MY GREATEST HITS

A great song can feel effortless, but the best ones are engineered for impact. We sit down with master songwriter and guitarist Jim Vitali to build a ten-song mixtape and use it to reverse-engineer what makes music stick: economy in the lyric, a hook that earns its repetition, and performances that sound like real people in a real room. Starting with The Beatles’ “Ticket To Ride,” we talk about ho...

A bot got played too hard on Spotify and an album disappeared. That story alone tells you a lot about what it feels like to be a working musician right now, and it’s where our conversation with singer-songwriter Bernie Barlow gets real fast. Bernie joins us to share her personal “My Greatest Hits” mixtape: ten songs that didn’t just soundtrack her life, they shaped her ear, her voice, and her sens...

A song can be a hometown you carry in your headphones, a dare to leave home, or a mirror you did not know you needed. We sit down with Troy Richardson, songwriter and frontman of Los Angeles Americana punk band Truckerbomb, and let him build a ten-track “My Greatest Hits” mixtape of the songs that messed him up in the best way. The stories start in Minnesota with Prince’s “Another Lonely Christmas...

A ten-song playlist sounds simple until the stories start landing like milestones. We sit down with Michelle McGregor as she traces her life through the music that shaped her, starting with her current passion project: producing Tom Waits War Songs as a concept concert with animation, atmosphere, and a war themed narrative. From there, the mixtape jumps from childhood living room performances with...

Ten songs can tell the truth faster than a résumé. I sit down with drummer and songwriter Nick Libertore for the very first My Greatest Hits, and we use his handpicked mixtape to map the moments that made him: the basement drum kit that was never off-limits, the records he wore out learning feel, and the artists who quietly rewired his taste. We start with a personal curveball: “You Are The Sunshi...