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AFP via Getty ImagesFor those who love podcasts, finding something new to binge while driving or cleaning your house is always exciting. If you’re tired of the same few favorite podcasts on repeat, here are five new ones that have just come out (or are about to) to revitalize your playlists.
A cartoon scene for the Digital Folklore podcast.
Courtesy of Digital FolkloreLaunching on January 16th, Digital Folklore is produced by Realm Media. Hosts Perry Carpenter and Mason Amadeus fuse together audio drama, narrative documentary, archival audio and field interview to deep dive into online culture. They explore the stories we tell, from scary stories to cat memes to illuminate the implications they have on society. Digital Folklore also includes an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) where listeners can pick up clues and puzzles embedded into the show’s audio feed and website.
“Digital Folklore isn’t a podcast, it’s a cartoonish audio adventure. And Perry and Mason aren’t storytelling or reporting, they’re world-building.” Lauren Passell of Tink Media told Forbes. “In shining a spotlight on monsters, memes, urban legends and conspiracies, they’re creating their own lore with embedded clues that will take super-attentive listeners on a side quest.”
Show art for the podcast Frozen Head hosted by Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley.
Courtesy of WonderyA new limited podcast by Wondery investigates the quest for eternal life by way of cryonics, the low-temperature freezing of human remains. Hosted by New York Times best-selling authors Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley. The two women also host the hit-podcast Morbid.
“Any story that involves a highly secretive organization and missing body parts is bound to get interesting, but the surprises we encountered while working on this show were truly unsettling.” Urquhart and Kelley told Forbes. “Diving into this twisted tale over a series of six episodes was incredibly exciting to us as storytellers, especially because of how far-reaching and existential it ends up getting.”
An image of host Maggie Freleng, host of “Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng.”
Courtesy of Lava for GoodWrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maggie Freleng applies her uniquely empathic style to dive deeply into 15 stories of innocent men and women who have been wrongly convicted of crimes that they didn’t commit in her second season of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng. The show is on the Lava for Good network, home to today’s most compelling and impactful true crime and criminal justice stories with over 40M downloads across all shows, including the wildly popular Bone Valley hosted by acclaimed Pulitzer Prize prize-winning author, Gilbert King.
“Maggie’s superlative work as a journalist and podcaster is the perfect expression of our shared mission to use thoughtful, human-centered storytelling about wrongful convictions and the criminal legal system to elevate awareness and inspire action,” said Jeff Kempler, co-founder and COO of Lava for Good Podcasts, “As we launch the second season of the award-winning Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng series, we couldn’t be more proud of our partnership with Maggie and are confident that her powerful blend of diligence and empathy will continue to play an important role in the quest for justice for the innocent women and men whose stories she brings to light.”
Show art for “Sister the Heart”
Courtesy of PRXThe Heart: Sisters from Mermaid Palace, CBC, Radiotopia from PRX launching Feb. 14
For eight years, The Heart has created richly woven narratives that explore love, power and the unspoken truths of our time. In this all new season — “The Heart: Sisters” — creator Kaitlin Prest teams up with her sister Natalie Prest to bring you heartfelt and personal episodes exploring the greatest love story of all: the one we were born into.
Sisters is a 5 episode series that follows the journey of an older and younger sister from birth to adulthood. Natalie and Kaitlin went from being childhood rivals to being best friends. When the sisters decide to work together to create the very podcast series you are about to listen to, they face challenges they never anticipated. Sibling rivalry, mental health struggles and the daunting task of creating an audio series about it all: can these women overcome the patterns they learned in childhood and live in harmony as adults?
Featuring archival audio that spans an entire lifetime, original music performed by jazz vocalist Natalie Prest, and the gripping narrative style of The Heart, Sisters brings you into an audio world that is both dreamlike and nakedly raw.
Show art for “Grown” A podcast from the Moth
Courtesy of PRXGrown
Launching Feb. 8
Grown from The Moth and PRX is a podcast about the in-between: the nebulous, the liminal, the just plain weird time between those awkward teenage years and adulthood. Listen to Grown for true stories told live on Moth stages that deal with the challenges and the joys of growing up. Hosted by Aleeza Kazmi and Alfonso “Fonzo” Lacayo, two Moth storytellers in their 20s, expect in-depth discussions on the issues raised by the stories—first crushes, culture and identity, secrets—plus conversations with the storytellers themselves, on-the-street interviews, teen audio diaries, and more. Grown is a podcast that reminds us that no matter how old you are, you’re never fully grown.
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