Playlists
An astounding amount of great music is being made these days with little fanfare & exposure.
Here are the playlists I curated in 2025, featuring new music I love.
January 3, 2025
🎵 Happy New Year 2025
2025 is here and it looms large. Twelve months of life unaccounted for, but we see them now stretching out for miles in front of us. The stakes feel higher, don’t they?
January 29, 2025
🎵 January 2025
And just like that, our first month has nearly vanished in the rearview, like fading oranges, pinks, purples at magic hour.
March 5, 2025
🎵 February 2025
The FEBRUARY 2025 playlist is up. These were curated from hundreds of songs that found their way to me. And the fact most of these were released in February, is still kind of mind-blowing. These merely scratch the surface of the three million new songs uploaded to Spotify this month. I will resist m…
March 31, 2025
🎵 March 2025
Listening to music every day and curating these monthly playlists has been a daily practice of mindfulness. I love it so much, because I’m choosing to spend real time exploring new music. This month brought along another beautiful batch of songs. Tracks that jumped out and surprised me. It’s like hi…
May 8, 2025
🎵 April 2025
On Monday, I found this photograph in my library to serve as April’s playlist cover, and I’m so baffled it was snapped seven years ago. We were scouting Klamath Falls for our movie PHOENIX, OREGON which feels more like…four years ago? Covid 19 really did infiltrate and impact three years of our live…
June 1, 2025
🎵 May 2025
As spring descended in May, it brought along another amazing batch of songs. It’s been feeling more and more difficult to keep my playlists to 20 tracks. Just two weeks ago, several hundred songs were in my May queue. Inevitably, they all get whittled down organically to my favorite twenty. It’s a b…
July 4, 2025
🎵 June 2025
Having a melody in my head is something I crave, and when songs truly land, they become my allies and I carry them around with me. June brought twenty new ones that keep on giving — many from bands and singer/songwriters I just recently discovered. It never fails to blow my mind — all these talented…
August 2, 2025
🎵 July 2025
The music that found me in July came in big waves. At times I’m overwhelmed at the sheer amount of songs crashing into existence. Just wrapping my head around four new weeks of LP’s, EP’s and stand alone singles made for a dizzying, happy month of listening.
September 3, 2025
🎵 August 2025
August not only brought the digital release of our new film ABOVE THE TREES, but it also brought hundreds of new songs and albums in its wake. Like wonderful Charles in our movie — who I hope you got to meet — my emotions are my barometer as I sift and filter through new music. Like musical chairs, …
October 4, 2025
🎵 September 2025
September’s playlist has buoyed and invigorated me — the tracks gradually fell into place like an epic game of Tetris. It begins with Charlotte Gainsbourg’s haunting, nostalgic Blurry Moon — just the kind of Lynchian lullaby to kick-off autumn. This one’s special as it’s the first new music from Cha…
November 5, 2025
🎵 October 2025
There’s no Pulp or Jarvis on October, but there’s still plenty of nostalgia. We begin with Dan Deacon’s terrific cue from HBO’s crime series TASK called Robbie , which is named after the Tom Pelphry character. The track shows off a bit of wizardry from Deacon, who somehow captures the beauty and tri…
December 4, 2025
🎵 November 2025
Music has a powerful way of helping me. Some songs create the space for me to vent real frustrations and work through them. And then there are songs that help create the space to feel thankful and show gratitude. I’m drawn to emotional music that is unique and honest, and songs that never feel too c…
January 2, 2026
🎵 December 2025
Feeling happy this morning. This is my favorite holiday and 25’s a significant number, an important milestone. The silver jubilee is for celebrating redemption and new beginnings. When you turn 25, apparently your brain reaches full maturity. So perhaps 2026 is a pivot and turning point in this time…