Steel Wagstaff

Trying to do good things for good reasons

Tag: playlist

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

July 27, 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.

July 3, 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…

June 20, 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…

April 30, 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…

April 10, 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

February 22, 2017
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.

February 8, 2017
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…

December 13, 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’…

December 6, 2016
Another 145 Songs [September 2016]

Here’s 10+ hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in September 2016. Hard to pick out favorites amidst so much good sound, but it was a good month, and I hope you enjoy it too!

November 2, 2016
145 Songs [August 2016]

Brace yourself, because it’s a lot of music coming here: 145 songs I listened to and enjoyed in August 2016. So much good sound in my ears this month. We joined Spotify family premium, which meant that I listened to a lot more music (no more annoying advertisements! high quality streaming audio! hooray!) in August.…

October 12, 2016
100 Songs [July 2016]

Here are 100 songs I listened to and enjoyed in July 2016. It was a very excellent month, sonically. Let these sounds wash over you, friends

August 30, 2016
100 Songs [June 2016]

Here are 100 songs I listened to and enjoyed in June of 2016. It was a good summer month, in life and in music for me. Favorite discoveries included: first peoples songwriter Willie Dunn, psychadelic weirdo Jib Kidder (Sean Schuster-Craig), Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment, legendary blueswoman Elizabeth Cotten, Ethiopian jazz master Mulatu Astatke,…

August 15, 2016
50 Tracks [May 2016]

Here are 50 songs that I listened to and enjoyed in May 2016. It was a pretty average month for me, musically, but with some fun discoveries. I really liked Cicada Rhythm (a southern folk duo who sound like The Tallest Man on Earth with cello added–beautiful combination), Connie Converse (an almost unknown 1950s singer-songwriter…

August 1, 2016
I Can’t Drive … 55 (songs) [March 2016]

55 songs I listened to and liked in March 2016. Lots of new music for me here, and fairly varied. It was a good month musically, I’d say. Enjoy! Featured image by Steel Wagstaff

April 6, 2016
Rowwwr [40 songs about animals]

Forty songs about animals. Enjoy! Featured image by Jennifer Bastian

March 15, 2016
29 Songs for 29 Days [February 2016]

Despite having a extra 24 hours provided by a glorious leap day, this past February wasn’t the most musically adventurous of months for me. I didn’t listen a ton of new music, but did manage to scrape together 29 tracks I listened to and enjoyed in the month (one for each day, I suppose). Favorites…

March 1, 2016
[January 2016]

Here’s a playlist of several songs I listened to and enjoyed in January 2016. Photo by Shamanic Shift

February 23, 2016
Five-0! [December 2015]

50 songs I listened to and liked in December 2015. Some stuff I got especially into this month was Timber Timbre (everything–love these guys), Cody Chesnutt’s Landing on a Hundred record, Elbow’s The Take Off and Landing of Everything, Moses Sumney, Ray Lamontange’s Supernova, and Thomas Dybdahl’s What’s Left is Forever album. Enjoy! Featured image by dawn_perry

February 16, 2016
On the 45 [November 2015]

45 songs I listened to and enjoyed in November 2015. I didn’t do much of my own adventuring, mostly let Spotify suggest stuff for me, but it was still a good musical month, even if more limited. Featured image by Steel Wagstaff.

February 9, 2016