What Is Music?: A Music Podcast About Arctic Monkeys

The Big Mates discuss third albums, dinosaurs, jingles, and Humbug by Arctic Monkeys. 

Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their exploration of the career of Arctic Monkeys and conclude their track-by-tra…

The Big Mates discuss engineering, confectionery, ego mechanics, and Humbug by Arctic Monkeys. 

Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their exploration of the career of Arctic Monkeys and their track-by-tra…

The Big Mates discuss adventures, break ups, expectations, and Humbug by Arctic Monkeys. 

Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their exploration of the career of Arctic Monkeys by diving into the band's di…

The Big Mates discuss Burt Bacharach, The Zombies, David Bowie, Scott Walker, Belle & Sebastian, Serge Gainsbourg, The Electric Prunes, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, John Barry, Ennio Morricone, A…

The Big Mates provide exciting and vital audio commentary for Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo.

Adam, Steve, and Lucas discuss the 2007 concert as released on DVD in 2008 and talk about the Favourite Wors…

The Big Mates discuss CM Punk, Ennio Morricone, Tommy Lee Jones, and Favourite Worst Nightmare by Arctic Monkeys. 

Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue and conclude their discussion of the band's second al…

The Big Mates discuss Robot Wars, bingo, innuendo, and Favourite Worst Nightmare by Arctic Monkeys. 

Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their discussion of the band's second album, going track-by-track t…

The Big Mates discuss Avril Lavigne, Stewie Griffin, Duran Duran, and Favourite Worst Nightmare by Arctic Monkeys. 

Adam, Steve, and Lucas begin their dissection of the band's follow up to the hugely …

The Big Mates provide insightful and tangential audio commentary for Arctic Monkeys live Reading Festival 2006.

Adam, Steve, and Lucas discuss the concert as broadcast on BBC television and radio, …

The Big Mates discuss The 1975, My Chemical Romance, Klaxons, and Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? by Arctic Monkeys. 

Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their deep-dive into the career of Arctic Monkeys…

The Big Mates discuss Shane Meadows, Stephen Graham, Paddy Considine, and Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys. 

Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue and conclude their discussio…

The Big Mates discuss Peter Buck, train love, traditional policemen, and Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys. 

Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their discussion of the band'…

The Big Mates discuss concept albums, Chris Tarrant, the alt. rock pipeline, and Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys. 

Adam, Steve, and Lucas begin their dissection of the …

The Big Mates discuss bouncers, poets, rappers, and Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys. 

Adam, Steve, and Lucas properly begin their deep-dive exploration of Arctic Monkeys by talking about the people t…

Introducing Season 7 of the What Is Music? podcast, which is called "Do U Wanna Know?: A Critical Analysis of the History, Cultural Impact, and Music of Arctic Monkeys".

Adam, Steve, and Lucas begin t…

The Big Mates discuss call signs, the attraction of screens, easter eggs, and HIT ME HARD AND SOFT by Billie Eilish.

Adam, Steve, and Lucas return to the subject of their third season and explore Eili…

For the first time on our main feed, we present to you The WIM Album Club, with an episode we released on our Patreon last December.

The episode is a classic WIM deep-dive into the album What's Going…

The Big Mates discuss Spirited Away, underwater photography, deer vocalisations, and HIT ME HARD AND SOFT by Billie Eilish.

Adam, Steve, and Lucas return to the subject of their third season and explo…

The Big Mates discuss ticket buying, secret agents, time signatures, and two albums by The Smile.

Adam, Steve, and Lucas return to the subject of their fourth season in order to catch up with the extr…

The Big Mates discuss and conclude their thoughts on R.E.M. and their career. 

They bring an 18-month journey to a close, with thoughts on the sound, story, and attitude of the band, a recap of each o…