Record Bins Archives

Generation Eclectic

When generations talk, the result’s electric. featuring artists like: Thee Oh Sees, Boston, Sum 41, Kula Shaker, Story Of The Year, Baby Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Steven Wilson

11 Best Christmas Playlists

For Christmas 2023 we give you the best off-beat Christmas playlists with of course some favorites thrown in too.

Christmas Songs about the Legends and Myths from Christmastime. Featuring artists like: SJ Tucker, Kraja, The Champagne Drops, Vile Electrodes, Nox Arcana, Chris White, Unto Ashes, Tyler, The Creator, Lifebomb

Sky’s Christmas Medley

Holiday music that leans towards upbeat pop songs. Featuring artists like: Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande, John Legend, Sia, Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarkson, Sufjan Stevens, Whitney Houston

Anti-Christmas

A nontraditional holiday soundtrack. Featuring artists like: Peach Pit, The 1975, Taylor Swift, blink-182, Weezer, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Panic! At The Disco, The Black Keys.

Boiled with His Own Pudding

A celebration of Christmas that side-steps the commercial and the religious, coming from leftfield – a symphony of difference. Featuring artists like: Low, Rufus Wainwright, The Hives & Cyndi Lauper, The Big Moon, Half Man Half Biscuit, Tim Wheeler

Festive Funk from The Hoof

Merry Xmas from Music to Shake a Hoof. Featuring artists like: Mayer Hawthorne, Aloe Blacc, Black Pumas, The Teskey Brothers, Blondie, Khruangbin, James Brown, Clarence Carter

Songs For The Solstice

There’s just something about celebrating the turn of the seasons. Featuring artists like: The Staves, Noah Kahan, Emancipator, Khruangbin, The Zombies, Queens of the Stone Age, Tyler, The Creator, Bob Dylan.

Suck My Dickens

Jane Asylum presents “Suck My Dickens”, a Jane Does Christmas Again production featuring an 80s, rock and Goth holiday and winter-themed playlist, along with a somewhat amusing Christmas story to warm your cockles.

In the Spotlight: Anja Kotar

Find new artists, get fresh tunes, discover unfamiliar genres with our people-powered musicto Monday playlist. In the Spotlight: Anja Kotar.

More Than Less Than Zero

The definitive Generation X mix tape to disappear in Los Angeles ca. 1983. Fuck Christmas with every directly-name-dropped and/or vaguely-hinted-at song in Bret Easton Ellis’s debut novel “Less Than Zero” — plus a couple of surprises.