A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the conversation, accompanied by the nation's most plugged-in cultural journalists.
Have you ever listened to a song and wondered how it really came together? Hrishikesh Hirway is a Los Angeles-based musician who takes a song apart piece-by-piece and then brings the artists on his podcast, Song Exploder, to talk about how they put it all together.
On a recent episode, adapted for The Frame, Hirway talks with bassist Stephen Bruner, aka Thundercat, about his most recent single, "Them Changes." Among other things, Bruner reveals the source of the track's heavy drums, why he needs to write on a custom-built, six-string bass, and how a rough breakup led to some of his most open lyrics yet.