23 mixes with tracks by “Loom”

some of my favorite new tracks from Brooklyn's best, including The Hundred In The Hands, Fort Lean, and The Loom!

Ten tracks including music by The Lumineers, Mumford & Sons, and Old Crow Medicine Show.

All Groups based in Chicago. Supercriminal Grooves interlaced with that avant-weirdness that Chicago does the best.

For my wife. Eight tracks including music by Cocoon, Fleet Foxes, and Woodkid.

Take time to stop. To think. To relax. To find the beauty that is all around us. To discover what is truly important.

Each song is a dedication, a concert, a memory or a turning point of musical taste and life course culminating in one epic playlist. Starts with alternative, goes a little bit country and a little bit rock, a little bit metal, a lot of mellow, indie and post-rock. Enjoy. 60 tracks from the last 25 years including music by Dave Matthews Band, Explosions In The Sky and Incubus.

44 tracks including music by Belle & Sebastian, Ben Harper and Mumford & Sons. Sometimes indie, sometimes folksy, sometimes French, sometimes mellow and sometimes not. All eclectic.

This mix is in anticipation of SXSW, which rolls through Austin in a little more than two weeks. Someone asked for my shortlist of bands to watch, which currently sits in a 3-page Word document on my laptop. These tunes come from some of the groups on that list -- I’ve seen all but a handful of these bands play before, and they all put on a great show.

Wake up your eyes, and darling, your smile.

Sixteen tracks including music by Acceptance, Anarbor and Backseat Goodbye.

Too late now...