Your Playlist Sucks

Episode 6, AKA the episode when Mark and Enbani finally tear into each other and go for the jugular.  The time for puff pieces and complimenting each other has passed.  In this episode, our hosts investigate how masculinity is depicted in popular culture and what it means to be a man through their 10-song music playlists available on Spotify here.   

Enbani discusses the importance of self-determination and gives credit to business...

Hosts Enbani and Mark catch up with multi-instrumentalist and fellow Winnipegger Sebastian Gaskin to discuss his leap of faith into a career as a professional musician, his feelings towards the marketing of indigenous artists in Canada and his identity as a member of the Ta...

Hosts Mark and Enbani get to know each other on a completely new level, talking love (or something like it). In this episode, our hosts dissect the 10-song playlists they each made to show the arc of a relationship (beginning, middle and end), leading them to question what they've learned about themselves in the process. Listen to the playlists on our website here or on Spotify. 

Hosts Enbani and Mark share stories about their childhoods as they continue to piece together the origins of their musical taste, starting with none other than their moms, Arlene and Linda.  Listen to the full playlists here.

In this episode, we learn about their larger than life moms, the reluctant kitchen dance parties, and precisely what sounds surrounded them when they were kids, when plugging headphones into the fridge-sized r...

Enbani and Mark sit down with DJ/Singer Lauren "Lolo" Mayhew, taking it back to the beginning of her music career and growing up in Tampa, Florida. Lauren describes everything from getting signed by Epic Sony as a teen with girl band P.Y.T. opening for Destiny's Child, N*Sync and Britney Spears to falling in love with dance music while on exchange in Spain.  Lauren recalls how her focus shifted to songwriting and what Mark describe...

Sure, you can sway to a great tune, bob, tap your foot or fist pump, but none of these will get you noticed for this week's theme - ultimate songs to get you on the dance floor.  Hosts Enbani and Mark break down their top ten greatest dance tracks of all time, whether you're grandma or the baby wearing headphones at a concert in Brooklyn.  Listen to the playlists here. 

We don't mean songs that are fun to dance to, we mean the song...

Even for the avid music listener, reactions ranging from "mind blown" to "shook" are perfectly valid responses when finding out that Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" is, in fact, a cover. This week, Your Playlist Sucks hosts Mark Horosko and Enbani Moore tackle the world of genre-bending covers and transformational sounds, sampling, and the like, with some of their most fascinating discussions yet.

Listen to the full playlists here or fo...

Hosts Mark Horosko and Enbani Moore meet for the second time ever and get to know each other through the music playlists they made as "odes to their 14-year-old selves." Mark and Enbani reflect on a recent New York Times study of Spotify listener data that found that men's musical taste forms roughly between the ages of 13 to 16, and discuss whether age 14 was foundational, whether the music they listened to then sounds good to the...