Hallowe'en Horror Month continues in earnest as we explore the human body & celebrity skin via EC Woodley's score to the 2012 film Antiviral. 01. Ace Frehley: Rip It Out (Ace Frehley, 1978) Casablanca 02. Lea Bertucci: Warp & Weft (Resonant Field, 2019) NNA Tapes 03. D'Angelo: Unshaken (Red Dead Redemption 2 OST, 2019) Lakeshore 04. Garbage: Afterglow (I Think I'm Paranoid single, 1998) Mushroom 05. Chxmeras: Formline (Second Sight EP, 2025) Apparatus 06. Ada Lea: Somebody is Walking Into the
The season is starting earlier and earlier, new 2026 Carnival music introduced here in October! You heard it here first #SOCASTORM Please subscribe to the podcast on apple music or pocket cast!
Emma and Hanna are joined by Jalen, a friend of the show, to talk about their experiences with cult cinema and audience interaction in theatres. They discuss everything from classic cult films like The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Room to... High School Musical? It's a fun one!
We are joined in the studio by filmmakers KR, Melrose, Anna, Ruth and Josh, along with our lovely members Vista, Miki, Maya, Alicia and Serena! A round table discussion of the filmmaking process, with all the ups and downs and trade secrets.
Emma and Hanna kick off the month of October with this episode that features Autumn Movies! Listen in to hear about Scream and The Craft, the difference between a fall movie and a Halloween movie, and to embrace all Dead Poets Society related melancholy.
In this music focused episode, Hanna and Emma chat about their favourite and most memorable needle drops from a variety of movies and limited series. Join them as they jam out to these songs that make the scenes they come from that much better!
Robert Redford (1936-2025) had a profound influence on the world, be it through acting, directing, producing & activism. As we pivot to pay tribute to him, we'll focus on baseball and Randy Newman's iconic score from 1984's The Natural. Seasons change and so do we, though the Exploding Head Sports Desk got kinda itchy here. Your starting lineup with the best that ever was: .001 Tame Impala: End of Summer (Deadbeat, 2025) Columbia .002 Milt Jackson: I'm Not So Sure (Olinga, 1974) CTI .003 Yves
Join Hanna and Emma as they chat about some A24 movies! Today's episode is all about Ti West's X trilogy, The Iron Claw, and one of Hanna's favourites, Past Lives.
As we attempt to recap the recent Emmy awards, we profile the violinist/composer Alexander Balanescu and his score to the 1995 film Angels & Insects. We also wrap up all the Polaris lead-up by listening to 2 of the nominated songs for the inaugural Polaris Song Prize from albums that are in the short list for Polaris Album Prize. Fly away with me and these numbers. 01. Malibu: So Sweet & Willing (Vanities, 2025) Year0001 02. The Field: Monte Veritá (The Follower, 2016) Kompakt 03. Sophia Stel:
Welcome back fans of The Reel Whirled! Emma and Hanna are so excited to start the new school year off with this episode, where they take a look back at what they watched this summer. Hear about new releases like Superman and Sorry, Baby, as well as other films that they loved over the summer break.
As gak rushed back from the ocean, we explore life underwater as we freely associate the fact that the new Wes Anderson film The Phoenician Scheme has a short score so we can dig up some 2004 gems off The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou to dive into our main theme: music from various documentary series with Jacques Cousteau. Let me tell you about my playlist. 01. Thundercat: The Life Aquatic (Apocalypse, 2013) Brainfeeder 02. Nick Joliat: Underwater Garden of Forking Paths (Casio Music 2, 2023)
For your Labour Day enjoyment, we go mostly electronic though naturally so as we profile Lawrence Lek's 2020 AI-musical Aidol. Kneel before gak! Where do we begin? 000001. Jenny Hval: I Want to Start at the Beginning (Iris Silver Mist, 2025) 4AD 000010. CHYPS: Soundtracks for Mutants During Labour Disruption (Soundtracks for Mutants During Labour Disruption EP, 2015) self-released 000011. Badbadnotgood: Juan's World (Mid Spiral, 2024) Innovative Leisure/XL 000100. Neil Young: Sail Away
It's been a while since we've dug into the film score work of David Holmes so we'll skip across some recent soundtracks from the Northern Irish DJ. We also talk about Slarta John, JD Twitch and Jim Lovell. 01. Kaytranada: Space Invader (Ain't No Damn Way! 2025) RCA 02. David Holmes: Gone [Kruder & Dorfmeister session] (K&D Sessions, 1998) Studio !K7 03. Slarta John & Hatiras: Spaced Invader [Olav Basoski radio edit] (The Many Moods of Slarta John, 2001) Atlantic Jaxx 04. Slarta John: So Life Go
