Updated April 22, 2024 at 10:12 AM ET
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April 22 Mixtape: Silver Blue
Lilly Miller, "Silver Blue"
SUMAC, "Yellow Dawn"
Beachwood Sparks, "Torn in Two"
Ride, "Light in a Quiet Room"
Bacchae, "Cooler Talk"
Marta Sanchez Trio, "I Don't Wanna Live the Wrong Life and Then Die"
Tilt, "all and anothing"
Bench Press, "Personal Best"
Marcel Wave, "Barrow Boys"
Sonya Cohen Cramer, "You've Been a Friend to Me"
1127, "iii اعيش في جلباب ابي Lenn (ft. من اليمين للشمال)"
Psychic Temple, "Doggie Paddlin' Thru the Cosmic Consciousness"
Buck Curran (feat. Jodi Pedrali), "Zitkala-Sa"
Sarah Meth, "Computer Love"
Emergency Group, "Mind Screen"
Cola, "Pallor Tricks"
Tashi Wada, "Grand Trine"
Monument, "Marylandification"
Natalia Beylis, "Lost - For Annie (excerpt)"
Anna Tivel, "Disposable Camera"
Bonny Light Horseman, "I Know You Know"
Thou, "I Feel Nothing When You Cry"
Eiko Ishibashi, "Smoke"
FIN, "Feudal Reader"
Th Blicks, "Enchancity"
Darkthrone, "Black Dawn Affiliation"
Jennifer Walshe & Tony Conrad, "In the Merry Month of May"
Kass Richards, "Blue"
Sunrise Patriot Motion, "Two Crows Woke in the Nest"
Amy Gadiaga, "Petite"
Matthew J. Rolin, "For a Better Year"
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