“I was so mad at this EP when I first heard it years ago - it had no right to be this good. Now I'm not mad, now I'm just happy it's getting the love it deserves.”
This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in QUICK HITS
SubmitCloud | November 2020
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of November 2020.
HI54… THE 2010s | HIT OF NOSTALGIA
I’ve got HI54 ‘decade playlists’ going all the way back to the 1950s, but this 2010s mix is the first one where I actually had some kind of a music blog going for every year in the decade. Which means there’s a whole lot of tracks to choose from whenever I update what’s currently in the 95 track shuffle. -> OPEN ON SPOTIFY
HI! here's FIVE things FOR consideration… | NOVEMBER 2020
The HI54 Monthly Sunday Mass Email for November 2020 was sent out to subscribed inboxes today. Not subscribed? Well, you can still read the newsletter + maybe if that sounds interesting it wouldn’t be the worst idea to sign-up for future monthly newsletters?
THE MIX TAPE RADIO MIX CDS ARCHIVE | #HI54MIXCDS
Every second Monday, I go back to the iTunes organizational system I had setup back when I used to run a 24/7 internet radio station and create an 18-track HI54 Mix CD out of my 'Mix Tape Radio approved' library. These are all the tracks featured so far.
EPISODE 165 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 165 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘FROM THE SUBMITHUB ARCHIVES’ - ft. Robert Chaney, Twinsmith, omes, Maggie Gently + a bunch more Submithub-flavoured headphone goodness.
FANDCAMP: songs
“Such sensitivity, such grace captured by the preeminent poet of our days... the guitar playing is stellar and cellular... a timeless relic of the pandemic.”
Fandcamp: Kept
“This fantastic band offers the best aspects of math rock and folk music. Interesting! Eloquent! Technical! Innovative! Sincere! Relatable! These people are genius.”
FANDCAMP: Projections
“Like cupping your hands to keep time from seeping through the space between your fingers. Protecting moments by staying awake, learning what everything looks and feels like in that room within the silence, and then projecting it back on the wall.”
FANDCAMP: Radiations
“Some classic singer-songer vibes radiating throughout — pairs so nicely with a Sunday afternoon mood that there is even a song called 'Sundae Afternoon' on it.”
EPISODE 163 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 163 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems pulled from my personal Bandcamp Collection - ft. Fred Thomas, Megadead, Cut Worms, Carver Baronda + a bunch more Available-on-Bandcamp-flavoured headphone goodness (ps: this Friday, November 6th is another special ‘Bandcamp Friday’).
FANDCAMP: Arguably OK
“There’s no arguing the rowdy country rock on this album as anything but amazing. The raucous twang meets honky punk rock hammers down harder than a 12er of banquet beers on a muggy summer sweat. Imagine all 3 Hank Williams morphed into a raspy, psychedelic orchestra kicking their shit across the Pacific NW then rubbing it in the modern face of Nashville.”