PLAYLIST NO. 6: “QUARANTINE”

Home / 4-24-2020 / 35mm Pentax

it’s a strange time right now… we’re working from home, practicing social distancing and trying not to eat everything in our kitchens before noon (it’s hard living with your own personal baker). music has been good company to me during this time, so i’ve created a playlist of some of my favorite tunes to be released in quarantine. xx

you can listen to my quarantine playlist here.

1. “hope we meet again” – laura marling
2. “in a good way” – faye webster
3. “heavy balloon” – fiona apple
4. “on the floor” – perfume genius
5. “where you belong” – little dragon
6. “inside friend” – leon bridges feat. john mayer
7. “nightrider” – tom misch, yussef dayes
8. “simmer” – hayley williams
9. “devotion” – margaret glaspy
10. “there must be more than blood” – car seat headrest
11. “jesus christ 2005 god bless america” – the 1975
12. “exist for love” – aurora
13. “burlap string” – courtney marie andrews
14. “forced convalescence” – bright eyes
15. “strange girl” – laura marling
16. “spotlight” – jessie ware
17. “let it rain” – paco versailles
18. “i see you” – phoebe bridgers
19. “temple” – thao & the get down stay down
20. “what she said” – mosss
21. “without you” – perfume genius
22. “easy tiger” – flyte
23. “(what’s so funny’bout) peace, love and understanding?”- sharon van etten, josh homme
24. “sucker” – madeline kenney
25. “paper thin” – lianne la havas
26. “bless me” – moses sumney
27. “all these instruments” – nick hakim
28. “love in mine” – big thief
29. “for you” – laura marling

MY FAVORITE ALBUMS OF THE DECADE.

happy new year!! new decade!! new beginnings!! speaking of which, we are in the midst of experiencing the beginning of a new era! a new era of art, television, technology, fashion, movies, music- is this what the 80’s felt like!?! it’s all very exciting… but as we move on to the 20’s (again) i’d like to reflect on this past decade that has brought so many great tunes into my life. now, if i listed all the songs that have had an impact on me in the last decade or even songs that were just my fuggin jaaammm, we might need another decade just to listen to it all. so i’ve listed some (i had to cut it down) of my favorite albums that i have played (and maybe overplayed) from this past decade. it was a brutal task that no one asked me to do but i enjoyed the walk down memory lane SO… without further ado, here are my favorite albums of the decade.

• flamingo by brandon flowers
• wreckorder by fran healy
• the big black and the blue by first aid kit
• bon iver by bon iver
• james blake by james blake
• every kingdom by ben howard
• strange mercy by st. vincent
• vows by kimbra
• ceremonials by florence and the machine
• an awesome wave by alt j
• time’s all gone by nick waterhouse
• the idler wheel is wiser than the driver of the screw and whipping cords will serve you more than ropes will ever do by fiona apple
• beacon by two door cinema club
• blunderbuss by jack white
• bankrupt! by phoenix
• paramore by paramore
• the secret life of walter mitty by various artists
• modern vampires of the city by vampire weekend
• and the war came by shake graves
• caustic love by paolo nutini
• crush songs by karen o
• all or nothin’ by nikki lane
• christine and the queens by christne and the queens
• how big, how blue, how beautiful by florence and the machine
• imaginary man by rayland baxter
• pageant material by kacey musgraves
• carrie & lowell by sufjan stevens
• american english by tor miller
• masterpiece by big thief
• don’t let the kids win by julia jacklin
• are you serious by andrew bird
• glasshouse by jessie ware
• raised under grey skies by jp cooper
• melodrama by lorde
• stranger in the alps by phoebe bridgers
• geography by tom misch
• be the cowboy by mitski
• the future and the past by natalie prass
• tearing at the seams by nathaniel rateliff & the night sweats
• jaime by brittany howard
• a different kind of human (step 2) by aurora
• who are you now by madison cunningham
• heard it in a past life by maggie rogers
• crushing by julia jacklin
• u.f.o.f. by big thief

PLAYLIST NO. 5: “CRY BABY CRY”

Monterey, California / 3-24-2019 / 35mm Pentax

THIS IS NOT A BREAKUP PLAYLIST! well, it can be if you want it to be, music is subjective and impacts everyone differently but that is not what it was intended to be. i’m a crier; i cry when i’m happy, sad, angry, inspired…i’m big into crying as a way to express myself but not all of these songs are “sad songs“. some of these songs are about love and life and expression. i find some of the lyrics in these songs to be so moving and beautiful that i can’t help but (you guessed it) cry. so, if you need a good cry, listen to this playlist.

you can cry to my playlist here.

1. “orange” – big thief
2. “chelsea” – phoebe bridgers
3. “i saw you in a dream” – the japanese house
4. “oblivions” – the national
5. “geyser” – mitski
6. “the joke” – brandi carlile
7. “don’t know how to keep loving you” – julia jacklin
8. “plastic” – moses sumney
9. “version of me” – kimbra, dawn richard
10. “say it” – maggie rogers
11. “the dirt” – tor miller
12. “since i left you” – joy crookes
13. “body” – karen o

THE GOOD.

• one day i will invest in one of these… but today is not that day.
• when did may become the new rocktober??
• have you subscribed yet?? nothing can stop this lady !
• this is real love.

 

 

THE JAPANESE HOUSE

i saw the japanese house at sxsw two years ago and was instantly enamored. this was my first time listening to her music and i wanted MORE. she had a couple of eps that held me over but i wore those songs out pretty quickly…GUILTY! today (the first day of my birthday month) she released her first full length album (hbd 2 me!) and i am beyond ready to have this album on repeat.

PLAYLIST NO. 4: HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

i’d be lying if i told you that i hadn’t been listening to christmas music since october… i can’t help it! have you heard leslie odom jr. and kacey musgraves’ christmas albums?!? i have those two albums always on rotation regardless of the season, they are per-fec-tion. anyways…now that we are officially post-turkey coma, i’ve decided to gather all of my favorite holiday songs to play every minute of every day until someone tells me i need a psychoanalysis (my roommates). hope you’re all enjoying the holiday season!

you can listen to my playlist here.

1. “sleigh ride” – she & him
2. “the chrismtas song (merry christmas to you)” – nat king cole
3. “winter song” – leslie odom jr.
4. “ribbons and bows” – kacey musgraves
5. “blue christmas” – nicole atkins
6. “baby, it’s cold outside” – rufus wainwright, sharon van etten
7. “christmas time is here” – vince guaraldi trio
8. “fairytale of new york” – rostam
9. “it’s beginning to look a lot like christmas” – perry como, the fontane sisters
10. “merry christmas, happy holidays” – *nsync
11. “last christmas” – wham!
12. “dear santa” –mr little jeans
13. “all i want for christmas is you” – mariah carey
14. “winter wonderland” – louis armstrong
15. “merry christmas darling” – leslie odom jr.
16. “what are you doing new year’s eve?” – kacey musgraves
17. “please come home for christmas” – leslie odom jr.
18. “all my bells are ringing” – lenka
19. “present without a bow” – kacey musgraves, leon bridges
20. “man with the bag” – jessie j
21. “have yourself a merry little christmas” – first aid kit
22. “christmas makes me cry” – kacey musgraves
23. “frosty the snowman” – fiona apple
24. “santa baby” – eartha kitt
25. “rockin around the christmas tree” – brenda lee
26. “christmas lights” – coldplay
27. “white christmas” – billie marten
28. “auld lang syne” – the hotel cafe medley

PLAYLIST NO. 3: SUMMER DAYDREAM

Pergo, Italy / 9-4-2016 / 35mm Pentax

summer is officially upon us… i know that because 1.) it’s june 2.) i’m sleeping on top of my blankets 3.) WATERMELONS EVERYWHERE… i love watermelon, nothing says summer quite like a sweet watermelon… i’ve put together a playlist with some tunes that have been keeping me company in this summer heat. grab your swimsuit, slather on that spf 100 (skin cancer is no joke) and don’t forget your speakers.

you can listen to the playlist here.

1. “maybe (luck of the draw)” – the vaccines
2. “fields of blue” – tennis
3. “don’t delete the kisses” – wolf alice
4. “radio” – sylvan esso
5. “real love baby” – father john misty
6. “don’t take the money” – bleachers
7. “big sis” – sales
8. “hunger” – florence + the machine
9. “so sad, so sad” – varsity
10. “on + off” – maggie rogers
11. “let’s find an out” – snail mail
12. “next of kin” – alvvays
13. “stay high” – spector
14. “outer space” – liz cooper & the stampede

PLAYLIST NO. 2: THROWBACK THURSDAY

Fullerton Arboretum / 8-7-2016 / 35mm Pentax

over the weekend i was combing through my songs on spotify and couldn’t decide on what i wanted to listen to. i gave up and hit shuffle to see what the spotify gods had in store for me… and then a song came on that i hadn’t listened to in a veeerrry long time. so many memories associated with that tune, it made me feel good listening to it again. it got me thinking of all the songs that i used to bump through my speakers day in and day out, some now sadly neglected by myself over the years. so! i put together a little playlist for this throwback thursday in honor of all those tunes that don’t get much play time anymore… you are not forgotten.

you can find my playlist here.

1. “sealion”- feist
2. “always like this”- bombay bicycle club
3. “postcards from italy”- beirut
4. “run from the gun”- dead confederate
5. “magnetised”- tom odell
6. “put me to work”- papa
7. “here i dreamt i was an architect> dreams”- Colin Meloy
8. “fever dream”- young summer
9. “four winds”- bright eyes
10. “cover up”- lucy rose
11. “some place”- nick waterhouse
12. “now and again”- tor miller
13. “hey mami”- sylvan esso

PLAYLIST NO.1 : CURRENTLY

Stockholm / 9-2-16 / 35mm Pentax

you can find my playlist here.

1. “same airport, different man”- julia jacklin
2. “life worth living”- laurel
3. “nothing, not nearly”- laura marling
4. “roma fade”- andrew bird
5. “get not high, get not low”- feist
6. “say my name”- tove styrke
7. “warhol”- lisa mitchell
8. “umpqua rushing”- blind pilot
9. “have mercy on me”- the black keys
10. “smoke”- mosa wild
11. “fish eyes”- haley heynderickx
12. “mama said”- cat clyde
13. “everything looks better (in hindsight)”- the wild reeds
14. “kocaine karolina”- elle king
15. “dear simone”- jacob banks
16. “my mistakes were made for you”- the last shadow puppets

 

JACOB BANKS: THE BOY WHO CRIED FREEDOM

i’m not really sure how i came across jacob banks’ music but i know that i haven’t stopped listening to it since i did; it’s addicting. when you listen to it, you feel the music, the emotion, you can see it (yeah, i’m going there)- there is this visual aspect in it that is really indescribable, which is what i think makes you want to keep hitting repeat. today he released his latest ep- the boy who cried freedom and had a chat with nylon about his inspirations, aspirations and sound . you can read the full interview here.

I love writing poems. I listen to a lot of poets speak. And then, I just tell the truth. I think my job is to help people get through the day a little easier. If I tell my truth, then more people can relate to it.

tour dates:

april 24th- hoxton Bar & kitchen– london, united kingdom

may 4th- mercury lounge– new york, ny

may 11th- masonic lodge– los angeles, ca