No Relation

Ever think there might be an invisible thread holding things together that you cannot see, but perhaps… you can feel? This week’s theme centers on the question, “Are these songs related somehow?” And the resounding answer: “No.”

Most Haunting Use of a Song in a Movie

This week we’re unpacking some of the most haunting songs used in cinema. Whether you cry when listening to Eliot Smith or transport to another time while hearing Emahoy Tsegue, the right song can make you feel something deeply while watching a movie. And those aren’t even our picks for this week!

Favorite Band of 2025

The year is (almost) over! We are delighted. However, it’s been quite an eventful year for the podcast hosts as we spent a whole year sharing songs, stories, and musical notes (see what we did there?) with our beautiful listeners. Truly, we are thankful you have joined us on this journey! We can’t wait to […]

Winter Songs

Ah, winter. That time of reflection on a year gone by… snuggling up by the fire with a cup of cocoa and putting on your favorite winter music. That’s right, folks. Stereothematica is not team Xmas. However, we do love a wistful, wintry song. So that’s what we’ve got for you this week!

Quick Break

Now is the winter of our discontent… just kidding, we’re just taking a wee break while the year is quite busy to catch up on some things! We’ll be back before you know it. And while we’re gone, we’re going to be sharing a few special episodes… re-releases AND perhaps a surprise bonus?

Predictable

Some of you might be thinking we already did this theme, and honestly…fair, but this isn’t our Predictions episode, this is its annoying cousin Greg. And this time we’re leaning all the way into being predictable (though, let’s be real, we’ve never not embraced it). Enter Christine’s pick and song obsession, courtesy of her friend […]

Communion Song

Join us in song, won’t you? We need more community and less division these days. This week, our hosts share the songs that give that sense of shared understanding, togetherness, and perhaps even hope. Whether from singing together or singing along in isolation, we explore the songs that, religion aside, give us a sense of communion.

Funeral March

In this episode, we lean into our inner goths and imagine the songs we’d want played at our own memorials…IF we even have one. One of us goes full velvet-draped drama with sweeping strings and tragic romance; the other is all about spiritual soulfulness, reggae-tinged resilience, and a send-off that feels more like a tipsy singalong than a dirge. We may have gone in completely different directions, but we both love the way music holds our grief and our joy, and how being a little “death positive” can actually make life feel more vivid.

Put it in a Letter

This is our love letter to the lost art of letter-writing…in songs. Consider it a carefully folded note passed across time. Signed, sealed, AND delivered by the Postal Service, or by hand. Song as letter, or letter as song, whatever the concept, these musical missives hit our hearts in ways an email can’t.

Scary Songs

“The foulest stench’s in the airThe funk of forty thousand yearsAnd grizzly ghouls from every tomb Are closing in to seal your doom…” Who said these haunting words? Was it Edgar Allen Poe? Mary Shelly? Bram Stoker? Nah, it’s the Prince of Pop, M.J.! You know, Thriller!!??!!!! Did that tip you off to our theme […]