The Mixtape Diaries
... in which your four hosts, joined by 35 years of friendship and their shared love for rock 'n' roll, construct a playlist, episode by episode, into infinity. Look for the "Mixtape Diaries: the Podcast" playlist on Spotify, and follow us on Twitter @mtdiaries.
Episodes
40 episodes
SHAZAM! (w/ Martin Solveig & Dragonette, Fugazi, X, and Peaches)
That slick hook and spot-on beat playing over the PA in Target, at Cumberland Farms, in the venue before the headliner takes the stage: WHO IS THAT? WHAT'S THAT SONG?We all have the Shazam app loaded on our phones, and it's wild to...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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51:45
2024 Recap - Discoveries and Rediscoveries with The Cure, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Blur and more
It's never too late for a 2024 recap, right? In today's super-sized episode, Bob, Mark, Carla and Brad discuss their favorite new songs of 2024 and songs they rediscovered last year. Well...three of the four of us followed this plan. One of us ...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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2:09:33
Introducing Alli! (w/ Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Slowdive, and ELO)
We go waaaaaaaaay back (four decades?) with our dear friend Alli. And whatever we got up to back in the day—tooling around town in her Chevette, rocking out in downtown Youngstown, or just chilling in any of our respective basements—music...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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50:24
Kraftwerk Live in Los Angeles
Join us on the "Autobahn" as we take a ride to Los Angeles to discuss two nights of Kraftwerk's nine-show residency earlier this summer where Mark and Brad got to see Autobahn and Radio-Activity performed in their entirety. While ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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58:31
More Concerts! (w/ Middle Kids, Warpaint, and Os Mutantes)
Today Carla, Mark, and Brad talk about some recent concerts they've seen and offer some choice cuts from the bands.Find the Playlist on Spotify...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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39:34
Remixes (w/ Beastie Boys, Happy Mondays, Björk, and Depeche Mode)
In which your Fab Four Diarists Bob, Brad, Carla, and Mark reconvene, kinda sorta, to talk about some of their favorite remixed tracks. This next episode was a long time coming, but as comebacks go, it'll absolutely serve. Beastie B...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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40:34
Remembering Shane MacGowan
.There’s an old Irish benediction that goes, “May you be in Heaven an hour before the Devil knows you’re dead.” By our best guess, Shane MacGowan arrived three hours late, drank the Devil under the table, and jimmied the lock on the Pear...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:05:06
Antics & Roadshows (w/ Bully, Belly, & U2)
It's been a while, listeners, but we've mustered a quorum. Bob's back with us today (alas, Mark is not), as we talk about some recent shows we've seen and generally ham it up.First Bob waxes rhapsodic about Nashville band Bully.&n...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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1:04:53
It's All Rock and Roll to Me (w/ The Hold Steady, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Car Seat Headrest)
Attached hereto is the final episode of the Carla, Brad and Mark Sessions. We kept it Stateside for this one, with picks from The Hold Steady, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Car Seat Headrest.Carla could've used Bob's alliance for her pick....
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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45:03
Punk + Post-Punk Covers (w/ Wire, Siouxsie, & the Slits)
Here's another bite-sized episode from the Carla, Brad, and Mark Sessions. Three-quarters capacity means just three songs, but we made 'em count.Brad asked for cover songs by punk and post-punk bands, and the Skeleton Crew respond...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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36:13
Remembering Sinéad
Last month we lost Sinéad O'Connor. This one really hurts. 35 years ago, Sinéad's first LP was melting the cassette decks in our cars. Through the years, we moved with her music, and it never got old. Songs of heartb...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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57:55
Globetrotting, Kindasorta (w/ the Flaming Lips, Plumtree, and Peter Cat Recording Co.)
Mark, Carla, and Brad are back in short order to add three more songs to the Playlist. (Bob's lazing in his hammock on summer vacay.) Speaking of summer vacation, we logged some mileage on this one. Our itinerary took us fir...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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42:25
Wild Card with Suicide, Joy Division and Buzzcocks
Your Diarists are back! But it's summer break and we're down a man, so we've opted for a themeless episode. What once was a Grab Bag is now the Wild Card: Carla, Brad and Mark picked three songs that are in their rotation right now, and...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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40:50
Scottish Artists, Part 2 (w/ Belle & Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub, One Dove, and Trash Can Sinatras)
Picking up where we left off with selections from six more Scottish artists, as Carla and Brad take their turns. Things get just a bit feisty as Belle & Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub, CHVRCHES, One Dove, the Pastels, and Trash Can Sina...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:00:15
Scottish Artists, Part 1 (w/ Cocteau Twins, Simple Minds, Franz Ferdinand, and Texas)
The MTD gang is *alive and kicking*! Join us as we *head on* out north of Hadrian's Wall, into the land of Nessie and haggis, Kidnapped and Trainspotting.*Say what you want*, but we lov...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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57:35
Songs from the 1001 Albums, Part 2 (w/ David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins, Arrested Development and Neu!)
The Diarists have recovered from Carla's inclusion of a 18+ minute Can song in Part 1 of this episode, so now we're back with Part 2. Brad and Mark give us their picks for songs featured in rock critic Robert Dimery's list of
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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58:16
Songs from the 1001 Albums, Part 1 (w/ the Clash, Spiritualized, the Waterboys, and Can)
There's no shortage of terrific songs on rock critic Robert Dimery's list of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. For this and the next episode, Mark cha...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:09:34
Grab Bag (w/ Gustaf, the Waitresses, Death Cab, and Royal Blood)
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!
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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40:26
Songs with Samples (w/ A Tribe Called Quest, Afrika Bambaataa, Beastie Boys, & Glass Animals!)
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 ... o...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:33:35
Grab Bag: Songs We're Listening To (w/King Krule, Dressy Bessy, The Darling Buds and Liz Cooper)
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.
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43:35
Grab Bag: Luck O' the Irish (w/ the Pogues, the Chieftains, Flogging Molly and Enter the Haggis)
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 Pogu...
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Season 2
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36:03
Foreign Language Lyrics (w/ Nena, Plastic Bertrand, Seu Jorge, and Stereolab!)
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.&nbs...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:28:00
Grab Bag (w/ Big Brother & the Holding Company, Orange Juice, Corey Flood, and Scary Pockets)
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 ...
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39:13
Baby We Could Talk All Night (w/ the Teardrop Explodes, Joy Division, the Sex Pistols, and the Organ)
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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2:03:05
Hey Ladies! (w/ Nina Simone, Dusty Springfield, Björk, and Cat Power)
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 Ni...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:35:27