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Cookie Monster’s Summer Melt Mix

Cribbed from the always forward-leaning pages of notonlylossless, this summer mix both entrances and breathes fire, radiating with unlikely pop and electronic ambience...

Pray for Ukraine

A pump-me-up mix made, this selection of contemporary Russian, Ukrainian and European anthems scream with hope, defiance, and an unshakable, undeniable self...

Unruly America: 50 Songs for 50 States

This BBQ-ready mega-mix features slacker and outlaw stories from every single state. They may not wave old glory down by the courthouse, but they've all got something unlikely afoot...

Pawnee's First Mogul Mix

No one in the history of out-sized ego has done guilty pleasure rap, rock, and r&b indulgence as deliciously as Parks & Rec's first major mogul Tom Haverford (aka DJ Roomba, aka Aziz Ansari)...

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...

An Aspiring Nerd's Guide to Ambient

An electronic sub-genre too-often grouped with pastoral folks, new age and other, lackluster "background" electronics, ambient is better compared to the frenzy of air molecules streaking just below the surface of a pot at the brink of boil. The Beard offers full streams of 4 seminal albums to get you going...