Lost Notes
4.8/5
Critic Rating
KCRW’s acclaimed music documentary podcast, Lost Notes, is back for its fourth season! Co-hosts Novena Carmel (KCRW) and Michael Barnes (KCRW / KPFK / Artform Radio) guide you through eight wildly different and deeply human stories, each set against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of LA’s soul and R&B scene of the 1950s-1970s.
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Nicholas Quah • Vulture • Nov 10, 2021
"(Season: Snap!) Bent by Nature is a family affair in many ways, one that carries the slight air of an overdue wake. Even if SNAP! means little to you, there’s a lot here about the texture, legacy, and influence of late-night radio to warrant your attention."
Score: 4.8
Ashley Lusk • Bello Collective • Dec 2, 2020
"Let Wonder be your gateway into Lost Notes: 1980, an expansive series about a decade that shaped and defined the generations of music that followed it."
Score: 4.5
Angie Fiedler Sutton • Contents May Vary • Nov 23, 2019
"It’s also a bit difficult for me to figure out what — outside of that general description — the podcast is trying to accomplish. But maybe that broadness is intentional. I mean, look at my own podcast and how broad my concept is. If you like music journalism, it’s definitely worth a listen — but more in a “dip your toes in and sample what interests you” more than “inhale the whole series”."
Score: 5
Brendan Mattox • PodcastReview.org • Sep 5, 2019
"It might yet be impossible to write about music without always returning to the forces outside of it that shape its production. Nevertheless, as a social history of marginalization at a particular moment in music history, Lost Notes is an unqualified success. You really ought to listen to it."
