2022 Q4

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Featuring: Makaya McCraven, Lucrecia Dalt, Kaki King, Seamus Eagan, Latin Playboys, Abstract Rude and Aceyalone, R.A.P. Ferreria, Ski Mask The Slump God, Marlon Coles, Cindy Lee, Temple of the Dog, Depeche Mode, Low, Rozi Plain, Horse Lords, Bilou XIV and Zo Flame, Algiers w/Zack De La Rocha, SZA, and Hermanos Gutiérrez.

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2020 Q1

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Featuring: Luke Temple, Sampa the Great, Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven, Clark, Moken, Mateo Kingman, Natalia Lafourcade, Margaret Glaspy, Dua Lipa, John Fahey, Algiers, The Black Crowes, BOBBY, Danny Brown w/Run the Jewels, and Penny and Dave Fox.

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May 2017 ~ Impeach the President

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"Between the political echo between Nixon and Trump and the revival of '60's soul sound (courtesy of Daptone Records and similar units), it was actually hard to suss if this song was contemporary or from the '60's. It's about Nixon, but, damn could it just as easily be about the current crook in chief." 

Featuring: Algiers, Yazz Ahmed, Soundgarden, the Honey Drippers, and more.

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June 2015: Yes, We've Seen the Rain

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"This month's playlist offers a mini-exploration into the breakdown of genres that seems to have reached a new level of maturity in today's music, especially in the blending of rock and rap that has been lubricated by the ubiquity of electronic music and tools. This also involves evolutionary step in the synthesis of digital & analogue sounds into a new sonic language, making me wonder if that synthesis will be recognized as a signature of this era twenty years from now."

Featuring: Deradoorian, A$AP Rocky, Brahms, Ornette Coleman, and more. 

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