Music Mixes and Best Of Lists

Kristen’s 2015 Music Mix – Track 2 – Walking On Cars

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2015 was not the best of years, but it certainly had its moments…most of the good ones involved music. Here are a few of the songs that had an impact on my year.

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Walking on Cars were my band of SXSW 2015 and stuck with me for the rest of the year. They became one of my High Voltage features and one of my more successful recommendations. “Hand in Hand” was a song I used to lure one of my most passionate music friends into the Walking On Cars fold. I can’t wait for this band’s debut album to come out next year.

~ Kristen

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Kristen’s 2015 Music Mix – Track 1 – AWOLNATION

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2015 was not the best of years, but it certainly had its moments…most of the good ones involved music. Here are a few of the songs that had an impact on my year.

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Awolnation returns! Aaron and Co exploded back onto the scene with a new album, Run. The album’s title track may not be my favorite on the album (so hard to choose), but it is the greatest introductory track you could ask for. I got to see the band quite a few times this year, including one particularly memorable bootie-shaking experience in Pomona which was preceded by interviewing Aaron on the band’s spaceship freezer of a bus.

 

~ Kristen

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Kristen’s 2014 Music Mix – Track 19 – Jealousy Curve

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Here it is, the mix of songs that helped define my 2014.

19. Jealousy Curve

Speaking of college-years, Jealousy Curve was another defining band from that time. In 2014, years after their final show, the band decided to polish up and release their stockpile of unreleased gems on a double disc album called Under the Vermillion Moon Listening to these tunes, some familiar some not, really just makes me miss this band and the good times associated with them. So many memories!

 

~ Kristen

Kristen’s Music Mix – Track 18 – George Stanford

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Here it is, the mix of songs that helped define my 2014.

18. George Stanford

This year I hit kind of a big one, birthday-wise. My friends at High Voltage threw me a party at The Mint. The whole evening was quite the thrill (there was ice cream cake), but I was particularly excited about the line-up which included George Stanford. Stanford also released a new album this year, Something Better, which included this song, one of my particular favorites.

~ Kristen