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Deirdre Gardner finds a lost cassette tape from 1992 in an attic and embarks on a quest to revive the sound of a generation. A serial fiction musical podcast about what we remember, and what we forget. #rememberWimFaros
At Rosemary Hills, a drum circle can make you laugh before it asks you to sit with grief.
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An unfinished song turns a room, a memory, and a deer at the window into a quiet search for what can still be found.
"Star 69" follows Deirdre as she tries to make an unfinished song feel bigger, stranger, and more cosmic. What begins with a dial tone opens into a loose rehearsal with Phil, Park, and Renata, where a cat sound, a keyboard, and a deer beyond the window all seem to enter the…
A drum circle, a wolf mask, and a strange belief about what remains after death.
A nursing-home music session turns into a tender, offbeat meditation on what remains. Cody arrives with drums and a garage-sale surprise, hoping rhythm can pull the room together, while Emma's music therapy brings Cody, Deirdre, Phil, and Renata's drum-circle plan into uneasy…
At Rosemary Hills, nostalgia, cigarettes, and an unfinished song turn a nursing-home exchange into a tenderly strange ensemble scene.
At Rosemary Hills, an older resident looks back on wealth, widowhood, and the golf-club rhythms that once defined her life, before a stray conversation about cigarettes opens into a stranger meditation on nostalgia.
A strange, intimate nursing-home mystery turns on a song, Tommy's posts, and a hard conversation about Emma's stroke.
The episode begins in a strange register: a song reaches toward Scandinavia and the land of midnight sun, followed by a sign that reads "I am Wim Farrows." From there, it settles into the close, uneasy world of Rosemary Hills, where Nancy and Cody circle Deirdre, the Clubhouse…
A number game, a pressured song, and crossed wires make ordinary talk feel funny, tender, and uneasy.
A number-calling game turns into a sharp little study of attention, embarrassment, and the odd power that belongs to the loudest person in the room.
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman find queer subtext in everything from Anaconda to The Mummy.
It Makes a Sound Episode 8, "Star 69/Coda," turns the attic song "Star 69" into a live finale for Deirdre Gardner, Cody Elwood, Phil O'Connell, Renata Lucio, and Park Song.
Star 69 turns a missed call into a "magic little lasso through the phone line."
Phil says people once 'died of nostalgia,' and that strange claim opens a music-therapy session at Rosemary Hills that keeps drifting into song-writing.
Deirdre says flatly, “There is no Wim Farrows, Cody.”
"Old people cannot hear the thunder" turns a bingo night into a group song about age.
A woman finds a lost cassette tape from 1992 and begins a quest to revive the sound of a generation in this serial fiction musical podcast.
Deirdre describes burning lasagna, eating a mayonnaise-and-lettuce sandwich, and trying to care for her sleeping mother.
A woman finds a lost cassette tape and starts a podcast to revive the music of a forgotten local genius.
A woman finds a lost cassette tape and embarks on a quest to revive the sound of a generation in this serial fiction musical podcast.