Mixtape: Nightclouds
Mixtape No. 126 features Josie, ente, Ellen Arkbro, nuvolascara, Stereolab, Moin, Semi Trucks First, some professional news: I'm now the Series Editor of...
Mixtape: Tangerine Drops
Mixtape No. 125 features Fine China, Earth, Kaleidoscope, BIRTH (DEFECTS), Tortoise, XIXA, Wolfgang Voigt By 1995, Dayton, Ohio already had a handful of...
Mixtape: I Am Here And Now
Mixtape No. 124 features, Valentina Goncharova, Yazz Ahmed, Messa, terraplana, Six Organs of Admittance, Florry, caroline It's hard to know what day it is or...
Mixtape: We Care A Lot (Benefit)
Mixtape No. 123 is a mix of benefit comps, singles and whatnot. Another mixtape? So soon? Why not? For the past month and change, I've kept a running thread...
Mixtape: Square the Circle
Mixtape No. 122 features Marshall Allen, Nadah El Shazly, Thanya Iyer, Wendy Eisenberg, Backxwash, Satomimagae Here are some recommendations of things to...
Mixtape: Luna
Mixtape No. 121 features Habak, Pelican, New Jazz Underground, Iron Lung, Sensor Ghost, Eiko Ishibashi When the world is unkind, my dreams tend to compensate...
Mixtape: Magick
Mixtape No. 120 features Bar-B-Q Killers, Thiago Amud, Pink Siifu, Rwake, Orchid, Shannon Wright, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma So, you know how I made a big stink...
Mixtape: Magnolia
Mixtape No. 119 features Lucrecia Dalt, Deafheaven, Circuit Des Yeux, Jules Reidy, Nyron Higor, Lucy Liyou BNDCMPR, my preferred way to share music for the...
Mystics, Headbangers and Dreamers: 2024 in 8 mixtapes
I spent the year making y'all mixtapes and figured that here, at year's end, I should do the same. What follows are eight mixes grouped by different themes...
A Quiet Theatre Kid, A Patient Teacher
Cast photo, circa 2000-2001. The young stunna surrounded by girls in the bottom left is yours truly, terrified to ask any of them out. While I'm constantly...
Mixtape: Skyscape
Mixtape No. 108 features Julia Sabra, Sade, The Sewerheads, FACS, Thirdface, Jules Reidy, Cleo Sol, NEXCYIA. According to my account information, I created...
Mixtape: Never Meant
Mixtape No. 108 includes Lolomis, Outer World, Jeff Parker, Ava Mendoza, Kassie Krut, Philip Jeck, Serpent Column. Here's a recommendation: Go to a show with...
Mixtape: Grace
Mixtape No. 107 features Witch’s Mirror, Tashi Dorji, Damien Jurado, The Rheingans Sisters, Sun Ra, Extol, Anno and Souled American. Bruised and exhausted,...
Mixtape: Wrecked
Mixtape No. 106 features Romperayo, Gong Gong Gong & Mong Tong, Moin, Haley Heynderickx, Darius Jones, Abriction, His Name is Alive, Mount Eerie, Sun Araw....
Give the Punk Drummer Some
When drumming, always wear protection. Where were you when you heard about emo revival? In 2009, I was asked to appear on a panel about the "future of radio"...
Mixtape: Monarch
Mixtape No. 15 features Starflyer 59, Yasmin Williams, Janel & Anthony, Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, Alan Sparhawk, Karate Fort RenoWashington, D.C.Aug. 1,...
Mixtape: Chrysanthemum
Mixtape No. 104 includes Meridian Brothers, Chuck Johnson, Dark Thoughts, MF DOOM, Judy And The Jerks, Jessica Ackerley, Feeling Figures As soon as the...
Mixtape: The Seer
Mixtape No. 103 includes Nubya Garcia, The Jesus Lizard, Pigeon Pit, Respire, Fulu Miziki, Loren Connors & David Grubbs A few months ago, I got a text from a...
Mixtape: Oração
Mixtape No. 102 includes Luiza Brina, Alsarah, Senyawa, Hermeto Pascoal, Fire-Toolz, Black Eyes, Krallice, Aaron Dilloway Recent concerts, movies, TV shows...
Limbo District Q&A with Henry Owings
Come see the art film ‘Carnival’ featuring the weirdo post-punk band Limbo District. My Q&A with Henry Owings to follow the screening. Imagine the iceberg...
Mixtape: Silver Blue
Mixtape No. 101 includes Lilly Miller, SUMAC, Bacchae, Psychic Temple, Tashi Wada, Thou, Anna Tivel, Kass Richards I like getting emails from y'all; it means...
Mixtape: Zipper
Mixtape No. 100 features Sonhos Tomam Conta, Broadcast, Dirty Three, New Jazz Underground, Jeremiah Cymerman, Olivia Block, Tujiko Noriko Welcome to mixtape...
Mixtape: That Thang
Mixtape No. 99 features The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, Rra, Elf Power, Marisa Anderson, Kamasi Washington and Myriam Gendron. What's your post-show...
Mixtape: Colossus
Mixtape No. 98 features Mdou Moctar, Kelly Moran, Gileah Taylor, Morgul Blade, Combo Chimbita, Buck Curran Dream journal: There's mail from Alynda Seggara on...
Mixtape: No Sleep
Mixtape no. 97 features Unwed Sailor, Still House Plants, Nox, Restorations, Claire Rousay, Meshell Ndegeocello, Jessica Pratt. In the [gulp] 26 years since...
Mixtape: Forest
Mixtape no. 96 features Daisy Rickman, Castle Rat, Locrian, Sensor Ghost, Six Organs of Admittance, Lord Spikeheart I am known to love lavish tea ceremonies...
Mixtape: Ramble
Mixtape No. 95 features Kim Gordon, R.A.P. Ferreira, Frances Chang, Mali Obomsawin, Linda Smith, TAMTAM, Magic Tuber Stringband, Thou. Toots Barger: world-...
Mixtape: Wilderness
Mixtape No. 94 features Accidente, Julia Holter, Nathalie Joachim, Anika Pyle, Peter Brötzmann I generally like to have a song to set the tempo for the New...
Mixtape: Snow
Mixtape no. 93 features Woo, Laura Cannell, Ronnie Martin, Nonconnah, The Innocence Mission, Terje Isungset Maybe, like me, you're having a tough time...
Mixtape: Jellyfish
Mixtape No. 92 features Björk, Krallice, Reyna Tropical, Chuquimamani-Condori, Kali Malone, Vestígio and Nabihah Iqbal. I thought I'd never make another, but...
Mixtape: Change
Mixtape No. 91 features Outer World, Sheer Mag, Ndox Electrique, 카코포니(cacophony), Kelly Moran, Keith Fullerton Whitman. Some podcast recommendations:...
Mixtape: Twisted
Mixtape No. 90 features Dawn Richard, Limbo District, Nabalayo, Wendy Eisenberg, Sunn O))) and Mary Halvorson. Do these weekly-ish mixtapes satisfy y'all's...
Mixtape: Each Day
Mixtape No. 89 features Angelica Garcia, Canary Room, The Veldt, Zalaam and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe. I haven't been sleeping. The world is so much. But now...
Mixtape: Bending
A new look for the mixtapes! I've made waaay more than 88, but that's how many I count since I moved to BNDCMPR. Some favorite moments from Furnace Fest, in...
Mixtape: Unpopular
Doom riff opens lowly. I've missed Harvey Milk. The Athens, Ga., band has been out of action for more than a decade now, but its sludgy, deconstructed WTF ZZ...
Mixtape: Muzzle
View from a flotation device KT and I just celebrated 10 years of marriage. I'm amazed at how this decade has deepened our love in beautiful, weird and...
Mixtape: Stay
Dream journal: I'm on a street as it starts to crack open. Volcanic lava glows hazmat orange as it oozes through the asphalt. Everything and everyone is...
Mixtape: Sunset
Simply a photo of a church near our family's house at sunset. My neighborhood is quiet and unassuming, yet really knows when to turn on the charm. I hope...
Mixtape: Afloat
I can't fall asleep to music; my brain is too busy dissecting its melodies, textures and rhythms to fully rest, even if I find the music restful. As I've...
Mixtape: Awake
Where are the weirdos in normal spaces? The death of Paul Ruebens, best known for his character Pee-wee Herman, took me back to my childhood in the early...
Mixtape: Aurora
I proclaimed my love of sorghum syrup for Marissa's "ringing endorsements," so in the spirit of sharing, here are some more: I really like movies that won't...
Mixtape: Viking's Flames
Bands either got paid in cash or spaghetti — that was basically the deal when it came to church shows. When I first met Luxury, it was in a cafeteria...
Mixtape: Viking's Mysterium
If you're a good friend I haven't seen in a while who invites me to a thing, I will probably make it my business to go. So when Kim texted me on Saturday to...
Mixtape: Viking's Majesty
For all of its technique, theory and philosophy (or intentional lack thereof), improvisation is an extremely human conversation between people or the self,...
Mixtape: Viking's Syzygy
I really need to stop reading f***** up comics before bed — they give me surreal and stressful dreams. Zak Sally's Sammy the Mouse is set in a Dr. Suess-ian...
Mixtape: Viking's Bubblegum
Caption: Spectators is a NSFW webcomic by Brian K. Vaughan (Saga, Paper Girls) and Niko Henrichon (Pride of Baghdad). On the surface, it's a pre-post-...
Mixtape: Viking's Pearl
The photo above was taken by me, not a professional photographer, with a slightly busted camera phone at Rhizome, a beloved community space in Washington,...
Mixtape: Viking's Serenade
In an effort to reorganize Viking's Choice, I'm gonna try to parse out the regular features — the mixtape, the (hopeful return of the) Viking's Choice...
Unwound is for the Children
In 2003, I heard a WUOG DJ spin "Terminus," a sidewinding cyclone of music that finds the nexus of knotty post-hardcore and string-swept post-rock over a...
By the Fruits: Jack Rose, 'Now That I'm a Man Full Grown'
I turned 40 years old today, so lately I've been thinking about experiences that set roots. Here's the start of an occasional series called By the Fruits:...