CiTR -- Mixtapes with Mc and Mac: Recent Episodes
CiTR & Discorder Magazine
Mixtapes! Whether in tape, cd, or playlist form, we all love a collection of songs to be the soundtrack of our day. Join us every Friday morning at 10 for a live mixtape with musical commentary. Who knows what musical curiosities you will hear from Matt McArthur and Drew MacDonald!
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NOT MIXTAPES Happy and Sad? At the same time? We are going to the funeral and we are dancing the night away.
NOT MIXTAPES Hey Spring, y'all sprung. Some upbeat psychedelic & pop to stimulate new growth.
NOT MIXTAPES Drew celebrates Black History Month by sharing some of his fave alternative musicians.
NOT MIXTAPES Feb 1st starts Black History Month and Drew and Nicky explore queer black artists of the past.
NOT MIXTAPES It's Friday morning, it's grey. Drew is feeling somber and so we are just having a slow and emotive show
NOT MIXTAPES It's the first Friday of January. Drew helps us pull focus and get motivated into the new year....or something.
NOT MIXTAPES! 2018 is over. Here's a mix of faves fromt he year. a lot to be grateful for and a lot to say bye to.
NOT MIXTAPES November has started and a lot of great new music has come along with it.....and one classic.
NOT MIXTAPES Jenn joins Drew for some tunes for walking to work or dancing or brooding...in the fall weather in Vancouver
NOT MIXTAPES Drew is joined by Nicky again as they get emotional on this resurgence of an episode of Mixtapes from 2017
NOT MIXTAPES In a tired gloomy morning, Drew celebrates bodies and all their parts with this fun and random mix of body part related music.
NOT MIXTAPES Drew celebrates the end of summer and the beginning of a new school year with this show all about "Letting Go," whatever that means for you.
NOT MIXTAPES Drew embraces the ambience of the smoky skies and rain and clouds that vancouver was experiencing for the last 2 weeks, and celebrates it through Movie Scores and Soundtracks. A mix of instrumental and vocal works to pair with your slow and foggy mornings.
NOT MIXTAPES* It's Drew's birthday and he's joined by good friends Keely and Vivian to talk joy, fears, self love and general ridiculousness.
NOT MIXTAPES A very special episode where Drew invites friends Nicky Stiller, Zachary Underhill and Bray Yamamoto in to discuss the history of queer music as well as share personal stories of queer coming of age and the music related to it.
NOT MIXTAPES Drew is joined by special guest Chris Langer to discuss Duende. Duende or tener duende ("to have duende") is a Spanish term for a heightened state of emotion, expression and authenticity, often connected with flamenco. This is a term that is hard to define in english and expresses sort of an emotion usually only evoked in performance.
NOT A MIXTAPE After some stressful weeks, Drew explores the idea of Self Love through listening to music. Tackling self love socially, politically, personally, professionally and maybe other ways. Oh...and plays some Aqua.
NOT A MIXTAPE - Drew invites long time friend Alexis onto the show to discuss memories of concerts past.
NOT A MIXTAPES EPISODE Underprepared, Drew throws on some heels and is inspired by his inner queen.
NOT MIXTAPES Drew is joined by longtime friend Tessa to share music with themes on momentum. Time to get moving!
NOT MIXTAPES!!! Join Former Mixtapes' host, Drew, with guest Jenn Skillen, while they share some stories of music and how they connect to people in their lives.
THIS IS NOT MIXTAPES!!! Join a Post-Mixtapes Drew as he tackles connecting music with stories. Joined by special guest and longtime friend, Nicky, to share stories of finding yourself through music.
Drew and Matt pack it in and have a Last Waltz. After a year and a half and over 60+ shows, Mc and Mac are retiring (for now) from the airwaves. We send off with this tape...our last hurrah.
Drew's going out on a road trip this weekend...so what better time than now to put together a slammin' mixtape for the road?
Once again, Matt is at home praying for death (he'll be back next week, he swears.)...but till then he has given Drew the theme to run with. Love and positivity! Because there's nothing lovelier than Sade, or as aggressively positive as Andrew W.K..
Drew and Matt return from break, refreshed, and ready to dance weird on the radio! Songs you can groove to that you wouldn't expect.
Drew and Matt put together a looooong weekend tape. Lengthy jams where you can put your feet up and turn off your mind. Relax...you earned it.
Drew and Matt throw out the Mixtapes rulebook and fly into the skies of their imaginations. Themeless, not seamless.
Drew and Matt explore the weird side of music with the Twisted Tape! Strange backstories, warped lyrics and left-field productions.
Drew and Matt play their first show of 2018 with the forward-looking FutureTape2018. It's gonna get weird!
Drew and Matt Discan't Even with 2017...so they bring forth a disco-fried playlist to dance right outta this god-forsaken year.
Drew and Matt spin some holiday oddities over a roaring fire, jacked on coffee and cinnamon buns. Plus Jenn stops by!!!
Drew and Matt attempt to cram more of the best music of 2017 into a comparatively small amount of time. PART TWO!
Drew and Matt sift through the overwhelming amount of music that came out in 2017: The Year Of Over-stimulation.
Drew and Matt go off the rails celebrating not only their 50th tape, but their ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!
Drew and Matt unearth some of the best riffs in rock, metal, electronic...and funnily enough, SAX.
Drew and Matt spill all the information with our first guest curated tape...courtesy of Devours who joins us live in the studio! https://devours.bandcamp.com/
Drew and Matt get in touch with all the feels, and get a few things off their chest with "Emotional Rescue: Melodrama In Music"!
Drew and Matt spin all kinds of warm, fuzzy songs to help battle the winter sicknesses. Grab a blanket and coffee/cough syrup.
Drew and Matt spin two hours of weird, creepy, spooky jams for your Friday the 13th listening pleasure.
Drew and Matt sail into the grey skies with the "Autumn Gloom" tape. Put on your sweaters and layer up.
Drew and Matt go all over the world to play world music...and western music influenced by world music. Get ready for a trip.
Drew and Matt go back to the two-hour tape format with a random collection of new and weird curiosities.
Drew and Matt get educational (but not really) with the "Back 2 Skewl" tape! (Typos intentional)
Drew and Matt return with a chilled out duet partner to our "Just Duet" tape. (Except for the first song...which is a total thrasher.)
Drew and Matt kick off our last two-hour show (for now) by playing the "Seat Of Our Pants" Tape! Whatever we want...
Drew and Matt get their dancey pants on and throw down a "Dancey Pants" party mixtape!!! For all summer parties, indoor and out.
It's music festival and vacation season, and accompanied by an interview with Kia and Kris from Ponderosa festival, are some artists from their lineup, plus some stuff for post festival recovery.
Drew and Matt spin our first Pride mixtape! Have fun, stay safe, and let your flags fly, no matter who you are or who you love.
Drew and Matt spin a groovy, hazy, lazy tape for your beach chilling...whatever beach you find yourself on this summer.
Drew and Matt, reunited once again and spinning a shiny new batch of 2017 jams. Look out for the freshness!
Matt is off for another week so Drew is joined by his boyfriend Eric for this exploration into how love, lust and longing can cloud your judgement.
How much do you love food? Drew and special guest Jenn explore themes of food, drink, making love to your food, drinking coffee and other forms of gluttony.
Drew and Matt put together a camping and campfire tape. Strumming, singing along, and roasting...marshmallows.
Drew and Matt celebrate the musical weirdos in our musical landscape. It's gonna get weird.
Drew and Matt assemble a road-trippin' tape for watching the scenery go by in your car. Hop in and just enjoy the ride.
Drew and Matt get extremely excited and overstimulated as they take over both decks and spin an ALL VINYL Show!
Drew and Matt are reunited and it feel so good! Sunny summer jamz to accompany lounging back in your inner tube/lawnchair/beach blanket. Don't forget the lotion!
Matt is off to Toronto, leaving Drew to man the boards. How does Drew respond? Something disruptive? No, just songs about loneliness.
Drew and Matt get interstellar and galactic as they spin the space tape! So much spaaaaaaaaaaaace!
Drew and Matt kick off their first two hour show with the "Deux" tape! Power duos, double shots, numerical references...to the power of two!
Drew and Matt spin an eye-injury inspired tape. Luckily, Drew's eyeball healed up and doesn't need an eyepatch or robot replacement. I Eye Aye!
Drew and Matt spin a mixtape for Daniel Gauthier, the loyal listener who donated the most to our Fundrive show. This one's for you, buddy!
Drew and Matt turn down the lights and get spacey for our first (and hopefully not last) Psychedelic tape! Lay back and groove.
Drew and Matt spin the "WERK TAPE" in anticipation of two things: RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9, and new episodes of the YouTube series "UNHhhh". A sassy, runway-walkin' tape.
Drew and Matt start off in a gloomy place, to gradually melt the ice around your winter hearts and get you ready for spring!
Drew and Matt have our FIRST Fundrive tape! We ask the universe to donate to CiTR 101.9 for Fundrive...March 9-17. 604-822-8648, or citr.ca/donate
Drew and Matt turn off all the singing and yelling and put together the "Speechless" tape...All instrumental!
Drew and Matt are back in the studio, putting together the "Morning Coffee" tape. Something to wake you up and put you in a chill mood...no hardcore or heavy metal surprises. :-P
Drew and Matt put their musical minds to the test with the second Mixtape-Off! Who knows where this will take us...
Drew and Matt get all monkey-fied on this week's Mixtape! Monkeys, Gorillaz, Primates, Chimps...
In "honor" of the Inauguration Day of President T****, Drew and Matt spin a Revolution Mixtape.
Drew and Matt draw a random song out of our hat for the FIRST "Mixtape-Off" and hope to make a show out of it!
Drew and Matt spin some awesome songs from the best fictional bands in film, tv, graphic novels, etc. No fake bands...pure fiction!
Matt and Drew attempt to lift your broken 2016 spirits by putting together an epic New Years Eve Mixtape. Get ready to party! Cowbells, Robots, Sex and Heartbreak!
Matt and Drew take you on a sleigh ride filled with many ups and downs and twists and turns on the "Ugly Christmas Sweater Episode"!
For this week's morning Mixtape, Matt and Drew continue spinning the best music of 2016. Mowing through genres with reckless abandon.
In this week's morning mixtape, Matt and his guest Drew MacDonald discuss some of the year's best music. Because music was the only good thing to happen this year!