Supplemental Information: Episode 8
Dual Leading Tone Loops in Post-Millennial Pop/Rock
Brad Osborn (University of Kansas)
Release Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025
Author's Instagram: @brad.iohead
Production Credits
Team Lead: Caitlin Martinkus
Production Lead: Amy Hatch
Peer Reviewers: Bryn Hughes,
Evan Ware
Special Thanks: Chris White, Charles Brockus,
John White
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Maria Tartaglia
Closing Music: Yike Zhang
Bio: Brad Osborn is a scholar whose work lies at the intersection of music theory and popular music studies. He is the sole author of Everything in its Right Place: Analyzing Radiohead (Oxford, 2017) and Interpreting Music Video: Popular Music in the Post-MTV Era (Routledge, 2021), and is co-author along with Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman for the 6th edition of American Popular Music (Oxford, 2021). Brad’s research has been published in numerous music theory journals, as well as journals devoted to popular music studies. He also writes and records shoegazey post-metal as the artist D’Archipelago.
Keywords: popular music, rock harmony, lyrical analysis, chord loops, vi-based minor