Tag Archives: Playlists

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 curate, sequence, and notate, it’s also getting harder and harder to make a case for doing them in the firstContinueContinue reading “Voice From The Outside World”

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 been ambivalent to a lot of new music, to the point that I was at about 100 songs on thisContinueContinue reading “More Like a Ghost”

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 electronic dance beat, lead singer/songwriter Conor Oberst waxes nostalgic about people’s he’s left behind in his home town of Omaha,ContinueContinue reading “His Handsome Hell”

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, from which I’ve just recently awoken. The End of the Touris James Ponsoldt’s second major film, following his The SpectacularContinueContinue reading “The End Of The Tour”

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 reality of survival for many living outside the notice of politicians and social safety nets. Its videos tend to beContinueContinue reading “Dry Lightning”

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. These and other factors have contributed to an incredibly exhausting month and a painful playlist cycle, which is also thanksContinueContinue reading “Que Extraño”

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 advance on her, she naturally rejected him. His answer was to curse her with the gift of perfect prophecy —ContinueContinue reading “What Cassandra Saw (1/18/2022)”

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 is indulging in nostalgia. Glorification of the past tends to indicate hopelessness for the future, a sentiment that seems toContinueContinue reading “Not Fade Away”

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 house is unfamiliar, but its massive breadth invites exploration. Outside, rain slams pavement, the wind howls and whips tree limbsContinueContinue reading “Night Call”

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 of New York had another problem: a serial killer on the loose, shooting couples to death with a high poweredContinueContinue reading “The Chubby Behemoth”