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The Downbeat

The Downbeat Podcast is an award-winning heavy music podcast featuring in-depth interviews with the biggest names in metal, hardcore, and alternative music.

Hosted by Craig Reynolds, The Downbeat explores metal, death metal, black metal, hardcore, and metalcore through long-form, unfiltered conversations with legendary musicians and rising artists. Hear behind-the-scenes stories, songwriting insights, touring life, and honest discussions from across the global heavy music scene.

New episodes feature iconic bands, underground favorites, and the voices shaping modern heavy music.

Drummer Seeks Musicians: The Making of U2

Story Lines is the home of audio storytelling from The Irish Times, including GUBU, Web 1.0 and Atlantic.

***Coming soon: Drummer Seeks Musicians: The Making of U2***

A note on a school noticeboard. Four teenagers. One extraordinary story. In this three-part podcast series, Róisín Ingle traces the making of U2 through interviews with their classmates, teachers, friends and band members. From Mount Temple Comprehensive on Dublin’s northside to the world stage, this is the story of how U2 began.

Episode one will be available on this podcast feed on Monday September 21st.


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Alchemy with Anthony Mason

Welcome to Alchemy! This is a show about the craft and mystery of the creative process. It’s for anyone who’s ever been saved by a song, lost in a book, or enlightened by a painting. I’ve spent decades as a journalist interviewing artists in all creative disciplines. Alchemy is a new home for these conversations. Follow us. And be inspired.

The Track Star Podcast

The internet’s favorite music show, now in podcast form! Each episode explores a theme through a playlist of songs, taking listeners on a deep dive into a specific artist, genre, or era of music through the perspectives of musicians, historians, journalists and fans. Also available in video on YouTube! Hosted by Jack Coyne.

2004: The Year Indie Rock Broke

The year 2004 brought a seismic shift in indie rock. Hosted by Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast), this show makes the case with the help of members of Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, Spoon, Modest Mouse, The Decemberists, Tegan & Sara, Metric, and industry leaders from record labels, iTunes, and TV shows like The O.C. The podcast is presented by Dropbox and produced by Nevermind Media.

Light Box

Mark Henry Phillips has spent twenty years making music for a living. Then one night he typed a few words into an AI music generator and it did his job better than he ever could. In ten seconds. Basically for free. Light Box is what happened next: a season-long investigation into what AI is doing to music and the people who love it. What happens when a machine can do the thing you thought made you, you? 

Monday Music Club with Will Anderson

Monday Music Club is a podcast about the defining moments that have shaped the way we hear the world. Each week, host Will Anderson explores the stories behind iconic songs, legendary artists, and the creative forces that have transformed music and culture.

Whether you’re obsessed with music history, fascinated by the craft of songwriting, or simply looking to hear your favorite songs in a new way, Monday Music Club is where the conversation begins.

Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Before The Moment with Nile Rodgers

A lifetime spent making music is a lifetime made up of individual moments. And no moment is more important than the one before the big change. Legendary producer and musician Nile Rodgers is hitting the road in his Lincoln Navigator® SUV, sitting down with some of music’s biggest names to uncover the turning points that defined them — the moments before everything changed.

The Indie Sound with Jimmy Star

The Indie Sound with Jimmy Star is your backstage pass to the global independent music scene. Each short-form episode spotlights fresh, fearless artists from around the world—spanning every genre from alt-pop to hip-hop to cinematic rock. Hosted by entertainment veteran Jimmy Star, the show drops quick, high-energy segments packed with new releases, artist stories, and the kind of unfiltered conversation you won’t get anywhere else. Think of it as your daily dose of discovery—raw talent, zero filler.

The Vic Mensa Show

Vic Mensa has done it all. Music with Justin Bieber, Pharrell and Jay-Z. Roles on Showtime’s The Chi and Peacock’s Bel-Air. And a fervor for speaking hard truths, even if the world isn’t ready. What some saw as a problem turned out to be his purpose. His award-winning Orange Tree Series is now The Vic Mensa Show, a video-first sit-down at the intersection of politics and culture. Stories over statistics. Roast the powerful, never the victim. He is the format. New episodes every Wednesday starting August 26, wherever you get your podcasts. Pull up.