Curators

Michael Azerrad

Michael Azerrad is the author of The Amplified Come As You Are (HarperOne, 2023), an extensively re-investigated version of his 1993 Nirvana biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana, and Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Little, Brown, 2001). A former contributing editor for Rolling Stone, he has also written for the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the Yale Review, the New York Times, amongst others. He was the founding editor of eMusic, and edited Bob Mould's autobiography See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody (Little, Brown, 2011). He's also an “avid hiker, an enjoyer of pre-1970s movies, and a fan of every animal.”

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Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon is a writer who lives and works in Berkeley, California. His most recent novel is Moonglow. He is currently working on a book, which is where we find him at the time of this playlist. Chabon has published 8 novels including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Michael Cina

Michael Cina is a multi-disciplinary creative whose work has served as the visual backbone of Herb Sundays. With an exceptional eye for design and color, he masterfully blends type-driven precision—as seen in his work with Public Type—with a more painterly, organic aesthetic. His unmatched record collection and top-flight playlists reveal a deep, innate musical taste, and over the years he’s contributed to diverse projects from YouWorkForThem/WeWorkForThem to influential collaborations with Ghostly.

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Michael Mayer

Michael Mayer is a pioneering force in electronic and techno music, best known for his influential work with Kompakt. From his early days as a record shop customer and partner to creating seminal DJ mixes like IMMER, Mayer has built a reputation as a consummate curator with an eclectic taste and a collaborative spirit. His work, marked by innovative remixes and long-running mix series, continues to shape the modern techno landscape.

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Nelson George

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Nick León

Nick León is an electronic music producer and DJ whose work reflects a uniquely ‘dystopian’ vibe and a moodiness in the club. Emerging from South Florida’s Soundcloud rap scene, he has evolved his sound to embrace Miami’s diverse electronic landscape—releasing tracks on labels like TraTraTrax, Future Times, and NAAFI, and producing for artists such as Rosalía, Denzel Curry, Tama Gucci, MJ Nebreda, and Empress Of.

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Olof Dreijer

Olof Dreijer, a Swedish DJ and producer, was one half of the electronic music duo The Knife, formed with his sibling Karin Dreijer (Fever Ray). Apart from his revered gender-bending techno project Oni Ayhun, Dreijer has acted as a co-producer and mentor to many including work with Tunisian multi-instrumentalist and composer Houeida Hedfi, Swedish-Kurdish pop sensation Zhala, and remxing artists like Mehdi Bahmad, Emmanuel Jal, Nyaruach, and Robyn's collaboration project with Röyksopp.

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Oskar Mann

Born in Melbourne, lifelong music student Oskar Mann is a musician, engineer, DJ, and radio host who has worked with such artists as Wynton Marsalis, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins and Amy Winehouse. Under his longtime mentor, Lenny Pickett, the musical director of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, Oskar worked on SNL from 2002 to 2004. After graduating from the Jazz & Contemporary Music program at the New School University in 2005, he was taken under the wing of Mark Ronson and was heavily involved with Ronson’s Allido Records both in and out of the studio then also helping with the reissue project at Wax Poetics Magazine. From 2007 to 2014 Oskar was the host and DJ of the weekly ‘Never Not Working’ radio program on East Village Radio and since then, a bi-weekly radio show at The Lot Radio and the founder of I Should Care Records and Book Works.

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Panda Bear

Two decades since debuting as the masked-and-nicknamed drummer and vocalist of Animal Collective, Noah Lennox has led so many creative lives, navigated so many different styles, and been part of so many beloved recordings, that it can be easy to overlook just how consistent his creative vision has remained. From landmark solo albums like 2007’s Person Pitch and 2015’s Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, to breakthroughs with Animal Collective like 2004’s Sung Tongs and 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion…

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Philip Sherburne

Philip Sherburne is a music critic and journalist based on the Balearic island of Menorca. Born & raised in Portland, then spending time in Providence, San Francisco, Barcelona, and Berlin, Sherburne has written for The Wire, XLR8R, and Resident Advisor amongst many others, and has been a contributing editor for SPIN, and now Pitchfork, where he has published over 500 reviews to date.

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Piotr Orlov

Piotr Orlov (feel free to call him “Peter”) was born in St. Petersburg (back when it was still called Leningrad) and arrived in New York in the late 1970s. He is first and foremost a writer and editor who has evolved into a music storyteller over the past 25 years, contributing to major publications including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Pitchfork, The Guardian, and Village Voice. He has held roles such as director of special projects at AFROPUNK, senior editor of content at NPR Music, and editorial director at MTV, and in 2003 co-curated the music program for The New Museum’s exhibition “Black President: The Art & Legacy of Fela Kuti.” Since 2021, he has been producing and hosting the monthly interview and music radio program Dada Strain Radio on the Sonos Radio Network, while also teaching at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

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Rachika Nayar

Rachika Nayar is a Brooklyn‐based producer and composer whose work reimagines the electric guitar through modern electronic textures. Her transformative, guitar‐backed compositions—blending elements of Midwest emo, trance, and cinematic soundscapes—speak to themes of love, heartbreak, and self‐transformation. With releases on labels like NNA Tapes and RVNG Intl, her creative vision drives the intimate, exploratory feel of her curated playlists.

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Reilly Brennan

Reilly Brennan is a “car guy” who helps entrepreneurs build the future of transportation (which includes all mobility I’ve come to understand). His newsletter, FoT, is a kind of weekly radar for what’s happening in the space and was a direct influence on me (this will be a theme) in starting a newsletter. The joy of “shipping” weekly is very appealing. He is also an educator and was Executive Director for Stanford’s automotive research program and taught in their School of Engineering and the d.school. His personal “land speed record” is 168 mph.

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Rob Harvilla

Rob Harvilla is a Senior Staff Writer at The Ringer and host of the podcast 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s. He's written for the Village Voice, SPIN, Deadspin, and various alt-weeklies that mostly don't exist anymore. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his family and is trying his best.

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Roman Flügel

When putting together the playlist, I imagined a sunny Sunday morning in Berlin. Not too late in the morning, I probably even slept well beforehand and didn't just get home. The morning sun shines pleasantly deep into the apartment and the cat lounges on the sofa. A cup of fresh coffee is a must. For me, music is the most direct of all forms of expression, an emotion amplifier that helps to convey the unspeakable. The music gathered here tells of human fates and longings, unites different cultures and production methods, and aims to connect rather than separate. So I sit here on a sunny Sunday morning and am filled with hope that a being capable of creating something as wonderful as music is also capable of solving some real problems. But maybe music is just a vehicle for imagination to endure everything else.

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SV4

On the precipice since 2021.

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Sam

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Sam Gendel

Sam Gendel is a musician and producer living in Los Angeles, California. He is most known for his work with the saxophone, though he is proficient on multiple instruments. His work is diverse and includes significant collaborations with a wide range of artists including Ry Cooder, Blake Mills, Sam Amidon, Laurie Anderson, Perfume Genius, Moses Sumney, Knower, Vampire Weekend, Mach-Hommy, and inc. no world.

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Sam Valenti IV

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Sami Reiss

Sami Reiss writes and is Snake

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