Songs that take you to your happy place.
Archive for Alejandra Salazar
(‘17, Communication, Music Editor) is a contributor from San Antonio, TX. She believes in making playlists for every occasion and chronically overthinks everything.
POPTIMISM: your week 7 playlist
A little bit of shameless euphoria for your week. Read more…
CHARIOTS OF FIRE: your week six playlist
How to survive midterms: StAR’s week six playlist, and maybe a little divine intervention. Read more…
DUETS: your week 2 playlist
The best 1-2 punches.
TOM JOBIM & ELIS REGINA – “Águas de Março” – as described by nick burns
It’s the most pure and otherworldly of all the bossa nova standards, the catchiest (“Girl from Ipanema” notwithstanding) and the most happily inscrutable, seeming to exist—not unlike Dylan’s “Mr Tambourine Man”—outside the boundaries of genre, mood, lyrical convention or meaning: is it a sad song? a happy one? Elis and Tom are certainly cute, playing cat and mouse with the mic, but the words and the notes mix melancholy and joy: the titular rains of March, Regina sings, […] Read more…
AUTOTUNE: your week 1 playlist
For week 1, we sing like robots. Read more…
Sufjan Stevens’ tinfoil man is all heart "Tonight, we're gonna sing about life."
“Tonight, we’re gonna sing about life.” Read more…
The Food: The Best of the Schoolyear What we loved this year.
What we loved this year. Read more…
Goodbye to All That: Moments of Pause IX
Some of the things we gladly leave behind Read more…
SUMMER JAMS: your week 10 playlist
Your Summer Sixteen anthems. Read more…
James Blake’s The Colour In Anything perfects empty noise
This album is a journey: touching, terrifying, and thrilling all at once. Read more…