Mark Blankenship and Sarah D. Bunting are journalists, friends, and music fans who love talking about pop music of all stripes.

Music lovers from 89.3 The Current comb through mountains of music to choose the best new, independent, and unreleased songs to share with you each weekday.

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A free weekday download of standout songs, including advance releases, exclusive live tracks recorded at KCRW, remixes, and an introduction to new artists on our radar.

SongWriter turns stories into songs, ft. Questlove, Joyce Carol Oates, David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), George Saunders, Steve Earle, Susan Orlean & Neil Gaiman

This is a podcast about Stephen Sondheim's entire body of work show by show and song by song. Each week Kyle Marshall invites an expert to discuss a Sondheim song in-depth. Together they discover the humour, ho...

Comedians Tyler Snodgrass and Danny Maupin are building the ultimate country music playlist one song a time. Each week the hosts research and discuss a different boot-stompin' country banger that they believe i...

We are the world’s leading hammered highbrows of Beatles broadcasting. In other words, we have a few drinks, we hit record, and we review and rank one Beatles song per episode. 

Every week I choose a song from the 50s through the 80s and dive into its history, the story behind the song and other items of interest. Find more stuff at www.howgooditis.com

Celebrating the greatest songs in modern music history and the creators behind them.

Wherein Scott finds his true calling as a one-man Dueling Pianos act Writing partners Shannon & Scott tempt the salad spinner of fate as they write a short song about a random topic in a random style of music....

A listener request has us discussing the (very long) (frequently inaccurate) history lesson in Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." We've also got a birthday chart reading about a massively ...

This week, Aaron and Brent highlight music from a Los Angeles band that has a flair for elaborate fictional worlds in their music and a Grammy winning Texas-born musician known for incorporating various styles ...

To get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: Elizabeth Butler - Fighting With Angels  Ayla Nereo - Turning Wake  Spicy Folk - Fading  Jan Garr...

Vibraphonist Masayoshi Fujita is based in the magical place of rural Japan where life flows with the seasons. Fujita takes a departure from his usual instrument, the vibraphone, and builds an album’s worth of i...

Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique": 2nd movement Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Antoni Wit, conductor More info about today's track: Naxos 8.550782 Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc. Sub...

Squirrel Flower - Hurt A Fly

Dark and heavy noise pervasive throughout this hour of music. The introducing track from Multiform Palace is scratchy experimental hip-hop with tinges of South America. We build on that with rooster-sampling cu...

An hour of top tunes from Dylan Cartlidge, Ghost Car, George Riley, Chinatown Slalom, Hallan, Safii Koii, Alice Low, Hemai, Ellie Dixon, R.I.Pablo, TEMZ, L’objectif, Maebh, Low Hummer, Carrie Baxter, and ALIMA ...

This jaunty look at 1800s Thailand is the final musical that Billy thought worth mentioning in his Cold War breakdown. But does The King and I deserve spot 20 in Billy's song, or is it just a handy rhyme for ne...