How Music Does That

Music -- just vibrations in the air -- can make you feel heartbroken or elated, peaceful or stabby, inspired to save the whales or to invade Poland. This is HOW MUSIC DOES THAT.<br /><br />Click the website link to subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts.

The 1977 Line

One film score changed everything.

08-11
24:35

The Haunting of Figure 8

Schoolhouse Rock was always great. But the music from one particular episode has haunted us down the years.

07-24
17:32

How MUZAK Does That

How did wall-to-wall music find its way into every public space? Meet General George Squier.

02-13
20:17

Riffing on Each Other

How a few inaccurate jingles came to represent entire cultures.

01-07
23:45

Anatomy of an Earworm

After a month at the mercy of an earworm, I found the cure. Then it all went wrong.

12-14
17:41

When the Music Doesn't Trust You

The mark of a great film score is knowing when to shut up.

10-29
31:19

Unsung

They are some of your favorite artists of all time. And you don't even know their names.

10-15
27:10

The King of Space-Age Pop!

HOW MUSIC DOES THAT returns with a Mexican bandleader whose coloristic imagination defined the sound of the space age.

09-30
26:41

Clap When You Damn Well Please [Encore]

The revolution starts right damn now.

01-02
26:55

The Bagpipe Incident on Which I Thought We Had Agreed Not to Dwell [Encore]

30,000 people. 16 measures. One bad decision.

12-08
19:37

The Evolution of Cool [Encore]

The quality of 'cool' in music has deep evolutionary roots in the brain.

11-28
14:26

Grooves [Encore]

In Hungary, road plays you!

11-11
16:36

Beethoven Was Deaf [Encore]

That's not the amazing part.

10-28
26:30

Silence [Encore]

Sometimes the greatest moment in music is the one you don't hear.

09-29
22:47

Where Did We Put Vivaldi? [Encore]

After greatness came one bad decision—and then, the forgetting.

09-15
22:30

Encore: Stop Practicing, You're Ruining EVERYTHING

Sometimes it's supposed to hurt.

09-01
18:55

ENCORE: The Rage of the Third Sons (Carmina Burana)

Eight hundred years ago, they left the church and found the world.

08-19
22:43

ENCORE: The Aging White Suburban Music Professor's Guide to Hip Hop

Put on the good Dockers, Chad. We're going in.

08-03
21:54

ENCORE: The Bones of Yellow Brick Road

Most covers stay on the surface. Sara Bareilles got down into the bones.

07-14
20:43

ENCORE: The Sweet Madness of Big Meters

Let's have a wild time.

06-30
18:40

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