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118 episodes across four seasons. Search by artist or song, or jump to a season. Seasons 1–3 are labelled Archive — the show was music-first back then; it grew into something else.
Season 4 · One Song
58 episodes · 2024–2026S4 · E57Sep 22, 2026
Stella Lefty “Boston”
S4 · E56Sep 8, 2026
Steve Lacy “Oh yeah?”
S4Aug 27, 2026
Ariana Grande “petal”
S4Aug 4, 2026
Angine de Poitrine “Fabienk”
S4Jul 22, 2026
Sienna Spiro “Die On This Hill”
S4Jul 2, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo “Drop Dead”
S4Jun 15, 2026
Drake “Janice STFU”
S4May 14, 2026
Chris Brown “Fallin”
S4Apr 28, 2026
Kehlani “Folded”
S4Apr 13, 2026
Jalen Ngonda “If You Don't Want My Love”
S4Mar 27, 2026
Harry Styles “Aperture”
S4Mar 11, 2026
Megan Moroney “Tennessee Orange”
S4Feb 23, 2026
The Marias “No One Noticed”
S4Feb 2, 2026
sombr “back to friends”
S4Jan 22, 2026
Ella Langley “Choosin' Texas”
S4Jan 12, 2026
BigXThaPlug “All the Way ( feat. Bailey Zimmerman)”
S4 · E41Dec 21, 2025
Bad Bunny “Baile Inolvidable”
S4Nov 25, 2025
Amber Mark “Sweet Serotonin”
S4Nov 9, 2025
Daniel Caesar “Call On Me”
S4 · E38Oct 31, 2025
Tame Impala “Dracula”
S4 · E37Oct 9, 2025
Oliva Dean “Man I Need”
S4 · E35Sep 23, 2025
Remi Wolf “Soup”
S4 · E35Sep 9, 2025
Glass Animals “Heat Waves”
S4 · E34Aug 25, 2025
Sleep Token “Aqua Regia”
S4 · E34Aug 7, 2025
Clipse “The Birds Don't Sing”
S4Jul 23, 2025
Jamiroquai “Virtual Insanity”
S4Jul 10, 2025
WALK THE MOON “Shut Up and Dance”
S4 · E32Jun 25, 2025
Alex Warren “Ordinary”
S4 · E31May 13, 2025
Ravyn Lenae “Love Me Not”
S4 · E30Apr 29, 2025
Leon Thomas “MUTT”
S4 · E29Apr 15, 2025
Doechii “ANXIETY”
S4 · E28Apr 1, 2025
Benson Boone “Beautiful Things”
S4 · E27Mar 18, 2025
LISA “Born Again (feat. Doja Cat & RAYE)”
S4 · E26Mar 4, 2025
SZA “Saturn”
S4 · E25Feb 18, 2025
Morgan Wallen “Smile”
S4 · E24Feb 4, 2025
Cynthia Erivo “Defying Gravity (feat. Ariana Grande)”
S4 · E23Jan 21, 2025
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars “Die With A Smile”
S4 · E22Jan 7, 2025
Chappell Roan “Good Luck, Babe!”
S4 · E21Dec 23, 2024
Nat King Cole “The Christmas Song”
S4 · E20Dec 10, 2024
Shaboozey “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”
S4 · E19Nov 26, 2024
Teddy Swims “Lose Control”
S4 · E18Nov 12, 2024
Laufey “From The Start”
S4 · E17Oct 29, 2024
LL COOL J “Murdergram Deux (feat. Eminem)”
S4 · E16Oct 15, 2024
Billie Eilish “BIRDS OF A FEATHER”
S4 · E15Oct 1, 2024
Sabrina Carpenter “Please Please Please”
S4 · E14Sep 17, 2024
T-Pain “Buy U A Drank”
S4 · E13Sep 3, 2024
Hozier “Too Sweet”
S4 · E12Aug 20, 2024
Amy Winehouse “Back to Black”
S4 · E11Aug 6, 2024
The Weeknd “Can't Feel My Face”
S4 · E10Jul 23, 2024
Journey “Don't Stop Believin'”
S4 · E9Jul 9, 2024
Four Guys Riff In a Bar
S4 · E7Jun 25, 2024
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge”
S4 · E6Jun 11, 2024
Katy Perry “I Kissed a Girl”
S4 · E5May 28, 2024
Owl City “Fireflies”
S4 · E4May 14, 2024
Pharrell Williams “Happy”
S4 · E3Apr 30, 2024
Naughty By Nature “O.P.P.”
S4 · E2Apr 16, 2024
Beyoncé “TEXAS HOLD 'EM”
S4 · E1Apr 2, 2024
Taylor Swift “Cruel Summer”
No matches in this season.
Season 3 · The 24-Carat Black Story
5 episodes · 2022A four-part documentary series. Read the 24-Carat Black story →
S3 · E4Jul 26, 2022
Episode 4: Where Do We Go From Here?
S3Jul 12, 2022
Episode 3: It All Falls Apart
S3 · E2Jun 28, 2022
Episode 2: Living the Dream?
S3 · E1Jun 15, 2022
Episode 1: The Origins of 24-Carat Black
S3May 18, 2022
Riffs on Riffs Season 3 Trailer
No matches in this season.
Season 2 · Themes
10 episodes · 2020S2 · E10Nov 18, 2020
Chainsmoking and the Nickelback Effect
S2 · E9Nov 4, 2020
Am I Wrong for Loving K Pop?
S2 · E8Oct 21, 2020
Songs That Are Just Plain Wrong
S2 · E7Oct 7, 2020
Lane Changes
S2 · E6Sep 23, 2020
I Need You to Break My Heart Tonight
S2 · E5Sep 9, 2020
Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
S2 · E4Aug 26, 2020
Rock-a-Bye Humpty Hump
S2 · E3Aug 12, 2020
Can't Stop the La Di Da Di
S2 · E2Jul 29, 2020
Music 2 Protest 2
S2 · E1Jul 15, 2020
Mama Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
No matches in this season.
Season 1 · The Sample Sessions
43 episodes · 2018–2020The original premise: a hit song, traced back to the record it sampled. Each title reads artist “song” vs. sampled artist “song”, with the episode’s original pun title after it.
S1 · E43Mar 25, 2020
The Pussycat Dolls “Beep”
vs. Electric Light Orchestra "Evil Woman" · “Evil Beep”
S1 · E42Mar 11, 2020
OutKast “Ms. Jackson”
vs. The Brothers Johnson "Strawberry Letter 23" · “Ms. Jackson is OUT of Strawberries”
S1 · E41Feb 26, 2020
Chris Stapleton “Tennessee Whiskey”
vs. Etta James "I'd Rather Go Blind" · “I'd Rather Have Whiskey”
S1 · E40Feb 12, 2020
Common “The Light”
vs. Bobby Caldwell "Open Your Eyes" · “We Have Bobby in Common”
S1 · E39Jan 29, 2020
Ed Sheeran “Shape of You”
vs. TLC "No Scrubs" · “The Shape of a Scrub”
S1 · E38Jan 15, 2020
LL Cool J “Around the Way Girl”
vs. Mary Jane Girls "All Night Long" · “All Night Around the Way”
S1 · E37Jan 1, 2020
Jonas Brothers “Only Human”
vs. "The Chicken Dance" · “My Brother Jonas is a Chicken”
S1 · E36Dec 18, 2019
Mary J. Blige “My Life”
vs. Roy Ayers Ubiquity "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" · “Everybody Loves My Life”
S1 · E35Dec 4, 2019
Heavy D & the Boyz “Now That We Found Love”
vs. The O'Jays "Now That We Found Love" · “Now That We Found Heavy Love”
S1 · E34Nov 20, 2019
Lady Gaga “Born This Way”
vs. Madonna "Express Yourself" · “Born to Express Yourself”
S1 · E33Nov 6, 2019
Warren G “Regulate”
vs. Michael McDonald "I Keep Forgettin'" · “Regulate Your Doobie”
S1 · E32Oct 23, 2019
Beck “Jack-Ass”
vs. Them (Van Morrison) "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" · “It's All Over Now, Jack-Ass”
S1 · E31Oct 9, 2019
The Clash "Should I Stay or Should I Go", "Rock the Casbah" & "Train in Vain"
“Should I Rock the Train in Vain?”
S1 · E30Sep 25, 2019
Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello “I Know What You Did Last Summer”
vs. Bill Withers "Ain't No Sunshine" · “Ain't No Sunshine Last Summer”
S1 · E29Sep 11, 2019
Fall Out Boy “Centuries”
vs. Suzanne Vega "Tom's Diner" · “The Fall Out at Tom's Diner”
S1Aug 28, 2019
Riffs on Riffs Episode 28 Bloopers
S1 · E28Aug 28, 2019
Public Enemy vs. Anthrax "Bring the Noise"
S1 · E27Aug 14, 2019
Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth “See You Again”
vs. Ray Charles "Bye Bye Love" · “Bye Bye Til I See You Again”
S1 · E26Jul 31, 2019
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince “Summertime”
vs. Kool & the Gang "Summer Madness" · “Summertime Madness”
S1 · E25Jul 17, 2019
Boston “More Than a Feeling”
vs. Elton John "Screw You (Young Man's Blues)" · “The Rockman and the Rocketman”
S1 · E24Jul 3, 2019
Tyler, the Creator “IGOR'S THEME”
vs. Head West "Attention" · “Getting Igor's Attention”
S1 · E23Jun 19, 2019
Too $hort “The Ghetto”
vs. Donny Hathaway "The Ghetto" · “Donny is Too Short”
S1 · E22Jun 5, 2019
Juice WRLD “Lucid Dreams”
vs. Sting "Shape of My Heart" · “The Shape of My Lucid Dreams”
S1 · E21May 22, 2019
Lil Nas X “Old Town Road”
vs. Nine Inch Nails "34 Ghosts IV" · “Old Town Ghosts”
S1 · E20May 8, 2019
Kraftwerk vs. Afrika Bambaataa, Coldplay, New Order & The Chemical Brothers
S1 · E19Apr 24, 2019
3rd Bass “Pop Goes the Weasel”
vs. Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer" · “Pop Goes the Sledgehammer”
S1 · E18Apr 10, 2019
Cardi B “Be Careful”
vs. Lauryn Hill "Ex-Factor" · “Be Careful of Exes”
S1 · E17Mar 27, 2019
House of Pain “Jump Around”
vs. Junior Walker & the All Stars "Shoot Your Shot" · “Shooting Pains”
S1 · E16Mar 13, 2019
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk”
vs. The Gap Band "Oops Upside Your Head" · “Oops Upside Your Funk”
S1 · E15Feb 27, 2019
Ariana Grande “The Way”
vs. Brenda Russell "A Little Bit of Love" · “The Way to a Little Bit of Love”
S1 · E14Feb 13, 2019
Pitbull “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)”
vs. Chicago "Street Player" · “I Know You Want a Street Player”
S1 · E13Jan 30, 2019
P.M. Dawn “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss”
vs. Spandau Ballet "True" · “True Memories of Bliss”
S1 · E12Jan 16, 2019
Aaliyah “Are You That Somebody?”
vs. The Meters "People Say" · “People Say You're That Somebody”
S1 · E11Jan 2, 2019
Halsey “Alone”
vs. Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. "Nothing Can Stop Me" · “Nothing Alone Can Stop Me”
S1 · E10Dec 19, 2018
The Notorious B.I.G. “Big Poppa”
vs. The Isley Brothers "Between the Sheets" · “Biggie Sheets”
S1 · E9Dec 5, 2018
Mariah Carey “Fantasy”
vs. Tom Tom Club "Genius of Love" · “The Tom Tom Fantasy”
S1 · E9Nov 21, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda “Hamilton”
vs. The Notorious B.I.G., DMX & Grandmaster Flash · “The Hamilton Hip-Hop Mixtape”
S1 · E7Nov 14, 2018
MC Hammer “Pray”
vs. Prince "When Doves Cry" · “When Doves Pray”
S1 · E6Nov 7, 2018
Janet Jackson “Rhythm Nation”
vs. Sly & the Family Stone "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" · “Thank You for Sittin' In My Rhythm Nation”
S1 · E5Oct 31, 2018
Taylor Swift “Look What You Made Me Do”
vs. Right Said Fred "I'm Too Sexy" · “Look, You Made Me Too Sexy”
S1 · E4Oct 24, 2018
Jay-Z “99 Problems”
vs. Billy Squier "The Big Beat" · “99 Problems and a Big Fire Ain't One”
S1 · E3Oct 16, 2018
Wu-Tang Clan “Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing ta F' Wit”
vs. The Allen Toussaint Orchestra "Underdog" · “Underdog Ain't Nuthin' to Mess With”
S1 · E2Oct 16, 2018
Stevie Nicks “Edge of Seventeen”
vs. The Police "Bring On the Night" · “The Edge of Police Booty”
S1 · E1Oct 16, 2018
2Pac “California Love”
vs. Joe Cocker "Woman to Woman" · “California Woman”
S1Oct 1, 2018
Season 1 Trailer
No matches in this season.