Listen to Partners delightful debut album, In Search of Lost Time, and you will quickly learn that Canadas foremost queer-positive fuzz-pop duo are also massive potheads. For this Dowsers playlist, they reveal the songs they like to crank up when they spark up. "Stoner," Young Thug: This song is cool because, while there are a lot of odes to weed, this song is a little different: Its an ode to stoners. Young Thug thinks stoners are cool and is proud to be one. Plus, this track just buuumps."Cotton Eye Joe," Rednex: This song is good to get stoned to just cause its really hilarious and a total throwback to middle-school dances. No matter how lazy you are feeling, you might be able to muster a jig. Bonus points for the weird/scary video."Sweet Leaf," Black Sabbath: The original ode to weed. "You introduced me/ to my mind." SAME. Possibly the only song written in the second person, directed at weed, that doesnt use the term "Mary Jane.""Really Doe," Danny Brown: This song is great to get stoned to cause its a sick posse cut featuring a really cool stylistic array of rappers. Earls verse shouts out dirty spliffs and blunts. Everyones flow is completely different and they are all very impressive, especially when youre stoned."James Joint," Rihanna: "Id rather be/ smoking weed." Lots of people love to smoke weed, but Rihanna somehow also manages to make blazing seem glamorous and sexy. (Impressive.)"Solo," Frank Ocean: Like Rihanna, when Frank talks about smoking weed, it seems sophisticated and deep. This is a great track to listen to when youre blazing alone, at night, wondering what it all means..."Broccoli," DRAM (feat Lil Yachty): DRAM is all "good vibes" if thats what youre into, and this is a feel-good party-jam ode to rolling one up at a party. Infectious piano hook."HennyNHoes," Young M.A.: This is a good song to listen to at any time, and we will never not shout it out cause its our favourite and Young M.A. is cool as fuck."You Dont Know How It Feels," Tom Petty: This song is great to get stoned to cause when it gets to the part where he says, "lets rollll another joiiint," you can use it as an excuse to do just that."Dust on the Bottle," David Lee Murphy: This song is about homemade wine, not weed, but its great to get stoned to, cause it tells a great story and, lets be real, all music is good when youre stoned.
While writing his latest album, "Some Strange Reason," Peace to Mateo kept this playlist cued up for inspiration.
This playlist consists of a wide range of bands and types of music, but mostly songs by current & active artists. When I look over it I realize a bunch of the songs are by bands PKP met and played with on tour and who we ended up loving. It feels nice to share memories with people whose music you love.
A Place to Bury Strangers is the notoriously loud and noisy band of NYCs Oliver Ackerman (also of the Brooklyn-based effects pedals company and defunct DIY venue Death By Audio). The band cranks a mix of shoegaze, post-punk, noise rock, and more into a pummeling, industrial-strength wall of sound that envelops the listener every bit as much as it abrades the paint off the walls.With this playlist, the band unearth fellow travelers of experimental electronics, noise, and rock, from L.A.s Sextile and Brooklyn neighbors Parquet Courts to Warp Records novelty Silicon Teens and Japans shapeshifting composer Haruomi Hosono.A Place to Bury Strangers says: "This is the music to dye your hair & burn strangers into your arm to. Its your life so do it to it. An Interwoven pattern of melody with hypnotic intensity. I listen & feel my musicanship perk up, emotionally heightened, senses renewed. "Embrace the Illusion" -Jodorovsky. "Goop, soup, mute, flute."
The Pogues have proved themselves a crucial part of punk history. By throwing seemingly innocuous instruments—like the tin whistle, accordion, and banjo—into a fiery mix of boisterous Irish ballads and anarchic attitude, they challenged every assumption about the power and potency of punk. Now, original members Spider Stacy and Cait O’Riordan have united with the GRAMMY®-winning Cajun group Lost Bayou Ramblers under the name Poguetry to pump new life into some of The Pogues’ classic songs. They’ll be taking their spirited party on the road for a short tour in early 2020, starting on February 28 in singer Stacy’s adopted home of New Orleans. To celebrate, he shared with us an eclectic playlist of songs—the kind of stuff he likes to kick back with at home.
Says Stacy of his Lid of Me Grannies Bin playlist: “[It] should be played loud and on shuffle! As for the songs... I think they speak for themselves.” He further adds: “A playlist is not a playlist without The Fall, and ‘There’s A Break In the Road’ should be the national anthem.”
Poppy Ackroyd is a celebrated, classically trained pianist, violinist, producer, and composer. She has collaborated with everyone from Hauschka to Nils Frahm. Her latest album, Resolve, blends these influences for one of the better contemporary classical piano works of recent memory. The Dowsers recently asked her to make a playlist of her favorite classical piano tracks. This is what she gave us, in her own words:Here is a little collection of some piano based tracks that I really like. I have tried not to include any more typical solo piano tracks here, but have instead focused on ones where the artists are either experimenting with unusual piano sounds, or combining the piano with electronics in some way.
With his third album, The House, coming out January 19 on Domino Records, electronic-indie-pop alchemist Aaron Maine—a.k.a. Porches—has compiled a playlist for The Dowsers that indulges his love of unpleasant sounds. "I’m drawn to this collection of songs for a certain darkness that they emanate. Sometimes, it’s the dissonance in the harmonies that I’m really drawn to, sometimes it’s the dissonance in the content that I find attractive. A lot of strange and beautiful decisions.“In [Aphex Twin’s] ‘180_db[130],’ the ugliness of the sounds are dug into a way that’s almost playful—like I can imagine making something like that with a little shit grin on my face. [DJ Richard’s] ‘Stygian Freeze’ is so effortlessly menacing that it’s unsettling, while the quality of the sounds and reverb are really soft and welcoming. One thing I don’t like in a song is when it feels like an artist makes a challenging decision only for the sake of having it sound challenging—it can come off as masturbatory. In all of these songs, the dissonance feels like a complete necessity to the song’s existence. I don’t know why exactly I’m drawn to this, maybe that it feels like a more honest reflection of the human experience, and there’s something exciting about finding beauty in the seemingly ugly.”—Aaron Maine, Porches
When you spend all your time dealing with important foreign policy issues and trying to stabilize the economy, it’s imperative to stay cool and collected. These hip rock, soul, and R&B hits seem specifically curated for that purpose, containing everything from Charles Mingus to Courtney Barnett, which should unite listeners of all political persuasions to agree on the fact that President Obama is a cool guy who likes to jam. One can imagine the President getting hyped up to take a phone call from a foreign leader while listening to Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman” or Aloe Blacc’s “The Man” (“I’m the man, I’m the man, I’m the man”), although perhaps we will leave his inclusion of Manu Chao’s “Me gustas tu,” which is an ode to all the joys of life—both legal and illegal—up to the imagination. The inclusion of “Good Vibrations” is the weird cherry on top of this relaxed, confident daytime mix. -- Adam Rothbarth
It is easy to imagine Malia Obama going to Lollapalooza and Michelle Obama rapping with Missy Elliott, and yet even though it’s well known that President Obama enjoys good music, it’s nevertheless more difficult to visualize him kicking back and taking in some tunes. In my own tableau of this, he is sitting in a robe and slippers next to a fire, drinking a White House Honey Ale, reflecting on the day and bobbing his head to some night jams. He’s also wearing sunglasses in this fantasy. It’s tempting to try to decode this playlist as if it were a chapter of Ulysses, but for the purpose of brevity we will take it for what it is: an extremely chill, R&B-heavy mix of sensual grooves and hard-hitting, emotional lyrics. There’s also a rather sentimental, melancholy dimension to many of these songs, from Billie Holiday’s “Loverman” (“I don’t know why, but I’m feeling so sad/ I long to try something I never had”) to Janet Jackson’s “I Get Lonely” (“I get so lonely/ Can’t let just anybody hold me”). This mix in particular lets us see him as a complex and passionate dude, one who’s as entitled to a groovy dark night of the soul as anyone.
Detroit post-punk dystopians Protomartyr recently released their fourth album, Relatives in Descent, on Domino Records. Here, each band member shares the “songs we were listening to while we were writing the album.”
Charley Pride, “Crystal Chandeliers”Richard Dawson, “The Vile Stuff”Life Without Buildings, “PS Exclusive”The Fall, “Garden”Ghostface Killah, “Maxine”Kay Starr, “Wheel of Fortune”Tyvek, “Blocks”McCarthy, “Red Sleeping Beauty”
The Raincoats, “Shouting Out Loud”Country Teasers, “Golden Apples”Micachu & The Shapes with The London Sinfonietta, “State of N.Y.”Glenn Branca, “The Ascension” *Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans, “Overpass” *The Pop Group, “She Is Beyond Good and Evil”Gil Scott-Heron, “New York Is Killing Me”Alain Goraguer, “La Femme”Paul White feat. Danny Brown, "Lions Den"Moodymann, "I Cant Kick This Feeling When It Hits"
Roy Wood, “Songs of Praise”Dirty Projectors, “Cool Your Heart”Philip Glass, “Prophecies”Chris Knox, “Glide”Wire, “Mannequin”TRAAMS, “A House on Fire”Kate Bush, “Wild Man”
Theo Parrish, “Make No War” *Felt, “Evergreen Dazed” *Grouper, “Clearing”Voices From the Lake, “Twins in Virgo” *Suni McGrath, “Cornflower Suite”Creation Rebel, “Starship Africa”* These tracks are not available on Spotify
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