Tell me if you've heard a version of this story before.

Three outcast high school students, one boy, two girls, are best friends preparing for a party on the eve of the rest of their lives.

Stacey, who lives with headphones on, has caused a splinter because in the morning she leaves for New York on a quest to become a music supervisor.

For years, she's talked about going on a road trip with Slater and Cassandra, her best friends. Instead, she's going out of town. Bummer. Bummer, bro. But for now, there's a party, and you can't have a party without booze. And that's a mixtape. Its life is strange, absent the supernatural bits, by way of John Hughes.

It's the new game from Beethoven and Dinosaur, the studio behind 2021's whimsical musical adventure, the artful escape.

A game I did not play, but I might have to go back and play because of mixtape.

I had a chance recently to speak with Johnny Galvatron, who's the lead singer of the long-running Australian rock band,

The Galvatrons, and creative director of this new and frankly beautiful coming-of-age story in the form of a video game called Mix Tate, alongside the game's producer Woody Woodward.

It was one of the more unique and fun interviews I have done in a minute.

Do you want to learn some Patrick Weezer

lore about my history with the band about being a scenester? I guess not a scenester, but that was deep

into Weezer. We go on some tangents, let's say, in this interview that I think make it

a real delight, even if you're not going to play

a mixtape, though, as the time I am recording this little intro, I've not finished

mixtape, but I've really, really, really enjoyed the time I have spent with mixtape so far.

It's short, it's sweet, it is inventive about what it means to play a video game and tell a story.

And I really do recommend it, even if I have to caveat that I have not seen the end of it quite

yet. But what follows is this interview with Johnny Galatron, again, the creative director

of Mixape and Woody Woodward, the producer on Mix tape. As always, there is a article up on the site

is a full feature. It is not a transcript of this conversation. I like to pair these two together

so you can hear the conversation I had with the article that I wrote. You can check that out

over at remaprady.com. Hope you enjoy the interview.

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