MIXES

Memorial Days Future, Past, and Present

Whether you see Memorial Day as a time for reverie or stoicism, it is with a sense of honor that we contemplate who and what was. Perhaps we might also consider what he haven't yet shed and how to keep it just a little longer...

Haruki Murakami Songbook

A former Jazz club owner, writer Haruki Murakami packs books with almost as many jukebox tunes as mysterious women and noodle-making men. This mix is a wild sheep chase, indeed...

A "Beginner's" Guide to Wax Atlas

In celebration of seven years and 100 issues packed with acceptable oddities, he who hath wrought it hath compressed it into a downloadable mix-tape of epic proportions...

I Love You, But I'm in a K-hole

A soul-shaking mix of 11 tracks of genuinely confounding character. This isn’t rump-shaking ruckus: it’s satisfying, but infinitely moreso if you sit yourself down and wrestle with it…

AO3 – Fiery Femmes

Spanning 50 years and touching both the utterly accessible and outer edges, none of these ladies are dancing for the Man and none of them care a toss for convention...

The Beard Presents… AO2 – Boistorous Blues, Freaky Folk

This reworked comp dips in and out of UK folk, while simultaneously tapping some of blues' most overlooked bad boys and obscurities...

Flaming Side of the Rainbow

In a Wax Atlas exclusive, we officially invite you to watch a synced version of The Wizard of Oz featuring the combined music of Pink Floyd and the Flaming Lips. Nerds rule!...

'80s Outsiders

Whether the advent of hip-hop, the many manifestations of punk, or the bitter twang of country outlaws, it was an age epitomized by brilliantly subversive outsider art...