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For a job application I was asked to put together a playlist of the “music that feeds me.” Of course I used it as a playlist for my show. It features more new found musical favorites like Green-House and Kadhja Bonet, but also a lot of music I grew up with-like a song off of the very first vinyl record I bought: James Taylor.

If anyone was looking for the most musical window into my soul, here it is.

Thanks for Shootin’ the Shrimp.

This week’s playlist! Really dig this one, hope you enjoy it.

No words just playlist:

Every now and then BandCamp will wave their fee on purchases off their site, so that’s always a good time to buy music so the artists will get the full cut.

Here’s a great resource for finding some Black indie artists, producers, and labels. I’m not sure who initially created this but the list is crowd sourced so new stuff is being added frequently.

Here are some artists you can check out and support that inspired the playlist: Gemma, JoAnn McNeil, Johann Diedrick, Fuck U Pay Us, Ernest Brockenberry, Brett Eclectic, DJ Jigüe. Playlist is also inspired by the list of Black fronted punk bands my friend happened to post about that same day. I hadn’t dabbled too deeply in punk until then so it was pretty educational for me.

Here’s the playlist:

June 3rd feels like a lifetime ago, so re-listening to this playlist feels like a blast from the past. I might eventually add my podcasted commentary, but given how long it took for me to post these playlists and how much rambling I probably did, don’t count on it till next year… or ever.

June was and is Black Music Month. All American popular music, pretty much all the music you (we) enjoy, exists because of Black musicians. We (specifically, I) need to continually recognize the history of where the music we love comes from and support Black musicians because the music biz is sus and exploitative for sure. In a future post I’ll link some folks y’all can find on BandCamp.

ANYWAY enough of my words here’s the playlist: