2025

You can shudder later

2025 Mix 15: Windowpane revisited; Ari Lennox's early song of the summer; Bb trickz outfoxes Playboi Carti before I can finish my coffee; and checking…

Apr 17 •

Flex all the memories

2025 Mix 14: Tate McRae's marshmallow mouth; TEN's intergenerational K-pop; smooth hits from Colombia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Thailand; and wild…

Apr 10 •

One foot in the avalanche

2025 Mix 13: Music for many moods -- friend recs NMIXX, Jessie Reyez, and Deep Sea Diver, plus a French émo-mélo-drama-queen goes big and a Brazilian…

Apr 3 •

Think I hit somebody

2025 Mix 12: Going long on my retroactive 1989 AOTY by Jane Child, plus Jennie, Jvcki Wai, AVYSS, ALT BLK ERA, viral Spanish-language hits, and some old…

Mar 27 •

Like Milla Jovovich

2025 Mix 11: Oops! All Golden Beats

Mar 20 •

You wouldn't believe what you're capable of

2025 Mix 10: Setting the record straight on "Since U Been Gone" and indie, a classically trained opera singer reconstructs Soulja Boy from first…

Mar 13 •

2025 Mix 9: Mid-aughts confessional lives, democracy dies(?), indie from all over stays about the same, Scandinavians get goofy, and schmaltz works its…

Mar 6 •

Let me tell you about my bruise

2025 Mix 8: Fergie gets in on some TikTok shit, smoking the ashes of your enemies, Swedish also-rans get back on the horse, and catching up with South…

Feb 27 •

I miss your old molecules

2025 Mix 7: Attempting to crack the "Say So" code, punching oneself in the face with one's own little fist, a David Sylvian jump scare, and bliss-house…

Feb 20 •

It's personal, not business

2025 Mix 6: Paper planes, Sleigh Bells, horse girls, hyperbops, Belgians robbed, Misoverse, Lynchoverse, and the second ever "first ever" Other Dave…

Feb 13 •

2025 Mix 5: The future of alt-pop in 2007 revisited, the first ever Other Dave Heidi Montag legacy poll, Kenya fills this week's South African slots…

Feb 6 •

You’re about to faint again

2025 Mix 4: Unreliable babe narration, lots of Eurovision hopefuls, a song of the year last year that I'm dragging as a mantra into this one, and the…

Jan 30 •

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