hot takes

#HotTakes | Week of 08.17.26

Featuring: Squirrel Flower, Old Crow Medicine Show, Blythe Woods, Pug Johnson, Brother Bird, Friko, Jack Larkin, Taylor Ashton, Wishy

Songs we think you should hear without the pomp and circumstance.

Squirrel Flower // Cleveland

Old Crow Medicine Show // Revolution Now

Blythe Woods // Loser’s Guide To Life

Pug Johnson // Lowering the Bar

Brother Bird // Landlord

Friko // Necessary

Jack Larkin // Matches & Oil

Taylor Ashton // Last Time You Saw Me

Wishy // Sensational

#HotTakes | Week of 08.10.26

Featuring: Rayland Baxter, Israel Nash, The Suitcase Junket, Jonathan Something, JP Harris, Royal Blood, Castle Rat, Jawdropped, Jacob Jeffries (ft. Vulfmon)

#HotTakes | Week of 08.03.26

Featuring: Imperial Teen, Riley Downing, Way Dynamic, Kam Franklin (ft. Kevin Morby), Margo Cilker, The Avalanches (ft. Portraits Of Tracy), Jawdropped, Slimdan, Pokey LaFarge, Palmyra

Hippo Campus Somehow Blew Up And Stayed A Secret At The Same Time

I think about that a lot honestly, how a band can have a song sitting at 137 million streams and still feel like something you have to put people onto. Landmark was my way in, same as it was for a ton of people, that's just how the

Mixtape | July 2026

Somewhere around the fourth or fifth pass through this month's pile I noticed half these songs are about money. Cheap beer, twenty dollar bills, imitation wood grain, diamond rings, a guy literally wandering around Home Depot trying to price out a life he doesn't have yet.

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#HotTakes | Week of 08.10.26

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Hippo Campus Somehow Blew Up And Stayed A Secret At The Same Time

Mixtape | July 2026