2024

This is what you came here for!

Mix 47: Annual year-end ketchup with recommendations from friends far and wide. Hippo inclusive.

Jan 2 •

Best of 2024, pt. 4 - Songs

The best(ish) songs of the year via the #Top24of24 challenge

Dec 26, 2024 •

Best of 2024 pt. 3 - Albums

Attempting to revive the lost art of writing a year-end album blurb you might read without your eyes glazing over (at least not for the normal reasons)

Dec 19, 2024 •

Best of 2024 pt. 2 - Stats and Mixes

Regional, genre, and artist stats, plus lots of thematic mixes, some sequenced and others in large, beautiful heaps.

Dec 12, 2024 •

Best of 2024 Pt. 1 - Best Words

Best of the blog, Bluesky, and beyond

Dec 5, 2024 •

Been taking lots of Nyquil lately

Mix 46: Last mix of the year -- pop hits I missed, previews of next week's best of the blog subheadings, and a few playlists before the year-end posts…

Nov 28, 2024 •

Looks like downhill from here

Mix 45: Hyperactive highs and downhill crashes, plus deceptive short people, deceptively popular Turkish disco, and Francophone hits I missed.

Nov 21, 2024 •

Mix 44: Last Poets, lost FLO hits, Flying Lotus, ska(?) (Polish), funk show-offs, rancid roses, and lost cat -- woe's us.

Nov 14, 2024 •

I’ve got a nosebleed now

Mix 43: Preparing for the improbable, fighting bullies without lashing in, plus Mexico's Poppy, amapiano salsa, and a quick V-pop skim.

Nov 7, 2024 •

Come and feel the entropy

Mix 42: Vibes (mostly figurative, though some literal) from Chile, South Africa, Denmark, Poland, and Iceland. Plus: digging for dembow, and the year to…

Oct 31, 2024 •

I got high with my mom

Mix 41: American* (not A-) pop from South Korea and South Africa, charmers from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and managing deep shit times

Oct 24, 2024 •

What else is new, we're in Europe

Mix 40: Superstar toddlers, the long shadow of Rihanna, more Francophone African pop in bold primary colors, and Ren and Stimpy's baile funk ethos.

Oct 17, 2024 •

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