playlists

Yesterday was Chance the Rapper’s 25th birthday. It’s OK if you didn’t get him anything, but in his typically generous fashion he along with Apple Music has given us something…

If you’re a Spotify user, you’re probably familiar with the streaming service’s series of This is… playlists, giving listeners an intensive primer on a given artist’s work. I don’t know how these…

For years now, I have been a proponent of the chronological order listing model – listening to every album by a given artist in order of release. It can be…

Nylles Vernon and Cory Townes are two obsessive fans of massively successful production duo The Neptunes, and they have sought to share their obsession with the world by collecting and…

The best playlists represent the curator’s individual point of view, for a sequence of songs that reflect a single sensibility, that couldn’t be replicated by anyone else. There’s something to…

Every summer features music pundits both amateur and professional declaring various pop hits “the song of the summer,” followed by contrarian counter-programming, then the cycle repeats itself. Spotify has gotten…

It might sound like a long-lost Brian Eno album, but actually Songs To Test Headphones With is of a more recent vintage, a new playlist from the people at Spotify…

2016 will forever be known as the year that David Bowie, Prince, Phife Dawg, and Leonard Cohen all died, but its list of victims runs much deeper and longer than…

Last year, Barack Obama solidified his status as History’s Coolest President by dropping not one but two summer playlists, one for daytime and one for the night time. Now, he’s…

The mixtape in its original pre-internet form is an extremely important, if endangered, mode of personal expression, allowing you to take the music that has moved you emotionally and share…