Welcome to the Mixtape Corner
This is a cozy little section of the site dedicated to playlists.
While I’m still critical of Spotify and all that the streaming model entails, I am not immune to a good playlist. I guess when you spend all day listening to music (regardless of platform), your brain just automatically starts to categorize and sequence things in a way that makes sense.
I have around 500 playlists on Spotify, and if that sounds like a lot, you’re right! I don’t use them all, but they have each served a different role in my music fandom at one point or another. Some playlists are decade-spanning compendiums of an artist’s work organized chronologically; others are goofy jokes based on some superficial connective tissue. Some of these I listen to every week, others are an attempt to capture a specific time and place in my life. The point is that my Spotify sidebar is long and full of playlists, so I created this as a place where I can share some of my favorites and discuss them in short form.
Latest Playlist
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Mixtapes
- Mar 3, 2024 Mixtape #1 – Yo La Sleepy
- Mar 9, 2024 Mixtape #2 - Ewaldism
- May 14, 2024 Mixtape #3 - Porch Beer Albums™
Hope you’ve got a beer in-hand and a few more on-deck. One of my most prized playlists, Porch Beer Albums™ was conceived one spring day in 2019 when I was listening to Alex G, Trace Mountains, and Wild Pink in excess. I feel like the title is pretty self-explanatory, but this playlist is filled with over a hundred hours of lightly twangy indie rock that has a sweeping, naturalistic quality that makes this music feel like a breeze on your neck. Because it’s a full-album mix, you could shuffle it for literal days or just scroll until you find an album to your liking. Ultimately, the hope is that this playlist offers a collection of records that would sound good if you were kicking back on a porch during a hot summer day. I’ll leave you with my fake words of wisdom: Give a man a beer, and he’ll be happy. Give a man a porch, and he’ll be content. Give him both, and he needs nothing more.