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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…
Here’s 55 songs I listened to and enjoyed last month. It was a really good month for me, musically. Favorite discovery: AdriAnne Lenker & Buck Meek. Song I couldn’t get out of my head: “Blue Mountains” by Diamond Rugs. Featured image by Jennifer Bastian
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
Forty songs about animals. Enjoy! Featured image by Jennifer Bastian
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…
Here’s a playlist of several songs I listened to and enjoyed in January 2016. Photo by Shamanic Shift
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
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.
Here’s a playlist of 65 songs I listened to and liked in October 2015. Four and a quarter hours of good musics. Some new discoveries for me this month that I really enjoyed were Liz Vice, Max Frost, Mark McGuire, and Faux Jean (the old project of one of my neighbors–Matty Schindler–who knew!) Enjoy the sounds,…
Here’s a playlist of 100 songs I listened to and enjoyed in September 2015. It was a good month for me musically, with a lot of artist variety (it was the first month I started using Spotify’s Discover Weekly feature–which I love!). The songs themselves are mostly low-key singer-songwriter types: pretty mellow, pretty lovely, pretty chill. Hope…
Here’s a playlist of 75 songs I listened to and liked way back in August of 2015 (the month I turned 33!) Lots of stuff here that was new to me, and which has stuck with me since. Mostly single tracks in this list, with a couple of exceptions, including some of my favorite new…
Here’s a playlist with 40 songs I listened to and liked in the summer of 2015 [March-July, basically]. Not a ton of variety, in hindsight, but I did really get into John Mark Nelson and Serengeti, and liked the new Brandi Carlile, Mirah, and Hamilton Leithauser records. I also listened to the Crookes a fair…
Number 29 in a series of 30 birthday mixtapes I made for Laurel’s birthday several years ago. Enjoy! Photo by ZeePack
Disc #28 in the birthday mixtape gift I put together for Laurel’s birthday a few years ago to give her some music to listen to in the car as she drove around the state for her job. Photo by qmnonic
The 27th in a series of birthday mixtapes I made for Laurel back in the day. Photo by erix!
The 26th disc in a birthday mix series I made for Laurel a couple years back: Photo by Edsel L
Disc #25 in a series of mixtapes made for Laurel’s birthday in years gone by. Photo by Key Foster
The twenty-fourth in a series of mixtape presents made for Laurel’s birthday a few years gone now. Photo by Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections
Number 23 in a series of mixtapes I made for Laurel’s birthday some years ago: Photo by Center for Jewish History, NYC
The 22nd in a series of mixtapes for Laurel’s birthday back in the day: Photo by jfiess