Email Playlist, Volume 6

New GBV LP is coming next month.

December

Here's the inbox from December. New songs from Guided By Voices, The Specials, and The Faint. An old one from The Spinanes. Sunflower Bean, Lambchop, Vandoliers, Juan Waters, plus lots of other stuff.

You know? No matter how hard I work on emptying that inbox, it just keeps filling up. With SXSW coming up in a couple of months, I'm expecting lots of new stuff to start rolling in.

Email Playlist, Volume 5

Photo by Alicia J. Rose

...And Inbox Zero

OK. This one is a biggie. The last two-plus months here at CoolDad Music have been intense, stressful, trying, and immeasurably sad. I'm not anywhere close to "right" yet, and I'm not sure when I will be. Staring down the barrel of thousands of unread emails, though, wasn't helping anything. So, today, I buckled down and clicked on every, single one that's come in since September 13th, 2018.

The result of all of that is the 4.25 hour playlist you have before you. All I can say is that there are a shit ton of worthwhile bands in the world who all deserve at least a moment's worth of your listening time. I couldn't pack all of them into this or I'd never get through it.

Bob Mould, Molly Burch, Superchunk, Sloucher, Spielbergs, Sneaks, Alien Boy, Gandor Chorale, Tank and The Bangas, Girlpool, Matty Carlock, Skating Polly, Weakened Friends, Yowler, and more and more. Occupy yourself with this while I start an album listening marathon in preparation for the end of the year.

Email Playlist, Volume 4

August

After vacation and a bit of summer laziness, the CoolDad Music inbox was an absolute mess. I spent about 15 straight hours over the last two days getting it all organized and meticulously going through every email back until July 31st. That's resulted in a longer-than-usual monthly email playlist. There is some interesting stuff here.

Songs from Shamir, Baked, Ron Gallo, Erotic Novels, Sunshine & The Rain, Seasaw, Dean Wareham & Cheval Sombre, Jay Som & Justus Proffit, and a whole shit ton of other acts.

I am now at (a bit of an artificial) "inbox zero," and it is the start of a new day. Enjoy this while we see how long that lasts.

Email Playlist, Volume 3

July

It's been another almost-month of emails and news. I spent the last day or so going through all of that to curate another Spotify Email Playlist of some of the stuff that seemed interesting. There are songs here from Pond, Soccer Mommy, Giant Peach, Devon Welsh of Majical Cloudz, Parrot Dream, Waxahatchee, Caleb Brown, The Pull Of Autumn (which features members of Fashion, Throwing Muses, and more), and a whole bunch more.

Not everything that comes through is available on Spotify, though. I did also want to include songs from New Jersey's Dog Date...



And Cincinnati's Vacation...



Enjoy. Hope you're having a good summer.

Email Playlist, Volume 2

June

I'm thinking about, maybe, making this a monthly feature here. It's another trip through the inbox with some interesting stuff from the likes of Eric Bachmann, Free Cake For Every Creature, Lost In Society, Clean Spill, Western Medication, The Rareflowers, and more. This has been a pretty fruitful exercise both times I tried it. I get some damn good stuff over email every, single day.

Just like before, some of these albums / EPs are out already; and some are on the horizon. I'll, personally, look to use this playlist for some much-needed inspiration going forward.