Today’s mixtape DJ is the brilliant Joan LeMay, creator of our beloved Breakfast Deciders, maker of fine portraits and just an overall excellent, exuberant human being. She also happens to have 17 years as a music publicist under her belt, which makes for an especially pleasing mix. Read (listen?) on for her selections and stay tuned for more deets on her upcoming tome with writer Alex Pappademas, Quantum Criminals, which she describes as “an entirely...

This weekend’s listening party comes courtesy of prolific, Portland-based multi-instrumentalist Dave Depper—guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist for iconic indie band Death Cab for Cutie. Beyond Death Cab, Depper’s worked with Sharon Van Etten, Ray LaMontagne, Fruit Bats, and a long list of other acclaimed musical artists. He’s also done a number of solo projects, including 2017’s celebrated Emotional Freedom Technique. His newest solo endeavor, Europa, is slated for release on January 22nd via Jealous Butcher Records. While touring...

Raise your hand if you’d like to see some mental reprieve on the weekend menu. Right there with you! For us, that’s where the arts come in—and we mean plural. Visual art, of course, but lit, music, dance, even the culinary arts all pack a punch when we’re pining for inner peace. Our guest-curated Art Mixtapes are a stress-relieving power combo of song and art pairings. As Megan Jasper (the mind behind our newest installment in the series) puts...

Weekend musical interlude! Our new Art Mixtape stars song and art matchmaking care of musician, songwriter, and music journalist Paul Myers. You might have heard his work as frontman of The Gravelberrys or as part of The Paul & John. Music heads will wanna read A Wizard A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio, the biography Myers penned re: the legendary Todd Rundgren. And Myers is also the host/producer of The Record Store Day Podcast.

Here’s something in the key of awesome: this installment of Art Mixtape does things a little differently. Every time we interview an artist for our In the Studio tours, we ask them what’s on their in-studio playlist. Turns out, when we bring all those go-to tracks together it makes for one seriously eclectic, categorically cool mix of music with juuust the right amount of chaotic energy. Specifically, it’s the summer playlist we didn’t know we needed. Check it out on Spotify and you’ll...

Founded by London O’Connor in 2018 from their bedroom, AWL produces sound, software, and hardware utilities for “the emotional endurance of humans in all fields”. From ambient music that responds to—and aims to lower—your heart rate during bouts of anxiety, to luminary solutions for spaces with no natural light, AWL strives to provide innovative and mindful tools for everyday life. 

Heather Lubov is a busy woman, and musically-minded New Yorkers reap the benefits. As the Executive Director of NYC’s City Parks Foundation, Lubov oversees all the organization’s programs, a mix of community enrichment, environmental education, athletics and—of course—arts-oriented endeavors. One of the oldest and largest citywide foundations of its kind in the country, CPF is the only independent nonprofit with a presence throughout The Big Apple’s five boroughs. Its programs are in more than 350...

We’re keeping it classical, today. Jim Hirsch, Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Sinfonietta, has assembled a smart, sophisticated art and music ensemble for our Art Mixtape series. Put your pinky away—these matches are free-flowing and fun, like word association for the musically-minded. Though he’s a seasoned professional with decades of executive experience in the music and performing arts worlds, this “recovering folkie” doesn’t take himself too seriously. What he is serious about, is directing...