This Broken Mixtape

Toronto singer-songwriter STACEY is one busy woman. When she's not hosting women-fronted music showcases and workshops for her organization, Toronto Women in Music, she's actively songwriting and performing at venues across the city.

So it only made sense that she would quit her day job as a UX designer to do music full-time.

Her recently released sophomore EP, First Move, is a considerable departure from her previous stripped-down piano songs.

The EP delivers a handful of lush, etheral bedroom indie-pop songs that capture the excitement of romantic bliss.

Picture Lana Del Rey meets Washed Out, with a bit of Tame Impala thrown in for good measure.

Now with a temporary move to Los Angeles on the horizon, STACEY is hoping to make the "first move" in taking her career to an international level.

This week our guest is Lauren Pirie, a freelance illustrator and artist who explores feminism and fantasy through intricate ink drawings.

According to Pirie, "growth is sometimes about submerging yourself in darkness in order to let go." Loyal to both the natural and the supernatural, Pirie's work explores the embrace of anger and disenchantment, seduced by a sense of place that exists outside of a defined space and time, but often in the realm of women.

Pirie's drawings have appeared in magazines, children's books, public murals and film, including This.Broken.Mixtape's own Our Liner Notes book and documentary short.

In addition to her rich body of illustration work, Pirie is the co-founder of the grassroots arts and environmental organization, The About Face Collective.

This week our guest is Malin Johnson -- Audio Engineer and Store Manager of Canada's first retail shop dedicated solely to audio cassettes, The Dupe Shop based in downtown Toronto. We'll talk about the recent resurgence of cassettes, Cassette Store Day and his unpopular but unwavering appreciation of the band, Nickleback.

This week our guest is Toronto bedroom dream-pop band, TV Sets. They'll talk about how overhearing each other through their apartment walls led to the band's formation, their new EP Elsewhere, and their unapologetic love for karaoke.

This week's guest is Jenny McNamee, a hairstylist at Corrado's Barber Shop. We talked to her about being introduced to music through her parent's vinyl collection, attending her first music festival with her mom, and how the Riot Grrrl feminist punk movement gave her the courage to come out of the closet.

This week our guest is multidisciplinary artist and designer, Justin Broadbent. For more than a decade, Justin has forged a successful career creating murals, art installations, t-shirts, album covers, and music videos with clients ranging from Absolut Vodka to Facebook to the Junos. Today, we talk to him about directing a series of music videos for Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton, how Midnight Marauders provides his go-to soundtrack in the studio, and curating a bat-shit crazy Instagram account.

This week, our guest is Bay Area DJ / Producer Amerigo Gazaway. We talk to him about discovering hip hop through his brother's box of cassettes, his latest mashup album featuring Common and Stevie Wonder, and his favourite album covers of all time.

This week our guest is David Hayman, head of Music Supervision and Branding Agency, Supergroup. We'll talk to him about the collection of mixtapes he made throughout his adolescence, how there are no rules for music licensing for music and television, and what makes a great song for a specific scene.

This week our guest is Kip Berman of New York indie-pop band, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. We'll talk to him about how the late-great Prince inspired his rock star ambitions, the memorable mixtape a friend made for him in college, and Lorde's fantastic new record.

This week our guest is author and pop-culture journalist Eric Spitznagel. We'll talk to him about his latest music memoir Old Records Never Die, how Questlove inspired his epic quest to recover his old vinyl records, and working with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy on his upcoming memoir.