Another week into an increasingly dystopian world, but at least we have new music from Mac Demarco, Future Islands, and others to temporarily distract us from alternative facts and gum-swallowing hellbots. The final track on this playlist is by David Axelrod, the influential composer and producer whose grand instrumentals have been sampled extensively by DJs…
Timely Tunes ~ February 2, 2017
It’s been a pretty frightening and disorienting week, right? It’s times like these when I really appreciate the sanity-reinforcing power of music, and for the thirty-third iteration of Timely Tunes, we have everything from smooth yacht rock to towering doom metal to get you through the days ahead. This post contains affiliate links. Thank you…
Timely Tunes ~ January 26, 2017
This week’s Timely Tunes feature the latest from Cloud Nothings, Tinariwen, Tornado Wallace, and Matthew Dear. And as always, we have a new Spotify playlist for your listening enjoyment. Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for supporting Life With Dee! Cloud Nothings “Enter Entirely” (From “Life Without Sound”) Cloud Nothings’ hooky, riffy anthems…
Timely Tunes ~ January 19, 2017
This week’s Timely Tunes feature the latest from Slow Dive, Sampha, Laura Marling and Blanck Mass. And as always, a new Spotify playlist! This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for supporting Life With Dee! Slowdive “Star Roving” Slowdive’s “Souvlaki” remains one of the towering monuments of the Shoegaze movement, standing beside My Bloody Valentine’s…
Timely Tunes ~ January 12, 2017
A new week…some new tunes. This week’s “Timely Tunes” include songs by The Black Madonna, Jens Lekman, The Dirty Projectors and Julie Byrne. Plus a cool new playlist for your listening enjoyment! The Black Madonna “He Is the Voice I Hear” For decades now, the female DJ has often had a miserable time navigating the…
Timely Tunes ~ January 5, 2017
It’s a new year and time for some new tunes. This week features Run the Jewels, The Flaming Lips, Grouper and Nine Inch Nails. Run the Jewels featuring Danny Brown “Hey Kids (Bumaye)” (From “Run the Jewels 3”) RTJ gave us quite a Christmas present with their third record. El-P and Killer Mike have…
Timely Tunes ~ Favorite Songs of 2016
Note by Deanna: Many of us eagerly await the annual favorite songs playlist that my son, Christopher Piercy, compiles every year. I appreciate the countless hours that go into this endeavor and am happy to share his work here. I am also grateful that he is willing to keep his ol’ mom in the loop…
Timely Tunes ~ Christmas Edition
We are less than two weeks away from Christmas, which means that stores, restaurants, and FM radio stations (those still exist, right?) have already long been bombarding anyone in earshot with cavity-rot songs about having affairs with Santa or dashing through snow in archaic transport. Christmas music is polemic: nostalgically holy to some and noxiously…
Timely Tunes ~ November 17, 2016
I have decided to do something a bit different this week. I’m still processing the highly unsettling events of last week. I will get back to writing about new music soon, but until then, here is a playlist of songs that are helping guide me through heavy emotions about the state of our world. Disclosure:…