Some audio trinkets for your Christmas listening
Links to my Best of 2023 mix and my final podcast episode of the year.
Hi, friends:
Merry Christmas! And welcome to the inaugural e-mail from this new newsletter platform. Thanks so much for sticking with me in the transition over from TinyLetter (or joining the fun for the first time, as the case may be).
Since you're all among my nearest and dearest, you're actually getting a sneak preview of my annual best-of mix before anyone else! I'll be posting the link on social media later this week, but I wanted you to be the first to have access.
Best of 2023: Anything Can Happen If You Tryna Make It Happen
"Been to the Mountain”—Margo Price (Strays)
“The Gods Must Be Crazy”—Armand Hammer feat. billy woods, E L U C I D, and EL-P (We Buy Diabetic Test Strips)
“Dying in May”—The Clientele (I Am Not There Anymore)
“Be Your Lady”—Young Fathers (Heavy Heavy)
“OTHER SIDE OF THE RAINBOW”—EXTREME (SIX)
“Tight”—Samara Joy (Tight [single])
“Caution to the Wind”—Everything But the Girl (Fuse)
“Niigghht”—Memotone (Memotone)
“lord of the shithouse”—draag me (lord of the shithouse)
“Dead to the World”—Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (Council Skies)
“Creepy Crawlers”—Viagra Boys (Cave World)
“New Atlantis”—Iggy Pop (EVERY LOSER)
“Sitting Alone”—Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives (Altitude)
“Better than You”—Mammoth WVH (Mammoth II)
“I Wouldn’t Want to Say”—Mark Lanegan (Straight Songs of Sorrow)
“Friendo”—Aaron Parks (Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man)
“I Miss All My Exes”—Jamila Woods feat. Gia Margaret (Water Made Us)
“We Will Remember”—Gabriels (Angels & Queens)
Take Me to the Music!
Stream it on Spotify, Apple Music, or Mixcloud.
Take Me to the Essays!
Read my thoughts about all these songs over on my blog here.
Take Me to the Podcast!
Wait, what? Yep, that's right--I've also got a new podcast up today. Rather than release a normal interview episode this week, I thought I’d just put a little audio trinket in your stocking, so to speak. So I'm reading a short, holiday-appropriate selection from a book called Atargatis, which is by the English writer, lecturer, hypnotherapist, and Reiki Master Paul Weston. The recording also features original musical accompaniment by Brian Cremins.
You can click here for my show notes or just search for "I'll Follow You" in the podcast app of your choice.
May your days be merry and bright, dear ones!
Allison