Womxn. Music. Stories.

Each womxn’s life has its own soundtrack: songs that become symbolic of important moments and relationships, creative sparks, challenges, and triumphs. This is where you’ll hear womxn who make music share the music that made them. We explore the transportive power of song, and its lasting impact on womxn’s lives and creativity. As music fans, we've long heard and enjoyed artist-curated playlists, but Mixtape Memoir brings a new and exciting twist to this concept, told from a female (and feminist) perspective. Guest, host, and audience share in the experience of listening and remembering. The guest’s selected songs are cued, and at key moments in each story, host Carmel Holt spontaneously hits play, and we get to hear guests listen and respond to the songs they’ve chosen, as their personal mixtape unfolds in real time.

Why focus specifically on womxn’s stories and their personal playlists? Because womxn’s roles, pursuits, and achievements  in music are still defined by our gender. Many of us experience stereotypes and barriers to success that surround us while we are shaping who we want to become in music spaces still dominated by men. Through storytelling and music we want to challenge those stereotypes, break barriers, and build understanding.

These conversations share perspectives not yet equally represented in music, while creating an archive of womxn’s stories told with their personal soundtracks. And those personal soundtracks themselves can be eye-opening: challenging stereotypes of what “women’s music” is, what moves us, what shapes us, what drives us, and what we hear as women and as artists. 

With each sonic and personal journey you hear, it is our hope that we build belief in our limitless potential. To hear, to listen, and to be heard. 

Mixtape Memoir is hosted by Carmel Holt, longtime public radio host and interviewer, and creator and host of SHEROES Radio - a nationally syndicated weekly feminist music and interview show, and the longform interview podcast, SHEROES (distributed by Talkhouse).

Mixtape Memoir will be available on Sonos Sound System - the brand’s ad-free signature station on Sonos Radio, which invites culture seekers to explore the latest releases from emerging artists, forgotten hits, deep cuts from the archives, stories behind the music, exclusive interviews, and industry news. Sonos Radio is available free for all Sonos customers globally, pre-loaded in the Sonos app. As the inventor of multi-room wireless home audio, and one of the world’s leading sound experience brands, Sonos is currently in 10+ Million households and has 25 million users across Sonos.