Mixtape: Spangled
Blistering guitar-charged anthems for Independence Day.
Liner Notes
Spangled is a collection of songs to play in that pocket around Independence Day when your summer is really starting to heat up.
It rips, rattles, and bursts. It’s hot, wet, and messy. It’s glistening with blood, sweat, and beers. It has volume, vigor, velocity. It’s fuzzy—like last night. Distorted, but sharply defined. And it demands no additional feedback.
You are the young and the restless. The wild and the willing. The free and the brave. You’re not just amped. You’re plugged into something bigger than yourself. You’re building something great. Cutting your losses. Turning up the gain. You’re positively charged—surging through the scorcher as the voltage surges through you.
▶︎ Listen to Spangled
Tracklist:
This Summer - Superchunk
Teenage Blood - Apex Manor
Constructive Summer - The Hold Steady
The House That Heaven Built - Japandroids
Adam Raised a Cain - Bruce Springsteen
It All Means Nothing - Screaming Females
Aluminum Park - My Morning Jacket
You Take Time - Bleached
Old Boy - Brick + Mortar
Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
I'm Shakin' - Jack White
Bottled In Cork - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Be Brave - The Strange Boys
Lonesome - Dr. Dog
Wild In The Streets - Garland Jeffreys
Wild Mountain Nation - Blitzen Trapper
I'm the Man Who Loves You - Wilco
▶︎ Listen to Spangled
More energetic and propulsive mixes:
☊ Woodward: Organ-ized noise for the return of summer and society.
☊ Punch Ups: Crunchy drummed up summer punchers.
☊ Get Light: Shimmering springtime strummers.
More summer soundtracks:
☊ Luster: Sparkling synth-pop gems for love and summer.
☊ The Balm: Tropical tunes with digital dimensions.
☊ After Ours: Bittersweet sunsetters for the end of the summer.
☊ Hot Bops: First and foremost, it's a dance mix. (Kathleen Martinelli)
☊ when the road calls: groovy, floaty, synthy, dreamy soul for groovy, floaty, synthy, dreamy souls. (Dans Karagannis)
More writing from me:
⌾ Some comedy for McSweeney’s called I’m Your Three-Year-Old Interior Designer and This Is Your New Home Makeover.
⌾ I write more comedy like this on Clipping Silver, my other even less-exclusive Substack.
Thanks for listening.
As always, the writing, artwork, graphics and music collected on this website were generated by organic human intelligence.
And remember: We are the mixtape makers. And we are the streamers of streams.
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