Super Awesome Mix

Mike Wiston, CEO of MowPod and the host of the Friday Night Karoake podcast, joins the show to give us a Part 2 of Best Songs to Karoake To. https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/mike-wiston-playlist/pl.u-4kblURm05v 1. Friend Like Me - Robin Williams 2. Love Shack - B-52s 3. Jump in the Line - Harry Belafonte 4. Rebel Yell - Billy Idol 5. Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John 6. Phi...

Broadcaster, Podcaster and Author Gina Grad joins Matt and Sam to bring her mix of songs that bring her tears of joy! You do not want to miss this episode or this mix! Check out Gina's book My Extra Mom and follow her on social media @GinaGrad and @MyExtraFamily! Here's the playlist on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6L4FddlgWmwhdw8FWmmR4T?si=0f0f9f0323314629   Here's the...

Michael Storm, host of the Toward Anarchy podcast - @TowardAnarchy ( www.towardanarchy.com ) joins Matt Sidhom to talk about the concept of anarchy and how it’s more universal than one may think.  He also shares a mix we’re calling Songs of Anarchy.   If you’re in the Topeka area, check out his comic book shop, Amazing Fantasies ( www. AmazingFantasies.com )  https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/so...

This week's Mixtape Rewind takes us back to our second Spring Break Party Mix!   You'll hear us reference a survey of whose side was better, I'm pretty sure Sam won this won pretty easily at the time.  But if on a second listen, you want to chime in, get to us @SuperAwesomeMix on Instagram.     https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/spring-break-2023-mix/pl.u-9N9LXv3t1GR9BYe https://op...

Jenn Tully joins Matt Sidhom to talk about 12 songs from Summer Blockbuster Movies over the last several decades. https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/summer-blockbusters/pl.u-qkP5fNGyBP 1. Holiday Road - Lindsey Buckingham - National Lampoon's Vacation 2. Playing with the Boys - Kenny Loggins - Top Gun 3. Accidentally In Love - Counting Crows - Shrek 2 4. Summer Nights - John Travolta & O...

This week's Mixtape Rewind has Matt and Samer presenting their long-discussed mix of songs with parenthesis in the title. Some are more necessary (than others).    Playlist on Spotify:   https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Mk7TSCkVRFhMn0mHpf9lq?si=UyfLgiFRRRmWqRtcQoyvMA Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/songs-with-needless-parenthesis/pl.u-11zBJWBfNWpD5mB Stay (I Missed You) by...

Matt has a two-part one on one interview with Singer/Songwriter/Musician/Entrepreneur Catie Offerman.  This week, the focus is on Catie's own music and how she started her own line of unique bandana necklaces!  Check out Catie's work: Her website - https://www.catieofferman.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/catieofferman/ Mandriana Bandanas Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/...

Matt has a two-part one on one interview with Singer/Songwriter/Musician/Entrepreneur Catie Offerman.  This week, the focus is on some of Catie's inspiration as she broke into the music world.  You won't want to miss the story of how she met and later had the opportunity to open for the great George Strait! Check out Catie's work: Her website - https://www.catieofferman.com/ Instagr...

This week's Mixtape Rewind takes us back to season 2 when Matt and Sam put together a mix centered around songs that ask questions.  We kick off with The Who asking the most direct opener imaginable, then slide into Third Eye Blind heartbreak, Snoop Dogg identity, and a newer Snoop cut that feels like confidence distilled. Along the way we hit War’s endlessly singable “Why Can’t We Be Friends...

One word can send a playlist in a dozen directions. We set the rule to “May” and “might” and then let the songs do what great songs always do: open doors we didn’t expect. Jenn Tully fills in for Sam and joins Matt to trade picks that connect by title, lyric, and mood, and we keep the curation human, leaning on memory and instinct instead of outsourcing taste. We start with the Bee Gees in their p...

This week's Mixtape Rewind is an important one.  We put together a “songs you should definitely not play at a wedding” mixtape a couple of years ago and we think it still works.  We've got wildly overplayed crowd-pleasers, feel-good hits with breakup lyrics, and nostalgic bangers that get real weird the moment you listen closely. We start with the classics that seem harmless until you ha...

Matt and Sam are back with new music for the month of April! We start in bright, timeless territory with Bruno Mars and a throwback pop approach that feels built for wedding dance floors, then slam the door into heavier energy with Muse leaning into hard rock and metal textures. From there, we dig into Fantastic Cat’s sharp songwriting, where a simple hook hides surprisingly dark, observant lines...

Prepare to immerse yourself in the 1980s rock scene as we explore the electrifying world of Van Halen. Matt and Samer take you on a fascinating journey through the band's evolution, sharing personal insights and experiences that bring the music to life. Learn why the band's famous concert rider demanded no brown M&Ms and how this quirky detail ensured the safety of their elaborate st...

Matt just turned 49, and instead of doing a normal birthday playlist, we turned it into a rule: only songs from the years he hit perfect-square ages. That one idea creates a timeline you can actually hear, jumping from 1978 to 1981 to 1986, then into 1993, 2002, and 2013, with two tracks per year and a lot of life packed in between. We talk through why each pick makes the cut and what it carries w...

This week's Mixtape Rewind takes us back to Season 1 when Instagram picked our summer soundtrack, and we just tried to keep up. We asked listeners to send their best summer songs, then built a real mixtape out of the chaos: 12 tracks that feel like heat haze, long evenings, and that first day when summer finally clicks into place. Along the way, we shout out the people who submitted picks and...

Spring shows up and suddenly the release calendar explodes, so Matt and Sam do what we always do on Super Awesome Mix: sift through the chaos and hand you a March new music playlist that’s actually worth your time. We start with U2’s “Yours Eternally,” a collaboration that pulls in Ed Sheeran and Ukrainian artist Taras Topolia and frames a protest minded moment with an unexpectedly hopeful finish....

This week's Mixtape Rewind take us back to the end of 2022 as we countdown our final 12 songs of the year.  We argue, laugh and occasionally get a little existential about the songs that earned repeat plays, the lyrics that won’t let go, and the artists who made the whole internet stop and listen. We start in motion with a driving track that brings back the pre-smartphone road trip era and th...

A steel town becomes a stage, a chorus becomes a dare, and a new record asks what we’ll do when the comfort runs out. We sit down with XBYRDX (aka Bird), a southern Indiana singer‑songwriter, to trace six formative tracks—Springsteen’s Youngstown, The Jesus and Mary Chain’s Just Like Honey, The Clash’s White Riot, The Replacements’ Unsatisfied, The Cure’s Plainsong, and Hüsker Dü’s Don’t Want to K...

This week's Mixtape Rewind has our friend and the host of the podcast What Are You Listening To?, Jenn Tully, joining Matt and Sam to present her Desert Island Mix.....which may have changed since we recorded this episode. From 80s powerhouses to modern indie storytellers, Jenn maps the songs that shaped her life and the moments they still soundtrack. We start in montage mode with John Waite’...

Blizzard warnings outside, sonic weather systems inside. Matt and Sam pulled together twelve new tracks that cut through the February haze, from Bruce Springsteen’s lightning-fast protest release to Charli XCX’s orchestral, slow-burn elegance. The throughline is momentum—how artists old and new push ideas forward, whether by turning up the amps, sharpening the story, or stripping a feeling down to...

This week's Mixtape Rewind takes us back to Season 3 when we first thought of the idea that would become our podcast, The Battle. What happens when two totally different songs share the exact same title? We built a “battle mix” to find out—pairing heavyweights and outliers across genres and decades—then we argue, analyze, and crown winners. From Go to Get Back, each round reveals how a single...

What do you do with songs you adore but can’t file anywhere? That was the inspiration for Sam's 2026 birthday mix.  He shares with Matt everything from TV themes that outshine their shows, soundtrack deep cuts that became life markers, long builds that earn their intensity, and genre-bending grooves that defy labels. We start with Benjamin Clementine’s Nemesis and the power of a great intro t...

This week's Mixtape Rewind takes us back to season 2 where we started off looking at second albums from artists.  We pull from a wide spectrum—Bowie and Springsteen, Weezer and George Strait, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Kacey Musgraves, Childish Gambino and AJR, Vampire Weekend, All-American Rejects, Foo Fighters, and Kanye—to map the patterns behind sophomore success. The result is a gui...

New year, clean slate, and a mixtape that refuses to play it safe. We kick things off with ASAP Rocky’s Helicopter, a three‑minute charge from Don’t Be Dumb that sets a confident tone for a tightly curated run through surprise genres, sharp writing, and risky ideas. From there, we veer into Band of Heathens shifting into country textures, then drop into Iron and Wine’s porch‑warm melancholy and An...

This week's Mixtape Rewind takes you back to where Matt and Sam reviewed memorable first tracks from albums.  The first track can make you stay, skip, or fall in love. We dove into 12 album openers that don’t just start a record — they define it — and traced how a great intro sets the promise for everything that follows. From the sunlit optimism of the Beach Boys’ Wouldn’t It Be Nice to the n...