Tuesday Mixtape | 113 Songs To Brighten Your Day (Side 5)

“Weird Al” Yankovic and Phil Spector might not have a lot in common — aside from being on your TV screen this week, that is. I just binged the illuminating and well-balanced new four-part doc Spector, and IMHO it does a fantastic job of recapping and contextualizing the legendary producer’s traumatic personal life, his illustrious career and the horrific killing of Lana Clarkson — without ever veering into hagiography or sensationalism. Of course, if that’s a little heavy for you, there’s always Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. It has everything you could want from a “Weird Al” ‘biopic’ — a hilarious and outrageous mish-mash of fact, fiction, fantasy and (yes) parody, featuring a VIP cast led by a distractingly buff Daniel Radcliffe and even a cameo by Al hisself. I highly recommend them both. But first, make your way through these 113 new singles, videos, cover tunes, remixes, unburied treasures and live performances — including a few dozen you won’t see or hear anywhere else. Your Tinnitist-approved tracks are tagged with a 💡. That gives me an idea:

 


POP, SYNTH-POP + DANCE

90 | Madisyn Gifford | Hospital Beds


91 | 7ru7h | You, My Liege (Alone)


92 | Taylor Swift | Anti-Hero (ft. Bleachers)


93 | Vivek Mehmi | Fulfill You


ELECTRONICA + REMIXES

94 | Gift | Feather (Grimoose Remix)


95 | Jamila Woods | Boundaries (DRAMA Remix)


96 | Bluetech | Biomimetic Robotics


97 | Giant Swan | RRR+1


98 | Anchorsong | Common Ground (Azido 88 Remix)


99 | The Brothers Nylon | Three Ears (Dabey Soul Treat)


100 | Hooverian Blur | Panic


FOLK, COUNTRY, BLUES + ROOTS

101 | Cody Johnson | Human


102 | Runnner | Bike Again


103 | Wild Child | Photographs


104 | The Maglory Dengluch | They’ll Never Get Their Man


💡 105 | Jen Cloher | Mana Takatāpui


💡 106 | Jody Stecher and Krishna Bhatt | The Bramble And The Rose


107 | Natalia Salter | Million And One


JAZZ

108 | Eri Yamamoto Trio | Colors Are Beautiful


109 | Tristan | Human Allergy


💡 110 | Ethnic Heritage Ensemble | Don Cherry


NEO-CLASSICAL, AMBIENT + EXPERIMENTAL

111 | Maria BC | ROF (Rachika Nayar remix)


112 | Sulk Rooms | Tremolo


113 | John Bence | Raphael, Archangel Of Tiphareth