2023
You’re questioning the science ‘cause you don’t understand
Mix 46: A final through-the-cracks mix of 2023, from Singles Jukeboxers, social media pals, the People’s Pop 2023 poll, and more
December 2023
2023 Year in Music, Pt. 4
One last collection of best-of mixes, plus...the Big List.
2023 Year in Music, Pt. 3
The year in STATS: regional edition
2023 Year In Music, Pt. 2
Playlists: overall 2023 playlist, grab-bagging across Europe, and whittling down the amapiano
2023 Year in Music, Pt. 1
The best...words?
November 2023
Oh, it’s the Wild West now?
Mix 45: Lots of recommendations from Jukeboxers, Peoples Poppers, music-critical fellow travelers old and new, and yes: everything eventually changes, even amapiano...
Vengeance is a festive celebration
Mix 44: Big songs I missed, small songs I didn’t, an amapiano block, a “smell” block, and the imminent end of the yearly series at the 1,000 song mark
I keep making my bed and it’s become a real chore
Mix 43: Dua Lipa at her most bloodlessly efficient, Brazil in various states of beauty, Nigerian legwork, and some Daft Punk I can finally stand a decade later
Man, focus on yourself
Mix 42: Viral rap, murky beats, French atmosphere, and some metal for people who don’t like metal
They put me in the hospital and learned me how to feel
Mix 41: Dawn Richard thanks me on Twitter, Suriname and Tamil songs from Radio Garden, and playing the alphabet picnic game with baile funk (new entries: H for “harmonica,” Y for “yoooouuuuuu!”)
October 2023
Go ask to a cloud, I dunno
Mix 40: Music video event pop, nepo babies who can’t rap (yet), the Veronicas’ eternal recurrence, and baile funk finds more beauty and weirdness
Junk rocket take me to the moon
Mix 39: A few friends point me toward Suriname and Spain, plus Say She She clicks, Japanese amapiano, and the Japanese “boogie boom”