A view of the dojo on a Saturday in January. It's pretty wild to be entering year five of the Seasonal Mixtape Series with Winter 2025//page of swords. This series began in the waning crescent of the previous Trump administration, and in many ways, this mixtape harkens back to it in the swiftly waxing fascism… Continue reading Winter 2025//page of swords
The roots of the I Scream for Cleveland mixtape go back a couple years at least, back to when Twitter was still a somewhat valuable place for writers to be. My friend Maria Barrios, who received my fall 2023 tape, tweeted something about me screaming for Cleveland. I responded in the rhythm of the last… Continue reading Summer 2024//I Scream for Cleveland
https://videopress.com/v/S48gDPuU?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true A video Bob Kidney from 15-60-75 (The Numbers Band) sent me on December 17th of last year with just these words: "here's my holiday wish for you." The past is dead and I've been reborn. I'm under no obligation to keep doing the same thing, so I'm not writing about this one. I just… Continue reading Spring 2024//behind your eyes
I am very pleased to share the first seasonal mixtape of 2024. This tape is for my best friend, Oz, and I hope it keeps me with them through this winter, since I cannot visit them in LA, as I had planned to. Oz was the first person to point out to me that mixtapes… Continue reading Winter 2024//as above, so below
Like every seasonal mixtape, Lucy Parsons II has listened to it all the way through many times, been patient while I re-recorded it probably more than any other tape I have made so far (sputtering being a key word for this season), and it has at long last received the lick of approval. It feels… Continue reading Spring 2022//the sputtering chariot of the vernal equinox
I am honored and excited to close out 2021 with a mixtape I made for one of my oldest friends. (You should be able to both stream and download it through Currents.FM--please let me know if it is not working, but you can also just straight download it right here.) I have had to wait… Continue reading Fall 2021//purify, and then; collide
I make all of my mixtape art with pages from the New Yorker. This is above and away my favorite and has best captured the vibe of the tape's sonic world so far in my seasonal mixtape adventures. Note: I used to keep a journal, many journals annually, and then at some point I decided… Continue reading Summer 2021//sweet and low
For once, and entirely unintentionally, I have actually only included songs which are all streaming on one platform, so I was able to make this into a playlist for anyone to hear without digitizing it this time. It is available on both Currents.FM and Apple Music. Might still digitize later, so you can hear which… Continue reading Spring 2021//knocking on doors, condensing mysteries
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