Picks of the week
The Music & Meditation Podcast
BBC Sounds, all episodes accessible from Monday
Grammy and Mercury-nominated soul singer NAO tackles her twin loves of music and meditation in a podcast that's so loosely structured it appears like a free-form listening expertise. There are anecdotes, guided respiratory workout routines, interviews with meditation specialists and musical interludes of bespoke compositions from the BBC Live performance Orchestra – all of which add as much as a particularly soothing hear. Alexi Duggins
Ghost Church
Extensively accessible, episodes weekly
Nominally the subject of this new collection is American spiritualism – the century-old, Bible-following US faith that believes in communing with the useless. Or what host Jamie Loftus dubbed, “Ghost Church”. Loftus is an enthralling, open-minded and humorous information, travelling not simply to a Florida camp filled with mediums, but additionally into her personal previous and beliefs. AD
Lives Much less Atypical
BBC Sounds, episodes weekly
“I've a secret that I used to be particular: I robbed banks in my spare time.” Tom – a one-time Olympic biking hopeful who stole from 25 banks earlier than the FBI acquired him – is Mobeen Azhar’s visitor within the first of an intriguing collection that seeks out the extraordinary life tales of ordinary-seeming individuals. Hollie Richardson
Not Misplaced
Extensively accessible, episodes weekly
When Brendan Francis Newnam’s radio present and relationship ended he began a journey podcast, wherein he tries to get invited to dinner events in other places. He begins in Montreal, then units out on an unpredictable and extremely entertaining journey, operating right into a priest who does magic, a girl who lives in a wine barrel, and an electrical bear-fence. Hannah Verdier
Ship Us from Ervil
Extensively accessible, episodes weekly
How did Colonia LeBaron go from being a Mormon group to a spot the place organised crime thrived? Host Jesse Hyde appears to be like on the Mexican city’s historical past because the Nineteen Fifties, tracing the story of cult chief Ervil LeBaron by means of interviews along with his followers – and his teenage spouse – which provides as much as an intriguing story of a utopia that goes very unsuitable. HV
There’s a podcast for that
This week, Danielle Koku chooses 5 of the most effective music podcasts, from a hip-hop nostalgia hit to a present shining a light-weight on the evolution of Latin American music
Dissect Podcast
Cole Cuchna is all concerning the particulars in Dissect, dedicating every season to a single album earlier than breaking down its lyrics, manufacturing, cowl artwork and extra for our listening pleasure. It’s ‘nerding out’ of the best diploma, however for good cause. The latest season is a deep dive into Bo Burnham’s satirical lockdown hit Exterior, whereas earlier seasons have ventured into the late Mac Miller’s Swimming in Circles, Infantile Gambino’s Due to the Web, and Beyoncé’s Lemonade. In an age of cut-and-paste pop, however it's endearing to hearken to creative evaluation that feels removed from disposable.
Popcast
A indifferent angle in direction of discussing music doesn’t are likely to make for an attention-grabbing podcast. Gladly, this collection from The New York Instances does a terrific job of filling you in with out pretending to be impartial. Hosted by seasoned critic Jon Caramanica, it has coated all the things from the worldwide enlargement of Reggaeton to Adele’s latest return, coping with tendencies from a US perspective. In the event you’re the kind to time your podcast to your commute, this one could have you over and out in an hour, feeling like you may tie collectively numerous cultural threads right into a neat little bow.
Don’t Alert The Stans
Journalist Nicolas-Tyrell Scott, publicist Sope Soetan, and self-confessed album nerd Eden Mckenzie host this conversational present, wherein they intention to maintain music’s usually wrath-fuelled fanbases at arm’s size. In lieu of reactive music takes like these served up by the much-decorated Joe Budden, they're followers of deeper, hour-plus dives. In addition to recounting Twitter memes for a fast chuckle, the trio contextualise ongoing debates and wider themes. They’re additionally not afraid to debate feminine rappers, with out the conceitedness and misogyny usually directed in direction of them.
Alt.Latino
Felix Contreras and Cat Sposato hold to the storytelling custom that underpins a lot of Latin American tradition of their NPR collection. They take a historic method to celebrating the previous glory of Latinas in Punk, for instance, earlier than dealing with ahead and in search of out their fashionable reincarnations. Within the episode Encore: The Meteoric Rise of Latin City Defined, listeners are handled to a primer on the motion as we see it now. Coming in at a simple breezy 24 minutes, it explains not solely the rise in ‘papi’ references in pop, however the racial and cultural variations that dictate who has visibility in these areas.
Rhymes like Dimes Podcast
For hip-hop followers who're additionally suckers for nostalgia, and there's something candy and acquainted about this present hosted by two brothers and an outdated good friend. South London-based music journalist Yemi Abiade is joined by his sibling Peter and their pal Moe to supply up weekly discussions on the style, full with the form of well mannered critique that Brits are effectively admired for. In the event you want a fast explainer on why the UK’s grime scene doesn’t want American validation or an introduction to the everlasting battle between lyrical-obsessed “oldheads” and hype-dazed kids current in most subcultures, that is the present for you.
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Stunning Victorian crimes get a feminist reexamination in Woman Killers with Lucy Worsley.
Complete every day updates on the persevering with battle, in NPR’s State of Ukraine.
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