Category Archives: Playlists

The novelties, the favorites, the heavily-rotated, and the highlights of 2020.

These songs showed up during April, May, and June of 2020. That was the start of the coronavirus pandemic. A sad note to begin on. And the pandemic is still in full swing. But I found lots of songs to enjoy. And this post series and this website is about sharing what I enjoy.

A new year brings fresh excitement for great new music! It’s a great time for new releases and new music discovery.

Welcome to 2020! Here’s a playlist of my favorite songs last year. Instead of giving my impressions of all 50 of these great songs, I think it will be interesting to list where I discovered each one. Maybe that’s a Spotify playlist, NPR, a magazine, or maybe I don’t remember. Let’s find out! “Harmony Hall” …

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Life happened so fast this year. I completely missed making a list for the second quarter! This time there’s a strong country middle to this list, book-ended by an epic Röyksopp soundscape, two fresh K-pop jams. And Sturgill Simpson!