Tag: ryan’s music picks
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Ryan’s Music Picks 👽 10 March 2017
The theme of these picks is “dreamlike” in the sense that they are transportative, slightly off-kilter, and a little unworldly. This week is full of slow-burn jams with varying levels of dance-floor, headphone, stadium, and sitting-alone-in-a-dark-room listenability. Landlady – The World is a Loud Place (Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify) Classic psychedelic rock in a 70s…
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Ryan’s Music Picks ✈️ 20 February 2017
It’s been a while, huh? A lot of stuff happened since my last one of these: Trump became president, my youngest daughter turned one, I turned 34. I’ve been listening to a ton of music and making lots of mental notes and aspirational playlists for this email, but nothing has been actually written down until…
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Top 12 Albums 2016
Here’s my Favorite 12 Albums of 2016. 12 because 10 isn’t ever enough, and “favorite” (as opposed to “best”) because objectivity in art is impossible. There are a lot of albums from 2016 that I didn’t listen to, and a lot of other albums that I heard once but never spent time with, so expect…
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Ryan’s Music Picks 🎄 20 December 2016
There are 3 or 4 different kinds of Christmas songs, really. There are songs about Santa coming to town, songs about how it’s cold and romance is in the air, songs about the fact that it is winter, and songs about baby Jesus being born. I tend to gravitate to types 3 and 4, but…
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Ryan’s Music Picks 🌲 8 December 2016
Quick update for the rest of the year: after this, sometime in the next week or so-ish, I’ll do a roundup of Christmas music. It might be an extra long one, because I have feelings about Christmas music. If you’re curious to see, you can click here for 3 pages to links to Christmas music…
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Ryan’s Music Picks 23 November 2016
It’s been a bit. I’m sure you’re getting lots of emails about black friday deals, but I though you might want some good driving music. I took (am taking?) a break from Twitter and did some stuff with my family. This week we drove up to the Sierras for a family camp, and then took…
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Ryan’s Music Picks: 7 November 2016
It’s election week this week, and I am stressed. I’m not going to bring politics into this email list, but if you’re curious, you can take a look at my twitter. So, with stress comes plenty of beautiful, mostly instrumental music for me. Check it out: Delicate Steve – Positive Force (Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify)…
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Ryan’s Music Picks: 👻 Halloween 2🎃16 Edition
I made a mixtape! I didn’t expect it to happen after I realized that Traktor for iPad and Apple Music tracks didn’t play well together. But I figured it out. So here it is: Moon Cities – Silent Sandy Circuitry (Podcast, Soundcloud, Mixcloud) This is kind of a fall mixtape and kind of a Halloween thing, so beware…
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Ryan’s Music Picks: 24 October 2016
Halloween’s approaching. I think I’m working on a mix. In fact, don’t be surprised if a lot of stuff you’ve heard here pops into that mix, if I’m able to pull it together in time. Other than that, I’m reveling in the earlier sunsets and the little bits of rain we’re having in So Cal.…
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Ryan’s Music Picks: 12 October 2016
I love the fall. We barely get any in So Cal, but even October demonstrates slight changes from the usual 100% sun situation we have. Specifically, the evenings begin to cool down, the leaves start getting crunchy, and the spiders come out. Seriously, we get lots of dang spiders in the trees, but the evenings…