Friday, December 31, 2021

Hot Chicken, Hop Hippin': Choice Cuts Volume 20 (2021)




In no particular order, I've selected the favorite tracks from 2021's playlists for my 20th annual Choice Cuts end-of-year mix. Let the entire playlist play via YouTube above, or listen and watch each one below!


1. A Bee Without Its Sting — The Go! Team


2. How Not To Drown (feat. Robert Smith) — CHVRCHES


3. Be Sweet — Japanese Breakfast


4. Silk Chiffon (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) — MUNA


5. Heat Waves — Glass Animals


6. 4Runner — Rostam


7. Breathe Deeper (Lil Yachty Remix) — Tame Impala, Lil Yachty


8. Beggin' — Måneskin


9. Feel the Sunshine (feat. HIRIE) — Kolohe Kai


10. Meet Me At Our Spot (Live) — THE ANXIETY, WILLOW & Tyler Cole


11. Stop This Flame — Celeste


12. The Mission — Bakar


13. Record Player — Daisy the Great, AJR


14. Immune — Jensen McRae


15. Witchoo (feat. Aaron Frazer) — Durand Jones & The Indications


16. Fire for You — Cannons


17. Where Is My Mind? — Tkay Maidza


18. Like I Used To — Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen


19. Green Eyes — Arlo Parks


20. Peach — Future Islands


21. that's what i want — Lil Nas X


22. simple times — Kacey Musgraves


23. Bagsy Not In Net — The 1975

Thursday, December 30, 2021

2021 Mixes

January 2021

Heat Waves — Glass Animals
The Divine Chord (feat. MGMT, Johnny Marr) — The Avalanches
Caroline — Arlo Parks
Leave Me Alone — I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME
Free — Sault
1st Time — Bakar
Hold It Together — The Marias
Drinking on My Own — ROMES
wish you the best (feat. Jensen McRae) — Joy Oladokun
melancholyism. — Super Whatevr
Shameika — Fiona Apple
Strangers — Mt. Joy
Identical (From The Motion Picture 'On The Rocks') — Phoenix
Sword from the Stone — Passenger
Close To You — Dayglow
Falling Asleep At The Wheel — Holly Humberstone
Skin and Bones — Cage the Elephant
Fire for You — Cannons
Little — Jany Green
long story short — Taylor Swift
my ex's best friend — Machine Gun Kelly & blackbear
Lake VU — Apifera feat. Yonatan Albalak, Amir Bresler, Rejoicer, Nitai Hershkovits
broken people — almost monday
Redemption — Nathaniel Rateliff
hey girl — boy pablo

February 2021

Stop This Flame — Celeste
Little Changes — Frank Turner
coney island (feat. The National) — Taylor Swift
Cut Me — Moses Sumney
Opiate — Puma Blue
Immune — Jensen McRae
STAY CLOSE — SYML
Get High — Chet Faker
Good Woman — The Staves
Things Are Different — Picture This
Let Down — Michigander
No Other Way — SHAED
Green Eyes — Arlo Parks
Look at the Sky — Porter Robinson
Softly — Clairo
POLKA DOT (feat. Demetruest) — Eddie Burns
Trouble's Coming — Royal Blood
Bagsy Not In Net — The 1975
Waking Up (feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg) — Django Django
OOZ — Peach Tree Rascals
Wish U Were Here — Pale Waves
Feeling So Down — Flora Cash
Go Wrong — Hauskey
Big Bang — Cherry Glazerr
Massive Escape — Caroline Kingsbury
All You Ever Wanted (Acoustic) — Rag'n'Bone Man
We Can Run Away — Lone Waves

March 2021

Leave The Door Open — Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic
Till Forever Falls Apart — Ashe and Finneas
Spinning (with Charli XCX & The 1975) — No Rome
Roots — Cautious Clay
Sunbathe — Tainy, Miguel
Without You — The Kid LAROI
All About You (feat. Foster The People) — The Knocks
You — benny Blanco feat. Marshmello & Vance Joy
Bed Head — Manchester Orchestra
la di die (feat. jxdn) — Nessa Barrett
When It Breaks — Inhaler
Questions — Middle Kids
July — Windser
Bad Dream — Cannons
Get Sun (Pocket Size Radio Edit) — Hiatus Kaiyote feat. Arthur Verocai
Anything At All — Bachelor
Cosmosis — Tony Allen feat. Ben Okri, Skepta
Where Is My Mind? — Tkay Maidza
Peddle Bike — Mishaal
Strong Feelings — Dry Cleaning
The Nathan Poop Song — The Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee
The Evan Poop Song — The Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee

April 2021

After Coffee — Joywave
He Said She Said — CHVRCHES
The Darkness That You Fear (Edit) — The Chemical Brothers
Tell Me Something I Don't Know — Celeste
Karmadame — Zoé
Cloud 9 — Beach Bunny
Phone Dies — Andra Day
Be Sweet — Japanese Breakfast
How Does It Feel — London Grammar
Give Us Justice — Thee Sacred Souls
telepatía — Kali Uchis
Your Power — Billie Eilish
Levitating — Dua Lipa
Dumb Girl — LAYNE
HEARTBREAK ANNIVERSARY — Giveon
Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check (The J Dilla Bounce Remix) — Busta Rhymes

June 2021

How Not To Drown (feat. Robert Smith) — CHVRCHES
Higher Power — Coldplay
4Runner — Rostam
Hablando x Hablar — Alex Cuba, & Cimafunk
Like I Used To — Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen
Slide Tackle — Japanese Breakfast
Delicious Things — Wolf Alice
Lost Cause — Billie Eilish
Witchoo (feat. Aaron Frazer) — Durand Jones & The Indications
Stop Making This Hurt — Bleachers
Don't Freak — The Aces
Mon Cheri — Sofi Tukker x Amadou & Mariam
Mine Forever — Lord Huron
good 4 u — Olivia Rodrigo
Motorbike — Leon Bridges
Dark Kept Secret — EXUM
Dancing In The Dark — Juanes
Losing Control (Satin Jackets Remix) — Poolside
love race (feat. Kellin Quinn) — Machine Gun Kelly
Change My Mind — Peach Tree Rascals
Dirty — grandson
Cheers — Faye Webster
OK (with Remi Wolf & Solomonophonic) — Wallows

July 2021

A Bee Without Its Sting — The Go! Team
DIVER — Lala Lala
Feel the Sunshine (feat. HIRIE) — Kolohe Kai
Genesis — Spencer.
buzz cut — lovelytheband
Worth It — Amber Mark
Sad Cowboy (Edit) — Goat Girl
Rodeo — Baba Stiltz
Black Magic — Jonasu
Beef — Joe Sambo
Love Is Back — Celeste
Those Words — Mattiel
Bitter Streets — Sault
Happy Pill — Common Kings
Don't Blame It On Love (feat. Pink Sweat$) — Yuna
Don't Hold Back — DRAMA
Hush — The Marías
Black Myself — Amythyst Kiah
713 — James Francies

August 2021

Good Girls — CHVRCHES
Distorted Light Beam — Bastille
Back To Oz — Sufjan Stevens, Angelo De Augustine
Miracles (2017 Remaster) — Pet Shop Boys
Missing Piece — Vance Joy
help herself (with BENEE) — bbno$, Diamond Pistols, BENEE
The Mission — Bakar
I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE — Måneskin
Skate — Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic
I Feel Good — Abstract Mindstate
Peach — Future Islands
A Concert Six Months From Now — FINNEAS
Take My Breath — The Weeknd
Only Love — Tycho, Benjamin Gibbard
Woman (feat. Cleo Sol) — Little Simz
Now is the Time — Jade Bird
soshy — Purity Ring
Steam — Leon Bridges

September 2021

No Friends of Mine — Men Without Hats
Silk Chiffon (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) — MUNA
I Don't Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance) — Glass Animals
Osaka — SHAED
simple times — Kacey Musgraves
Beggin' — Måneskin
Sticky — The Maine
Fire In The Sky — Anderson .Paak
Dye It Red — beabadoobee
Telepath — Manchester Orchestra
Bunny Is A Rider — Caroline Polachek
Baby No More — Anjimile
Preoccupation — Black Marble
We Don't Kiss Under Umbrellas Like We Used To — James Vincent McMorrow
Boomerang — Yebba
I Need A Minute — sir Was

October 2021

Act Up — Terry Presume
Blame — Gabriels
Breathe Deeper (Lil Yachty Remix) — Tame Impala, Lil Yachty
Jimmy Jimmy (feat. AJ Tracey) — Gorillaz
Wet Dream — Wet Leg
that's what i want — Lil Nas X
Uneasy — Metronomy x spill tab
Saturday — twenty one pilots
For You — Kadhja Bonet
t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l — WILLOW feat. Travis Barker
More Than Ever — Durand Jones & The Indications
Protect My Energy — Little Simz
My Universe — Coldplay, BTS
Famous Last Words — James Blake
The Tipping Point — Tears for Fears
23 — Cleo Sol
Smile — Wolf Alice
Connaissais de Face (Tiger?) — Khruangbin, Ginger Root
You asked for this — Halsey

November 2021

INDUSTRY BABY (feat. Jack Harlow) — Lil Nas X
Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) — Elton John, Dua Lipa
Moth To A Flame — Swedish House Mafia, The Weeknd
Meet Me At Our Spot (Live) — THE ANXIETY, WILLOW & Tyler Cole
I Won't Hesitate — La Luz
Keeper — Hana Vu
Shine ft. D Smoke & Tiffany Gouché — Robert Glasper
The Only Heartbreaker — Mitski
I Don't Live Here Anymore — The War On Drugs
Oxygen — Beach Bunny
Death Back to Birth — Tolliver
Made of Gold (Edit) — Ibeyi, Pa Salieu
Be Thankful for What You Got — William DeVaughn
Elizabeth Taylor — Pete Yorn
stabilise — Nilüfer Yanya
Heartbreak — Broods
Record Player — Daisy the Great, AJR
What You Say — Cold War Kids
Survivor — Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Monday — The Regrettes
Amoeba — Clairo
Remember November/Bitcrush Yr Life — No Rome
In Need of Repair — Band of Horses
Rest Of My Life (feat. ASHE) — Robert DeLong