Playlists
Always fresh. Tracks supplied by curators with taste. The Mix Jedi Profile on Spotify shows all playlists as well.
Soft Rock
"Soft Rock" is my favorite oxymoron. Yet, there's nothing like a dose of low- to moderate-intensity songs from the rock era that feature a nice variety and skillful songwriting.
Refreshed Aug 24, 2025
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The Sophisticated Boomer
Songs and artists from baby boomer's formative years
Refreshed Aug 24, 2025
Muscle Car
The soundtrack to wrenching on, or driving, your muscle car on a hot sunny day
Refreshed Aug 24, 2025
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Mellow Boomer
Boomer-era tunes; not too intense.
Refreshed Aug 24, 2025
GenX in the Aughts
GenX tunes from the late nineties and 'aughts
Refreshed Aug 24, 2025
Billy Joel and Beyond
A handful of Billy Joel tracks intermixed with some sonically-related gems
Refreshed Aug 24, 2025
Album Stack
Here's the top of the Mix Jedi album stack. These are the albums recommended by our curators. Feel free to listen along with us.
Undercurrent by Bill Evans and Jim Hall (1962)
Pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Jim Hall discover just how intense jazz rhythm can be when it is implied rather than overtly stated. Evans and Hall both have unflappably solid notions of time, and they behave like dancers freed from the tyranny of a chorus line.
jazz (TM) added Aug 27, 2025
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Murmur by R.E.M. (1983)
It isn't quite difficult to see why Murmur is so well liked. The forty-four minute album is chock full of jangling guitars, infectious melodies, and simple, yet effective song writing. Another element, perhaps just as important as the jangling guitars, is the vocals of Michael Stipe.
rock | pop (TM,BL) added Aug 27, 2025
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Saint-Saëns: Concerto No. 3 for Violin and Orchestra in B Minor, Op. 61 - Papavrami/Royal de Liège (2010)
A masterpiece that combines technical brilliance with emotional depth. It remains a favorite among both performers and audiences, celebrated for its lyrical beauty, virtuosic demands, and its unique interpretability by violinists.
classical (ACE) added Aug 24, 2025
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Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath (1970)
This album is a critical influence on shaping the heavy metal genre and providing a template for subsequent bands to build upon. The raw, unpolished production contributed to the album's authenticity and intensity, capturing the band's live energy.
rock | metal (RBA,CMA) added Aug 24, 2025
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Sleep Well Beast by The National (2017)
This album wraps itself around you, and surrounds you with warm but fearsome melancholy.
rock | pop (BL,BEA) added Aug 22, 2025
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Jazz Samba Encore! by Stan Getz & Luis Bofná (1963)
Getz's third time on the Brazilian boom, this time he relies mostly upon native Brazilians for his backing. Thus, the soft-focused grooves are considerably more attuned to what was actually coming out of Brazil at the time. Avid bossa nova fans will certainly treasure this album for the lesser-known Bonfá tunes.
jazz | latin (BEA,BL) added Aug 22, 2025
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Bachman Turner Overdrive by Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1973)
Not heavy metal, more like molten metal, oozing and dripping. BTO dish out a methodical mix of plodding hard dirges - blue-collar working men's music without the swagger of most comparable bands of their era.
rock (BL) added Aug 22, 2025
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So Tonight That I Might See by Mazzy Star (1993)
Like floating through a dream. This album's hallucinogenic quality creates a mysterious atmosphere that blends warm glimmers with stern blues riffs, creating an enigmatic, almost psychological landscape of sound. Hope Sandoval's vocals were, and will always be, unique and captivating.
rock | pop (BEA,BL) added Aug 21, 2025
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Days Of Future Passed by The Moody Blues (1967)
Days of Future Passed was a hodge-podge of orchestral and rock arrangements of compositions by several young musicians, along with some spoken word poetry and newer electronic effects (such as the inclusion of the mellotron during key parts of key songs). Somehow it all works without conflict and this bold and ambitious original effort set the Moody Blues up to produce several more original classics in subsequent years.
rock | pop (BEA,BL) added Aug 18, 2025
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The Kick Inside by Kate Bush (1978)
The debut of a pop iconoclast. This is ornate music made in austere times, but unlike the pop excesses to follow in the next decade, flaunting their wealth while Britain crumbled, Bush spun hers not from material trappings but the infinitely renewable resources of intellect and instinct. She is playful, experimental, and defiant: the sound of a young woman getting what she wants.
rock | pop | singer-songwriter (BEA,TM) added Aug 18, 2025
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Eastern Sounds, Yusef Lateef (1961)
Eastern Sounds combines the highest echelon of hard bop jazz with Eastern melodies and instruments to create an album that is timeless and always original. The music puts Yusef Lateef in that prophetic position, blurring the lines between Eastern and Western music, and he managed to bring a completely different side of jazz to the table.
jazz | world (BL,BEA) added Aug 15, 2025
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Sea Change by Beck (2002)
On this release, Beck makes the transition to singer-songwriter, and that transition seems to have gone quite smoothly. These are introspective songs that are well-crafted, and the production captures the intimacy of the music perfectly.
rock | singer-songwriter (BL,BEA) added Aug 14, 2025
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