The Mad Melodies podcast returned with a new episode last week after a 17-month hiatus.
Mad Melodies is a podcast led by Jack Anderson, a graduate student from Dothan, Alabama, pursuing a degree in strategic communication, and Nate Braisted, a senior multimedia journalism major from Troy.
The two speak about music, its culture and impact and they collaborate to tackle different ideas in the music world.
The two have taken the reigns from the former hosts, Marissa Lacey and Jaelanne Thomas, and they hope to breathe new life into the podcast after its dormancy.
According to Joey Hudson, host and digital media producer for Troy Public Radio, the main thing that listeners can expect is young voices talking about music, celebrating it, doing deep dives into it and just generally having a good time.
“You can expect a lot of passion for what we’re talking about,” Anderson said. “I think it’s stuff that we’re knowledgeable about because we’re coming from two sections – as fans and then as musicians.
“I would say that we’re both very confident in our ability to talk about the music that we know and the things we know about music, andnd I think coming from two journalist students, as well, we’re able to come at it from an unbiased opinion, but also have our opinion.”
The two hosts chose to discuss the Apple Music 100 Best Albums list for the podcast’s return. Listeners can hear the two analyze the list, giving praise to some picks while criticizing others.
For now, the landscape of future releases is unknown for Anderson, Braisted and their post-production team, but they are hopeful for the podcast as the semester progresses. For now, it seems that the goal is releasing at least one more episode before the end of the semester.
“We’re really just figuring it out because we’re both getting our footing, so, we’re just trying to figure out our schedules, and then we’re going to try and come back and figure out what we’re going to be doing for that,” Braisted said.
According to Hudson, there is also a tremendous amount of work that goes into creating a podcast. This large amount of post-production can cause episodes to take a long time to release.
“The reason the pace is so slow - our podcast project manager Austin Toy would put it as ‘starting a podcast is like the modern equivalent of starting a band,’ because it seems easy and fun, but there’s so much work that goes into it,” said Hudson. “It can be a long and stressful process.”
Though there are no set release dates for future episodes, Anderson and Braisted are both working on ideas of where to take the podcast. The idea for the next episode is to cover politics in music and to get the student body and community more involved with each episode.
Mad Melodies is currently available for listening wherever you find your podcasts.
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