My Record

My Record

One person. One record. One Story. Weekly. Each week, MY RECORD features a first-person story about a song or album that has profoundly affected someone’s life. The weekly story may come from a recording artist, a producer, a writer, a music industry figure, or an ordinary music fan—whoever has a great story to tell! If music is the soundtrack of our lives MY RECORD is the story behind that soundtrack. A PopCult Originals microcast.

Episodes

October 24, 2023 7 mins

Ted Cohen is a music industry innovator, connector, and survivor. His career as a label executive, artist manager, technology maven, entrepreneur and investor spans decades. And like many of the most successful record men, he got his start in radio promotion. This is the story of his belief in a record and an artist, and the gamble he took to make it a hit.

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Literary powerhouse Jonathan Karp has published and/or edited some of the biggest and most influential bestsellers of the last 25 years. His authors list includes everyone from Walter Isaacson to Hillary Clinton to John McCain to John Irving to Bob Woodward to Bruce Springsteen. How do you get to be one of the most respected publishers in the world, and CEO of Simon and Schuster? Maybe it helps if you draw inspiration from...

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December 9, 2021 8 mins

Rhydian Dafydd completes our pair of episodes with The Joy Formidable, explaining how Jeff Buckley's "Morning Theft" impacted him as a musician.

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December 9, 2021 11 mins

Ritzy Bryan, lead singer of the Welsh band The Joy Formidable, tells a story about a childhood journey through her parents' record collection that ultimately led her to a musical trip of epic proportions.

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September 23, 2021 9 mins

Legendary Postpunk drummer Hugo Burnham of Gang of Four shares how The Rolling Stones’ LET IT BLEED changed everything for him. Not surprisingly, the late great Charlie Watts figures in the story.

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October 20, 2020 7 mins

UK artist Dylan Cartlidge tells a story about a "stroke" of luck he had at a NYC pancake house just before his first recording session!

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October 7, 2020 6 mins

On the premiere episode of MY RECORD, Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie shares a heartfelt story about his love for the James Carr soul song "Dark End Of The Street."

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October 7, 2020 8 mins

Logan Ledger tells us about the party producer T-Bone Burnett took him to—and the surprise that awaited!

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September 17, 2020 1 min

Each week, MY RECORD features a first-person story about a song or album that has profoundly affected someone’s life. MY RECORD has been described as “a musical Story Corps” or “a mini-Moth with music.”

The weekly story may come from a recording artist, a producer,  a writer, a music industry figure, or an ordinary music fan—whoever has a great story to tell!

If music is the soundtrack of our lives MY RECORD is the stor...

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