Fictional Bands Hall of Fame

House of R

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Jo is joined by Hrishikesh Hirway and Jessica McKenna to celebrate the greatest fictional musical acts in movies and TV. They hand out awards for the best songs, performances, band names, and more, plus a quick check-in on the upcoming season of ‘The Vampire Lestat.’ (00:00) Intro (05:45) Lestat Lestat Lestat Lestat (25:03) Fictional Bands Hall of Fame (01:30:26) The Potential Nominees Explore the exclusive collection at ⁠⁠Target.com⁠⁠ Host: Joanna Robinson Guest: Hrishikesh Hirway and Jessica McKenna Producers: Cameron Dinwiddie and Scott Lee Studio Production: Jacob Cornett Social: Jomi Adeniran Additional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to House of R. I'm Joanna Robinson and joining me today to very special
0:11.6	guests. Jessica McKenna is here. Hello. Risha Kesh Hereway is here. And we are so thrilled to be
0:18.7	talking about fictional musical bands.
0:21.9	I'm so excited.
0:24.1	Jessica, before we get started, I want to ask both of you, what are your, like, what do you feel like your bona fides are for being here?
0:29.8	Oh, great.
0:31.6	No, that's great.
0:32.9	I think that I exist exclusively in fake music, I would say.
0:38.8	Doing, like, a musical comedian, and most of my music is, I would say, pretending that I know how to be musical while wrapping itself around to accidentally having to learn a lot about music over the past, like, decade or so.
0:52.3	I write music and I improvise music, but really bor born out of a desire to pretend that I know how to create music. And then that pretending became true. Like, you're living the dream. Yeah, you know, it's a real fake it. Maybe make it. Maybe make it kind of way. Hey, thank you so much. Thank you. And your bona fides. I'm a singer-songwriter. You are. I put out a bunch of albums over the years and then had a long period when I wasn't putting out anything and making any music. But I started a music podcast called Song Exploder where I interviewed where I interview other musicians about how they make songs.
1:27.6	Yeah.
1:28.1	And then I started making music again, and now I'm doing both.
1:31.6	Can you talk about what your current project, your current album that you're touring for?
1:35.9	I just put out a record called In The Last Hour of Light.
1:38.9	It's the first album in 15 years.
1:42.2	And yeah, I've been touring, doing album release shows, but it's kind of like
1:47.1	half band concert shows where I'm playing with my full band, but it's also kind of half a book tour
1:53.0	because the album is kind of a memoir, and I wanted to treat it like a memoir. So I've also been doing
1:58.3	like a book talk style conversation or like Song Exploder style conversation
2:01.9	about the making of the album before we play.
2:06.1	Excellent.
2:07.3	Jess, what are you currently working on that you want to tell folks about?
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