How Music Does That

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. Click the website link to subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Episodes

August 11, 2024 24 mins
One film score changed everything.
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Schoolhouse Rock was always great. But the music from one particular episode has haunted us down the years.
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February 13, 2024 20 mins
How did wall-to-wall music find its way into every public space? Meet General George Squier.
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January 7, 2024 23 mins
How a few inaccurate jingles came to represent entire cultures.
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December 14, 2023 17 mins
After a month at the mercy of an earworm, I found the cure. Then it all went wrong.
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October 29, 2023 31 mins
The mark of a great film score is knowing when to shut up.
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October 15, 2023 27 mins
They are some of your favorite artists of all time. And you don't even know their names.
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September 30, 2023 26 mins
HOW MUSIC DOES THAT returns with a Mexican bandleader whose coloristic imagination defined the sound of the space age.
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January 2, 2022 26 mins
The revolution starts right damn now.
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30,000 people. 16 measures. One bad decision.
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November 28, 2021 14 mins
The quality of 'cool' in music has deep evolutionary roots in the brain.
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November 10, 2021 16 mins
In Hungary, road plays you!
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October 27, 2021 26 mins
That's not the amazing part.
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September 29, 2021 22 mins
Sometimes the greatest moment in music is the one you don't hear.
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September 15, 2021 22 mins
After greatness came one bad decision—and then, the forgetting.
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Sometimes it's supposed to hurt.
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Eight hundred years ago, they left the church and found the world.
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Put on the good Dockers, Chad. We're going in.
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Most covers stay on the surface. Sara Bareilles got down into the bones.
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Let's have a wild time.
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