top10-2026-03
You may be scratching your head and wondering what you should be doing, listening to, reading, experiencing and otherwise centring your life around. Because of my undying love for you Dear Reader, I’ve done the hard work for you.
- “Shook Ones” requires no explanation, especially if you’re one of the 10 people reading this, which means you know me and how much I’ve listened to this song. So you need to listen to this podcast explaining the song in intimate, grimy detail.
- Kelis “Milkshake” is likely the most banging song you will listen to this week. It has three parts on loop, references I can’t quite but almost can decipher as being about empowerment and it’s Kelis, who you of course know from singing ODB’s “Got Your Money” when she probably couldn’t even drive. This woman continues to kick ass to this day, became a chef in the meanwhile and now runs a farm in Kenya where she lives. Take that.
- LL Cool J “Mama Said Knock You Out”
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - The lovable loser, the anti-hero, honesty and morals vs power, it’s all there. A definite and refreshing switch-up from the rest of the Songs of Fire and Ice universe and regrettably only 6 episodes.
- “Culture Shock” by Edan - Psychedelic fuzz for miles, and crate digging par excellence, vinyl scratches and all, from the quite nice ROVR platform
- Finally, the Return of the Essay
- Public Collectors - hyper random collections of everything from Vandalized Cacti in Teotihuacan to Documentation of the Music Underground, Before the Internet
- Karavan - Tracks “East” and “West” set the stage for the alt hip hop jams floating between levantine trip hop to the bim-bap funk throwdown
- “Before the Spring After The Fall” takes a very deep and never seen look at kids, a revolution and the power and failure of the streets. It’s about the downfall of a regime in Egypt but more about what life under a regime is like for kids trying to not just make music but live a life they’re not supposed to but clearly are meant to
- Etymology.life - You love words, I know you do because you’re reading this. You love the stories of where they come from as much as I do clearly because you won’t be able to stop clicking, and oh lookie, maps to boot.