The MyDefinitionOfCOOL series is created so I can overplay the new music I find enough times to know if the songs have the longevity to be added to my longer genre playlists. I still make these playlists for me but if you like them too, that’s f*ing awesome. I also love seeing my collage art on Spotify so that’s what that magic purple weirdness is. Since finding new favorite songs brings me maximum joy, it’s time to release this playlist into the wild and start digging for Volume 3. Since in an ideal universe we’d be compensating all these artists fairly for saving us with their music, I’ve also provided a list of links below to the merch sites of all artists included… listed A-Z. Since I have a music video encyclopedia, I’ve also compiled the playlist into two different YouTube MusicVideoPedia playlists… one for all the songs without official music videos and one for all the songs that have artist-approved visuals. Anyone who tells you there isn’t any great new music these days is NOT paying attention.
While researching all the links for this, I couldn’t help but notice that most of these artists need to step their merch game up. It’s giving me flashbacks from when I used to share music on a daily basis and hunt down artist links daily; an endeavor that never earned me a penny but led to every music-related opportunity that followed.