Steel Wagstaff

Trying to do good things for good reasons

Category: What I’m Listening To

  • 75 Songs [April 2018]

    75 Songs [April 2018]

    Here’s a playlist of just under five hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in April 2018 (a lot of it as I was finishing up my dissertation).  

  • 45 Songs [March 2018]

    45 Songs [March 2018]

    Here’s a playlist of songs I listened to and enjoyed in March 2018. Around 3 hours of music.

  • 55 Songs: February 2018

    55 Songs: February 2018

    Here’s a playlist of 55 songs I listened to and enjoyed in February 2018. Favorite records from the month were Young Fathers’ White Men Are Black Men Too, The Barr Brothers’ Sleeping Operator, and The Very Best‘s Makes a King. https://open.spotify.com/user/steelwagstaff/playlist/3jISE2sncCKpk3bwMNScIn?si=ItvPxvdZRhSwdSAWiDTpUw

  • 107 Songs: January 2018

    107 Songs: January 2018

    Here’s a playlist of 7 hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in January 2018. Happy New Year and all that. Records I spent a bit of time with were Villagers’ Darling Arithmetic, Monster Rally’s Flowering Jungle and Liam Hayes’ Slurrup, but it was a good month all around, and fairly eclectic. Hope you enjoy!

  • 40 Songs: December 2017

    40 Songs: December 2017

    Here’s a playlist of 40 songs I listened to and enjoyed in December 2017. It was a quieter month for me musically than usual, with end of semester deadlines and vacation, but it was still pleasant and full of some new discoveries that will stick with me for a while. Hope you enjoy!  

  • 105 Songs: November 2017

    105 Songs: November 2017

    Here’s a playlist of 6+ hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in November 2017. Records I especially enjoyed included Blick Bassy’s Ako, Mavis Staples’ If All I Was Was Black, Brittany Howard’s Thunderbitch record,Mickhael Paskalev’s What’s Life Without Losers, Landhorne Slim’s Lost at Last, Joan Shelley’s Ginko, Dom La Nena’s Soyo, Max Richter’s…

  • 95 Songs [October 2017]

    95 Songs [October 2017]

    Here are 95 songs I listened to and enjoyed in October 2017. Records I had on repeat included John Kennedy’s HA!, Balmorhea’s Clear Language, Alabama Shakes’ Sound & Color, Ane Brun’s Leave Me Breathless, Strand of Oaks’ HEAL, Langhorne Slim’s Life is Confusing EP, and Willie Watson’s Folksinger (vol. 1 & 2).  

  • 100 Songs [September 2017]

    100 Songs [September 2017]

    Here’s a new playlist with 100 songs I listened to and enjoyed in September. On heavy rotation this month were Laura Marling,Pops Staples, Charlie Parr, Andy Shauf, Leatherbag, Elvis Perkins, Langhorne Slim, Nassau, Iron & Wine, John Martyn, and My Bubba & Elsa Håkansson. Featured image by Steel Wagstaff, CC-BY

  • 75 Songs [August 2017]

    75 Songs [August 2017]

    Here’s a playlist of 75 songs I listened to and enjoyed in August. I listened to a fair amount of My Bubba (I saw them live in Stoughton at the end of September), Odd Nosdam, Sylvan Esso, Quantic, Mariee Sioux, The Milk Carton Kids, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens this month. Featured image by Steel…

  • 100 Songs [July 2017]

    100 Songs [July 2017]

    Here’s a new playlist of 100 songs I listened to and enjoyed in July 2017. Records I had on heavy rotation this month included Nightwares on Wax’ N.O.W. Is the Time, Flying Lotus’ You’re Dead!, Glass Animals’ 2014 release ZABA, Nathaniel Rateliff’s Closer, Guy Clark’s Workbench Songs, Michael Nau’s Some Twist. A lot of new discoveries for me…

  • 105 songs [June 2017]

    105 songs [June 2017]

    Here’s a big playlist (almost 7 1/2 hours) of music I listened to and enjoyed in June 2017. Hope you enjoy! Featured image by Steel Wagstaff

  • Adrianne Lenker & Buck Meek & Big Thief

    Adrianne Lenker & Buck Meek & Big Thief

    I don’t know exactly why or how it happened, but for the past several months I’ve been unusually absorbed by pretty much everything that Adrianne Lenker and Buck Meek have ever recorded. I don’t know much about Buck other than that’s he’s from Texas, but here’s some part of Adrianne’s story in a nutshell: born…

  • 90 Songs [Best of May 2017]

    90 Songs [Best of May 2017]

    Here’s 6 hours of music I listened to and enjoyed on the cusp of summer in May 2017.

  • 125 Songs [April 2017]

    125 Songs [April 2017]

    Here’s a new playlist made up of nearly eight and a half hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in April 2017. Favorites from April included ANOHNI’s Paradise record, new records from Jenn Grant, Feist, Johnny Flynn and Big Thief, a live album, Waterworks, by Glenn Jones and Matthew Azevedo, and new music from Morton Valence and…

  • 70 Songs [March 2017]

    70 Songs [March 2017]

    Here’s a playlist of 70 songs I listened to and enjoyed in March 2017. Albums I really dug into included Clap! Clap!’s Tayi Bebba, Leif Vollebeck’s Twin Solitude, Jenn Grant’s Paradise, the instrumental version of De La Soul’s and the Anonymous Nobody, Arizona Amp and Alternator’s The Open Road (a Howe Gelb project), the Milk Carton Kids’ Prologue and Serengeti…

  • 115 Songs [February 2017]

    115 Songs [February 2017]

    Here’s a megamix of almost 8 hours worth of music I listened to and enjoyed in February 2017. Records I had on pretty frequent rotation: Clap! Clap!’s A Thousand Skies, Jesca Hoop’s Memories Are Now, Chinese Man’s Shikantaza, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s The Tourist, Dr. Dog’s Abandoned Mansion, Kid Koala and Emilíana Torrini’s Music to Draw to: Satellite, Tinarwen’s Elwan, Anderson…

  • 101 Songs [January 2017]

    101 Songs [January 2017]

    Here’s a playlist of 101 songs (around 6 and a half hours of music) I listened to and enjoyed in January 2017. It was a fun month musically. Enjoy! Featured image by Jennifer Bastian

  • 110 Songs [December 2016]

    110 Songs [December 2016]

    Here’s a huge playlist (7+ hours) of music that I listened to and enjoyed in December 2016. Hope it helps get you through last days of winter! Featured image by Jennifer Bastian.

  • 100 Songs [November 2016]

    100 Songs [November 2016]

    Here’s a playlist of 100 songs I listened to and enjoyed in November 2016. The big discovery for me was Blaze Foley, an eccentric Austin-based singer-songwriter who was shot and killed while trying to intervene in a dispute in 1989, aged 40. I probably listened to his “Clay Pigeons” and various covers of it a…

  • 150 Songs [October 2016]

    150 Songs [October 2016]

    Looking for a 10 1/2 hour playlist? Then let me tell you about this one–it’s a big collection of music I listened to and enjoyed in October of this year. Pretty eclectic, pretty varied stuff. Some records I finally got around to listening to in full and would recommend: Bon Iver’s 22, A Million; Olafur Arnalds’…