Musical Mondegreens: The Best Thing You’ve Misheard; Local Natives In The Studio

Soundcheck | Apr 1, 2013

In This Episode: As soon as you put words to music, there’s a good chance someone is going to misunderstand them. Misheard lyrics, or mondegreens, are funny -- but they also tell us something about how we listen. We queue up some classic misheard lyrics with Billboard's Joe Levy and Time Out New York's Sophie Harris.

Then, A visit from the Los Angeles-based psych-rock band Local Natives, who recently released a new album called Hummingbird. 

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