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Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
64 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
25 episodes
since April 20, 2026
episodic

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After 24 straight weeks of chasing rabbit holes, arguing over gear, digging through music history, dissecting the business, and asking entirely too many questions about how records actually get made, Season One of The Earworm Podcast is officially in the books. We started Earworm because we love th…

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For the Season 1 finale of The Earworm Podcast, Bryan Clark and Patrick Cloud pull back the curtain on one of the most complicated machines in entertainment: the business of being a pop star. Behind every artist you see onstage is an enormous ecosystem of managers, A&R executives, producers, en…
In Episode 23 of The Earworm Podcast, Patrick Cloud and Bryan Clark plug into one of the most important technologies in modern music: MIDI. Short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, MIDI arrived in 1983 with an almost absurdly ambitious idea: get competing synthesizers, drum machines, compute…
Episode 22 of The Earworm Podcast takes Patrick Cloud and Bryan Clark back to a time when recording at home meant cassette multitracks, MIDI cables, bouncing tracks, and making some very questionable decisions in the name of “production.” The guys trace the evolution of home recording from the anal…
Patrick Cloud and Bryan Clark suit up for the biggest gig in music: the Super Bowl halftime show. Episode 21 of The Earworm Podcast rewinds all the way to 1967, when halftime entertainment meant marching bands, baton twirlers, Old West reenactments, and apparently putting a child inside a machine a…
In Episode 20 (holy crap), “The Liars of Ur,” The Earworm Podcast gets strung out on the surprisingly weird history of instrument strings. We start thousands of years ago with ancient lyres, plant fibers, animal sinew, and gut strings that could apparently be thrown out of tune by a strongly worded…
The Earworm Podcast returns to where it all began: artificial intelligence and music. Except this time, the technology has gotten better, the questions have gotten weirder, and Bryan and Patrick have plenty to say about it. With the usual Earworm humor and a healthy dose of self awareness, they rev…
In Episode 18 of The Earworm Podcast, Bryan Clark and Patrick Cloud head to the movies to untangle the difference between a score, a soundtrack, and a musical; and why each can completely change the way we experience a scene. From the live orchestras of the silent-film era to King Kong helping esta…
Episode 17 of The Earworm Podcast goes straight to one of the most overlooked links in the entire audio chain: the cable. Bryan Clark and Patrick Cloud sit down with Dariush Rad, owner of Asterope, to explore why musicians will spend thousands on guitars, microphones, pedals, preamps, and converter…
Episode 16 of The Earworm Podcast dives into the architecture of great songwriting, breaking down the building blocks that have shaped everything from folk ballads and Delta blues to Broadway standards and modern rock. Bryan and Patrick explore the four essential song forms—including strophic, 12-b…
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