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writing music, making podcasts (song exploder, home cooking, west wing weekly), eating desserts linktr.ee/hrishihirway
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TONIGHT: Gonna be celebrating the cracking of some eggs just for the egg whites. Come to the albumen release party!

HARK DAILY: Today's best podcast moments in one playlist, featuring: - How Trump is getting game theory all wrong on tariffs @mkonnikova.bsky.social - How the 'Severance' theme was created @hrishikesh.co - The hostage kept sane by a Seal song @sfstandard.com

I love Song Exploder. Thank you @hrishikesh.co for having me on! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

I’ve started a new series on Song Exploder where I talk to fascinating people about the music that transformed them: Key Change. My first guest is actor/musician Sophie Thatcher, on Elliott Smith's "Waltz #1.” You can find it in the Song Exploder feed or here: songexploder.net/keychange

THE meme of 2025 for me.

My original soundtrack for the film "Companion" is out now, and you can pre-order it on vinyl! lnk.to/CompanionSDTK. The movie itself comes out Jan 31 - go see it!

Adrianne Lenker and her co-producer, Philip Weinrobe, tell the story of 'Sadness As A Gift' with Song Exploder 💫 Listen to the podcast here songexploder.net/adrianne-len... Illustration by Carlos Lerma

Happy day: There's a new episode of the Home Cooking podcast out, with Samin Nosrat and @hrishikesh.co!

I talked to Sabrina Carpenter and Jack Antonoff about the making of “Please Please Please” for the last Song Exploder episode of the year. songexploder.net/sabrina-carpenter

On threads, you can have a lot of followers but zero engagement. I prefer Bluesky where I have neither

I wrote a brief essay on the primacy of the Toll House chocolate chip cookie and the origin of its recipe. open.substack.com/pub/hrishike...

We would need to get some questions from listeners. Probably holiday-themed. Recorded as voice memos and emailed to [email protected]. In theory!

The song that's stuck in my head today: this cover of Arthur Russell's "This Is How We Walk on the Moon" by Speakers Corner Quartet, featuring Tirzah. Feels somber but resolute in a way that I really appreciate right now.

The song that’s been stuck in my head - “Empty Beach” by Coco. song.link/i/1491373710

On the new episode of Song Exploder, I talked to Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman about the making of a classic — “Deceptacon” by Le Tigre. songexploder.net/le-tigre

The song that’s stuck in my head right now: “Coyote” by Ken Pomeroy, feat. John Moreland. found.ee/kenpomeroyco...