This week/weekend I will be attending the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, one of the most adventurously curated music festivals in the world. This will be my first time to attend, but I’m going with a friend who has been multiple times, and he has prepared me for a dynamic, powerful experience of music, art, film, and talks. I will report back soon.

In the meantime, I have decided that the first week of Spring was a good chance to look back over the first quarter of 2017 and highlight some of the tracks that I have not yet covered in previous playlists. These are all tracks which have been on repeat for me and that I thought deserved attention. Some of these you might already be familiar with, but hopefully you find a few new-to-you gems. As always, this playlist is all over the map, stylistically.

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Timely Tunes: First Quarter Highlights

TIMELY TUNES, VOL. 40

Tracklist:

1. Calvin Harris “Slide” (feat. Frank Ocean and Migos)
2. Migos “T-Shirt”
3. Future “Mask Off”
4. Vince Staples “BagBak”
5. Stormzy “Cold”
6. Joey Bada$$ “Land of the Free”
7. Your Old Droog “Grandma Hips” (feat. Danny Brown)
8. GoldLink “Meditation” (feat. Jazmine Sullivan & KAYTRANADA)
9. Drake “Get It Together” (feat. Black Coffee & Jorja Smith)
10. Todd Terje “Jungelknugen (Four Tet Remix)”
11. The Juan Maclean “Can You Ever Really Know Somebody”
12. Roland Tings “Garden Piano”
13. Actress “X22RME”
14. Clark “Hoova”
15. The xx “A Violent Noise”
16. Peaking Lights “Conga Blue – Vocal”
17. Shugo Tokumara “Lita-Ruta”
18. Jay Som “Baybee”
19. Fred Thomas “Mallwalkers”
20. Los Campesinos! “Renato Dall’Ara”
21. Priests “Nothing Feels Natural”
22. ANOHNI “Paradise”
23. Alex G “Bobby”
24. Hurray For The Riff Raff “Pa’lante”
25. Gizmo Varillas “Al Caminar”
26. Mark Eitzel “An Answer”
27. Son Volt “Back Against the Wall”
28. Craig Finn “God in Chicago”
29. Julien Baker “Funeral Pyre”
30. Joan Shelley “Wild Indifference”
31. King Woman “Hierophant”
32. Planning For Burial “Whiskey and Wine”
33. Full Of Hell “Oven”
34. Uniform “The Killing of America”
35. Iron Reagan “Grim Business”
36. Wolf Eyes “Undertow”
37. Forest Swords “The Highest Flood”
38. Mark Barrott “Mokusho”
39. Sarah Davachi “For Voice”
40. Xiu Xiu “Faith, Torn Apart”