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Autumn has certainly been leisurely in its arrival this year, at least in my central TX backdrop, but this week brought some slightly cooler temperatures and it’s starting to feel like like Fall is finally here. As usual, to go along with the colorful foliage, warm fashions and seasonal beverages, I have a new Autumn mixtape to help evoke the wistful, carefree feelings of the season. Click here to listen to this mix in its entirety via Spotify or Apple Music. Enjoy!

Faye Webster - Thinking About You

Dipsea Flower - Burnouts

MJ Lenderman - You Don't Know the Shape I'm In

Clairo - Nomad

Mitch Rowland - Here Comes The Comeback

Haley Heynderickx - Foxglove

Gigi Perez - Sailor Song

Waxahatchee - Lone Star Lake

Babehoven - Birdseye

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Alibi

Cassandra Jenkins - Devotion

Wild Pink - Disintegrate

Florist - This Was a Gift

Caoilfhionn Rose - Fall Into Place

Bon Iver - THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS

Medium Build & Julien Baker - Yoke

hemlock - Hyde Park

Zach Bryan - This World's A Giant

Adrianne Lenker - Sadness as a Gift

Slowdive - kisses (sky ii)

Beetlebug - equinox

Runner - Untitled October Song

Jensen McRae - Massachusetts

Laura Marling - Caroline

Kacey Musgraves - Too Good to be True

Hovvdy - Jean (Julie's Version)

Caroline Says - Palm Reader

James Vincent McMorrow - Meet me in the garden

Katie Gavin - As Good As It Gets (ft. Mitski)

Granddaddy - Cabin in My Mind

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Summer is here and so is my annual mixtape full of effervescent, sunny new jams to blast loud while your making all your summer memories! So whether you're a Charly, Carly or Charli, click here to listen to this mix in its entirety via Spotify or Apple Music. Enjoy!

SUMMER (OR WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE) VOL. 15

01. Vampire Weekend - Mary Boone 02. DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ - Honey 03. Sea Lemon - Vaporized 04. Carly Rae Jepsen - Psychedelic Switch 05. Middle Kids - Dramamine 06. Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso (Working Late Remix) 07. Maribou State - Blackoak 08. Joe Goddard & Barrie - Moments Die 09. Teliz - Type of Girl 10. Charly Bliss - Nineteen 11. NewJeans - Bubble Gum 12. Purple Disco Machine & Benjamin Ingrosso - Honey Boy 13. Erika de Casier - Lucky 14. R. Missing - Maryhead 15. Jamie xx - Baddy On the Floor (feat. Honey Dijon) 16. Charli XCX - The 360 remix with robyn and yung lean 17. Magdalena Bay - Death & Romance 18. Good Looks - If It's Gone 19. Clairo - Sexy to Someone 20. Empress Of - What's Love (feat. MUNA) 21. Camera Obscura - Big Love 22. Hannah Diamond - Affirmations 23. Dayglow - Every Little Thing I Say I Do 24. The Japanese House - Touching Yourself 25. Everything Everything - Cold Reactor 26. Dagny - Strawberry Dream 27. George Clanton - I Been Young 28. Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites 29. Chromeo - Personal Effects 30. Romy - Always Forever

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Happy new year! Here’s my favorite albums & songs in of 2023. Click here to listen to my full Best Songs playlist* (100+ tracks) via Spotify or Apple Music.

FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2023

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin

The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein / Laugh Track

Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

boygenius - The Record

Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes

Caroline Rose - The Art of Forgetting

Blur - The Ballad of Darren

Ratboys - The Window

Blondshell - s/t

Youth Lagoon - Heaven is a Junkyard

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You

The Mountain Goats - Jenny From Thebes

Jeff Rosenstock - Hellmode

Wilco - Cousin

Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!

Slowdive - everything is alive

Indigo De Souza - All of this will end

Wednesday - Rat Saw God

Romy - Mid Air

DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Destiny

Billy Woods & Kenny Sagan - Maps

The Japanese House - In the end it always does

Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord who chews but which does not consume

The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore

Roison Murphy - Hit Parade

Bully - Lucky For You

M83 - Fantasy

Jess Williamson - Time Ain’t Hospitable

Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

FAVORITE SONGS OF 2023

Sufjan Stevens - Shit Talk

Lana Del Rey - A&W

The National - Tropic Morning News

Feist - Borrow Trouble

Blondshell - Joiner

Blur - The Narcissist

boygenius - Not Strong Enough

MGMT - Mother Nature

Wednesday - Chosen To Deserve

Yo La Tengo - Aselestine

Caroline Rose - Miami

Ratboys - The Window

Roison Murphy - The Universe

Oneohtrix Point Never - A Barely Lit Path

Indigo De Souza - Younger & Dumber

Jeff Rosenstock - 3 Summers

Caroline Polachek - Blood & Butter

Sun June - Get Enough

Yard Act - The Trench Coat Museum

DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ – Honey

Girl Scout - Weirdo

JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Lean Beef Patty

Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

Overmono - Good Lies

Bully - Days Move Slow

Youth Lagoon - Idaho Alien

Katy Kirby - Cubic Zirconia

Andy Shauf - Halloween Store

Romy - She's On My Mind

M83 - Oceans Niagara

Yves Tumor - Echolalia

Big Thief - Vampire Empire

Olivia Rodrigo - get him back!

Fever Ray - Kandy

Jessie Ware - Begin Again

The Japanese House - Boyhood

Kelela - Contact

Jess Williamson - Hunter

Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine

billy woods & Kenny Segal - Soft Landing

Tennis - Let's Make a Mistake Tonight

Slowdive - shanty

Beirut - Hadsel

NewJeans - Super Shy

The Clientele - Blue Over Blue

Nation of Language - Sole Obsession

ANOHNI - This Must Change

The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters

Slaughter Beach, Dog - Engine

The Beatles - Now and Then

Link to full 100+ track playlist on Spotify / Apple Music

*playlist subject to change

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With temperatures dropping, colorful foliage and seasonal beverages coming back into season, it’s the perfect time for a mixtape of wistful, melancholy acoustic guitar-heavy sounds. So with no further ado, here's the 13th edition of the Autumn (Or What It Feels Like To Fall) mixtape. Click here to listen to this mix in its entirety via Spotify / Apple Music. Enjoy!

01. Sufjan Stevens - A Running Start 02. Sun June - Get Enough 03. Yo La Tengo - Aselestine 04. Mutual Benefit - Untying a Knot 05. Slaughter Beach, Dog - Engine 06. S. Carey - Steadfast (ft. Gordi) 07. boygenius - Cool About It 08. Andy Shauf - Halloween Store 09. Jess Williamson - Hunter 10. The National - Coat on a Hook 11. Allison Ponthier - Hardcore (Acoustic) 12. Great Lake Swimmers - Peacemaker 13. Courtney Barnett - Different Now (ft. Chastity Belt) 14. The Tallest Man On Earth - Slowly Rivers Turn 15. Blue Lake - Fur 16. Katy Kirby - Cubic Zirconia 17. The Clientele - Lady Grey 18. Kara Jackson - pawnshop 19. Youth Lagoon - Idaho Alien 20. Maybel - Long Road Ahead 21. Hiss Golden Messenger - My Old Friends 22. Madison Cunningham - Anywhere 23. Beirut - So Many Plans 24. Luz - not going anywhere 25. Wilco - A Bowl and A Pudding 26. Boundary Run - Stranger 27. Shannon Lay - From the Morning 28. Nick Mulvey - A Prayer of My Own 29. BEAR DOWN BEAR - Saturnalia 30. Lana Del Rey - Let The Light In (ft. Father John Misty)

Listen to this playlist on Spotify or Apple Music

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Blame El Niño delivering some much-needed wetter, cooler weather this year for the playlist's late arrival, but now that summer is sweltering, I'm here with my 14th annual mixtape full of effervescent, sunny new indie jams to blast loud while your making all your summer memories. Click here to listen to this mix in its entirety via Spotify or Apple Music. Enjoy!

Summer (Or What It Sounds Like) Vol. 14

01. Small Black - Bad Lover (DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ Remix) 02. Marci - KITY 03. Girl Ray - Hold Tight 04. Blondshell - Joiner 05. Phoenix - After Midnight (ft. Clairo) 06. Overmono - Good Lies 07. Röyksopp - Let's Get It Right (feat. Astrid S) 08. Caroline Polachek - Smoke 09. Shalom - Happenstance 10. White Reaper - Pages 11. Grace Ives - Lullaby 12. boygenius - Not Strong Enough 13. Hudson Mohawke & Nikki Nair - Set The Roof 14. Beach Fossils - Run To the Moon 15. Romy & Fred again.. - Strong 16. Georgia - It’s Euphoric 17. Superviolet - Overrater 18. yunè pinku - Night Light 19. Shygirl - Firefly 20. Tennis - Let's Make a Mistake Tonight 21. Chromeo - Words With You 22. Girl Scout - Run Me Over 23. Flume - One Step Closer 1.4 [ft. Panda Bear] 24. Jenny Lewis - Psychos 25. Ela Minus & DJ Python - Pájaros En Verano 26. Róisín Murphy - The Universe 27. Coco & Clair Clair - Pop Star 28. The Beths - Watching the Credits 29. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres 30. The 1975 - Happiness

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Here’s my favorite albums & songs in a year that had no shortage of great music. Click here to listen to my full Best Songs of 2022 playlist (100 tracks) via Spotify or Apple Music.

FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2022

Alvvays - Blue Rev

Beach House - Once Twice Melody

Destroyer - LABYRINTHITIS

Spoon - Lucifer On the Sofa

Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE

Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

SAULT - UNTITLED (God)

The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention

Wild Pink - ILYSM

The Weeknd - Dawn FM

Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset

Angel Olsen - Big Time

Wet Leg - Wet Leg

Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen

Wilco - Cruel Country

Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever

Phoenix - Alpha Zulu

Let's Eat Grandma - Two Ribbons

Arctic Monkeys - The Car

Nilüfer Yanya - PAINLESS

Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance

ROSALIA - MOTOMAMI

Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful

The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field

Ethel Cain - Preacher’s Daughter

Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn

Little Simz - NO THANK YOU

Julia Jacklin - Pre Pleasure

Hatchie - Giving The World Away

FAVORITE SONGS OF 2022

Braxe + Falcon - Step by Step (feat. Panda Bear)

Destroyer - June

The Weeknd - Less Than Zero

Beach House - New Romance

Alvvays - Belinda Says

Jamie xx - LET’S DO IT AGAIN

Big Thief - Simulation Swarm

Spoon - Wild

LCD Soundsystem - new body rhumba

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Spitting Off the Edge of the World (feat. Perfume Genius)

Beyoncé - VIRGO'S GROOVE

Soccer Mommy - Shotgun

Let's Eat Grandma - Happy New Year

The Smile - Skrting On the Surface

Ethel Cain - American Teenager

Sudan Archives - Selfish Soul

ROSALÍA - SAOKO

Arctic Monkeys - Body Paint

Mitski - Love Me More

Wet Leg – Angelica

Alex G - Runner

Fontaines D.C. - Jackie Down The Line

Weyes Blood - God Turn Me Into a Flower

Harry Styles - As It Was

Nilüfer Yanya - midnight sun

Phoenix - After Midnight

The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field

Angel Olsen - Right Now

Jessie Ware - Free Yourself

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Edge of the Edge

Caroline Polachek - Billions

Arcade Fire - Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)

Horsegirl - Anti-glory

SAULT - God In Disguise

Hatchie - Quicksand

Bartees Strange - Heavy Heart

Wild Pink - See You Better Now

Hot Chip - Eleanor

Julia Jacklin - Lydia Wears a Cross

Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5

Gang of Youths - in the wake of your leave

Plains - Abilene

Spiritualized - The Mainline Song

Wilco - Bird Without a Tail / Base of My Skull

Jockstrap - Greatest Hits

Father John Misty - Goodbye Mr. Blue

SZA - Shirt

Kevin Morby - This Is a Photograph

Cate Le Bon - Moderation

Jack White - That Was Then, This is Now

Link to full 100-track playlist on Spotify / Apple Music

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With temperatures dropping and colorful foliage and seasonal beverages returning, it’s the perfect time to switch from exuberant synthy jams to wistful guitars and angsty vibes. Here’s the 12th edition of the Autumn (Or What It Feels Like To Fall) mixtape to help evoke the winsome melancholy of the season. Click here to listen to this mix in its entirety via Spotify / Apple Music. Enjoy!

01. Cass McCombs - New Earth 02. Plains - Abilene 03. Shannen Moser - Oh My God 04. Bonny Light Horseman - California 05. Maya Hawke - Luna Moth 06. San Fermin - Someone You Call Baby 07. Father John Misty - Goodby Mr. Blue 08. girl in red - October Passed Me By 09. Kurt Vile - Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone) 10. Florist - Two Ways 11. Warpaint - Champion 12. Andrew Bird - I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain (ft. Phoebe Bridgers) 13. First Aid Kit - Turning Onto You 14. Kevin Morby - A Random Act of Kindness 15. Skullcrusher - It's Like a Secret 16. Laura Veirs - Autumn Song (feat. Kate Stables) 17. Wilco - Country Song Upside-down 18. Indigo Sparke - Hysteria 19. Horsegirl - World of Pots and Pans 20. Old Sea Brigade - If You’re Falling Asleep 21. Angel Olsen - Right Now 22. Drugdealer - Pictures of You (feat. Kate Bollinger) 23. Weyes Blood - Grapevine 24. S.G. Goodman - Teeth Marks 25. Sharon Van Etten - Never Gonna Change 26. Alex G - Miracles 27. Katie Toupin - Adam's Song 28. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You 29. Jacob Humber - Quiet Conversation 30. Wild Pink - The Grass Widow In The Glass Window

➡️ Listen to this playlist on Spotify or Apple Music

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new…RIHANNA?

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Happy July 4th weekend! ☀️🎵🤘🕶️ (spotify link to playlist ->)

Summer has arrived in all it's sweltering glory and as per usual I've made a mixtape full of exuberant, feel-good sunny jams (the 13th annual!) to blast while you’re out making your summer memories. Click here to listen to this mix in its entirety via Spotify or Apple Music. Enjoy!

Summer (Or What It Sounds Like) Vol. 13

01. Jamie xx - LET'S DO IT AGAIN 02. Sea Lemon - Turn Away 03. illuminati hotties & Bartees Strange - Pool Hopping (Strange Pool Remix) 04. TOPS - Party Again 05. Purple Disco Machine - Hypnotized (ft. Sophie and the Giants) 06. Beach Bunny - Oxygen 07. Hatchie - This Enchanted 08. Gang of Youths - in the wake of your leave 09. Braxe & Falcon - Step by Step (ft. Panda Bear) 10. PUP - Matilda 11. Barrie - Jersey 12. Magdalena Bay - Hysterical Us 13. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Tidal River 14. Charli XCX - Lightning 15. Spoon - Wild 16. Joesef - It's Been a Little Heavy Lately 17. Soccer Mommy - Shotgun 18. Ducks Ltd. - 18 Cigarettes 19. Empress Of - Save Me 20. Wet Leg - Angelina 21. Mitski - Love You More 22. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - B-side 23. Foals - 2am 24. Channel Tres - Acid in My Blood 25. Dehd - Bad Love 26. MUNA - Anything But Me 27. Wallows - I Don't Want to Talk 28. Sleigh Bells - Locust Laced 29. Yumi Zouma - Give It Hell 30. Arcade Fire - Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)

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Sickening wordplay, phenomenal visuals, the newest drop from Houston rapper Tobe Nwigwe “Round Here Part One” incorporates killer musical elements from his Nigerian and Texan background. 

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Sickening wordplay, phenomenal visuals, the newest drop from Houston rapper Tobe Nwigwe “Round Here Part One” incorporates killer musical elements from his Nigerian and Texan background. 

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Artist of the Month: mxmtoon

Tumblr’s Artist of the Month for June is singer-songwriter mxmtoon.

We have some exclusive behind-the-scenes footage for you so check it out and listen to her new album rising right here.

Stay tuned for content all month long on @music and be sure to follow @mxmtoonofficial!

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This song remains an absolute banger—perfect for an unruly spring evening.

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Remember in 2008 when we covered Florence before her first album?

How do you all discover new music these days?

Florence & The Machine - “Kiss With A Fist”

Florence & The Machine is Florence Mary Leontine Welch, and a backing band that seems to vary from show to show (currently Dev Hynes of Lightspeed Champion).

This track typifies Florence’s sound: a haunting, captivating voice and a bluesy sensibility that draws comparison with the likes of Kristin Hersh and Amy Winehouse, topped off with a whole load of attitude. It was released as a single on Moshi Moshi Records in the UK and IAMSOUND Records in the US, a week ago. Also worth checking out is her cover of Cold War Kids’ “Hospital Beds”, which can be streamed on her MySpace, that she frequently opens her sets with.

She’s currently working on her debut album with Kid Harpoon. You’ll also find her at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, and various other venues throughout the UK (all listed on her MySpace) after that.

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This song still whips ass

Are we in a new golden age for dance videos? Here, Kiesza gives us gorgeous choreography performed in a single take for “Hideaway.” It’s the classically trained Canadian ballerina’s debut single, filmed with a broken rib, before debuting at the top of the UK singles chart last month. 

With Arcade Fire’s recent entry into the genre, the continuing reign of Beyonce and Justin Timberlake, plus upcoming releases from dance vid queen Robyn, and even a posthumous album from genre originator Michael Jackson, it seems the long tradition of getting down in front of a camera is on a rise.

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I just need a little 2022-but-make-it-80s-synth escapism these days

(these two singles are from an EP by Hether Fortune called Sober Karaoke—the first one will get stuck in your head as if its existed for 30 years)

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This entire album is layered with Stronae’s intricate albeit to create extended metaphors through sound and lyricism.

I think why people like me and French teachers love Stromae is because of his incredibly playful and deft use of language.

This song, for example? The chorus literally includes the French words for “poopoo” (caca) and “peepee” (pipi), it also talks about vomiting. It’s also about the joy of fatherhood, and his affected high voice, against the tones of a xylophone and hand-claps. It’s catchy, it’s light, it’s silly.

This song is more emblematic if the kind of music we’re used to seeing from Stromae—beautiful instrumentation and vocals against coarse, raw lyrics. He reflects on the way the world perceives mothers, and how that refracts back on children. With elegant strings, he embeds beauty as he sings of the ugly sins of our world.