March BlogMixtape: Existential Crisis Month!

So February was hard, but you survived. Now what?

With early Spring on its way, the snow-melting sun has signaled that there is - in fact - life after winter. Warmer weather causes your cubicle to feel even more claustrophobic than normal, and in the improved quality of light you can finally see that the significant other you’ve been hibernating with all winter is actually as hairy and bear-like as the term “hibernation” suggests. As summer finally surfaces on the distant horizon, you might have to actually start making some future plans. Things are going to change. Life is suddenly confusing and full of unanswerable questions.

Thats right, folks. It’s March - Existential Crisis Month.

So while you’re repeatedly asking, “WHY?” (and often more-satisfyingly, “WHY NOT??”) here are some tunes to make the suffering slightly more bearable. In between the tracks about how difficult/confusing life is, check out new(er) stuff from High Places, Beach House, Jana Hunter, and Hot Chip, and also as-of-yet-unreleased songs off of the forthcoming albums from Man Man and Notwist (their first album in six years, yay!). Enjoy!

*DISCLAIMER: If you can believe it, I only today just realized that this player doesn’t let people who aren’t me hear more than 30 seconds of some of these songs. I am in the process of figuring out how to fix this problem, bear with me.*

Also, if anybody would like to join me (that means YOU Brian Jones!), I’ll be running a 5k Saturday morning to raise money for the Caroline Virginia Pulliam Mitochondrial Disease Foundation. It starts at 9 A.M. in Duncan Park, I hope to see you there!