Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig Interviews Reading Rainbow Composer and Kid Rock’s Son: Listen – Pitchfork

In his latest episode of Time Crisis on Beats 1, Vampire Weekends Ezra Koenig interviewed an odd assortment of guests. First, Ezra Koenig, co-host Jake Longstreth, and comedian/Time Crisis Family member Jerrod Carmichael, interviewed the composer of the original Reading Rainbow theme. Steve Horelick, a composer for TV and video games, produced the 1981 song alongside his wife Janet Weir and Dennis Neil Kleinman. That opening synth was made on a very rare module by Donald Buchla, Horelick explains. I just picked a bunch of notes that sounded good and used the randomizer. Elsewhere on the show: Koenig talked to Kid Rocks son, Robert James Ritchie Jr., about working at the Apple Store Genius Bar. Listen to the full episode here.

In the previous episode, Koenig improvised a Nirvana version of a $5 footlong jingle; he also half-joked about performing an 8-minute version of Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa at future, no-setlist Vampire Weekend shows.

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