What Is Music?: A Music Podcast About Arctic Monkeys
A podcast that dives deep into discographies - one artist per season. Hosts Adam, Steve, and Lucas go album by album, track by track, exploring how context shapes our experience of music, why fans become obsessed, and what music really is. With three hosts coming from wildly different levels of musical knowledge, expect sharp analysis, wild tangents, hot takes, and more information about the artists (and the hosts) than you ever asked for. Currently exploring the discography of Arctic Monkeys. Previous seasons featured Manic Street Preachers, Muse, Billie Eilish, Radiohead, Lauryn Hill, and R.E.M.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 102 minutes
- Episodes
- 298
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Colin Greenwood is in Radiohead
The Big Mates discuss heat, negative energy, hovitating, and Colin Greenwood.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their deep dive into the career and discography of Radiohead by discussing the bassist fro…
Jonny Greenwood Contemporary Classical and Film Score
The Big Mates discuss Paul Thomas Anderson, Sean Harris, Tom Cruise, and a selection of contemporary classical and film score works by Jonny Greenwood.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their deep dive …
A Light For Attracting Attention
The Big Mates discuss painting, the pandemic, Glastonbury Festival, and A Light For Attracting Attention by The Smile.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their deep dive into the career and discography o…
Analysing Radiohead with Brad Osborn
Adam sits down with Associate Professor of Music Theory and affiliated faculty in American Studies at the University of Kansas, Dr. Brad Osborn, to talk about his book, Everthing In Its Right Place: …
The Holy Bible (Are We Still So In Love With You?)
A bonus episode, appearing on our main feed from our Patreon show, revisiting Manic Street Preachers. It's called Are We Still So In Love With You?, and you can now claim a free 7-day trial of any su…
Earth
The Big Mates discuss Interstellar, U2, hats, and Earth by EOB.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their deep dive into the career and discography of Radiohead by discussing the debut solo album from gui…
Suspiria / ANIMA
The Big Mates discuss dreams, witches, Mr. Bean, and two solo offerings from Thom Yorke.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their deep dive into the career and discography of Radiohead by taking in the m…
Radiohead Live at Glastonbury Festival 2017 Commentary
The Big Mates provide insightful commentary for Radiohead Live at Glastonbury Festival 2017.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas discuss the live performance as broadcast on TV!
Head to the Internet Archive to watc…
OKNOTOK / Kid A Mnesia
The Big Mates discuss Goldeneye 64, Fortnite, Rocket League, and the reissues of OK Computer and Kid A/Amnesiac by Radiohead.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their deep dive into the career and discog…
Radiohead B-Sides (Pt. 2)
The Big Mates discuss Lee Evans, pluralisation, Mark and Lard, and a selection of b-sides by Radiohead.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their deep dive into the career and discography of Radiohead by …
Radiohead B-Sides (Pt. 1)
The Big Mates discuss Heat, Rampart, Friends, and a selection of b-sides by Radiohead.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their deep dive into the career and discography of Radiohead by taking in some of…
Radiohead Live in Amsterdam 2016 Commentary
The Big Mates provide insightful commentary for Radiohead Live in Amsterdam 2016.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas discuss the live performance as presented in the form of a bootleg edited together by fans, and…
A Moon Shaped Pool (Pt. 3)
The Big Mates discuss therapy, cat's cradle, hard soup, and A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue and conclude their deep dive into A Moon Shaped Pool by finishing off their…
A Moon Shaped Pool (Pt. 2)
The Big Mates discuss Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, and A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their deep dive into the last Radiohead album of this season, A Moon Sh…
A Moon Shaped Pool (Pt. 1)
The Big Mates discuss Blackadder, James Bond, Trumpton, and A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their deep dive into the career and discography of Radiohead by taking on t…
AMOK / Tomorrow's Modern Boxes / Weatherhouse / Junun
The Big Mates discuss polyfauna, BitTorrent, supergroups, and a whole host of side projects by the members of Radiohead.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their deep dive into the career and discography…
Recreating Radiohead with Joe Edelmann
The Big Mates are joined by Joe Edelmann to talk about cover songs, intstruments, YouTube, and all things Radiohead.
Adam, Steve, Lucas, and Joe explore what it's like to be in a Radiohead tribute ban…
The King of Limbs From the Basement Commentary
The Big Mates provide insightful commentary for The King of Limbs From the Basement by Radiohead.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas discuss the live performance from the studio and talk about how it was consciou…
The King of Limbs (Pt. 2)
The Big Mates discuss Marmite, the Large Hadron Collider, newspapers, and The King of Limbs by Radiohead.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas conclude their track-by-track deep dive into the band's oft-maligned ei…
The King of Limbs (Pt. 1)
The Big Mates discuss Greensleeves, Muse, trees, and The King of Limbs by Radiohead.
Adam, Steve, and Lucas continue their deep dive into the career and discography of Radiohead by tackling their divi…