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Castle Rat on Why Collaboration Made This Record Work

On this episode of The Hardest Part with Kieron Banerji, the band's songwriter and frontwoman opens up "Serpent," the song that fought her hardest on The Bestiary: the one where every band member hated a different part, and the only fix was to scrap everything but the lyrics and start again. It's …

Maddie Zahm on the Writing Process of "Meryl"

Maddie Zahm was watching Meryl Streep deliver "that is all" in The Devil Wears Prada when she had a realisation: "that's gay."  On this episode of The Hardest Part with Kieron Banerji, she opens up "Meryl," a flirty, joyful, proudly queer song about loving older women. It's a conversation about h…

Dan Croll Breaks Down the Process of Writing ‘Hail Mary.’

Dan Croll spent seven years on "Hail Mary," a song about last chances, time running out, and coming to terms with a career that didn't keep the shape it started with. On this episode of The Hardest Part with Kieron Banerji, he opens it up with rare honesty: the early success he feels he squandered,…

Troy Javelona on Writing "SALTWATER"

Saltwater stings a wound... and heals it. On this episode of The Hardest Part with Kieron Banerji, Troy Javelona opens up "SALTWATER" from his two-sided EP No Healing Without Heartbreak: one side written inside a relationship that treated him badly, the other written on the way out, and this song, …

Onstage Week: The Marx Brothers Became Comedians Thanks To An Escaped Mule In Texas

We're replaying some of our favorite shows about (mostly) live performances. In this episode from October 2023, the Marx Brothers start down the road to become comedy legends, thanks to a runaway animal with bad timing. Plus: musician Katie Melua and her band set a world record for deepest underwat…

Naya Yeira on Rock Bottom, Hitting Record & Starting Again

"When you're at a low point, there's nowhere to go but up — and when you're down there, you might as well hit record."  On this episode of The Hardest Part with Kieron Banerji, Naya Yeira opens up "hit record" — a song written at rock bottom, about refusing to be embarrassed in pursuit of somethin…

Rihanna, McFly and The Ultimate Flop Boyband (29 Oct - 4 Nov 2006)

McFly are cruising around Uranus, Rihanna is crashing out of the charts and the students of Britain are drinking £1 bottles of VK while listening to Bodyrox’s Yeah Yeah...it must be another week on The 2000s Chart Show!On this week’s music chart 20 years ago, a new dance genre was emerging as elect…

A SHERO's Journey: Katie Melua

While Katie Melua came up through the BRIT School in London, famously attended by fellow pop icons Adele and Amy Winehouse, she was born far away across the Black Sea in Georgia, and spent her early childhood in the former Soviet Union. In the aftermath of the Georgian civil war she moved with her …

Bedouine on How Nostalgia Shapes Her Songwriting

Bedouine was afraid she was losing her memories. So she wrote one down before it could slip away: a perfect day at the pool as a kid — protected, uninhibited, wrapped in a towel and carried home. Azniv Korkejian — Bedouine — sits down with Kieron Banerji to open up the title track of her album Neo…