Make A Mixtape will return with new episodes in 2025.

It’s the holiday mixtape! Today’s episode features recurring characters Kate Constantine, Zac Parsons, Jon Waugh, Arlo and Isaac, and also special guest Matt Triest, host of The Drop on WSCA, which you can listen to here: https://spinitron.com/WSCA/show/160833/The-Drop

Songs in this episode:

Space Age Friends LITTLE MISS ECHO

Optigan LITTLE MISS ECHO

My Atom's Selling LITTLE MISS ECHO

Diamond Jubilee CINDY LEE

Chaos Angel MAYA HAWKE

Handle with Care JENNY LEWIS

Month of May ARCADE FIRE

On A Good Day JOANNA NEWSOM

Give It Away ANDREW BIRD

Moves THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want THE SMITHS

Car BUILT TO SPILL

Car EMILY REO

Après moi REGINA SPEKTOR

Red Eyes THE WAR ON DRUGS

Cheer up Free Your Mind JENNY O.

[housekeeping note: I did a minor edit on this episode on 6/20/24. just adjusted some clip volumes.]

The wishlist for Cross Roads House.

Portions of this episode originally appeared on WSCA Portsmouth Community Radio. Thank you Dan and Phil.

Recorded March 2018 - June 2019

Special thanks to Christi Little for invaluable editing advice, and Lizzy Goodman for unknowingly suggesting a format.

The audio mostly gets choppy around big laughs. The rest of it is OK. But I also talk fast, so I would recommend reading along, just in case:

https://thelastpodcast.tumblr.com/post/185569056378/graduation-speech-transcript

Today's ep is a direct sequel to the last one, "Systemic Understanding." We talk to Sarah Wrightsman, the Executive Director of the Workforce Housing Coalition of the Greater Seacoast. We also talk to Steven Hedlund and Becky Holt of the Global Aquaculture Alliance, and check back in with Elena Piekut, assistant city planner in NH's only city doing anything right, Dover NH. 

We cover a lot of ground in this one, but really, it's about one question: how do you know that what you're doing is working?

Shoutout to my pal Fred Balas, who tipped me off to Sarah's many acronyms. 

Communities & Consequences (I) - a film by Jay Childs https://vimeo.com/39533873

Music in this ep by Mackenzie Keefe (interlude), Morgan Little (organ), and Zac Little (variations on 'werewolves of london')

https://soundcloud.com/mackenziekeefe

Many thanks to Lori-Waltz Gagnon & Leadership Seacoast, Peter Francese, & Elena Piekut

Today's episode is about endings, but also about beginnings, and holidays, and social media, and the Old Internet, and the Chef's Table, and Arlo's musical preferences, and La Blogotheque, and creative crises/depressive episodes (I have a hard time telling the difference).

Thanks for listening. The plan is to have a new episode ready every two weeks for a couple of months. 

Morgan's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/themildrevolution/playlist/1xcmemS3qoq6wte1P2ZU25?si=dwc09l05R-WhrHjYmJwcKQ

Zac's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/zaclittle/playlist/005FcMqJfYHdaHLlTAyD2H?si=cDiZ5rGvT6KK4Ea60Zvgeg

In today's episode, Morgan and Zac talk about OH HOLY FOOLS and ONE JUG OF WINE, TWO VESSELS -- probably the two albums they eached looked most forward to discussing, respectively, when this podcast started. They also decide, with 90% certainty, who is singing in "We Are Free Men," and then start a new religion based on the teachings of David Bowie.

Other topic include:

-Michael Pollan's show "Cooked"

-Black Mirror's "Bandersnatch"

-Paul Rust's bass guitar skillz

-Mac Miller (again)

-Cover songs they like

-Why it's OK to not know a song is cover

-Oboards, the Conor Oberst Reddit Board

-James Gunn

-What makes a song good for jamming

-Why "City Morgan" no longer wishes to "f**k" people

-Why Louis CK doesn't deserve another shot

-The Other Morgan Little

-How much it still sucks that Elliott Smith is dead

-A lot of stuff about drums and drummers

-Pedro The Lion's famous bassist

Thanks for listening!

BOCC on Colbert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DSO-w_AxgQ

boygenius at Brooklyn Steel: https://youtu.be/96wDhimQ6nw 

BOCC on NME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1qBHkHKrH4

Morgan and I discussed Mac Miller in this episode, but felt like we didn't do a good job, so we returned to the subject later in the episode, and still left feeling like we didn't do a good job. It's a difficult subject, and there are no right answers, and at the time we didn't even know that Mac Miller has, for instance, covered a Bright Eyes song! So we'll probably talk about it again on the next episode. I just wanted to say that in case you felt like we were being flip about his death. (I will say that compared to the way Ariana Grande fans talk on instagram, Morgan and I sound like f*****g Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Ban Ki Moon or some s**t.)

https://open.spotify.com/user/themildrevolution/playlist/4NPY3dFSyVIke0FvPrkHl4?si=FbkN-PQkS4yzWUlX40vTFQ

https://open.spotify.com/user/zaclittle/playlist/6ERfvkZgc0fdWjW0EEyfDv?si=-LmgApQfTmOlUYqjEJBD6Q

A story about Rick Velardo. 

an episode about progress (the real kind)

In today's episode, we talk about power lifting, the bizarre contradictions of self-knowledge, and most importantly, how Aaron Sorkin deserves more credit. 

An experiment in the spirit of democracy. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajvQ9xY3_CM - Phoebe Bridgers, Noah Gunderson "Killer + The Sound."

We're back to finish up our discussion of the GOAT album, Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground. Today, we are joined by our friend, the filmmaker and artist Paige Mazurek! 

This ep's Spotify Playlists:

Zac: https://open.spotify.com/user/zaclittle/playlist/66DRGBEv4gmnwsJPQnZ0Zx?si=NQlLU9UUQnOBFOmXy7OTpQ

Morgan: https://open.spotify.com/user/themildrevolution/playlist/2FfEOLCvJS6i4az23QyMCE?si=s2Kohq5oRmWnQOleKEOUyw

Bad cop and vaguely supportive cop get together to talk about the greatest album of all time (part 1 of 2)!

R.I.P. The Thermals

G.R.I.P Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe

Our House & It's Heart So Savage: https://youtu.be/73f52bd1SK4

Review of Lifted in the LA Times, August 2002: http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/11/entertainment/ca-rack11

Conor Oberst & Jenny Lewis interview each other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRlqtUF0j-A

Arlo's Coming, a playlist by Christy Little 

Special thanks to DWH, WDH, and whoever made that bootleg recording of the Rilo Kiley show in VT circa '05. 

We're back with a new episode of TLPZL today, and we're abandoning some old ideas! Fun! 

Think of this as a spiritual sequel to Spring Cleaning. We've got new stuff with old friends like Jon Pernisek and Paul Neafcy, weird found sound, and a meditation on the nature of extreme pain!

The boys are back to talk about the Desaparecidos album READ MUSIC/SPEAK SPANISH, a landmark record that shaped our political consciousness (We get rambling something fierce a couple of times). We also discuss Titus Andronicus, Justin Timberlake, the MCU, and the birth of Arlo Logan Little, Conor Oberst's newest and biggest fan. Share this podcast with the Bright Eyes fans in your life!

New episode today! It's a kind of spiritual sequel to Good Question in which we interview Monte Bohanan (@Monte_Bohanan on Twitter) about how to interview people. It's also a meditation on influence and the death of David Bowie. 

Today on The Last Podcast, we free-associate our way into a few methods for improving the world. This episode was a lot of fun.

It features the documentarian Allison Keir, as well as Steven Hedlund and Becky Holt of the Global Aquaculture Alliance. Music by me and Christy.

the oyster revival: http://www.oysterrevival.com/

global aquaculture alliance: https://www.aquaculturealliance.org/

Thanks for listening--please share!

On today's subpodcast, Little & Little discuss Titus Andronicus's new sound, Justin Timberlake in the woods, the use of punctuation in lyrics, times they've done a bad job encouraging the light within other artists, Tim Kasher, Marc Maron's revelatory performance in GLOW, and of course, the Bright Eyes album FEVERS & MIRRORS.

House band: ZL, ML, SC

New regular episode of The Last Podcast coming soon! Thanks for listening.

today on the show is james beard-nominated chef david vargas. we talk about dads, kitchens, cars, bobby flay, and addiction. good ep.

there's also a mashup like midway through this episode that i had to make for story reasons but obviously deeply apologize for inflicting upon the world. 

you can financially support the podcast at http://paypal.me/makeamixtape

and emotionally support it at zaclittle at gmail dot com

Today on The Last Podcast: what makes a good question?

Music from me & Christy, the August music party at Silver Street (Pat Griffin, Morgan Little, Zac Little, Josh Martin), The Smiths, and Dirty Projectors. 

"Through A Hole" by Whispertown2000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivGa-f3c1Uc

Recorded August-December 2017

Happy holidays! It's Christmas Eve, the perfect time to begin our discussion of Conor Oberst's discography, and a perfect excuse to start with 2002's A Christmas Album! It's a semi-official Bright Eyes recording and a collaboration between Oberst and Maria Taylor to benefit the Nebraska AIDS Project, which you can buy here:

https://saddle-creek.com/products/a-christmas-album

"Blood" by The Middle East: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjB2hbMYIXo

"Blood" by Gang Of Youths (shoutout to Mollie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLTO3U5644A

The Live Album https://zacharylittle.bandcamp.com/album/the-live-album

If you be my Wendy, I'll be your Peter Pan--so come on Wendy, and come on, Spider-Man! It's time for the final (?) episode of ARE YE TALKIN' ARCADE FIRE IN MAY, in which Zac and Morgan argue incessantly over the messaging of Arcade Fire's preachy and beautiful new record, Everything Now. Along the way, we check in with Game Of Thrones (no spoilers!), Conor Oberst, Iron & Wine, St. Vincent, Grizzly Bear, and lots of other artists unrelated to the lads from Canada. Thanks so much to everyone who has supported this show and talked to us, and special thanks to our contest sponsor Delia! Anyway, do you like, uh, rock and roll music? If so, listen on!

Today's episode of the podcast covers a lot of ground: Led Zep or the lack thereof, noise, my grandfather's regrets regarding the non-contiguous U.S. States, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, illness, death, New York City in 2009, Jenny Lewis, my 30th birthday, and a lot more. I hope you like it. Thanks for listening. 

I invited the musician Mackenzie Keefe to my house a few weeks ago to talk about his incredible new record, SUMO. We talked about his process and intentions, and also about a lot of other things, while Jory and Christy made pizza in the next room. 

We make a lot of stops along the way! Listen to SUMO when you are done!

https://mackenziekeefe.bandcamp.com/

Today's episode features MARY AKEMON, RYAN LEWIS, DELIA ROJAS, CHELSEA FISHER, and RYAN O'CONNOR. It's about mechanisms of memory, and museums, and art vs. artifacts, and the dangers of nostalgia. Familiar topics to long-time listeners of the show! Hope you like it! Have a good day. 

Today's episode is a gosh-darn metaphysical journey! It has been in the works for a long time, and I'm excited to share it with you today. It features a lot of people, but first and foremost I have to thank Willy Hassell, host of Spirit Radio, for all of his help. You can listen to his show here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/spirit-radio-the-paranormal-experience/id852695947?mt=2

Special thanks also to Christina Little, Morgan Little, Sarah Campbell, Colby Baker, Don Perkins, David Murphy, and Fuji Berry, whose voices and work appear throughout the episode. Shoutout to Starlee Kine. 

Valerie Lofaso's writing can be found via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ValerieLofaso/

Aleksandar Petakov's film work can be seen at http://www.petakovmedia.com/ His documentary from North Korea is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuRkZgBszDQ

Sherryl Comeau can be found at http://energyworkstudio.com/

Thomas D'Agostino's website is http://www.tomdagostino.com/

Jeremy D'Entremont can be found here: http://www.newenglandlighthouses.net/

Jeff O'Brien's (who I mistakenly refer to as "John" at one point! Sorry Jeff!) Facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/jeff.obrien.author

Seacoast Saucers Of New England's website is http://www.seacoastsaucers.com/

The Kitt Research Initiative is in Stratham, NH. Their schedule of events can be found at https://www.meetup.com/TheCenterNH/

The boys are back to discuss Arcade Fire's double album REFLEKTOR, as well as to discuss the prospects of EVERYTHING NOW, Arcade Fire's recently-announced forthcoming record. 

Zac is in full-on Honeymoon mode with everybody's favorite Indie Arena Rock Band, but Morgan has since soured on The Suburbs. 

Along the way, they check in with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, discuss San Fermin's "Belong," contemplate the whole concept of Gorillaz, worry about the futures of Death Cab for Cutie and Vampire Weekend, and go pretty deep into the Orpheus myth -- especially the part where he dies from getting fucked to death. 

This episode is not sponsored by Blue Apron, Casper Mattresses, and Bonobos. 

Thanks to Scott and Scott, as always. 

Morgan's soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/themildrevolution

Good morning!

Today's episode is a little bit of something old, a little bit of something new. We talk to TIFFANY PUZA, General Manager of Operations for BAD LAB BEER CO. Then, Zac and MAX WALLACE talk about the modern security state. Plus, in a re-edited re-broadcast of episode 7, "Spring Cleaning," we hear from PAUL NEAFCY and JON PERNISEK while Zac and DAN FREUND travel to the Republican Presidential Debate. All that time travel is a lot to handle, so at the end, present-day Zac talks a little bit about personality types and gender roles. This episode is sponsored by Audible. Just kidding. Read a real book, you jerks!

If you've ever wanted to recommend this show to a friend who couldn't figure out how to access podcasts, good news! I've started adding back episodes to YouTube. http://youtube.com/rockandsockandrobot is where you'll be able to find them. 

Bad Lab's website: http://www.badlabbeer.com/

Paul Neafcy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pneafcy

Max Wallace on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/HeySticks

Jon Pernisek on Tumblr: http://jonpernisek.tumblr.com/

Dan Freund on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myfrienddan/

Today's episode features the voice of Effie Velardo and music by Zac and Christy Little.

solo pod today as I create a mixtape of some of my favorite blog rock era twee jams. this music has been hugely influential on me, as you will be immediately be able to tell. 

this podcast is/will be available in article form on my substack! 

https://zaclittle.substack.com/p/you-me-blogging

America's favorite subpodcast is back! Today, Zac and Morgan talk about THE SUBURBS, as well as Chance The Rapper, Kanye West, The Magicians on ScyFy, Father John Misty, San Fermin, Conor Oberst, the state of print media, Max Weinberg, and more! Plus: Listener mail! 

We're on twitter @zacharylittle and @mildrevolution and tumblr http:// zaclittle.tumblr.com and http://themildrevolution.tumblr.com/

Today's episode features the voices of Max Wallace, Morgan Little, and Brittany McGuire. 

Today we have a little interlude, as I work on finishing a few more, longer episodes. 

Thanks for your questions! I'll probably do another one of these soon, so send questions to http://zaclittle.tumblr.com/ask or email me a voice memo. 

Thanks for listening!

Today's episode features the voices of Michael Penney, Graham Combes, Don Perkins, and Christy Little. It features music from Morgan Little, Zac Little, and Christy Little

This episode is about beer, but you don't have to be a beer person to enjoy it. It could be about any other craft. And when I say craft, I am aware that some people use that as a distinction from "art." But I don't really think that is important here, or usually ever. 

In today's episode, my 2016 resolution to only drink locally sends me on a mission to get to know my local beer scene a little better.

Michael Penney's website: http://www.michaelpenneyphotography.com/

Lone Wolfe Brewing Company on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LoneWolfeBrewing/

Today's episode features the voices of David Connerley Nahm, Russ Grazier, Christy Little, and David Murphy. 

In today's episode, Zac moves a mattress.

Also, he talks to Russ Grazier about David Bowie's relationship to jazz, and to David Connerley Nahm about naming characters in novels and his time working with the band Sorry About Dresden.

Also, the whole thing is a prolonged exploration of the name David, and an awards ceremony for The Hall Of Davids, which is an award/psychic shrine to people named David all over the world.

Thanks to Russ, who is @rgrazier on twitter, and David Nahm, who is @DCNahm. David's novel, Ancient Oceans Of Central Kentucky, is on sale from Two Dollar Radio. Here's NPR's Review: http://www.npr.org/2014/08/20/339609587/the-depths-of-memory-and-pain-in-ancient-oceans

You can follow Christy at @christyelittle and David Murphy at @drmurphy29. Please be advised that he mostly livetweets Jeopardy. 

Some of the music from this episode (and previous episodes) can be found at http://zacharylittle.bandcamp.com. If you buy it you can use it for whatever you want. It's a great way to funnel cash to this fledgling organization we call a podcast.  

Today's episode features the voices of: MICHAEL STASIUK, RUSS GRAZIER, YAARA BEN DOR, and CHRISTY LITTLE. 

It features music from the PMAC TEEN JAZZ ENSEMBLE. 

Hi! Season three is finally starting! Thanks for sticking around. Today, we talk to the artist Michael Stasiuk in a conversation that was adapted from a talk he gave in December titled "Process & Inspiriation." We also talk to the director of the Portsmouth Music And Art Center, Russ Grazier, about what the school does and how he goes about arranging a jazz number. Finally, we talk to Yaara Ben Dor about her work as a Preservation Assistant and the strange way her work intersects with her past. 

I'll be posting some relevant images on zaclittle.tumblr.com today, but here are some other links:

http://www.michaelstasiuk.com/

http://www.pmaconline.org/

https://www.phillymagicgardens.org/

Yaara is on twitter @yaarabendor and Russ is @rgrazier. Christy is @christyelittle

In today's episode, we talk about the some of the feature-length narrative films and documentaries we saw at the festival, and also chat about like, the overall vibe. Movies discussed at relative length include THE ARCHITECT, MA, THE EYES OF MY MOTHER, WIENER DOG, THE CINEMA TRAVELERS, and A WOMAN, A PART. We talk with festival goers and friends, actress Rae Dawn Chong (Jeff, Who Lives At Home), and the co-director of the excellent THE CINEMA TRAVELERS, Shirley Abraham. This episode features music by Zac and Christy Little, as well as Desparecidos and Fiona Apple. 

That's going to be the end of Season 2, folks. Thanks so much for all of your emotional and financial support. We have a lot of really awesome ideas for new episodes but it's going to take a while to put them together. I hope to have at least one more little thing before the end of the year, though. 

Good luck out there. Be good to each other. We'll be back soon. 

The New Hampshire Film Festival took place in October, and The Last Podcast team (me and Christy--Shosh was with her grandparents) was there to capture it all. This episode features conversations with festival-goers and filmmakers and was recorded entirely October 13-16. 

We discuss a lot of short films in this episode, and you don't need to have seen them to follow along--most of what we talk about pertains to filmmaking in general, and the examples don't really matter. But we have a long chat with the director Josh Peterson, and you can view the trailer for his film Forest Born here: https://vimeo.com/135806197

Other films we touch on include:

Crest Of The Hill, which you can watch in full here: http://livingwithalz.org/user_submitted_film/crest-of-the-hill/

Confessions Of A Cannabis Consultant--teaser here: http://markdugas.com/cannabis_consultant/

I'll try to post a complete guide to the episode at zaclittle.tumblr.com

We also discuss Food Fight and Peter And The Farm--two feature length documentaries. Peter And The Farm is available on VOD now. 

This episode features music by me and Christy, and also a little from Joanna Newsom, and features the voices of a lot of people, including our old friend Dan Freund and the director Shirley Abraham, who we will hear more from next week. 

Plus we'll talk about this f*****g election, and where the podcast goes from here. 

The encyclopedic, comprehensive subpodcast about America's favorite non-Canadian (technically) rock band is back, with your hosts Little and Little! Today they fiercely debate Neon Bible, as well as discuss Chance The Rapper, the films of Guy Ritchie, the merits of the mid-aughts-era athiest aesthetic, Stamps.com, and more! Plus Zac counts down his top ten Arcade Fire songs, and they're not quite as alienating and hipster-y as you'd assume! Ready to start? OK, well push play, then!

The last few episodes have had a lot of conversation and not a lot of solo Zac chatter. This episode is the opposite of that. It's kind of just one big closing monologue for this current batch of episodes, a.k.a Season 2.5. It covers a lot of ground, including:

Mad Men, David Rees, Experimental French writers, books about 90s screenwriters, the internet, videogames, knowing someone versus understanding them, Chopped, Roald Dahl, and more. 

It features music from Cat Power, Devendra Banhart and Drake, as well as a clip from The West Wing Weekly which itself includes a clip from The West Wing [Inception horn noise]. It features the voices of Max Wallace and Jake McKay. 

Come back next week for a two-hour episode of "Are Ye Talkin' Arcade Fire In May?"

Notebooks versus computers! Mike Daisey! Donald Trump! Brexit! Elitism in art! Today's episode, in a lot of ways, is about the limits and consequences of the truth. It features Paul Neafcy and Leslie Datsis, and the opening monologue (which isn't quite at the opening, because I am a rebel) is basically a Rock and Sock and Robot episode--if you are familiar. Thanks for listening. Hey, write a review on iTunes sometime, why don't you? I'd like that a lot! 

You can financially support the podcast at http://paypal.me/makeamixtape

and emotionally support it at zaclittle at gmail dot com

today's guest is @mcellenj on twitter (okay, X, whatever)

thanks for listening! 

Today on The Last Podcast, we talk with Paul Neafcy, Jake McKay, and Max Wallace about art, nostalgia, studio pressure, Donald Trump, Fantastic Four, Back To The Future, Fight Club, and books. Plus: my favorite novels, and some stuff about David Foster Wallace. Thanks to everyone who has purchased the new PHO record, especially Delia. Thanks, Delia! Have a good week, everybody. 

Big ep today! We've got D.C.'s Leslie Datsis, Hollywood's Jake McKay, Europe's Ryan O'Connor, and Mary Akemon, who swears allegiance to no land. Plus, Paul Neafcy at the top, and DC Nahm (Ancient Oceans Of Central Kentucky) with a benediction at the close. Thanks for listening and for tweeting about this show to famous people. Thanks also to Christy Little for reminding me to upload this episode!

And we're back! First of all--tip of the hat to @Swandaaa, who I think once suggested a topic that informed the top of today's show. Another tip of the same hat to Anton Bykov, who plays the drums from time to time in this episode. 

Today's episode is generally about myth and memory, writing and fiction, and you know, the usual creative struggle and frustrations therein. We go behind the scenes of the writing process of JACK AND DEAN OF ALL TRADES. We discuss the speed with which comedy ages into the problematic zone. We talk to Ryan O'Connor about which celebrities cross the pond and which ones do not. A lot more happens after that!

If you want to support this show, a good thing to do is to write a review or rate it on iTunes. Another thing to do is buy one of my records at zacharylittle.bandcamp.com. New one coming soon, featuring a lot of the sounds featured in this episode. Another good thing to do is share this show with like-minded people. Do it up! Thanks to all who have helped so far.