{"podcast":{"title":"I Wanna Hold Your Band","slug":"i-wanna-hold-your-band-7078010","podcast_index_feed_id":7078010,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fc990230/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.iwannaholdyourband.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42278860/42278860-1729707992832-90b5bc1e6987a.jpg","author":"Paul Bartholomew","episode_count":47,"summary":"I Wanna Hold Your Band invites you to experience the music that moves people, one story at a time. Host Paul Bartholomew interviews guests about the songs that define them, sharing their personal stories and the memories tied to the music that helped shape their life.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T00:19:24.989450+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-wanna-hold-your-band-7078010"},"episode":{"title":"Held Songs Mixtape (2025)","slug":"held-songs-mixtape-2025","published_at":"2025-12-22T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-wanna-hold-your-band-7078010/held-songs-mixtape-2025","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-wanna-hold-your-band-7078010","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paul-bartholomew5/episodes/Held-Songs-Mixtape-2025-e3cklnk","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fc990230/podcast/play/112923828/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-11-20%2F69348d3e-8e80-00eb-0d4c-876efe6b4e0a.mp3","summary":"Each guest's questionnaire is filled with so many songs, albums & artists that I now love. But in the spirit of year end music lists, here is one song from each 2025 guest that really stuck with me. Order based on flow. ⁠HELD SONGS MIXTAPE⁠ (playlist on Spotify) ⁠So Lonely ⁠ - The Police (Jay Lund) ⁠⁠Pata Pata⁠⁠⁠ - Miriam Makeba (Liz Tuccillo) ⁠Maps⁠⁠ - Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Inara George) ⁠⁠Fake Plastic Trees⁠⁠⁠ - Radiohead (Rainn Wilson) ⁠St. Swithin’s Day⁠⁠ - Billy Bragg (Stephanie Courtney) ⁠⁠Cherry Bomb⁠⁠⁠ - The Runaways (Spencer Garrett) ⁠If It Ain’t Ruff⁠⁠ - NWA (Mark Pieper) ⁠I Can Let Go Now⁠⁠ - Michael McDonald (Cleto Escobedo III) ⁠Move On Up⁠⁠ - Curtis Mayfield (Alexander Straus) ⁠⁠Running Out Of Lies⁠⁠ - Johnnie Taylor (Jordan Whittington) ⁠Goodbye Earl⁠⁠ - The Chicks (Olivia de Recat) ⁠Verdi Cries⁠⁠ - 10,000 Maniacs (Sam Catlin) ⁠⁠Aphasia⁠⁠ - Pinegrove (Liam Yorgensen) ⁠Mandika⁠⁠ - Sinead O’Connor (Drew Droege) ⁠⁠⁠Letter to Hermione⁠⁠⁠ - Robert Glasper (Jamila Glass) ⁠⁠If We Were Vampires ⁠⁠⁠ - Jason Isbell (Mike Soroka) ⁠Girls Like Me⁠ - Bonnie Hayes (Merrin Dungey) ⁠The Distance⁠ - Cake (Pete Gardner) ⁠Come To The Manger⁠ - Donny Osmond (Jill Lover) ⁠Blues Run The Game⁠ - Laura Marling (Max Chernin) ⁠The Queen And The Soldier⁠ - Suzanne Vega (Tuc Watkins) ⁠Song 2⁠ - Blur (David Magidoff) ⁠Never Stop⁠ - Brand New Heavies (Julie Dretzin) ⁠The Foggy Dew⁠ - Chieftains/Sinead (Rory O’Malley) ⁠Come Back Home⁠ - Seo Taiji Boys (Peter Kim) ⁠Start Wearing Purple⁠ - Gogol Bordello (John Bush) ⁠Here We Go⁠ - N’Sync (Jeannie Klisiewicz) ⁠Painted From Memory⁠ - Elvis and Burt (Chris Douridas) ⁠Cold Feet⁠ - Tracy Chapman (Jordan Black)","meta_description":"Each guest's questionnaire is filled with so many songs, albums & artists that I now love. But in the spirit of year end music lists, here is one song…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":126,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/i-wanna-hold-your-band-7078010/episodes/held-songs-mixtape-2025/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-wanna-hold-your-band-7078010/held-songs-mixtape-2025.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}