A monthly selection of 50 songs in different genres. Indie, rock, pop, alternative dance,… New music I bought on MP3 platforms (iTunes, Beatport, Beatsource). Combined with older music I (re)discovered via Spotify or my CD collection.

50 PICKS: August 2020

Click on the link to open the list in Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2QoklUOROGTlU5tJ37XVX7?si=xPZ2bOdyQOy3Rn475yQvAw

Music from 2020:

• Alternative dance: Capoon*, Cellest*, Diplo, Fortress*, Moby, Nico Morano*
• Chill: Caribou, Little Dragon, London Grammar, Ólafur Arnalds, Tout Va Bien*
• Indie, rock, pop: Bat Eyes*, Eels, Linkin Park, Mintzkov*, Pomplamoose, Pretenders

Older music:

• 10s: Arctic Monkeys (2013), Baltimore (2019)*, Desert Sessions (2019), Feeder (2019), Little People (2012), Madison Avenue (2019), Miles Kane (2011), Pixies (2019), Selace (2019), Stereophonics (2019), Todd Terje (2014)
• 00s: Booka Shade (2006), Gotye (2006)*, Headphone (2008)*, Minus 8 (2000), Novastar (2008)*, The Offspring (2000), Silversun Pickups (2006), The Killers (2004), Thievery Corporation (2005), Ultrasonic 7 (2004)*
• 90s: Beastie Boys (1998), The Black Crowes (1990), Lit (1999)
• 80s: Fern Kinney (1981)
• 70s: B.B. King (1970)
• 60s: Louis Armstrong (1969)

* Artists from Belgium.

GENERAL SPOTIFY PLAYLIST

I also made a general playlist on Spotify of all my monthly picks. These 50 new songs are added. Click on the link to open the playlist in Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3xY6dElVyCMXRzRZre92x2?si=2alN00jyTECSCfUNErD_BQ

Music video of the month

A creative music video in times of the Covid-19 lockdown.