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LXXXI. Slowcore Slowcooker

Slow cooking a soup. Drinking Wine. Reading Oliver Sacks biography. I have already listened to three Yo La Tengo records today. Where's my pumpkin pie?

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LXXX. Self-Care and Curry

Today I had a day off. It was magical and I actually had some time for self-care. I cleaned up my space, spun a bunch of records, did laundry, and somehow fell down after I grabbed my Panang Curry from the delivery driver. My knees and pointer finger are bloody and scratched. But dang, that Panang curry is amazing. My good friend Ryann is now calling me Curryknees after she heard my story.

Despite my knees, I also chilled out to some Brazilian Bossanova (fusion of samba and jazz) and dug up some of its history. I find Joao Gilberto's (think "Girl from Ipanema") quieted, precise vocals fascinating as he carefully picks his guitar strings with the same delicate treatment. This led to the Stan Getz record he collaborated on which led to a jazzy afternoon that also included that new Badbadnotgood 'IV' release.

Have a day off and take care of yourself with this playlist...

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LXXVIV. Eaux Cheese

I wish I could have seen James Blake perform in the rain. I also wish I had some New Glarus and Wisconsin cheese curds.

Eaux cheese well I'll settle for listening to new Bon Iver (you know you LOVE it) with some deep cuts of cheesin' synth.

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LXXVIII. Oly ‘N Gymnastics

Watching the Olympic gymnastics at a bar is a reminder of how I probably should do some balancing exercises so I trip less.

Anywho...

While watching the men's gymnastics portion with a bunch of Minnesotans, I curated a playlist on the back of ticket stub and tried to thing of everything else except that awful cover of Kesha and the dude singing "Spin Me Round (Like a Record)".

Josef K

Sorry For Laughing

Les Disques du Crepuscule

Les Disques du Crepuscule is a little hidden offshoot of Factory Records that also gained its own footing releasing acts like Scottish post-punkers Josef K (Oh Kafka references abound) and I'd like to thank my friend Danielle for this new addiction. Josef K was short lived (1979-1982) but lucky for us, they recently reissued all of their scrumptious singles...my favorite being "Radio Drill Kill".

Sad Horse

Greatest Hits

Mississippi Records

Sad Horse is a two-piece from Portland, OR that released their "Greatest Hits" in 2015. They are jagged, jangly punk rock that is colored with clear cut lyrics. I really want to see them live in a basement somewhere.

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LXXVII. Texas Funeral (Hector Edition)

Hey all!

My friend Hector(@totale), host of Cafe Nervosa(Mondays 8am - 10am) on KPISS.FM has curated a playlist for Resonance! Here's a track-by-track candid breakdown of "Texas Funeral".

If you've ever spent a significant amount of time in Texas (say, the first 26 years of your life), you know that it stays with you whether you want it to or not. During a recent trip back there, I revisited the music that I came to love while living there, as well as the music that came after but was made in the same spirit and same tradition. That inspired me to put together this playlist of bands from the state and slap on a title taken from an album by a bunch of LA studio musicians. It is what it is.

Bedhead - "Bedside Table"

I'm old enough to remember a time when people who should have known better posited Dallas/Denton as a credible alternative to the (admittedly perpetually overrated) Austin scene. Two decades or so later, Bedhead is pretty much the only band from the area that's really endured, give or take a few people who can't come to grips with how bad Lift To Experience was.

Aix Em Klemm - "3x2 (Exit)"

Not the last time that Stars Of The Lid's Adam Wiltzie will appear on this playlist, Aix Em Klemm was a one-off collaboration between Wiltzie and Bobby Donne, whose main band Labradford is worth checking out in and of itself (Mi Media Naranja is my personal favorite). Tough to pick a song off of this record but I went with this one because I love the buzzing cicada noises and I don't want to pander to Abbie's Twin Peaks obsession by picking "Sparkwood and Twentyone."

Scratch Acid - "Owner's Lament"

David Yow's and David Wm. Sims's subsequent band The Jesus Lizard is about a million times better but I think most people rightly consider them more a Chicago band so I'm going with Scratch Acid, and if you have a problem with that just be grateful that Toxic Shock, an even earlier band featuing Yow on bass, isn't on Spotify. Or maybe it is, I didn't check. Shamir fans will recognize the string arrangement that he sampled on "Darker," from his debut LP last year.

Cherubs - "Stag Party"

Andrew Earles says it better than I can in this (poorly edited)Pitchfork piece.

Golden Arm Trio - "DSCH"

Golden Arm Trio's Graham Reynolds was and is an indispensable part of the Austin music scene, one of the few people trying to do something different in a town that isn't anywhere near as weird as it wants to be. As its title implies, "DSCH" is the peak of Graham's obsession with Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, but it doesn't even show off a fraction of his range. If you haven't watched the Richard Linklater adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 'A Scanner Darkly', you should check it out for a variety of reasons, including Graham's excellent score (and a great Robert Downey. Jr. performance).

Butthole Surfers - "Cherub"

I don't have time or room to go into everything I hate about Michael Azzerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life, but the short shrift he gives to the Butthole Surfers is irresponsible and appalling. Yeah, they came off as assholes in the whole Touch & Go lawsuit, and they fell off a cliff around 1989, but their records through Locust Abortion Technician are an underacknowledged influence on your favorite psych rock band, I can pretty much assure you. (If you don't have a favorite psych rock band, I can't say I blame you.)

Stars Of The Lid - "FAC 21"

Adam Wiltzie sighting #2. I could have picked any number of SOTL songs but I chose this one because I wanted to point out that I had a class in the auditorium referenced in this song's title (room 21 in the Flawn Academic Center).

Willie Nelson - "Hands on the Wheel"

Willie Nelson is a national treasure and nothing will ever change that.

The Young - "Cry Of Tin"

Unbelievably underappreciated, these guys. This is from their third album, Chrome Cactus, which deserved way better than a hatchet job by the worst music writer on the planet.

Sly & The Family Stone - "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"

This song goes out to Abbie Gobeli for not editing out any of my more inflammatory statements in these write-ups. Also, fuck [redacted].

Roy Orbison - "Running Scared"

"It's like 'Running Scared' if at the end of the song the girl decides to ditch Roy Orbison." - me, describing at least two of my romantic relationships. Roy Orbison ties with Freddie Mercury and Jackie Wilson for Best Singer Ever in my book, which is not an actual book that exists but is still better than Our Band Could Be Your Life.

Shit & Shine - "Have You Really Thought About Your Presentation?"

If I could arrange for this song to play every time I enter a room, I would.

The American Analog Set - "It's All About Us"

The American Analog Set had an extremely limited sound, and when they tried to deviate from it, it did not go well at all; they also peaked with their first album. That said, this song, from their third album, has always stuck with me. I think it's the farfisa breakdown at the end.

Knife In The Water - "Nightingales Of Evelyn"

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Knife In The Water is still around (about to celebrate their 20th anniversary) and releaing a new album soon. Their most recent full-length was not great, but their first two album (Plays One Sound & Others and Red River) are among the best albums to come out of Austin in those 20 years. It's been over a decade since I first heard "Nightingales Of Evelyn" but it still gets me every time.

Stickmen With Ray Guns - "Christian Rat Attack"

I've always had a soft spot for the unique weirdness of early Texas punk, before everyone became careerist scenesters. The guitar solo in this song sounds like something Helios Creed would play if he was so drunk he forgot how a guitar works.

The Red Krayola - "Victory Garden"

As hard as it may be to believe, I have nothing in particular to say about this song.

OBN III's - "Do My Thing"

Fun fact: I ordered the first OBN III's record from Tic Tac Totally, they never sent it, and they ignored my repeated emails about never getting the record. So fuck them. This band is great though, and I'm glad their most recent record came out on the far more reputable 12XU.

The Dead Space - "Fall Away"

Speaking of 12XU, they released The Dead Space's Faker, which was one of the best records of 2014. The band decided to personally spite me by breaking up shortly after. I forgive them though.

Follow That Bird - "The Ghosts That Wake You"

This is the only Follow That Bird song on Spotify, and it pales in comparison to the title song of their "Wooden Bones" 7", which you can listen to here. At some point they changed their name to Mirror Travel and stopped being good. So it goes.

The Marked Men - "Stay Home"

Hey look, a Denton band! Never let it be said that I'm incapable of overcoming my biases (although I did almost leave them off because this is from their best record and it came out on Swami Records, a label whose entire catalog could be erased without making anyone's life appreciably worse).

Drums & Tuba - "Pig Ears For Lily"

College was fun.

Rusted Shut - "Home"

There are a lot of bands that attempt to appear dangerous. Rusted Shut is one of the few that pulls it off, mostly because Don Walsh appears to be legitimately insane.

Spray Paint - "George Finally Shows Up"

I'm friends with these guys so I can't be objective, but Feel The Clamps is one of the best records of 2016 and they've honed their live show into something truly phenomenal. Bands like this don't come along often and they don't tend to last when they do, so don't sleep.

The Dead Texan - "When I See Scissors I Can't Help But Think Of You"

Adam Wiltzie sighting the third.

Washington Phillips - "I Had A Good Mother And Father"

Way too fascinating a figure for me to adequately cover here; fortunately, Michael Corcoran did the work for me in 2002. This song was covered by Will Oldham, who did a surprisingly adequate job with it, back when he was still making records under the Palace brand.

Brown Whörnet - "Valamaranaro"

I used to enjoy getting a rise out of people by telling them that Brown Whörnet was the best band in Austin. It barely mattered that I kinda believed it. Not for everyone by any stretch of the imagination, and the only album of theirs that's on Spotify is not even close to their best work, but they were a welcome, unpredictable, eclectic, and frequently hilarious presence in the stuffy Austin scene of the 90s and early 2000s. Brown Whörnet's Peter Stopschinski is also a gifted composer who I see as a sort of yang to collaborator Graham Reynolds's yang. Like Reynolds, he has a massive catalog that's all over the map, stylistically, and well worth diving into.

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - "Stay A Little Longer"

Shout-out to two of my favorite radio DJs of all time: Rod Moag of KOOP's long-running "Country Swing & Rockabilly Jamboree," and Country Blair Hicks of KVRX's long-defunct "Country Blair Show." Shows like theirs are the reason we bother with radio in the first place.

Big Boys - "Fun Fun Fun"

Dicks - "Dicks Hate The Police" You didn't think I'd get through this without mentioning the Twin Towers of Texas Punk, did you?

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LXXVI. Food Baby Blues

My lovely New Yorker friends Ryann and Lindsay switched to the West Coast this week to hang and eat lots of Thai food with me. Shout out to Thai Tom's and Araya's! Avocado curry you can visit my stomach anyyyyyytime.

We have been carrying these food babies for the past two days and I'm curious as to what thai food we'll eat tomorrow night. Suggestions welcome...

Here's the soundtrack to our filled to the brim blues:

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LXXV. A Sunday Kind of Love

Some blues and soul to help end/begin your week...

I have recently found that I LOVE that gritty, scratchy vocals with simple guitar like Ted Hawkins and Blind Willie Johnson complimented with the playful guitar of Robert Nighthawk...

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LXXIIII. Kiss the Hills for Me (Laura Yurich Edition)

Happy Friday!

My amazing friend/ West Coast partner in crime Laura Yurich (former editor of Minneapolis Fucking Rocks and one hell of a producer in various trades) has curated a playlist for Resonance! Open your ears below...and here's us eating ice cream next to a beef curry sign in Los Angeles...

One time I filled a shitty Saturn with pointless possessions and drove to LA and left everything + my long time boyfriend in the dust (spoiler: he followed eventually). What then started as a musical observation of a long distance relationship became a study of all my relationships. It became a balance between the terrible and the terrific. My past and it’s evolution into my present. A collection of every romance my choices have put me through. So I made a 78-song playlist about it and then whittled it down to the spark notes just for you.

Honorable not-on-Spotify mention: “How You Get The Girl” by Taylor Swift.

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LXXIII. Surrender Kate, The Rest Is Noise

Please set your crossfaders to 10 seconds for maximum ear satisfaction

Hello from Abbieland. All is well and I can't wait to take a break from dog stting constantly so I can create more projects for myself. Haahaha.

I packed this lovely list full of fun nuggets (YUP NUGGETS OF FUN) that are electronically charged with longing soundscapes that will make you sway or pump your fist (now go watch The Breakfast Club) with your eyes closed as you wait for your bus ride home or it will undoubtably increase your likelihood to car dance. I'm obsessed with each of these songs and will break down their backgrounds for you...

1. "Surrender" - Gavin Turek, TOKiMONSTA

TOKiMONSTA is one of the top female producers/DJs in the present music sphere. She was the first female signed to the Brainfeeder (Flying Lotus) label and has remixed and working with artists such as Gavin Turek, Anderson. Paak, Justin Timberlake, and makes incredible electronic music in a genre saturated by bros. I am in love with how she builds each track with precise layers that move smoothly over these dramatic arcs that she creates to propel the piece forward. Also, check out her recent release, Midnight Menu which just dropped on July 22nd. Also, she's touring with Duran Duran and Chic which is rad as hell.

2. "Surrender" - Savages (Trentemoller remix)

Trentemoller remixes are the best remixes and he's been paired with Savages?! Hells yes. If you did this, check out his 2013 release, Lost for more heavy electronic and collaborations with Low, Jana Hunter of Lower Dens, Jonny Pierce of The Drums, and more.

3. "The Rest is Noise" - Jamie xx

For that random burst of emotion that will no doubt happen when that single piano key drops and sustains

4. "Simpatico" - NAVVI

NAVVI is a Seattle electronic duo who recently unleashed this addicting track. Producer Brad Boettger and vocalist Kristin Henry balance each other perfectly blending dark electronic pop and reflective vocals. Check out their new record Omni

5. "Cherry" - Chromatics

I'm an absolute sucker for most projects on Italians Do It Better. All I want is more sleek, melodramatic 80s infused pop with heartbroken vocals. Thanks Johnny Jewel for continuously producing tracks like these.

6. "F.T.F." - TR/ST (aka Trust)

Ever since I Joyland was released, I could not get enough of TR/ST's dark dancefloor accompanied by his low-end dominated vocals. He's about to go on tour with Cold Cave, I can't wait to dance it up

7. "Knife Slits Water" - A Certain Ratio

Ah, the used section of Sonic Boom always introduces me to new obsessions including the post-punk funk of A Certain Ratio. A Soul Jazz Recordings Compilation of their early recordings introduced me to this track and I'm currently diving into their whole discog. Their bass lines is what the current music world constantly utilizes in their dance tracks.

8. "Situation" - Yaz (aka Yazoo)

Prior to Erasure, there was Yazoo (or Yaz in the States). I found Yaz's 'Upstairs at Eric's' floating in our budget bin and saw it was a record from Mute in 1982 so I assumed naturally I'm going to love it. Yaz is a weird one but full of dance cheese that you will become your new guilty pleasure.

9. "Kate" - Chandra

Chandra Oppenheim (daughter of artist David Oppenheim) was the most badass 12 year old! The Model Citizens asked to be her backing band and together they created a hypnotic protopunk EP, Transportation drenched with adolescent angst about a mean girl named Kate and The Avalanches sampled her song, "Subways" in their latest Wildflower release.

10. "Bodyguard" - Holidae

I first heard "Darkest Shade" by this Minneapolis electronic duo right before I moved and hoped they would release more. Currently, I'm soaking up their electro-pop Tantrum and Minneapolis is too. They recently won best new band this past February.

11. "Awake" - Fraea

Fraea is the duo comprised of Jessie Daley (ex- Roma di Luna (Channy from Polica was also in that group)) and Drew Preiner. Their 'Bend Your Bones' EP encapsulates what they call "shadow pop". I'm obsessed with the last track on the EP. It perfectly blends human and machine especially in those repetitions of "I'm Awake".

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LXXII. Nicholas Cave has a Party

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...?

The first time I listened to a Nick Cave record was when 'Push the Sky Away' was being promoted to me in 2012 at Radio K. It bored me to death. The record was so slow and I passed it off as another old guy who had too long of a discography but made another record because he was bored.

It wasn't until I became addicted to Peaky Blinders with the glistening creepy beauty of Cillian Murphy's cheekbones and blue eyes that I heard "Red Right Hand" as the theme song.

I researched who sang it and was surprised to find that it was Nick Cave and the title comes from a line in John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost (it's a really really long poem, but a good read for when you're shut in for the winter) referring to the vengeful hand of god. After many Nick Cave spins in the record store, my co-workers recommending me The Birthday Party, and people constantly buying 'The Boatman's Call'...I said, "Fine Nick, I'll give you another chance."

My thoughts on Nick Cave changed when I heared a compilation of The Birthday Party's 'Hee Haw' released by 4AD in 1988. HOLY MOLEY, I LOVE THE BIRTHDAY PARTY. It's a gothy gritty comp of freakish stories accompanied by Cave's theatrical vocals and dark noisey punk (according to the guys at the record store, I am in love with 80s-90s industrial goth rock...tis true) that I am constantly searching for.

The Birthday Party

Hee Haw

4AD

Active from 1978 to 1983, The Birthday Party (previously known as The Boys Next Door until 1979) released the bats from their caves to deliver you these early recordings (from their Hee Haw EP and debut self-titled album) of their fun horror and perversion. The band dispersed after moving to Berlin in 1983 and all the members went off to craft their own careers in music.

For the past month, I have been randomly sampling Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds entire discography and have included the tracks that I cannot stop epicly driving my car too such as the "Tupelo", "From Her to Eternity", and "Jack the Ripper". Cave's storytelling in these tracks match the dark energy he perpetuated within The Birthday Party and I find it fascinating how he uses the violence and turns religion on its head within his solo work. Alas, I still have a hard time getting into his ballads...maybe one day I will mellow out and enjoy them.

In addition to Cave's work, I have included some of my other favorite storytellers including PJ Harvey, Daughn Gibson, and Alan Vega of Suicide (RIP Dream Baby Dream). I was hoping to see Suicide perform this year at Desert Daze at The Joshua Tree but sadly, Alan Vega has passed away.

Suicide

Suicide

Red Star

In 1970, no one advertised themselves as punk music until Suicide. The duo comprised of Martin Rev and Alex Vega took the reins of electronic and molded it into punk with frantic vocals and lyrics that still ring true today especially with "Ghost Rider" as Vega warningly repeats "America, America is killing its youth".

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LXXI. Aimlessly Alive at 25

This past week I turned the magical age of 25 and now, I can finally rent a car wherever I go in these United States (wowie!) and can revel in one more year on my dad's health insurance (Thanks Daaaaddd). I also think I have lived through several mini crises so my impending quarter life crisis is in fact cancelled out.

WIMPS and I at the Virgil. Look at our beautiful faces!

Where did I turn 25? In a place that I had never been before: Los Angeles. A city that I have discovered that is constantly going through an identity crisis by trying to be everything all at once and it's beautiful in its tragedy and success. I indulged in lots of stand-up comedy thanks to Hot Tub Comedy and Upright Citizen's Brigade. Also, one of my favorite Seattle bands, WIMPS played right after Hot Tub! I bought some rare Danish punk music at Mount Analog. My back is now peeling like a lizard thanks to Hermosa Beach. I even got to sleep in. Conclusion: best birthday since I turned 21 (thanks to Laura Yurich for making all this magic and nachos possible). I even made it to Hollywood...

See the sign?

My playlist is packed with current obsessions (P.S. Eliot!), some silly coming of age badassery, and new tracks that are now my anthems (thanks again, Laura) aka cue this Bebe Rexha song and oh my gosh can someone please help me find a sweet studded leather jacket like hers:

I love how she says "descriptions" like a Chris Cornell impression or something

P.S. Eliot

2007-2011

Don Giovanni

The Crutchfield sisters have crafted a musical landscape of honest, blunt lyrics complimented with their respected projects: Waxahatchee (Katie), Swearin'(Alison), and Alison Crutchfield as a solo artist. What I didn't know is that they were a group together called P.S. Eliot (2007-2011) prior to these projects and I am obsessed. On September 2nd, they are releasing a compilation of their work via Don Giovanni Records.

I love these lyrics and they hit me right in the sternum...

Tennessee

By P.S. Eliot

I've got affection to criticize, monogamy to abhor

a cold heart and an altered state of mind

and baby you're just what I'm looking for

because we'll go to sleep when we're dead

and I'll quit when I'm 25

but now i'm feeling indestructible

aimlessly alive

greedy minds think alike

great artists, narcissistic

it seems like you fucked up down this road before

but you know me, i'm pessimistic

the elusive or the primitive divine

I'll go wherever it goes

butterfly guts on the windshield

cigarette smoke out the window

I've got a mental image of the way you used to look at me

baby, lets push our limits

I've got a west coast heart and an east coast mentality

baby, lets push our limits

I've got a racing mind and enough gas to get to Tennessee

baby, lets push our limits

I've got a west coast heart and an east coast mentality

baby, lets push our limits tonight

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LXX. It’s Literally Summer (Jay Edition)

My good friend Jay Gabler is guesting on Resonance today with every Summer jam you need this season. I desperately needed this playlist to bring the sunshine in Seattle because there has literally been no sunshine here for the past few days. Even though I'm allergic to the sun (I'm really just a vampire), I still need Vitamin D people. Thanks for the sun, Jay!

One of the things I've learned about myself in the age of limitless on-demand streaming is that I really enjoy a good song that's literally about exactly what I'm doing. Making coffee? I cue up the Manhattan Transfer's 'Java Jive.' Returning to the country? I go straight for Chuck Berry's 'Back in the U.S.A.' When it's summer, of course that puts me in the mood for songs that namecheck the season.

Jay Gabler is a digital producer at Minnesota Public Radio, a theatre critic at City Pages (Minneapolis), and co-founder of The Tangential, a hilarious platform that does not have room for you to be boring or suck. For more funny antedotes, follow Jay on Twitter: @JayGabler

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LXIX. Beatniks and BBQ

Happy Birthday America!

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

Recently, I reread Allen Ginsberg's "America" and still find it very relevant to today's irrational tendencies of our country such as anti-immigration, ingesting the media's manufactured fears, and lack of questioning.

I'm addressing you.

Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine?

I'm obsessed by Time Magazine.

I read it every week.

Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.

I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.

It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious.

Everybody's serious but me.

It occurs to me that I am America.

I am talking to myself again.

While chewing on your brats and relish, I have interspersed some of my favorite American beatnik poems that I feel round out America today along with some Tom Petty (an American Dad essential) and other holiday tuneage.

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LXVIII. Finder

I'm running a little behind but no worries, I'm determined to catch up.

I have not been at home at all this past June due to work and traveling. I ran to Minneapolis and Iowa recently to see friends and watch my little sister graduate from high school (it's so weird to visit my high school after 7 years.) I also had my Dad watch the music video of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana because I was determined that's what the Mason City High School gym felt like during her graduation. He thought I was being a little extreme. My surfacing high school angst totally understood.

My little sister Catherine and I hanging out by a rusty gate that I made her climb shortly after this picture was taken

Anyways...more reflection soon...there's been a large tumbleweed of events.

Wine night with some of my best friends in the 612 right after I landed

In upcoming Resonance news: I have some guest playlists from friends of mine--so keep your ear flaps open.

Off to Los Angeles soon and turning 25 on Monday. All the things.

Here's a list of goodies to drive around through downtown tunnels at night with your windows down. It helps me unwind..hopefully you too.

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LXVII. “Stay in Touch”

You too.

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LXVII. Napping in the Rose Garden

I frequently like to run away to different environments to create new neuropathways to keep white matter in my brain from hardening... and also to slow down, chill out. I especially like to take naps near the ampitheatre in Portland's International Rose Garden.

Latest Obsession:

Genders

Get Lost

My friend introduced me to this Portland indie rock outfit and I am reveling in their 2013 release, Get Lost. This record sounds like a dreamy Summer through and through: breezy vocals, poppy riffs, longing lyrics, and there's a song titled "Twin Peaks" so you know I'm all in! I'm really excited to see what new material they have coming up since they are embarking on some tour dates including, Seattle at The Central Saloon on June 10th.

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LXVI. What’s Luv? - from my lovely bestie DJ Vaneezy

One of my amazing best friends Vanessa (aka DJ Vaneezy) curated this playlist for Resonance...

A glance. A kiss. An unexpected “poke” on the dance floor.

“What’s Luv? An Early 2000’s Romance” showcases the stages of love in the way that only late ‘90s/early ‘00s R&B can. Pure and primal, this playlist runs the gamut from finding a love connection to “getting to know” one another to being unfaithful to straight-up being done with all these scrubs and jumpin’, jumpin’ back to the club… only to do it all again.

Impress your millennial friends by spinning this at your next party, make your commute a little funkier by bumping it in the car, or try to resist chair-dancing while streaming in your headphones at work. However you listen, I hope this playlist allows you to truly get ur inner freak on.

-Vanessa / DJ Vaneezy

P.S. If you want even more R&B goodness (almost four hours more, to be exact), follow my Get Ur Freak On playlist on Spotify: