Mixtape Memories with Matt Heart Spad...
Mixtape Memories is a nostalgic weekly podcast hosted by Matt Heart Spade & Jinners, reminiscing about music from the 90s and the NYC music scene in the aughts. Incorporating stories about mixtapes in the 90s that influenced them and their wild times as NYC music bloggers during the aughts, Matt & Jinners will rewind and talk about their favorite artists, albums, concerts and general musings from their formative past. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.
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Micah Weisberg
Matt Heart Spade & Jinners interview Micah Weisberg about his days as The Music Slut's video producer, CMJ, Northside Festival, anniversary tours, garage rock, party photographers, bringing back the CD, and performing in various bands throughout the aughts and beyond. For the Repeat/Skip segment, they discuss The Strokes' Is This It (2001) and The Hives' Veni Vidi Vicious (2000).
62 min
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Bryan Bruchman
Matt Heart Spade & Jinners interview Bryan Bruchman about his days running Subinev and performing in Man in Gray throughout the aughts. We reminisce about shuttered venues, the rise and fall of blog-loved bands, concert photography, the Deli Magazine, the niche resurgence of cassette culture and more. For the Repeat/Skip segment, they discuss Nada Surf's Let Go (2002) and Liars' They Threw Us in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top (2001).
66 min
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Nora Walker
Matt Heart Spade & Jinners interview Nora Walker about her days running the iRockiRoll blog to working in digital marketing and DJing for BFF.fm. We reminisce about sepia-toned photos, CMJ, Sparks-fueled open bars, band buttons and more. For the Repeat/Skip segment, they discuss Bloc Party's Silent Alarm in 2005 and the self-titled Stellastarr* debut album in 2003.
61 min
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Cameron Cook
Matt Heart Spade & Jinners interview Cameron Cook about his days as a blogger/writer for Disco Nap and Sup Mag, discovering music in Europe pre-Internet, moving to New York as a teenager and hosting showcases — to now working as a freelance journalist and a fellow podcaster (Friends and Girls). For the Repeat/Skip segment, they discuss Elastica's self-titled debut album from 1995 and The Breeders' Last Splash from 1993.
78 min
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Abbey "Punkphoto" Raymonde
Matt Heart Spade & Jinners interview Abbey Raymonde about her days as a blogger (Punkphoto) to her DJ/radio host days at Virgin Mobile to now working at Bella Union Records. For the Repeat/Skip segment, they discuss Robyn's self-titled album and M.I.A.'s Arular, both from 2005.
116 min
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Lio Kanine
Matt Heart Spade & Jinners are back with the premiere episode of Season 2! They chat with their very first special guest Lio Kanine from Kanine Records and New Colossus Festival. Lio talks about his origin story, from his DJ nights to his record label rise to the NYC music festival he co-founded with fellow industry pros Mike Bell and Steven Matrick. For the Repeat/Skip segment, they discuss Blur's Parklife from 1994 and Smashing Pumpkins' Gish from 1991.
104 min
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U Aughta Know!
Matt Heart Spade and Jinners dedicate an entire episode to incredible women musicians from the 90s and aughts. From riot grrrl to Lilith Fair and everything in between and beyond, acts discussed include Bikini Kill, Juliana Hatfield, Elastica, Lush, Mazz...
43 min
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Just Floating
Matt Heart Spade and Jinners dedicate an entire episode to bands that fall outside of the mainstream, i.e. "experimental" music. Bands discussed include Sigur Ros, Mono, Spiritualized, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Matmos,...
36 min
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Your Hair Is Everywhere
Matt Heart Spade and Jinners dedicate an entire episode to the rise of emo in the early aughts. Bands discussed include Sunny Day Real Estate, Thursday and Rainer Maria -- which leads them to wonder why there weren’t more female-fronted acts within the g...
35 min
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A Diet of Broken Biscuits
Matt Heart Spade and Jinners dedicate an episode to early '00s indie dance parties. They discuss the Misshapes parties, Trash parties, Vicious parties, Crashin' In parties, GBH parties and their favorite all-time songs to dance to. They also touch upon t...
44 min
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Yeah We've Made Up Your Mind
Matt Heart Spade and Jinners dedicate an entire episode to The Smiths and all related acts. They discuss the origin of their fandom, revisit special moments with Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke, Morrissey concerts and more. For their Repeat/skip segment, Mat...
50 min
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Is This Really Happening?
Matt Heart Spade and Jinners reminisce about Bjork as she announces plans to reissue her all of her albums on colored cassettes. They also share their thoughts on Modest Mouse touring stadiums with The Black Keys later this year. Also, who could forget M...
39 min
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All Our Pretty Songs
Matt Heart Spade & Jinners reminisce about bands that had too many members and weird band names like Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene. They also reflect on bands that got people dancing like !!! and The Fever, and a time when labels had more of a soun...
44 min
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Please Stop Holding Hands With Some Skinny Pret...
Matt Heart Spade & Jinners look back to past blog entries through the website Wayback Machine, a digital archive of the World Wide Web. Matt read his old 2008 review of Death Cab for Cutie at Radio City Music Hall, and Jinners read her account of a 2002 ...
45 min
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Our Whirled Has Turnt & Left Us Hear
Matt Heart Spade & Jinners chat about Sebadoh finally releasing a new album, their first in 6 years, called Act Surprised and the new single "Celebrate the Void." They also talk about odd touring partners Smashing Pumpkins & Noel Gallagher -- and wonder,...
82 min
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Everyone Who Pretended To Like Us Is Still Here
Matt Heart Spade & Jinners have been talking about doing a podcast for a while... and in the advent of multiple 20 or 25-year anniversary tours and reissues and our icons passing away, they thought the time was now! Thus, Mixtape Memories was born, discu...
57 min