Hrishikesh Hirway

To many listeners, Hrishikesh Hirway is known as the host of the successful music podcast Song Exploder, mixing in-depth artist interviews and multi-track recordings to showcase the intricacies of great pop songs. It may come as little surprise, then, that, when not producing and hosting a small series of thoughtful podcasts, Hirway also holds down a career as a musician, with genre-spanning credits as a singer/songwriter, producer, and even a composer for film and television. A native of Peabody, Massachusetts, born in 1979, Hirway started making music while studying art at ...