ratings
The Madonna Podcast

I'm With The Boyband

56 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 48 ratings
Boyband junkies Amy and Zoe take you step-by-step through everything boyband as they compile The Ultimate Boyband Chart to realise their dream of finding the greatest ever boyband, one dreamy music...

Post-Pinkerton

83 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Post-Pinkerton examines every Weezer song released after the band's 1996 album Pinkerton.

Alphabetallica: A-Z Metallica Podcast

234 episodes - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 46 ratings
An A-Z journey through Metallica's entire discography. @metallicapod

Muses

141 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
Chanty & Lynx are just a couple of fun-lovin’ rocker girls from Toronto, with chemistry and great rapport...they have done over 100 episodes of Muses! Chanty and Lynx dish about the wives and girl...

Riffs on Riffs

40 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
Riffs on Riffs is a podcast that studies sampling in popular music. Hosts, Joe Watson and Toby Brazwell, connect the musical dots between legendary tracks and the often lesser-known songs they samp...

Final Sessions

5 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
Every album tells a story. Introducing "Final Sessions," a new audio documentary series about music's most notable releases. The first season is a 4-part limited series detailing the long ...

Pamela Des Barres' Pajama Party!

10 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Pantheon is proud to present Pamela Des Barres' Pajama Party! Join Miss Pamela as she tells tales from her diary, has fun interviewing special guests, and shares her love of Rock n Roll. She is kn...

Ginger Anne's Jam Bands Podcast

128 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 36 ratings
Welcome to Ginger Anne's Jam bands. Let's explore albums, music news, live concerts and festivals related to the unique Jam bands fan culture. Blues, Bluegrass, Roots, Rock, Reggae, and Americana....

Meeting Malkmus - a Pavement podcast

54 episodes - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 36 ratings
Meeting Malkmus - a Pavement Podcast is an obsessive and exhaustive deep-dive into the songs of the seminal '90s indie rock band Pavement. Working in chronological order according to the date of r...

When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

222 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★ - 33 ratings
Talk, more talk, chat, more chat - We're happy to do it for you (Beatles)