Podcast Corner: Digging deep with music podcasts

When it comes to music podcasts, the actual tunes themselves are not essential — the best series discuss around the music. The likes of NPR’s All Songs Considered are more the exception than the rule, more like traditional radio (except with much better music).

There are myriad podcasts that have opened an in-depth discussion of pop that you would never get on run-of-the-mill radio, enhancing the music when you go back to it. Song Exploder has been running since 2014 and sees a different musical act diving deep into the recording of a particular song, telling how the germ of an idea forms into a souped-up, layered, bona-fide hit.