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Lost Notes
Lost Notes
KCRW

KCRW’s acclaimed music documentary podcast, Lost Notes, is back for its fourth season! Co-hosts Novena Carmel (KCRW) and Michael Barnes (KCRW /... more

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Episodes

My Lady’s Frustration: How Fela Kuti Found Afrobeat in LA

Lost Notes explores how Fela Kuti’s time in LA in 1969 was instrumental in the creation of his legendary Afrobeat... more

27 Mar 2024 · 29 minutes
Mojo on Trial: The Seedy, Greedy World of Ruth Christie

Lost Notes details the darkly hilarious schemes of record-label magnate Ruth Christie, who instigated one of the most absurd court... more

13 Mar 2024 · 32 minutes
The True Story of ‘Tainted Love’

Long before “Tainted Love” was an ‘80s anthem, it was a 1965 B-side by LA’s Gloria Jones. We trace the... more

13 Mar 2024 · 28 minutes
Lost Notes Returns with the True Story of ‘Tainted Love’

‘Lost Notes’ returns for Season 4 with a special preview episode about the song “Tainted Love,” and its lesser-known origins... more

01 Nov 2023 · 28 minutes
Jonathan Demme: 'Stop Making Sense' interview and guest DJ set (1984)

Talking Heads’ 1984 film, Stop Making Sense, has long been regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the... more

28 Sep 2023 · 2 hours, 5 minutes
Bent By Nature - Ep. 10: Rollins

Throughout “Bent By Nature,” you’ve heard many stories of the lifelong connections set in motion by Deirdre O’Donoghue. But none... more

30 Dec 2021 · 11 minutes
Bent By Nature - Ep. 9: Promised Land (with Julian Cope)

The artist has got to be not like the historian. The historian’s got hindsight. He can go back and go,... more

23 Dec 2021 · 15 minutes
Bent By Nature - Ep. 8: Half A World Away (with Michael Stipe)

It’s September of 1984. And Deirdre is head over heels for a fast-rising quartet from Athens, Georgia called R.E.M. In... more

16 Dec 2021 · 22 minutes
Bent By Nature - Ep. 7: Ages of You

In the mid-1980s, two young women are coming of age in the San Fernando Valley. In a few years, when... more

09 Dec 2021 · 17 minutes
Bent By Nature - Ep. 6: Crossing Over (with David Lowery)

It’s New Year’s Eve, 1986. Deirdre is talking with the LA Times’ music critic, Robert Hilburn , about the musical... more

02 Dec 2021 · 20 minutes
Bent By Nature - Ep. 5: Haywire (with Kathy McCarty & Brian Beattie)

It’s Independence Day Weekend, 1988. And Deirdre is celebrating the return of Glass Eye, her favorite independent act from Austin,... more

25 Nov 2021 · 18 minutes
Bent By Nature - Ep. 4: Almost Magic (with Syd Straw)

It’s September 4, 1986. And Deirdre has just met a kindred spirit in singer Syd Straw. Like Deirdre, Syd traveled... more

18 Nov 2021 · 18 minutes
Bent By Nature - Ep. 3: Inside Out (with David and Bekki Newton)

In 1988, while most of the music world was fawning over Morrissey’s solo debut, Deirdre O’Donoghue was all-in on a... more

11 Nov 2021 · 20 minutes
Bent By Nature - Ep. 2: Music Could Be Your Whole Life

Illustration by Meredith Schomburg In episode two of Bent By Nature, co-producer Bob Carlson explores the life... more

04 Nov 2021 · 32 minutes
Bent By Nature - Ep. 1: This Is 'SNAP!'

Before Soundcloud and Bandcamp, there was Deirdre O'Donoghue and "SNAP!," the LA DJ and radio show that served as a... more

28 Oct 2021 · 33 minutes
Bent By Nature: Trailer

She was the most influential American DJ you’ve never heard of. Deirdre O’Donoghue was a vital force in the musical... more

19 Oct 2021 · 1 minute
Lost Notes: 1980 - Ep. 7: Grace Jones

In 1980, anti-disco sentiment was at a high and Grace Jones was coming off a trilogy of disco albums. If... more

24 Sep 2020 · 29 minutes
Lost Notes: 1980 - Ep. 6: Minnie Riperton

Most know Minnie Riperton because of one part in one song. “Lovin’ You” was Riperton’s biggest hit, and she doesn’t... more

24 Sep 2020 · 27 minutes
Lost Notes: 1980 - Ep. 5: Hugh Masekela & Miriam Makeba

In December of 1980, two exiled artists and freedom fighters attempted return to their home in South Africa for a... more

24 Sep 2020 · 29 minutes
Lost Notes: 1980 - Ep. 4: John Lennon & Darby Crash

Punk singer Darby Crash dreamed of immortality. The single full-length Germs album was to become a holy grail of music... more

24 Sep 2020 · 30 minutes
Lost Notes: 1980 - Ep. 3: Ian Curtis

In May of 1980, Joy Division lost its lead singer, Ian Curtis. The band decided that they would carry on... more

24 Sep 2020 · 23 minutes
Lost Notes: 1980 - Ep. 2: The Sugarhill Gang

In 1979, "Rapper’s Delight" was released and went on to become the first Top 40 hip-hop single. Sugarhill Gang almost... more

24 Sep 2020 · 34 minutes
Lost Notes: 1980 - Ep. 1: Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder released seven albums from 1970 to 1976. It is an impenetrable run of albums and songs, one of... more

24 Sep 2020 · 28 minutes
Lost Notes: 1980 - Introducing Lost Notes: 1980

This season the poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib explores the year 1980. It was the brilliant, awkward and sometimes... more

10 Sep 2020 · 2 minutes
Lost Notes S2 Bonus: Teenagers Surfing on the Wave of the Apocalypse

Our second of two Lost Notes bonus episodes for this summer. This one is about The Student Teachers. In 1977,... more

06 Aug 2020 · 38 minutes
Lost Notes S2 Bonus: Power to the People

The new season of Lost Notes will be here in September. Meantime, this summer, we’re sharing a couple of bonus... more

18 Jun 2020 · 35 minutes
Lost Notes S2 Ep. 8: Song of a Gun

As long as there have been guns, there have been songs about guns. But American culture's relationship with guns is... more

13 Jun 2019 · 28 minutes
Lost Notes S2 Ep. 7: Beyond Disco: Nermin Niazi and Feisal Mosleh

In the early ‘80s, two teenage siblings in London recorded an album that fused Pakistani pop and British New Wave.... more

06 Jun 2019 · 33 minutes
Lost Notes S2 Ep. 6: Imagining Billy Tipton

Jazz pianist Billy Tipton has been celebrated by some as a trans pioneer – but his story resists an easy... more

30 May 2019 · 27 minutes
Lost Notes S2 Bonus: More on John Fahey and Legacy

As a supplement to our episode on John Fahey, we share a conversation between Jessica Hopper and Carla Green about... more

28 May 2019 · 13 minutes
Lost Notes S2 Ep. 5: Living with John Fahey, aka A Room Full of Flowers

John Fahey’s guitar playing influenced the sound of the American underground for generations. But how does that legacy change when... more

23 May 2019 · 38 minutes
Lost Notes S2 Ep. 4: A Castle On Top of A Hill: The True Story of Fanny

The rock band Fanny ruled the Sunset Strip in the 1970s, and they were supposed to be the next big... more

16 May 2019 · 34 minutes
Lost Notes S2 Ep. 3: Sonic Sculptor: Suzanne Ciani

Synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani used an esoteric instrument to design some of the most well-known commercial sounds of the 20th... more

09 May 2019 · 39 minutes
Lost Notes S2 Ep. 2: To Chan Marshall: A Letter to Cat Power

Poet and author Hanif Abdurraqib's letter to Cat Power about how her album The Greatest worked its way into his... more

02 May 2019 · 22 minutes
Lost Notes S2 Ep. 1: Teenage Offenders: Reckoning with a Punk Past

The Freeze were an early American punk band. Now, 40 years later, two members reckon with the lyrics they wrote... more

25 Apr 2019 · 41 minutes
Lost Notes: Introducing Season 2

On this season of Lost Notes, the music journalist and author Jessica Hopper is looking at artist legacies. How do... more

03 Apr 2019 · 2 minutes
S1 Bonus - Reissue: Unfictional - Nature Boy

The strange story of the postwar pop standard "Nature Boy" and its enigmatic creator, eden ahbez.

31 Jan 2019 · 28 minutes
S1 Bonus - Reissue: Heat Rocks - Cymande

Legendary DJ/crate-digger Cut Chemist professes his love for Cymande’s 1972 self-titled debut.

10 Oct 2018 · 41 minutes
S1 Bonus - Reissue: The Dove

A global pop icon appears in a most unexpected place in this story from Pod Planet’s Clive Desmond.

21 Aug 2018 · 12 minutes
S1 Bonus - Reissue: Mad About the Boy

We resurface a story from Falling Tree Productions that takes a look at the empowering flip-side of pop fandom.

31 Jul 2018 · 29 minutes
Lost Notes S1 Ep. 8: Searching for the Root: The Incredible Journey of Aisha Ali

In the wake of the swinging ‘60s, a young woman named Aisha Ali travels to North Africa in search of... more

24 May 2018 · 30 minutes
Lost Notes S1 Ep. 7: A Million Dollars Worth of Plastic

In 1989 McDonald’s ran the biggest flexi-disc promotion ever, sending out 80 million discs (playing the “Menu Song”) as inserts... more

17 May 2018 · 33 minutes
Lost Notes S1 Ep. 6: Shaggs' Own Thing: The Story of the Wiggin Sisters

One of the most unlistenable bands of the ‘60s became a cult favorite decades later, gaining praise from the likes... more

10 May 2018 · 31 minutes
Lost Notes S1 Ep. 5: Johnny Tried: The Ballad of Glen Sherley

When Johnny Cash played his iconic concert at Folsom Prison he covered the song of one very talented inmate. Johnny... more

03 May 2018 · 36 minutes
Lost Notes S1 Ep. 4: New Edition's Neighborhood Secret

The boys in New Edition were basketball fans from Boston - Celtics country. So what happened when they hung out... more

26 Apr 2018 · 32 minutes
Lost Notes S1 Ep. 3: Electricity: Conversations with Captain Beefheart

In this intimate radio portrait of one of music’s most legendary eccentric geniuses, writer Kristine McKenna offers you a visceral... more

19 Apr 2018 · 35 minutes
Lost Notes S1 Ep. 2: Outlaws of the Airwaves: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD

Pirate radio station WBAD in New York was a beloved source for fans of underground, unsanitized hip-hop in the 1990s,... more

12 Apr 2018 · 26 minutes
Lost Notes S1 Ep. 1: Louie Louie: The Strange Journey of the Dirtiest Song Never Written

An FBI Investigation, an engagement ring, wine coolers... the surprising story behind the ubiquitous anthem that every teenager bangs out... more

12 Apr 2018 · 31 minutes
Lost Notes - Season 1: Introducing Lost Notes

Hear a preview of Lost Notes, an anthology of some of the greatest music stories never truly told. Top journalists... more

05 Apr 2018 · 2 minutes
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An FBI Investigation, an engagement ring, wine coolers... the surprising story behind the ubiquitous anthem that every teenager bangs out on their... more