Since Girls premiered in 2012, it has mixed things up by using songs from established artists like Beyonc�, underrated favorites like Robyn, newbies like Angel Haze, cheesy '90s acts like Duncan Sheik and legends like Judy Collins � who played herself in an episode from last season � to set the scene for the coming-of-age comedy. And according to Billboard, in just two seasons the HBO series has shown its as influential, if not more, than Glee when it comes to the musical zeitgeist, helping new and old songs, including Oasis' 1995 hit "Wonderwall," find a spot on the charts.

Last year, the show even premiered a few exclusive tracks from the likes of fun. and Santigold � both of which ended up on the Girls- Volume 1 soundtrack � along with a previously unreleased cover of Bruce Springsteen's "I'm Going Down" from Vampire Weekend that accompanied a cameo from the band's lead singer Ezra Koenig. Getting exclusive tracks from well-known artists is something the show plans to do even more of this season.

But while Dunham is the voice of the show � and at this point, let's be honest, a generation � it's Manish Raval, the show's music supervisor, who curates the series' song syncs for her. Before this upcoming season, Raval sent her weekly mixtapes filled with songs that he thought she might like. Dunham did, writing a lot of those mixtape suggestions into season three.

Raval first started music supervising in high school, soundtracking plays for his friend Jake Kasden, who would later call on Raval when he started directing films like Orange County, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Bad Teacher, all of which Raval helped supervise. His first real paid gig, though, came after college when the music consulting firm he interned for hired him to work as a music coordinator on the 1996 Farrelly Brothers movie, Kingpin.