Hey, inquiring minds listeners. Over the past couple years, we've been working on the third season of my other podcast, Cadence, about what music can tell us about the mind.

We are almost ready to launch that third season that has been such a labor of love for us.

This season will be talking about how music influences us. And the first episode is all about politics.

We'll talk to musicians, academics, and people involved in the political machine to ask them how they use music to sway minds and gather votes.

Here's your first sample of Season 3 of Cadence.

Hey, welcome back to Cadence. Hey, welcome back to Cadence, the podcast where we explore what music can tell us about the mind.

In this season, we're going to figure out how music influences our behavior, the many

different ways in which it can touch us and motivate us and move us to act.

And we're going to start with an episode on music and politics.

Is music inherently political?

Probably not, actually.

There's so much music that isn't, and a lot of musicians strive to not be political.

I could see where a case could be made that music is political,

but it would be a case that then would encompass all communication.

That was John Roderick of the Seattle indie rock band The Long Winters.

And I have to agree, there's nothing intrinsically political about music,

but music and politics are nonetheless deeply intertwined.

That's because one of the ways in which we use music is for social bonding,

and politics is how we divide ourselves in terms of our political beliefs into groups.

You've got protest music, campaign songs, national anthems, Bill Clinton's saxophone,

Kanye West is running for president.

Neil Young is suing the Donald Trump campaign. Kamala Harris likes Salton Peppa. And right now, with the internet and music

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