Fictional Bands Hall of Fame
6/5/20261 hr 47 min
Jo is joined by Hrishikesh Hirway and Jessica McKenna to celebrate the greatest fictional musical acts in movies and TV. They hand out awards for the best songs, performances, band names, and more, plus a quick check-in on the upcoming season of ‘The Vampire Lestat.’ (00:00) Intro (05:45) Lestat Lestat Lestat Lestat (25:03) Fictional Bands Hall of Fame (01:30:26) The Potential Nominees Explore the exclusive collection at Target.com Host: Joanna Robinson Guest: Hrishikesh Hirway and Jessica McKenna Producers: Cameron Dinwiddie and Scott Lee Studio Production: Jacob Cornett Social: Jomi Adeniran Additional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsJoanna Robinson· Host0:00
[drum music] Hello, and welcome to House of R. I'm Joyner Robinson, and joining me today, two very special guests. Jessica McKenna is here.
Jessica McKenna· Guest0:14
Hello.
Joanna Robinson· Host0:15
Hrishikesh Hirway is here.
Hrishikesh Hirway· Guest0:16
Hello.
Joanna Robinson· Host0:17
And we are so thrilled to be talking about fictional musical bands. I'm so excited. Um, Jessica, before we get started, I, I wanna ask both of you, what are your... Like, what do you feel like your bonafides are for being here- Oh ... as part of this- Oh, great ... particular episode?
Jessica McKenna· Guest0:31
No, that's great. Um, I think that I exist exclusively in fake music- [laughs] ... I would say.
Joanna Robinson· Host0:37
Yeah?
Jessica McKenna· Guest0:37
Um, uh, doing, um... I'm like a musical comedian, and most of my music is, I would say, pretending that I know how to be musical, while wrapping itself around to accidentally having to learn a lot about music over the past, like, decade or so. I write music and I improvise music, but really born out of a desire to pretend that I know how to create music.
Joanna Robinson· Host0:58
And, and- And then that pretending became true. Like, you're living the dream.
Jessica McKenna· Guest1:03
Yeah. You know?
Joanna Robinson· Host1:04
I feel like that's true.
Jessica McKenna· Guest1:04
It's a real fake it, maybe- [laughs] Maybe make it.
Joanna Robinson· Host1:06
Maybe make it [laughs] in a way.
Hrishikesh Hirway· Guest1:08
You've made it. You've made it.
Jessica McKenna· Guest1:08
Hey, thank you so much. Thank you.
Joanna Robinson· Host1:09
And your bonafides?
Hrishikesh Hirway· Guest1:11
Um, I'm a singer-songwriter.
Joanna Robinson· Host1:13
You are.
Hrishikesh Hirway· Guest1:13
I've, I've put out a bunch of albums- Mm-hmm ... over the years. Um, and then had a long period when I wasn't putting out anything and making any music. But I started a music podcast called- Mm ... Song Exploder, where I interviewed... where I interview other musicians about how they make songs.
Joanna Robinson· Host1:27
Yeah.
Hrishikesh Hirway· Guest1:27
And then I started making music again, and