The Mixtape Diaries

In this Grab Bag episode, Mark, Brad, Bob, and Carla serve up tracks from Gustaf, the Waitresses, Death Cab for Cutie, and Royal Blood. Get back in the saddle with The Mixtape Diaries!  There's more where this came from!   As always, find the Playlist on Spotify + Apple Music and your Extras on Twitter .   And if you like what you hear, please share, rate and review us! Credits: Intro/ Outro...

Your Diarists are back on the mic, cold chillin' in effect.  Today's assignment?  Serve up examples of fly tracks with *samples*.  Riffs and bass lines, beats and lawsuits: sampling is the story of the 80s, the 90s, the 00s ... of the last 40 years, really. All kinds of surprises in this episode: Carla makes The Case for Portishead, rattling Mark in the process; Bob continues his will-he...

Your Diarists are back with another Grab Bag episode. No theme, just four songs they've been wanting to add to the playlist. Get ready! These are four great additions from King Krule, Dressy Bessy, The Darling Buds and Liz Cooper.  As always, find the Playlist on Spotify + Apple Music and your Extras on Twitter . If you like what you're hearing, please share, rate and review us! Credits:...

St. Patrick's Day may be a foggy memory, but not for your Diarists. We couldn't let the holiday go by without sharing four of our favorite Irish tunes. Joining our Playlist today is a classic from the Chieftains and a few brawlers from the Pogues, Flogging Molly and Enter the Haggis. Fair warning: (1) poor Irish accents abound in this episode, (2) Brad threatens to play a tin whistle, an...

The Diarists' assignment for this episode is to come up with three songs with non-English lyrics — "But wait," Bob asks, "do *all* the lyrics need to be in a foreign language?"  "Not necessarily," says Brad, who chose the theme.  Enter the Talking Heads ... and with them, Nena, Juliana Hatfield (!), Plastic Bertrand, Falco, Grauzone (Krautrock, from Mark?!?), Seu...

In this new mini episode, your Diarists each discuss a song they've had on heavy rotation lately. No theme today, although we do dance through the decades with bands like Big Brother & Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Orange Juice, Corey Flood and Scary Pockets. Mmm....these songs are real bops.  Stay tuned for more B-Sides in between our themed episodes. We just want to give the people...

In today's super-sized (!) episode the Diarists remember Meat Loaf, then go on to consider twelve bands that also could have stuck with us a bit longer -- including the United States of America, Television, the Teardrop Explodes, the La's, Lush, Joy Division, the Sex Pistols, Jane's Addiction, the Verve, the Unicorns, the Seahorses, and the Organ. "Baby, we could talk all night...

In today's episode the Mixtape Diaries crew calls out some of their favorite songs by female solo artists.  Join us as we work through our feelings about folk rock, the 90s vs. the 70s, and fake American accents. Today we welcome Nina, Chaka, Donna, Courtney, Dusty, Maya, Kay, Björk, Sharleen, Holly, Cat, and Ani into The Mix.  No one on the corner has swag like us. As always, find the Playli...

Wait — what?  Two episodes in two weeks?!?  It's a CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, with your Festive Foursome back in a hurry to talk about some of their favorite (and not-so-favorite) Christmas songs. Joining us on The Nice List are the Pogues, Bowie and Bing, Weezer, Ella, Jose Feliciano, She & Him, the Kinks, the Vince Guaraldi Trio, John and Yoko, Darlene Love, the Waitresses, Elvis and more! Dim...

Big changes happening here, as we add a *fourth* Diarist (!) and spin *twelve* classic tunes into the mix. In this episode we reach back before 1975 for our selections, and we find Billy Preston, Elton John, David Bowie, Blue Cheer, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jesus Christ Superstar , Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart, Van Morrison, Fela Kuti, the MC5, and the 5th Dimension. As always, find the Playlist...

The Mixtape Diaries kicks off Season 2 with a "scenes" episode, wherein each of your three hosts calls out a particular rock scene for discussion, then selects three songs from that scene. Join us as we explore grunge (Mark), shoegaze (Bob), and the New Romantics (Brad)! Tracked in this episode: Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season, Catherine Wheel, Velocity Girl, Curve, Adam...

As promised, here's the remainder of our looooooooong-running episode name-checking Nine Great Albums. Side B features INXS's Kick, Between You and Me by San Cisco, REM's Murmur, Everyone Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? by the Cranberries, and Radiohead's In Rainbows. Playlist on Spotify + Apple Music / Extras on Twitter . Credits: Intro/ Outro — the Februarys, "Do...

The Mixtape Diaries is back from hiatus with a double-length episode ... and here's the first installment.  We went long for this one, because we're talking about some of our favorite LPs, and once we get going, time gets away from us. On this Side A we talk about Dazzle Ships by Orchestral ... [Brad pauses to check spelling] Manoeuvres in the Dark, Giant Steps by the Boo Radleys, the Lo...

We were told we needed help, and we went out and got it.  This podcast's first ever guest is Nashville tastemaker and longtime friend Carla.  Think Indiana Jones, but for music.  Today Carla challenges us to get with the times: the theme is "new" (that is, post-2006) music. Joining the Playlist are Maggie Rogers, Sylvan Esso, the War on Drugs, Beach House, Titus Andronicus, Goat, Wo...

Covers, this time.  It should have been easy.  But now Mark gets squirrely, Brad chokes on ice, and Bob wants it made clear that he's just fine with Black Sabbath ... they're just not a favorite. Crisis averted?  For now, maybe ... Our Ep 8 adds are Sinead O'Connor, Amy Winehouse, Club Nouveau, Patti Smith, Devo, Manic Street Preachers, Charles Bradley, the Sundays, and Talking Head...

Your Three Hosts have been homebodies lately — let's hope that changes soon.  In the meantime, we thought we'd look to local growers for our playlist produce.  That means Ohio artists for Bob, the SoCal market for Mark, and the Boston scene for Brad. In this episode's harvest: the Breeders, the Pretenders, Tracy Chapman, Pinback, Slightly Stoopid, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Johnny Cash,...

The King in the North ( i.e. , Mark) takes charge of this one, and his edict is that the Yanks join him in raising a glass to Canadian musicians.  So over the border we happily go. We'd like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Saga, Broken Social Scene, the New Pornographers, Men Without Hats, Alanis Morissette, the Cowboy Junkies, the Tragically Hip, Gordon Lightfoot, and Jean Leloup for their...

It's not how you finish — it's how you start ... right?  In today's episode Bob, Brad, and Mark go fishing for songs with notable intros.  Or at least that was the instruction. (sigh) In any case, here's what we pulled into the boat: Death Cab for Cutie, the Joy Formidable, the Who, the Stooges, Franz Ferdinand, the B-52s, the Cure, Oasis, and M83. Here's to snappy beginni...

Just you try and stop us talking about music in the movies (and on TV, for that matter).  No adds to the playlist today, as this is the first of our "B-side" tweener drops. We talk about Kenny Loggins, Mad Men, "Tiny Dancer," Queen (Flash Gordon *and* Wayne's World), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Radio Rahim, Dr. Strangelove, The LEGO Movie, Sixteen Candl...

In which Your Three Hosts go to the movies ... well, as much as one can these days.  This one took a while to get to you, Dear Listeners, so we're paying down that debt with interest.  Today's super-deluxe (hour-plus!) episode features INXS + Jimmy Barnes, the Replacements, the Rave-Ups, Stealers Wheel, the Faces, the Beatles, the Doors, the Crystals, and the Jesus + Mary Chain. As alway...

Anything goes for our three hosts in this no-theme episode.  Naturally, chaos ensues as, among other things, Brad refuses to play a clip, Bob gets choked up, and Mark stumps Spotify.   Covered Today: the Muffs, Sly & the Family Stone, the Sugarcubes, Gorillaz, Mumford & Sons, Foo Fighters, Ride, Radiohead, Blake Babies. Play the songs on Spotify / Follow us on Twitter ! Credits: Intro/ Out...

There's nothing like live music, and Your Three Mixtapeers can't wait to get back to it, post-pandemic.  In the meantime, Bob, Brad, and Mark look back on three decades of gigs they've attended and call out especially memorable performances for The Playlist . This Episode's Adds: James LCD Soundsystem Arcade Fire (again) Lush the White Stripes Sleater-Kinney Oasis the Sounds Ni...

Cued by the challenge of this pilot episode — pick three songs: one for yourself and one for the other two — Bob, Brad, and Mark walk listeners through their formative years as music lovers. On tap today: Talking Heads Teenage Fanclub They Might Be Giants P.S. Eliot the Smiths the Stone Roses Arcade Fire Depeche Mode the Cure Play the songs on our Spotify playlist !