VERSED: THE ASCAP PODCAST illuminates the heart and soul of music - the songwriters and composers whose work makes us sing, dance and want to change the world. Regularly featuring the greatest music creators from a diversity of genres who share the stories behind writing their hits and best-loved work - and the gems of wisdom they gained in the process - as well as industry experts who discuss the important issues that affect the lives and livelihoods of all music creators, VERSED offers insight into the hearts and minds of music professionals like never before. If music is your life, and you want to experience what it's like inside ASCAP's music creator community, then VERSED is required - yet fascinating - listening.
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VERSED: THE ASCAP PODCAST illuminates the heart and soul of music - the songwriters and composers whose work makes us sing, dance and want to change the world. Regularly featuring the greatest music creators from a diversity of genres who share the stories behind writing their hits and best-loved work - and the gems of wisdom they gained in the process - as well as industry experts who discuss the important issues that affect the lives and livelihoods of all music creators, VERSED offers insight into the hearts and minds of music professionals like never before. If music is your life, and you want to experience what it's like inside ASCAP's music creator community, then VERSED is required - yet fascinating - listening.
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December 3, 2025
Jerskin Fendrix on Bugonia's Beguiling Music
<p dir="ltr">"Bugonia" is the ancient practice of leaving out the body of a dead cow, with the belief that bees would spontaneously generate from its carcass. That strange idea serves as an inspiration for the film Bugonia, the latest from visionary director Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite, The Lobster). And in an abstract way it also inspired its score by British composer Jerskin Fendrix – the first original composer that Lanthimos ever worked with, and his collaborator on Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness.</p> <p dir="ltr">Fendrix didn't read the script or see any footage before he began writing music for Bugonia. Instead, Lanthimos gave him just three words: "bees," "basement" and "spaceship." The bare bones of the film's metaphorical carcass, out of which Fendrix generated his score.</p> <p dir="ltr">What resulted is a grandiose, oftentimes unhinged score that tracks the film's complex emotional terrain. It was recorded by the 90-piece London Contemporary Orchestra, which Jerskin praised for their adventurousness. "They're up for playing around, they're up for experimenting, they're up for embarrassing themselves musically," he says. "So being able to play with an orchestra…which I was able to draw some more unusual, more provocative sounds out of, was an absolute joy."</p> <p dir="ltr">The same month that Bugonia was released in theaters, Fendrix released Once Upon a Time…In Shropshire, his first solo album in five years. It's a fascinating yin to Bugonia's yang, representing a very different side of this multi-faceted creator.</p> <p dir="ltr">Follow <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/jerskinfendrix/">Jerskin Fendrix on Instagram</a>.</p> <p dir="ltr">Bugonia is in theaters and on select streaming platforms. <a href="https://www.focusfeatures.com/bugonia">More info here</a>.</p> <p dir="ltr">Listen to <a href= "https://open.spotify.com/artist/42ktBPs67SvwvkWZDtn6TW?si=O5-Q0CleQE6ftUuNXLRawg"> Jerskin Fendrix's discography on Spotify</a>.</p> <p dir="ltr">Stream On<a href= "https://jerskinfendrix.bandcamp.com/album/once-upon-a-time-in-shropshire">ce Upon a Time...In Shropshire on Bandcamp</a>.</p> <p dir="ltr">Get tickets now for the 2026 <a href= "https://www.ascapexperience.com/">ASCAP Experience</a>.</p> <p> </p>
September 22, 2025
Everybody Loves Lucius
<p dir="ltr">Lucius, the Grammy-nominated indie-pop quartet led by Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe, have been crafting innovative, exciting and absolutely otherworldly music for nearly 20 years. Driven by Holly and Jess’s intricately-blended vocals and backed by masterful musicians, drummer Dan Molad and guitarist Peter Lalish, Lucius’s songs deliver provocative and soulful journeys into the human heart, all set in soundscapes that are by turns edgy and cinematic.</p> <p dir="ltr">On the heels of releasing their fourth studio album, a self-titled work that is their most personal and purposeful work to date, and which Rolling Stone calls “The best album of their career,” Holly and Jess took a break from their 2025 Gold Rush Tour to talk to VERSED about their roots, the art of collaboration and harmonizing and how their long-enduring friendship and partnership has carried them through music-making, motherhood and more.</p> <p dir="ltr">We also share insights from singer-songwriter Alex Warren’s appearance at the 2023 ASCAP Experience in LA that set him up for success with “Ordinary,” Billboard’s 2025 Song of the Summer.</p> <p>Catch Lucius on <a href= "https://www.ilovelucius.com">tour</a></p> <p>Listen to their new <a href= "https://open.spotify.com/album/06JimjqlVKRMI05IhQt2kN?si=tIvQmuu2TbW76DkrMIVmCQ"> album</a></p> <p>Watch the video for <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXfkF7EE_I&t=1s">“Final Days”</a></p> <p>Download the <a href="https://www.ascap.com/mobileapp">ASCAP Mobile App</a></p> <p> </p>
August 25, 2025
Jazz Star Jahari Stampley’s Time Has Come
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;" xml:lang="EN">Award-winning jazz pianist, composer and bandleader Jahari Stampley was born in Chicago and started playing piano at age 14. Within two years of exploring his instrument, he started winning competitions. By the age of 18, he was recognized and followed by such world-renowned musicians as Yebba Smith, Jill Scott, Robert Glasper, Jacob Collier and others. In 2023, Jahari won first place in the Herbie Hancock Institute International Competition, was named Chicagoan of the Year in Jazz, became the first non-classical musician to receive the Chicago Youth Symphony Alumni Award, and was awarded the 2023 LuminArts Fellowship for his debut album Still Listening. That album, by the way, rose to #1 on Apple iTunes in the first weeks of its release.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;" xml:lang= "EN"> </span><span lang="EN" style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;" xml:lang="EN">In May of this year, Jahari released the single “To Be Alive” from his second album, What a Time, set to be released in the US in September.<span style= "mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Also this year, Jahari was presented with an ASCAP Foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award and was selected to perform at DC JazzFest as part of the Foundation’s partnership with the festival.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "background: white; margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;"><span lang="EN" style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN">As he geared up to take the DC JazzFest Transit Stage in August with his Jahari Stampley Family Band, featuring his mother, the Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist D-Erania Stampley, and some special guests, he shared what brought him to this moment in his career, what he has learned on his journey so far, and what he hopes to achieve with his music.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN" style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN">Also in this episode are excerpts from ASCAP’s Etan Rosenbloom’s interview with songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and Laufey collaborator Spencer Stewart about how jazz has impacted the way he makes music.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;" xml:lang= "EN"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN" style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN">Visit <a href= "https://www.jaharistampley.com/">Jahari Stampley</a> online</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN" style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN">Listen to <a href= "https://open.spotify.com/track/0NkQFxE7AzM3YAZY1v0EFN?si=387ca853942149bf"> “To Be Alive (Solo Piano)”</a> from Jahari's forthcoming album, What a Time</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span lang="EN" style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN">Check out Laufey’s new album, <a href= "https://open.spotify.com/album/5rMOCuiWWbEBcHaKM69Hmv?si=WTpmO_FHSGWOzzSgkCnRYw"> A Matter of Time</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;" xml:lang="EN">Download the <a href= "https://www.ascap.com/mobileapp">ASCAP Mobile App</a></span></p>
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