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Marina City
The Crush podcast by Marina City explores stories about the band and the band members. Discussing topics about songwriting, tour tales, being a DIY artist, and life. This season Marina City reminisces how they wrote their newest, EP, The Crush
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The band takes you through the last 30 years of the best theme songs from all their favorite tv shows!
FINALLY! The boys get to talk about their 3rd favorite pastime! WATCHING MOVIES!! The four break down their favorite soundtracks of all time. You're going to be shocked!
Our new single, UNDONE, is out everywhere! In this episode we talk about how it all came together, the stories that led to us writing it, and how it was never suppose to come out!
If you've been an avid listener you may already believe this podcast is a food podcast due to our obsession with it. Episode 33 lets the boys go loose on their love for cuisine and talk about their favorite local restaurants across the country. If you are a foodie you're going to love this one!
A Spooky edition of The Crush Podcast brings the boys back to the days that made their hearts drop in their stomachs. These are the scariest stories the boys had to endure.
Sitting down to talk about our new song, ALL THE BEST! Hear demos, learn secrets, and listen to the hidden gems you may not have realized were in the song!
Marina City has been known to be a melting pot of genres and sounds. In The Crush Podcast's 30th episode the quartet explains how they got their signature sound and who inspired them to start playing music.
It's been a year since the band released The Crush. So much has happened since the release of their career defining EP. The boys recap on the wild rollercoaster of a year in this week's episode.
The boys take the listener behind the scenes on how they wrote Trust Fund Baby. A song that almost didn't happen comes to life in their biggest release since The Crush. Learn secrets, stories, and more! Listen to Trust Fund Baby here https://open.spotify.com/track/0uxGK8iZy6kjdH6BG5ceDB?si=ohEeHOumRlqfGauDuUIFQQ
The guys have been friends for 7 years. How well do they know each other? Listen to Marina City trivia as the guys ask each other the weirdest questions. Who do you think wins?
The boys talk about their favorite road trip destinations while on tour; Yellowstone, Garden of the Gods, Goldengate Bridge, the DC zoo, and more in another ridiculous podcast
The boys go all the way back to growing up in the 90s/early 2000s talking about which Pokémon they are, who is on their Mount Rushmore of crushes, and the greatest movies of that time. Go back in a time machine with the boys in this episode!
The Bulgarian man, Todor, hosts and shares the weirdest food he eats. The rest of the guys join in but not with out asking each other what food dish THEY ARE!
Diano is this week's host! The boys talk about their favorite venue stories, breaking down bathroom stalls, weird couches, haunted pools, everything happens in this episode!
Eric is this week's host! The boys dive into some of their weirdest and strangest studio stories. Todor faces John Feldmann in a violent game of ping pong and Diano snorts Taki's
Todor hosts this week! Him and the boys talk about how they became songwriters and the tricks they use when writing music! However, Todor loses it in the end.....
The boys reminisce the days they met Todor, his try out, and all the shenanigans that ensued.
Diano sits down with the creator of the Non-For-Profit, Batasole, Jeff! The two talk about the mission of the company and why both Jeff and Marina City are passionate in getting involved.
October is Filipino American Heritage Month! Our very own, Diano, takes over The Crush Podcast to interview our favorite Filipino artists. Part two of this series highlights graphic designer Monique
October is Filipino American Heritage Month! Our very own, Diano, takes over The Crush Podcast to interview our favorite Filipino artists. Part one of this series highlights photographer JP Calubaquib
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In the final episode Ryan, Eric, Matt, and Todor discuss the predecessor of The Crush calling Terminal the perfect name for the EP that really saw the change in the band. Learn how the EP was either a flight or die project.
In 2016 Marina City embarked on their most ambitious project at the time by recording a live acoustic re-imagined EP across 5 states, in 5 studios, with a different audience in each one. A project this big should be the only thing on their minds but instead the members were having internal struggles coming at cross roads in their career. Ryan, Eric, Matt, and Todor lays it all out in this episode.
For the first time ever all members of Marina City join The Crush Podcast to talk about the EP they first wrote together. Wanderlust defined the band by building a fanbase, bringing them on Warped Tour, Riot Fest, and kickstart their career.
Ryan, Eric, and Matt return with another throwback episode exploring the dark events that wrote Marina City's sophomore effort, Chimera.
The quarantine has made Marina City nostalgic. Ryan, Eric, and Matt AKA Diano relive the moments that brought together the band and the EP that started everything for them.
Ryan and Eric co-host a special edition of The Crush Podcast as frequent collaborator Pete Cho joins them over zoom. Learn what inspires a remix and the awkward meeting to a beautiful friendship.
Ryan and Diano take on double host duty when they interview Marina City's new collaboration partner, TJ AYO. The boys talk about the new version of "Money," The Crush 2.0, new music, and reminisce the weird reason why they met.
Ryan sits down with Marina City's new collaborator, King Melik to talk about their new version of "Life" and the mental struggles of being an artist.
Marina City is releasing a re-imagined EP, The Crush 2.0 on July 31 2020. The record features power twins, Carly and Martina on a new version of Up All Night. Join Ryan, Diano, Aaron, Carly, and Martina reminisce how they met, how they wrote this version, and what is next for all of them.
The final episode of Season One. Life might be more synth heavy than any other song Marina City has written but it may be the most punk. Listen to Ryan and Eric talk about how their newest song is observation of today's society and all of the hypocrisies within.
Arguably the most personal song by the band. Ryan and Eric explain why Money is their most powerful song to date and why they believe everyone should hear it.
Ryan didn't know he was writing Up All Night in early 2018 but when the band finished it at the end of 2019 they knew they had something special. Learn how UAN started as a mumble into what it is today nearly 2 years later
Strawberry sounds like nothing Marina City has ever done before and it was by complete accident. Though the band never expected to write a song like this it completely changed the way they write now. Listen to how and why Marina City wrote Strawberry
Though this was the first song released of The Crush era it took nearly 2 years to write. Ryan and Eric talk about why Addicted needed to be the first song to be released when Marina City came back and all the versions that led them to where the song is today.
Ryan and Eric start from the very beginning of The Crush era talking about the song that started it all, Cravings.
Lead vocalist Ryan Argast and drummer Eric Somers-Urrea reminisce the events that led to creating Marina City's new EP, The Crush. Follow the band members in their journey from being stuck in a Virginia hospital in 2017 to the release of the EP's release in 2020. Use this episode as a table of contents for the rest of this season.