Finds: Midwestern Apostolic gospel • Overexplaining and Underthinking • Life after Talking Heads • Agnes Varda

No relationship to Penelope, Sylvia Pérez Cruz is a Spanish musician and

Billion dollar musicians • brokedown musicians • naked mole rats • redesigning the American dime

Fast women, slow horses. Tom Waits sings Jitterbug Boy, a song with

Finds: Dylan demo revived, Horror movies for kids, Favorite running songs, Pure and pleasing Nigerian vocals, Unsolicited relationship advice

Simi, Contemporary Nigerian R&B with hints of retro highlife. Her

Finds: Spazzy dancehall, Skyscraper soundtracks, Gaff tape, Droopy the Dog

Sardinian folk music: Maria Dolores Biosa with polyphonic choral backup. Rare and

Songs I Love Right Now - February 2026

New Orleans brass bands, Greek folk, Louisiana rap, songs of Angola, Beyonce

Finds: Waffle Towels, Reincarnated as a Vacuum, lost Ghana highlife, Quebecois folk

Chess mindset, dance mindset. Solomon Burke, Cry to Me. The way she

How to Make Coffee Taste like the Most Ecstatic Version of Itself

Sometimes, the brilliance of an artwork is not the object itself, but

Finds: Lost British folk, Louisiana rap and brass bands, Jamaican patois, Okeeffe and longevity

Lost British folk. Jon Mark, 60s folk-rock, later transitioned to new age.

Finds: Duluth strings, Major Lance, chilis from Guizho, Taleb on weightlifting, Beirut and Brazil, winter raspberries in America

I saw a video of Alela Diane dancing alone in the sunshine

The Most Distracting Place on Earth

1. Late January or early February is a good time to visit

Songs I Love Right Now: northern soul, sardinian polyphonic, NoLo brass bands, Balkan brass bands, rare Bossa Nova (January 2026)

These are the songs that I loved in January 2026. Northern Soul,

Finds: Beirut in Brazil, Sierra Leone in Brooklyn, Balkans in DC, Myspace Nostalgia

Vampire Weekend on Myspace. What year might this be? 2006 is my