For this week’s mixtape, we’re getting a little loose. Inspired by the conversation we had with Broken Lizard about their hilarious slasher parody, Club Dread, we thought we’d down a couple of pina coladas and […]
Category: Mixtapes
MIXTAPE: BILL & TED’S MOST EXCELLENT MIX
For years, decades, centuries, millennia, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan have been lauded as the most premium examples of stoner metalheads in modern cinema. We here at Grumpire, however, think the boys […]
MIXTAPE: OUR RESIDENT CANADIAN RECOMMENDS NYC PUNK
Punk rock means a lot of different things to different people and that’s okay (unless you’re the likely-now-dead guy who wrote that infamous episode of Quincy M.E., decrying the “dangers” of punk). Punk is diverse, […]
MIXTAPE: GOING BACK TO CALI 1975
California has always been a part of my life as far back as I can remember. Yeah, I was born on the East Coast, but my heart and dreams lay on the west coast. So, […]
MIXTAPE: WE BE DIPPIN’
For eight years I ran a small, historical ice cream and hamburger stand located on the west side of Nashville called Bobbie’s Dairy Dip. It’s a famous place in Nashville; built in 1951, the colorful […]
MIXTAPE: SUMMERTIME HIP-HOP (NO, NOT THAT FRESH PRINCE SONG)
By mid-June we’re all reasonably starting to feel the heat of the summer sun. Undoubtedly it’s time for chilling in the shade with our besties, enjoying some (very) cold drinks, and cranking up the volume […]
MAKEOUT INFERNO, VOL. 1
As restaurants and bars begin to open back up across the nation in the wake of the COVID-19 quarantine, it seems as if dating may be on its way back to “normal.” Resident casanova Mike […]
MIXTAPE: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN – KISS
If KISS had broken up three albums in—before the release of Destroyer—they’d be remembered as a top-notch glam rock act existing on the fringes of the New York City punk rock movement: an all but […]
MIXTAPE ADDENDUM: MIKE VANDERBILT’s PURPLE PLAYLIST
On Friday May 14th, the Prince estate hosted a livestream of a 1985 concert to support the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund. The concert, taped on March 30th, 1985 at the Carrier Dome […]
MIXTAPE: FORMERLY KNOWN AS
Mr. Prince Rogers Nelson seemingly has been on everyone’s minds lately, no doubt due to Sirius XM debuting a new station devoted solely to The Artist earlier this week, along with YouTube’s epic Prince & […]
MIXTAPE: COVID-19
It seems as if the media just can’t get enough of the Coronavirus, so we thought we’d join in on that hype! Please enjoy this Friday Mixtape, full of the most sick, diseased, and terribly […]
MIXTAPE: IT’S JUST A LITTLE CRUSH
This Valentine’s Day Mixtape is dedicated to all my secret crushes. HIT THIS Spotify link AND TRY NOT TO LET ANYONE SEE YOU gushING over all these love notes. tHE mAGNETIC fIELDS, “sTRANGE pOWERS” The […]
MIXTAPE: SCHMALENTINE’S DAY
This week’s mix is all about the dark side of Valentine’s Day: the heartaches, the break-ups, the unrequited loves, the sitting alone in your room crying into a pint of Ben And Jerry’s because your […]
MIXTAPE: GEN-XMAS, VOL. 1
Fun Fact about my work history: as a teen in the late 1990s, I took a job at a local independent radio station. It was a small, 50-kilowatt station, which meant the range was a […]
MIXTAPE: NIGHT FALLS ON CHRISTMAS
Christmas is a difficult time for many folks. I’ve had my bouts with being grumpy during this festive season, but that had more to do with familial strife than seasonal depression. But even during those darker […]