Drop the Needle

Step 1 brings with it songs from lovelytheband, Bleachers, Coldplay, and Father John Misty.

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In the second part of our season premiere, Mike & Paul discuss the season's 12-step arc, as well as the concept of "walls" and how Mike has no problem staring into the middle distance for hours on end. Artists in this episode include Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Crystal Castles, and The Animals.

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In our fourth season premiere, Sean & Paul introduce the topic of Steps and how each episode forward will be dedicated to one of the 12 steps of recovery. Artists in this episode include Andrew Bird, Ben Kweller, Vampire Weekend, Vienna Teng and Miya Folick. 

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In this special year-end episode, we collected some of Mike's best insights and anecdotes regarding addiction and recovery during our 2018 season. Mike shares thoughts on Authenticity, Obsession, Pride & Ego, Threats, Breaking Points, Self-Care, Being Open About Sobriety, and Second Chances. 

We also weave some of favorite tracks from 2018 into this episode. Artists include Doombird, Sharon Van Etten, Hippo Campus, Operators, Ashe, Wye Oak, Caroline Rose, Haerts, The Dirty Projectors, Japanese Breakfast, Ben Folds, Car Seat Headrest and The War on Drugs.

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In this special, music-less episode, Portland-based writer Liv Pennelle (Liv's Recovery Kitchen) returns to discuss Goals. Over the past year, co-host Sean has lost an incredible 250 pounds -- a remarkable journey fraught with determination, doubt, anxiety, depression and pride that Sean and Liv discuss at length. There's also talk of balls and avocado toast.

Mike, Sean and Paul revisit Clarity as a topic for the first time since February 2017. You'll hear some words of wisdom from a version of Mike that was still in sober living at the time, not to mention two songs about the subject by way of The Dirty Projectors and The Verve.

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Gayle Saks-Rodriguez is the brains behind the long-running, ever-popular blog My Life in the Middle Ages. For the last decade, she's released one affecting essay after another, refusing to allow her mother's suicide to define her as much as she's said goodbye to her years-long friend who suffered from a saddening crystal meth habit. We were lucky to have some time to talk to Gayle about the fears and joys of parenthood, not to mention her sobering perspective on the recovery community. Artists in this episode include The Avett Brothers, Peter Gabriel & The Afro-Celt Sound System, will.i.am, Grimes, and The Beths. 

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Sincerely, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much for continuing to listen to our addiction recovery music podcast Drop the Needle. As it continues to reach new listeners, I can't fully put into words how we feel about hearing the stories people want to share with this for doing this show. We really can't ask for anything more than that, so we'll just keep doing this. In this minisode, we revisit the topic of Freedom (first posted by Sean Paul Mahoney back in April). Listen to the new episode here: https://goo.gl/oHRUoh or wherever podcasts can be found.

In this one, we share tunes from Rostam, Operators and an ultra-rare pick from co-host Mike: Burial. (Drop the Needle does not own or claim ownership of any music used in this podcast. All rights go to original owner.)

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In this episode, we talk about threats from three different aspects: threats to our active sobriety, threats back when we were using and/or drinking, and songs that simply reminded us of threats. Artists in this episode include Rusted Root, a-ha, Tenacious D, The Boxer Rebellion and Wye Oak. P.S. Paul has had a drink every year on his birthday watching a Bond movie since 1995's "Goldeneye," not "Skyfall." (Drop the Needle does not own or claim ownership of any music used in this podcast. All rights go to original owner.)