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Check Out Our Halloween YouTube Playlist
You’ve got a week before Christmas music starts seeping into every crevice of the ambient soundscape. So let’s throw one last hurrah of Halloween music. With the help of my colleagues throughout Gizmodo Media, some YouTube recommendations, and old episodes of Dr. Demento, I’ve built a playlist (embedded above) of 52 songs for Halloween.
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Listen To 200 Bangers Picked By NPR
Usually when I load up a “biggest hits” playlist, I end up skipping half the tracks. I’m barely skipping anything on NPR’s new playlist, “The 200 Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+”. Every song is good! Even the country songs! And the lead performers are all women or non-binary. Highlights include “F**k the Pain Away”…
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The Popodoro Technique Playlist
In the Pomodoro Technique for productivity, you work for 25 minutes, take a 5-minute break, and repeat. (After two hours, you take a longer break.) You can use a kitchen timer, your phone, or a specialised app. In the Popodoro technique, instead of a timer, you use music – like the new Spotify playlist from…
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The Lonely Nostalgia YouTube Playlist
The New Yorker ran a story yesterday about the emotional experience of listening to a tinny version of Toto’s “Africa” on YouTube. The popular video simulates the sound of hearing the pop song echoing through an empty shopping centre.