Mix n' Match - An Abandoned Albums Podcast

Aug 27 2024 22 ep. 72 mins 1

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A Basquiat-like sonic experience celebrating the congruent in the seemingly incongruent.

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An interview with Artificial Intelligence

Aug 27 2024 24 mins

Yep, you read that correctly. Since Artificial Intelligence can’t really “think” I asked Chat GPT to create a playlist based on the playlist I had created for my conversation with Kevin Alexander a couple of weeks ago. Those songs were:* “Daniel” - Elton John* ”Somebody Get Me A Doctor” - Van Halen * ”Faithfully” - Journey* ”The Walls Came Down” - The Call* �

Kevin Alexander talks to me.

Aug 06 2024 71 mins

I’ve been asked a few times when I was going to do my own episode of Mix n’ Match. So I finally decided to do it and I could think of no one better to pull the discussion from me than Kevin Alexander of the On Repeat Records Substack. I warned Kevin that I may be tough to get going, but as I re-listen to the episode that isn’t necessarily true. At all. So thanks to Kevin for

The Caravan Grows

Jul 30 2024 65 mins

car·a·van - /ˈkerəˌvan/Nouna group of people, especially traders or music lovers (ed. note) , traveling together.I had the real pleasure of chatting with Dan Pal of the PalCinema, Television, & Music Substack. A professor at DePaul University by day and full-blown film, television and music fan by night. Perhaps that may not make him a superhero in the Marvel Universe, but it

Week Two with the Professor

Jul 16 2024 50 mins

Week two has Professor Terry Barr telling us about his top ten!Let me take a moment and say thanks to everyone who has dropped by to share and chat about their ten songs. I realize choosing ten is not an easy request, so I appreciate it.I love doing this pod because it gives me a chance to chat with folks who I like and respect and whose opinion and taste in music I value. And more

The Pantheon

Jul 09 2024 66 mins

Terry and I got together a few weeks back to chat about how some singer/songwriters get academic treatment, like Bob Dylan and Taylor Swift (that’s real) and why some don’t… and probably won’t.For the purpose of our discussion we looked at Jeff Tweedy of Wilco and Paul Westerberg of The Replacements. Of the two, we both came to the same conclusion - Jeff will probably see a

White Collar Assassin

Jun 04 2024 96 mins

By day, Geoff Calhoun is a white collar assassin. His mission? To slay software developers in an epic Sisyphean battle to launch a new software platform for a giant media company.I met Geoff when we were contracting at the same giant media company and we immediately bonded over music. On the Venn Diagram of musical tastes, there was enough overlap to make for good chemistry. Now to

"Cool people should know cool people."

May 28 2024 93 mins

That there is straight from the lips of S.W. Lauden, who dropped by this week with ten songs in tow. Ten songs that helped shape, and are shaping, his musical landscape. Now long before he was a repeat offender on Abandoned Albums (he’s been a real friend of the pod since day one) I knew S.W. Lauden as a crime fiction writer. And because so much of his writing was music-centric,

Revisiting Buffalo Tom on Abandoned Albums

May 21 2024 32 mins

In honor of Buffalo Tom’s new album Jump Rope, and their upcoming tour, we thought we’d re-visit Abandoned Albums Episode 308 from October of 2022. This is one of the three (to date) episodes of our “In Their Own Words” series. This is where we take interviews from across various sources and sew together a neat little narrative about each respective album or artist.Let Me C

The Vault is Open

May 14 2024 59 mins

This week sitting in the hot seat is Brad Kyle over here at Thunderlove Studio.Brad’s a cool cat who has the Front Row & Backstage Substack and boy howdy does he know a thing or two about a thing or two. Now, to be clear, he may be a musical vault of knowledge, that vault ain’t locked!Listening to Brad’s musical journey was wild, and we’re happy he shared it with us so that

Middle of the Road

Apr 30 2024 76 mins

… nope, not a typo, there are two “p’s” to his name.This week on the Mix n’ Match Podcast it’s friend and colleague Brendan Bishopp who stopped by with his playlist in tow.I first met Brendan on the phone at the company we worked for at the time. We were on the same “team” (can you hear my eyes rolling). I next met him in a hotel lobby as he held a handle of Tito’