943. - Hrishikesh Hirway
Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician from Los Angeles, best known for his masterful podcast Song Exploder. His new record, In the Last Hour of Light, is out now. We chat with him about the new Salem x Supreme collection, Pitchfork giving Chris Brown’s new offering a devastating 1.3, our salad days of podcasting, competing with A.I. in both music and podcasts, when the emo band opens for the hardcore band, what happens when doctors and lawyers run in your family but you choose Spotify, exactly how many licks it takes to explode a song, whether songs will have ads one day, the “Ratatouille moment” when a singer hears their original recording from decades ago, and which podcasts Hrishikesh is listening to. instagram.com/hrishihirway twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Speaker A: All right, uh, this episode of How Long Gone is brought to you by Stateside with Kai and Carter, a new podcast from The Guardian. And they are using this podcast to slow down the news and wrestle with the questions that we all have about what's happening in the world. And they do it 3 times a week. Jason, does that sound familiar to you? Speaker B: We don't really talk about, you know, a lot of international global news items and climates and cultures and sports and things like that. We do talk about fashion and wellness, but for everything else, Kai and Carter are a great place.
Speaker A: All right, so who couldn't use more news? Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube. Speaker B: Hey guys, Jason here. Really quick, Chris's recording got a little messed up, so we used his Zoom recording for the intro, but for the interview portion after the commercial break, he sounds back to normal. If you hate it, just fast forward about 15 minutes, but it still sounds pretty good. Thanks for listening. Speaker A: How long gone? Good to hear from you, bitch. It's Chris Black. I'm back in New York.
The sun is shining, uh, it's a little chilly, but we're going to power through. TJ, you're still holding it down, if I'm not mistaken. Speaker B: I'm over here at the Nine Orchard, room 6E. Beautiful little corner view of, of Dimes Square. I got to see a lot of stuff go down on the block over the last few days. There was a You know, some skaters who can't skate, couple Chinese funerals, some yelling, all kinds of stuff. Speaker B: I'm over here at the Nine Orchard, room 6E. Beautiful little corner view of, of Dimes Square.
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