Every two months I post playlists of the songs I’ve been listening to recently. You can listen to the playlists in the Spotify players below if you have Spotify installed. If not, the playlists are listed in text below that. As always, you can follow me on Spotify here and view my other playlists here. I’ve commented on a few highlights below.

February 2014

March 2014

Highlights/Comments

My Chemical Romance – Fake Your Death
After this song crawled into my brain and refused to leave I decided to Google the band, which I’d heard of but never listened to before. That’s how I learned this song is “a eulogy for the band” because it’s the last one they wrote before breaking up. Way to ride the tail end of a phenomena, Jennette.

Blondfire – Life Of The Party, The Airborne Toxic Event – Hell And Back, Tegan And Sara – Shudder To Think
I have yet to see The Dallas Buyer’s Club, but the movie soundtrack is pretty good. Three tracks from it landed on my playlist in February.

The Jezabels – Beat to Beat
I’ve enjoyed listening to both albums this band has put out, but there aren’t really any songs that scream HIT on either of them. Somehow the sum of the album as a whole is more than its individual songs put together. They also seem to spell “Jezabel” wrong on purpose, which makes it a bit difficult to search for them online when Google auto-corrects you.

Aloe Blacc – Wake Me Up (acoustic)
There’s a good chance you heard the song “Wake Me Up” by the DJ/producer Avicii sometime in the past year because it was a monster hit. It was co-written by Aloe Blacc who also did this acoustic version. I gotta’ say, I think it’s kind of shady that Avicii didn’t at least give a “featuring Aloe Blacc” credit in the song listing. Avicii didn’t credit any of his featured artists in the song listings on his album. So I was left to discover the artist’s name on my own.

The Handsome Family – Far From Any Road
This one landed on my list because it was used as the theme song to True Detective.

February 2014

My Chemical Romance – Fake Your Death
Little Daylight – Overdose
Blondfire – Life Of The Party
Neon Trees – Sleeping With A Friend
Sleeper Agent – Waves
The Airborne Toxic Event – Hell And Back
Bad Suns – Cardiac Arrest
Birdy – Wings
Donora – Champion
Grouplove – Ways To Go
Beyoncé – XO
Tegan And Sara – Shudder To Think
Broods – Bridges
Band Of Skulls – Asleep at the Wheel
Betty Who – Heartbreak Dream
Augustines – Cruel City
Aunt Martha – Steal Back
Ruby Friedman Orchestra – Drowned
The Handsome Family – Far From Any Road
Real Estate – Talking Backwards
U2 – Invisible – (RED) Edit
Cash Cash – Take Me Home [feat. Bebe Rexha]

March 2014

Bleachers – I Wanna Get Better
The Head And The Heart – Another Story
New Politics – Harlem
Aloe Blacc – The Man
Icona Pop – Just Another Night
Jenny Owen Youngs – Love For Long
Sleeper Agent – Be Brave
The Jezabels – Beat To Beat
Lily Kershaw – Good Girl
Phillip Phillips – Raging Fire
Jamestown Revival – California (Cast Iron Soul)
Jake Bugg – Two Fingers
The Wild Feathers – Got It Wrong
Dan Croll – Home
Aloe Blacc – Wake Me Up – Acoustic
Mandy Moore – I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of the Week
Charlotte Martin – When the Sun Finds Me