Library of Playlist Notes

Hi! I know it’s been a long, long time since I made one of these playlists, but there are some pretty good reasons for that. Even apart from it taking a really long time to… Read more

It’s been a long, long time (I KNOW) since I made a new playlist, which is kind of a tricky thing. Over the course of the last *mumbling* months, I’ve listened to, loved, hated, and… Read more

Bright Eyes’ elegiac I Will be Grateful For This Day, a deep cut rarity never included on an official album release, is one of the most powerful tracks in their considerable catalogue. Featuring an against-brand… Read more

Well, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? I guess that after single handedly saving the drill genre with my last album note, the gargantuan effort caused my creative brain to go into a brief stasis,… Read more

Drill music is under attack! That particular flavor of rap, birthed in the underbelly of Chicago’s poorest districts and characterized by its plain spoken and nihilistic lyrics, became a local hit immediately, better reflecting the… Read more

Que extraño…. how odd, indeed. Here we are barreling toward the spring, on the verge of world war, declaring victory over a pandemic that’s lasted ~3 years in a way that still somehow seems premature.… Read more

In Ancient Greek myth, Cassandra is one of the more interesting mortal figures. As a Trojan priestess of Apollo she was compelled to chastity (like a nun) — so when Apollo himself made a sexual… Read more

Apple MusicSpotify Not Fade Away I believe that one of the quickest ways to take a culture’s temperature, to really get a sense of the national mood, is to look at to what extent it… Read more

Apple MusicSpotify It’s about 11pm, you’re alone, housesitting for your Dad’s very wealthy, very weird boss. He’s in the Hamptons, of course, weathering the Nor’easter currently beating down outside with martinis and toast points. The… Read more

Apple MusicSpotify 1977 was one of the hottest summers on record for New York at the time, now easily blown out with every new year thanks to the planet’s gradual heat death. But the people… Read more